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Blue Star Memorial Highway

A tribute to the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America Sponsored by Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. Memphis and Shelby County Council of Garden Clubs...

• shelby county
• tennessee
• blue star

Modern Movie Making In Memphis

On this South Main Street corner in 1988 the modern wave of Memphis movie making was born, in great measure through the efforts of the Memphis & Shelby County Film Commissioner Linn Sitler...

• shelby county
• tennessee

Water Wheel

WATER WHEEL  TAKEN FROM A GRIST MILL BUILT IN OLD TOWN OF OAKLAND BY DR. DORREY[?] S. BAKER[?] IN 1861. IT TURNED THE GRINDING STONE THAT GROUND THE GRAIN TO MEAL AND FLOUR SHIPPED BY BOAT...

• in the olden days
• shipped by b...
• grist

Face-off

U.S. Marshal Orville Webster and Memphis police detective Will Smiddy, who was a bootlegger, shot each other outside Smiddy's saloon in a face-off during the early days of Prohibition....

• shelby county
• tennessee

Plaza Substation

From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by tkksummers, full page.License is Attribution- ShareAlike License

Justus H. Schwab

Justus H. Schwab, 1847 - 1900An extraordinary figure in the socialist and anarchist movements of the late 19th century, German-born Justus H. Schwab lived with his family and operated a saloon at...

• justus h. schwab
• east first street
• east village
• lower east side
• emma goldman
• ambrose bierce
• samuel gompers
• labor activi...
• social and p...

Robie Street Reservoir

National Historic Civil Engineering Site Robie Street Reservoir The 48 m diameter x 7.5 m deep concrete reservoir was originally build in 1913. It was one of the few structures in the area...

• halifax
• nova scotia
• halifax explosion
• civil engineering
• water reservoir
• construction
• dome

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965 The first African America woman to write a play performed on Broadway, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry bought her Greenwich Village home...

• lorraine hansberry
• waverly place
• greenwich village
• the ladder
• to be young ...
• the daughter...
• robert nemiroff
• a raisin in the sun

The Penny Farthing

The Penny. Where a young Joni Mitchell get her start.  Submitted by @ScenesFromACity

• joni mitchell
• toronto
• farthing

William J. Battle, Professor of Latin and Greek

Submitted by @pkmonaghan

• austin
• texas
• co-op
• founder
• 1896

Arnold Bakery

Submitted by @pkmonaghan

• 1906
• austin
• texas

Hugo Reid Adobe CHL# 368

From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by tkksummers, full page.License is Attribution- ShareAlike License

NEWHALL - Western Walk of Stars

From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by tkksummers, full page.License is Attribution- ShareAlike License

Rue du Bac Plaques

[Location approximate] Submitted by @Eric_Anceau

Livermore War Memorials

Submitted by @jqmcd

Honoring the Farmers of the Puyallup Valley

Gramercy Park Historic District

• ruggles
• 1831
• friends

The First Atlantic Cable

CYRUS WEST FIELD  BORN NOV 30 1819 - DIED JULY 12 1993 HERE FOR FORTY YEARS WAS HIS HOME AND HERE THE PLANS WERE MADE FOR THE FIRST ATLANTIC CABLE LAID IN 1858 

Residence Plantation

Queen Anne Revival style house built in 1898 by Roberta Volumnia Barrow Slatter. Constructed using materials from a house built on same site in 1854 by her parents noted Louisiana planter...

• louisiana
• plantation

Highland Cemetery

Oldest surviving cemetery in Baton Rouge. Dedicated by George Garig as a burial ground in 1813 and deeded to St. Joseph Roman Catholic Parish in 1819. This cemetery holds the remains of American...

• louisiana
• cemetery