Tamambo Karen Coffee Garden
- nairobi
- kenya
- coffee
Constructed in loving memory of Karolina Bordin
Constructed in loving memory of Karolina Bordin 1982 - 2012 Humble, caring, loving. A true guardian of nature, an ambassador of life. Her biggest passion was to help and work with animals and...
- nairobi
- kenya
- elephant
A.F.E.W. Nature Education Centre
THIS TREE WAS PLANTED BY THE HON. MAINA WANJIGI M.P. MINISTER FOR TOURISM & WILDLIFE ON NOV. 1983 TO COMMEMORATE THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE A.F.E.W. NATURE EDUCATION CENTRE LANGATA
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The Leslie - Melville Nature Sanctuary
THE LESLIE-MELVILLE NATURE SANCTUARY IN MEMORY OF JOCK LESLIE-MELVILLE 1933-1984FOUNDER OF AFRICAN FUND ENDANGERED WILDLIFE (A.F.E.W)
- nairobi
- kenya
- giraffe
Alameda Firehouse
APRIL 24, 1998 IN MEMORY OF DAVE MACHO DEDICATED TO OUR FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS
- alameda
- california
- firefighters
Japanese Exile
In April 2012, twenty years after this plaque was installed, Victoria City Council rescinded the last of its wartime motions supporting internment and deportation of Japanese-Canadians during...
First Congregational Church
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Vermont Congregationalists organized a church in Sylvan Township in 1849. In 1852 they built the first church in the village, here on land donated by Chelsea founder...
Nashville Parthenon
THE NASHVILLE PARTHENON 1897 - 1988 THE NASHVILLE PARTHENON WAS BUILT ON THIS SITE AS THE CENTERPIECE OF THE TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION OF 1897. THE ORIGINAL FULL-SCALE REPLICA...
McConnell Field
McCONNELL FIELD In 1927 the City of Nashville bought 131 acres from Warren Sloan and made this the city airport, named for Lieut. Brower McConnell, Tennessee National Guard pilot who died that...
- nashville
- tennessee
- airport
- mcconnell
- sky harbor
- golf
Grassmere Historic Farm
STEP BACK IN TIME Standing before you is the historic Croft House, home to five generations of one family -- the Dunn, Shute, Tigert and Croft Families. Built in 1810 by Michael Dunn, the house...
- nashville
- tennessee
- croft
- civil war
- emancipation
- zoo
- croft
- historic farm
National Register of Historic Places
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Both the historical and the archaeological categories of the National Register of Historic Places include the Lost River Cave and Valley. Native...
- kentucky
- bowling green
- 7500bc
- folklore connections
Protecting a Natural Treasure
PROTECTING A NATURAL TREASURE In 1986, recognizing the geological, archaeological and historical significance of the Lost River Cave and the mile-long Karst Valley, property owners Raymond and...
- kentucky
- bowling green
- national treasure
- cravens
- highbaugh
- lost river
Underground Nite Club
UNDERGROUND NITE CLUB The opening of this unique nite club was heralded in Billboard Magazine in 1933. Many dances featuring big bands of the period were held here to about 1960. ...
- kentucky
- bowling green
- wedding
- 1933
- nite club
Jesse James
JESSE JAMES James and his infamous gang are believed to have hidden in the cave following their robbery at the Southern Deposit Bank of Russellville, Kentucky on March 18, 1868. A Bowling Green...
- kentucky
- bowling green
- jesse james
- 1868
- coca-cola
John Hunt Morgan
JOHN HUNT MORGAN The leader of "Morgan's Raiders," a special Confederate unit which operated behind Union lines during the Civil War, hid with his force in the Lost River Cave following their...
- kentucky
- bowling green
- blue hole
- south onion
The Old Mill Dam
THE OLD MILL DAM Rebuilt in 1933, the historic mill dam impounded water used to power the water wheel. For over 20 years, the water powered a turbine driven hydroelectric generator...
- kentucky
- bowling green
- mill dam
- nite club
The Cave Mill
THE CAVE MILL Operated at this site for more than a century by an undershot water wheel, the last cave mill burned in 1915. Located first inside the cave entrance, the mill was moved to the...
- kentucky
- bowling green
- whiskey
- brandy
- cave entrance
- drive shaft
Blue Hole
BLUE HOLE This "blue hole" and three others exposed in the valley are the only ground water windows in the 85 square mile Lost River Karst Drainage Basin. For over a century this "blue hole"...
- kentucky
- bowling green
- blue hole
Lake Archer
LAKE ARCHER THIS ONE ACRE POND WAS ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED IN MEMORY OF ARCHER ROSENTHAL IN 1908 THIS POND WAS RECONSTRUCTED IN 1961 BY THE STUDENT BODY OF DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE CLASSES OF...
- delaware valley
- pennsylvania
- lake
- pond
- 1908
City Lands Sold
1859 City Lands Sold David Jacks acquired 30,000 acres of City of Monterey lands for $1,002.50 and became the most prosperous land baron in the city's history. He was immortalized not with...
- monterey
- california
- 1859
- cheese
- monterey jack