BAXTER'S CURVE TRAIN ROBBERY IN THE EARLY HOURS OF MARCH 13, 1912, BEN KILPATRICK, A FORMER SIDEKICK OF BUTCH CASSIDY AND SUNDANCE KID, AND OLE HOBEK ATTEMPTED ONE OF THE LAST MAJOR...
Submitted by Ben Becker
The Earth scientist J. Tuzo Wilson (1908-1993), a key contributor to the theory of plate tectonics, was director general of the Ontario Science Centre from 1974 to 1985. Le spécialiste des...
Submitted by nealjennings
This is a companion plaque to the one beside Trim, Matthew Flinders' Intrepid Cat (https://readtheplaque.com/plaque/trim-matthew- flinders-intrepid-cat ), outside the State Gallery of New South...
Submitted by @_marty_k
About dark on May 1, 1863, Gen. W. E. Baldwin's Confederates retreated through Port Gibson. After crossing the suspension bridge over Little Bayou Pierre, the Confederates set it afire. On...
Following the arrival of Presbyterian missionaries in 1801, Joseph Bullen and James Smylie organized the Bayou Pierre Church at this site in 1807. After part of the congregation formed the...
Confederate Gen. Martin E. Green on the afternoon of April 30, 1863, posted his brigade near Magnolia Church, with an outpost here. Shortly after midnight. Green rode forward to check on...
Leon Olson loved to walk here.https://oaklandwiki.org/Leon_Olson
Submitted by @beckerben
ABIGAIL ADAMS BIRTHPLACE ABIGAIL SMITH ADAMS, THE WIFE OF JOHN ADAMS, 2ND PRESIDENT, AND MOTHER OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, 6TH PRESIDENT, WAS BORN HERE IN 1744. Submitted by @MaryAnnHogan525
TRINITY CHURCH Episcopal services on Mackinac Island date from 1837, when a Bishop preached in the Mission Church. For many years the congregation met in the post Chapel at Fort Mackinac and in...