GRISSOM HALL NAMED IN HONOR OF VIRGIL I. GRISSOM, LIEUTENANT COLONEL, U.S.A.F., ENGINEER, PILOT, AND TRAILBLAZER OF SPACE. HIS DEATH ON JANUARY 27, 1967, WAS THE TRAGICALLY HIGH PRICE HIS NATION...
This tree planted in memory of Herman Smith Sept. 17, 1949 - Feb. 3,1965. A good friend and classmate. Washington School Class of 1965
The Forty-Niners Near this point ten Lafayette Freemasons, operating as traveling Sierra Nevada Lodge, embarked March 27, 1849 on six months' journey by boat to Mexico, then overland to Pacific,...
PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB America's oldest artists club was founded in 1860 to improve illustration skills. Artists found that social interaction enhanced the creation and appreciation of...
Dedicated to U.S. AIRMAIL PIONEERS1918 - 1927 During the first decade of transcontinental airmail, pilots flew over the Alleghenies with a fueling stop in Bellefonte. Unpredictable...
Gino P. Fornicola Memorial Fountain In memory of Gino P. Fornicola, family man, business owner and public servant. Gino was an ARMY Veteran of the Korean War who served on...
WILLIAM BYRON RUMFORD 1908 - 1986 CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLYMAN 1948 - 1967 RUMFORD CALIFORNIA FAIR HOUSING ACT, 1963 PHARMACIST * COMMUNITY LEADER * POLITICIAN ENVIRONMENTALIST * PUBLIC...
Camp Tippecanoe 1861-1865 May, 1861, saw this high 30-acre bluff overlooking Lafayette quickly become an induction center for enlistees in the Civil War until its end in 1865. Ample water, good...
Mighty and far-reaching firepower
A commemorative bench was unveiled in their memory last September in the Rose Garden of University College Dublin’s Belfield campus, where three of them had studied. In MemoryBerkeley,...
The Berkeley City Council began seeking funding for a bicycle/pedestrian bridge over the freeway in 1993 and approved the final design in 2000. This Overcrossing uses a graceful arch span to link...
SYDNEY G. WALTON - 1901-1960 SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS AND CULTURAL LEADER WHOSE INSPIRATION AND LEADERSHIP AS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY WAS...
THE SHOOTING OF THADDEUS PURDY IN THE FALL OF 1853 A MINER KNOWN AS "MUNTZ" KNIFED AND FATALLY WOUNDED "BALTIMORE JACK" OVER A GAME OF CARDS IN FOREST CITY. MUNTZ WAS...