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    Galena is a ghost town in Snohomish County, Washington. Galena is located in the Cascade Mountains, northeast of the town of Index. North of Galena lies...
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  • village Galena, Oregon, a ghost town Galena, South Dakota, an unincorporated community Galena, Washington, an unincorporated community Galena Peak, a...
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  • The Road to Galena is a 2022 American drama film written and directed by Joe Hall and starring Ben Winchell, Will Brittain, Aimee Teegarden, Alisa Allapach...
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    The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) was the first railroad constructed out of Chicago, intended to provide a shipping route between Chicago and...
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    in Index-Galena Road reopening". The Everett Herald. Retrieved December 22, 2023. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Index, Washington. History of...
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    Galena is a city and the county seat in Stone County, Missouri, United States. The population was 455 at the 2020 census. Galena is part of the Branson...
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    USS Galena was a wooden-hulled broadside ironclad built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship was initially assigned to the...
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    on May 3, 1911. The name Metaline comes from the abundance of lead ore, galena, found in the region. Though these lead deposits were known since 1869,...
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    "Chimneys" usually narrow veins of galena with high silver content. In 1953 Janni's crew discovered a chimney of galena with silver, 6 feet by 5 feet on...
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    Springs, Riverton and Galena in Cherokee County. In 1929 the US-66 in Kansas was paved, Kansas being the first state to do that. In Galena, US-66 originally...
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    Elihu B. Washburne (category People from Galena, Illinois)
    newspapers in Maine and studying law, Washburne passed the bar and moved to Galena, Illinois, where he became a partner in a successful law firm. Washburne...
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    ghost town in Snohomish County, Washington. Mineral City is situated on Silver Creek, four miles (6.4 km) north of Galena. The Silver Creek drainage area...
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  • They spent the night at the base of a rock slide and discovered a vein of galena. The Doukhobors took samples back with them. A workman named Ray Wiley remembers...
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    Swede Heaven Three Lakes Verlot Warm Beach Woods Creek Florence Fortson Galena Getchell Hazel Reiter Robe Silverton Sisco Smokey Point Trafton Tulalip...
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    whisker detector, which consisted of a piece of crystalline mineral, usually galena (lead sulfide), with a fine wire touching its surface. The "asymmetric conduction"...
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    Elisha Hubbard improved the trail up the North Fork Skykomish, from Index to Galena, then north up the tributary Silver Creek. A boom shortly followed at Mineral...
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  • runs from Galena Bay via Galena Pass to Lardeau on Kootenay Lake and hence down the west side of that lake to Balfour. Shelter Bay, Washington "Shelter...
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  • (Missouri), St. Louis Washington Bridge (Washington, Missouri), St. Louis Waverly Bridge (Missouri), Waverly Y-Bridge, Galena List of bridges documented...
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  • This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Washington, a state of the United States. Sites no longer in existence Sites that have been destroyed Covered...
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    The Ulysses S. Grant Home in Galena, Illinois is the former home of Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general and later the 18th president of the United...
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  • This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Washington which are not incorporated municipalities. Incorporated municipalities in...
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  • Moses Carver (category George Washington Carver)
    longer able to farm so he went to Galena, Kansas to live with his nephew, John Carver, on Shoal Creek. Moses died in Galena two years later. He is buried...
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    Marcus is a town in Stevens County, Washington, United States. The population was 216 at the 2020 census. Marcus was named for Marcus Oppenheimer who settled...
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    the route in Kansas: Galena, Riverton and Baxter Springs. US 66 covered 292 miles (470 km) in Missouri. Upon entering from Galena, Kansas, the highway...
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  • Mars Inc. (category 1911 establishments in Washington (state))
    Arkansas; Joplin, Missouri; Kansas City, Missouri; Miami, Oklahoma; and Galena, Kansas. Their newest chocolate producing facility, the first in 23 years...
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    John Aaron Rawlins (category People from Galena, Illinois)
    studying law, Rawlins passed the bar in 1854 and started a practice in Galena, Illinois. He was a Douglas Democrat at the outbreak of the Civil War; a...
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    maintainers as well as combat support and medical personnel. Established as Galena Field (popular designation), renamed Spokane Air Depot, 1 March 1942 Spokane...
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    John Rodgers (admiral) (category Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.))
    ironclad Galena in April 1862, operating with distinction in the James River. He commanded the James River Flotilla, including the USS Galena, the ironclad...
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    Ulysses S. Grant (category George Washington University trustees)
    struggles, poverty, and instability. Grant's father offered him a place in the Galena, Illinois, branch of the family's leather business, but demanded Julia and...
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    Skykomish River (category Rivers of Washington (state))
    City, joins North Fork just above Galena (early route to Monte Cristo mining district; both Mineral City and Galena former mining towns). Salmon Creek:...
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