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  2. Cambridge Historic District (Cambridge, New York) - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge Historic District is located in an irregular pattern along streets in the village of Cambridge in Washington County, New York.It is a 105-acre (42 ha) area reflecting the extent of the village when it was first incorporated in the 1860s and its subsequent development in the years the Rice Seed Company, largest in the world at the time, was located here.

  3. Category : National Park Service areas in Washington, D.C.

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    Category: National Park Service areas in Washington, D.C. ... National Capital Parks-East (17 P) National Mall (3 C, 58 P) National Mall and Memorial Parks (1 C, 29 P)

  4. National Capital Parks-East - Wikipedia

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    National Capital Parks-East (NACE) is an administrative grouping of multiple National Park Service sites east of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., and in the state of Maryland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These sites include: [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]

  5. National Mall and Memorial Parks - Wikipedia

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    National Mall and Memorial Parks (formerly known as National Capital Parks-Central) is an administrative unit of the National Park Service (NPS) encompassing many national memorials and other areas in Washington, D.C. Federally owned and administered parks in the capital area date back to 1790, some of the oldest in the United States. In 1933 ...

  6. National Park Service - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, national parks generated $30.1 billion in economic activity and 252,000 jobs nationwide. Thirteen billion of that amount went directly into communities within 60 miles of a NPS unit. In a 2017 study, the NPS found that 331 million park visitors spent $18.2 billion in local areas around National Parks across the nation.

  7. District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation

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    Under Executive Order 6166 (June 10, 1933), President Franklin D. Roosevelt placed the independent office into the new Office of National Parks, Buildings and Reservations in the United States Department of the Interior. [6] The name of the new office was changed to the "National Park Service" by an Act of Congress in March 1934. [14]

  8. List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.

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    The District of Columbia, capital of the United States, is home to 78 National Historic Landmarks.The National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [1]

  9. Cambridge, New York - Wikipedia

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    Cambridge is a town in Washington County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area . [ 3 ] The town population was 1,952 at the 2020 census.