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  2. Cascades Female Factory - Wikipedia

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    The Cascades Female Factory, a former Australian workhouse for female convicts in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, is located in Hobart, Tasmania. Operational between 1828 and 1856, the factory is now one of the 11 sites that collectively compose the Australian Convict Sites , listed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO .

  3. National Register of Historic Places listings in California

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    California State Capitol, Sacramento. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. John Steinbeck House, Salinas. Donner Camp, Truckee. Huntington Beach Municipal Pier. Barker Dam, Twentynine Palms. Balboa Park, San Diego. Amargosa Opera House and Hotel, Death Valley Junction Historic District. County.

  4. Empire Mine State Historic Park - Wikipedia

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    Empire Mine State Historic Park. /  39.20361°N 121.04278°W  / 39.20361; -121.04278. Empire Mine State Historic Park is a state-protected mine and park in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Grass Valley, California, U.S. The Empire Mine is on the National Register of Historic Places, a federal Historic District, and a California Historical ...

  5. Pickfair - Wikipedia

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    Pickfair is a mansion and estate in the city of Beverly Hills, California with legendary history. The original Pickfair was an 18 acre (7.3 ha) estate [ 1] designed by architect Horatio Cogswell for attorney Lee Allen Phillips of Berkeley Square as a country home. Phillips sold the property to actor Douglas Fairbanks in 1918. [ 2]

  6. Ellwood Zimmerman House - Wikipedia

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    2,770 square feet (257 m 2) Design and construction. Architecture firm. Craig Ellwood. The Ellwood Zimmerman House was an iconic mid-century modern house designed by Craig Ellwood built in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California in 1950. [ 1] The architecturally-significant house was demolished in 2024, which drew criticism in the international ...

  7. Jackling House - Wikipedia

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    The Jackling House designer, George Washington Smith, was the foremost creator and proponent of the Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style that became popular in the U.S. and remains so, especially in California and the Southwest. Based in Montecito, Smith helped create Santa Barbara 's unified city planning and architectural aesthetic ...

  8. Cascades (company) - Wikipedia

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    The company's Montreal offices on Sherbrooke Street West. Cascades Inc. is a Canadian company that produces, converts, and markets packaging and tissue products composed mainly of recycled fibres. Cascades employs more than 11,700 people in more than 85 operating units in North America. It was founded in 1964.

  9. A historic mining community is decimated as the Park Fire and ...

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    The Park Fire is burning in Butte County, where California’s deadliest wildfire, the Camp Fire, killed more than 85 people and destroyed thousands of homes in 2018.