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Machamux

• george washington
• burning by t...
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Catherine "Granny" Fraser

Submitted by @HistoryBoots

A Colorful Past

A Colorful Past During a 2019 renovation of this property, the brick was stripped to reveal 175+ years of paint shades and reconstruction. The paint colors represent original construction...

Darwin in Edinburg

Submitted by @NtlMuseumsScot

Glasgow Sherbet Municipal Works

THIS PLAQUE MARKS THE SITE OF THE OLD GLASGOW SHERBET MUNICIPAL WORKS ONE OF THE LEADING PRODUCERS OF SHERBET IN THE WORLD. DISASTER STRUCK IN AUGUST 1906 WHEN YOUNG BERT FLODDEN -A BOY ON A 3YR...

JOHN COUNT MCCORMACK

JOHN COUNT MCCORMACK World Famous Tenor 1884-1945

Detective Green B. Hamby

Salt Lake City Police Department Honoring Our Fallen Detective Green B. Hamby Killed in the Line of Duty February 8, 1921 Detective Hamby died after being shot by a burglary suspect across...

Davis Library

This historic Davis Library Building was moved in 1988 from its original site at 117 F Street, where the library served Davis from 1911 to 1968. It was the first Yolo County Public Library...

William Henry Foreman

[Location approximate] Submitted by @Ritterton

Conical Mound

Conical Mound0 - 400 A.D.This mound was constructed by people of a hunting and gathering culture who met periodically at ceremonial grounds like this one to bury their dead.Madison Landmarks Commission

• mound
• burial
• native
• madison
• yahara
• cherokee

Heritage Oak

In Commemoration of our nation's 200th birthday this "HERITAGE OAK" planted for the pleasure of future generations by Girl Scouts of North Portage

• heritage
• oak
• bicentennial
• girl scouts
• chicago
• portage park

Ralph Clark

RALPH CLARK, MANAGER AMADOR COUNTY FAIR 1978 - 2004 FOR 26 YEARS THE AMADOR COUNTY FAIR ENJOYED RALPH CLARK'S LEADERSHIP AS ITS CEO. HIS COMMITMENT TO THE BETTERMENT OF THE JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW...

The Compassion Bench

Submitted by @jqmcd

Eddie G. Robinson

Beginning in 1941, Eddie G. Robinson spent fifty- six years as head football coach at Grambling State University. He sent more than 200 players into the pros -four of which have been inducted into...

• louisiana
• african american
• football

Charles P. Adams - "The Founder"

 In 1901, the North Louisiana Colored Farmers Relief Association asked the Tuskegee Institute's Booker T. Washington to find a man capable of setting up an agricultural and industrial school in...

• louisiana
• african american
• education

Conrad "Hutch" Hutchinson, Jr - (October 25, 1919 - March 5, 1996)

Conrad Hutchinson Jr. arrived in Grambling in 1952 and had a plan to make the Grambling College Marching Band the "Best Band In the Land". It didn't happen overnight and it certainly wasn't easy,...

• louisiana
• african american
• education
• marching band
• music

Paul "Tank" Younger

Paul "Tank" Younger, a Grambling, Louisiana native, played college football at Grambling State University and was the first player from a historically black university to play...

• louisiana
• african american
• sports
• football
• hbcu

Battle of Calcasieu Pass

Near this spot Confederate soldiers under the command of Col. W.H. Griffin captured the Union gunboats Wave and Granite City in the Battle of Calcasieu Pass, Cameron, Louisiana, on May 6, 1864....

• louisiana
• civil war
• cameron parish
• calcasieu

Ellwood-Craig House (Pompeiian Villa)

Built in 1900 as the winter home of Isaac L. Ellwood (1833-1910), principal developer of barbed wire. Architects G. C. Nimmons and W. K. Fellows, of Chicago, designed the house in a...

• texas
• landmark
• historic home

Sparks Settlement Cemetery

John and Melinda Sparks and their family came to southeast Texas from Tennessee in 1838. They settled on the Jeremiah Mixon headright on Lake Sabine and later set aside land for a family burial...

• texas
• cemetery