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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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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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Seattle Electric Company Georgetown Steam Plant

The Seattle Electric Company's Georgetown Steam Plant exemplifies America's acceptance of, then reliance upon, electricity. After Thomas Edison introduced this new form of power in New York in 1882, electricity quickly moved from a simple curiosity to a "requirement" for ...

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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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Victorian Apartments

At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of multi-family rental houses dotted the hills south of downtown Seattle. Today, however, the Victorian Apartments offer the city's only unaltered example of a pre-1900 wooden apartment building. Built in 1891 at ...

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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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King Street Station

King Street Station documents Seattle's development into the major transportation center of the Pacific Northwest. In the years following the Civil War, western towns like Seattle competed fiercely to attract railroad service. They recognized the incredible economic benefits that could ...

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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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