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Lakeside Inn

Known as Ames Grove, this property served as a picnic ground and recreation area beginning in the 1880s. John Aylesworth purchased the property in 1901 and opened the Lakeside Inn in this...

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      First Steam Railroad in Upper Peninsula

      On this site in 1852, the Green Bay and Lake Superior Rail-Road began the survey which led to the construction of the first steam railroad in the Upper Peninsula. The railroad ran from Marquette...

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      Surfers

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      Gratiot County

      This county was named for General Charles Gratiot, builder of Fort Gratiot at Port Huron in 1814. A few Chippewas and other Indians lived in the area in 1831 when the county was laid out. A...

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      Françoise Fraeyman

      SUNSET, SAFFRON-VERMILION  FLUID CREATION, THE TIME OF A WISH IN MEMORY OF FRANCOISE FRAEYMAN

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      • eastbay
      • cellojoe
      • hiking
      • walks

      John Wesley Woodward, Bandsman on the S.S. Titanic

      TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF  JOHN WESLEY WOODARD  BANDSMAN ON THE S.S. TITANIC  WHO WITH HIS COMRADES  NOBLY PERFORMED HIS DUTY TO THE LAST  WHEN THE SHIP SAN  AFTER COLLISION WITH...

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      • 1912

      Birthplace of the Asian American Movement

      BIRTHPLACE OF THE ASIAN AMERICAN MOVEMENT  By the late 1960s, a new generation of political activists emerged in Berkeley from protests opposing the  Vietnam War and supporting the Farmworkers,...

        Bill Jacobson Memorial Water Fountain

        In memory of Bill  JacobsonFather,  Friend,FishermanJan  14, 1908  - Jan  8,  2003

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        • memorial
        • water fountain
        • oregon