I think I have enough ideas now to make it do what I want it to do. Thanks to everyone for their assistance.

I want to make this directory page REALLY good, since our paying customers use it a lot. I'm going to implement an interactive map, so when people click a dot or a state, they are taken to that place, probably on a special page devoted to it. There's a lot for me to learn before I make the decisions on how to handle it.

I think I want somehow to keep the "one long directory", though, for those who want to browse the whole thing. It WILL be distinctive, useful, etc. It just takes time to figure out how to do it. ;-)

I don't know if anybody noticed, but when you click the name of a city or state, you are taken to the Wikipedia article for that place. And if you click a green or red dot, you go to a special place.