Plaque accompanying the statue of Saint Louis outside of the St. Louis Art Museum. submitted by: Sam Davis
Submitted by Ed Brimer
This plaque is at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in Grantwood Village, MO, a close-by suburb of St. Louis. It honors the homestead that is still intact that President Grant lived...
General Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army said of Wittenmyer, “No soldier on the firing line gave more heroic service than she did.”Sarah Ann Turner (Annie) was born in Sandy Springs,...
Former slave and celebrated abolitionist, Charlotta Pyles was an outspoken critic of slavery. She was born a slave in Kentucky in 1804. Her father was a mixture of German and African American...
Industrialist and philanthropist, John Carl Hubinger was born in New Orleans in 1851, the first of eight children. The family moved north when J.C. was four, living in Kentucky and Indiana before...
Chief Keokuk was born in 1780 near the present location of Rock Island, Illinois. His tribe, the Sauk Indians, joined with the remnants of the Mesquakie tribe (or Fox Indians) to form a community...
Elsa Maxwell was born May 24, 1883 in Keokuk, Iowa – it is said she was born in a theater during the opera Mignon. She was raised in San Francisco, California where her father sold insurance and...
Conrad Nagel was born in Keokuk, Iowa on March 16, 1897. The son of Frank, a musician, and Frances, a talented singer, it is no surprise Nagel grew up to be a famous silent and sound movie star....
Felix and Jean Hughes moved with their three super achieving children to Keokuk in 1879. Felix served as Mayor, President of the Keokuk and Western Railroad and was a Supreme Court Justice....
Debs (1855-1926) was leading pioneer in industrial unionism, social reformer, and peace advocate. Founded American Railway Union, 1893; cofounded American Socialist Party, 1900; and ran five...
In memory of the 21 persons who perished in an explosion of The National Guard Armory on this site on Thanksgiving eve Nov. 24, 1965, while attending a square dance of The Swing-Ezy Square Dance Club.
Plaque describes what may be possibly the oldest Sassafras tree on the planet.
Pogue's Run Tunnel Pogue's Run once flowed through downtown Indianapolis above the ground. In 1914, the city built a box culvert to bury the stream from New York Street to the White River....
Birthplace of Ernest Hemingway July 21, 1899 The historical society of Oak Park and River Forest 1974
Mannheim Community: Once a busy commercial area.Railroad Station 1872Post Office 1874St. Paul’s Church 1903First Bridge built 1914
ON THE AFTERNOON OF AUG. 8. 2004, AT THIS VERY LOCATION, THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND TOUR BUS EMPTIED THE SEPTIC TANK OVER THE CHICAGO RIVER, DRENCHING PASSENGERS ON A BOAT TOUR WITH 800 POUNDS OF...
A plaque accompanying a statue of Thomas Munster, a Vincentian priest.Transcription: Father Thomas Munster, 1922-2007, Vincentian PriestBorn, Raised and Lived in SheffieldA Founder and Past...
This is a plaque commemorating DePaul Academy, an all-boys high school that ran from 1898 until 1968 on the site of what's now Byrne Hall at DePaul University. The academy was a feeder school...