Submitted by @RoadTripNE
THE BURLINGTON HOTEL ESTABLISHED 1883 PORT COSTA’S OLD TIMERS ARE QUITE CERTAIN THAT THE RUMOR OF THE BURLINGTON HOTEL BEING A BORDELLO IS UNTRUE. THEIR REASONING IS THAT THE RESPECTED OWNERS...
The mansion ca. 1853 located on this site was burned by Union troops in 1864. Two original outbuildings are included in the present house, built in 1869. Jacob Thompson (1810-1885), a native of...
WAREHOUSES USED IN THE SLAVE TRADE Commerce Street was central to the operation of Montgomery's slave trade. Enslaved people were marched in chains up the street from the riverfront and...
Submitted by @ChrisMBarr.
Beginning in the seventeenth century, millions of African people were kidnapped, sold into slavery, and shipped to the Americas as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. in 1808, the...
NESHOBA COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS 5 mi. S.W., an institution famed since 1890 for its exhibits of farm products and livestock horseshows and races, political oratory, an social get-togethers. Submitted...
SLAVE TRANSPORTATION TO MONTGOMERY In order to meet the high demand for slaves in Alabama in the early 1800s, slave traders chained African Americans together in coffles and forced them to march...
RICHARD AND PATRICIA LAWSON COMPUTER SCIENCE BUILDING Dedicated September 15, 2006 H. Richard Lawson earned the MS in computer science from Purdue in 1968. With his brother and a third partner,...
This rather sad looking plaque sits alongside an equally sad looking garden built to celebrate Great Britain's involvement in the European Commnunity. Coincidentally, I discovered the plaque and...
"LITTLE BEN" FIRST ERECTED IN 1892. TAKED NOW IN 1964. RESTORED AND RE-ERECTED ON THE 15TH DECEMBER 1981 BY THE WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL. WITH THE HELP OF ELF AQUITAINE UK. OFFERED AS A GESTURE...
MONTGOMERY'S SLAVE DEPOTS Montgomery slave traders operated depots where enslaved men, women, and children were confined. The slave depots functioned as active trading sites and as detention...
BRIGHTON, HOVE & DISTRICT CLUB CRICKET ASSOCIATION IN MEMORY OF THOSE CRICKETERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING WORLD WARD II .. 1939-1945
To inform about the installation by Jon Mills that sits on the bridge at Brighton Greenway (a disused railway line).
Dedicated to the memory of Professor E.C. (Steve) Stevenson Head of the Department of Horticulture, 1958-1967. Teacher, researcher, mentor, and visionary leader. Dr. Stevenson made pivotal...