Casa de la Torre
CASA DE LA TORRE Built for Don Jose Joaquin de la Torre, alcolade of old Monterey
- monterey
- california
- torre
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
320 Americans Killed in WWII Naval Magazine Accident Port Chicago July 17, 1944: In Memoriam S2c James C. Akins CM3c Clarence Allen, Jr. Lt. (jg) Maxie L. Anderson S2c Leslie K. Asahe S2c...
Tulare County's Battle Mountain
BATTLE MOUNTAIN A long period of unrest between the settlers and Indians of Tulare County erupted in war during the spring of 1856. Untrue reports that five hundred head of cattle had been...
- california
- tulare county
- native americans
- gold rush
Promenade Ribbon Sculture
PROMENADE RIBBON SCULPTURE The Promenade Ribbon is a five-foot wide strip of pavement separated from the rest of the Bay. Sold ground is split. The concrete band is bisected by a line...
- san francisco
- bay area
- california
- bay
- ribbon
- art
A. J. Young House
A. J. YOUNG HOUSE ALBERT J. YOUNG AND MARY SHUEY YOUNG BUILT THIS VICTORIAN HOME IN 1970. THIS WAS THEIR HOME FOR 63 YEARS. A. J. YOUNG WAS A LONG TIME LOCAL EDUCATOR AND CHURCH LEADER. ...
- san rafael
- california
- bay area
- victorian
Port of Entry
1828 PORT OF ENTRY Monterey is designated as the only port of entry for Alta California. All foreign ships must have their cargoes inspected at the Custom House and pay import taxes.
- monterey
- california
- 1828
- custom house
Paradise Row and Baltimore Row
Submitted by Jen Auchterlonie
- west virginia
- white sulphu...
- greenbrier
- robert e. lee
- civil war
- 1832
The Old White
Submitted by Jen Auchterlonie
- west virginia
- white sulphu...
- greenbrier
- old white
- 1858
- old dominion
The Greenbrier
Submitted by Jen Auchterlonie
- west virginia
- white sulphu...
- greenbrier
The First Special Services Force (The Devil's Brigade) Highway Dedication Plaque
In honour of the First Special Service Force – famously nicknamed The Devil’s Brigade or The Black Devils - and their achievements in World War II, the sections of Highway 4 in Alberta, Canada and...
- devil's brigade
- canada
- usa
- wwii
- special serv...
- lethbridge
- glat
- commando
Dr. Sekino Yoshiharu
In memory of Dr. Sekino Yoshiharu. A Japanese scientist world trotter starting South America in 1993 spending a night at Oldupai Gorge on 8th February 2002 to end up at Laetoli Footprint Trackway...
Fullen Market Building
CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1985 FULLEN MARKET BUILDING Henry S. Patton, Builder 1907–08 Built by a real-estate developer during the East Bay building boom that followed the...
Oak of the Golden Dream
If you head north and east out of Los Angeles toward Santa Clarita on Highway 14, you pass one of those historical marker signs that declares, "Oak of the Golden Dream, this exit." Or...
- los angeles county
- california
- gold rush
- wild onions
- gold
Radium Queen of the Desert: Josephine Stephens Bishop
Another find along Highway 14, which is the route from the Los Angeles basin up to the Mojave Desert, U.S. 395 and the Eastern Sierra. Northbound, there's a sign before you get to the Jawbone...
- california
- kern county
- radium
- mojave desert
20-Mule-Team Borax Terminus
This is on California Highway 14, the main drag through Mojave, a desert crossroads and would-be spaceport (Burt Rutan, the designer and builder of the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne and...
- kern county
- california
- mojave desert
- mining
Statehood
1850 STATEHOOD California is admitted to the United States as the 31st state. The constitutional convention of 1849 designated San Jose as the first state capital.
- monterey
- california
- 1850
Ardenwood Trains
AT&T & RCA Receiving Stations
- point reyes
- radion
- wireless
- ship-to-shore
- sky wave
Point Reyes Receiving Station
- point reyes
- radion
- wireless
- marconi
Eniac
ENIAC THE FIRST LARGE - SCALE, GENERAL - PURPOSE ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER. ENIAC (ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND COMPUTER) WAS DELIVERED TO THE US ARMY'S BALLISTIC RESEARCH...
- maryland
- aberdeen
- eniac
- ballistic research
- 1947
- computers