Benicia Promenade
Dedicated to the Memory of the Pony Express Riders
The Grand Army of Liberty
To those citizens of the United States who at the call of humanity laid aside their vocations to become soldiers in the Grand Army of Liberty. This memorial is dedicated 1918
Pause Traveler and Be Grateful to Norton 1st
From Robert Anton Wilson (more here)
Little Bay de Noc
The Noquet (or Noc) Indians, who once lived along these shores, gave this bay its name. Here at Sand Point, in 1844, Douglass Houghton came with his party of government surveyors to chart the land...
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Orsel McGhee House
In 1944 the Orsel McGhees, a black family, moved here into what was then an all-white neighborhood. A neighboring family won a court order revoking the McGhees’ purchase of the house on the basis...
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Masters of Navigation
Chinese Explore the World in Junks
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DuPage County Pioneer Park
Andrews University
This, the oldest Seventh-day Adventist college and the pioneer in a world-wide system of Christian education, was chartered in 1874 at Battle Creek as Battle Creek College. It was moved to...
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In Fond & Loving Memory of Anthony, Colleen & Vivien Wong
Parque del Tepeyac
Johnson & Wales University
Sallie Rutherford Thaler
Memorial Presented to the City of Oakland by Aloha Parlor No. 106 Native Daughters of the Golden West In memory of our past president Sallie Rutherford Thaler May 19, 1888 - March 8, 1958 A...
Pastore e Padre Amatissimo
Tony Forster
POW Tree
NO. 239 MISSION SAN LUÍS REY DE FRANCIA
From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by tkksummers, full page.License is Attribution- ShareAlike License
Centenario de la Constitucion
Yankees
"The Yankees are wonderful people. If they emigrated to hell itself, they would somehow manage to change the climate." General Mariano Vallejo
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Keweenaw Bay
This region’s history is long and rich. Father Ménard, the Jesuit missionary, wintered near what is now L’Anse in 1660-61. Near here Father Baraga set up his mission in 1843. He and the head of...
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