St. Aloysius College 1869-1969
Founded in 1869 by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart on Chartres Street in the Vieux Carré, St. Aloysius College moved in 1892 to a building on Rampart Street, then in 1925 to a new building at the...
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- church
- new orleans
Pike County Courthouse
Pike County, named for Zebulon Pike, was organized in 1815. In 1875, the county seat was moved from Holmesville to Magnolia, and a courthouse was built the next year. All records were lost...
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Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865
During the Civil War, The Central House Hotel that was located near the railroad was converted to a hospital. When more than 200 soldiers died there from wounds or disease, they were buried...
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- cemetery
Fontainebleau Plantation Sugar Mill
These ruins are all that remain of Fountainebleau Plantation, once the summer home and plantation of Bernard de Marigny. Born in 1785 to a family closely tied to the earliest colonial efforts...
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Harper Baptist Seminary
Harper Baptist Seminary was organized here in 1941. The school's origin can be traced to Harper Baptist College, formerly located near Gloster in Amite County. Named in honor of Dr. Simon...
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- church
Nerve Center Sculpture
Submitted by @beckerben
Sculptures in Charles Park
Submitted by @beckerben
Charles Park
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Greenamyer Sculpture
Submitted by @beckerben
Helena Gutteridge
Helena Gutteridge
Center For Independent Journalism
St. Philip Roman Catholic Church
The Quaker meetinghouse on this site was purchased at auction by local Catholics in 1863. St. Philip Roman Catholic Church has been on this corner since then. Its first school opened in 1880....
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- michigan his...
Northern Gate
From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by chrisinplymouth, full page.License is Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
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Hartford Memorial Baptist Church
The Hartford Memorial congregation was the first African American church on Detroit’s west side. It began, under Rev. Edgar Edwards (1875-1942), as the international,...
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- michigan his...
Blach House
From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by Elizabeth Thomsen, full page.License is Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
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Port Allegany
From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by HystericalMark, full page.License is Attribution- ShareAlike License
Walter D. Stone Memorial Zoo
Submitted by @beckerben.
St. Mary of Czestochowa Roman Catholic Church / Katolicki KosciÕ_l Matki Boskiej Czestochowskiej
The Polish refugees who immigrated to Dwight Township in the 1840s in order to escape Prussian domination worshipped at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Port Austin. In 1903 in an effort to retain...
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- michigan his...
Girl Scout Cookies
GIRL SCOUT COOKIES On November 11, 1932, Girl Scouts baked & sold cookies for the first time in the windows of the Philadelphia Gas & Electric Co. here. This endeavor soon became a...
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