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| Title | Description | Coordinates | LocationMem | URL |
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| The Norway House & the Birthplace of Alexander Wiley | Built in 1871 by Alexander Wiley Sr. and Nels Elikson, the rooming house over the years was home for hundreds of immigrants, lumber jacks, mill workers, farm hands and log drivers (known as river pigs). In 1887 Wiley Sr. became the sole owner and operated it until 1895 when he sold it to Erick and Johanna Myrman. The Myrmans operated the Norway House until 1915 after which it was rented to various other operators until 1939 when the building was razed. In its heyday, room and board was $4 per... | 44.936510, -91.393920 | On West Grand Avenue, Chippewa Falls, (On the left when traveling west) | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=42697 |
| The Old Kentucky Road | Immigrant Route through Middle Tennessee | 35.779073, -85.614046 | On State Route 136, Rock Island, (On the right when traveling north) | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=83059 |
| The Permanent Memorial | This memorial was made to depict the global scale of the triangular slave trade, illustrate the extreme conditions under which millions of African people were transported during the Middle Passage and be a place where visitors can honor the memory of the millions of souls who were lost. Rodney Leon was the Architect and designer of the memorial. | 40.750371, -73.967558 | the United Nations Visitors Plaza in New York | http://www.un.org/en/events/slaveryremembranceday/memorial.shtml |
| The Pershing Chinese | In March, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson ordered General John J. Pershing to lead an expedition into Mexico to punish Pancho Villa, the Mexican revolutionary whose troops crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico. Chinese merchants set up camps to supply the soldiers, angering a native-born populace who already resented and feared the Chinese. In danger of retribution, 2,500 Mexican civilians, including 527 Chinese, accompanied Pershing when he returned to the... | 29.447762, -98.443623 | On Wilson Street, Fort Sam Houston, (On the right when traveling east) | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=85539 |
| The Port of Baltimore | Moving Goods Since 1729, Baltimore has owed its existence to its deepwater port. The city looks east to the Chesapeake Bay and ports around the world. It also looks west with access to markets in America’s heartland. It began with local farmers bringing in their crops. In the early 1800s, the National Road, which started here as the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike, gave the port more and more reach inland. Moving People “The long ocean trip is ended and the great unknown is before them.”... | 39.285519, -76.610933 | Near Pratt Street, Baltimore, | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=6140 |
| The Portage la Prairie Indian Residential School | This is a plaque for Portage la Prairie Indian Residential School, one of the oddest boarding school for indigenous children in Canada. It is in the Manitoba of Canada. | 0.000000, 0.000000 | Manitoba, Canada | http://activehistory.ca/2017/09/implementing-trc-call-to-action-79-commemoration-of-indian-residential-school-sites/ |
| The Representation of Indigenous Populations through National Symbols | , | |||
| The Rideau Canal | English: Built between 1826 and 1832, the Rideau Canal is the best preserved, fully operational example of North America’s great canal building era. Lieutenant-Colonel John By’s innovative deign was based on a “slackwater” system that linked lakes and rivers on a scale unprecedented in North America. The result was one of the first canals in the world engineered for steam-powered vessels. Its construction through more than 200 kilometres of bush, swamps, and lakes was a monumental feat. Each... | 45.424331, -75.694617 | Near Elgin Street, Ottawa, (On the right when traveling north) | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=83361 |
| The Roanoke Voyages, Manteo | The monument was unveiled in 1984 on the 400th anniversary of the lost colony's voyages. The granite marker sits in the town of Manteo, NC and is engraved with the history of the Roanoke counties and early English colonization. | , | Manteo, NC | https://docsouth.unc.edu/commland/monument/374/ |
| The Rumely Companies | Side One Meinrad Rumely (1823-1904), a German immigrant, founded a blacksmith shop here 1853, which grew into a dominant company through reorganizations and acquisitions. Rumely companies in La Porte benefited from available rail transportation plus German and later Polish immigrant laborers. Products included a wide variety of agricultural machines. Side Two Rumely's prizewinning thresher later became one of the earliest powered by steam. Thousands of OilPull tractors sold... | 41.610200, -86.723650 | On Lincolnway, LaPorte, (On the right when traveling west) | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=43362 |
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