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2. Hex sign - Wikipedia

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   Hex sign. 12-pointed compass rose on a hex sign. Hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, related to fraktur, found in the Fancy Dutch tradition in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. [1] Barn paintings, usually in the form of "stars in circles", began to appear on the landscape in the early 19th century and became widespread decades later ...

3. A Young Georgia Couple Restores An 1800s Family Farmhouse To ...

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   In keeping with the spirit of the original, the couple preserved the distinct spaces (the foyer, study, and dining room) in the front. But they took a modern open-concept approach in the back ...

4. History of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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   Spain, France, and especially England explored and claimed parts of the region. Starting in the 17th century, the history of the Southern United States developed unique characteristics that came from its economy based primarily on plantation agriculture and the ubiquitous and prevalent institution of slavery.

5. Gadsden Purchase - Wikipedia

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   The Gadsden Purchase (Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") [2] is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km 2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854. The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west ...

6. Southern Homestead Act of 1866 - Wikipedia

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   Southern Homestead Act of 1866. The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 is a United States federal law enacted to break a cycle of debt during the Reconstruction following the American Civil War. Prior to this act, blacks and whites alike were having trouble buying land. Sharecropping and tenant farming had become ways of life.

7. Roger Marshall calls Kansas cabin home. Official trips took ...

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   On the side of a dirt road in western Kansas stands a locked metal gate flanked by a mailbox and two no-trespassing signs. A quarter-mile past the gate, obscured from the road by trees and terrain ...