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One of the Shortest Main Streets

    Edward G. Zelinsky

      Tiburon Was a Railroad Town

        Shoreline Park

          Given to the City of Tiberon by the Corinthian Yacht Club April 27, 1969

            Sgt. Thomas Henry Skelton

            IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND  1331635 SGT. TOHOMAS HENRY SKELTON.  AGED 19 YEARS. WHO FLEW FROM LANGAR  AIRFIELD ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 13th 1943  TO GERMANY AND NEVER RETURNED  ALSO TO ALL MEMBERS...

            IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND  1331635 SGT. TOHOMAS HENRY SKELTON.  AGED 19 YEARS. WHO FLEW FROM LANGAR  AIRFIELD ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 13th 1943  TO GERMANY AND NEVER RETURNED  ALSO TO ALL MEMBERS...

              Bristol Shogomoc Railway Site

              Submitted by @CorenskiNowlan

              Submitted by @CorenskiNowlan

                The Heritage House

                Submitted by @jqmcd

                Submitted by @jqmcd

                  Bristol & South Wales Union

                  Submitted by @theonlymfkirke [Location approximate]

                  Submitted by @theonlymfkirke [Location approximate]

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                  The Fourteenth Army 1942 - 1945

                  Submitted by @theonlymfkirke.

                  Submitted by @theonlymfkirke.

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                  UK Rail Speed Record

                  Submitted by @miniadvent

                  Submitted by @miniadvent

                    People Who Like This Sort of Thing Will Find This The Sort of Thing They Like

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                    Moon Tree - Planted in April 1976

                    This "Moon Tree” is a Loblolly Pine grown from a seed that, in January 1971 was carried to the Moon and brought back to Earth by Major Stuart Roosa, command module pilot for Apollo XIV and a...

                    This "Moon Tree” is a Loblolly Pine grown from a seed that, in January 1971 was carried to the Moon and brought back to Earth by Major Stuart Roosa, command module pilot for Apollo XIV and a...

                    • louisiana
                    • moon tree
                    • 1971
                    • moon
                    • apollo
                    • loblolly pine

                    Christian Science Historical Marker

                    Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. This church is one of the many world wide branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,...

                    Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. This church is one of the many world wide branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in...

                    • religion
                    • louisiana

                    Cavanaugh Hall of Science

                    The Cavanaugh Hall of Science bears the name of Charles J. Cavanaugh, whose teaching career spanned 1945 to 1977 as professor of biology at his alma mater, Louisiana College. Prof Cavanaugh, as he...

                    The Cavanaugh Hall of Science bears the name of Charles J. Cavanaugh, whose teaching career spanned 1945 to 1977 as professor of biology at his alma mater, Louisiana College. Prof Cavanaugh, as he...

                    • louisiana
                    • science

                    Alexandria National Cemetery

                    Civil War AlexandriaAlexandria, Louisiana, served briefly of the Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi, as the headquarters a vast area encompassing states and territories west of the...

                    Civil War AlexandriaAlexandria, Louisiana, served briefly of the Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi, as the headquarters a vast area encompassing states and territories west of...

                    • louisiana
                    • cemetery

                    Wallace J. Thibodaux

                    *Born in Lafourche Parish on the estate of his father, Henry J. Thibodaux, on December 18, 1880 at Bayou Blue.*Inherited his father's estate who was a descendant of Henry Schyler Thibodaux, the...

                    *Born in Lafourche Parish on the estate of his father, Henry J. Thibodaux, on December 18, 1880 at Bayou Blue.*Inherited his father's estate who was a descendant of Henry Schyler Thibodaux,...

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                    Port Barre

                    Port actif à l'époque du bateau à vapeur. Appelé d'après le nom de la famille Barré. En 1765 Charles Barré acheta 8800 arpents de terre à Jacques Guillaume Courtableau, le premier Commandant du...

                    Port actif à l'époque du bateau à vapeur. Appelé d'après le nom de la famille Barré. En 1765 Charles Barré acheta 8800 arpents de terre à Jacques Guillaume Courtableau, le premier Commandant du...

                    • louisiana

                    Village of Georgetown

                    Area once settled by the Choctaw Nation. Anglo-Americans settled here near the crossroads of the Harrisonburg and Three Notch Roads which connected the region to the Natchez Trace & the El Camino...

                    Area once settled by the Choctaw Nation. Anglo- Americans settled here near the crossroads of the Harrisonburg and Three Notch Roads which connected the region to the Natchez Trace & the El...

                    • louisiana

                    The Famous Burning Well of Colfax

                    Visitors to this spot were once greeted with a curious sight, a burning well. In 1899 a driller named L. B. Hart completed an artesian well at 1,103 feet. The water was salty, and it bubbled with...

                    Visitors to this spot were once greeted with a curious sight, a burning well. In 1899 a driller named L. B. Hart completed an artesian well at 1,103 feet. The water was salty, and it bubbled with...

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