Keokuk Armory Explosion Memorial
In memory of the 21 persons who perished in an explosion of The National Guard Armory on this site on Thanksgiving eve Nov. 24, 1965, while attending a square dance of The Swing-Ezy Square Dance Club.
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- keokuk
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Conrad Nagel
Conrad Nagel was born in Keokuk, Iowa on March 16, 1897. The son of Frank, a musician, and Frances, a talented singer, it is no surprise Nagel grew up to be a famous silent and sound movie star....
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- keokuk
- entertainment
Elsa Maxwell
Elsa Maxwell was born May 24, 1883 in Keokuk, Iowa – it is said she was born in a theater during the opera Mignon. She was raised in San Francisco, California where her father sold insurance and...
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- keokuk
- entertainment
Calvary United Methodist Church
This church was established in 1867 with the help of the Freedman's Aid Society, an organization that provided for the spiritual needs of freed Black slaves. The Society's...
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- church
- religion
- african american
C.M. Washington High School
C.M. Washington High School, the first public high school for African- American students in Thibodaux, was dedicated on December 18, 1950. The school included grades 1-12. It was named...
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- education
- african american
Leonidas Polk
Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1806, Polk attended the University of North Carolina before receiving an appointment to West Point, from which he graduated in 1827. He soon resigned...
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- civil war
- religion
St. John's Historic Cemetery
Once part of Ridgefield Plantation, the land for the Church and Cemetery fronted on the Terrebonne Road - now Jackson Street - connecting Bayous Lafourche and Terrebonne. An entire block...
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- cemetery
- thibodaux
- lafourche parish
J.C. Hubinger
Industrialist and philanthropist, John Carl Hubinger was born in New Orleans in 1851, the first of eight children. The family moved north when J.C. was four, living in Kentucky and Indiana before...
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- keokuk
- industry
The Heritage Monument
This monument honors the brave service and sacrifices of all African-American Veterans and their families from Louisiana and nationwide. It begins with the 1863 Siege at Port Hudson, Louisiana,...
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- african american
- veteran memorial
Louisiana Veterans Memorial Park 'Never Forget Garden'
Dedicated November 11, 2021In commemoration of the centennial ofthe Tomb of the Unknown SoldierA Statewide Volunteer Project byLouisiana Garden Club Federation, Inc.Louisiana Members of...
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- veteran memorial
Chief Keokuk
Chief Keokuk was born in 1780 near the present location of Rock Island, Illinois. His tribe, the Sauk Indians, joined with the remnants of the Mesquakie tribe (or Fox Indians) to form a community...
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- native american
The Hughes Family
Felix and Jean Hughes moved with their three super achieving children to Keokuk in 1879. Felix served as Mayor, President of the Keokuk and Western Railroad and was a Supreme Court Justice....
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- keokuk
- industrialists
Charlotta Gordon Pyles
Former slave and celebrated abolitionist, Charlotta Pyles was an outspoken critic of slavery. She was born a slave in Kentucky in 1804. Her father was a mixture of German and African American...
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- native american
- abolition
Annie Wittenmter
General Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army said of Wittenmyer, “No soldier on the firing line gave more heroic service than she did.”Sarah Ann Turner (Annie) was born in Sandy Springs,...
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- keokuk
- civil war
- women
Brooklyn Heights Historic District / Brooklyn Historical Society
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS HISTORIC DISTRICT HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK THIS SITE POSSESSES NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE IN COMMEMORATING THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
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- brooklyn
- brooklyn heights
- national par...
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- 1881
- 1991