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Allison Van Norman

    North Branch Library

      McAdam Railway Station

      Submitted by @bthubbard

      Submitted by @bthubbard

        Don Messer

        Submitted by @bthubbard

        Submitted by @bthubbard

        • fiddler
        • messer

        The Linden Oak

        THE LINDEN OAK The oldest White Oak tree in Montgomery County was saved from destruction by the Metro construction in 1973 by Idamae Garrott. A great champion of the people and of the environment,...

        THE LINDEN OAK The oldest White Oak tree in Montgomery County was saved from destruction by the Metro construction in 1973 by Idamae Garrott. A great champion of the people and of the environment,...

        • linden oak
        • imageryan
        • montgomery
        • maryland

        Cincinnati Union Terminal Time Capsule

        Submitted by @kevl42

        Submitted by @kevl42

          Cincinnati Union Terminal

          Submitted by @kevl42

          Submitted by @kevl42

            Tomb of an Unknown Soldier

            Submitted by @DaraGreen

            Submitted by @DaraGreen

            • civil war
            • signal knob

            Over the Rhine

            [Location approximate]Submitted by @kevl42

            [Location approximate]Submitted by @kevl42

            • ohio
            • rhine
            • canal

            Anne Frank's Tree

            Submitted by @joepevans

            Submitted by @joepevans

            • wwii
            • holocaust
            • anne frank

            Simon Bolivar

              Hotel Whitcomb Temporary City Hall 1912 to 1915

                Lincoln, SF City Hall

                  Darwin studies geology

                  The location at which Charles Darwin first used a clinometer to measure the tilt of geological strata.Submitted by Alistair Wylie

                  The location at which Charles Darwin first used a clinometer to measure the tilt of geological strata.Submitted by Alistair Wylie

                  • charles darwin
                  • geology
                  • clinometer
                  • adam sedgwick

                  Duck Lane, Builth Wells

                  Origins of Duck Lane, Builth WellsSubmitted by: Alistair Wylie

                  Origins of Duck Lane, Builth WellsSubmitted by: Alistair Wylie

                  • ducks
                  • builth wells

                  Newton County, CSA

                  Supply and military center in the Civil War. Target area for Federals trying to move up the Sabine or across Louisiana and take Texas. Confederates built breastworks and maintained arsenal at...

                  Supply and military center in the Civil War. Target area for Federals trying to move up the Sabine or across Louisiana and take Texas. Confederates built breastworks and maintained arsenal at...

                  • texas
                  • civil war

                  Deweyville

                  Original site, called "Possum Bluff," was purchased for $200 by Pierre Lavine from H.L. Morrison in 1886. The Sabine Tram Company purchased the land in 1897 from G. Smyth and a sawmill was built...

                  Original site, called "Possum Bluff," was purchased for $200 by Pierre Lavine from H.L. Morrison in 1886. The Sabine Tram Company purchased the land in 1897 from G. Smyth and a sawmill was built...

                  • texas

                  Swift Cemetery

                  The trading village of Salem was founded in 1835 by Seth Swift. A Quaker and whaling merchant, Swift had moved to this area from Massachusetts with his wife, Lydia, and six children. When Lydia...

                  The trading village of Salem was founded in 1835 by Seth Swift. A Quaker and whaling merchant, Swift had moved to this area from Massachusetts with his wife, Lydia, and six children. When...

                  • texas
                  • cemetery

                  Trout Creek Cemetery

                  Originally a part of the James West Survey, this cemetery dates to the early 1860s. The land was later owned by Mrs. Frances Ann Dyer (d.1890), and upon her death was inherited by her daughter...

                  Originally a part of the James West Survey, this cemetery dates to the early 1860s. The land was later owned by Mrs. Frances Ann Dyer (d.1890), and upon her death was inherited by her daughter...

                  • texas
                  • cemetery

                  Trout Creek Missionary Baptist Church

                  Trout Creek Missionary Baptist Church Local oral tradition holds that the Trout Creek Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1876. An early church building had that year inscribed on it, and...

                  Trout Creek Missionary Baptist Church Local oral tradition holds that the Trout Creek Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1876. An early church building had that year inscribed on it,...

                  • texas
                  • church