Rose Wave
ROSE WAVE COLIN LAMBERT & PETER ADAMS, 2007 This sculpture honors the Gill Family rose nursery that operated during the late 19th to early 20th century in the area extending west from San...
- albany
- california
- bay area
- when it was learned
- had been use...
- rose nursery
- ocean view
Jefferson Memorial Building Dedication
This beautiful, three-dimensional plaque is mounted at the entrance of the Jefferson Memorial Building at 5700 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, Missouri. The building was designed by Isaac Taylor and...
- louisiana pu...
- 1904 world's fair
- st. louis
- forest park
- thomas jefferson
- louisiana purchase
- missouri his...
Village of Steinauer
Village of Steinauer Warnings to avoid "bloody Kansas" prompted the Steinauer brothers, Anton, Nicholas, and Joseph, to settle here in Pawnee County. They arrived in September, 1856, only...
- nebraska
- roadside marker
History of Union Pacific and Omaha
HISTORY OF UNION PACIFIC AND OMAHA The search for a transcontinental railroad route began in 1853, but regional partisanship between North and South prevented Congress from acting. In 1862,...
- railroad
- union pacific
- central pacific
- abraham lincoln
- golden spike
Pacific Northwest Totem
PACIFIC NORTHWEST TOTEM DUANE PASCO, CARVER EN FOKEGAVE FRA SEATTLE TIL BERGEN 900 - ARSJUBILUM 1970 10701869 Submitted by @caddickbrown
- totem pole
- pasco
- bergen
- norway
Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, defined under Virginia’s 1924 Racial Integrity Act as an interracial couple, married in June 1958 in Washington, D.C., and returned home to...
- richmond
- virginia
- aclu
- marriage
- interracial
The Black Sox Scandal
It was here at the Boston Hotel Buckminster on September 18, 1919, in one of the hotel's guest rooms that the Chicago White Sox first baseman Chick Gandil and bookmaker-gambler Joseph...
- boston
- massachusetts
- baseball
- crime
"In the Gentle Breeze"
Submitted by Bryan Arnold @nanowhiskers
The Blue Front Cafe
The Blue Front Cafe opened in 1948 under the ownership of Carey and Mary Holmes, and African American couple from Bentonia. In its heyday the Blue Front was famed for its buffalo fish, blues, and...
- mississippi
- blue front
- cafe
- 1948
- blues
The Little White House
Built in 1890 as quarters for Navy officers, the Little White House later was used by American Presidents William Howard Taft, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and...
1936 Seminole Conference
On February 22, 1936, this pine hammock was the site of a conference attended by about 275 Seminoles and several representatives of state and local governments. Florida's New Deal governor, David...
Ochopee Post Office
Considered to be the smallest post office in the United States, this building was formerly an irrigation pipe shed belonging to the J.T. Gaunt Company tomato farm. It´s was hurriedly pressed into...
War of 1898
ON THIS SITE THE CATHOLIC CONVENT OF THE HOLY NAMES OF JESUS AND MARY WAS LOCATED Members of the following military units were treated here during the War of 1898. REGULAR U.S. CAVALRY, THE...
Tavernier
What is today Tavenier was originally inhabited by the Calusa and Tequesta Native Americans. The Tequesta occupied the area around Biscayne Bay, while the Calusa inhabited Southwest Florida....
Tamiami Trail
THE TAMIAMI TRAIL LINKS THE TWO GREAT CITIES FOR WHICH IT WAS NAMED -- TAMPA AND MIAMI. IT BRIDGES THE EVERGLADES. TYING TOGETHER SOUTH FLORIDA´S ATLANTIC AND GULF COASTS. ITS OFFICIAL OPENING...
Federals Occupy Rocky Springs
FEDERALS OCCUPY ROCKY SPRINGS After U.S. Grant had planned much of his campaign at Mrs. Bagnell’s, four miles west, he arrived at Rocky Springs on May 7. He remained until May 10, allowing the...
Charles Darwin
Attached to the wall in the doorway of the Gardner's Inn pub. Plaque reads: Charles Darwin In January 1836 a young distinguished English naturalist by the name of Charles Darwin, arrived at Sydney...
- charles darwin
- nsw
- australia
Charles George Gordon
Apparently Charlton Heston played him in the movie Khartoum and there is a twin statue in Trafalgar Square in London that was removed and then placed elsewhere at the behest of Churchill....
- military
- statue
- war
- crimea
- khartoum
- melbourne
- australia
Improved by Works Progress Aministration 1937 - 1938
- berkeley
- california
- bay area
- malcolm x
Bush Pilots Airways
In the departure lounge at Cairns airport Plaque reads: 'Bush Pilots Airways (Air Queensland) This airline ceased operating in 1988, having given 37 years of service to the communities of...
- airport
- airline
- queensland
- australia
- pilots