Despite their welcome to serve in the Union Army, Native Americans were not recognized as U.S. citizens throughout the nineteenth century. A clause in the Fourteenth Amendment excluding Indians not taxed prevented Native American men from receiving the right to vote when African-American men gained suffrage in 1868.
Like a modern-day Frankenstein's castle on Massachusetts's rocky Atlantic shore, Abbadia Mare (Abbey by the Sea) served as both home and laboratory for prolific inventor John Hayes Hammond Jr. after it was completed in 1929.merica's only true palaceâas in, royalty resided hereâwas built from 1879 to 1882 by King Kalakua and Queen Kapi'olani. The goal was to enhance the prestige of modern Hawaii in a kind of Victorian-era keeping up with the Joneses.
Camber Castle, built by Henry VIII is located in the dramatic Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. Rye was once surrounded on three sides by the sea and its maritime heritage dates back to Norman times.To defend it against frequent attacks from the French, Rye became an âantient townâ of the powerful Cinque Ports Confederation.ye has always been a magnet for writers and artists. Lamb House, a National Trust property, was once the home of Henry James and later E.F.Benson, creator of the Mapp and Lucia books. The artists Paul Nash, Edward Burra and Captain Pugwash creator, John Ryan all lived in Rye.