St. John's Historic Cemetery
Once part of Ridgefield Plantation, the land for the Church and Cemetery fronted on the Terrebonne Road - now Jackson Street - connecting Bayous Lafourche and Terrebonne. An entire block...
- louisiana
- cemetery
- thibodaux
- lafourche parish
J.C. Hubinger
Industrialist and philanthropist, John Carl Hubinger was born in New Orleans in 1851, the first of eight children. The family moved north when J.C. was four, living in Kentucky and Indiana before...
- iowa
- keokuk
- industry
The Heritage Monument
This monument honors the brave service and sacrifices of all African-American Veterans and their families from Louisiana and nationwide. It begins with the 1863 Siege at Port Hudson, Louisiana,...
- louisiana
- african american
- veteran memorial
Louisiana Veterans Memorial Park 'Never Forget Garden'
Dedicated November 11, 2021In commemoration of the centennial ofthe Tomb of the Unknown SoldierA Statewide Volunteer Project byLouisiana Garden Club Federation, Inc.Louisiana Members of...
- louisiana
- veteran memorial
Chief Keokuk
Chief Keokuk was born in 1780 near the present location of Rock Island, Illinois. His tribe, the Sauk Indians, joined with the remnants of the Mesquakie tribe (or Fox Indians) to form a community...
- iowa
- keokuk
- native american
The Hughes Family
Felix and Jean Hughes moved with their three super achieving children to Keokuk in 1879. Felix served as Mayor, President of the Keokuk and Western Railroad and was a Supreme Court Justice....
- iowa
- keokuk
- industrialists
Charlotta Gordon Pyles
Former slave and celebrated abolitionist, Charlotta Pyles was an outspoken critic of slavery. She was born a slave in Kentucky in 1804. Her father was a mixture of German and African American...
- iowa
- native american
- abolition
Annie Wittenmter
General Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army said of Wittenmyer, “No soldier on the firing line gave more heroic service than she did.”Sarah Ann Turner (Annie) was born in Sandy Springs,...
- iowa
- keokuk
- civil war
- women
Brooklyn Heights Historic District / Brooklyn Historical Society
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS HISTORIC DISTRICT HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK THIS SITE POSSESSES NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE IN COMMEMORATING THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
- new york
- brooklyn
- brooklyn heights
- national par...
- 1965
- 1881
- 1991
Brooklyn Public Library Prospect Branch (Park Slope Branch)
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDED 1897 BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY PROSPECT BRANCH GIFT OF ANDREW CARNEGIE TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK A.D. 1904 CARNEGIE FUND COMMITTEE DAVID A. BOODY DANIEL...
- new york
- brooklyn
- park slope
- library
- brooklyn pub...
- 1897
- 1904
Thomas Demoss Wood
- semper in an...
Cornelis Lely statue dedication by Queen Juliana
My poor attempt at translating it follows: Cornelis Lely of Amsterdam As an engineer of the Zuiderze Association, he designed the closing and draining of the Zuiderzee (“South Sea”) for which he,...
- statue
- engineering
- netherlands
Tennessee Pass in Colorado
THIS MEMORIAL IS THE PROPERTY OF THE STATE OF COLORADO ______TENNESSEE PASSACROSS THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BETWEEN THEARKANSAS AND EAGLE RIVERSALTITUDE 10,424 FEETNAMED FROM THE TENNESSEE FORK OFTHE...
- highway 24
- leadville
- transportation
- colorado
- mountain passes
William C. Knapp Varied Industries Building
San Francisco Bay Area rapid Transit District Berkeley Station 1972
