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Beaver Dam
In the fall of 1840, Thomas Mackie and his son-in-law discovered rich soil and abundant timber on land along a stream south of Fox Lake. They soon settled there with their families and named the fledgling town after the industrious...
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Danville
Danville, known as the City of Firsts and Birthplace of the Bluegrass, is nestled in the heart of Kentucky. Its location on a branch of the Wilderness Road, a trail blazed through frontier lands by Daniel Boone and other like-minded...
28,70 €
Caltrain and the Peninsula Commute Service
The rail line now called Caltrain was started in the 1860s to create a faster alternative to stagecoaches and ships between the key cities of San Francisco and San Jose. Operated by Southern Pacific for many years, the Peninsula Commute...
28,90 €
1939-1940 New York World's Fair
After enduring 10 harrowing years of the Great Depression, visitors to the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair found welcome relief in the fair's optimistic presentation of the 'World of Tomorrow.' Pavilions from America's largest...
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North Shore of O'Ahu
The North Shore of O'ahu has been recognized as a special place for as long as people have been on the island. Once the site of the largest heiau, or temple, it contained two large valleys and other things considered so valuable that...
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Compton
Compton is a city of myth and misunderstandings. Today, it is known as the city of 'hip-hop dreams and gangsta fantasies.' Its history, however, is not as well known. Compton was originally part of the Rancho San Pedro Spanish land...
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Auburn
According to local lore, Auburn's name comes from 'Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,' a line from Oliver Goldsmith's poem, 'The Deserted Village.' The first settlers were drawn to the Auburn area by the remarkable falls,...
29,00 €
Edgar Allan Poe in Richmond
Edgar Allan Poe, the renowned author of tales of mystery and madness, arrived in Richmond in 1810 at the age of one and left the city for the last time just two weeks before his death. Of his 40 years, he lived in Richmond for 13...
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Lodi
Originally founded as the town of Mokelumne in 1869, Lodi formed when a group of settlers persuaded the Central Pacific Railroad to build a route from Sacramento to Stockton through their land. Mokelumne changed its name to Lodi in 1874...
28,50 €
Cape Coral
Many are surprised to discover that Cape Coral's history dates back further than the boom of the 1960s. Indeed, homesteader families were living a rough-and-tumble life in the Cape's wilderness for much of the 20th century. Still, there...
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Downtown Vancouver
Named for a British sea explorer, Vancouver was conceived in the early 1800s when Lewis and Clark camped at the waterfront and deemed the area ripe for settlement. The Hudson's Bay Company soon established its fur-trading empire here,...
29,10 €
Potsdam
Red sandstone, lumber, paper, cows, and college students feature prominently in Potsdam. With its selection of two hundred stunning photographs, the book records aspects of life in Potsdam from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. Located on...
28,50 €
Whaling on Long Island
The story of whales and the whalers who followed them is inextricably tied with Long Island's rich maritime history. Before the Long Island Expressway, strip malls, golf clubs, and suburban sprawl, calls of 'Thar she blows!' rang out...
28,70 €
Alaska's Bush Pilots
Bush pilots are known as rough, tough, resourceful people who fly their aircraft into tight spots in the worst of weather. Alaska's bush pilots are all of that and more. Acting as pioneers in a land with 43,000 miles of coastline and...
28,70 €
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