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| | History All Around Us |
 | | History all Around Us In this section of the exhibit, visitors use an interactive computer program to locate significant historic resources in counties and cities around the state--from houses, commercial buildings, and churches to train stations, bridges, battlefields, and archaeological sites. |
 | | Taken together, the resources help define communities and regions and cover a wide range of types, time periods, and social, economic, industrial, and cultural themes. |
 | | On the west fork of Plum Creek, in the the shadow of a wooded mountain range in Tazewell County, the house was built about 1843 for Major Henry George, a lawyer and farmer who served as a delegate to the General Assembly during the Civil War. |
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