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Beer City’s Blue Ribbon Mansion
FREDERICK PABST was captain of a Great Lakes steamer when Maria Best came aboard his ship and caught his attention. He started courting her, the daughter of the owner of Milwaukee’s Phillip Best Beer Company, and they married in 1862. It didn’t take
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World War II Navy Veteran Awarded Congressional Gold Medal
On December 13, 2023, Larry Doby was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. It would have been his 100th birthday. Doby, an often-overlooked baseball pioneer integrated the American League with the 1947 Cleveland Indians and served hi
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Historic Haven
Saving Smalls’ S.C. Home Leaders for the National Trust for Historic Preservation are completing the purchase of the McKee-Smalls House from its current owners, Billy and Paul Keyserling. The property is best known as the home of Robert Smalls, who w

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