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Brick Block/Montgomery Ward

Main Street and Higgins Avenue is one of Missoula’s busiest intersections and it has been since the town’s earliest days. So it should come as little surprise that town founders Francis L. Worden and C. P. Higgins chose to locate ...

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Babs Apartments/Garden City Commercial College

Set behind Missoula’s Hip Strip commercial district on the south end of the Higgins Avenue Bridge, it’s hard to miss the Babs building. Built in 1905 and designed by Missoula architect A. J. Gibson, this Queen Anne-style Victorian landmark features ...

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Cubo Line

Following Carolina Governor James Moore’s raid on St. Augustine, the city developed one of the most formidable defense systems in the colonial world. This system included forts, settlements and defensive lines. One of these lines, the Cubo Line was constructed ...

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National Cemetery/British Barracks

The Spanish first constructed this building along the edge of the walled city for use as Franciscan monastery during 1577. Following the end of the Seven Years War in 1763, the British occupied St. Augustine converting the building for use ...

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Catalan Fishermen of Banyuls-sur-Mer

The Catalan Fishing Village of Banyuls-sur-Mer

Banyuls-sur-Mer is a seaside village in the most southern corner of France located in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon of the Eastern Pyrenees. The village lays nestled between foothills, the steeps slopes covered with vast ...

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Col de Banyuls

Col de Banyuls

The Col de Banyuls is a mountain pass in the foothills of the Eastern Pyrenees that is also an historic border crossing between France and Spain. The ascent is difficult, but the shortest route to the pass ...

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Obelisk of Port Vendres

The Port Vendres Obelisk

The obelisk erected in 1783 in the center square of Port Vendres commemorates the accomplishments of King Louis XVI. Port Vendres is a deepwater seaport on the southwestern coast of the French Mediterranean. In the 1770's, ...

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Mount Melleray Abbey

Mount Melleray Abbey, found outside Cappoquin, County Waterford, was the first monastery founded in Ireland following the Reformation. When the French government forced out all foreign monks at the Cistercian monastery of Mellery in Brittany, France, a group of Irish ...

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Ballynamona Court Cairn

Ballynamona Court Cairn in County Waterford is the only court cairn in the southeast.

The name comes from the fact that this type of tomb usually has a courtyard area found at the entrance to the chambers. Of the court -originally ...

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Stradbally Medieval Church

The local Church of Ireland church in Stradbally, County Waterford, houses the ruins of a large, medieval house of worship. It contains a fortified presbytery, which is believed to have been constructed in the 1200s for protection during the disputes ...

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