First Chartered College in California
This plaque marks the original site of the first Chartered College in California. It was Chartered as the California Wesleyan College on July 10, 1851. The following year the name was changed...
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- california
- ca
- college
- university
Tulane Stadium
Tulane Stadium was the original home of the National Football League's New Orleans Saints from 1967-1974. The Saints' first regular season game was held on September 17, 1967. Most notable...
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- sports
- new orleans
H. Sophie Newcomb College
Founded 1886 as the Coordinate Women's College of Tulane University by Josephine Louise Le Mommier Newcomb (1816-1901) in memory of her daughter Harriott Sophie Newcomb (1855-1870)....
- louisiana
- education
- arts
Louisiana Memorial United Methodist Church - The Cradle of Louisiana Methodism
In 1805, Elisha W. Bowman was sent as a Missionary to Louisiana by Bishops Whatcoat and Asbury, reaching Appelousas territory in late 1805. He organized a Methodist Society in Opelousas early in...
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- church
Atchafalaya Floodway - Henderson
Annual flooding in the Acthafalaya Basin provides an ideal crawfish habitat. Today, most of Louisiana's crawfish production comes from farms, but the Basin still leads in the production...
- louisiana
- wildlife
- environment
Community Confluence
Artist Bill FrymireCompleted: June 2019Celebrating place and community, this monumental mosaic shows a topographical view of the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers set in an...
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- art
- bc
- community
- aluminium
Louisiana Memorial Methodist Church
The first Methodist Church in Louisiana began here in 1805 and is called "The Cradle of Louisiana Methodism."The first conference of Louisiana Methodists convened here in 1847.
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- church
Mississippi River - Morganza Floodway
Mississippi River levee breeches in the Morganza area between 1780 and 1890 resulted in 15 major floods affecting Pointe Coupée Parish and all those to the south as far as the Gulf of...
- louisiana
- environment
Last Spike
Here was driven the Last Spike completing Canadian Pacific Railway from ocean to ocean November 7, 1885 submitted by Paul Mackey
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- cpr
- canada
- bc
- craigellachie
Red Lion Inn
Submitted by @theonlymfkirke.
Bewell's Cross
Submitted by @theonlymfkirke
William Keith Old Master of California
WILLIAM KEITH 1838 - 1911 OLD MASTER OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1885 TO THE END OF HIS LIFE HIS HOME STOOD ABOUT FIFTY YARDS EAST OF THIS SPOT "HE WHO IS A BLESSING FOR HIS TIME IS A BLESSING FOR...
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- fifty yards
- old master
Dianna and Mayor Peggy Thomsen
IN LOVING MEMORY OF DIANNA THOMSEN 1963-2002 AND MAYOR PEGGY THOMSEN 1940-2014
Nicolet Watch Tower
Grand Hotel
GRAND HOTEL opened 1887 Alphonzo F. Howe architect ...Charles W. Caskey contractor ...CLASSICAL DESIGN THAT WILL LIVE FOREVER
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- live forever
George Villiers
IN THIS HOUSE GEORGE VILLIERS DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM WAS ASSASSINATED BY JOHN FELTON 23. AUG. 1628. Submitted by @theonlymfkirke
Samuel Henshall
BENEATH THIS CHANCEL IS THE LAST RESTING PLACE OF SAMUEL HENSHALL 1764 1807 RECTOR OF THIS CHURCH 1802-7 WHO WAS GRANTED THE WORLD'S FIRST CORKSCREW PATENT 24th AUGUST 1795 ...
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Portsmouth Football Club
Submitted by @theonlymfkirke
Wright's Tower
Submitted by Ben Becker
Confederate Navy Yard - Louisiana
Oneblock west near mouth of Cross Bayou at Red River the ironclad Missouri and ram Webb built. Missouri armored with railroad iron, In 1863 Webb fought U.S.S. Indianola near Vicksburg....
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- civil war