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    The Gilpin Homestead, also known as General Howe Headquarters, is a historic home which is located in Chadds Ford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was...
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    had a close shave.'" The Chad House, Chadds Ford Historic District, Gilpin Homestead, and William Painter Farm are all listed on the National Register of...
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  • Kingdom Gilpin Homestead, Chadds Ford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on the US National Register of Historic Places Gilpin Railroad, a railroad in Gilpin County...
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    the Battle of Brandywine. Howe established his headquarters at the Gilpin Homestead, where it stayed until the morning of 16 September. In a reprise of...
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    Gilpin Homestead...
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    Gilpin Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sneffels Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,700-foot (4,176 m) thirteener is located in...
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    but was disappointed when Abraham Lincoln gave the appointment to William Gilpin of Missouri, in part as a favor to the governor of the state.[citation needed]...
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    Black Hawk, Colorado (category Cities in Gilpin County, Colorado)
    Black Hawk is a home rule municipality located in Gilpin County, Colorado, United States. The population was 127 at the 2020 United States Census, making...
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    Central City/Black Hawk Historic District (category Geography of Gilpin County, Colorado)
    adjacent former gold mining camps in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Gilpin County, Colorado. For a time, the area was known as the Richest Square Mile...
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    William Gilpin, the first territorial governor of Colorado and an aide to President Abraham Lincoln, was a proponent of this theory. Gilpin was a strong...
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  • Peak to Peak Scenic Byway (category Transportation in Gilpin County, Colorado)
    National Forest Scenic Byway and Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Gilpin, Boulder, Larimer counties, Colorado, USA. The Peak to Peak Highway was...
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    Berks 2,490 0.8 3259.2 1060 Saville Township Perry 2,490 46.0 54.1 1062 Gilpin Township Armstrong 2,485 17.1 145.0 1063 Taylor Township Blair 2,484 23...
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  • University, Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Galusha A. Grow, father of the Homestead Act Historical, Asahel...
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  • moved from Indiana and acquired land in Smith County, Kansas under the Homestead Act, living in a small cabin near West Beaver Creek. Higley was inspired...
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    country was fully surveyed. Early families established themselves under the Homestead Act of 1862, which allowed easy access to land to those who would inhabit...
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    JSTOR 44377562. Goldberg, Jonathan (1998). "Photographic Relations: Laura Gilpin, Willa Cather". American Literature. 70 (1): 63–95. doi:10.2307/2902456...
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    "Battle Town", and on the site of the former tavern he built a clapboard homestead. This structure still stands on what is now Main Street and is now known...
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    Arapaho National Forest (category Protected areas of Gilpin County, Colorado)
    counties, but spills over into neighboring (in descending order of land area) Gilpin, Park, Routt, Jackson, and Jefferson counties. There are local ranger district...
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    Roosevelt National Forest (category Protected areas of Gilpin County, Colorado)
    Mountain National Park. Smaller parts of the forest also extend into northern Gilpin and extreme northwestern Jefferson counties. The Roosevelt National Forest...
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    Teller County – south Park County – southwest Clear Creek County – west Gilpin County – northwest Interstate 70 I-70 BS U.S. Highway 6 U.S. Highway 40...
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    enslaved African Americans the elites considered property. According to Drew Gilpin Faust, a campaign was mounted by newspapers and political leaders such as...
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    Conejos), Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway Historic District (Boulder, Gilpin and Grande), Durango-Silverton Narrow-Gauge Railroad (La Plata and San Juan)...
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    original on June 23, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2016. says "no" R. Blakeslee Gilpin (2011). John Brown Still Lives!: America's Long Reckoning With Violence...
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    live in their larger traditional areas, so long as they could tolerate homesteaders near their camps. By the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the Native...
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    Kinship, and the Basis of Power in the Norwegian Viking Age". In Hays-Gilpin, Kelley; Whitley, David S. (eds.). Reader in Gender Archaeology. Routledge...
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    Custer Delta Denver Dolores Douglas Eagle El Paso Elbert Fremont Garfield Gilpin Grand Gunnison Hinsdale Huerfano Jackson Jefferson Kiowa Kit Carson La Plata...
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    Park in 1873. Alex and Clara (Heeney) MacGregor arrived soon after and homesteaded at the foot of Lumpy Ridge. The MacGregor Ranch has been preserved as...
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    The Wilzig Story," The New York Observer, February 1, 1999. Kenneth N. Gilpin, "Siggi B. Wilzig, 76, Executive and Survivor of the Holocaust," The New...
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    country house clearly shows the transition between the picturesque of William Gilpin and Nash's yet to be fully evolved Italianism. While this house can still...
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    the early 1860s, following the Colorado Gold Rush. Many settlers filed homestead claims, but most bellied up and left the valley to hardier souls who ranched...
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