Chambers Chapel United Methodist Church
Martha Ann Vaughan Chambers donated an acre of land near Chambers Mineral Springs as a site for a Methodist Episcopal Church South on Nov. 6, 1869. Three wooden frame buildings have stood on...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Germantown Baptist Church
Organized circa 1836 as New Hope Baptist Church. Ground given in 1841 by Wilks Brooks, whose family was active in life of the Church for many years. Original building was burned in 1862 when...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Western America Skisport Museum
WESTERN AMERICA SKISPORT MUSEUM CALIFORNIA POINT OF HISTORICAL INTEREST HEV-003 DOWNHILL SKI RACING HISTORY IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE FIRST BEGAN IN CALIFORNIA CIRCA 1857, AND IN THIS FAMOUS...
- norden
- california
- boreal
- skisport
- manpowered
Anthony Boucher
BERKELEY HISTORY ANTHONY BOUCHER: EDITOR AND WRITER From 1947 to 1968 this was the home of William Anthony Parker White (1911-1968), universally known by the pen name Anthony Boucher. This...
- berkeley
- california
- bay area
- editor
- writer
- science fiction
In Memory of the Pioneers
IN MEMORY OF THE PIONEERS MANY OF WHOM SLEEP IN THIS SCARED SPOT AND WHOSE VISION, COVRAGE, AND ADRVOVS LABOR HAVE BEN ABVNDANTLY REWARDED BY THE WONDERFVL DEVELOPMENT OF THIS GREAT...
- whom
- birmingham
- alabama
- pioneers
- oak
- chapel
The Pack Horse Pub
The HISTORY OF THE PACK HORSE A pub on the site of The Pack Horse first opened in 1615 as The Nag's Head, although there may have been a drinking house on the site since the 1130s. In 1780 it...
- leeds
- england
- pub
- loiners
- templar
- slip inn
Snowshoe Thompson
A HERO OF THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS! PROBABLY THE FIRST SKIER OF THE WEST. THIS VIKING SON OF NORWAY, EXEMPLIFIED THE SPIRIT OF A TRUE PIONEER. STRONG, DARING FAITHFUL AND COURAGEOUS HE...
- norden
- california
- boreal
- skis
- viking
- norway
- pioneer
Panama Canal Facts
Facts about the Panama Canal, 1997, prior to the Panama Canal Expansion. Submitted by Janet Erickson.
- panama canal
Latham Fountain
ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES H. LATHAM AND HENRIETTA MARSHALL LATHAM AS A TRIBUTE TO THEIR HUMANITY PRESENTED TO THIS CITY OF WHICH THEY WERE EARLIEST RESIDENTS BY THEIR CHILDREN UNDER THE...
- oakland
- california
- bay area
- latham
- prevention o...
Saskatoon Pioneers
To the memory of SASKATOON PIONEERS of 1882 Erected by the Saskatoon Old Timers Association 1952 Submitted by: @Saskajanet
- saskatoon
- saskatchewan
- pioneers
- old timers society
- 1882