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		<title>Forgotten Landmark-Rodessa High School, Rodessa (LA)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In September of 1939, this modern brick structure was built with an attached auditorium and gym.  The building, which contained twenty classrooms and was built for $195,000, housed the first high school in Rodessa.  Grades one through eleven were taught in the 33,437 square foot building.  The beginning enrollment was about 800, causing the hurried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.autotrails.net/index.php/2011/11/forgotten-landmark-rodessa-high-school-rodessa-la/</link>
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		<title>Lost Landmark-Great Western Coal &amp; Coke Building, Wilburton (OK)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Great Western Coal &#38; Coke Building, 701 E. Main Street, Wilburton, OK
The building was one of the last surviving coal company store buildings in southeastern Oklahoma. Built shortly after 1900 to house the company store and company offices, the building was the center of commercial activity for miners and their families. Social and religious functions were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.autotrails.net/index.php/2011/11/lost-landmark-great-western-coal-coke-building-wilburton-ok/</link>
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		<title>Landmarks Society of DeKalb County, Fort Payne (AL)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Landmarks of DeKalb County, Inc. was organized on August 4, 1969 as a private, non-profit educational and cultural organization.  It was primarily formed to purchase the historic  Opera House and restore it as a cultural center.  Through the years it has evolved into a major instrument for preserving the history of  DeKalb County&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.autotrails.net/index.php/2011/11/landmarks-society-of-dekalb-county-fort-payne-al/</link>
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		<title>Pittsburg Genealogical and Historical Society-McAlester (OK)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


Pittsburg
County
Genealogical
and
Historical

Society,
Inc.


 




113 East Carl Albert
Parkway
McAlester, Oklahoma
74501-5039
Phone: 918-426-0388
The Society&#8217;s library is open
9:00am to 3:00pm Monday through Friday.

The Pittsburg County Genealogical and
Historical Society, Inc., is located in the old Busby Office Building. The
building was built in 1903 by the Great Western Coal and Coke Company. It was
placed on the National Register of Historical Places on 9 December [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.autotrails.net/index.php/2011/11/pittsburg-genealogical-and-historical-society-mcalester-ok/</link>
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		<title>Lost Landmark-Albion State Bank Building, Albion (OK)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo courtesy of koknor
This structure was built in 1910.  By 1911, Albion had a population of 300 and a hotel and a general store.
Albion’s future commercial success seemed assured to the town’s businessmen, one of whom, John T. Bailey—who also named the town—built Albion State Bank in 1910. Bailey built the bank on the northwest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgotten Landmark-Town of New Fork (WY)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
The New Fork town site consists of several log and wood frame structures representing one of the
earliest settlements and commercial centers in the isolated upper Green River
Valley. The small ranching settlement was established by John Vible and Louis
Broderson in 1888 near the New Fork and East Fork Rivers. Both men were Danish
emigrants who had come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.autotrails.net/index.php/2011/10/forgotten-landmark-town-of-new-fork-wy/</link>
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		<title>Atlantic City Historical Society (WY)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An eclectic collection of
folks&#8211;Atlanticans and others&#8211;comprise the Atlantic City Historical Society.
The group is interested in
preserving the history of Atlantic City, Wyoming, the surrounding gold mines and
mills, and the stories told and recounted by local area residents and
those who knew or know the characters of the region.
        Society members gather
once a year on August&#8217;s fourth Saturday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.autotrails.net/index.php/2011/10/atlantic-city-historical-society-wy/</link>
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		<title>Lost Landmark-Juana Briones House, Palo Alto (CA)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listing in our guide, Historical Cities-San Francisco:
Site of
Juana Briones de Miranda Home on Rancho La Purisma Concepcion (4157 Old
Adobe Road)
In
1843, Apolinario Miranda, husband of Juana Briones de Miranda, was sent before
the sub prefect for not living harmoniously with his wife and, shortly
thereafter, Juana and her seven children arrived at Rancho la Purísima
Concepción. In 1856 this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.autotrails.net/index.php/2011/08/lost-landmark-juana-briones-house-palo-alto-ca/</link>
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		<title>Museum of Power and Industry and Falls Mill Museum, Belvidere (TN)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FALLS MILL
Operating Water- Powered
Grain Mill and Museum
Belvidere, Tennessee
Nestled in a lush green cove along the banks of beautiful Factory Creek stands historic Falls Mill.  Built in 1873 as a cotton and woolen factory, the mill was later converted for use as a cotton gin, then as a woodworking shop.  Today the water wheel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.autotrails.net/index.php/2011/08/museum-of-power-and-industry-and-falls-mill-museum-belvidere-tn/</link>
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		<title>Forgotten Landmark-Western Mental Health Institute, Bolivar, TN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[West Tennessee Hospital for the Insane (now Western Mental Health Institute) in Bolivar opened with the transfer of 156 patients from Nashville in 1889.  By 1939, the institute occupied a tract of 640 acres and had accommodations for 1,850 patients.  In 1932, a building similar in design and accommodation to the main building was built [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.autotrails.net/index.php/2011/08/forgotten-landmark-western-mental-health-institute-bolivar-tn/</link>
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