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Atlanta, Georgia
The Fox Theatre opened in 1929, built as a Shriners' temple before the Great Depression forced its conversion into an ornate movie palace;…
North Platte, Nebraska
The Fox Theatre in North Platte opened in 1929 and is now the Neville Center for the Performing Arts, home of the North Platte Community…
Tucson, Arizona
The Fox opened in April 1930 as a vaudeville house and cinema, closed in 1974 as downtown Tucson emptied, stood derelict for more than two…
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
The Frank Phillips Home is the 26-room Neoclassical mansion that Phillips Petroleum founder Frank Phillips built in downtown Bartlesville…
Joliet, Illinois
Built in 1887 from Joliet limestone by local architect and Egyptologist Frank Shaver Allen, this house at the corner of Morgan and Dewey…
Black Diamond, Washington
Franklin was a coal-mining town on the Green River where mines produced about 4.15 million tons of coal and 88 miners died, among them 37…
Cleveland, Ohio
Franklin Castle is the Gothic Revival mansion in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood built in the 1860s for German immigrant Hannes…
Franklin, Indiana
Franklin College's Old Main, a grand building housing administration offices and classrooms, was one of three campus buildings damaged by…
French Lick, Indiana
Dr. William Bowles opened a small spa here in 1845 to capitalize on the area's natural sulfur springs; by 1901, former Indianapolis mayor…
Columbus, Mississippi
Friendship Cemetery in Columbus is a historic burial ground best known as the setting of the 1866 Decoration Day, when local women…
Milford, Utah
Frisco was a rough silver camp from 1879 to 1929 after the Horn Silver Mine strike of 1876, peaking at a few thousand residents. Its…
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The Fulton Theatre in downtown Lancaster, built in 1852 and billed as the oldest continuously operating theater in America, stands on the…
Alexandria, Virginia
Gadsby's Tavern in Old Town Alexandria, begun in 1785, hosted George Washington and other founders and is now a city museum beside a…
Douglas, Arizona
Guests at the Gadsden Hotel report taps turning themselves on, lights flickering, doors slamming and the TV turning on and off; in Room…
Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden's library began with eight young women who formed a study club in 1897 and set out to give the city a reading room. After several…
Camden, Alabama
This house on Highway 10 outside Camden was built in the late 1820s or 1830s for the Reverend Ebenezer Hearn, remembered as the father of…
Walton, Kentucky
The Gaines Tavern History Center is the Abner Gaines House, a Federal-style house built in 1814 on the site of a tavern that dated to 1795,…
Gakona, Alaska
Gakona Lodge was built in 1929 on the site of the earlier Doyle's Roadhouse, at the junction of the Copper and Gakona rivers, and is among…
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
The Galloway House in Fond du Lac is a 30-room Italianate mansion built in 1880 by Edwin H. Galloway and now part of a historic village run…
Salem, Massachusetts
Gallows Hill in Salem was for centuries believed to be where nineteen people convicted of witchcraft were hanged in 1692. Research…
Waterford, Connecticut
Local legend holds that witches were burned along this road in the Quaker Hill section of Waterford, but there's no historical record of…
New London, Connecticut
The Garde Theatre opened in 1926 as a vaudeville and movie house and is now a performing arts center. Staff tell of a lighting engineer who…
Salem, Connecticut
Anglers and campers on Gardner Lake have long reported faint piano music rising from the water, heard from every direction, said to be the…
Randsburg, California
Garlock sprang up in the 1890s after a stamp mill was hauled in to serve nearby gold mines and also supplied water to freighters and…