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Tredegar Iron Works

Named for the famous iron works at Tredegar, Wales, Tredegar Iron Works opened in 1837 and stood as Richmond's foremost business concern for more than a century. The city’s location next to a waterpower source, its proximity to working coalfields, ...

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Oregon Hill Historic District

Oregon Hill Historic District is a fine 19th and early 20th-century working class neighborhood with architecture and streetscapes that illustrate how industrial workers lived. Located near the Tredegar Iron Works, the area developed as a working class community in the ...

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Hollywood Cemetery and James Monroe Tomb

Hollywood Cemetery is set amongst a series of wooded hills and dales overlooking the falls of the James River. The site of Hollywood was part of the estate of Belvidere, a country house built by William Byrd III in 1758 ...

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Columbia City Historic District

Columbia City is one of hundreds of communities across the country which blossomed with its connection to an electric streetcar. A trolley line was built through the village in 1890 and within three years enough industry and residences relocated to ...

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Old Georgetown City Hall

Originally settled in 1850 as a small, fertile farming community called Duwamish, the community of Georgetown provides insight to an interesting variation on the effects of early 20th-century social reform movements. Georgetown's saloon and brewery owners worried that the community's ...

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Seattle International District

The architecture of the International District documents Asian immigrants' attempts to create a culture that blends both Asian and American traditions. Among the city's earliest residents were the Chinese immigrants who provided the cheap labor that helped make the first ...

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Triangle Hotel and Bar

Seattle's early surveyors attempted to lay out the city's streets on a square grid plan. The varying angles of the shoreline, however, created overlapping grids that converged at points to produce a series of triangular lots. Building on these properties ...

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Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

The Seattle Unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park commemorates the city's role as the most important staging area for the gold rush of the 1890s. When the steamer S. S. Portland arrived in the harbor on July ...

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Pioneer Square - Skid Road Historic District

Skid Road and Pioneer Square were the center of the young city of Seattle. In the 1850s, early settlers built sawmills to exploit the timber resources of the area. They moved their logs by "skidding" them down the steep hills ...

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Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility

The Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility illustrates Seattle's long-running reliance on the waters of Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean. The earliest European American settlers chose the area in the 1850s partly because of its natural harbor, and since ...

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