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Stop #7A Flagstaff, AZ
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Stop #7A Flagstaff, AZ

The area was known before the town developed as Antelope Spring, referring to a spring near what is now Mars Hill. The commonly accepted story dates the name to July 4, 1876. A group of emigrants from Boston camped in the area while traveling west.

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Stop #6 Mesa Verde National Park, CO
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Stop #6 Mesa Verde National Park, CO

Stop six on our road trip: Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, where the Ancestral Pueblo people built more than 600 cliff dwellings.

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Stop #1 Springfield, Illinois
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Stop #1 Springfield, Illinois

Route 66 was once a key path for people heading west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, helping to boost the economies of towns along the way.

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