William Bartram Trail
Located between the parking lot and plaza of the Main Library in Baton Rouge. Plaque reads: NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE GARDEN CLUBS DEEP SOUTH REGION WILLIAM BARTRAM TRAIL TRACED 1773-1777...
- william bartram
- naturalist
- john james a...
- national cou...
Tools for Survival
- obsidian
- oregon
- newberry
- deschutes
- volcanos
Strathcona Avenue Fire Hall
- canada
- fire
- lucien hills
- hamilton theatre
Longe Street's Historic Sites
Submitted by @Rachbcooper
- toronto
- ontario
- yonge
- canada
- lost mud creek
- davisville
- deer park farm
Roman Fortress
ROMAN FORTRESS This plaque marks the site of the Porta Principalis Dextra or North Western Gate of the Roman Fortress of which the foundations as rebuilt circa A.D. 300 lie just below...
- york
- roman
- fortress
- rebuilt
- 300
- porta princi...
Lendal Tower
LENDAL TOWER Dating from about 1300, ti was originally part of the City's defences, with a defensive chain stretching from here to the Tower on the opposite bank. In 1677 it was leased to the...
- five hundred years
- annual rate
- one peppercorn
- york
- waterworks
- england
James Coverdale
MILES CLOVERDALE c.1488-1569 Bishop of Exeter and believed to be a native of York. He translated and published the first complete printed English Bible (1535) and revised the Great Bible of...
- york
- bible
- cromwell
- book of comm...
- 1420
- 1488
- 1569
The George Inn
THE GEORGE INN In Elizabethan times Ralph Rokeby Esq. (d. 1575) Secretary of the Council of the North lived on a house on this site. Subsequently for about two and a half centuries there existed...
- york
- bronte
- hotel
- england
- hostelry
Billy the Kid's Elusive Tombstone
- billy the kid
- tombstone
Newberry is: the Loner Volcano
Caution: Prone to Violent Outburts
- violent outbursts
- newberry
- volcano
- oregon
- deschuttes
Littlefield Building
GEORGE WASHINGTON LITTLEFIELD (1842-1920) CAME TO TEXAS FROM MISSISSIPPI IN 1850. AFTER SERVING IN TERRY'S TEXAS RANGERS IN THE CIVIL WAR, HE MADE HIS FORTUNE RANCHING AND DRIVING CATTLE. HE...
- austin
- texas
- ladies' banking
- bank
- littlefield
- university
Driskill Hotel
BUILT 1885-86 BY COL. JESSE L. DRISKILL (1824-1890), CATTLE KING WHO MOVED TO AUSTIN IN 1869. BRICK DRESSED WITH LIMESTONE. HAD THREE GRAND ENTRANCES – ONE THE LARGEST ARCHED DOORWAY IN TEXAS....
- texas
- austin
- hotel
- cattle
- hotel
Hamilton Grange
Submitted by @barkosu
Praetorian Gate
PRAETORIAN GATE Near here stood the principal entrance into the City in the days of the Romans. Original date uncertain bu probably rebuilt circa 300 A.D. Submitted by @slashdotat
- york
- romans
- gate
- praetorian
- 300
In Memory of Sgt. Joseph E. Jackson
TO THE CHILDREN IN MEMORY OF SGT. JOSEPH E. JACKSON FAR AWAY IN AN ALIEN LAND HE FOUND NOT ONLY A WAR BUT CHILDREN ... CHILDREN THE SAME AS THOSE HE KNOW AT HOME, FRIENDLY, SMILING AND EAGER FOR...
- lancaster
- pennsylvania
- vietnam
- tot lot
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback
In memory of P.B.S. Pinchback, the first African American governor in U.S. history. Pinchback, Governor of Louisiana from Dec. 9, 1872 to Jan. 13, 1873, was born free on May 10, 1837. He was...
- louisiana
- southern university
- governor
- civil war
- african american
- warmoth
Seville Fountain and Light
Submitted by @liu_kev.
- seville
- fountain
- light
- kansas city
- missouri
- sister city
The Multiangular Tower
THE MULTIANGULAR TOWER THIS TOWER FORMED THE NORTH WEST CORNER OF THE ROMAN LEGIONARY FORTRESS OF EBORACUM ~.~.~ IT WAS BUILT ABOUT 300 A.D. ON THE SITE OF AN OLDER AND SIMPLER TOWER THE LARGER...
- york
- england
- roman
- legionary
- eboracum
- tildes
Assembly Rooms
ASSEMBLY ROOMS This building was erected by public subscription 1730 - 1736 to the design of Richard Boyle, Earl of BUrlington. Submitted by @slashdotat
- york
- england
- rooms
- boyle
- burlington
Constantine the Great
CONSTANTINE THE GREAT 274-337 Near this place, Constantine was proclaimed Roman Emperor in 306. His recognition of the civil liberties of his Christian subjects, and his own conversion to...
- york
- england
- roman
- emperor
- 306
- christendom