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Mount Diablo Beacon

Mount Diablo Beacon: EIM Left Dark by War, Lighted in Remembrance A large flashing light atop this rotunda once guided airplanes flying through the night skies of the Bay Area. Originally held...

Mount Diablo Beacon: EIM Left Dark by War, Lighted in Remembrance A large flashing light atop this rotunda once guided airplanes flying through the night skies of the Bay Area. Originally held...

    FRANCES JEAN DENNING AND LT COL NORMAN EDWIN DENNING

    PLACED IN MEMORY OF FRANCES JEAN DENNING LT COL NORMAN EDWIN DENNING USMC MT DIABLO STATE PARK

    PLACED IN MEMORY OF FRANCES JEAN DENNING LT COL NORMAN EDWIN DENNING USMC MT DIABLO STATE PARK

      THE MOUNT DIABLO SURVEY MARKS

      THE MOUNT DIABLO SURVEY MARKS WITH ITS UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW, MOUNT DIABLO'S SUMMIT HAS LONG BEEN AN IMPORTANT REFERENCE POINT FOR LAND SURVEYS IN THE FAR WEST. IN 1851, COL. LEANDER RANSOM BEGAN...

      THE MOUNT DIABLO SURVEY MARKS WITH ITS UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW, MOUNT DIABLO'S SUMMIT HAS LONG BEEN AN IMPORTANT REFERENCE POINT FOR LAND SURVEYS IN THE FAR WEST. IN 1851, COL. LEANDER RANSOM BEGAN...

        Summit of Mount Diablo

          Mount Diablo Trail Through Time

            Blackhawk Ranch Quarry

              Site of Union Academy

                In Living Memory of Kerri Roberts

                  Cabral House

                    Matthew Moody

                      They Passed This Way

                      They Passed This WayHome to thousands of men, women, and children, the Cherokee Nation once spread across parts of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. The 1830 Indian Removal Act...

                      They Passed This WayHome to thousands of men, women, and children, the Cherokee Nation once spread across parts of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. The 1830 Indian Removal...

                      • missouri
                      • native americans
                      • civil rights
                      • forced removal

                      Commemorating Harry S. Truman

                      CommemoratingHarry S. TrumanPresident of the United States1945-1953Harry S. Truman spoke from these Courthouse steps in 1934 and 1940 to New Madrid County citizens during his successful US Senate...

                      CommemoratingHarry S. TrumanPresident of the United States1945-1953Harry S. Truman spoke from these Courthouse steps in 1934 and 1940 to New Madrid County citizens during his successful US Senate...

                      • missouri
                      • harry truman
                      • us president

                      Pacific Soul

                      Pacific SoulJaume Plensa2017Commissioned by Bosa DevelopmentCopyright 2017 Jaume PlensaSubmitted by Chi C 

                      Pacific SoulJaume Plensa2017Commissioned by Bosa DevelopmentCopyright 2017 Jaume PlensaSubmitted by Chi C 

                      • san diego

                      El Camino Real

                      El Camino RealNew MadridCape GirardeauSte. GenevieveSt. LouisErected by the Missouri Daughters of the American RevolutionAD 1915

                      El Camino RealNew MadridCape GirardeauSte. GenevieveSt. LouisErected by the Missouri Daughters of the American RevolutionAD 1915

                      • missouri
                      • el camino real
                      • kings highway

                      Andrew H. Young

                        Newman Brothers Coffin Works

                        Submitted by @ellrbrown

                        Submitted by @ellrbrown

                          Early Canning Processes

                            The Garden Flower of Prosperity

                              Saw Mill River Daylighting - Species of the Watershed

                              All of these flora (plants) and fauna (animals) are at home here in the Saw Mill River watershed. Some linger around the tidal pool and mouth of the river here in Yonkers because they also live in...

                              All of these flora (plants) and fauna (animals) are at home here in the Saw Mill River watershed. Some linger around the tidal pool and mouth of the river here in Yonkers because they also live...

                              • yonkers
                              • larkin plaza
                              • saw mill river
                              • van der donck park
                              • fish
                              • 2009

                              Saw Mill River Daylighting at Mill Street Courtyard

                              SAW MILL RIVER DAYLIGHTING   AT MILL STREET COURTYARD   OPENED 2016   MIKE SPANO   MAYOR   LIAM MCLAUGHLIN, COUNCIL PRESIDENT CHRISTOPHER A. JOHNSON, COUNCILMAN, 1ST DISTRICT CORAZÓN PINEDA-ISAAC,...

                              SAW MILL RIVER DAYLIGHTING   AT MILL STREET COURTYARD   OPENED 2016   MIKE SPANO   MAYOR   LIAM MCLAUGHLIN, COUNCIL PRESIDENT CHRISTOPHER A. JOHNSON, COUNCILMAN, 1ST DISTRICT CORAZÓN...

                              • yonkers
                              • saw mill river
                              • river
                              • water
                              • andrew cuomo
                              • 2016