N.C. SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
Opened 1894 under superintendent Edward McKee Goodwin. Main building designed by A. G. Bauer.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full...
- ncmarkers
- north carolina
Davies Manor
Built near Old Stage Road about 1807, occupied by Logan Early Davies, James Baxter Davies & their descendants for over a century. Named for Zachariah Davies, soldier of the American Revolution. In...
- shelby county
- tennessee
George Louis Crocket
George Louis Crocket (1861-1936) was born in San Augustine, Texas, the youngest of five children. He attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, an Episcopalian liberal...
- texas
- san augustine
- art
- writer
Site of the first Methodist Episcopal Church
Site of the first Methodist Episcopal Church erected in the Republic of Texas. Corner stone laid, January 7, 1838 with the usages of the Masonic Order. The Reverend Littelton Fowler and General...
- texas
- church
- religion
Quarry Operations
The rock face before you is not the natural bluff face. In 1905, the Union Sand and Material Company of St. Louis operated a lime plant here. Three quarries exist within the park; you are...
- missouri
- state park
- industry
- fossils
California Mistakenly Claimed
Chambers Chapel Cemetery
Many early Shelby County settlers of the Arlington area and generations of their descendants are interred in the adjoining church cemetery. This cemetery is endowed for continuing use of...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Sylvia
Sylvia Age: Over 600 years Circumference: 26.3 feet Biggest tree in King County Toppled January 20, 1993 Submitted by @oranv
Lorenzo L. Langstroth
LORENZO L. LANGSTROTH (1810 -1895 ) Born here, Langstroth revolutionized the bee- keeping industry with his 1852 patented move- able frame hive and his manual, The Hive and the Honey-Bee. Both...
Perth Point Zero
THIS PLAQUE MARKS THE POSITION OF POINT ZERO ADOPTED IN 1925 AS THE ORIGIN OF ALL ROAD DISTANCES IN KILOMETRES WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Submitted by @BenCurranDev
Harbor Oaks Historic District
Kensington Hilltop School
Guns Into Plowshares
This GUNS INTO PLOWSHARES Monument Was Erected in 1994 Over the Grave of 21 Guns as Part of Memorial Services for Victims of Guns and Other Violence. Let Us Forever Reject Hate And Violence
The Fin Project
Submitted by @Adi_O_S
- nuclear submarines
- subs
- plowshares
- pruning hooks
Lake Pepin
LAKE PEPIN This beautiful lake is twenty- two miles long, varies in width from one to two and a half miles, and covers about thirty- eight square miles. It was caused by the delta of the...
SF Redevelopment Agency, Western Addition Area Two
"SF Redevelopment Agency, Western Addition Area Two" Submitted by friscolex
Leslie N. Simonsen Memorial Activities Field
LESLIE N. SIMONSEN MEMORIAL ACTIVITIES FIELD
BRYANT'S GROCERY
MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM TRAIL BRYANT'S GROCERY Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till came to this site to buy candy In August 1955. White shopkeeper Carolyn Bryant accused the black youth of flirting...
The Price Tower
Submitted by @BBQsnob.
- frank lloyd wright
York
York The first African American to cross North America and reach the Pacific Coast. Born into slavery in the 1770's to the family of William Clark, York became a member of the 1804 Lewis and Clark...