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Thomas Jefferson Memorial National Memorial
The serene classical Thomas Jefferson Memorial N...
Poplar Forest
Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third p...
The 1910 Fires in Pend Oreille County
Forest fires are common in northeastern Washington. But in...
Baeckerei Bed and Breakfast
The Baeckerei was built in 1860 and served as th...
High Amana Farm Complex
Dominating the landscape of the Amana Colonie...
Amana Furniture Shop
Calico making was part of the economic activi...
Museum of Amana History
The Museum of Amana History is c...
Barney L. Ford Building
The building at 1514 Blake Street was one of the...
Ft. Mose Site
Fort Mose, now a Historic State Park, is a pr...
British Fort
British Fort, a National Historic Landmark, like...
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Thomas Jefferson Memorial National Memorial
The serene classical Thomas Jefferson Memorial National Memorial honors the third president’s ideals of beauty, science, learning, culture, and liberty. Jefferson truly was a Renaissance man. He was fluent in six languages: Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, and Anglo-Saxon. ...
Poplar Forest
Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third president of the United States, began construction of Poplar Forest in 1806. It was a retreat and the purest of his Neoclassical architectural masterpieces. He visited the house in the foothills of the ...
The 1910 Fires in Pend Oreille County
Forest fires are common in northeastern Washington. But in the summer of 1910, extended drought, unusually high temperatures, and powerful winds came together to trigger a firestorm of unprecedented scale. The “Big Burn” torched some 3 million acres of forest ...
Baeckerei Bed and Breakfast
The Baeckerei was built in 1860 and served as the communal bakery for South Amana for many years. Each village in the Colonies had bakeries to supply bread every day to each kitchen in the village. Horse drawn wagons ...
High Amana Farm Complex
Dominating the landscape of the Amana Colonies, the farm complex sat clustered at the edge of each village. High Amana, like the other Amana villages, was equipped with a complete farm complex, allowing the village to be nearly self-sufficient. ...
Amana Furniture Shop
Calico making was part of the economic activity of the Inspirationists when they lived in Ebenezer, New York. Calico was originally a cotton cloth from India, and eventually denoted several kinds of cotton cloth. In the United States it ...
Museum of Amana History
The Museum of Amana History is comprised of three 19th-century buildings, consisting of the Noé House, the Schoolhouse and the Woodshed/Washhouse. The buildings are used to interpret communal life in the Amana Colonies. The Amana Society was one of ...
Barney L. Ford Building
The building at 1514 Blake Street was one of the earliest commercial successes for Barney L. Ford, a pivotal black leader in the early history of Colorado. Ford was a black pioneer, businessman, civic leader and politician who actively ...
Ft. Mose Site
Fort Mose, now a Historic State Park, is a precursor site of the Underground Railroad, demonstrating that resistance to slavery was both early and fierce, and that it arose decades before abolitionism became organized and influential. The fort, established ...
British Fort
British Fort, a National Historic Landmark, like Fort Mose in St. John's County, Florida, is a precursor site to the Underground Railroad, demonstrating that resistance to slavery arose decades before abolitionism became organized and influential. Located in northwest Florida's ...
