Old Cemetery Camp Ground
A memorial to the pioneers of Sugartown (early outpost of Southwest Louisiana), whose courage and fortitude helped subdue the historic "Neutral Territory" of the Sabine-Rio Hondo Strip,...
- louisiana
- cemetery
Shady Grove School/ Community Building
Built 1919-used as a school until 1928. Bought by community families to be used for cultural and social activities. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places December 2002.
- louisiana
Clay Petway
Dave Ostang
World War II DeRidder Army Air Base Memorial
Erected in memory of United States Army Air Force personnel who lost their lives in training accidents at the DeRidder Army Airport and Gunnery Range, 1942-45.
- louisiana
Grabow Riot
At this site, on July 7, 1912, a violent confrontation occurred between the Galloway Lumber Company and the Brotherhood of Timber Workers. The riot left 4 men dead and an estimated 50 men wounded....
- louisiana
Rosepine, Louisiana
Incorporated December 24, 1902 by proclamation of Governor William Wright Heard. Town established on Sections 3 and 4 of Township 25, Range 9W. During the Vernon Parish lumber boom, Rosepine...
- louisiana
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC planted these slash pine in 1939 in Kisatchie National Forest. CCC reforestation and construction of dams, roads, fire towers and recreation areas (1933-42) contributed to a rebirth in Vernon...
- louisiana
Old Confederate Military Road
In 1862, when Federal troops captured New Orleans and blockaded the mouth of the Mississippi River, Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor established headquarters in central...
- louisiana
- civil war
SSG Timothy Bruce Cole, Jr. - Bronze Star with Valor
On March 5, 2007, three months prior to his death while conducting a dismounted patrol SSG Cole's element came under heavy enemy machine gun fire from the north and west. One of SSG Cole's...
- louisiana
- iraq war
To Commemorate the Destruction of Newtown, Cardif
This plaque contains part of a poem written by a former resident of the Newtown district of central Cardiff, reflecting on its demolition. A working class neighbourhood close to the docks and...
- urban renewal
- homogenising...
A Gift of the Class of 1940
- water fountain
- drinking fountain
Morris "Mo" Bernstein
DEDICATED TO MORRIS "MO" BERNSTEIN PRESIDENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT COMMISSIONFOR THE LEADERSHIP HE PROVIDED TO SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, HIS COMMITMENT TO ESTABLISHING SFO AS THE...
- sfo
- airport commission
- travelling public
- humanizing t...
Arsenal Museum
This building, erected c. 1835 as a powder magazine for a U.S. Army Post and Arsenal which used this area from 1810-1885, except in 1861-1862 when held by the Confederacy. In 1962 this building...
- louisiana
- military
Pentagon Buildings
Constructed 1819-1822 to house U.S. troops. Used as a garrison from 1822-1877 except from 1861-1862 when held by Confederates. From 1886-1925 these buildings and grounds were the site of...
- louisiana
Louisiana Strikes Oil!
The first oil strike in the State of Louisiana was made on September 21, 1901 on the farm of Jules Clement in the community of Evangeline. The well was known as both Jules Clement No. 1 and...
- louisiana
Miller Stadium
Built in 1948 Miller Stadium served as the home of the Crowley Millers who played in South Louisiana's semi-pro Teche League and the professional Gulf coast and Evangeline Leagues from 1948 to...
- louisiana
- sports
Oaks of Ile Copal
These centurion live oak trees shaded Ile Copal, the plantation home of Alexandre Mouton. Mouton was governor of Louisiana from 1843-46 and son of the founder of Vermilionville. Here marks...
- louisiana
- trees
Notre Dame de Perpetuel Secours Church
This parish was one of the sites proposed by Bishop Jules B. Jeanmard, Bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette, to afford a place of work for African- American priests ordained in the United States...
- louisiana
- church
Richard T. Greener
Submitted by @CulturedModesty
- harvard
- african american
- 1844
- washington st
- russo-japanese war
- niagara movement