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Bevier House

BEVIER HOUSE BUILT BY LOUIS BEVIER, THE PATENTEEE, IN 1689. ELTING HOMESTEAD FROM 1740. THIS HOUSE HAS AN INTERESTING SUB-CELLAR   Submitted by @aljachimiak .

• bevier
• new york
• sub-cellar
• elting
• homestead

Norumbega Tower

Submitted by RoadTripNE

• weston
• massachusetts
• tower
• breton
• leif erikson

Site of Giant Powder Company

SITE OF GIANT POWDER COMPANY PT. PINOLE IS THE LAST SITE OF THE GIANT POWDER COMPANY, THE FIRST COMPANY IN AMERICA TO PRODUCE DYNAMITE. FOLLOWING DEVASTATING EXPLOSIONS AT THEIR SAN FRANCISCO...

• richmod
• croatian
• sobrante
• devastating ...
• first compan...

Birthplace of the American League

BIRTHPLACE OF THE  AMERICAN LEAGUE The Republican House, a hotel that stood on this site from 1886 to 1961, was the birthplace of baseball’s American League. On the night of March 5, 1900,...

• baseball
• american
• in defiance of
• white stockings
• white sox
• milwaukee
• wisconsin

Kilbourntown

KILBOURNTOWN In this vicinity, Kilbourntown, one of three original Milwaukee settlements, was founded by surveyor and land speculator Byron Kilbourn in 1835. Kilbourntown’s first residents were...

• milwaukee
• german
• speculators
• had substant...

FATHER MARQUETTE'S CAMP - 1674

FATHER MARQUETTE'S CAMP - 1674 Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit missionary who with Sieur Louis Jolliet dis-covered and first explored the upper Mississippi in 1673, stayed on this...

• wisconsin
• marquette
• mission
• mississippi

Charles II drank here

CHARLES 11 [sic] ON HIS RIDE TO THE COAST AFTER THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER, STOPPED TO TAKE ALE AT THIS INN. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14TH 1651.

• monarch
• english civil war
• pub
• ale
• england

William Hutchinson's Grant

1630 - 1930 WILLIAM HUTCHINSON'S GRANT IN WILLIAM HUTCHINSON'S HOUSE NEAR  THIS SPOT HIS WIFE ANNE TARRIED ON HER WAY TO RHODE ISLAND, EXILED FROM MASSACHUSETTS BY THE GENERAL COURT IN APRIL,...

• wollaston
• quincy
• massachusetts
• south shore

Farmers Institute Academy

Farmers Institute Academy Opened in 1851, this was the first school of higher learning in rural Tippecanoe County built by the Society of Friends (Quakers) of this neighborhood....

• farmers inst...
• society of friends
• quakers
• tippecanoe county
• indiana
• meeting house
• education

Gumeracha Time Capsule

A time capsule was buried here on the 23rd November, 1986 by the Lions Club of Torrens Valley for the citizens of Gumeracha and district to commemorate the state's 150th Jubilee. Retrieval of the...

• time capsule
• town hall
• centennial
• jubilee
• rural
• small town

The Paul Revere House

Submitted by @RoadTripNE

• boston
• revolutionary war
• paul revere
• pitcairn
• hutchinson
• frankland
• clark

The Burlington Hotel, Established 1883

THE BURLINGTON HOTEL ESTABLISHED 1883   PORT COSTA’S OLD TIMERS ARE QUITE CERTAIN THAT THE RUMOR OF THE BURLINGTON HOTEL BEING A BORDELLO IS UNTRUE. THEIR REASONING IS THAT THE RESPECTED OWNERS...

• bordello
• ecv
• five star
• 1883

Jacob Thompson's Home Place

The mansion ca. 1853 located on this site was burned by Union troops in 1864. Two original outbuildings are included in the present house, built in 1869. Jacob Thompson (1810-1885), a native of...

• mississippi
• civil war
• canada
• home place

Warehouses Used in the Slave Trade

WAREHOUSES USED IN THE SLAVE TRADE Commerce Street was central to the operation of Montgomery's slave trade. Enslaved people were marched in chains up the street from the riverfront  and...

• montgomery
• slavery
• slave traders
• eji
• mississippi
• alabama

Carl Lotave

Submitted by @ChrisMBarr.

The Domestic Slave Trade

 Beginning in the seventeenth century, millions of African people were kidnapped, sold into slavery, and shipped to the Americas as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. in 1808, the...

• montgomery
• slavery
• slave traders
• eji
• mississippi
• alabama

Neshoba County Fairgrounds

NESHOBA COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS  5 mi. S.W., an institution famed since 1890 for its exhibits of farm products and livestock horseshows and races, political oratory, an social get-togethers. Submitted...

• hwy 15 and hwy 21
• mississipi

Slave Transportation to Montgomery

SLAVE TRANSPORTATION TO MONTGOMERY In order to meet  the high demand for slaves in Alabama in the early 1800s, slave traders chained African Americans together in coffles and forced them to march...

• montgomery
• slavery
• slave traders
• eji
• mississippi
• alabama

Richard and Patricia Lawson Computer Science Building

RICHARD AND PATRICIA LAWSON COMPUTER SCIENCE BUILDING Dedicated September 15, 2006 H. Richard Lawson earned the MS in computer science from Purdue in 1968. With his brother and a third partner,...

• richard and ...
• computer science
• purdue university
• west lafayette
• indiana
• donation

The Europe Garden at Seven Sisters Country Park

This rather sad looking plaque sits alongside an equally sad looking garden built to celebrate Great Britain's involvement in the European Commnunity. Coincidentally, I discovered the plaque and...

• eu
• europe
• garden