Pleasanton Fire Dept
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National AIDS Memorial Grove
Alameda Babe Ruth 14-15YO Workd Series champs
Plaque dedicated to the 1985 Alameda Babe Ruth World Series champions, who won the tournament in Jamestown New York in August 1985. Congrats!
- alameda; baseball
Ludgeruskerk
This plaque commemorates the church that was here, and was a landmark building for this part of Utrecht. This used to be the independent community (municipality) of "Zuilen" until 1954, and is...
- church
- lost building
The Kansas City Southern Railway In Port Arthur
The city of Port Arthur was platted in 1895 as the terminus of a railroad envisioned by Arthur E. Stilwell as the shortest route from Kansas City, Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico. The Kansas...
- texas
- railroad
- kcs
Fifth Districts High School
The Fifth Districts High School was built in 1893. It is the work of Mr. John Reason under the leadership of Dr. Henry C. Cotton of Bella Alliance, LA. This location was once called Newtown...
- louisiana
- african american
- school
- education
William Thomas Lewis
William Thomas Lewis was born in Merthyr on August 5th 1837. He was the first son of Thomas William Lewis, an engineer at the Plymouth Iron Works, Merthyr Tydfil. Aged only 27 he became the...
- wales
- union
Greenville's Writers
An extraordinary literary atmosphere in Greenville produced winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and O'Henry Award. Writers influenced by the creative ambience here include William...
- mississippi
- arts
Ascension Catholic Steeple
The original wooden steeple on this bell tower was removed in 1936 for safety reasons. Through the generous private donations of more than 150 families, individuals, and businesses, and a matching...
- louisiana
- church
Port Arthur - Beaumont Interurban Railway
Electric railways known as Interurbans existed in Texas from 1901 until the 1940s to provide frequent opportunities for the public to travel between urban centers. Interurban service...
- texas
- port arthur
- railway
Walker Percy
Walker Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1916, orphaned in late childhood, and adopted at age thirteen by kinsman William Alexander Percy, a poet and patron of the arts from...
- mississippi
- mississippi ...
- novelist
- writer
Shelby Foote
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. was born November 17, 1916, in Greenville. A childhood friend of Mississippi novelist Walker Percy, he began his early career as an author publishing five works of...
- mississippi
- mississippi ...
- novelist
- writer
- civil war
- historian
Cary Mounds
Of the original four mounds located at the Cary site, only Mound A survives. Located on the south side of Deer Creek, the mound was built on top of a midden deposit containing ceramic and...
- mississippi
- native americans
- mounds
Steve Azar
Greenville native Steve Azar burst onto the national country scene in 2001 with his album Waitin’ on Joe, which featured the #2 hit "I Don’t Have to Be Me (‘Til Monday)"; it and the title track...
- mississippi
- writer
- country music
Rolling Fork Mounds
Rolling Fork Mounds consisted of three earthen mounds, all of which have sustained significant damage since they were first described in 1926. At that time, Mound A was 38 feet tall, Mound B...
- mississippi
- native americans
- mounds
Sir Arthur Quiller Couch Lived here - on a house in Fowey
Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, was one of the foremost artists in blues history. In the late 1940s and 1950s he led the way in transforming traditional Delta blues into the...
- mississippi
- blues
- music
- entertainer
Prince McCoy
Side APrince McCoy (1882-1968), a prominent early 20th century Greenville musician, played a pivotal yet long unacknowledged role in blues history. At a dance in Cleveland, Mississippi, an...
- mississippi
- blues
- music
- entertainer
Carter Mounds
The Carter site consists of two earthen mounds separated by a plaza area. Mound A was built in at least two stages and is 13 feet tall. Mound Bis a burial mound and stands at just under seven...
- mississippi
- native americans
- mounds
Malden Spanish- American War Memorial
- malden
- spanish-american war
- memorial