School Haydnlaan
Dutch: Helpman was tot 1915 een tot de gemeente Haren behorend dorp. De inlijving bij Groningen leidde tot een grote groei en de behoefte aan de bouw 'eener lagere school'. B&W gaven de...
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- architecture
- history
First Frame House in Grand Rapids
On this site Joel Guild erected the first frame house in Grand Rapids, August 1833, in which the first township election was held April 4, 1834, and the first white wedding was celebrated...
- grand rapids
- michigan
- house
- election
- wedding
Partnership sculpture dedication
This dedication is attached to a sculpture that sits along the waterfront of Reykjavik Harbor. It was a gift from journalist and activist Charles E Cobb and his wife. It reads: Ambassador and...
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- plaque
- sculpture
- gift
Höfði House
Höfði House is a house steeped in history. It's also haunted. The informative plaque reads: Höfði House has a remarkable history connected to Icelandic relations with other nations. The...
- informative
- iceland
- reykjavik
- historical place
Kitchen Scene of Cock Fights
The Jean Hasbrouck House in New Paltz, NY. A National historic landmark as are several other structures in the neighbourhood, part of the Huguenot Street Historic District. According to wikipedia,...
- early new york
- new york
- cockfights
- hasbrouck
- new paltz
- alan reno
KRÝSIVÍK - SELTÚN
Historical Notes At Seltún there is a high- temperature geothermal area with mud pots and steam vents. At a depth of 1000 m, the temperature is above 200C. Seltún belongs to one of the...
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- informational
- iceland
- explosion
Leif Eiriksson Statue
This inscription is on the back of a large statue of Viking Leifur Eiriksson, the earnest adventurer who discovered the North American continent nearly 400 years before Columbus. This statue was a...
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- iceland
- dedicated
- gift
Entry to Hallgrimskirkja Church
This plaque greets people entering Hallgrimskirkja, the large church that overlooks Reykjavik. The same saying appears over the doors of many churches throughout Iceland. It reads: Þá Þú gengur í...
- church
- iceland
- greeting
- entryway
The World's Most Exciting Restaurant
LAKEWOOD LANDMARK CASA BONITA 1973 THE LAKEWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY Casa Bonita of Denver designed by PHIL H. PHILLIPS 1974 More info at http://www.casabonitadenver.com. Additionally, their...
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- denver
- mexican
- south park
Theological Seminary
"This marker is across the street from the site of the Seminary Buildings, demolished in 1936. The facade of the Chapel is now the portico of the existing building - Ellsworth School. A lack...
- seminary
- connecticut
- hartford
- school
The Wreck of Walter Hood
Steamship Terminal - Downtown Victoria
The plaque marks the building formerly used by the Victoria to Vancouver Ferry. The building is located in downtown Victoria, BC at 470 Belleville Street, just across the street from the...
- ferry
- steamship
- canadian pacific
- victoria
- british columbia
- robert bateman
Sigling (Sailing) Plaque
This sculpture, titled Sigling / Sailing, and plaque are in Akureyri, the "capitol" if North Iceland. This sculpture, by Jón Gunnar Arnarson, is a sister to the better known Sólfar / Sun Voyager...
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- sculpture
- iceland
Bram Stoker
Photographed by MKSeery from Open Plaques.
- dublin
- ireland
- dracula
- vampires
- stoker
- bram
Some Local History (Read This Its Cool)
Original Residents: The Ohlone For more than 2,500 years before the Spanish missionaries first arrived in the Bay Area in the 1770s, dozens of small, politically inde-pendent native...
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- huchiun
- peralta
- oakland
- berkeley
- bay area
- east bay
- emeryville
- adobe
- rancho
- indian
- disease
- gold rush
- squatters
Forest Ranger William Henry Stephens
This plaque from 2007 is found in an off-the- beaten track location at Elk Island National Park. It is found along Rob's Road, an old warden's trail that is largely inaccessible to the public. It...
- william henr...
- forest fires
- fire
- conservation
- 1890s
- canada
- elk island
- elk island n...
- parks canada
- cooking lake
Preservation of the Plains Buffalo
This plaque commemorates the preservation of the plains bison by the Canadian government. A large proportion of plains bison currently in conservation herds are descendants of the Pablo- Allard...
- buffalo
- bison
- plains bison
- canada
- parks canada
- national parks
- conservation
- nature
- 1940s
- elk island
- elk island n...
- buffalo nati...
- alberta
- french
- bilingual
Stephen Stephensson
The monument was erected in north Iceland to honor Icelandic poet Stephen Stephensson. He was born in Skagafjörður, Iceland but emigrated to Wisconsin, USA in 1873. This monument was erected in...
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- statue
- iceland
Apsonsi - Thai Angel Statue
Apsonsi - Thai Angel Statue Gateway to Thai Town Presented to the people of Los Angeles by the Thai Community Development Center and the Thai Town Formation Committee June 15, 2007 With funding...
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- asian-americ...
- los angeles
- hollywood
- angel
- thai town
Birthplace of Commercial Ice Cream Production
Article about this factory. Submitted by Denise Simard.
- pennsylvania
- seven valleys
- ice cream
- york county
- dairy farmers