Site of the First Public Hanging Area and Graveyard
Pompeiin Villa
The last remaining landmark of the "dream city" planned by the founder of Port Arthur, railroad magnate Arthur E. Stilwell (1859-1928). The house was built in 1900 as the winter resort home...
- texas
- landmark
- architecture
Indian Village
On this site, granted by the Spanish government, dwelled Tusquahoma, chief of a Choctaw Indian tribe of fifty families, from about 1785 to 1820, when the land was sold to Stephen Maddox and...
- louisiana
- native american
- choctaw
Restoration Park
This is a most unusual park - with an interesting history. It is an urban wetlands park that also functions as a floodwater detention basin. It is located on the site of a major sand and...
- louisiana
- environment
- park
Santa Rosa
The town of Santa Rosa, once located here, encompassed stores, a church, a post office, the one- room Aaron Academy, and Turtle Skin Cemetery. Its residents were relocated in 1961 to make way for...
- mississippi
- nasa
- space
- settlement
- cemetery
Alleyton, C. S. A.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀State of Texas ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Erected in 1963 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Alleyton, C. S. A. ⠀⠀⠀BORN AS WAR CLOUDS GATHERED, ALLEYTON WAS A KEY POINT ON THE SUPPLY LINE OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICAN DURING THE...
- civil war
- military
- texas
- cotton
- confederacy
Simpson Bros. Clover-shaped pavement plaque, 1899
This plaque was submitted on June 7 2020. It is from a Massachusetts pavement company, Simpson Bros. Most found plaques from them are dated 1907-1911. This one is earlier, and is dated 1899. It is...
- brookline
- reservoir
- three-leaf c...
- simpson bros.
- circa 1899
- 1899
Gates Memorial Library
John Warne "Bet a Million" Gates (1855-1911), a native of Illinois, was instrumental in the early growth of Port Arthur. A prominent businessman and financier noted for his promotion of barbed...
- texas
- library
- lamar state college
- port arthur
Port Arthur College
John W. Gates founded Port Arthur College in 1909 as a nonprofit, non-sectarian, vocational school focusing on stenography, accounting and communications. Gates, one of the founders of the Texas...
- texas
- port arthur
- lamar state college
Judson Hartwell Grambling
Grambling's Namesake Grambling's early development was centered around a small sawmill owned by a millright named Judson Hartwell Grambling, a European American for whom the town and university...
- louisiana
- grambling
Mr. Earnest "Earnie" Miles
Mr. Earnie Miles was widely known for his pioneering career at KNOE-TV in Monroe, Louisiana as the first black news reporter and host of the "Earnie Miles Gospel Show” which began in 1980. The...
- louisiana
- grambling
Jan Grant Berenstain
IN RECOGNITION OF JAN GRANT BERENSTAIN Rosemont Native Radnor High School Class of 1941 Co- Creator of the "The Berenstain Bears" with Husband Stan Berenstain. RADNOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY ...
- radnor
- berenstain
- berenstain bears
- emlen tunnell
Bloody Sunday Attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge
"BLOODY SUNDAY' ATTACK AT EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE A voting registration campaign In 1965 turned tragic Feb. 17 when an Alabama state trooper fatally shot Jimmie Lee Jackson In Marion. It prompted...
Pulpit Rock
Pulpit Rock Oliver Leavitt Preached to the Pioneers here in 1820submitted by Alan R Reno
- pioneers
- leavitt
- oxbow ny
- alan r reno
- preachers
Towser the Famous Cat
TOWSER 21 APRIL 1963 - 20 MARCH 1987 TOWSER THE FAMOUS CAT, WHO LIVED IN THE STILL HOUSE GLENTURRET DISTILLERY FOR ALMOST 24 YEARS, SHE CAUGHT 28,899 MICE IN HER LIFETIME WORLD FAMOUS MOUSING...
Vuylsteke House
Born in Rotterdam, Holland, Adrianus Jacobus Maria Vuylsteke (1873-1912) immigrated to the U. S. in 1893. In 1894-96 he moved to Texas and helped plat the town of Port Arthur. Following his...
- texas
- architecture
Ruby Ruth Fuller Building
This building was constructed in 1915 as the new home of Port Arthur's First United Methodist Church, which had organized in 1897. The building was designed by C.W. Ward, and church member Warren...
- texas
- church
- lamar univer...
Francis John (Frank) Trost
Frank Trost, the photographer of record on the day the Lucas Gusher erupted in the Spindletop Oil Field, came to Port Arthur in 1895 from Kansas City, Missouri, where he had been involved in...
- texas
- photography
- oil
- port arthur
Indian Village
On this site granted by the Spanish Government dwelled Tusquahoma, Chief of a Choctaw Indian tribe of fifty families, from about 1785 to 1825 when the land was sold and the tribe moved west. ...
- louisiana
- native american
- village
- ouachita parish
Monroe Residential District
This excellent example of an early twentieth century neighborhood, consisting of over six hundred structures in a variety of architectural styles including Colonial/Georgian Revival, Spanish...
- louisiana
- historic district
- park
- monroe
- ouachita parish