Benjamin Albert Imes
Described as the best-educated minister in all of Memphis in 1880 was a black man, the Rev. Benjamin A. Imes, who was a noted city leader. Imes held two degrees from Oberlin College and was...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Cannon - Salute to USA
This gun, one of a battery of eleven, at St. Eustatius, N.W.I., on November 16, 1776, fired the first salute by a foreign power to the Flag of the United States. This painting by Memphis...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Hess Triangle
"Property of the Hess Estate which has never been dedicated for public purposes." This is a triangle at the intersection of Seventh Ave and Christopher Street in New York's West Village. From...
- hess triangle
- greenwich village
- new york
U.S.S. Arizona Memorial
Submitted by @WittelLuke
- wwii
- pearl harbor
- arizona
Moving Shoreline
- key system
- emeryville
- oakland
- shoreline
- pier
- ferry service
Ron Dellums, 47th Mayor of Oakland
- prescott
- oakland point
- bay area
- oakland tech...
The Shorey House
- oakland
- 1872
- whaling
- african american
- where rail a...
- cape of good hope
- barbados
- booker t. washington
Four Young Americans Died Serving Their Country in the Thanksgiving Weekend Accident
IN THE LATE HOURS OF NOVEMBER 25, 1944 A C-47 ARMY CARGO PLANE EN ROUTE FROM CHICAGO TO MINNEAPOLIS CRASHED INTO BLUE MOUND 400 - 500 FEET NORTH OF THIS MONUMENT. THE PLANE HAD ENCOUNTERED A...
- wisconsin
- blue mount c-47
- thanksgiving
John Minix
THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF BLUE MOUND WAS CONSERVED AND ENHANCED BY THE VISION AND UNTIRING EFFORTS OF JOHN MINIXWHO MADE THIS OUTSTANDING FEATURE OF WISCONSIN ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC AS A...
- wisconsin
- park
- minix
Sandy MacKendrick
Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema 1996 ALEXANDER "SANDY" MACKENDRICK (1912-1993) Film Director who made Whisky Galorehere on Barra Submitted by @slashdotat
- barra
- whisky