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Edward G. Zelinsky

    Tiburon Was a Railroad Town

      Shoreline Park

        Given to the City of Tiberon by the Corinthian Yacht Club April 27, 1969

          Sgt. Thomas Henry Skelton

          IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND  1331635 SGT. TOHOMAS HENRY SKELTON.  AGED 19 YEARS. WHO FLEW FROM LANGAR  AIRFIELD ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 13th 1943  TO GERMANY AND NEVER RETURNED  ALSO TO ALL MEMBERS...

          IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND  1331635 SGT. TOHOMAS HENRY SKELTON.  AGED 19 YEARS. WHO FLEW FROM LANGAR  AIRFIELD ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 13th 1943  TO GERMANY AND NEVER RETURNED  ALSO TO ALL MEMBERS...

            Bristol Shogomoc Railway Site

            Submitted by @CorenskiNowlan

            Submitted by @CorenskiNowlan

              The Heritage House

              Submitted by @jqmcd

              Submitted by @jqmcd

                Bristol & South Wales Union

                Submitted by @theonlymfkirke [Location approximate]

                Submitted by @theonlymfkirke [Location approximate]

                • bristol

                The Fourteenth Army 1942 - 1945

                Submitted by @theonlymfkirke.

                Submitted by @theonlymfkirke.

                • bristol

                UK Rail Speed Record

                Submitted by @miniadvent

                Submitted by @miniadvent

                  People Who Like This Sort of Thing Will Find This The Sort of Thing They Like

                  • lincoln

                  Moon Tree - Planted in April 1976

                  This "Moon Tree” is a Loblolly Pine grown from a seed that, in January 1971 was carried to the Moon and brought back to Earth by Major Stuart Roosa, command module pilot for Apollo XIV and a...

                  This "Moon Tree” is a Loblolly Pine grown from a seed that, in January 1971 was carried to the Moon and brought back to Earth by Major Stuart Roosa, command module pilot for Apollo XIV and a...

                  • louisiana
                  • moon tree
                  • 1971
                  • moon
                  • apollo
                  • loblolly pine

                  Christian Science Historical Marker

                  Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. This church is one of the many world wide branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,...

                  Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. This church is one of the many world wide branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in...

                  • religion
                  • louisiana

                  Cavanaugh Hall of Science

                  The Cavanaugh Hall of Science bears the name of Charles J. Cavanaugh, whose teaching career spanned 1945 to 1977 as professor of biology at his alma mater, Louisiana College. Prof Cavanaugh, as he...

                  The Cavanaugh Hall of Science bears the name of Charles J. Cavanaugh, whose teaching career spanned 1945 to 1977 as professor of biology at his alma mater, Louisiana College. Prof Cavanaugh, as he...

                  • louisiana
                  • science

                  Alexandria National Cemetery

                  Civil War AlexandriaAlexandria, Louisiana, served briefly of the Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi, as the headquarters a vast area encompassing states and territories west of the...

                  Civil War AlexandriaAlexandria, Louisiana, served briefly of the Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi, as the headquarters a vast area encompassing states and territories west of...

                  • louisiana
                  • cemetery

                  Wallace J. Thibodaux

                  *Born in Lafourche Parish on the estate of his father, Henry J. Thibodaux, on December 18, 1880 at Bayou Blue.*Inherited his father's estate who was a descendant of Henry Schyler Thibodaux, the...

                  *Born in Lafourche Parish on the estate of his father, Henry J. Thibodaux, on December 18, 1880 at Bayou Blue.*Inherited his father's estate who was a descendant of Henry Schyler Thibodaux,...

                  • louisiana

                  Port Barre

                  Port actif à l'époque du bateau à vapeur. Appelé d'après le nom de la famille Barré. En 1765 Charles Barré acheta 8800 arpents de terre à Jacques Guillaume Courtableau, le premier Commandant du...

                  Port actif à l'époque du bateau à vapeur. Appelé d'après le nom de la famille Barré. En 1765 Charles Barré acheta 8800 arpents de terre à Jacques Guillaume Courtableau, le premier Commandant du...

                  • louisiana

                  Village of Georgetown

                  Area once settled by the Choctaw Nation. Anglo-Americans settled here near the crossroads of the Harrisonburg and Three Notch Roads which connected the region to the Natchez Trace & the El Camino...

                  Area once settled by the Choctaw Nation. Anglo- Americans settled here near the crossroads of the Harrisonburg and Three Notch Roads which connected the region to the Natchez Trace & the El...

                  • louisiana

                  The Famous Burning Well of Colfax

                  Visitors to this spot were once greeted with a curious sight, a burning well. In 1899 a driller named L. B. Hart completed an artesian well at 1,103 feet. The water was salty, and it bubbled with...

                  Visitors to this spot were once greeted with a curious sight, a burning well. In 1899 a driller named L. B. Hart completed an artesian well at 1,103 feet. The water was salty, and it bubbled with...

                  • louisiana

                  Montgomery, Louisiana

                  One of the oldest towns in the state, it began in 1719 as Bon Dieu Falls, a French trading post. In 1840 General Thomas Woodward bought the land and named it Creola Bluff. In 1860 it was renamed...

                  One of the oldest towns in the state, it began in 1719 as Bon Dieu Falls, a French trading post. In 1840 General Thomas Woodward bought the land and named it Creola Bluff. In 1860 it was...

                  • louisiana
                  • towns