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Alameda by Rail
Across the great bay from San Francisco, the city of Alameda evolved into an island hometown of fine Victorian and Craftsman architecture and a port containing a naval air station,…
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Amherst
Amherst depicts the breathtaking evolution of a small farming community into a major economic, educational, and medical hub of western New York. The book reveals how Amherst’s rich soils, rapid…
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Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery illustrates the evolution of the Virginia cemetery from a potter’s field during the Civil War to the most prestigious military cemetery in the United States.The cemetery contains…
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Asheville
Land of the Sky. New Age Mecca. Paris of the South San Francisco of the East. Asheville, North Carolina is all of these things and more!Throughout the 20th Century, this…
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Baltimore’s Patterson Park
Patterson Park is an urban oasis, a sacred green space surrounded by red brick row homes and generations of diverse cultures and neighborhoods. This refuge is also an urban emerald…
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Beech Mountain
Beech Mountain was once a rugged wilderness known only to the Cherokee Indians. Eventually hunters, loggers, moonshiners, and settlers made their marks upon the mountain. In the 1960s, Tom Brigham,…
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Boston & Maine Trains and Services
The Boston & Maine Railroad serviced most of New England as a primary mode of transportation during the 19th and 20th centuries.The birth of this railroad spurred the growth and…
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Bridges of Portland
Portland is an inland port city that rose to importance in the mid-19th century as a major shipping point for the Pacific Northwest’s wheat, lumber, and other commodities. The Columbia…
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Building Route 128
Take a ride through historic Massachusetts down Route 128!Route 66 may be the most famous highway in the United States, but the country is home to countless roads ushering millions…
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Cass County
Cass County is flanked on its eastern border by the Red River of the North. Created by retreating glaciers, Cass County is known for its exceptionally flat topography and fertile…
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Cemeteries of San Diego
San Diego has a rich and unique cultural history that can be effectively told through the commemoration of its dead. Local cemeteries throughout the city reflect San Diego’s multiethnic cultural…
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Centralia
Images of America: Centralia chronicles many of the images and stories from this fascinating and colorful Pennsylvania community.Centralia is the saga of a Pennsylvania community consumed by an underground mine…
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