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Angell Park

Cyril M. Angell

Angell Park

Cyril M. Angell

2nd Lieutenant U.S. Air Services

Killed in action May 14th 1918

in Boucanville, France

First Officer from Attleboro to die in WWI

Marker is on Park Street (Massachusetts Route 123), in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain

This fountain is dedicated to the memory of Andrew W. Mellon, businessman, philanthropist, and statesman. Beyond his myriad personal accomplishments, Mellon served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 until 1932, as Ambassador to Great Britain between 1932 until 1933, ...

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Fort Omaha Guardhouse

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

To maintain discipline among a large garrison, Fort Omaha commanders strictly followed the military code of the frontier era. Facing occasional problems with drunkenness, insubordination, fighting and desertion, officers were quick to punish offenders before disorder spread.

Minor ...

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Beecroft House

Claude and Starck, Architects

This house is attributed to Madison master architects Claude and Starck and is an excellent example of the Prairie style of architecture. Louis Claude was influenced by the work of architectural masters Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright ...

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Fort Omaha Post Exchange and Gymnasium

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

In 1880, nearly a dozen years after Fort Omaha was established, indoor hot and cold water bathing facilities were installed – three shower rooms for enlisted men and one for officers. By the end of the 19th ...

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Fort Omaha Fire Station

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Originally a filtration plant constructed in 1912, this building was remodeled and enlarged to become the Post Exchange Building in 1923. All incoming or outgoing calls, whether emergency or routine, would pass through the Post switchboard housed ...

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Ordnance Magazine

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

This small, tin-roofed building hardly suggests its central role in the mission of the officers and troops once stationed at Fort Omaha. Constructed in 1883-84, the ordnance magazine was the chief storage place for weapons and ammunition.

It ...

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Unionists Within the Confederacy

Sevier County Home Guard

When the Civil War began, Sevier County Unionists at first operated quietly in secessionist Tennessee. In 1861, they set up a secret garment factory in the second floor of this mill and made cloth for uniforms. They ...

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Mt. Lassen/The Noble Pass/The Park Highway

Mt. Lassen

10,451 feet

This tablet marks the route of those early pioneers who, in 1852, first went over

The Noble Pass

Linking the Humboldt – Nevada Road with Shasta and Northern California, and their road is followed at this locality by

The Park Highway

Dedicated ...

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Hot Rock

Following the May 1915 Lassen Peak eruptions, B.F. Loomis and other local residents discovered several massive hot rocks resting in the valley miles from the volcano. This hot rock is a piece of dacite lava that filled Lassen Peak’s crater. ...

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