McLean House, Appomattox, Virginia

Everyone knew how important it was. This was the house where Robert E. Lee surrendered to U.S. Grant, ending the Civil War in April 1865. In 1891, one Myron Dunlap of Niagara Falls, New York, bought the building and took it apart. Just like John Brown's Fort, it was intended for display at the World’s Columbian Exhibition in 1893; then the plan was to move the house to Washington as a feature of a national Civil War museum. But the Panic of 1893 scuppered that idea, and for 46 years, the house lay in pieces in its own yard, where it was scavenged or rotted into nothing (pictured above).

In 1938, Ronald F. Lee fought against its reconstruction in his role as Chief Historian of the National Park Service—he favored preservation over imitation. But local pressure won out; he later called it the "second surrender of Lee at Appomattox." The new McLean House, which pretends to be the old McLean House, went up in 1948, 100 years after its predecessor. You have to ask a ranger to get the whole truth: The only elements that were actually present during the surrender are a horsehair couch and a few vases on the mantel. (The courthouse of Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is a fake, too, from 1964.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5580842&forum_id=2...id#47993141)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_La_Bah%C3%ADa

You can still walk the battlements and 2 canons are still emplaced. It is owned by the Diocese of Victoria, not the state or federal government.

Monument to the massacre of Fannin's men:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_La_Bah%C3%ADa#/media/File:Fannin_Monument_Goliad_Wiki_(1_of_1).jpg

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Poverty Point circa 1200 B.C.: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/18/arts/design/young-artists-auctions-collectors.html

Burning Man: https://i.insider.com/59a56f6b2488492cf41e960b?width=750&format=jpeg&auto=webp

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Have you ever been to any of the native sites in the 4 corners region - mesa verda, canyons of the ancients, hovenweep, etc.? Also 180

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It's like the size of a basketball

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