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Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield

Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States for just four years between 1861 and 1865, yet he left a profound legacy.

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Dearborn is the city built by Henry Ford – engineer, car manufacturer, and clairvoyant of the interstate highway. It’s where, back in 1903, he created the first mass-produced car: the Ford Model T; today it’s the world’s headquarters of the Ford Motor Company.

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Living the Amish Way in Ohio

Wayne and Holmes counties in Ohio have the United States’ densest concentration of Amish. The Amish are a group of dissenting Christians who grew out of the Anabaptist movement of Germany and Switzerland.

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Lewis & Clark’s Native American Trail

In 1803, two young army officers set off west at the behest of President Jefferson to explore the newly acquired territory of Louisiana & find a practical transportation link between this region & the ‘Oregon Country’ territory claimed by the US following the discovery of the mouth of the Columbia River in 1792.

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The Amish

The Amish, who speak a language known as Pennysylvanian Dutch , are a Mennonite Christian group from Switzerland, Germany and Austria who migrated to the eastern States of the US several hundred years ago to escape religious persecution.