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New citizens extends thanks for naturalization event
Property Spotlight
Ximenez-Fatio House Museum awarded $173,544 grant
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Project Spotlight
New citizens extends thanks for naturalization event
My name is Paulina Kendall. I was one of 32 participants on Oct. 28 to be sworn in as American citizens in your U.S. district courthouse. I wanted to extend my thanks to all your local leaders and dignitaries that helped make this far more than a mundane affair. I was so impressed with the entire production, as each of these people who helped welcome all of us as new American citizens.
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Property Spotlight
Ximenez-Fatio House Museum awarded $173,544 grant
The Ximenez-Fatio House Museum has announced that it has been awarded a $173,544 Semiquincentennial Grant from the Historic Preservation Fund administers by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
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Property Spotlight
Harvest festival to honor city’s first apple orchard at historic home in Colorado Springs
The city’s first orchard will be feted at Saturday’s free Harvest Festival at the museum.
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Property Spotlight‘The heart of Austin beats here’: Juneteenth, visit city’s only intact slave quarters
For more than 150 years, the plain limestone building sat mute behind a grand house guarded by white columns on San Gabriel Street in the West Campus neighborhood.
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Project SpotlightThe Perfect Provenance
The only thing the homeowners of this historic house on Jones Street love more than researching, sourcing and acquiring fine antiques and artwork is sharing their passion with others.
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History SpotlightCome for gas, stay for history: Wilmington service stations date back more than 100 years
We don't tend to think of gas stations as being historic, probably because they're constantly being modernized.
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History SpotlightThe George Washington Presidential Library, Gunston Hall, and American Philosophical Society to Host Event Marking 250th Anniversary of Fairfax Resolves
To mark the 250th anniversary of the Fairfax Resolves, emerging and leading historians will convene for a two-day conference.
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NSCDA NewsBurlington County, NJ Announces Second Round of Local History Grant Recipients
The Burlington County Commissioners approved distribution of $19,150 in local history grants to three organizations preserving and promoting the county’s history and historic sites.