Memorial to Trausti Jónssonar

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Memorial to Trausti Jónssonar

This stone plaque is also on the Barður Snæfellsás statue in Arnarstapi, Iceland. It reads: Barður Snæfellsás Erected in memory of our brother, Trausti Jónsson, born March (?) 13 1909, D December 16, 1928 and our parents Guðrun Sigtryggsdóttir, born (?) 1878 and died February 18, 1841 and Jón Sigurðsson, born August 17, 1876, died May 25, 1956 Haraldur Jónsson and siblings rock (?)

monument
staute
iceland
sculpture

The Comfort Maple

This tree believed to be Canada's oldest sugar maple (Acer Saccharum) was accepted for its preservation April 30 1961 by the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority from Miss Edna Eleanor...

maple tree
natural monument
canada
ontario
comfort maple

William Budd lived here

Submitted by: Alistair Wylie

william budd
epidemiology
infectious diseases

Ashburn Colored School

On this site stands Ashburn Colored School, a one- room public schoolhouse built ca. 1892 for African American students. Virginia's public school system, established in 1870, was...

historic school
segregation

Snake River Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Project

Why would anyone from Chicago or the San Francisco Bay Area find themselves driving through Warren, Minnesota. In my case, it's because my dad was born there in 1921, and in the summer of 2018...