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Douglass-Hines Building Bricks

Submitted by Sheila Paske

• placerville
• fire
• 1856
• bricks
• fountain
• milton
• iron door
• gold rush

Emigrant Jane

EMIGRANT JAME DROVE A BAND OF HORSES ACROSS THE PLAINS AND FROM THE PROCEEDS OF THEIR SALE SHE ERECTED THIS BUILDING IN 1861PLACED BY THE MARGUERITE PARLOR NO - 12 NATIVE DAUGHTERS OF THE GOLDEN...

• placerville
• jane
• horses
• plains

Withstood the Fire of 1856

THIS BUILDING ERECTED IN 1852WITHSTOOD THE FIRE OF 1856 DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE PIONEERSBY MARGUERITE PARLOR NO 12[?]N.D.G.W. Submitted by Sheila Paske.

• placerville
• fire
• 1856
• pioneers

Federal Land Bank

FEDERAL LAND BANK James W. Plachck, Architect, 1938ELS Architects, 1999 The Farm Credit Administration built this structure to house federal agricultural banking and financial agencies. including...

• berkeley
• california
• bay area
• bank
• city hall

Armstrong College Building

ARMSTRONG COLLEGE BUILDING Walter H. Ratcliff, Jr..Architect  1923   “TO INCULCATE THE HIGHEST STANDARDS AND IDEALS IN BUSINESS." That lofty aim, incised high on the facade of this...

• berkeley
• california
• bay area
• dharma
• penmanship

Casa de Moneda

• moneda
• potosi
• bolivia

The Henderson Paddle Wheel

Submitted by Debby Drake.

• hood river
• oregon
• paddle wheel
• wwi
• wood steamer
• astoria

Of Whom Were Shining Examples

ERECTED BY FRANCIS JAMES EVERY AS A TRIBUTE TO ALL GOOD MOTHERS OF WHOM MY WIFE -- EMMA JANE EVERY AND MY MOTHER -- MARY E. EVERY WERE SHINING EXAMPLES 1953  Submitted by @mvyrmnd

• 99pi
• challenge coin
• mothers
• every
• shining
• bendigo
• australia

Great Indian Warrior Trading Path

GREAT INDIAN WARRIOR TRADING PATH  The most heavily traveled road in Colonial American passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal...

• lancaster
• pennsylvania
• indian
• warrior
• path

A Dedication

  Submitted by @TBuckwalterLNP 

• lancaster
• pennsylvania
• indian
• warrior
• path

Cataldo Mission

Submitted by Debby Drake.

• cataldo
• idaho
• mission
• coeur d'alene
• lawrence
• almquist

Sunshine Mining Company

Submitted by Debby Drake. [Location approximate]

• silver valley
• idaho
• miing
• coeur d'alene
• sunshine

1910 Firefighters Memorial

Submitted by Debby Drake.   [Location approximate]

• wallace
• idaho
• fire
• 1910
• firefighters

Wallace, Idaho

FOUNDED AS A MINING TOWN IN 1884, WALLACE BECAME A RAILROAD CENTER IN 1887 AND SHOSHONE COUNTY SEAT IN 1898. Rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1890, Wallace has preserved its pioneer mining...

• wallace
• idaho
• 1890
• 1920
• fire
• railway

Kellogg's Jackass

Kellogg's Jackass With a grubstake of one jackass and $18.75 worth of flour, bacon, and beans, Noah Kellogg came here prospecting in 1855. Not far from here, his jackass strayed away....

• kellogg
• jackass
• noah
• wardener
• bunker hill mine
• lead
• silver
• zinc

Pennsylvania Medical Society

Submitted by @TBuckwalterLNP 

• lancaster
• pennsylvania
• methodist
• episcopal
• medical
• hume

Lancaster County

• lancaster
• pennsylvania
• chester
• rich farmland
• ethnic diversity

Rock Ford

ROCK FORD-- * --Name of the Colonial mansion of Edward Hand, Adjutant General of the Continental Army, and notable Lancaster physician. George Washington was entertained here in 1791. The old...

• lancaster
• pennsylvania
• rock
• rod
• hand
• army
• washington

Hap Magee Ranch Park

Hap Magee Ranch Park is located on the former property of Camp Swain, established as a warm place for the children of the San Francisco Protestant Orphanage Asylum to go to escape San Francisco's...

• orphanage
• park
• bay area
• san francisco
• asylvm
• tasker swain
• 1874
• 1918
• water fountain
• drinking fountains
• brick effigy
• hap magee

Tom Paines Cottage

Tom Paines Cottage c.1759 Author of "Rights of Man" Inspired the American Declaration of Independence   Tom Paine is one of the founding fathers of the United States.