Salvation Army
THE SALVATION ARMY OAKLAND CHINATOWN CORPS DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE SERVICE OF MANKIND JUNE 28, 2008 BY COMMISSIONER PHILIP SWYERS TERRITORIAL COMMANDER
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- califorinia
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William McGonagall
William McGonagall / Poet and Tragedian Submitted by @slashdotat
The Crash of Flight 307
The Crash of Flight 307 March 7, 1950 at 9:02PM During its approach through a blinding snowstorm, NWA Flight 307 clipped its left wing on a flagpole at Ft. Snelling Cemetery. Captain...
- minneapolis
- minesotoa
- plane crash
- cemetery
Herman W. Cox, Jr.
Herman W. Cox, Jr., life long resident of Collierville, was a 1939 graduate of Collierville High School. He served as an elected leader of Collierville, first as alderman in 1959 and Mayor in...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Bryant Terrace 1906
Spotted walking down Bryant Street, near the eastern edge of San Francisco's Mission District, after work. It's a non-official-type plaque, devised by someone devoted to the history of this one...
- san francisco
- mission district
- apartments blocks
Interprovincial Bridge
1900 INTERPROVINCIAL BRIDGE BUILT BY DOMINION BRIDGE C L LACHINE P O PONTIAC PACIFIC JR OTTAWA GATINUAU R H. J BEEMER CONTRACTOR GUY C. DUNN ENGINEER Submitted by @bthubbard
- ottawa
- ontario
- bridge
Akin Hall
AKIN HALL BUILT AND DEDICATED IN 1881 BY A. J. AKIN. USED BY CHRIST CHURCH SINCE 1895. MOVED TO FORMER SITE OF MIZZENTOP HOTEL BY LOWELL THOMAS 1936. AKIN HALL ASSOCIATION 1986
Tanks Skole
TANKS SKOLE "Skoleivet var meg dypt usympatisk, dets materialisme, barshel og kulde var min natur sa imot at jeg utponsket det utroligste for a bli det kvitt - om bar for en liten stund." Edvard...
Between Downtown and the Railroad
Triangular block bounded by Detroit, Fifth, and Kingsley, 1897 In 1845 the first St. Thomas Catholic Church, built on Kingsley Street east of Division, was Ann Arbor’s first brick church and its...
- detroit
- michigan
- railroad
- barrel factory
- apple-picking
Industry on Detroit Street
Miller’s Planing Mill, 529 Detroit Street, 1874 (Later the Treasure Mart) Used cars were sold at 514 Detroit Streetin the last part of Andrew Schmidt’s carriage factory buildings, before it was...
- detroit
- michigan
- universal bath
- railroad
- treasure mart
Purgatory Hill
Purgatory Hill Named by the Continental Army encamped here fall of 1778. Site of great barbecue celebrating anniversary of Burgoyne's defeat - Saratoga
- barbecue
- 1778
- saratoga
- akindale farms
Colfax Riot
This plaque marks what it calls the "Colfax Riot," what is now called the "Colfax Massacre." In the midst of political turmoil in 1873, White Supremacist paramilitaries killed over 100 blacks --...
- massacre
- reconstruction
- paramilitaries
- racism
Japanese American Remembrance Garden
This set of plaques is located on the north edge of the Seattle University Campus. It's near Madison Street in the projection of the 11th Avenue right of way. It's on the east side of Hunthausen...
- seattle
- nikkei
- japanese
- incarceration
- seattle university
Chrysler Building [Seattle]
This plaque is on the north side of East Pine Street just east of Broadway in Seattle, Washington at 900 East Pine Street. Text: Chrysler Building B.1925 The Washburn-Haines Company built this...
- seattle
- history
- auto row
- capitol hill
Gras-Devall Plaza
Gras-Devall Plaza - These four corners were dedicated for public use in 1809 by Antonio Gras and Edith and Richard Devall. A market was to be in the center, and the corners used for the hitching...
- baton rouge
- plaza
- louisiana
Van Nuys Grammar School
Van Nuys Grammar School 1912 Los Angeles Board of Education 1935 Wm. Campbell D.M. Gibson Wm. E. Lane ~Trustees~ Submitted by: Jon G.
- van nuys
- grammar school
- lausd
Norumbega Tower
AD 1000. AD 1889 Norumbega = Nor MBega Indian utterance of Norgega the ancient form of Nowega, Norway to which the region of Vinland was subject. . City. At and near Watertown where remain...
Memphis Martyrs
In August, 1878, fear of death caused a panic during which 30,000 of 50,000 Memphians fled this bluff city. By October, the epidemic of yellow fever killed 4,204 of 6,000 Caucasians and 946...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Raoul Wallenberg Shell
Dedicated to a Swedish Diplomat Honorary American Citizen Righteous Man Angel Of Rescue RAOUL WALLENBERG SHELL During World War II, his mission of mercy behind enemy lines was an act of...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Broadway High
---- On this site stood Seattle's first High School. Opened in 1902 as Seattle High School, in 1904 it was named Broadway High School until its closing in 1946. Broadway set high standards...
- seattle
- capitol hill
- high school