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Black Creek Park, Five Mile Creek Greenway Partnership and the F

Black Creek Park, part of the Five Mile Creek Greenway Partnership, encompasses the Fultondale Coke Oven Park development. The Fultondale Coke Oven Park preserves the environment and history of the old mining communities of north Birmingham, including the beehive coke ...

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Vicente Martinez Adobe

In 1849, Vicente Martinez built a two-story adobe ranch house on his portion of the Rancho Pinole. This land was inherited from his father, Don Ignacio Martinez, a Spanish officer who became Comandante of the San Francisco Presidio and later ...

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American Baptist Seminary of the West - Hobart Hall

City of Berkeley Landmark - designated in 1999

This compact complex of buildings linked by a series of arcades and academic quads in the English tradition was created to house one of Berkeley's oldest seminaries. Hobart Hall, designed by Julia Morgan, ...

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Johnston's Headquarters

During the fighting at Dallas, New Hope Church, Pickett’s Mill & elsewhere along the opposing Confederate & Federal lines, General J. E. Johnston [CS] had h'dq'rs at the Wm. Wigley house (which stood near here) May 25 - June 1, ...

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The Hartshorne Legacy

Hartshorne Woods Park is named in honor of the Hartshorne family. Richard Hartshorne (1641-1722), an English Quaker, settled in Middletown in 1669 and became one of Monmouth County’s most prominent early settlers. By the late 1670s he had acquired extensive ...

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War Department Observation Tower

This tower was built by the War Department in 1896 as part of the early development efforts by the U.S. military to create an open-air classroom at Antietam. The War Department also placed cannon, built roads and fences. They interviewed ...

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Quisling Towers Apartments

Lawrence Monberg, Architect

Designed by Danish-born architect Lawrence Monberg, the Quisling Towers is a striking example of the Art Moderne style. Art Moderne was influenced by the emerging industrial design for ships, airplanes and cars, featuring such aerodynamic properties as smooth ...

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Hart's Mill

Grist mill. Site of key Regulator meeting, 1766, and skirmish in 1781 that boosted the Patriot cause. Stood 1/5 mile N.

Marker is on U.S. 70 0.7 miles west of West Hill Ave, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Rocky River Baptist Association Headquarters

1917 Union High School 1937

This building served as a classroom and

dormitory for the former Union High School

Dedicated

"To The Glory of God"

July 20, 1991

The Reverend R.H. Mitchell -- Moderator at Renovation

Dr. Earl J. Mathis -- At Dedication

Trustees

Rev. Marvin Peoples, Chr.

Mr. Paul ...

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Barton Heights Cemeteries

The Burying Ground Society of the Free People of Color of Richmond established its cemetery (later renamed Cedarwood) here in 1815. African Americans eventually founded five more cemeteries here: Union Burial Ground (later called Union Mechanics), Sons and Daughters of ...

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