Point of Discovery
POINT OF DISCOVERY ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI IS THE MOUTH OF THE WISCONSIN RIVER. THIS IS THE POINT WHERE ON JUNE 17, 1673, PERE MARQUETTE AND LOUIS JOLIET IN TWO SMALL CANOES ENTERED...
- iowa
- pike's peak
- marquette
- joiet
- mississippi
- iowa soil
- 1673
The Old Military Road
THE OLD MILITARY ROAD FROM FORT HOWARD ON GREEN BAY TO FORT CRAWFORD AT PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, 1835 ERECTED BY THE MILITARY RIDGE CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Submitted by @Susannist
Antone School
Submitted by @jqmcd
- dublin
- pleasanton
- 1911
- antone
- schoolhouse
Southern Pacific Depot, Danville, California, 1891
- danville
- california
- depot
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
Canadian Club Movement
Plaque reads: Here The Canadian Club Movement Had It’s Beginning December Sixth 1892 ------- Erected by the Women’s Canadian Club of Hamilton – December Sixth 1913 This Plaque Erected...
Powers Crossing
POWERS CROSSING This embankment, the original site of the TH&B railway trestle bridge over Binkley Hollow, is part of an Ancaster Creek flood/erosion control project. The creek forms the...
Pigott Building
The Pigott Building, 36 James Street South, was Hamilton's first skyscraper. It was for decades an office building until its conversion to condo units. Plaque reads: City of Hamilton 1929...
Reggie Jackson
- oakland
- athletics
- coliseum
The Lone Shieling
From the lone shieling of the misty island, mountains divide us, and the waste of seas - Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides. This shieling...
Martin Luther King Jr. in Boston
This house, built in 1884, was home to Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1952-53 while he was enrolled in the Graduate School of Boston University. The building was rehabilitated in 1987 by the...
- martin luthe...
- boston university
- civil rights