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Chautauqua and the lecture circuit it spawned
1874
Chautauqua County, New York
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
A summer camp for Sunday school teachers grew into a lakeside town of lectures, concerts and reading circles, and spawned travelling copies across rural America that Theodore Roosevelt called the most American thing in America. It still runs a nine-week season.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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