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Zachary Taylor Home (Springfield)

Springfield, a two and one-half story brick house just east of Louisville, Kentucky, was the boyhood home of Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States.  As a career military officer for most of his life, he moved often, ...

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James K. Polk Home

James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, lived in this fine brick house in Columbia, one of the best examples of Federal style architecture in Tennessee, from 1819 until 1824 upon his marriage. Nominated as the ...

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Montpelier

Montpelier was the home of James Madison, fourth president of the United States, for 76 years. Madison was a brilliant political philosopher and pragmatic politician. When he was elected president in 1809 he was already recognized as the “Father ...

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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 ...

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Adams National Historical Park

Adams National Historical Park was the home of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and his son John Quincy Adams, the sixth president. Distinguished in public service and in literary pursuits, four generations of the Adams ...

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George Washington Memorial Parkway

Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, the first section of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, opened in 1932, the bicentennial of the birth of the man who shaped the nation as peerless leader in the War for Independence, chairman of the ...

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George Washington Birthplace National Monument

By the time of George Washington’s birth in 1732 on the marshy shores of Popes Creek, his family had been on the land between Mattox and Popes Creek for three quarters of a century. The George Washington Birthplace National ...

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Timber Industry in Pend Oreille County

The timber industry has a long and storied history in northeastern Washington. The first sawmill in Pend Oreille County went into operation in 1888 in the Calispell Valley. County resident Tony Bamonte noted that “[f]rom then on, sawmills began to ...

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Sullivan Lake Campgrounds

The East and West Sullivan Lake campgrounds are located along the scenic north shore of Sullivan Lake near the town of Metaline Falls, Washington, on the Colville National Forest. These campgrounds provide a unique environment where campers can enjoy hiking, ...

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Calispell Diversion Canal

Prior to the construction of the ill-fated Calispell Diversion Canal, local farmers tried to alleviate the problem of flooding in the Calispell Valley by establishing a diking and drainage ditch system. The valley, however, continued to flood despite these efforts.

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