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Bruce King

    Jamestown Architectural Heritage - Beaux Arts

      Icaria-Speranza Utopian Colony

      • icarian

      Union Station Timeline

        Lake View House

          The Ranch House

            Home of William J. Maddox

              Gottenburg's Garage, 1910

                9/11 Memorial, Cloverdale

                  Red Mountain Pass Memorial

                    Cedar Hill and Glade Arch

                      The Brig "Visiter"

                      On the 18th January 1881 the Brig “VISITER” ran ashore in Robin Hood's Bay. No local boat could be launched on accountof the violence of the storm, so the Whitby lifeboat was brought...

                      • rescue
                      • lifeboat
                      • memorial

                      Paul A. Berger Memorial Gym

                        Denise Stanley Stenberg

                          Birthplace of Columbia University

                          Birthplace of Columbia University In 1752 Trinity Church gave a grant of land for a new college. On July 17, 1754 the first class of King's Colleg, which was to become Columbia University, met...

                          • columbia university
                          • trinity church
                          • king's college
                          • ivy league