You could buy a complete house, and they would float it down the river to a railhead on its way to Iowa, Miller points out.

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After all, she lives in an affluent neighborhood and has a house on the Shenandoah River, which she bought for cash.

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In my case, it was a 19th century manor house on the Hudson River.

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When my children were young we especially savored Newport House , a lovely Georgian big house on the banks of the Newport River nestled in the village of Newport, County Mayo.

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The house is on a lake in central Mississippi near the backwater-flooded Yazoo River.

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If you could go back to the Dixon, Illinois, of 1922, you'd find a boy of 11, reading adventure stories at the public library or running with his brother, Neil, along Rock River, and coming home to a little house on Hennepin Avenue.

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"Now, I can repair the roofs of my house, " Alexander Chavez told Reuters as entire families descended on a river to gather gold tailings.

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In London, it will be on display from July 5 to Sept. 29 at Somerset House, a palatial 18th-century edifice beside the River Thames that has been transformed over the last decade from dusty tax office to busy arts and cultural center.

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The river Conwy burst its banks at Llanrwst on Monday, and water was pumped out of a house at Carreglefn, Anglesey.

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