We are about five miles outside the city of portland. The white house the lighthouse was first lit in 1791. Construction probably started several years earlier but was halted at one time when it ran out of funds. This was part of the district of massachusetts at that time and the funds werent coming through. In 1789 all the lighthouses were placed under federal control and the portland lighthouse was the first lighthouse that was finished after that always signed by george washington. It rises above the surrounding land, so it is the portland head. At that time it was the portland head and when they built the lighthouse here it was portland head light. It was very treacherous for ships to sail into a harbor, when they didnt have much control over a sailing vessel at the time. I lighthouse was supposed to guide a lighthouse guided shipping to a harbor on the right path. And this piece of land on portland head, there is nothing on this side of it or that side of it that is blocking the v
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I want to thank them. [applause] thank you. , americank artifacts visits museums and historic basis. In southcentral virginia, near lynchburg, green hill was a plantation operated by a slave owner. We visited it with jobie hill and a team of preservationists. They documented several buildings associated with slavery. She was introducing the team to green hill when we arrived. This program is about 50 minutes. Ok. Goodness. [dog barking] here are the Auction Blocks. That is the brick dependency. That is a duck house. This is the wash house. This one has a neat feature on the backside. It has a drain in the wall where they would yes, dump the water out. This is the slave house. My name is jobie hill. We are at green hill plantation. It is in campbell county, virginia. m here with a company they are here for me for my independent project called saving slave houses, which is doing documentation of all the known slave houses in the United States. When i was in school, for my masters thesis,
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