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Wikimedia Commons/Bms4880 Pinson Mounds Complex Native Americans built the largest group of Middle Woodland period mounds in ...
Wikimedia Commons/Msact Seaside Sanatorium Connecticut built America’s first sunlight-based tuberculosis treatment center for ...
Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from ...
Wikimedia Commons/Fred Bauder The 1895 Yellowstone Bannock Settlement Destruction (Wyoming) On July 13, 1895, a posse of 27 ...
Shutterstock Action Park Eugene Mulvihill opened Action Park on July 4, 1978, in Vernon Township, New Jersey to make money ...
Shutterstock Wall Street’s Dutch Origins The Dutch built a wall in 1653 where Wall Street now runs. They called it “Het ...
Shutterstock The Havasupai of Northern Arizona The Havasupai have lived in and around the Grand Canyon for at least 800 years ...
Wikimedia Commons/Leigh49137 Africatown The Clotilda brought 110 men, women, and children from West Africa to Mobile Bay, ...
Founding of Seneca Village In 1825, a shoeshiner named Andrew Williams paid $125 for three lots in upper Manhattan. That same ...
Wikimedia Commons Crow People Removal from Yellowstone National Park The Crow Nation lived on lands in Montana and Wyoming ...
Wikimedia Commons The 1865 Freedmen’s Town Settlement at Buffalo Bayou Freedmen’s Town began in 1865 after slaves in Texas ...
Wikimedia Commons/Unknown authorUnknown author The Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 On April 22, 1889, nearly 50,000 people raced ...