Portal:National Register of Historic Places/Did you know/44

... that Hopkinsville, Kentucky's tribute to Confederate veterans (pictured) was a public drinking fountain?
... that of the 30 covered bridges that once stood in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, only Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown remain, all of which were built in 1850?
... that the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House is known as the "Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a shark?
... that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
... that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad built a separate spur just for Western Kentucky University's Heating Plant?

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