In Memory of Betty & Dick Irwin
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Riverway Park
2017 Monument expressing the gratitude of the Town of Brookline, Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Friends of the Muddy River and others to Michael and Kitty Dukakis for their lifelong support of the...
U.S. Military Jeep
The Jeep displayed here is actually a 1951 model jeep, distinguished from the 1942-45 WW II Army- Marinemodel by its windshield without a divider bar. President Eisenhower generally traveled...
- louisiana
- livingston parish
- jeep
- military
McDonnel Douglas F-4 Phantom
VF 142 Ghostriders / U.S.S. America in 1974 The McDonnel Douglas F-4 Phantom aircraft was developed as superiority fighter and interceptor for deployment on board U.S. Navy Aircraft carriers,...
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- military
- plane
- f-14
El Paisano Hotel
Upper Quarry Amphitheater
La Vida
- roberto castro
- merrill college
Japanese Garden Dinner Bay Community Park
Keokuk Armory Explosion Memorial
In memory of the 21 persons who perished in an explosion of The National Guard Armory on this site on Thanksgiving eve Nov. 24, 1965, while attending a square dance of The Swing-Ezy Square Dance Club.
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- keokuk
- disaster
- square dance
Conrad Nagel
Conrad Nagel was born in Keokuk, Iowa on March 16, 1897. The son of Frank, a musician, and Frances, a talented singer, it is no surprise Nagel grew up to be a famous silent and sound movie star....
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- keokuk
- entertainment
Elsa Maxwell
Elsa Maxwell was born May 24, 1883 in Keokuk, Iowa – it is said she was born in a theater during the opera Mignon. She was raised in San Francisco, California where her father sold insurance and...
- iowa
- keokuk
- entertainment
Calvary United Methodist Church
This church was established in 1867 with the help of the Freedman's Aid Society, an organization that provided for the spiritual needs of freed Black slaves. The Society's...
- louisiana
- church
- religion
- african american
C.M. Washington High School
C.M. Washington High School, the first public high school for African- American students in Thibodaux, was dedicated on December 18, 1950. The school included grades 1-12. It was named...
- louisiana
- education
- african american
Leonidas Polk
Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1806, Polk attended the University of North Carolina before receiving an appointment to West Point, from which he graduated in 1827. He soon resigned...
- louisiana
- civil war
- religion
St. John's Historic Cemetery
Once part of Ridgefield Plantation, the land for the Church and Cemetery fronted on the Terrebonne Road - now Jackson Street - connecting Bayous Lafourche and Terrebonne. An entire block...
- louisiana
- cemetery
- thibodaux
- lafourche parish