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National Historic Landmark-Robert William Roper House

National Historic Landmark- Robert William Roper House

This brick residence of grandiose scale and monumental features is in many ways one of the most splendid houses of its period.

Its giant-order Ionic pentastyle portico is unusual among Greek Revival houses in ...

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National Historic Landmark-Robert Barnwell Rhett House

National Historic Landmark- Robert Barnwell Rhett House

This large clapboard frame dwelling was the residence of Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876), known as the Great Secessionist and one of the most effective and prominent of that circle of proslavery fire-eating radicals. ...

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National Historic Landmark-Mulberry Home of Mary Chesnut

National Historic Landmark- Mulberry Plantation (James and Mary Boykin Chestnut House)

Mulberry is nationally significant in the area of American literature for its association with Mary Boykin Chestnut's remarkable first-hand account of southern society during the Civil War.

Her war-time ...

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National Historic Landmark-Robert Mills House

National Historic Landmark- Robert Mills House

This Classical two story brick mansion was built for a wealthy merchant by Robert Mills (1781-1855), native South Carolinian, first Federal architect and the designer of the Washington Monument.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historic Landmarks

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National Historic Landmark-Mills Building, SC State Hospital

National Historic Landmark- Mills Building, South Carolina State Hospital

Constructed between 1822 and 1827, this is the oldest building in the country to be used continuously as a mental institution and one of the first mental hospitals built with public ...

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Mary McLeod Bethune House

This simple two-story frame vernacular structure was the home of Mary McLeod Bethune from the time of its construction in the 1920s until Dr. Bethune's death in 1955. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974, the house museum contains original ...

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Jackie Robinson Memorial Ball Park

Baseball Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson played his first exhibition game as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers farm club at this park on March 17, 1946, professional baseball's first integrated game. In 1947, Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and made baseball ...

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Bethune-Cookman University

In 1904 Mary McLeod Bethune established the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls. At the time, her only assets were $1.50 in capital and a few packing cases for chairs. Through her persistent efforts, Bethune received funding ...

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Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks Heritage Trail & Branch Library

The Zora Neale Hurston Branch Library is named for the African American author, storyteller, folklorist and anthropologist who grew up in Eatonville, and spent the last years of her life in Fort Pierce where she is buried. The library serves ...

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National Historic Landmark-Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim

National Historic Landmark- Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim

The present Greek Revival-style structure (1840) houses a congregation regarded as the birthplace of Reform Judaism in America.

It is also the second-oldest synagogue in the United States in continuous use.

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