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  2. Portsmouth Olde Towne Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Other notable buildings include the Watts House (1799), Grice-Neeley House (circa 1820), Ball-Nivison House (1752), Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (1857), St. John's Episcopal Church (1898), Court Street Baptist Church (1901-1903), and Union Machinist Home. Located in the district is the separately listed Monumental Methodist Church.

  3. List of World War I monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

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    Memorial Arch (Huntington, West Virginia) Memorial Gymnasium (University of Idaho) Memorial Hall (Kansas City, Kansas) Memorial Hall (Newark, Delaware) Memorial Hall (University of Kentucky) Memorial Park, Houston; Mojave Memorial Cross; National World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.) National World War I Museum and Memorial; Navy – Merchant ...

  4. Old Chapel Church - Wikipedia

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    The last member of Old Chapel Church, Mrs. Virginal Kelley, passed in 2009 at the age of 95." [6] In 2017, the Old Chapel Church was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Gov. Terry McAuliffe has also deemed the church a "Virginia Treasure," a designation for ecological, cultural, scenic and recreational assets. [7]

  5. Huguenot Memorial Chapel and Monument - Wikipedia

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    Huguenot Memorial Chapel and Monument is a historic church located at Manakin, Powhatan County, Virginia. Built in 1700 by French Huguenots, Protestant refugees, it was moved to its current location in 1710. It burned down in the Revolutionary War and was later rebuilt with parts of the original building. It is in what is called the Carpenter ...

  6. List of last surviving World War I veterans - Wikipedia

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    On 27 June 2006, the British Government approved a National Memorial Service at Westminster Abbey, to take place after the death of the last known World War I veteran from the United Kingdom. On 11 November 2009, despite the survival to that date of Claude Choules and Florence Green , the commemoration was held following the death of Harry ...

  7. Hypo helmet - Wikipedia

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    This primitive type of mask went through several stages of development before being superseded in 1916 by the canister gas mask. [12] More elaborate sorbent compounds were added later to further iterations of the helmet (P Helmet and PH helmet), to defeat other respiratory poison gases used such as phosgene, diphosgene and chloropicrin.

  8. St. Luke's Church (Smithfield, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    The tower, the only one known to be an original feature of a colonial church in Virginia, [19] stands to the west of the main church building and is 18 feet (5.5 m) east-west and 20 feet (6.1 m) north-south at the outside ground level. It is 60 feet (18 m) tall and consists of three stories.

  9. Jamestown Church - Wikipedia

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    Jamestown Church, constructed in brick from 1639 onward, in Jamestown in the Mid-Atlantic state of Virginia, is one of the oldest surviving building remnants built by Europeans in the original Thirteen Colonies and in the United States overall.