Buildings
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The Love Story of Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent
As U.S. Grant took the fateful steps up to the front door of this lovely home, things would change. He would meet family, and he would meet love. And it would be this home that played such a large role in who Grant would become.
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Visiting Lookout Mountain: Beauty and History Combined
While things had not gone well for me, for the first part of my journey, not that stopping at Shiloh National Military Park was a good thing, but the real reason that I had gone to Georgia had not gone well. It seemed that there were so many reasons for me not to go. I…
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The Grave of Abraham Linkhorn and the Story That Followed.
I had driven down to Southern Indiana, and I was only supposed to spend a few hours there, and then I was headed for Kentucky. It was not meant to be a long trip. No, I was just supposed to be getting away for a day or two at the most, but I had run…
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The Haunted History of Cry Baby Bridge
When the story gets going, do we take the time to listen to the story, or should we search for the truth. Do you believe that Cry Baby Bridge is really haunted? Here are the historical facts, now you have to make the decision.
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Civil War Fortifications: Learning from the Past
There, just a few blocks from downtown Cape Girardeau, lay a hidden history gem, it is John Wesley Powell’s Historic Fort D, and the story that it has to share, it can unlock all sorts of things that so many never take the time to learn.