Simpson Bros. Clover-shaped pavement plaque, 1899
This plaque was submitted on June 7 2020. It is from a Massachusetts pavement company, Simpson Bros. Most found plaques from them are dated 1907-1911. This one is earlier, and is dated 1899. It is...
- brookline
- reservoir
- three-leaf c...
- simpson bros.
- circa 1899
- 1899
Gates Memorial Library
John Warne "Bet a Million" Gates (1855-1911), a native of Illinois, was instrumental in the early growth of Port Arthur. A prominent businessman and financier noted for his promotion of barbed...
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- library
- lamar state college
- port arthur
Port Arthur College
John W. Gates founded Port Arthur College in 1909 as a nonprofit, non-sectarian, vocational school focusing on stenography, accounting and communications. Gates, one of the founders of the Texas...
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- port arthur
- lamar state college
Judson Hartwell Grambling
Grambling's Namesake Grambling's early development was centered around a small sawmill owned by a millright named Judson Hartwell Grambling, a European American for whom the town and university...
- louisiana
- grambling
Mr. Earnest "Earnie" Miles
Mr. Earnie Miles was widely known for his pioneering career at KNOE-TV in Monroe, Louisiana as the first black news reporter and host of the "Earnie Miles Gospel Show” which began in 1980. The...
- louisiana
- grambling
Jan Grant Berenstain
IN RECOGNITION OF JAN GRANT BERENSTAIN Rosemont Native Radnor High School Class of 1941 Co- Creator of the "The Berenstain Bears" with Husband Stan Berenstain. RADNOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY ...
- radnor
- berenstain
- berenstain bears
- emlen tunnell
Bloody Sunday Attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge
"BLOODY SUNDAY' ATTACK AT EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE A voting registration campaign In 1965 turned tragic Feb. 17 when an Alabama state trooper fatally shot Jimmie Lee Jackson In Marion. It prompted...
Pulpit Rock
Pulpit Rock Oliver Leavitt Preached to the Pioneers here in 1820submitted by Alan R Reno
- pioneers
- leavitt
- oxbow ny
- alan r reno
- preachers
Towser the Famous Cat
TOWSER 21 APRIL 1963 - 20 MARCH 1987 TOWSER THE FAMOUS CAT, WHO LIVED IN THE STILL HOUSE GLENTURRET DISTILLERY FOR ALMOST 24 YEARS, SHE CAUGHT 28,899 MICE IN HER LIFETIME WORLD FAMOUS MOUSING...
Vuylsteke House
Born in Rotterdam, Holland, Adrianus Jacobus Maria Vuylsteke (1873-1912) immigrated to the U. S. in 1893. In 1894-96 he moved to Texas and helped plat the town of Port Arthur. Following his...
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- architecture
Ruby Ruth Fuller Building
This building was constructed in 1915 as the new home of Port Arthur's First United Methodist Church, which had organized in 1897. The building was designed by C.W. Ward, and church member Warren...
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- church
- lamar univer...
Francis John (Frank) Trost
Frank Trost, the photographer of record on the day the Lucas Gusher erupted in the Spindletop Oil Field, came to Port Arthur in 1895 from Kansas City, Missouri, where he had been involved in...
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- photography
- oil
- port arthur
Indian Village
On this site granted by the Spanish Government dwelled Tusquahoma, Chief of a Choctaw Indian tribe of fifty families, from about 1785 to 1825 when the land was sold and the tribe moved west. ...
- louisiana
- native american
- village
- ouachita parish
Monroe Residential District
This excellent example of an early twentieth century neighborhood, consisting of over six hundred structures in a variety of architectural styles including Colonial/Georgian Revival, Spanish...
- louisiana
- historic district
- park
- monroe
- ouachita parish
Hurricane Rita
While miraculously no one in Cameron Parish was killed, 38 of it's 40 cemeteries were breached and over 340 caskets and their remains were torn from the ground and scattered into marshes, tree...
- louisiana
- disaster
- cameron parish
- hurricane rita
This is Enough For Me
"ONE DOESN'T ASK OF ONE WHO SUFFERS: WHAT IS YOUR COUNTRY AND WHAT IS YOUR RELIGION? ONE MERELY SAYS, YOU SUFFER, THIS IS ENOUGH FOR ME, YOU BELONG TO ME AND I SHALL HELP YOU" LOUIS...
Dalmeny Estate Wildlife
Submitted by @TweetsBennett
The French River
Submitted by Eric Boelling.
Helen Crandall
IN LOVING MEMORY OF HELEN CRANDALL A VOLUNTEER NURSE WHO DIED IN BERKELEY, CALIF AT HER POST OF DUTY DURING THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC OF 1918 "GREATER LOVE HATH NO NAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN...
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- influenza
- 1918
Winfree Baptist Church
The Winfree community originated in 1831 as a ranch of the early Texas settler Abraham Winfree. By 1914, the area had grown in population and the scattered rural churches were not adequate for...
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- church