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  2. Oakleigh Historic Complex (Mobile, Alabama) - Wikipedia

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    Oakleigh is a c. 1833 historic house museum in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It is the centerpiece of the Oakleigh Historic Complex, a grouping of buildings that contain a working-class raised cottage, Union Barracks, and a modern archives building. [2] The name for the estate comes from a combination of the word oak and the Anglo-Saxon word ...

  3. Boyington Oak - Wikipedia

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    30°41′10″N 88°03′06″W  /  30.68608°N 88.05153°W  / 30.68608; -88.05153. The Boyington Oak is a historic Southern live oak in Mobile, Alabama. [1][2][3] In a city with many live oaks that are famous for their age and size, the Boyington Oak stands out as a singular example of one famous for the folklore surrounding its ...

  4. Welcome centers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Welcome centers, also commonly known as visitors' centers, visitor information centers, or tourist information centers, are buildings located at either entrances to states on major ports of entry, such as interstates or major highways, e.g. U.S. Routes or state highways, or in strategic cities within regions of a state, e.g. Southern California, Southwest Colorado, East Tennessee, or the South ...

  5. Unity Temple - Wikipedia

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    Unity Temple. Unity Temple is a Unitarian Universalist church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation, which originally formed in 1871. It was designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and built between 1905 and 1908. Unity Temple is considered to be one of Wright's most important ...

  6. Duffie Oak - Wikipedia

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    30°41′10″N 88°03′43″W  /  30.68608°N 88.06202°W  / 30.68608; -88.06202. The Duffee Oak is a historic Southern live oak in Mobile, Alabama. Being approximately 300 years old, it is considered by scholars to be the oldest living landmark in the city. [1][2][3][4] It was originally known as the Seven Sisters Oak for its number ...

  7. Battleship Memorial Park - Wikipedia

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    Battleship Memorial Park is a military history park and museum on the western shore of Mobile Bay in Mobile, Alabama. Its notable aircraft and museum ships include the South Dakota -class battleship USS Alabama and Gato -class submarine USS Drum. Alabama and Drum are National Historic Landmarks; the park as a whole was listed on the Alabama ...

  8. Mobile Carnival Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Mobile Carnival Museum is a history museum that chronicles over 300 years [1] of Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama. [2] The museum is housed in the historic Bernstein-Bush mansion on Government Street in downtown Mobile.

  9. Rocky Mount, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Rocky Mount is located at the center of Franklin County at (36.999855, −79.889673 U.S. Route 220 passes through the east side of town as a limited-access bypass, leading north 23 miles (37 km) to Roanoke and south 26 miles (42 km) to Martinsville.