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Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site
When describing the Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site in a 1945 interview, Tennessee historian Samu
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Flight Training at the United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy was founded in 1845 in Annapolis, Maryland, after experience showed
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Morven
Morven stands on five acres in the heart of Princeton, New Jersey, and has played a role in the sta
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Iowa City
Truly a frontier town when it was founded in 1839, Iowa City was created to become the new capital
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Russell County
Russell County, Kansas, is the heart of the heartland. Settled in 1871 by a colony of Volga Germans
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Lemont
Located within the Des Plaines River valley in Illinois, Lemont became a village in 1873. The Illin
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New Orleans
While the name of the city New Orleans itself implies reinvention, among its traits most beloved by
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Skiing in Colorado
International Skiing History Association Skade Book AwardSkiing in Colorado evolved from a
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Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site
On March 19-21, 1865, nearly 80,000 soldiers clashed near the small hamlet of Bentonville, North Ca
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Greensboro Depot
Greensboro, North Carolina, is but one of many cities located on former Southern Railway's Washingt
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Minneapolis's Lake District
Named for the network of lakes and waterways stretching along the city's western edge, the Lake Dis
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Hegewisch
Founded in 1884 as the company town of the United States Rolling Stock Company, Hegewisch became Ch
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Oakdale
Oakdale, California, is located on the south bank of the Stanislaus River in the state's great Cent
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Lost Service Stations of Central Pennsylvania
As automobile transportation exploded in the first half of the 20th century, the service station be
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Garrison
A tiny hamlet on the Hudson River, Garrison has deep roots in our nation's history. Author George C
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Dallas Love Field
Dallas Love Field Airport, established in 1917 as an Army flight training field, was the site of th
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Salt Lake City’s Modern Architecture
The postwar era led to a threefold population increase in Salt Lake County between 1940 and 1980 an
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Boonesborough
Boonesborough is one of America's most historic and scenic places. In the spring of 1775, legendary
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Jewish Miami Beach
From a disregarded, forlorn island in the early 1900s to the world-famous resort and go-to place of
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Hot Rodding in the San Fernando Valley
This book chronicles the once-vibrant hot rod scene in California's San Fernando Valley--from the i
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Kingsport: City of Industry
Kingsport is a prime example of a community born out of a vision to create a planned model city of
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Calaveras County
Calaveras County is one of the original 27 counties created when California was formed in 1850. At
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Newton Falls
Newton Falls was founded in 1806 and named after Newtown, Connecticut, a homage to the Connecticut
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Fort Holabird
Fort Holabird was a US Army facility near Baltimore, Maryland and began as a training center for a
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Granbury and Hood County
Granbury and Hood County's history is both an American pioneer saga and a 20th-century rags to rich
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Old Swedes Church and Historic Site
Situated on high ground above the Christina River, Holy Trinity Church, known as Old Swedes, is the
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Italians in the Pacific Northwest
From hardscrabble days as homesteaders and farmers in the 1880s to becoming successful entrepreneur
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Nebraska Ballrooms and Dance Halls
Ballrooms were at the center of social life in the Midwest for over a century, with some dance hall
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Maitland Art Center
The Maitland Art Center, historically known as the Research Studio, is one of the most intact examp
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Crystal Palace Market
The Crystal Palace Market opened in 1922 as the largest market in San Francisco. It was developed b
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Lost California
The postcards in this collection reflect a hidden past of California that exists now only on the pa
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Fruita
Fruita, Colorado, was founded by William Pabor in 1884 as a family-friendly community based on frui
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Sterling
Sterling, Virginia, was originally comprised of swaths of rural farmland that evolved into Loudoun
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Northglenn
In June 1959, fifteen thousand people arrived at Perl-Mack Enterprises show homes in North Glenn. W
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Auburn
Auburn was founded in 1793 and started as an agricultural community that grew sweet corn and potato
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Carson City
Established in 1858 on the brink of the Comstock Lode discovery, Carson City quickly became a hub f
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Stoddard
The town of Stoddard, located in the Monadnock Region of southwest New Hampshire, is blessed with a
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Newberg
Newberg has experienced significant growth in the last century, with a notable uptick in the 1990s.
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Logging Oregon’s Coastal Forests
For the first 60 years of the 20th century, logging dominated the physical, economic, and social la
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Cherry Hills Village
The history of Cherry Hills Village is about the trailblazers, settlers, visionaries, and others wh
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San Luis Obispo County Architecture
California is rare among states and nations in having two cultural capitals--Los Angeles and San Fr
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Calhoun County
Calhoun County, formerly known as Benton County, lies in northeastern Alabama in the Coosa Valley r
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Bergenfield
Settled by the Dutch, Bergenfield--originally named Schraalenburgh, then Bergen Fields--grew from a
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Along Route 1
Route 1 in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts is an unapologetic combination of historic gravi
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Grand County
Established in 1874, before Colorado became a state, Grand County is nestled in the north-central R
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Camp Clark
In 1908, Camp Clark came into existence when it was established as the State Rifle Range in Nevada,
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University Avenue of the Twin Cities
At the turn of 20th century, University Avenue emerged as a major transportation corridor, connecti