Jonathan Jasper Wright Law Office

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...