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The textual content is scanned against different database tables, and hits are tagged accordingly:

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  • Personal names
  • Company names

For example, in this text exerpt, the program tagged place names (geograhical hits) with HTML to highlight them in red:

 earl  Hld  WMOM 
 Crossing,  for  the  site  at  which  the  Florida  
Souwh  was  completed  froalatka  to  Gaisesville  in  
188  co  e  e1eninsular  Railroad. families  of  Calvin  
Waits  and  James  Hawthorn.  A  diverse  economy 
stimulated  the  development  of  Hawthorne. 
 The  addition  of  an  "e"  to  the  town's  name 

 1.  Wafts-Baker  House  -  (606  Sid  Martin 
 Highway,  U.S.  301)  The  original  log  house 
 on  this  site,  which  was  occupied  in  the 
 nineteenth  century  by  Hawthorne  founder 
 Calvin  Waits  and  his  family,  had  a  sepa- 
 rate  kitchen  and  dining  room  to  minimize 
 the  possibility  of  fire.  Members  of  the 
 Baker  family  have  lived  in  it  since  1909 
 when  farmer  and  rural  mail  carrier  R.  B. 
 Baker  moved  into  the  house  with  his  new  bride. 
 2.  Hawthorne  State  Bank  -  
(2  N.  Johnson 
 St.)  This  building  housed  Hawthorne's  first 
 bank,  which  was  organized  in  1911  and 
 not  long  after  advertised  that  it  had  assets 
 of  $15,000.  Francis  J.  
Hammond,  leading 
 merchant  and  grandson  of  town  founder 
 James  M.  Hawthorn,  donated  the  land,  and 
 A.  L.  Webb,  proprietor  of  a  successful  gen- 
 eral  store  in  Hawthorne,  served  as  first  presi- 
 dent  of  the  institution. 
 3.  Moore  House  -  (207  W.  Lake  Ave.)  This  q 
 house,  which  was  built  in  191  1,  still  looks 
 much  as  it  did  not  long  after  Glen  D. 
 Moore  purchased  the  house  in  1913.  A 
 sleeping  porch,  casement  windows,  and  a 
 bathroom  were  added  by  Moore,  whose 
 father,  William  Shepard  Moore,  had  arrived 
 in  
 Hawthorne  from  Tennessee  in  1882. 
 4.  Mahin  House  -  (301  W.  Lake  Ave.)  The  broad 
 porch  on  three  sides  of  this  tum-of-the-century 
 dwelling  provided  a  perfect  place  for  occu- 
 pants  to  sit  and  catch  the  breezes.  Lottie 
 Mahin,  widow  of  a  businessman  influen- 
 tial  in  the  town  during  the  second  decade 
 of  the  twentieth  century,  lived  in  the  house  | 
 in  the  1920s  and  rented  part  of  it  as  apart- 
 ments. 
 5.  State  Historical  Marker  -  (On  the  church 
 grounds,  comer  N.  Johnson  St.  and  N.W.  3rd 
 Ave.)  A  brief  history  of  the  town  of  ^ 
 Hawthorne  is  provided. 


 6.  First  Baptist  Church  -  (Comer  N.  Johnson 
 St.  and  N.W.  2nd  Ave.)  The  First  Baptist 
 Church  in  Hawthorne  was  organized  in 
 1853.  This  building  was  erected  in  1900. 
 Gothic  style  windows  punctuate  the  white 
 horizontal  clapboard  siding  that  covers  the 
 exterior.
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