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Brady's Bluff

Brady's Bluff was designated a State Natural Area in 1952 to preserve the high quality ecological systems found here. This uncultivated 65 acre remnant is characterized by steep, dry prairies, exposed cliffs, and oak woodland. The bluff, a favorite hiking ...

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The Pecos River in Literature and Folklore

Noted for mineral-thick waters and sudden floods, the Pecos River snakes through Texas on its way to the Rio Grande. Historian J. Evetts Haley and folklorist J. Frank Dobie, who called it “a strange river,” and a “barricade,” are among ...

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Weaverville Drug Store

This property

Weaverville Drug Store

Established 1853

Has been place on the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States Department

of the Interior

Marker is on Main Street (California Route 299), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Clifford Hall

Built by Richard Clifford in 1855. One of three two story Weaverville structures with outside circular staircases hand made by village blacksmiths. Once home of Mt. Bally Parlor No. 87, Native Sons of the Golden West.

Dedicated by Grand Parlor, Native ...

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Hamilton’s Store

Near this site in April, 1850, William S. Hamilton, the son of Alexander Hamilton, established the first store in the basin. During a business trip to Sacramento he died from cholera, August 7, 1850.

Marker is on Mill Street, on the ...

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Japanese Bomb Balloon

The Japanese paper balloon landed in a tree near the Charles Lafffranchini Ranch 2½ miles N.W. of here on the afternoon of February 1, 1945 and after time exploded leaving the gas valve lines, ballast, 4 bombs, sandbags and the ...

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Presbyterian Church Building

Constructed in 1926 for Canyon's growing Presbyterian congregation, this church building is a fine example of classical revival architecture. After serving the Presbyterians for 48 years, it was purchased by the First United Pentecostal Church in 1974. Prominent features of ...

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Roper Park / Old City Park

Roper Park is the original site of the parade grounds and barracks for the East Florida Seminary, a non-sectarian

educational institution and a forerunner of the University of Florida, which was located in Gainsville in part due to the

presence ...

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Greenwood County Cattlemen's Association

BEEF

Organized in hotel lobby

1924

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and 3rd Street, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Greenwood County and the Bluestem Pasture Region of Kansas

This county lies almost wholly within one of the world's great beef cattle feeding grounds, the Bluestem pasture region of Kansas. The area, more popularly known as the Flint Hills, extends across the state from north to south in a ...

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