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In Honor of Ezekiel (Zeke) Johnson

IN HONOR OF EZEKIEL (ZEKE) JOHNSON FIRST CUSTODIAN OF NATURAL BRIDGES NATIONAL MONUMENT 1923 TO 1941 THE BRIDGES, THEIR PROTECTION AND THE WINNING OF A PLACE FOR THEM IN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATURE...

• natural bridges
• national par...
• utah

Post Ouiatenon Site

Post Ouiatenon Site French and Indian Trade was significant in this area prior to 1700. To protect it Post Ouiatenon was established.  One Mile West Submitted by: Melissa McCurley

• post ouiatenon
• fort ouiatenon
• french and i...
• tippecanoe county
• west lafayette
• indiana

Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone

IN MEMORY OF HARLAN FISKE STONE 1872 - 1946 CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES RESIDENT OF THE TOWN GRADUATE OF AMHERST COLLEGE MEMBER OF ALPHA DELTA PHI FRATERNITY

• chief justice
• amherst
• stone
• alpha delta phi

Bernard DeVoto Memorial Grove

"In Memory of Bernard DeVoto 1897-1955 Conservationist and Historian of the West"

• nature
• naturalist
• devoto
• idaho

Peter Weaver Home

Peter Weaver Home An early settler in Tippecanoe County, Peter Weaver was one of the most widely and favorably known of all the early inhabitants. Born in Virginia, 1774, he was married there...

• peter weaver
• martha walker
• tippecanoe county
• indiana
• wea plain
• war of 1812

Mississippi John Hurt

 "MISSISSIPPI" JOHN HURT John S. Hurt (1893-1966) was a pioneer blues and folk guitarist. Self- taught, Hurt rarely left his home at Avalon, where he worked as a farmer. Although...

Colonel Sanders Birthplace

Just off the I-65 exit, abut 3 miles east from Henryville, Indiana. Near a shell gas station. No walking path to it. 

• colonel sanders
• kentucky fri...
• indiana

Gertie

    On September 25, 1997, Eppstein Uhen Architects-Milwaukee, presents this replica of "Gertie" to the City of Milwaukee, in appreciation of their 90 year relationship.    Gertie is the mallard...

Lewis Robert "Hack" Wilson

Submitted by @BlairKamin .

• baseball
• louisville
• kentucky
• wilson

Famous Tree / Indian Creek Church

   FAMOUS TREE  In 1894, a huge Tulip Poplar tree was felled about 1 1/2 miles south of this site. It measured 11 ft. in diameter, 35 ft in circumference. Two six-foot saws were welded together to...

• flippin
• kentucky
• tree
• tulip poplar
• chicago

New England Conservatory of Music, Jordan Hall

Submitted by @jeremysarna 

• boston
• massachusetts
• music
• new england

Redemption Rock

REDEMPTION ROCK UPON THE ROCK FIFTY FEET WEST OF THIS SPOT MARY ROWLANDSON, WIFE OF THE FIRST MINISTER OF LANCASTER, WAS REDEEMED FROM CAPTIVITY UNDER KING PHILIP. THE NARRATIVE OF HER...

• massachusetts
• rowlandson
• king philip

Moses Cleveland's "Capital Town"

Moses Cleveland's "Capital Town" In July 1796 the first survey party for the Connecticut Land Company, led by General Moses Cleveland (1754-1806) landed on the shore of Lake Erie near present-day...

• cleveland
• ohio
• moses
• capital town
• riverfront
• western reserve
• cuyahoga river
• settlement park
• ohio histori...

Andrew Ellicott 1754 - 1820

ANDREW ELLICOTT (1754-1820) Surveyor, mathematician, astronomer, Secretary, Pennsylvania Land Office, 1801-08. In 1803, which living there, he taught Meriwether Lewis surveying...

• lancaster
• pennsylvania
• lewis and clark
• surveyor
• astronomer

The End of the Santa Fe Trail

THIS STONE MARKSTHE END OFTHESANTA FE TRAIL 1822 - 1879  ERECTED BY THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO 1910

• santa fe
• new mexico
• 1910
• 1822
• 1879

Don Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon

• santa fe
• new mexico
• leon
• pueblo
• indians
• devout
• lasting peace

SANTA FE CATHEDRAL PARK AND MONUMENT

SANTA FE CATHEDRAL PARK AND MONUMENTa gift to the citizenry of santa fe and the state of newmexico commemorating the first european settlers ofnew mexico–the spanish colonists of 1598. the...

• santa fe
• new mexico
• de onate
• desolate
• 1598
• unswerving devotion
• heroic precursors

Incorporates What Remains

A BUILDING STOOD HERE BEFORE 1680 IT WAS WRECKED IN THE GREAT INDIAN UPRISING THIS HOUSE INCORPORATES WHAT REMAINS  [Location approximate]

• 1680
• building
• was wrecked in
• indian uprising
• what remains
• santa fe
• new mexico

Arias de Quiros Site

THE HISTORIC SANTA FE FOUNDATION  FINDS THESE BUILDINGS WORTHY OF PRESERVATION  THE ARIAS de QUIROS SITE [Location approximate]

• santa fe
• new mexico
• de quiros

By Royal Decree

 IN 1697 THIS PROPERTY WAS GRANTED TO CAPTAIN DIEGO ARIAS DE QUIROS BY SPANISH ROYAL DECREE FOR HIS PART IN THE RECONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO WITH DE VARGAS. IN 1879 BOUGHT BY L. BRADFORD PRINCE, LATER...

• santa fe
• new mexico
• de quiros
• de vargas
• 1697
• 1879
• 1942
• wwii
• governor