Lake Pontchartrain
Lake Pontchartrain --- . --- Traveled on by Iberville, 1699 and named for the French Minister of Marine. Indians called it Okwa-ta,wide water. First port of embarka-tion was at the site...
- lake pontchartrain
- louisiana
- 1699
- new orleans
William Rhett House
10 4 WILLIAM RHETT HOUSE This house, built ca. 1712 is belived to be one of the oldest houses in Charleston. It was built for William Rhett (1666 - 1723), a merchant, sea captain, militia...
- charleston
- south carolina
- rhett
- house
- steed bonnet
1871 Water Well Memorial
1871 Water Well Memorial Santa Fe engineers were surveying and platting the Newton town site on Section 17 in March 1871. Captain David L. Payne, state legislator from the district, and other...
- newton
- kansas
- water well
- harvey county
Milligan Ohio's Icebox
MILLIGAN OHIO'S ICEBOX On February 10, 1899, a United States Weather Bureau Station, operated by Steve Eyeland, in the small hamlet of Milligan, Ohio, now part of McLuney, reported a...
- ohio
- milligan
- icebox
- cold
First USA-Lithuania Transatlantic Flight
Commemorating The First U.S.A.-Lithuania Transatlantic Flight By Capt. Steponias Darius & Lt. Stasys Girenas July 15-17, 1933 Chicago - New York - Kaunas * * * * * Dedicated on the 60th...
- chicago
- midway airport
- mdw
- illinois
- transatlantic flight
- usa
- lithuania
- 1933
- a concourse
Buzz Aldrin's Childhood Home
- moon
- buzz
- aldrin
- new jersey
Great Divide
Came upon this unassuming marker by the roadside near West Bend, WI: Wisconsin Official Marker "Great Divide You are now on the great divide which separates the two principal drainage areas of...
- wisconsin
- great divide
- watershed
- great lakes
- mississippi
Watergate Investigation
The parking garage where Bob Woodward met Deep Throat.
- watergate
- nixon
- deepthroat
Pizza Hut Number One
The Original Pizza Hut. As heard on episode 103 of 99PI.
- pizza
- hut
- toph
- utbaph
Chinese Massacre of 1871
Details here and here. "Chinese Massacre Chinese immigrants established their first community in Los Angeles in what is now part of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument. By 1870 about...
- los angeles
- california
- massacre
Nahargarh Fort
Nahargarh Fort stands on the edge of the Aravalli Hills, overlooking the pink city of Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The view of the city from the fort is impressive. —Wikipedia
- fort
- india
Browns Valley Man
- minnesota
Geronimo
"GERONIMO NAMED FOR THE REBELLIOUS MEDICINEMAN WHO LED THE CHIRICUHUA APACHESON THEIR LAST RAIDS, TO SURRENDER,AND THEN INTO EXILE IN FLORIDA AND OKLAHOMA. THEIR DESCENDANTS LIVED IN...
- native american
- geronimo
- arizona
- graham county
- southwest
- apache
Stood Until it was Ruined by a Cyclone
FOURTH AVENUECHURCH OF CHRIST----In 1833, a congregation of seventeen Christians was organized in Franklin following preaching by Tolbert Fanning.
- church
- franklin
- tennesee
Rocket
This has to be one of my favourite plaques. Not only is it attached to a Rocket Slide – in itself, awesome – but the most awesomest thing about the plaque is that it mentions everybody by...
- playground
- memorial
- rocketship
This Neighbourhood of Victoria Where She Died
Birthplace and home of Emily Carr, a British Columbian artist. "EMILY CARR 1871 - 1945 Artist and author Emily Carr was born here and lived most of her life in this neighbourhood of Victoria where...
- british columbia
- victoria
- painting
- neighbourhood
Burnham Mall
The Burnham MallThe Group Plan of 1903 "Make no little plans. They have no magic tostir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans: aim high in hope and work....
- cleveland
- plans
- ohio
- mall
Wild Oats Underdone Asparagas Boil
This semi-mysterious but very official-looking plaque located near the corner of 10th and Wood in West Oakland proclaims the following: "On or near this site in June 1968 more or less was staged...
- marker
- west oakland
- bay area
- 1968
- wild
- oats
- boil
- california
- food
- asparagus
Fallen Astronaut Memorial
Referred to as “the first art installation on the Moon” by CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, the Fallen Astronaut sculpture and its associated plaque, were placed secretly on the moon by...
- moon
- apollo
- apollo 15
- astronaut
Chicago Barmaids Ordinance
During the 1960's Chicago's 'Barmaids Ordinance' prohibited women, unrelated to the owner, From tending bar in Chicago. In 1970, the owners of this establishment hired airline Stewardesses to tend...
- chicago
- illinois
- division street
- division str...
- she-nannigans
- barmaids ordinance