Featured Plaque:

Don Messer

Submitted by @bthubbard

• fiddler
• messer

The Linden Oak

THE LINDEN OAK The oldest White Oak tree in Montgomery County was saved from destruction by the Metro construction in 1973 by Idamae Garrott. A great champion of the people and of the environment,...

• linden oak
• imageryan
• montgomery
• maryland

Cincinnati Union Terminal Time Capsule

Submitted by @kevl42

Cincinnati Union Terminal

Submitted by @kevl42

Tomb of an Unknown Soldier

Submitted by @DaraGreen

• civil war
• signal knob

Over the Rhine

[Location approximate]Submitted by @kevl42

• ohio
• rhine
• canal

Anne Frank's Tree

Submitted by @joepevans

• wwii
• holocaust
• anne frank

Simon Bolivar

Hotel Whitcomb Temporary City Hall 1912 to 1915

Lincoln, SF City Hall

Darwin studies geology

The location at which Charles Darwin first used a clinometer to measure the tilt of geological strata.Submitted by Alistair Wylie

• charles darwin
• geology
• clinometer
• adam sedgwick

Duck Lane, Builth Wells

Origins of Duck Lane, Builth WellsSubmitted by: Alistair Wylie

• ducks
• builth wells

Newton County, CSA

Supply and military center in the Civil War. Target area for Federals trying to move up the Sabine or across Louisiana and take Texas. Confederates built breastworks and maintained arsenal at...

• texas
• civil war

Deweyville

Original site, called "Possum Bluff," was purchased for $200 by Pierre Lavine from H.L. Morrison in 1886. The Sabine Tram Company purchased the land in 1897 from G. Smyth and a sawmill was built...

• texas

Swift Cemetery

The trading village of Salem was founded in 1835 by Seth Swift. A Quaker and whaling merchant, Swift had moved to this area from Massachusetts with his wife, Lydia, and six children. When...

• texas
• cemetery

Trout Creek Cemetery

Originally a part of the James West Survey, this cemetery dates to the early 1860s. The land was later owned by Mrs. Frances Ann Dyer (d.1890), and upon her death was inherited by her daughter...

• texas
• cemetery

Trout Creek Missionary Baptist Church

Trout Creek Missionary Baptist Church Local oral tradition holds that the Trout Creek Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1876. An early church building had that year inscribed on it,...

• texas
• church

Call Church of God in Christ

The Call Church of God in Christ was established in 1915 under the leadership of Elder W. G. Law. Land for a church building was deeded by A. C. and Coella Armstrong in 1935. The name of the...

• texas
• church

Site of Town Lot Auction Town of Kirbyville,

(May 1, 1895) Named for John Henry Kirby, attorney, railroad builder, and timber, lumber, and oil king. With R. P. Allen, Kirby founded the town when their railroad-- Gulf, Beaumont, & Kansas...

• texas

Site of First Kirbyville Church

This site became the center of spiritual and cultural activity in the Kirbyville area in 1898, when John Henry Kirby gave two town lots to the Baptist church for the erection of a sanctuary. the...

• texas
• church