Gordon Lightfoot
As I mentioned in my previous email, my husband and I visited Orillia Ontario today. One of the best bits of trivia about Orillia is that it is the home town of Gordon Lightfoot. In his...
Hyde Park
Time Capsule
The San Juan Capistrano Historical Society in conjunction with the city's 50th Birthday Celebration Committee placed this TIME CAPSULE on December 17, 2011. To be opened in April 2061
Coliseum Theater
Submitted by @pkmonaghan
Tennessee State Capitol
Atascadero Administration Building
Submitted by @jqmcd
Jose Dolores Garcia
JOSE DOLORES GARCIA Jose Dolores Garcia was a prominent citizen of San Juan Capistrano who was of Juaneno Indian and Spanish descent. In 1862 he married Maria Refugia Yorba at the Mission....
Hunter Mill Road - Crossroads to War
T 46-BCROSSROADS TO WARDuring the Civil War, this junction of HunterMill Road and the Alexandria, Loudoun, &Hampshire Railroad was a vital crossroads asUnion and Confederate troops moved along...
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Hurricane Gustav
Hurricane Gustav roared through Baton Rouge on September 1, 2008. Traffic on the Mississippi River was shut down. Ninety-mile per hour winds uprooted thousands of mature oak trees. Houses were...
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On September 21, 1779
On September 21, 1779Col. Dickson commanding theBritish post at Baton RougeSurrendered toGov. Galvez and his American Allies. This tablet commemorates thisOne battle of theAmerican RevolutionOn...
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- revolutionary war
- freedom
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John P Holland's First Submarine
Grafton Park
North Shore Beach & Yacht Club 1958
Submitted by @jqmcd THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN LISTED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NORTH SHORE BEACH & YACHT CLUB 1958 DESIGNED...
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Temple Lodge #14
Le Sorbonne
Memorial Gazebo
Submitted by @jqmcd
American Zoetrope
SAN FRANCISCO'S HELLENIC HERITAGE
SAN FRANCISCO'S HELLENIC HERITAGE AN AFFIRMATION OF THE PROMISE OF AMERICA IN TRIBUTE TO THE GREEK IMMIGRANTS WHO SETTLED IN THE VICINITY OF THIRD AND FOLSOM STREETS IN THE EARLY 1900s AND...
Eddie L. Dorsey, MD; Ima Pierson, DDS; Howard C. Scoggins, MD; Luins Williams, MD
May 17-18, 1944 Along with leaders of the newly formed NAACP chapter, Drs. Dorsey, Pierson, Scoggins, and Williams were violently expelled from Iberia Parish on May 17-18, 1944, because they...
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- african-american
- civil rights
In Memory of the First Barrow Stadium
In Memory of the First Barrow Stadium (1956-2011) Architect: Henry G. Grimball Originally known as the Pontchartrain Park Stadium of the New Orleans Recreation Department, the first...
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- new orleans
- sports
- african american
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