Madam C.J. Walker and Helen Gould: Advocates of Women's Economic Independence

Featherstone's Brigade

Gift of the Orinda Garden Club

Burton, Ohio

BURTON, OHIO First Permanent Settlement in Geauga County in 1796, surveyors for the Connecticut Land Company designated an area five miles square surrounding this place as Range 7, Township 7...

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The Village Green

THE VILLAGE GREEN In early Connecticut villages, the Village Green was surrounded by churches, the town hall, and prominent houses. The green was the common land to be used by the people of...

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ALBERT PARK

ALBERT PARK ESTABLISHED 1931 BY ALFRED LEFEVRE IN HONOR OF HIS SON ALBERT Submitted by Kevin Dalum

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Cleveland Grays (back of marker)

CLEVELAND GRAYS (Continued from other side) Assigned to the Western Front, the Grays would see action in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of 1918. World War I was the last active service of...

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Cleveland Grays

CLEVELAND GRAYS The Cleveland Grays were organized by statute in 1837 as an independent volunteer militia company. The Grays were the first company to leave Cleveland for service during the...

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In Loving Memory of Our City of Berkeley Colleagues

Paul D. Hileman Jr

Duke Paoa Kahanamoku

Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole

Post Dispatch Lake - 1894

The economic panic of 1893 hit St. Louis hard. Joseph Pulitzer’s Post Dispatch, then 15 years old, offered a day’s wages to anyone willing to help dig this lake. Some 20,000 men excavated...