Evergreen Cemetery
Local lore places the first burial in this cemetery as early as 1840. When Robert Jackson purchased 35 acres of land including this site in 1853, at least one grave was already present. Jackson...
- texas
- cemetery
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
This church was established in 1863 under the leadership of the Rev. Joseph Wood Dunn, an area missionary. The earliest services were conducted in the home of Jerome Swinford. His...
- texas
- church
First Christian Church of Orange
The First Christian Church of Orange began in 1885 when a group of residents started meeting for worship services. Some of these charter members were baptized in the Sabine River. The...
- texas
- church
First National Bank of Orange
Until the industrial revolution reached Orange in the late 1880s, most banking needs in the area were handled through Galveston.The growth of Orange as a lumber center and deep water...
- texas
- commerce
- bank
Colonel Thos. D. Boyd Tree
This Tree Planted March 7, 1927ForColonel Thos. D.BoydByDr. James Arthur TuckerUniversity Physician
- louisiana
- university
- tree
St. Emma Plantation
Scene of Civil War skirmish in fall of 1862. C.1850 Greek Revival plantation house owned 1854-1869 by Charles A. Kock, a prominent sugar planter. Listed on National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
- louisiana
- civil war
- plantation
- antebellum
First Marine Division at Cape Gloucester, 1943
"IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN COMRADES OF THE FIRST MARINE DIVISION AT CAPE GLOUCESTER, 1943."
- 1943
- cape gloucester
Berlioz, Beethoven
(abridged:) Here the conductor François-Antoine Habeneck revealed BEETHOVEN to the Parisian public (1828)Here HECTOR BERLIOZ performed the Symphonie Fantastique, Lélio, Harold en Italie, Roméo...
- ludwig van beethoven
- hector
Berlioz, Beethoven
(abridged:) Here the conductor François-Antoine Habeneck revealed BEETHOVEN to the Parisian public (1828)Here HECTOR BERLIOZ performed the Symphonie Fantastique, Lélio, Harold en Italie, Roméo...
- ludwig van beethoven
- hector berlioz
- paris
- france
- music
- 19th century
Sturgis Pretzel Factory
ON THIS SITE IN 1861 JULIUS STURGIS ESTABLISHED THE FIRST PRETZEL BAKERY IN THE NEW WORLD THIS TABLET DEDICATED BY THE NATIONAL PRETZEL BAKERS INSTITUTE MAY 1951 ALEX V. TISDALE, PRES. Submitted...
- sturgis
- pretzel factory
- pretzel
- tisdale
- imageryan