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Showing posts with label National Historic Landmark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Historic Landmark. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

The Fortnightly Club of Chicago, for Women, was founded in 1873.

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The Fortnightly Club of Chicago is a venerable and esteemed private women's club, founded in the year 1873 by Kate Newell Doggett  (1828...
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Friday, December 29, 2023

Ford's Theatre vs. Ford’s Opera House, Washington, DC

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Ford's Athenaeum was a theatre located at 511 10th Street NW, Washington, D.C., which opened in 1861. After a fire destroyed it in 1862,...
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Friday, November 3, 2023

The Newberry Library and Walter Loomis Newberry's History.

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Walter Loomis Newberry died on November 6, 1868, during a return trip from France for medical treatment. His bequest of $2.1 million ($46 mi...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Mary Lincoln Surprised Abraham with a Home Remodeling Project.

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In 1856, Mary Todd Lincoln pulled off the greatest surprise on Abe. Mrs. Lincoln apparently was no exception to the rule of women being admi...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

The History of Fort Abraham Lincoln near Mandan, North Dakota (1872-1891).

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Constructed in June 1872 by Companies B and C of the 6th U.S. Infantry to protect the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The ini...
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Thursday, August 2, 2018

The History of the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company, Chicago (1865-1971).

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The Stock Yard Entrance Gate THE UNION STOCKYARDS SUMMARY The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or "The Yards," was the mea...
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Friday, July 6, 2018

The Village of La Vantum (aka: The Grand Village; Old Kaskaskia Village), is the best documented historic Indian village in the Illinois River valley.

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The French called the village La Vantum ("the washed") and the Grand Village de Kaskaskia near present-day Utica, Illinois. It w...