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Every tribute page on MyHistoryStone, whether it remembers a person, a place, or a thing. 106 in all, and growing.
People & Pets
Lives remembered, and the companions who shared them.
Places
Homes, buildings and ground that holds a story.
The Story of
The Heart Mountain Relocation Center
1942 - 1945 - Park County, Wyoming, United States
At its fullest it was the third largest city in Wyoming, and nobody in it was allowed to leave. The Heart Mountain Relocation Center opened...
The Story of
Vanport, Oregon
1942 - 1948 - Portland, Oregon, United States
Oregon's second-largest city lasted five and a half years and is now a golf course. Vanport was built in 1942 to house the people who built...
Things & Shared History
Businesses, teams, working lives, and everything else worth keeping.
A Tribute to
Farragut Naval Training Station
1942 - 1946 - Bayview, Idaho, United States
Nearly 300,000 sailors learned to be sailors on a lake in northern Idaho, three hundred miles from the nearest ocean. In March 1942 the Nav...
A Tribute to
The Donora Smog of 1948
October 27, 1948 - Donora, Pennsylvania, United States
For five days at the end of October 1948, the air in a mill town in the Monongahela Valley killed twenty people, and the football game went ...
A Tribute to
The Ghost Army
1944 - 1945 - Pine Camp, New York, United States
The Army recruited them out of art schools and advertising agencies, gave them inflatable tanks and a set of gramophone records, and sent th...
A Tribute to
The Little Church of the West
1942 - Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
The oldest building on the Las Vegas Strip is a wedding chapel, and it has been picked up and moved three times to get out of the way of eve...
A Tribute to
The Navajo Code Talkers
May 4, 1942 - 1945 - Fort Wingate, New Mexico, United States
The government had spent forty years punishing Navajo children for speaking Navajo. Then it asked them to win a war with it. Philip Johnsto...
A Tribute to
The Winecoff Hotel Fire
December 7, 1946 - Atlanta, Georgia, United States
The hotel stationery said absolutely fireproof. It meant the building would survive. Nobody had promised anything about the people inside it...
A Tribute to
USS Mason (DE-529)
March 20, 1944 - October 12, 1945 - Boston, Massachusetts, United States
A destroyer escort, commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on March 20, 1944, with a crew of about two hundred and four men — roughly a hundre...
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