Webster House
WEBSTER HOUSE THIS HOME BUILT IN 1854 FOR JOHN NELSON WEBSTER AND CAROLINE WEBSTER IS ALAMEDA’S OLDEST HOUSE. THE HOUSE IS A PRIMARY EXAMPLE OF GOTHIC REVIVAL ARCHITECTURE BY RENOWNED...
- alameda
- california
- bay area
- webster
- redwood
- cape horn
Samuel Whittemore
NEAR THIS SPOT SAMUEL WHITTEMORE THEN 80 YEARS OLD, KILLED THREE BRITISH SOLDIERS, APRIL 19, 1775. HE WAS SHOT, BAYONETED, BEATEN AND LEFT FOR DEAD, BUT RECOVERED AND LIVED TO BE 98 YEARS...
- revolutionary war
- arlington
- massachusetts
Occupied by Both Forces in the Revolutionary War
Submitted by @mb.
- cherry hill
- new jersey
- revolutionary war
- lafayette
- pulaski
- todo
Stephen Tyng Mather - Crater Lake
"Stephen Tyng Mather July 4, 1867 - Jan 22, 1930 He laid the foundations of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved...
- national park
- crater lake
- park service
- conservation
- mather
BrUNSWICK FLAT
BrUNSWICK FLAT1502-06 MINER STREETThis building was constructed in two phases, the west portion completed in 1880 and the east section the following year. Peter Miess named the...
- brunswick
- red light
- police
- idaho springs
- colorado
- cornish
- sawtooth
- barber
- miner
Bevier House
BEVIER HOUSE BUILT BY LOUIS BEVIER, THE PATENTEEE, IN 1689. ELTING HOMESTEAD FROM 1740. THIS HOUSE HAS AN INTERESTING SUB-CELLAR Submitted by @aljachimiak .
- bevier
- new york
- sub-cellar
- elting
- homestead
Norumbega Tower
Submitted by RoadTripNE
- weston
- massachusetts
- tower
- breton
- leif erikson
Site of Giant Powder Company
SITE OF GIANT POWDER COMPANY PT. PINOLE IS THE LAST SITE OF THE GIANT POWDER COMPANY, THE FIRST COMPANY IN AMERICA TO PRODUCE DYNAMITE. FOLLOWING DEVASTATING EXPLOSIONS AT THEIR SAN FRANCISCO...
- richmod
- croatian
- sobrante
- devastating ...
- first compan...
Birthplace of the American League
BIRTHPLACE OF THE AMERICAN LEAGUE The Republican House, a hotel that stood on this site from 1886 to 1961, was the birthplace of baseball’s American League. On the night of March 5, 1900,...
- baseball
- american
- in defiance of
- white stockings
- white sox
- milwaukee
- wisconsin
Kilbourntown
KILBOURNTOWN In this vicinity, Kilbourntown, one of three original Milwaukee settlements, was founded by surveyor and land speculator Byron Kilbourn in 1835. Kilbourntown’s first residents were...
- milwaukee
- german
- speculators
- had substant...
FATHER MARQUETTE'S CAMP - 1674
FATHER MARQUETTE'S CAMP - 1674 Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit missionary who with Sieur Louis Jolliet dis-covered and first explored the upper Mississippi in 1673, stayed on this...
- wisconsin
- marquette
- mission
- mississippi
Charles II drank here
![CHARLES 11 [sic] ON HIS RIDE TO THE COAST AFTER THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER, STOPPED TO TAKE ALE AT THIS INN. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14TH 1651.](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_W3A5YrR62fV4taLSLxJZUqbokJIaUEGDt3bIy3gCnjMPcG71g6NKF3VqCUcy8W-ghyuKS6CWh1Jqs7TVdDw9ca-et45)
CHARLES 11 [sic] ON HIS RIDE TO THE COAST AFTER THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER, STOPPED TO TAKE ALE AT THIS INN. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14TH 1651.
- monarch
- english civil war
- pub
- ale
- england
William Hutchinson's Grant
1630 - 1930 WILLIAM HUTCHINSON'S GRANT IN WILLIAM HUTCHINSON'S HOUSE NEAR THIS SPOT HIS WIFE ANNE TARRIED ON HER WAY TO RHODE ISLAND, EXILED FROM MASSACHUSETTS BY THE GENERAL COURT IN APRIL,...
- wollaston
- quincy
- massachusetts
- south shore
Farmers Institute Academy
Farmers Institute Academy Opened in 1851, this was the first school of higher learning in rural Tippecanoe County built by the Society of Friends (Quakers) of this neighborhood....
- farmers inst...
- society of friends
- quakers
- tippecanoe county
- indiana
- meeting house
- education
Gumeracha Time Capsule
A time capsule was buried here on the 23rd November, 1986 by the Lions Club of Torrens Valley for the citizens of Gumeracha and district to commemorate the state's 150th Jubilee. Retrieval of the...
- time capsule
- town hall
- centennial
- jubilee
- rural
- small town