Camp Savage
During World War Il, some 5,000-6.000 Japanese American soldiers, members of the U. S. Army's Military Intelligence Service, were given intensive and accelerated classes in the Japanese language...
- world war ii
- wwii
- japanese
- savage
- minnesota
- pearl harbor
- nisei
Dr. Julia Brogdon Purnell
Educator - Humanitarian - Leader (1916-2013) Born the eldest of three daughters to Rev. and Mrs. Richard E. Brogdon, Dr. Julia Brogdon Purnell received a B.A. from Allen University and an...
- louisiana
- sorority.
- women
- african american
- southern university
East Fork Baptist Church
Constituted Saturday, September 15, 1810 in the home of James Chandler on the East Fork of the Amite River. Charter members Joseph Chandler, John Wilson, Ephraim Puckett, James Keith,...
- mississippi
- church
- religion
- baptist
- amite county
Stutzman House
Believed second oldest house in Woodville with 12-inch-thick brick walls, original floors and slate roof.Private
- mississippi
- woodville
- wilkinson county
- early settler
Bridging The Mississippi (Un pont sur le Mississippi)
This circle of wooden columns sat astride a major road and held the booths where drivers paid their tolls to cross the first bridge that connected Natchez, Mississippi and Vidalia, Louisiana....
- mississippi
- mississippi river
- natchez
- adams county
Stitzman Blacksmith Shop
Built in late 1800's by Joseph Stutzman, son of blacksmith Jacob Stutzman. Believed last surviving blacksmith shop in region.
- mississippi
- woodville
- wilkinson county
- blacksmith
The European Struggle for Control (Les Européens luttent pour le contrôle)
During the 1600s and 1700s, Spain, France and Great Britain established outposts for commerce, defense, and settlement in North America. French explorers sought to claim and control North America...
- mississippi
- natchez
- adams county
The French in North America (Les Français en Amérique du Nord)
France was the first of the three great European powers to recognize and appreciate the strategic importance of Natchez. Operating out of bases in Quebec, French explorers crossed the Great...
- mississippi
- natchez
- adams county
The Natchez People (Les Natchez)
The Natchez tribe of American Indians lived in the Natchez bluffs area along the lower Mississippi River valley. Archaeological evidence shows them in the region as far back as 700 CE. A...
- mississippi
- native americans
- natchez
- adams county
Temple of Relief
Submitted by @benjiw.
John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath (1939) was a prolific writer who showed great compassion for the ordinary person caught up in political and economic circumstances beyond...
Pioneer Mothers
Norman R. Howard
Amelia Earhart Home
Amelia Earhart, the famed flier, lived here from 1925 until she left to make the first transatlantic flight by a woman on July 17, 1928. Here she wrote the poem "Courage."
- aviators
- women
William Bowditch House
The William I. Bowditch house at 9 Toxteth Street was a station on the underground railroad before the Civil War. Aboloitionists Sarah and William Bowditch provided safe haven for...
- underground railroad
- abolitionists
Marin County Hall of Justice
Fran and Joan Olsson
The Chief's House
Norwood Junction Subway
The world's first reinforced concrete underpass Submitted by @8obGray
- concrete underpass
Benson Island
