Geelong Keys
IN 1847 THERE WERE FOUND ON THIS SITE IN LIMEBURNER BOURCHIER'S KILN FIFTEEN FEET BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND THE GEELONG KEYS REPORTED BY SUPERINTENDENT, LATER GOVERNOR C. J. LA TROBE A SOME...
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Original Depot in Collierville
The first railroad depot in Collierville was located in this vicinity adjacent to the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. A letter was discovered in the Mississippi Library Department of Archives and...
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Cortona
Carleton Race Course
The first running of the Queen’s Plate was held in what is now the Junction. Submitted by @heritagetoronto
Congregation B'Nai Israel (Children of Israel)
First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Tennessee Jews have been part of Tennessee's economic, social and political life since the early 19th century. Congregation Children of Israel, chartered...
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Jefferson Davis
In a house which stood here, the only President of the Confederacy lived from 1875 to 1878, while president of a life insurance company. Born in Kentucky, 1808, educated at Transylvania and...
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Marble Lantern
Submitted by @Chinatown_YEG
Kent
The Cherokee-Phoenix
IN 1821, SEQUOYAH, A NATIVE CHEROKEE, INVENTED AN ALPHABET. THE FIRST NEWS- PAPER IN THE INDIAN LANGUAGE, "THE CHEROKEE-PHOENIX WAS PUBLISHED IN NEW ECHOTA BY ELIAS BOUDINOT, AN EDUCATED CHEROKEE,...
Grotski-Schuurmans Residence
1978 Grotski-Schuurmans Residence, Edmonton’s “youngest” designated Historic Resource. Up on Capilano Crescent, overlooking @YEGRiverValley . Douglas Cardinal Architect, David Murray Architect....
Ambrose O’Higgens, Viceroy of Peru, Liberator of Chile
Submitted by @SheilaPortobelo
Arch Street Meeting House
ARCH STREET MEETING HOUSE The meetinghouse was built in 1804 on a burial ground granted by William Penn in 1701. It has been continuously used as a place of worship and center for activities of...
Charley Pride
Becker Butte Lookout
Submitted by @JimStLeger.
Martha Washington College and Black's Fort
Submitted by @stuherrm
San Francisco Parlors
Submitted by @yonatanb
Tower of the People
Rosewood, Florida
Auschwitz-Birkenau
FOR EVER LET THIS PLACE BE A CRY OF DESPAIR AND A WARNING TO HUMANITY, WHERE THE NAZIS MURDERED ABOUT ONE AND A HALF MILLION MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN MAINLY JEWS FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES OF EUROPE....
WPA Sanitation Project
In 1937 the State of Texas and Hardeman County worked with President Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration in an attempt to provide much-needed employment to indigent citizens...