Deming House, Keokuk

Keokuk, Iowa Historians, in a Facebook page report "George Deming, owner of the Deming House Hotel, located at the corner of 2nd and Johnson Streets offered the "Reading Room" of his establishment for temporary use as an auxiliary hospital ward." 

They go on to say: "Research indicates that this was most likely the building that we know today as The Cellar, located at 29 South 2nd Street, which after the civil war, became the Union Hotel, ..."


 

Delmonico's Restaurant

The restaurant was opened by brothers John and Peter Delmonico from Ticino , Switzerland . In 1831, they partnered with their nephew Lorenzo Delmonico, who became responsible for the restaurant's wine list and menu design. In 1862, the restaurant hired Charles Ranhofer , who was considered one of the finest chefs of the time. During the early 1850s, the restaurant hosted the New England Society of New York, a society that hosted some of the greatest orators of the day. In 1860, Delmonico's catered Edward VII 's Grand Ball at the Academy of Music on 14th Street.

Corry, Pennsylvania

Erie County was formed from parts of Allegheny County on March 12, 1800. On May 27, 1861, tracks owned by the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad intersected with those of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad and was called the "Atlantic and Erie Junction". Land at the junction was owned by Hiram Cory, who sold a portion to the Atlantic and Great Western in October 1861. The railroad built a ticket office at the junction and named it for Cory, but through a misspelling it became Corry.

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Copperopolis, California

Unlike most of the mining towns in the Calaveras County, Copperopolis' claim to fame is not gold, but copper. It was founded in 1860 by William K. Reed, Dr. Allen Blatchly, and Thomas McCarty, at the site of the second major discovery of copper ore in the region (the first was nearby Telegraph City).

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College of California

The College of California was a private college in Oakland, California. It was the functional predecessor of the public University of California, and the site of its first campus. It was established in 1853, and initially known as the Contra Costa Academy. In 1868, the College agreed to merge with the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College, which had been created by the state to take advantage of the Morrill Land-Grant Act.

Truckee, NV

Truckee (originally Coburn Station ) is a city in Nevada County, California , United States. It was founded in 1863 as a railroad town. Its name derives from the river of the same name . A special eye-catcher is the "Hotel Truckee," which has been in existence for 125 years.

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Cliff House, San Francisco

The Cliff House is a neo-classical style building perched on the headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach. Located on the West Side of San Francisco in the city's Outer Richmond neighborhood, the building overlooks the site of the Sutro Baths ruins, Seal Rocks, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and operated by the National Park Service (NPS). The Cliff House is owned by the NPS; the building's terrace hosts a room-sized camera obscura.

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Chinese Free Mason Hall, Carson City

The Chinese Free Mason Hall was in Carson City's Chinatown, at 408 E. Third St. Much of Chinatown dated back to the 1870s, when the Chinese came to Carson City to build the railroad and work as woodcutters in the mountains. The population of Chinatown may have reached as high as 1,000, but by the 1930s there were only a few dozen Chinese in the whole town. A few of them still called Chinatown home, but mostly it was a ghost town by that time. Chinatown was gone by the 1950s.

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