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  2. Samuel DeWitt Proctor - Wikipedia

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    Samuel DeWitt Proctor was born in Norfolk, Virginia on July 13, 1921. [1] Unusual for an African American born in this era, Proctor's grandparents on both sides had received education at the university level: his paternal grandmother had attended Hampton Institute, and both of his maternal grandparents had attended Norfolk Mission College,the forerunner of Booker T Washington High School in ...

  3. Tate House (Tate, Georgia) - Wikipedia

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    The Tate House is a historic property east of Tate, Georgia on Georgia State Route 53.Colonel Samuel Tate began construction in 1921 and the mansion was completed in 1926. Designed by Walker and Weeks, architects in the Neo-Classical style, the home is made of pink and white marble (Etowah Marble) supplied by Tate's Georgia Marble Company, and sometimes called the "Pink Palace" or "Pink Marble ...

  4. Project Row Houses - Wikipedia

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    Project Row Houses. Project Row Houses is a development in the Third Ward area of Houston, Texas. Project Row Houses includes a group of shotgun houses restored in the 1990s. [2] Eight houses serve as studios for visiting artists. [3] Those houses are art studios for art related to African-American themes. A row behind the art studio houses ...

  5. List of monuments and memorials to Sam Houston - Wikipedia

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    The Sam Houston Coliseum (now demolished) in Houston was named for him. A mural on a gas tank depicts Houston; it is located near Texas State Highway 225 in Houston. [2] Sam Houston High School, [3] in Moss Bluff, Louisiana and Arlington, Texas [4] Sam Houston Middle School, [5] in the cities of Irving and Garland, Texas

  6. Woodland (Huntsville, Texas) - Wikipedia

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    Woodland is a historic house on the grounds of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Built in stages beginning about 1847, it was the residence of Sam Houston from 1847 to 1859. The house is now part of Sam Houston Memorial Museum , and is a National Historic Landmark .

  7. George Washington family secrets revealed by DNA from ...

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    Samuel Washington, more than two years younger than George, died in 1781 and was buried in the cemetery at his Harewood estate near Charles Town, West Virginia. Records showed that Harewood ...

  8. Sam Houston Park - Wikipedia

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    Old Mill, an area in Sam Houston Park in 1913. Mayor Samuel H. Brashear appointed Houston's first park committee to oversee the establishment of a city park in 1899. The 20 acres (81,000 m 2) chosen for the park was landscaped into a Victorian-styled village, with footpaths leading past an old mill and across a bridge that traversed a small stream.

  9. Samuel Proctor - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Proctor (March 29, 1919 [2] – July 10, 2005) was an American history professor and author. He taught at the University of Florida (UF) and wrote about the school and the state's history. He taught at the University of Florida (UF) and wrote about the school and the state's history.