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Voices of Pensacola (The Beacon Building)

Prior to 1912, the Beacon Building lot stood vacant. In 1912, D. Kugelman & Co. bought the lot and hired the S.F. Fulghum &Co., General Contractors to build a new home for their business. In 1921, the Greenhut Company, a ...

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Christ Church Parish School House

As early as 1843, the Christ Episcopal Church Parish wanted to construct a building for education. In 1856, rector John J. Scott built a parish school house on Church Street. This building served as a church school until it was ...

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Historic Printer’s Alley

Long before Historic Printer’s Alley’s association with the Nashville music scene, the area around Cherry Street and Fourth Avenue was already home to some of the city’s most active saloons and nightspots. Known to locals as the Men’s Quarter, some ...

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Bijou Theatre (Nashville Municipal Auditorium)

Built in 1903, Nashville’s Bijou Theater quickly emerged as one of the South’s leading African American theaters. The theatre offered performances sponsored by its namesake Bijou Amusement Company. The theater originally operated under the direction of Milton Starr, a white ...

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Hatch Show Print Shop

Need a poster printed? Try Hatch Show Print Shop! Since 1879, the Hatch Show Print Shop has created original posters at their shop on 5th Avenue South. The shop continues to produce poster designs through traditional letter pressing. In the ...

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The Sacajawea Interpretive, Cultural, and Educational Center, ID

Sacajawea contributed to the Corps of Discovery by interpreting the Shoshone language, with her knowledge of native foods, and by way-finding throughout her homeland. Her presence in the group also affected how other Indian tribes viewed and approached the expedition—recognizing ...

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Arcadia Mill- Longleaf Pine

Longleaf pines once dominated ecosystems in the Southeastern United States from southeast Virginia to eastern Texas. In the past 400 years, Longleaf grew on over 90 million acres across the US and was the dominant tree species on 60 million of ...

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Daily life at Camp McDonald

Located 2.2 miles west-southwest of Kennesaw and roughly 20 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta, Camp McDonald was the largest Civil War training camp in Georgia during the first three years of the war. It encompassed 60 acres near a fresh ...

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Peachtree Creek

On July 20, 1864, Federals and Confederates clashed at this point along Peachtree Creek because of its topographical significance as the last major barrier between the Federals and downtown Atlanta. By July of 1864, General William T. Sherman had repeatedly ...

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The Ponder House

In 1864, on this spot (bordered by the present-day streets of Marietta, Means, and Tech Parkway), a house faced out over miles of fortifications toward the Union army as it advanced toward Atlanta during the Civil War. The Ponder House ...

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