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2. State Library and Archives of Florida - Wikipedia

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   The State Library and Archives of Florida was a library of humble beginnings in the year 1845. Shortly after its admission as a state, the legislature began to realize the vital and crucial need to preserve, protect, and collect documents about the history of Florida. During that same legislative meeting, a statute was enacted naming the ...

3. Louisiana State Archive and Research Library - Wikipedia

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   Louisiana State Archive and Research Library. Coordinates: 30.414461°N 91.097331°W. The Louisiana State Archives, established 1956, is the agency under the Secretary of State of Louisiana "designated to fulfill the function of directing a program of collecting, preserving, and making available for use the state's historical records" [1 ...

4. List of archives in the United States - Wikipedia

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   American Heritage Center. American Radio Archive. Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism. Archives of American Art. Archives of the History of American Psychology. Atlanta Housing Archives. Black Archives of Mid-America. California Green Archives. Charles E. Stevens American Atheist Library and Archives.

5. History of slavery in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   A map of Illinois free and slave counties in 1824 showing shaded counties that were favorable to legalizing slavery in Illinois. Map of the Underground Railroad from 1830 to 1865 including escape routes that went through Illinois. Slavery in what became the U.S. state of Illinois existed for more than a century. Illinois did not become a state ...

6. Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's School - Wikipedia

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   It was erected 1869 in Victorian Romanesque style and razed in 1961. [1] / 40.5217; -88.9777. The Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's School (also known as ISSCS), founded by the State of Illinois as Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home (ISOH) for orphans of the Civil War, was a children's home located in Normal from 1865 until 1979.

7. List of people executed in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.