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First Tonopah Cemetary

FIRST TONOPAH CEMETERY 1901 * 1911BURRIED HERE ARE MANY OF TONOPAHS [sic] PIONEER RESIDENTS INCLUDING 14 VICTIMS OF THE TONOPAH-BELMONT MINE FIRE OF FEB. 23, 1911, AS WELL AS THE VICTIMS OF THE...

FIRST TONOPAH CEMETERY 1901 * 1911BURRIED HERE ARE MANY OF TONOPAHS [sic] PIONEER RESIDENTS INCLUDING 14 VICTIMS OF THE TONOPAH-BELMONT MINE FIRE OF FEB. 23, 1911, AS WELL AS THE VICTIMS OF THE...

  • nevada
  • tonopah
  • plague

Lookout Studio

  • grand canyon
  • arizona
  • todo

Bright Angel Lodge

  • grand canyon
  • arizona
  • todo

Cambrian Explosion

  • london
  • england
  • cambrian
  • biology

The Charles H. Shaw Grove

  • bay area
  • california
  • berkeley
  • charles shaw

Eliza Winston: Saint Anthony Falls Heritage Trail

Courtesy @romanmars

Courtesy @romanmars

  • minnesota
  • minneapolis
  • canada
  • slavery
  • steamboat

Savings Bank of Mendocino County Masonic Hall

Savings Bank of Mendocino CoutyEstablished 1903 Masonic Hall Courtesy @romanmars

Savings Bank of Mendocino CoutyEstablished 1903 Masonic Hall Courtesy @romanmars

  • mendocino
  • california
  • bank
  • statue
  • redwood

Civil Rights Freedom Riders

  Via @eddieizzard  (https://twitter.com/eddieizzard/status/673262862962421760/) (Location approximate)

  Via @eddieizzard  (https://twitter.com/eddieizza rd/status/673262862962421760/) (Location approximate)

  • birmingham
  • freedom riders
  • segregation
  • civil rights

Fort Sumter National Monument

  Via @eddieizzard (https://twitter.com/eddieizzard/status/677973736922996736/)

  Via @eddieizzard (https://twitter.com/eddieizzar d/status/677973736922996736/)

  • civil war
  • south carolina
  • sumter

Jane Jacobs

THE WRITER AND URBAN ACTIVIST JANE JACOBS (1916-2006) LIVED HERE FROM 1971 TO 2006.   Via https://www.instagram.com/sabisto/  

THE WRITER AND URBAN ACTIVIST JANE JACOBS (1916-2006) LIVED HERE FROM 1971 TO 2006.   Via https://www.instagram.com/sabisto/

  • toronto
  • urban activist
  • jane jacobx

Peak House

  Peak House The original house, built in 1651, was burned when King Phillip's Indians burnt the town of Medfield in 1676. Seth Clark, the owner, received indemnity from the colonial government...

  Peak House The original house, built in 1651, was burned when King Phillip's Indians burnt the town of Medfield in 1676. Seth Clark, the owner, received indemnity from the colonial...

  • massachusetts
  • medfield
  • king philip

St. Gabriel Church

ST. GABRIEL CHURCH Acadian exiles arrived from Maryland in 1767  and were given Spanish land grants as was the church. The church was built by Louis LeConte a builder from Lafourche between...

ST. GABRIEL CHURCH Acadian exiles arrived from Maryland in 1767  and were given Spanish land grants as was the church. The church was built by Louis LeConte a builder from Lafourche...

  • lousiana
  • church
  • maryland
  • spanish

The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist

Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.

Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.

    Shall Not Be Allowed To Drop Into Oblivion

    FELICITE A black woman, a native of Haiti. During the yellow-fever epidemic here in 1839, she nursed the sick, administered to the dying, closed the eyes of the dead, and wept over their graves....

    FELICITE A black woman, a native of Haiti. During the yellow-fever epidemic here in 1839, she nursed the sick, administered to the dying, closed the eyes of the dead, and wept over their...

    • new iberia
    • lousiana
    • yellow fever
    • felicite
    • haiti

    Frederic Henri Duperier

    Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.

    Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.

    • louisiana
    • new iberia
    • philadelphia
    • haiti
    • berard
    • planter
    • merchant
    • teche

    The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany

    Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.

    Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.

    • louisiana
    • new iberia
    • polk
    • gothic
    • stained glass
    • glass
    • tiffany
    • civil war
    • hospital

    Church of the Incarnation

    Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.

    Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.

    • london
    • amite
    • river
    • church
    • bach
    • duncan
    • missionary
    • rector

    Blthyewood Plantation

    Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.

    Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.

    • amite
    • louisiana
    • sanders
    • kennedy
    • plantation
    • blthyewood

    General Alfred Mouton

    Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.

    Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.

    • louisiana
    • shiloh
    • mouton
    • red river
    • mansfield
    • civil war
    • slavery
    • confederacy

    Spanish Lake

      First known as Lake Flamand for one of the early settlers, Jean Baptist Grevemberg; known as Lake Tasse by the French due to its cup shape; and known as Spanish Lake for early Spanish colonials...

      First known as Lake Flamand for one of the early settlers, Jean Baptist Grevemberg; known as Lake Tasse by the French due to its cup shape; and known as Spanish Lake for early Spanish...

    • london
    • lake
    • lafayette
    • flamand
    • brevemberg
    • tasse
    • cup
    • french
    • spanish