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George Washington Memorial Parkway

Information Panel: Stabilizing the Marsh

Type: Place

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

The JN-4 Jenny: The Plane that Taught America to Fly

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The Curtiss JN-4 Jenny is synonymous with the “barn storming” era of aviation, and is truly the airplane that taught American pilots of the 1916-1925 era how to fly. This training airplane, designed by a team working for the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company in 1914-1915, was built in the thousands in during World War I to train US servicemen how to fly.

Glacier National Park

St. Mary Falls Trail

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Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail

St. Francois County Jail Museum

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The St. Francois County Jail Museum is located in Historic Downtown Farmington, Missouri, along the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. It was constructed in 1870 and used as a jail until the early 1990's. The building is now used as a history museum and houses artifacts from the Farmington area, as well as interpreting the history of the trail. Find more information on how to plan a visit.

War In The Pacific National Historical Park

Assan/Asan Beach

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During the Japanese occupation of Guam, CHamoru were forced to build defenses on the beach, including the pillboxes and bunkers that can still be seen today, in preparation for the American invasion. That invasion came on July 21, 1944, W Day for Guam. While a simultaneous attack took place five miles south at Hågat, the Third Marine Division landed on the 2,500-yard Assan Beach, marking the start of the Battle of Guam.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

St. Vrain's Quarters

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This second level room can be accessed from the first-floor dining room or the plaza promenade on the second floor. The room was used by Bent, St. Vrain, & Company partner Ceran St. Vrain when he was present or otherwise used as a temporary guest quarters.

Stonewall National Monument

Stormé DeLarverie

Type: Person

Stormé DeLarverie was a butch lesbian with zero tolerance for discrimination, or as she called it, “ugliness.” She was born in New Orleans on Christmas Eve to a Black mother and white father. She had a beautiful baritone voice and discovered a love for jazz at a very early age. She started singing in New Orleans clubs at 15, and soon after began touring around Europe, eventually landing in New York City.

Hotel St. George: Salsa Performance Hub

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Hotel St. George is a building in Brooklyn Heights, New York City. Although it is now apartments and student housing shared among various universities in New York City, it was once a lively and important hub for salsa performance and community.

Joshua Tree National Park

Hemingway

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A popular rock formation along Park Boulevard.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Maritime Museum

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The National Lakeshore's Maritime Museum is housed in the Sleeping Bear Point U.S. Life-Saving Service Station. Walk through the boathouse next to the museum and see the life-saving equipment used during the early 1900's.

Indiana Dunes National Park

Harriet Colfax

Type: Person

Born along the St. Lawrence River, determined Harriet Colfax found herself far upstream along the treacherous coast of Southern Lake Michigan after moving to a young Michigan City in 1853. For 43 careful years she watched the rough frontier city blossom to a Duneland metropolis; she fearlessly maintained the harbor beacon as lighthouse keeper while enduring the ensuing hardships with her lifelong companion Ann Hartwell.

St. Elizabeths Hospital

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St. Elizabeths Hospital, formerly known as the Government Hospital for the Insane, was the first federally-funded mental hospital in the country. In 1852, Congress established the Government Hospital for the Insane on 350-acres overlooking the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington. It would become an international model for psychiatric hospital design and a prominent center for mental health research during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Charles Bent

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Charles Bent, alongside his partner, Ceran St. Vrain, and younger brother, William Bent, established the Bent, St. Vrain, and Company along the Santa Fe Trail in 1833. This adobe-constructed trading post beside the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado was the first outpost between St. Louis, MO and Santa Fe, NM in its day. Charles and William's close association with Cheyenne and Arapaho nations enabled the company to prosper as a result of the buffalo robe trade.

Johnstown Flood National Memorial

Alonzo Diller

Type: Person

Alonzo Diller was the priest at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Johnstown.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

St. Mary’s of the Assumption Church

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St. Mary’s of the Assumption Church was the first Catholic Church in Brookline. Today, the Church holds JFK’s Baptismal font, which the Catholic Archdiocese moved from St. Aidan’s Church.

Anthony Wayne

Type: Person

Anthony Wayne, an accomplished military commander during the American Revolution, helped win our independence from Great Britain. Called out of retirement by President George Washington, Anthony Wayne reorganized the US Army and defeated a confederacy of American Indian nations in the Old Northwest at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, resulting in the Treaty of Greenville, which opened Ohio to white settlement.

Thomas Stone National Historic Site

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

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Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Thomas Stone's uncle, was one of Maryland's most important Revolutionary figures. A member of the Maryland Senate, Jenifer was appointed to the Continental Congress and ensured Maryland's troops were well supplied during the Revolutionary War. His best-known contribution to American History came in 1787 when he became one of 39 men to sign the United States Constitution.

Robert John Simmons

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Born in Bermuda, Robert John Simmons volunteered and served bravely in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, ultimately losing his life from wounds sustained in battle.