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Smokestack
Georgia, Chatham County, SavannahThis Smokestack served dual purposes. Underground flues connect the stack to the Boiler Room and Blacksmith Shop. This system operated on the Bernoulli Principle. The...
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Boiler Room
Georgia, Chatham County, SavannahThe Boiler Room supplied power for the entire complex. The ornate design of this building symbolizes the importance of its function to the site. The Boiler Room was the...
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Planing Shed & Lumber Shed
Georgia, Chatham County, SavannahWorkers in the Planing Shed milled lumber for rail cars and other wooden items manufactured by the railroad. The grouping of the Planing Shed (A) and Lumber Shed (B)...
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Drop Table
Georgia, Chatham County, SavannahThe Drop Table is located in the Roundhouse. It is a device that enabled mechanics to remove the axles and wheels of a locomotive easily. This allowed repairs to the...
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Storehouse
Georgia, Chatham County, SavannahThis Storehouse was constructed in 1925 to hold a wide variety of supplies used by the railroad. Storehouse stock included tools and parts necessary to work on train...
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Colored Shopmen's Locker & Lavatory
Georgia, Chatham County, SavannahThe railroad provided separate washroom facilities for whites and African-Americans. Facilities and opportunities were quite different for black and white people...
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Valencia Historic District
Florida, Brevard County, RockledgeThe Valencia Historic District was developed during the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s. The Valencia Homes Company was formed in 1924 by local businessmen C. Sweet...
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St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Florida, Brevard County, CocoaOn June 2, 1878, the Right Reverend John Freeman Young, bishop of Florida, and Dr. William H. Carter of Holy Cross Church of Sanford, Florida, held the first meeting of...
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Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington(obverse) Methodism in Lexington Revs. James Haw and Benjamin Ogden were sent in 1786 to Ky. to organize Methodists. In 1789, Rev. Francis Poythress established the...
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Clement Clay "Bo" Torbert, Jr.
Alabama, Montgomery County, MontgomeryA native of Opelika, Alabama, he is the son of Clement C. Torbert and Lyda Meadows Torbert. He was educated in the Opelika public schools. He attended the United...
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John B. Reddick Building
Michigan, Berrien County, Niles John B. Reddick Building Built in 1855 (Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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Luxemburg
Minnesota, Stearns County, LuxemburgThe first settlers in this area were immigrants from Luxembourg and Germany, founding Saint Wendelin's Parish Church in 1859. The town grew to include a school in...
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The Eisleber Mining School in the Katharinenstift 1817 - 1844
Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Mansfeld-Südharz District, Lutherstadt Eisleben • The development of mining in the town of Eisleben is connected closely with the “Bergschule”, or Mining School. At the start of...
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Wetzel Building
California, Siskiyou County, YrekaOriginally a general store in the early 1850s, it became the site of Alois Wetzel’s first bathhouse and shaving saloon in 1863 (He moved the business across the street...
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Altes Gymnasium
Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Mansfeld-Südharz District, Lutherstadt Eisleben1563-1564 erbaut als „Fürnehme Lateinschule” auf Grund des „Luthervertrags” (1546), neu errichtet 1604 (nach Zerstörung bei...
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W.W. Powers Building
California, Siskiyou County, YrekaOriginally built in 1879 to accommodate three separate businesses, this structure became the Power’s Hotel, a fine two-story, twenty-room affair when the second story...
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Scott Avenue
Arizona, Pima County, TucsonNamed during Arizona’s Territorial period after businessman and Tucson pioneer, William F Scott (b.1831-d. ca.1914). In the 1870s, he operated a flour mill adjacent to his...
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Congress Street
Arizona, Pima County, TucsonOriginally named “Street of Joy” during Tucson’s Spanish period. In 1869, its name changed to Congress Street, derived from Charles O. Brown’s Congress Hall Saloon. In 1867,...
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J.P. Smith & L. Rosenburg Building
California, Siskiyou County, Yreka223 Once a separate building owned by L. Rosenburg, this former dry goods store was turned into a hotel when W.W. Powers bought it and rebuilt after the Great...
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Cleland and Hoyt Building
California, Siskiyou County, YrekaThe construction history of this building is unknown, although its architectural elements and fabrication materials indicate an 1850s origin. It served as a freight...
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