The Charles H. Shaw Grove
- bay area
- california
- berkeley
- charles shaw
Eliza Winston: Saint Anthony Falls Heritage Trail
Courtesy @romanmars
- minnesota
- minneapolis
- canada
- slavery
- steamboat
Savings Bank of Mendocino County Masonic Hall
Savings Bank of Mendocino CoutyEstablished 1903 Masonic Hall Courtesy @romanmars
- mendocino
- california
- bank
- statue
- redwood
Civil Rights Freedom Riders
Via @eddieizzard (https://twitter.com/eddieizza rd/status/673262862962421760/) (Location approximate)
- birmingham
- freedom riders
- segregation
- civil rights
Fort Sumter National Monument
Via @eddieizzard (https://twitter.com/eddieizzar d/status/677973736922996736/)
- civil war
- south carolina
- sumter
Jane Jacobs
THE WRITER AND URBAN ACTIVIST JANE JACOBS (1916-2006) LIVED HERE FROM 1971 TO 2006. Via https://www.instagram.com/sabisto/
- toronto
- urban activist
- jane jacobx
Peak House
Peak House The original house, built in 1651, was burned when King Phillip's Indians burnt the town of Medfield in 1676. Seth Clark, the owner, received indemnity from the colonial...
- massachusetts
- medfield
- king philip
St. Gabriel Church
ST. GABRIEL CHURCH Acadian exiles arrived from Maryland in 1767 and were given Spanish land grants as was the church. The church was built by Louis LeConte a builder from Lafourche...
- lousiana
- church
- maryland
- spanish
The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist
Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.
Shall Not Be Allowed To Drop Into Oblivion
FELICITE A black woman, a native of Haiti. During the yellow-fever epidemic here in 1839, she nursed the sick, administered to the dying, closed the eyes of the dead, and wept over their...
- new iberia
- lousiana
- yellow fever
- felicite
- haiti
Frederic Henri Duperier
Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.
- louisiana
- new iberia
- philadelphia
- haiti
- berard
- planter
- merchant
- teche
The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany
Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.
- louisiana
- new iberia
- polk
- gothic
- stained glass
- glass
- tiffany
- civil war
- hospital
Church of the Incarnation
Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.
- london
- amite
- river
- church
- bach
- duncan
- missionary
- rector
Blthyewood Plantation
Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.
- amite
- louisiana
- sanders
- kennedy
- plantation
- blthyewood
General Alfred Mouton
Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.
- louisiana
- shiloh
- mouton
- red river
- mansfield
- civil war
- slavery
- confederacy
Spanish Lake
First known as Lake Flamand for one of the early settlers, Jean Baptist Grevemberg; known as Lake Tasse by the French due to its cup shape; and known as Spanish Lake for early Spanish...
- london
- lake
- lafayette
- flamand
- brevemberg
- tasse
- cup
- french
- spanish
May This Plaque Forever Honor
Judge Émile Edouard (Edward) Simon 1824~1914 A Native of St. Martinville, Simon studied law at Harvard under the Honorable Joseph Story and Simon Greenleaf, earning his degree in 1846. As...
- louisiana
- st martinville
- longfellow
- acadian
- teche
Oak and Pine Alley
OAK AND PINE ALLEY Charles Durand, Pre-Civil War sugar planter, credited with planting this alley. In legend a family wedding party rode down the alley canopied by giant spider...
- louisiana
- planter
- sugar
- fontenette
- spanish
- durand
- spider webs
- gold
- silver
Centerville, Louisiana
Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.
- louisiana
- electrocution
- van buren
May Yours Tread Pleasantly
THE FRENCH MARKETREBUILT 1936 - 1938 ANCIENT FRENCH MARKET DATES ITS LEGAL BIRTH FROM SEPTEMBER 10, 1784, WHEN THE "AUTHORITIES OF JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION" DECIDED THAT ALL RETAILERS IN...
- lousiana
- new orleans
- french market