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  2. United States Bullion Depository - Wikipedia

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    Added to NRHP. February 18, 1988. The United States Bullion Depository, often known as Fort Knox, is a fortified vault building located next to the United States Army post of Fort Knox, Kentucky. It is operated by the United States Department of the Treasury. The vault is used to store a large portion of the United States' gold reserves as well ...

  3. Fort Knox - Wikipedia

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    Fort Knox. / 37.92; -85.96. Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository (also known as Fort Knox), which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated.

  4. Mosler Safe Company - Wikipedia

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    Headquarters. Hamilton, Ohio. , U.S. Website. mosler.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2001-04-18) The Mosler Safe Company was an American multinational manufacturer of security equipment specializing in safes and bank vaults. In 2001, the company was acquired by Diebold Inc. after going bankrupt.

  5. Gun and personal safes got recalled. One of the problems let ...

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    How many reports of the problem: Awesafe has received 71 reports of the gun safes being “opened by unauthorized users.” Awesafe Biometric Gun Safe U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

  6. Henry Knox - Wikipedia

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    Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806), a Founding Father of the United States, [1] was a Boston bookseller who became a senior general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, serving as chief of artillery in most of Washington's campaigns. Following the American Revolution, he oversaw the War Department under the ...

  7. Charters of Freedom - Wikipedia

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    The Charters of Freedom are flanked by Barry Faulkner ’s two grand murals, one featuring Thomas Jefferson amidst the Continental Congress, and the other featuring on James Madison at the Constitutional Convention. Along the Charters of Freedom is a dual display of the "Formation of the Union", including documents related to the evolution of ...

  8. Forts of Vincennes, Indiana - Wikipedia

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    March 24, 1982. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, the French, British and U.S. forces built and occupied a number of forts at Vincennes, Indiana. These outposts commanded a strategic position on the Wabash River. The names of the installations were changed by the various ruling parties, and the forts were considered strategic in the ...

  9. Fort Knox (Maine) - Wikipedia

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    Fort Knox, now Fort Knox State Park or Fort Knox State Historic Site, [1] is located on the western bank of the Penobscot River in the town of Prospect, Maine, about 5 miles (8.0 km) from the mouth of the river. Built between 1844 and 1869, it was the first fort in Maine built entirely of granite; most previous forts used wood, earth, and stone ...