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  1. Hype for the Future 235K: Harrison County, Ohio

    Overview Harrison County is a notable rural county located in the east-central portion of the State of Ohio and modestly south of the City of Canton along corridors such as Routes 22, 250, and 9 which uses the Village of Cadiz as the county seat. Smaller villages within the boundaries of the county include Adena, Bowerston, Deersville, Freeport, Harrisville, Hopedale, Jewett, New Athens, and Scio, while notable major highways beyond the primary routes of Cadiz within the county include […]

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  2. Hype for the Future 235H: Monroe County, Ohio

    Overview Monroe County is a notable rural Appalachian county in the eastern portion of the State of Ohio and the second-least-populated county statewide after only Vinton County, home to notable smaller villages and unincorporated areas including Woodsfield (county seat), Antioch, Beallsville, Clarington, Graysville, Jerusalem, Lewisville, Miltonsburg, Stafford, and Wilson. The county is not directly connected to any major Interstate or United States highways, though state highways located […]

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  3. Hype for the Future 194W: Leon and Corydon, Iowa

    Overview — Leon The City of Leon is a small city in and the county seat of Decatur County, Iowa, along Routes 69 and 2 and east of Interstate 35. The community is home to the Little River Inn Motel and is generally classified as a smaller population cluster within a rural county. Overview — Corydon The City of Corydon is a small community located within Wayne County, Iowa, and serves as the county seat, along Routes 2 and 14 east of the rural Route 65 junction of the former. Today, the […]

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  4. Hype for the Future 170H: Washington and Choctaw Counties, Alabama

    Overview Within the southwestern portion of the State of Alabama, two (2) notable counties to the north of Mobile along Route 17 are Washington and Choctaw Counties. Many of the small towns of the region are located along Route 17 and include the Towns of Chatom, Millry, Silas, Gilbertown, Needham, and Butler. The Towns of Chatom and Butler serve as the county seats of Washington and Choctaw Counties, respectively, with the latter home to the Mason Downtown hotel.

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  5. Hype for the Future 70E: Essex County, Vermont

    Introduction Essex County, often recorded as home to fewer than six thousand permanent residents, often serves the role of the smallest county by population in not just the State of Vermont, but the entirety of the region commonly known as New England. Outside the contexts of Vermont and the larger scope of New England, the county is also home to numerous attractions related to the tourist draw to the county and particularly toward the Burke Mountain ski area. While the northern portion of […]

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  6. Hype for the Future 59A: What is a Maine Plantation

    Introduction Though New England has used the term “plantation” for a pre-town settlement since at least the early settlements in modern Massachusetts, the term has fallen out of common use in Southern New England, including Rhode Island, centuries in the past, with “Providence Plantations” becoming a name referring to Rhode Island history. Though the confusion of “plantations” with slavery and slave labor has resulted in the shortening of the name of the State of Rhode Island, […]

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