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Apartment Building at 116 West Spruce

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Missoula, Montana.
Missoula boasted twenty-six manufacturing enterprises by 1909, including such diverse production as candy, bricks, gas, marble, and meat products. By 1910, the Northern Pacific Railroad shops employed over three hundred . . .

(Architecture • Industry & Commerce • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Politics and Power

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Moundville, Alabama.
The mounds you see here were built in a very orderly arrangement over the course of about 100 years. Surrounding them was an immense wall constructed from tens of thousands of logs. How did the rulers harness the manpower . . .

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

Earthlodge

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Moundville, Alabama.
Before you is Mound V, a broad, low, rectangular platform that forms an apron to Mound B at your left. Until recently, scientists knew only that Mound V's function was somehow intimately tied to Mound B upon which the . . .

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Northern Pacific Railroad Depot

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Missoula, Montana.
When the tracks of the Northern Pacific reached Missoula in 1883, it was possibly the most significant event in the town’s history. Reliable transportation transformed the minor trade and lumber center to a major economic . . .

(Notable Buildings • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Little Italy

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Poughkeepsie, New York.
Vibrant immigrant enclaves steeped in old world values and ethnic food are part of the American landscape. However, the locomotive age made Poughkeepsie’s Little Italy, sprouting in the shadow of a train trestle, truly . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Settlements & Settlers • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Union Street Historic Neighborhood

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Poughkeepsie, New York.
In many ways, the city's oldest neighborhood follows the meandering history of Poughkeepsie itself. Starting as a mere footpath that connected the early hilltop settlement to the Union Store on the riverbank, this major . . .

(Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Southside Historic District

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Poughkeepsie, New York.
Standing witness to the city's stature, this manicured mix of distinctive homes recalls the aspirations of the inventors, industrialists, and civic leaders who called Poughkeepsie home over a century ago. Comprised of four . . .

(Architecture • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Miles Davis

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Alton, Illinois.
Miles Dewey Davis III is noted as one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century. The son of a successful dental surgeon and music teacher, he was born in Alton, Illinois prior to the family relocating to . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Historic Route 66 Illinois

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Staunton, Illinois.
You are traveling on one of the most famous roads in the world. On September 25, 2005, Illinois Route 66 was designated as a National Scenic Byway by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

(Industry & Commerce • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Zane Grey Estate

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Altadena, California.
Zane Grey Estate, 396 East Mariposa Street, has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior, 2002.

(Architecture • Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Town

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Fernandina Beach, Florida.
Original site of Fernandina Last Spanish city platted in the Western Hemisphere Platted 1811 Listed on the National Register Of Historic Places

(Hispanic Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ervin’s Rest

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Fernandina Beach, Florida.
Louis Dargan (L.D.) Ervin was born in Darlington, South Carolina, in 1873. He attended the Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth of Savannah, the oldest institution of higher education for African Americans in . . .

(African Americans • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Evans’ Rendezvous

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Fernandina Beach, Florida.
In the early 1930’s, A.L. Lewis, president of the Afro American Insurance Company, bought 200 acres of beachfront so his employees could enjoy the Florida shore during the days of segregation. For the next 40 years, American . . .

(African Americans • Entertainment • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Citrus Groves

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Palm Coast, Florida.
Citrus is one of Florida’s most revered symbols, but few people realize that St. Augustine was the birthplace of the nation’s citrus industry. Here at Washington Oaks, orange groves have been established since the late . . .

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Who's in the Dog House?

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near West Liberty, Ohio.
[See photo captions]

(Animals) Includes location, directions, 10 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mound B

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Moundville, Alabama.
The mound in front of you probably once served as a platform for the principal chief's house. The noble who lived there was an extremely important political and religious figure. It is likely that this chief claimed to have . . .

(Man-Made Features • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Politics and Power

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Moundville, Alabama.
The mounds you see here were built in a very orderly arrangement over the course of about 100 years. Surrounding them was an immense wall constructed from tens of thousands of logs. How did the rulers harness the manpower . . .

(Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Namur and the Norbertine Fathers: Community, Education, and Religion among Belgian-Americans

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Namur, Wisconsin.
Introduction You are in the Namur Belgian-American National Historic Landmark District, certified in 1900 and the only such District of Wisconsin. This rural landscape appears today much as it did a century ago, and harbors . . .

(Churches & Religion • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Architecture and History in the WIS 57 Project Area

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Namur, Wisconsin.
Architecture-History Studies Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) requires federal agencies to take into account the effect their projects might have on historic properties such as buildings . . .

(Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fifth Branch Bank Building

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Lexington, Missouri.
Erected in 1846 to house the Fifth Branch of the Bank of the State of Missouri, organized April 10, 1845 and the only one of the five branch locations in the western part of the state. It became Farmers Bank of Missouri in . . .

(Education • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
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