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Hawkins Line

This line, sometimes called "The Four Mile Purchase Line," was the boundary between Georgia and the Cherokee Nation from 1804 to 1818.

It was established when Georgia bought a four mile strip from the Indians so as to take in ...

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Millersylvania State Park

Millersylvania State Park Historic District, a forested tract surrounding a small lake in the south Puget Sound region of Western Washington developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), reflects distinctly the contributions of Despression-era New Deal relief programs to our ...

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Casa Paoli

Casa Paoli is nationally significant as the birthplace of Antonio Emilio Paoli y Marcano (1871-1946), recognized as the greatest tenor born in Puerto Rico and one of the most outstanding opera singers of all time.

Antonio Paoli, the Tenor of ...

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Pythian Home of Missouri

The Pythian Home is associated with the statewide charitable activities of the Knights of Pythias, a fraternal order which originated in 1864.

It served as a home for the needy from 1913-1942, and during World War II was used as ...

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PASM Headquarters and Geodesic Dome

The dome and headquarters building, both constructed in 1959, represent a prominent example of Modern Architecture designed by architect, John Terence Kelly, and mathematician, R. Buckminster Fuller.

Located in Materials Park, home to ASM International (formerly known as the American ...

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Indian Statue

The 48-foot high statue known as "Black Hawk" was the creation of sculptor Lorado Taft, a national art figure in the United States art world from the 1890s to his death in 1936.

Completed in 1911, the statue is situated ...

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The Anderson Building

The Anderson Building, constructed in 1924, is a mixed-use three-story brick and terra-cotta Sullivanesque building located among other two to three story multiple bay/multiple lot commercial and apartment buildings on the Southwest fringe of downtown Omaha.

The Sullivanesque style of ...

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Olcott Avenue Historic District

The Olcott Avenue neighborhood in the borough of Bernardsville, located in northeast Somerset County, was developed at the turn of the 20th century as a carefully laid out middle class residential neighborhood.

The streets in the district are characterized by ...

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Attucks School

Constructed in 1916-17, the Attucks School served the black community of Vinita, Oklahoma as a combined elementary, junior, and high school.

Stylistically, the school is a combination of a simplified Art Deco and WPA construction. It was not the only ...

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Orchard Beach State Park

Orchard Beach State Park, on the shore of Lake Michigan, is one of the most intact examples of a Michigan state park developed in the 1930s and 1940s under National Park Service guidelines.

Most of the park's buildings were designed ...

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