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Forsyth Park

In the 1840s William Brown Hodgson conceived the idea of setting aside 10 acres of wooded land at this site for the development of Savannah's first recreational park. It was named for former...

In the 1840s William Brown Hodgson conceived the idea of setting aside 10 acres of wooded land at this site for the development of Savannah's first recreational park. It was named for former...

  • parks

THE GRANITE RAILWAY

NATIONAL HISTORIC CIVIL ENGINEERING LANDMARK THE GRANITE RAILWAY DESIGNATED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS 1976 THIS MARKER COMMEMORATES THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GROUND BREAKING...

NATIONAL HISTORIC CIVIL ENGINEERING LANDMARK THE GRANITE RAILWAY DESIGNATED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS 1976 THIS MARKER COMMEMORATES THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GROUND BREAKING...

    Shilo Inn

      Blue Star Memorial By-Way and WWI Centennial Memorial

        Mark Twain lived here

        Mark Twain lived here in the first years of the 20th Century. Plaque reads: In this house once lived Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), author of the beloved American classic The Adventures of...

        Mark Twain lived here in the first years of the 20th Century. Plaque reads: In this house once lived Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), author of the beloved American classic The Adventures of...

        • mark twain
        • samuel clemens

        DER ANTIFASCHISTISCHE

        HIER WOHNTE DER ANTIFASCHISTISCHE WIDERSTANDSKIMPPER SETTRICH PREUR GEBOREY AY, 23 IMI 1886 W MAUENFELD 12 ERVORDET I 28. AUGUST 1914 I ZUCHTMUS BRANDENBURG DIE TOTEN MANNEN

        HIER WOHNTE DER ANTIFASCHISTISCHE WIDERSTANDSKIMPPER SETTRICH PREUR GEBOREY AY, 23 IMI 1886 W MAUENFELD 12 ERVORDET I 28. AUGUST 1914 I ZUCHTMUS BRANDENBURG DIE TOTEN MANNEN

          Daggett

            The Donner Laboratory

              Rawlins Springs

              Just loved the description of the spring by Gen. Rawlins - who was part of the 1867 survey party that was exploring a route for the Union Pacific Railroad: "General John A. Rawlins, a member of...

              Just loved the description of the spring by Gen. Rawlins - who was part of the 1867 survey party that was exploring a route for the Union Pacific Railroad: "General John A. Rawlins, a member...

              • gracious
              • acceptable
              • water spring

              Mount Baker Terminal

                Historic Tumwater

                  Honor Roll South Bend

                    Pioneer tank and plane

                    In our school in the fall of 1941, an initiative was born to raise funds among Bor schoolchildren for a pioneer tank and plane

                    In our school in the fall of 1941, an initiative was born to raise funds among Bor schoolchildren for a pioneer tank and plane

                    • bor

                    Hero Minenko Leonid

                    In this house from 1966 to 2007 lived a participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel,Leonid Ivanovich MINENKO Honoured Test Pilot, Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod Region

                    In this house from 1966 to 2007 lived a participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel,Leonid Ivanovich MINENKO Honoured Test Pilot, Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod Region

                    • nizhny novgorod
                    • gorky
                    • ussr

                    Clifford Neal Boone and Sondra Lee Boone

                      Filippov Alexander Vasilievich

                      Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Vasilievich Filippov lived in this house from April 5, 1961 to April 15, 1972

                      Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Vasilievich Filippov lived in this house from April 5, 1961 to April 15, 1972

                      • bor

                      Rubinchik Ephim

                      This is the building where he worked  from 1957 to 1985  RUBINCHIK  Efim Emanuilovich prominent party and economic figure of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labour, laureate of the Stalin Prize of the...

                      This is the building where he worked  from 1957 to 1985  RUBINCHIK  Efim Emanuilovich prominent party and economic figure of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labour, laureate of the Stalin Prize of the...

                      • nizhny novgorod
                      • ussr
                      • gorky

                      An outstanding geneticist Sergey Sergeevich Chetverikov

                      Sergey Sergeevich Chetverikov 1800-1959, an outstanding geneticist, worked at Gorky University 1935-1948.

                      Sergey Sergeevich Chetverikov 1800-1959, an outstanding geneticist, worked at Gorky University 1935-1948.

                      • nizhny novgorod

                      World-famous Russian photographer Andrei Karelin

                      In this house in 1897-1906 years lived and worked world-famous photographer, artist, teacher, public figure Andrei Osipovich Karelin

                      In this house in 1897-1906 years lived and worked world-famous photographer, artist, teacher, public figure Andrei Osipovich Karelin

                      • nizhny novgorod
                      • russian muse...

                      Belarusian poet Maksim BOGDANOVICH

                      In this building of the former Nizhny Novgorod gymnasium in 1902-1908 studied the outstanding Belarusian poet Maksim BOGDANOVICH

                      In this building of the former Nizhny Novgorod gymnasium in 1902-1908 studied the outstanding Belarusian poet Maksim BOGDANOVICH

                      • nizhny novgorod
                      • minin university
                      • maksim bogdanovich