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Oakland Fire Department Fire Station Number Twenty

    Victoria Circle Park

      Mergenthaler House

      A beautiful 3 story brick house in the old Bolton Hill district of Baltimore, MarylandThe plaque reads:From 1894 to 1899, the house was the residence of Ottmar Mergenthaler, the German immigrant...

      A beautiful 3 story brick house in the old Bolton Hill district of Baltimore, MarylandThe plaque reads:From 1894 to 1899, the house was the residence of Ottmar Mergenthaler, the German immigrant...

        Theodore Vacquer

        Submitted by @bibhistorique

        Submitted by @bibhistorique

          Coach Wayne Tuffy Williams

            Natlie Coughlin

              In Memory of the Founders of Mission San Rafael Arcangel

                Marin Indian Warrior

                  Colonel H. Weir Cook

                    Tree of Life

                    TREE OF LIFE IN MEMORY OF ALL OUR FRIENDS WHO HAVE DIED HOMELESS IN MARIN

                    TREE OF LIFE IN MEMORY OF ALL OUR FRIENDS WHO HAVE DIED HOMELESS IN MARIN

                      MARGARET STRATFORD

                      IN MEMORY OF MARGARET STRATFORD

                      IN MEMORY OF MARGARET STRATFORD

                        May This Tree

                        MAY THIS TREE, DEDICATED [IN? TO?] THE MEMORY OF A HAPPY CHILDHOOD SPENT IN SAN RAFAEL, INSPIRE FUTURE [GENERATI?] ONS TO CHERISH [?]T ALL TREES

                        MAY THIS TREE, DEDICATED [IN? TO?] THE MEMORY OF A HAPPY CHILDHOOD SPENT IN SAN RAFAEL, INSPIRE FUTURE [GENERATI?] ONS TO CHERISH [?]T ALL TREES

                          Sidney A. Murray, Jr., Hydroelectric Station 1990

                          In 1990, construction of the largest prefabricated power plant in the world, the Sidney A. Murray, Jr., Hydroelectric Station, was completed 40 miles south of Vidalia. It was the vision of Mayor...

                          In 1990, construction of the largest prefabricated power plant in the world, the Sidney A. Murray, Jr., Hydroelectric Station, was completed 40 miles south of Vidalia. It was the vision of...

                          • louisiana
                          • hydroelectric
                          • power
                          • electricity

                          We Lived & Died Here

                          "Let's teach (our children) that even in a life Such as this, our hearts do not despair, that, although wwe left behind many material things, we did not leave our courage, our fortitude, and our...

                          "Let's teach (our children) that even in a life Such as this, our hearts do not despair, that, although wwe left behind many material things, we did not leave our courage, our fortitude, and...

                          • arkansas. wo...
                          • japanese-american
                          • concentration camps

                          Arkansas State Flag History

                          In 1912, Secretary of State Earle Hodges (1911-1917) and the Pine Bluff chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution sponsored a competition to produce a design for Arkansas’s first state...

                          In 1912, Secretary of State Earle Hodges (1911-1917) and the Pine Bluff chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution sponsored a competition to produce a design for Arkansas’s first state...

                          • arkansas
                          • flag
                          • dar

                          Matt Biondi Olympiad XXIV Town of Moraga

                            Arthur Amos

                              Marjorie Amos

                                Crossroads Mini Park

                                  Crossroads Mini Park