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Lusk Rest Area

Although paved highways have existed in the U.S. since the 1920s, rest areas are a more recent feature of highway travel. In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson and First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson...

Although paved highways have existed in the U.S. since the 1920s, rest areas are a more recent feature of highway travel. In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson and First Lady, Lady Bird...

  • wyoming
  • lusk
  • rest areas
  • u.s. 20

Breaks in the Prairie

Rawhide Buttes in front of you is an island habitat within the shortgrass prairie. Because the Buttes contain forest habitat, they support different species of wildlife than the surrounding...

Rawhide Buttes in front of you is an island habitat within the shortgrass prairie. Because the Buttes contain forest habitat, they support different species of wildlife than the...

  • wyoming
  • lusk
  • rest areas
  • u.s. 20
  • wildlife

Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail

Note the sign's last line about the killing of the last buffalo in the area. One sort of wonders exactly when that happens. I can't believe it was in the era when the rest stop was built, the...

Note the sign's last line about the killing of the last buffalo in the area. One sort of wonders exactly when that happens. I can't believe it was in the era when the rest stop was built,...

  • wyoming
  • lusk
  • rest areas
  • u.s. 20
  • wildlife

Uwe Düne

UWEDÜNE"Uwe's Dune" is the highest natural elevation of the island Sylt with 52.5m. It is named after lawyer and bailiff Uwe Jens LornsenUwe Jens Lornsen is one of the first syltian students with...

UWEDÜNE"Uwe's Dune" is the highest natural elevation of the island Sylt with 52.5m. It is named after lawyer and bailiff Uwe Jens LornsenUwe Jens Lornsen is one of the first syltian students with...

    Art in the City

    6 blocks Art in the City Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Seattle has been home to a nationally recognized group of painters-past and present. These artists, called The Northwest...

    6 blocks Art in the City Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Seattle has been home to a nationally recognized group of painters-past and present. These artists, called The...

      Not a Julia Morgan

        Western Data Processing Center

        The site where one of the first computer telephone networks connected five other schools in 1963. Submitted by @krtplzr.

        The site where one of the first computer telephone networks connected five other schools in 1963. Submitted by @krtplzr.

          Cees van Corrie

          This plaque on the island of Texel in the Waddenzee commemorates the grenade collecting action of a man locally known as "Cees van Corrie", who lived in this house in the village of Den Burg. The...

          This plaque on the island of Texel in the Waddenzee commemorates the grenade collecting action of a man locally known as "Cees van Corrie", who lived in this house in the village of Den Burg. The...

          • granaat
          • grenade
          • fortress
          • texel

          Juan Bautista de Anza Trail End

          LT COLONEL JUAN BAUTISTA DE ANZA BY DECREE OF CARLOS II OF SPAIN DE ANZA EXPEDITION 1775 1776 LED AN EXPEDITION TO THIS SITE THE MISSION BEING TO COLONIZE THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Submitted by @bezukhova

          LT COLONEL JUAN BAUTISTA DE ANZA BY DECREE OF CARLOS II OF SPAIN DE ANZA EXPEDITION 1775 1776 LED AN EXPEDITION TO THIS SITE THE MISSION BEING TO COLONIZE THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Submitted by @bezukhova

            AK Smiley Library

            Submitted by @jqmcd.

            Submitted by @jqmcd.

              Winston P. Anderson

              IN MEMORY OF WINSTON P. ANDERSON 1ST LIEUTENANT CO E.325TH INF. 82ND DIV. A E. F. HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY IN FRANCE JULY 4TH 1918 BURIED IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY 1921 IN FLANDERS...

              IN MEMORY OF WINSTON P. ANDERSON 1ST LIEUTENANT CO E.325TH INF. 82ND DIV. A E. F. HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY IN FRANCE JULY 4TH 1918 BURIED IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY 1921 IN...

                First Orchard in what is now Iowa

                In Commemorationof theFirst Orchard In What Is NowThe State of IowaGrowing from about 1796 to about 1879 on a plot 3960 feet east from this point, it throve beneath the flags of France, Spain and...

                In Commemorationof theFirst Orchard In What Is NowThe State of IowaGrowing from about 1796 to about 1879 on a plot 3960 feet east from this point, it throve beneath the flags of France, Spain and...

                • iowa
                • agriculture

                Fort Des Moines, 1834-1837

                Early settlers of Lee County believe that the explorers Marquette and Joliet landed at this spot in 1673. From here they made their only overland exploration on the west bank of the Mississippi,...

                Early settlers of Lee County believe that the explorers Marquette and Joliet landed at this spot in 1673. From here they made their only overland exploration on the west bank of the...

                • iowa
                • mormons

                Latter-day Saint Exodus from Nauvoo, 1849

                During the period of 1839-1846, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as Mormons) settled here in Lee County, Iowa and in Nauvoo, Illinois, on the opposite...

                During the period of 1839-1846, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as Mormons) settled here in Lee County, Iowa and in Nauvoo, Illinois, on the opposite...

                • iowa
                • mormons
                • religion

                Latter-day Saint Immigrants' Camp, 1853

                Keokuk, Iowa, is named in honor of Chief Keokuk, a Sac and Fox chief who is buried there. The city is located on the west side of the Mississippi River, about 12 miles southwest of Nauvoo. On...

                Keokuk, Iowa, is named in honor of Chief Keokuk, a Sac and Fox chief who is buried there. The city is located on the west side of the Mississippi River, about 12 miles southwest of Nauvoo. On...

                • iowa
                • keokuk
                • mormons
                • religion

                Welcome to Keokuk, Iowa

                Once a place where Native American Indians hunted and fished, this peninsular part of Iowa is located where the Des Moines River flows into the Mississippi River.Under French and Spanish rule for...

                Once a place where Native American Indians hunted and fished, this peninsular part of Iowa is located where the Des Moines River flows into the Mississippi River.Under French and Spanish rule for...

                • keokuk
                • iowa
                • visitors

                Water When Needed

                A public water supply system was first discussed in the 1850's when Keokuk's population was increasing dramatically, but with the financial panic of 1857 no action was taken. Most home owners had...

                A public water supply system was first discussed in the 1850's when Keokuk's population was increasing dramatically, but with the financial panic of 1857 no action was taken. Most home owners had...

                • keokuk
                • iowa
                • industry
                • public service

                Waterpower - Dream and Reality

                Starting as early as the 1840's, proposals were advanced for building a wing dam near Keokuk that would focus the power of the Mississippi's current. However, no viable plan was formed until the...

                Starting as early as the 1840's, proposals were advanced for building a wing dam near Keokuk that would focus the power of the Mississippi's current. However, no viable plan was formed until the...

                • iowa
                • keokuk
                • utilities
                • dam
                • mississippi river
                • industry

                Castro Carazo (1895-1986)

                Castro Carazo, hand-picked by Huey P. Long to head LSU's marching band, lived here where he operated a private music studio. A native of Costa Rica, Carazo wrote the music for Long's campaign song...

                Castro Carazo, hand-picked by Huey P. Long to head LSU's marching band, lived here where he operated a private music studio. A native of Costa Rica, Carazo wrote the music for Long's campaign...

                • louisiana
                • baton rouge
                • lsu

                Chautauqua Buildings

                In its heyday, Chautauqua Park boasted of eighty-eight cottages surrounding the Tabernacle, a grocery, a restaurant, and a forty-room hotel. Before its demise in 1917, the Chautauqua Assembly...

                In its heyday, Chautauqua Park boasted of eighty- eight cottages surrounding the Tabernacle, a grocery, a restaurant, and a forty-room hotel. Before its demise in 1917, the Chautauqua...

                • mississippi
                • park
                • copiah county