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National Historic Landmark - Centennial Baptist Church

Centennial Baptist Church was the home base for Reverend (Dr.) Elias Camp Morris from the dedication of the church in 1905 until his death in 1922. While serving as pastor, Dr. Morris was president (1895-1922) of the National Baptist Convention ...

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National Historic Landmark - Bathhouse Row

This, the largest grouping of bathhouses in the country, illustrates the popularity of the spa movement in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is also an excellent collection of turn-of-the-century eclectic buildings in the Neoclassical, Renaissance Revival, ...

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National Historic Landmark - Daisy Bates House

The Daisy Bates House is nationally significant for its role as the de facto command post for the Central High School desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas during 1957-1958. The house served as a haven for the nine African American ...

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National Historic Landmark -Connemara, The Carl Sandburg Farm

National Historic Landmark -Connemara, The Carl Sandburg Farm

Sandburg, the poet, novelist, and writer of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Lincoln, lived here from 1945 until his death in 1967.

C.G. Memminger, the builder of the house, was Secretary of the ...

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National Historic Landmark -Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory

National Historic Landmark -Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory

In 1890 Washington Duke's son, James B. Duke, organized the American Tobacco Company, preeminent in its time.

The family's frame house, reconstructed small tobacco factory of log construction, and frame third factory (c. ...

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National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

On 15 March, 1781 the British Army defeated Major General Nathanael Greene at Guildford Court House in one of the most intense battles of the Revolutionary War.

The victory cost Cornwallis over one-fourth of ...

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National Historic Landmark-N C Mutual Life Insurance Building

National Historic Landmark - North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Building

Built in 1921, this building was the second home office of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, which was founded in 1898.

This company evolved out of a ...

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National Historic Landmark -USS North Carolina (BB-55)

National Historic Landmark -NORTH CAROLINA, USS (Battleship)

First and namesake of a modern class of American battleships built just prior to World War II, USS NORTH CAROLINA set a standard for new shipbuilding technology that combined high speeds with powerful armament.

Her ...

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National Historic Landmark -Big Hidatsa Village Site

National Historic Landmark -Big Hidatsa Village Site

Occupied from about 1740 to 1850, this is the largest of three Hidatsa communities near the mouth of the Knife River, showing the effects of nearly a century of fur trade interaction with ...

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National Historic Landmark-Bagg Bonanza Farm

National Historic Landmark - Frederick A. and Sophia Bagg Bonanza Farm

The Bagg Bonanza Farm represents the broad patterns of Bonanza farms, which according to the -Atlantic Monthly- in 1880, were-destined to exercise a most potent influence on the production of ...

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