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1870's Ranch Shed

    Tiburon Tommie's

      McNeil's Pioneer Boathouse 1886

        One of the Shortest Main Streets

          Edward G. Zelinsky

            Tiburon Was a Railroad Town

              Shoreline Park

                Given to the City of Tiberon by the Corinthian Yacht Club April 27, 1969

                  Sgt. Thomas Henry Skelton

                  IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND  1331635 SGT. TOHOMAS HENRY SKELTON.  AGED 19 YEARS. WHO FLEW FROM LANGAR  AIRFIELD ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 13th 1943  TO GERMANY AND NEVER RETURNED  ALSO TO ALL MEMBERS...

                  IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND  1331635 SGT. TOHOMAS HENRY SKELTON.  AGED 19 YEARS. WHO FLEW FROM LANGAR  AIRFIELD ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 13th 1943  TO GERMANY AND NEVER RETURNED  ALSO TO ALL MEMBERS...

                    Bristol Shogomoc Railway Site

                    Submitted by @CorenskiNowlan

                    Submitted by @CorenskiNowlan

                      The Heritage House

                      Submitted by @jqmcd

                      Submitted by @jqmcd

                        Bristol & South Wales Union

                        Submitted by @theonlymfkirke [Location approximate]

                        Submitted by @theonlymfkirke [Location approximate]

                        • bristol

                        The Fourteenth Army 1942 - 1945

                        Submitted by @theonlymfkirke.

                        Submitted by @theonlymfkirke.

                        • bristol

                        UK Rail Speed Record

                        Submitted by @miniadvent

                        Submitted by @miniadvent

                          People Who Like This Sort of Thing Will Find This The Sort of Thing They Like

                          • lincoln

                          Moon Tree - Planted in April 1976

                          This "Moon Tree” is a Loblolly Pine grown from a seed that, in January 1971 was carried to the Moon and brought back to Earth by Major Stuart Roosa, command module pilot for Apollo XIV and a...

                          This "Moon Tree” is a Loblolly Pine grown from a seed that, in January 1971 was carried to the Moon and brought back to Earth by Major Stuart Roosa, command module pilot for Apollo XIV and a...

                          • louisiana
                          • moon tree
                          • 1971
                          • moon
                          • apollo
                          • loblolly pine

                          Christian Science Historical Marker

                          Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. This church is one of the many world wide branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,...

                          Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. This church is one of the many world wide branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in...

                          • religion
                          • louisiana

                          Cavanaugh Hall of Science

                          The Cavanaugh Hall of Science bears the name of Charles J. Cavanaugh, whose teaching career spanned 1945 to 1977 as professor of biology at his alma mater, Louisiana College. Prof Cavanaugh, as he...

                          The Cavanaugh Hall of Science bears the name of Charles J. Cavanaugh, whose teaching career spanned 1945 to 1977 as professor of biology at his alma mater, Louisiana College. Prof Cavanaugh, as he...

                          • louisiana
                          • science

                          Alexandria National Cemetery

                          Civil War AlexandriaAlexandria, Louisiana, served briefly of the Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi, as the headquarters a vast area encompassing states and territories west of the...

                          Civil War AlexandriaAlexandria, Louisiana, served briefly of the Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi, as the headquarters a vast area encompassing states and territories west of...

                          • louisiana
                          • cemetery

                          Wallace J. Thibodaux

                          *Born in Lafourche Parish on the estate of his father, Henry J. Thibodaux, on December 18, 1880 at Bayou Blue.*Inherited his father's estate who was a descendant of Henry Schyler Thibodaux, the...

                          *Born in Lafourche Parish on the estate of his father, Henry J. Thibodaux, on December 18, 1880 at Bayou Blue.*Inherited his father's estate who was a descendant of Henry Schyler Thibodaux,...

                          • louisiana