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...that the Cray House (pictured) is a rare surviving example of post-and-plank style, once common across the Eastern Shore of Maryland?
...that during World War II, the Roosevelt Community Library in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood?
...that the final streetcar to service Roanoke, Virginia went from Grandin Road Commercial Historic District to downtown on July 31, 1948?
...that Nihon Go Gakko, a Japanese language school in Tacoma, Washington, later became a gathering point for Japanese residents during World War II, being sent to internment camps?
...that despite being a National Historic Landmark and the site of Washington's oldest known human remains, the Marmes Rockshelter was submerged after the Lower Monumental Dam construction?

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