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Excerpt from The National Register of Historic Places, 1972 The story of America has been, throughout, a story of accelerating growth and change. Securely settled into a tradition of taking, moving on, and not looking back, Americans since 1900 have been faced increasingly with the prospect of virtually destroying their natural and historical birthright in the name of progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.