Site of the Eudora settlement’s first business district. After a ferry across Bayou Macon was established in 1846, Cariola Landing was accessible to Arkansas Communities to the west...
Ida B. Wells 1862 - 1931 Ida B. Wells crusaded against lynchings in Memphis and the South. In 1892 while editor of the Memphis Free Speech, located in this vicinity, she wrote of the lynching of...
John A Roebling (1806-1869), pioneer civil engineer, was the designer and builder of the Covington-Cincinnati Suspension Bridge which was completed in 1866. It served as the prototype...
Benjamin Franklin Booth 1858 - 1941 Benjamin F. Booth was one of Memphis' earliest and most distinguished African-American lawyers. Starting in 1886, he practiced law for more than 54 years. In...
Hooks Brothers Photography Established In 1907 Established by Henry A. Hooks, Sr. and his brother Robert B. Hooks, Hooks Brothers Photography Studio was the second oldest continuously operating...
[Location approximate] Submitted by @jonaskayla.
O.E.S. Birthplace Here in 1849, Robert Morris, Mason, schoolmaster, began movement that resulted in creation of the Order of the Eastern Star. Schoolhouse has also housed Masons and Co. C...
On October 18, 1863, a union task force of 85 soldiers found the "Scottish Chief" and "Kate Dale" celebrated blockade runners, hidden in a remote anchorage in the Hillsborough River, near this...
Submitted by BrandWriter
LEONARD COHEN POET, NOVELIST, SINGER-SONGWRITER "I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel..." FROM THE SONG "CHELSEA HOTEL #2", 1974 PRESENTED TO COMMEMORATE HIS 75TH BIRTHDAY BY MEMBERS OF...
A road (with a freewill donation of $1) leads up to the base of the statue, where one may view the surrounding terrain for a distance of several miles. A brochure available at the nearby...
On the bridge between Mount Holyoke College lakes Submitted by SvenAas
IN MEMORY OF EAST BRIDGEWATER NATIVE CRAIG J. MILLER, MASTER SPECIAL OFFICER UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE. CRAIG DIED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 WHEN TERRORISTS ATTACKED THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW...
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MONUMENTAL STONE SPHERE PRE COLUMBIAN PERIOD DIQUIS DELTA, COSTA RICA Submitted by nielsbradshaw