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National Historic Landmark - Lukens Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Lukens Historic District

This district is associated with Rebecca Lukens (1794-1854), who played a leading role in the 19th-century American iron industry, and her family legacy.

The firm she owned and managed--Brandywine Ironworks (later Lukens Steel Company)--was ...

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National Historic Landmark - Harmony Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Harmony Historic District

The Harmony Society, 300 followers of George Rapp, established a utopian settlement here in 1805.

It developed into a prosperous agricultural and manufacturing community, which was sold when the Society decided to move to ...

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Northwest Neighborhood Historic District

Bounded by NW 2nd and 11th Streets, North Rosemary and Douglas Avenues.

Local black builders and contractors such as Simeon Mother, R.A. Smith, J.S. Woodside, Alfred Williams and Samuel O. Major constructed most of the buildings in this district. Local architects ...

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Pigeon Key Historic District

Located at U.S. Highway 1 at Mile Marker 45, the district consists of seven frame vernacular structures built between 1909 and 1920 as a railroad construction work camp for laborers on Henry Flagler's overseas railroad. The camp includes a 1912 ...

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National Historic Landmark-The Bryn Athyn Historic District

National Historical Landmark- The Bryn Athyn Historic District

The Bryn Athyn Historic District comprises an exceptional and enduring essay of the American Arts and Crafts Movement embodied in three family residences of the John Pitcairn family and the Bryn Athyn Cathedral ...

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National Historic Landmark-Bedford Springs Historic District

National Historical Landmark-Bedford Springs Hotel Historic District

The Bedford Springs Hotel Historic District is significant as one of the nation's finest remaining examples of the mineral springs resort phenomenon of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Courtesy National Park Service National ...

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MacFarlane Homestead Subdivision Historic District

Bounded by Oak Avenue, Grand Avenue, Brooke Street and Jefferson Street.

Developed by Coral Gables founder George Merrick as a black residential neighborhood, the early homes of this district were built in the late 1920s and 1930s in the vernacular style ...

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Charles Avenue Historic District Marker

The first black community on the south Florida mainland began here in the 1880s when blacks from the Bahamas and southern U.S. came to farm the land or to work at the Peacock Inn, the first hotel in the Miami ...

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National Historic Landmark-Ocean Drive Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Ocean Drive Historic District

This large historic district includes the south-western tip of Rhode Island -- not the state, but the island on which Newport is built.

It has a rugged, informal character, as compared with the formal ...

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National Historic Landmark-Newport Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Newport Historic District

From around 1740 until the Revolution, when it was occupied by the British, Newport flourished as a port and mercantile center and as Newport was Rhode Island's colonial capital.

The district's Georgian public buildings and ...

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