BARBARY COAST TRAIL This Plaque Sponsored By Hyatt Hotels - San Francisco
PIER 39 WALKER & MOODY A.I.A. ARCHITECTS JOHNSON * GUTHRIE * ASSOCIATES LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 1978 OPENED ON OCTOBER 4, 1978 11:30 A.M. THROUGH THE UNTIRING EFFORTS OF JOHN E. "BAGGY"...
BARBARY COAST TRAIL This Plaque In Honor Of The Greatest Mom Maggie May Kim Cheung
This plaque is on the mansion property as you walk from the upper parking lot to the front door. THE WADSWORTH MANSION Middletown's most palatial "Gilded Age" estate, the Long Hill mansion...
"I WAS BORN BY A GOLDEN RIVER AND IN THE SHADOW OF TOW GREAT HILLS, FIVE YEARS AFTER THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION" BIRTHPLACE OF W.E.B DUBOIS (1868-1963) PREMIER ARCHITECT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL...
Grant Wood's largest murals are located in Iowa State's Parks Library. Wood, best known for his painting American Gothic that depicts a stoic farm couple, was commissioned by Iowa State in...
Iowa started an education revolution as the first state to accept the 1862 Morrill Act terms. The act allowed Iowa to sell federal land to finance a new college open to all regardless of...
ELLWOOD OIL FIELDS The First Oil Well of the Ellwood Oil Field Was Brough in 1000 feet South of this Spot in 1928 by the Barnsdall-Rio Grande Oil Company. It Was Referred to as Luton-Bell...
In 1942, a group of Iowa State scientists led by professors Frank Spedding and Harley Wilhelm developed the process to produce highly pure uranium. More than 2,000,000 pounds of uranium were...
The world's first electronic digital computer was built on the Iowa State campus from 1939 through 1942 by John V. Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics, and Clifford Berry,...
The first agricultural engineering degree in the world was granted at Iowa State University in 1910. J. Brownlee Davidson led the development of the discipline which applied engineering...
In 1971, Iowa State electrical engineering doctoral student David Nicholas invented a process to more efficiently convert text into digital information. Facsimile machine manufacturers adopted the...