Florida 2000 Center of Population

Each decade, after it tabulates the decennial census, the U.S. Census Bureau calculates the center of population for the U.S. and each state. The center is determined as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of each ...

Completing the Triangle

Make No Little Plans

The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center honoring the 40th president, filled the last open space in the Federal Triangle. When former First Lady Nancy Reagan dedicated it in 1998, the redevelopment of this area of ...

Open For Business

Make No Little Plans

Across the street the Department of Commerce's Herbert C. Hoover Building anchors the Federal Triangle, just as the department - with its mission of promoting trade, supporting economic development, and strengthening the competitiveness of American companies - ...

Prairie

A year-round palette of colors

A sea of grasses and wildflowers - the tallgrass prairie - once covered America's heartland. It is now one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, and many of its inhabitants are struggling to survive.

Thousands ...

Rapp School

A One-Room, Eight Grade, Country School

Rapp School District No. 50 was organized on June 10, 1870. The school and the town, ¼ mile east and ½ mile south along the railroad tracks, were named after an early settler in the ...

Florville's Barber Shop

William Florville was Lincoln's barber for twenty-four years.

Florville, or de Fleurville ("Billy the Barber" to his white customers), was born in Haiti of French ancestry. He came to America at age fifteen and was a barber's apprentice in Baltimore.He moved ...

The Site of Camp S-60

Barnum Pond - Town of Brighton

The Site of Camp S-60

Barnum Pond - Town of Brighton

1933-1942

U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps

Company 220

Paul Smiths, N.Y.

Honored for these accomp[lishments:

Fought fires, helped build Meacham Lake and Fish Creek ...

Leeds Historic CCC Camp

In the depression year of 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated the Civilian Conservation Corps. This program provided much needed employment for the nation's youth 18-25 years old. The men had to complete the 8th grade, and have 3-4 family ...

Lincoln-Era Fire Companies

Lincoln's Springfield was vulnerable to fire, Crowded wood-frame buildings, open flames in stoves, fireplaces, candles, and primitive gas lighting ineffective alarms, muddy streets, and inadequate water supplies---all combined to make fires potentially devastating. Springfield had its share of fires. In ...

4 Patchin Place / e.e. cummings

4 Patchin Place

One-time home of “Poet and Painter” e.e. cummings (d. 1962) and his wife, model and photographer Marion Morehouse (d.1969)

“—do lovers love? why then heaven and hell.

Whatever sages say and fool, all’s well”

Place here ...