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The Colonnade of the Northeastern Corner

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El acceso por el lado sur, y su unión con otras columnatas elevadas al norte, indican se usó para separar lo que acontecía en la plaza que se encuentra a sus pies. Esta secuencia de edificios muestra por lo menos, dos etapas . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Palace of the Sculpted Columns

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Por su destacado trabajo en bajorrelieve en jambas y columnas, es uno de los edificios más importantes del lado este de la Plaza. Sus características arquitectónicas advierten una función cívico-religiosa. Cuenta con una . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fred David Gray

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Tuskegee, Alabama.
Side 1 Born in 1930 in Montgomery, Gray was among the foremost civil rights attorneys of the 20th century. Forced by segregation to leave Alabama to attend law school, he vowed to return and "destroy everything segregated I . . .

(Civil Rights • Politics • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Temple of the Small Tables

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Templo de las Pequeñas Mesas Este edificio presenta una distribución similar a la del Templo de los Guerreros. Cuenta con una escalinata central que comunica a los dos cuartos superiores, los cuales tuvieron techos . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital

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Tuskegee, Alabama.
The Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital (VA), established in 1923, is significant as the first VA hospital in the nation to be administered by an all African American medical staff. After WWI, African American veterans . . .

(Landmarks • Science & Medicine • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Market

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El Mercado Es uno de los mejores ejemplos de las estructuras del tipo “galeria y patio" localizadas en el sitio, en el crual los arquitectos mayas lograron avances constructivos como las bóvedas más anchas y las columnas más . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tuskegee University

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
This U.S. Air Force F-4C Phantom Jet Fighter was flown by General "Chappie" James, Tuskegee University graduate and first Black Four-Star General in the U.S. Armed Services, on his last combat mission--Operation Bold--over . . .

(Education • War, Vietnam • Air & Space • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Southeastern Colonnade

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Columnata Sureste Originalmente era un amplio espacio techado y soportado por bóvedas que descansaban sobre largas filas de columnas. Este edificio, que cierra el ángulo Sureste de la Plaza, muestra claramente las . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Norwichtown Green

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Norwich, Connecticut.
English settlers in southeastern Connecticut aided the Mohegan Tribe many times during the 17th century Pequot and Narragansett Wars. In 1645 Thomas Leffingwell and others helped lift a Narragansett siege of the Mohegans . . .

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Thrasher Hall

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
Thrasher Hall, renovated in 1983. Was built in 1893 by teachers and students using brick they made. Only the exterior walls remain from the original building. The bell above rang for class changes. It was located in the . . .

(Notable Buildings • Education • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

White Hall

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
Named in honor of Alexander Moss White of Brooklyn, New York, with funds donated by his children. This structure opened fall 1909. The building was officially dedicated in January 1910 was a dormitory for women. A bronze . . .

(Notable Buildings • Education • 20th Century) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Huntington Hall

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
Built as a girls dormitory with funds donated by the widow of Collis P. Huntington, philanthropist, and president of the C & O (Chesapeake & Ohio) Railroad. Huntington Hall was designed by architect, Robert R. Taylor, the . . .

(Notable Buildings • Education • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Frederick Douglass Hall

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
Named for Frederick Douglass, famed runaway slave, abolitionist and statesman. Douglass came to Tuskegee in 1892 and delivered the 11th Annual Commencement address in which he "urged economy, thrift and common sense." Those . . .

(Notable Buildings • Education • Notable Persons • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Green

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Norwich, Connecticut.
The Green In 1659 the Mohegan chief Uncas sold to settlers led by Major John Mason and the Reverend James Fitch “nine miles square”, part of which became Norwich. Acording to Francis M. Caulkins’s history of Norwich, “At . . .

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lowthorpe Meadows

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Norwich, Connecticut.
Lowthorpe Meadows Of this 18-acre meadow, the manor portion was deeded to a trust in 1907 by Emily Serena Gilman and Louisa Gilman Lane “in consideration of their love and goodwill to the inhabitants of Norwich, and in . . .

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers • Environment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lathrop Manor

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Norwich, Connecticut.
Lathrop Manor John Olmstead, Norwich's first physician, settled here in 1661 and later sold his house to Samuel Lathrop. After the original house burned in 1745, it was rebuilt by Samuel's son, Dr. Daniel Lathrop. Near the . . .

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Carver Research Foundation

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
On February 10, 1940 George Washington Carver signed the deed of gift establishing the Carver Foundation with a $33,000 contribution from his personal savings. According to Carver, the foundation was established "for the . . .

(Notable Buildings • Education • Science & Medicine • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of Olivia Davidson Hall

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
Site of Olivia Davidson Hall Men's Dormitory 1886 – 1954 Originally Samuel Armstrong Hall 1886 - 1892

(Notable Buildings • Education • African Americans) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Porter Hall 1883 / Huntington Academic Building 1905

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
Porter Hall 1883 Porter Hall was the first building erected on the Tuskegee campus. The building housed administrative offices, library reading and recitation rooms, chapel, kitchen, dining room, living quarters and . . .

(Notable Buildings • Education • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Burnt Place

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
At the time we occupied the place there were standing upon it a cabin, formerly used as the dining room, an old kitchen, a stable, and an old hen-house. Within a few weeks we had all of these structures in use. —Booker T. . . .

(Education • War, US Civil • African Americans • Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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