The Barnes Dance diagonal street crossing

Mojave Road

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CHL# 156 Los Angeles Plaza (Olvera Street)

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Long Sands Historic Marker

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Blue Star Memorial Highway

A tribute to the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America Sponsored by Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. Memphis and Shelby County Council of Garden Clubs...

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Modern Movie Making In Memphis

On this South Main Street corner in 1988 the modern wave of Memphis movie making was born, in great measure through the efforts of the Memphis & Shelby County Film Commissioner Linn Sitler...

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Water Wheel

WATER WHEEL TAKEN FROM A GRIST MILL BUILT IN OLD TOWN OF OAKLAND BY DR. DORREY[?] S. BAKER[?] IN 1861. IT TURNED THE GRINDING STONE THAT GROUND THE GRAIN TO MEAL AND FLOUR SHIPPED BY BOAT...

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Face-off

U.S. Marshal Orville Webster and Memphis police detective Will Smiddy, who was a bootlegger, shot each other outside Smiddy's saloon in a face-off during the early days of Prohibition....

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Plaza Substation

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Justus H. Schwab

Justus H. Schwab, 1847 - 1900An extraordinary figure in the socialist and anarchist movements of the late 19th century, German-born Justus H. Schwab lived with his family and operated a saloon at...

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Robie Street Reservoir

National Historic Civil Engineering Site Robie Street Reservoir The 48 m diameter x 7.5 m deep concrete reservoir was originally build in 1913. It was one of the few structures in the area...

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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965 The first African America woman to write a play performed on Broadway, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry bought her Greenwich Village home...