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Every tribute page on MyHistoryStone, whether it remembers a person, a place, or a thing. 105 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 ...
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Cadentown Rosenwald School
1922 - Lexington (Fayette County), Kentucky, United States
A two-room frame schoolhouse outside Lexington, Kentucky, built in 1922 and 1923 by a Black farming community that had to buy its own school...
The Story of
Cahokia
1050 - 1350 - Collinsville, Illinois, United States
We do not know what the people who built this city called it. That is the first thing to say about the largest pre-Columbian settlement nor...
The Story of
Centralia, Pennsylvania
1841 - Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States
There is a town in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania with five people living in it, a revoked postal code, and a coal seam burning unde...
The Story of
Dyess Colony
1934 - 1951 - Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States
Five hundred families were given twenty acres, a mule and a debt. One of them raised Johnny Cash. In May 1934, in the worst year of the Dep...
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...
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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 Angel Island Immigration Station
1910 - 1940 - San Francisco Bay, California, United States
The poems are cut into the walls. A park ranger found them in 1970, with the building already scheduled for demolition. The immigration sta...
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
The Heart Mountain Relocation Center
1942 - 1945 - Park County, Wyoming, United States
At its fullest it was the third largest city in Wyoming, and nobody in it was allowed to leave. The Heart Mountain Relocation Center opened...
The Story of
The Lovering Farmhouse
c. 1755 - Kensington, New Hampshire, United States
A house built around 1755 in Kensington, New Hampshire, and measured two centuries later by draftsmen who came with rulers instead of camera...
The Story of
The Raising of Galveston
September 8, 1900 - 1911 - Galveston, Texas, United States
Around eight thousand people died at Galveston in a single night. Then the survivors picked the city up off the ground. The hurricane came ...
The Story of
Tyler Manor
July 1889
Stay Gold Ponyboy
The Story of
Vanport, Oregon
1942 - 1948 - Portland, Oregon, United States
Oregon's second-largest city lasted five and a half years and is now a golf course. Vanport was built in 1942 to house the people who built...

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