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The Horse You Came In On Saloon, popularly known as The Horse, was established in 1972 in Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland. [1] [2] [3] The bar's predecessor, Al and Ann's, first opened for business in 1775. [4] The Horse erroneously claims to be the last place Edgar Allan Poe was seen at before his delirium and sudden death. [3] [5] [6]
In 2015, Atlas Obscura raised its first round of major funding, securing $2 million from a range of investors and angels including The New York Times. [6] In September 2016, the company published its first book, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders written by Foer, Thuras, and Ella Morton under Workman Publishing ...
Takoma Park is the location for the HQ of the protagonists in The Lone Gunmen, a television spinoff of the X-Files. [127] Takoma Park is featured in Atlas Obscura articles on "Herlong the Carved Dragon" [128] and "Roscoe the Rooster."
The Arbutus Oak was over 70 feet (21 m) tall and about 5 feet (1.5 m) in diameter, making it one of Maryland's largest and oldest white oak trees. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] It has been said [ by whom? ] that General Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette passed by the oak tree in 1781 with his troops while en route to Elkridge during the Revolutionary War ...
The belief that the sight of an oarfish in shallow waters is an omen of an impending earthquake dates back to 17th century Japan, according to reporting by Atlas Obscura. The fish, also known as ...
Adams Grove Presbyterian Church in Dallas County The Dr. John R. Drish House in Tuscaloosa Sweetwater Mansion in Florence, during 1934. The Boyington Oak in Mobile is a Southern live oak that reportedly grew from the grave of Charles Boyington in the potter's field just outside the walls of Church Street Graveyard.
Daniels is a ghost town straddling the Patapsco River east of Woodstock and north of Old Ellicott City in Baltimore and Howard counties, Maryland, United States. It is the location of the Daniels Mill, a site listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] Daniels is the home town of former Howard County Executive and State Senator ...
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