Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

White Haven, Near St. Louis, Missouri

2 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

White Haven, Near St. Louis, Missouri

WHERE ULYSSES S. GRANT COURTED JULIA DENT Immediately after Ulysses Simpson Grant graduated from West Point, he was sent to Jefferson…

White Haven, Near St. Louis, Missouri: Grant

Then came the eventful day when he met seventeenyear-old Julia. The courtship was by no means a longdrawn-out affair; the young people were…

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