Charles Croswell helped his guardian and uncle, Daniel Hicks, build this Greek Revival house. He and his first wife, Lucy Eddy, bought the 1840s building from his uncle’s estate in 1853. The house...
SITE OF THE FIRST YOLO COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY BRANCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY CITIZENS FINANCED THE LOT PURCHASE AND BUILDING CONSTRUCTION FOR THE DAVIS LIBRARY, WHICH SERVED DAVIS AT THIS LOCATION ...
F. D. Chase Building William Wharff, Architect, 1909 Renovated by Jim Novosel, The Bay Architects, 2001 During Berkeley’s early 20th Century development boom, the F.D. Chase Real...
Alex Alexander 1924-1993 Alexander spent his entire working life at Naval Supply Center, Oakland. Symbolic of the many dedicated civilians who worked on the base, Alex inspired others through...
For centuries this region has been the home of Ottawa Indians, whose warriors and orators fought bravely to retain their land. Around 1700 a mission was built by French Jesuits at the...
In 1850 Joseph Hackley came to Michigan from Wisconsin to serve as superintendent of construction for the Durkee, Truesdell and Company sawmill. In 1860 he purchased this house, built in 1857....
From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by Gerry Dincher, full page.License is Attribution- ShareAlike License
Dirk Dirksen SHUT UP. YOU ANIMALS Dirk Dirksen (1937 -2006), ringmaster of the circusof the creatively inspired and the willfully deranged,presided as Pope of Punk over nightly excursionsinto...
The invention of Coca Cola Submitted by @malgorzatar