In 1896 Arthur E. Stilwell, president of the Kansas City Southern Railroad, organized a townsite company to settle Port Arthur. Soon afterward, R.H. Woodworth (d. 1923) moved here from Chicago...
Noted musician Harry Henry Choates, whose career was shortened by an early death, was born in Louisiana in 1922. During the 1930s, he moved with his mother to Port Arthur, where as a child...
Laid out in 1835 on land grant from government of Mexico to Horatio M. Hanks. At least 160 blocks were planned. After the Texas Revolution, Banks' partner and agent Alamazon Huston sold first...
Situated between Port Arthur and Lake Sabine and drainages of the Sabine and Neches Rivers, the Sabine-Neches Canal is a vital route for commerce from the Gulf of Mexico to port facilities...
Central Congregational Church 1872-2005Central Congregational Church of New Orleans was organized by Rev. Charles H. Thompson, a theology professor at Straight College and thirty-two...
FIRST HOSPITAL IN THE LATE 1890S DR. WM. F. SNOW CONCEIVED THE IDEA OF A STUDENT HOSPITAL GUILD FOR STANFORD STUDENTS. A TYPHOID EPIDEMIC IN 1902-3 EMPHASIZED A NEED FOR A HOSPITAL....
BENICIA ARSENAL 1850-1964 FIRST FOUR PERMANENT STRUCTURES CONSTRUCTED AT BENICIA ARSENAL 1853-57 AS POWDER MAGAZINE. ENGINE HOUSE, TWO LARGE STORAGE BUILDINGS AU U.S. ARM'S PACIFIC COAST SUPPLY...
THE MASS TRESPASS ONTO KINDER SCOUT STARTED FROM THIS QUARRY 24TH APRIL 1932 Submitted by @DamoBell
Beginning in 1875 the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad shuttled produce, passengers and freight in wooden steamers between Ludington and ports in Wisconsin. In 1892 railroad car ferry...
“Welcome to the LAPD’s first fully-staffed kōban in LA. The first kōban was set up in Japan in the 1840s to provide the police a more intimate setting for public interaction.”Submitted by @oranv
Sonoma City Landmark No. 4 The Pinelli Building Constructed OE Native Stoue ln 1891 By Augostino Pinelli
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The spot in Canterbury Cathedral at which Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered by supporters of King Henry II in 1170 CE.