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Every tribute page on MyHistoryStone, whether it remembers a person, a place, or a thing. 106 in all, and growing.

Places

Homes, buildings and ground that holds a story.

The Story of
Bodie, California
1876 - 1942 - Mono County, California, United States
Sixty-five saloons along a mile of main street, and now nobody at all. Gold was found at Bodie in 1876 and the camp turned into a boomtown ...
The Story of
Elbowoods, North Dakota
1889 - 1954 - Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, United States
There is a photograph from 1948 of a man holding his glasses aside so he can wipe his eyes while the Secretary of the Interior signs a piece...
The Story of
Kalaupapa, Molokai
January 6, 1866 - Kalaupapa, Hawaii, United States
Nearly eight thousand people were taken from their families and put on this peninsula. About a thousand of their graves can still be identif...
The Story of
Malaga Island
1860 - 1912 - Phippsburg, Maine, United States
In 1912 the State of Maine evicted an entire community from an island, committed eight of its people to an institution for the feeble-minded...
The Story of
Nicodemus, Kansas
1877 - Graham County, Kansas, United States
The federal troops left the South in 1877. That same year, six Black men and one white man organized a town company out on the Solomon River...
The Story of
The Cherokee National Female Seminary
1851 - 1909 - Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States
The Cherokee Nation built it, paid for it, and staffed it, in Indian Territory, twenty years before Oklahoma existed. Then the state bought ...
The Story of
Tyler Manor
July 1889
Stay Gold Ponyboy

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