Reducere. Morgan Hill lies at the foot of stately El Toro Mountain in southern Santa Clara Valley. Martin Murphy Sr. settled here in 1845, and only a generat...
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Reducere. The United States is considered the world's foremost refuge for foreigners, and no place in the nation symbolizes this better than Ellis Island. Th...
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Reducere. Since the earliest days of European exploration, mariners have heard tales and relayed their own stories of North Carolina's perilous shoreline. Wi...
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Reducere. DescriptionMarinship was a World War II shipyard built by the W.A. Bechtel Company to fulfill an urgent need for cargo ships to support soldiers al...
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Reducere. Chartered by Gov. Benning Wentworth in 1764, Claremont received its name from the English estate of Claremont, home of the Earl of Clare. The town ...
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Reducere. Nestled in the heart of Wisconsin s renowned Northwoods and surrounded by the world s largest inland chain of lakes, Three Lakes has developed into...
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Reducere. All kinds of spurious rumors had swirled around the 1919 World Series. Allegations about a fixed game between the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phi...
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Reducere. Explore the life and early times of Stuart, Florida through the lens of vintage images.On the southeast coast of Florida in the 1880s, a quaint lit...
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Reducere. "Beautiful weather here. When are you coming?" Those words have been written millions of times on postcards mailed from Orlando. Known today as hom...
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Reducere. Wind Cave is one of the longest and most complex caves in the world. Complete with more than 100 miles of surveyed cavern passageways below ground ...
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Reducere. Take a visual, historic tour of the world's longest known cave system with caving enthusiasts Bob and Judi Thompson.Mammoth Cave National Park is m...
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Reducere. This book captures the historical impacts of the African American community of Key West, Florida.Known best as a vacation destination and home to a...
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Reducere. The Civilian Conservation Corps was established on March 31, 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of his efforts to pull the country out of...
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Reducere. The Farallon Islands lie almost 30 miles outside the entrance to San Francisco Bay and are comprised of over 20 islands, islets, sea stacks, and ro...
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Reducere. In the early 20th century, there was no better example of a classic American downtown than Los Angeles. Since World War II, Los Angeles's Historic ...
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Reducere. Though little more than an afterthought these days, from the 1890s through the 1920s, postcards were by far the most popular means of communication...
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Reducere. As one of America s most notorious prisons, Alcatraz has been a significant part of California s history for over 155 years. The small, lonely rock...
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Reducere. Chicago's extensive transit system first started in 1859, when horsecars ran on rails in city streets. Cable cars and electric streetcars came next...
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Reducere. The first lookouts were rustic camps on mountaintops, where men and women were stationed to keep an eye out for wildfires. As the importance of fir...
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Reducere. DescriptionEstablished outside Columbus, Georgia, in October 1918 by the United States Army as Camp Benning, the base was moved to its permanent lo...
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Reducere. DescriptionOfficially known as Surf City USA(R), Huntington Beach is a surf town like no other. Ever since Hawaiian transplant George Freeth "walke...
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Reducere. The University of Central Florida has stood at the edges of Orlando for 40 years, a major institution of research, culture, education, and professi...
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Reducere. Located on the banks of the Ohio River, Cincinnati was incorporated as a town in 1802. It became a major stop on the Underground Railroad and the g...
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Reducere. DescriptionOnce known as the "Paris of the West, " Motown became synonymous with urban abandonment and arson as job and population decline took hol...
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Reducere. DescriptionEarly settlers first called this area Boldface Hill, for a Native American chieftain, but the name was soon changed to Price s Hill, nam...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe beloved thoroughfare at the heart of Denver, Sixteenth Street has always been the Mile-High City s Main Street. Sixteenth Street got...
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Reducere. The black community in the Ann Arbor area includes Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Second Baptist Church, Brown Chapel, the Ann Arbor Co...
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Reducere. DescriptionApproximately 110, 000 soldiers of the Union and Confederate armies fought along the banks of Antietam Creek in the bloodiest single-day...
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Reducere. With a history that stretches over a century, the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry is one of the oldest in college football. The two teams claim a combi...
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Reducere. In the spring of 1888, George Washington Vanderbilt returned to New York after spending weeks exploring the countryside near Asheville, North Carol...
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Reducere. DescriptionEstablished as the Pine Ridge Agency in southwestern South Dakota between Nebraska and the Black Hills in 1878, Pine Ridge became a rese...
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Reducere. Manhattan s past whispers for attention amongst the bustle of the city s ever-changing landscape. At Fraunces Tavern, George Washington s emotional...
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Reducere. DescriptionOn June 29, 1776, Fr. Francisco Palou dedicated the first site of Mission San Francisco de Asis on the shores of Dolores Lagoon. At the ...
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Reducere. DescriptionIf there was ever a place in America where a city and its baseball team were as close as family, it was Brooklyn. The legacy of this rel...
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Reducere. DescriptionKnown for more first flights and record flights than any other place, Edwards Air Force Base is legendary. Centered around an ancient dr...
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Reducere. At the height of America s post Civil War expansion, Colorado Territory was a land of great hope and opportunity. Forged at the confluence of comme...
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Reducere. Michigan has a rich railroad history, which began in November 1836, when the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad initiated service between Toledo, Ohio, an...
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Reducere. Located at the confluence of Will s Creek and the Potomac River, Cumberland, Maryland, is known as the Queen City of the Alleghenies. Because of th...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe story of Barrington, Rhode Island, began in the 1640s with a small outpost on the shores of Narragansett Bay. Despite its total dest...
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Reducere. Orcas Island, the largest of the 172 islands in San Juan County, lies in the Salish Sea north of Puget Sound. Known as the "Gem of the San Juans" f...
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Reducere. Founded in 1802 and named for the biblical land of cedars, Lebanon has been a center for commerce, education, and culture for over 200 years. The r...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe story of Garden of the Gods Trading Post is not only a profile of founder Charles Strausenback but also a chronicle of Garden of the...
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Reducere. Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for use as aircraf...
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Reducere. Powerful: this single word aptly describes a naval vessel known as a battleship. The USS Alabama (BB-60) was the last of four South Dakota class ba...
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Reducere. Michigan Notable BooksOn November 1, 1957, traffic officially opened on the Mackinac Bridge. That was the culmination of 70 years of talking and dr...
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Reducere. Los Angeles and the movies grew up together, and a natural extension of the picture business was the premium presentation of the product the bigges...
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Reducere. Since their creation thousands of years ago, the Niagara Falls have captured the hearts and imaginations of all those who witness their endless pow...
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Reducere. In recent years, San Francisco has been synonymous with gay and lesbian pride, and the various achievements of the gay and lesbian community are pe...
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Reducere. Nashua's growth began with strong-minded industrialists who had visions of great mills powered by the Nashua River. The Nashua Manufacturing Compan...
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Reducere. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions...
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Reducere. Detroit s Infamous Purple Gang is a photographic history of one of the most notorious organized crime groups of the 20th century. The photographs c...
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Reducere. Sunnyside Yard was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad as part of its massive New York Extension, the centerpiece of which was Pennsylvania Station ...
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Reducere. Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld....
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Reducere. DescriptionRoute 66 is the "Main Street of America, " heralded in song and popular culture. It took a maze of different routes through St. Louis be...
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Reducere. DescriptionPioneer US Forest Service rangers and their ranger stations are classic symbols of the American West. Rangers managed the public forests...
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Reducere. DescriptionConstruction of the Unit 1 reactor began on Three Mile Island in May 1968, with the production of commercial electricity beginning in 19...
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Reducere. DescriptionFew cities boast a heritage as rich and a local color as dynamic as that of New Orleans. Known the world round for its unique architectu...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe town of Wellington was located by the Stevens Pass summit in the Cascade Mountains. During the last days of February in 1910, the sn...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe Salt Lake City Cemetery was established in September 1847 when George Wallace, who arrived with the first company of Mormon pioneers...
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Reducere. From the days when Buddy Bolden would blow his cornet to attract an audience from one New Orleans park to another, to the brass bands in clubs and ...
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Reducere. DescriptionBy the time the final links in the Oregon Coast Highway were made in 1936, the highway stretched 394 miles from Astoria to the border of...
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Reducere. DescriptionOn Midsummer Eve, 1865, more than 30 Finnish and Sami immigrants disembarked from a Great Lakes ship to a place called Hancock, Michigan...
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Reducere. Hemmed in by steep hills, Glen Park is defined by its quintessentially San Franciscan topography. Only 120 years ago this area, as well as neighbor...
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Reducere. Brooklyn, or "Bruculinu, " as many Italians affectionately pronounced it, is where Italian values, culture, and dreams thrived. In an era when over...
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Reducere. The Waupaca Chain o' Lakes are a series of 22 interconnected spring-fed lakes in central Wisconsin. The lakes' crystal clear waters, steep tree-cov...
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Reducere. What started over a century ago with an orphaned bear tied to a tree in Overton Park has grown into one of the nation's top zoos. The Memphis Zoo, ...
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Reducere. Students of the Civil War know Franklin, Tennessee, for the major battle that happened here, but there is a lot more to the story. In fact, Main St...
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Reducere. The incredible affluence and extravagance of Euclid Avenue's Millionaires' Row have fascinated Clevelanders for more than a century. Within these s...
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Reducere. It was in the early 1900s atop a summit in Vermont that Benton MacKaye envisioned a hiking path along the crest of the Appalachians, beginning in t...
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Reducere. The history of Hollywood is often seen only through the lens of the major studios, forgetting that many of Tinseltown s early creations came from m...
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