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Cape Girardeau is named after Jean Baptiste de Girardot, who established a trading post in the area around 1733. As early as 1765, a bend in the Mississippi River, had been referred to as Cape Girardot or Girardeau. In 1799, American settlers founded the first English school west of the Mississippi at a landmark called Mount Tabor, named by the settlers for the Biblical Mount Tabor.
A little over a century ago, Oklahoma City was a grass and timber land of gently rolling hills flattening out into prairie. Today, it sprawls across 625 square miles of America’s heartland and a population of over a million. During the 1800s, the U.S. government forcibly relocated Indian tribes from all over the country into the area known as Oklahoma Territory. There was one parcel of land that was never given over to any tribe
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Houston is the largest city in Texas and the US South as well as America’s fourth-largest. A cosmopolitan destination and home to an energetic arts community, Houston was founded in 1836 near the banks of Buffalo Bayou. The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and commander at the Battle of San Jacinto, 25 miles – 40 km – east of where the city was established.
The Chadds Ford Historic District includes 17 buildings in Chadds Ford village. Notable buildings include the Chads Ford Inn (1807-1810), Merchant Mill (1864), a row of houses built between 1840 and 1850, the bridge across Brandywine Creek, and the Christian C. Sanderson Museum. Located in the district are the separately listed Chad House and N. C. Wyeth House and Studio.
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Consider spending your next vacation in Small Town USA Main Streets and Historic Districts Knowledge Tourism brings together local customs, values and traditions with travel management expertise to increase your knowledge of the places you visit, with: Itineraries especially designed for your vacationing family or group and visits to: Museums that disclose the archaeological and historic heritage of a community, leverage… Continue reading Travel Themes for Family and Group Vacations in US Main Streets and Historic Districts
a southeastern Pennsylvania travel itinerary Marcus Hook’s historical significance comes from its identity as a maritime town. Originally a Lenape settlement, it became a New Sweden trading post in the 1640s with shipbuilding and fishing as early industries. Briefly a resort and amusement center, Marcus Hook’s rail, roads and deep-water port gave rise to the refineries… Continue reading Historic Preservation and Pirates along the Delaware River
Bethlehem was named on Christmas Eve, 1741, by a group of Moravians who relocated from North Carolina and settled at the confluence of the Lehigh River and Monocacy Creek. The canal and the railroads lured large-scale industry to the south bank of the Lehigh River and the Bethlehem Iron Co., soon dominated the town’s economy… Continue reading Bethlehem Pennsylvania and its Historic Districts
Brandywine Village was the original location of a group homes of mill workers, shop keepers and artisans. At first the town was a separate entity on the north side of the Brandywine Greek, but soon became a part of earlier Wilmington, then developing on the south bank of the stream. The earliest settler reached the… Continue reading The Brandywine Village Historic District
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