The Woodland Opera House
"The Woodland Opera House The first opera house to serve the SacramentoValley was build on this site in 1885. The presentstructure was built in 1895-1896, ontinues to representan important center...
- woodland
- opera
- house
Bear Valley Visitor Center
Vistor Center at Point Reyes National Seashore "Bear Valley Visitor Center This visitor and interpretive center was the dream of William Field(1910 - 1978), a longtime conservationist and friend...
- california
- point reyes
- seashore
- sea
- shore
Aboriginal Veterans' Memorial
"This memorial is deidcated to all Aboriginal menand women from South West Victoria who servedtheir country proudly along with fellowAustralians since World War I We say thinks to those who...
- south west victoria
- australia
- aboriginal
- wuwuurk
W. Green Deschamps. Jr Highway
W. Green Deschamps Jr. Highway
- south carolina
- highway
Hotaling Building
Old SF. "HOTALING BUILDING Built in 1866 and occupied by A. P. Hotaling& Co., this building housed the largest liquorrepository on the West Coast. It survived the1906 earthquake and fire due to a...
- san francisco
- whisky
- bay area
- fire
- 1866
Remembering our Ohlone ancestors
"Rememberingour Ohlone Ancestors This was their world.Then other people came& their world changede.Now our voices & footstepsjoin theirs as part of theliving history of this ancient place." Pretty...
- ohlone
- emeryville
- bay area
- comic sans
New Jersey State Museum
"Founded in 1897,the State Museum collects,preserves, interprets and exhibitsover a wide range of subjects -from fossils to fine art,Native American toolsto the finest sliver,quilts to comets...
- trenton
- new jersey
Here the Motion Picture Began
Here the Motion Picture Began:On the night of April 23, 1896, on this sitein Koster & Bial's Music HallThomas A. Edisonwith the "Vitascope"first projected a moving picture----In commemoration of...
- movie
- motion picture
- macys
- edison
Independent Marine Company
"1774 - 1974 On this site (Wolfe Tavern) in 1774 the Independent Marine Companywas formed by members of the NewburyportMarine Society under Captain James HudsonFirst militia company of seamen...
- marine
- militia hudson
- 1774
- revolutionary war
WW2 V1 Rocket Plaque
WW2 plaque in Lewisham (and first I've seen by M&S!) #readtheplaque "In memory of the51 people who diedand the many injuredas a result of the V1 rocket that landed here28th July 1944" Submitted by...
- wwii
- v1
- london
Bryant Pond Telephone Company Telephone Sculpture
"The Sculpture By Gil Whitman Is Dedicated To The Memory Of Barbara & Elden Hathaway Owners of the Bryant Pond Telephone Company the very last hand crank magneto telephone system in the U.S.A....
- bryant pond
- woodstock
- maine
- telephone
- bryant pond ...
- barbara hathaway
- elden hathaway
Peggy's Cove Warning
This plaque is located in Nova Scotia, Canada (about 40km from the city of Halifax). Although the plaque heeds warnings of grave danger, people (mainly tourists) approach too close to the...
- nova scotia
- cove
- rewarded
- peggy's cove
- savour the sea
King James Quay Old Portsmouth
"A Development By King James QuayOld Portsmouth1995-1997sea containers waterside" Submitted by @Sarah_May1
- old portsmouth
F Scott Fitzgerald
F Scott Fitzgerald, 1307 Park Ave, Baltimore MD "Bolton Hill Historic District F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-194 Author of The Great Gatsby (1925). Works published while he resided here: Tender is...
- fitzgerald
- baltimore
Ohio Company of Associates
ON THIS SITE The United States in concress assembled on the 13th day of July in the year of our Lord 1787 and of their sovereignty and independece the twelfth, enacted an ordinance for the...
- new york
- ohio
- congress
Gettysburg Address Plaque, Philadelphia
Old Town Philadelphia "1809 - 1865 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men...
- lincoln
- phiadelphia
John Bowe, 1869 - 1954
Plaque in a park in western Minnesota "John Bowe1869 - 1954Patriot -- Immigrant -- Soldier -- Lobbyist -- Businessman -- Author Veterans Leader -- PhilosopherFormer Canby Mayor and...
- minnesota
Gehry "Standing Glass Fish"
"In Toronto, when I was very young, my grandmosther and I use to go to Kensington, a Jewish market, on Thursday morning. She would buy a big carp for gefilte fish. She'd put it in the bathtup and...
- fish
- minneapolis
- gehry
- art
Holmdel Horn Antenna (Arthur B. Crawford)
"This unique antenna was designed andbuilt for the pioneering Echo satellite communications experiments. Itsexistence and the scientific resultsproduced through its use are due inlarge measure to...
- astronomy
- radio
- antenna
- cosmology
- physics
- new jersey
Holmdel Horn Antenna
"With this large horn antenna, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilsondiscovered the cosmic background radiation in 1964. This unexpecteddiscovery, the first evidence that the universe began with the Big...
- astronomy
- radio
- antenna
- cosmology
- physics
- new jersey