Fontainebleau Plantation Sugar Mill
These ruins are all that remain of Fountainebleau Plantation, once the summer home and plantation of Bernard de Marigny. Born in 1785 to a family closely tied to the earliest colonial efforts...
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Harper Baptist Seminary
Harper Baptist Seminary was organized here in 1941. The school's origin can be traced to Harper Baptist College, formerly located near Gloster in Amite County. Named in honor of Dr. Simon...
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Nerve Center Sculpture
Submitted by @beckerben
Sculptures in Charles Park
Submitted by @beckerben
Charles Park
Submitted by @beckerben
Greenamyer Sculpture
Submitted by @beckerben
Helena Gutteridge
Helena Gutteridge
Center For Independent Journalism
St. Philip Roman Catholic Church
The Quaker meetinghouse on this site was purchased at auction by local Catholics in 1863. St. Philip Roman Catholic Church has been on this corner since then. Its first school opened in 1880....
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Northern Gate
From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by chrisinplymouth, full page.License is Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
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Hartford Memorial Baptist Church
The Hartford Memorial congregation was the first African American church on Detroit’s west side. It began, under Rev. Edgar Edwards (1875-1942), as the international,...
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Blach House
From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by Elizabeth Thomsen, full page.License is Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
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Port Allegany
From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by HystericalMark, full page.License is Attribution- ShareAlike License
Walter D. Stone Memorial Zoo
Submitted by @beckerben.
St. Mary of Czestochowa Roman Catholic Church / Katolicki KosciÕ_l Matki Boskiej Czestochowskiej
The Polish refugees who immigrated to Dwight Township in the 1840s in order to escape Prussian domination worshipped at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Port Austin. In 1903 in an effort to retain...
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Girl Scout Cookies
GIRL SCOUT COOKIES On November 11, 1932, Girl Scouts baked & sold cookies for the first time in the windows of the Philadelphia Gas & Electric Co. here. This endeavor soon became a...
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Original Homestead of Walker Percy
Homestead owned by Walker Percy, who was an American author and philosopher. He is best known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the...
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Lake Superior
Le lac superieur the French called it, meaning only that geographically it lay above Lake Huron. In size, however, Lake Superior stands above all other freshwater lakes in the world. The...
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Michigan State Fair
America’s first state fair, conducted by the Michigan Agricultural Society with the support of the legislature and local citizens, was held in Detroit on September 25-27, 1849. About eight hundred...
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