Jamestown Furniture Exposition Building
Denver International Airport
In Memory of Soldiers and Sailors in the War With Spain
IN MEMORY OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN SHELL, FROM BATTLESHIP MAINE DESTROYED IN HAVANA HARBOR FEB. 15 1898, WAS PRESENTED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO CAMP SAMUEL M. PORTER NO....
Niagara Falls State Park
- 1885
You Are in a Watershed
Sheldon House
Rancho San Antonio
After contemplating a pair of Spanish land grant boundary markers erected in 1937 on the border of El Cerrito and Albany — here's one from a previous Read the Plaque post — I wondered if you'd...
- san leandro
- rancho san antonio
- east bay
- land grants
Northern Boundary of Rancho San Antonio
There's an earlier Read the Plaque entry that shows the reverse side of this marker, on San Pablo Avenue, right in front of the Wells Fargo Bank branch next to El Cerrito Plaza. To be honest, I...
- east bay
- albany
- berkeley
- oakland
- california
- land grants
- rancho san antonio
DePaul Academy
This is a plaque commemorating DePaul Academy, an all-boys high school that ran from 1898 until 1968 on the site of what's now Byrne Hall at DePaul University. The academy was a feeder school...
- catholic
- catholic history
- chicago
- depaul university
- vincentians
Father Thomas Munster
A plaque accompanying a statue of Thomas Munster, a Vincentian priest.Transcription: Father Thomas Munster, 1922-2007, Vincentian PriestBorn, Raised and Lived in SheffieldA Founder and Past...
- catholic
- catholic history
- chicago
- depaul university
- vincentians
Father Peter John de Smet
This is within the Jesuit residence at the Cataldo Mission in Idaho!Transcription:Father Peter John De Smet, "Apostle to the Indians"Around 1821, Father Peter John de Smet left his homeland...
- spokane
- idaho
- coeur d'alene
- cataldo
- catholics
- jesuit
- westward expansion
- missionary
The Breakup Site
The Breakup Site Sacramento & Ward St. On this spot, April 7, 2009, Jerome Tyson broke the heart of Natalie Little. They were on a date; Jerome was quiet all evening. When asked by Natalie...
Berkeley Copywriters Guild
Berkeley Copywriters Guild 1250 Addison St. On this spot, birthed in 1962, lays lain. layed lies the location original whereabouts around here of the Berkeley Copywriter's Guild. A place...