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Continue reading →: Hungarians in Ohio: Old North Dayton’s Kossuth Colony & Gathering Place for WanderersIn the Old North community of Dayton, Ohio, you can visit remnants of a prominent Hungarian labour community called the Kossuth Colony. This is one of 18 historic districts in northeastern Dayton and it has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. The main road is Leo…
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Continue reading →: Crossville, TN: All Roads Meet on the Way to Somewhere ElseCrossville, Tennessee got its name by being widely known as a place of crossroads; of Avery Trace, Walton Road, and the Kentucky Stock Road, connecting various toll areas like Johnson’s Mayland stand and Kemmer’s stand. Travelers often referred to it as the way to somewhere else. Avery Trace was the…
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Continue reading →: Historic Cookeville: Micropolis of the Upper Cumberland PlateauCookeville is located in middle Tennessee, about an hour from Nashville and an hour and a half from Knoxville. The small city spans about 22 square miles and is the “micropolis,” meaning the largest city of, Putnam County and the Upper Cumberland Plateau. Cookeville was formerly Cherokee land, taken over…
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Continue reading →: Ellijay, Georgia: The Place of Many WatersEllijay, Georgia is a tiny town of less than two thousand people in a little over 2.5 square miles. It is halfway between Blue Ridge and Jasper, just 75 miles north of Atlanta. Originally Cherokee territory, Ellijay also takes its name from the Cherokee word Elatseyi meaning “many waters.” Ellijay…
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Continue reading →: La Ciudad de Ybor; The Historic Multi-Cultural Immigrant Cigar CityLA HISTORIA (History)Spanish civil engineer Don Gavino Gutiérrez went looking for guavas in the early 1880s, and instead found what became Ybor City. With dashed hopes of creating a new home base for his tropical fruit preserving company, the lack of guavas made the trip a disappointment at first. He…
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Continue reading →: FKA Channelside: Water Street Tampa, Sparkman Wharf, & The Tampa RiverwalkDowntown Tampa is roughly defined by everything south of 275 and FL-618, to the bay and along the Tampa Riverwalk. Its settled origins began with the construction of Fort Brooke in the 1820s, and being called the Village of Tampa in the late 1840s when the town squares still used…
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Continue reading →: Lawless Joy: Savouring the Unexpected in Tampa HeightsTampa Heights was Tampa’s first suburb, directly north of downtown. It started as a small six-block area bordered by Florida, Central, Oak, and Henderson Avenues but the name now refers to a much wider area that was once known as the town of North Tampa. Today, Tampa Heights is considered…
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Continue reading →: Tampa’s Historic Hyde Park, SoHo, Bayshore, and the Legacy of Henry B. PlantTampa’s Hyde Park is a lot of things; a historic district, a quiet 1800s farm turned Victorian residential neighbourhood, a high-end shopping district, and a center for luxury, art, and international flair. It stretches along Bayshore Boulevard and the Hillsborough Bay, with W Kennedy Boulevard at its north and westward…
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Continue reading →: Ochre Tones & Tunes: Denver’s Red Rocks Geological Park & AmphitheatreAn easy ten-mile mountainous drive from Denver will take you into the community of Morrison, to the Red Rocks Geological Park and, what this park is most famous for, the Red Rocks Amphitheatre. You could also take the Red Rocks Shuttle from Illegal Pete’s or the Thirsty Lion Gastropub in…
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Continue reading →: Colorado Adventures: Hoosier Pass, The Continental Divide, & BreckenridgeHoosier Pass is a high-elevation mountain pass along Colorado’s Highway 9 that connects Breckenridge to Alma, in the Mosquito Mountain range of the Rockies. It has the highest altitude of the TransAmerica bike trail that runs from Virginia to Oregon, coming in at 11,539 feet. Some sources list 11,542 feet…
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Continue reading →: Boulder, Colorado & The Dushanbe ExperienceBoulder, Colorado has received dozens of accolades and awards for being the happiest, healthiest, greenest, most liberal, most queer, most outdoor adventurous, most bike-friendly, most walkable, and best educated city, just to name a few! Boulder is located in the Boulder Valley between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains,…
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Continue reading →: LoDo & Larimer Square; Denver’s Historic Lower Downtown DistrictDenver, Colorado is the “Mile High City” with a spooky blue stallion guarding its airport, namesake of the Denver omelet, inspiration for the Shining hotel, one of the original Wild West towns, and has an underground tunnel system below the city that is shrouded in conspiracy theories… you know this…
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