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McNeil's Pioneer Boathouse 1886

    One of the Shortest Main Streets

      Edward G. Zelinsky

        Tiburon Was a Railroad Town

          Shoreline Park

            Given to the City of Tiberon by the Corinthian Yacht Club April 27, 1969

              Sgt. Thomas Henry Skelton

              IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND  1331635 SGT. TOHOMAS HENRY SKELTON.  AGED 19 YEARS. WHO FLEW FROM LANGAR  AIRFIELD ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 13th 1943  TO GERMANY AND NEVER RETURNED  ALSO TO ALL MEMBERS...

              IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND  1331635 SGT. TOHOMAS HENRY SKELTON.  AGED 19 YEARS. WHO FLEW FROM LANGAR  AIRFIELD ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 13th 1943  TO GERMANY AND NEVER RETURNED  ALSO TO ALL MEMBERS...

                Bristol Shogomoc Railway Site

                Submitted by @CorenskiNowlan

                Submitted by @CorenskiNowlan

                  The Heritage House

                  Submitted by @jqmcd

                  Submitted by @jqmcd

                    Bristol & South Wales Union

                    Submitted by @theonlymfkirke [Location approximate]

                    Submitted by @theonlymfkirke [Location approximate]

                    • bristol

                    The Fourteenth Army 1942 - 1945

                    Submitted by @theonlymfkirke.

                    Submitted by @theonlymfkirke.

                    • bristol

                    UK Rail Speed Record

                    Submitted by @miniadvent

                    Submitted by @miniadvent

                      People Who Like This Sort of Thing Will Find This The Sort of Thing They Like

                      • lincoln

                      Moon Tree - Planted in April 1976

                      This "Moon Tree” is a Loblolly Pine grown from a seed that, in January 1971 was carried to the Moon and brought back to Earth by Major Stuart Roosa, command module pilot for Apollo XIV and a...

                      This "Moon Tree” is a Loblolly Pine grown from a seed that, in January 1971 was carried to the Moon and brought back to Earth by Major Stuart Roosa, command module pilot for Apollo XIV and a...

                      • louisiana
                      • moon tree
                      • 1971
                      • moon
                      • apollo
                      • loblolly pine

                      Christian Science Historical Marker

                      Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. This church is one of the many world wide branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,...

                      Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. This church is one of the many world wide branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in...

                      • religion
                      • louisiana

                      Cavanaugh Hall of Science

                      The Cavanaugh Hall of Science bears the name of Charles J. Cavanaugh, whose teaching career spanned 1945 to 1977 as professor of biology at his alma mater, Louisiana College. Prof Cavanaugh, as he...

                      The Cavanaugh Hall of Science bears the name of Charles J. Cavanaugh, whose teaching career spanned 1945 to 1977 as professor of biology at his alma mater, Louisiana College. Prof Cavanaugh, as he...

                      • louisiana
                      • science

                      Alexandria National Cemetery

                      Civil War AlexandriaAlexandria, Louisiana, served briefly of the Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi, as the headquarters a vast area encompassing states and territories west of the...

                      Civil War AlexandriaAlexandria, Louisiana, served briefly of the Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi, as the headquarters a vast area encompassing states and territories west of...

                      • louisiana
                      • cemetery

                      Wallace J. Thibodaux

                      *Born in Lafourche Parish on the estate of his father, Henry J. Thibodaux, on December 18, 1880 at Bayou Blue.*Inherited his father's estate who was a descendant of Henry Schyler Thibodaux, the...

                      *Born in Lafourche Parish on the estate of his father, Henry J. Thibodaux, on December 18, 1880 at Bayou Blue.*Inherited his father's estate who was a descendant of Henry Schyler Thibodaux,...

                      • louisiana

                      Port Barre

                      Port actif à l'époque du bateau à vapeur. Appelé d'après le nom de la famille Barré. En 1765 Charles Barré acheta 8800 arpents de terre à Jacques Guillaume Courtableau, le premier Commandant du...

                      Port actif à l'époque du bateau à vapeur. Appelé d'après le nom de la famille Barré. En 1765 Charles Barré acheta 8800 arpents de terre à Jacques Guillaume Courtableau, le premier Commandant du...

                      • louisiana

                      Village of Georgetown

                      Area once settled by the Choctaw Nation. Anglo-Americans settled here near the crossroads of the Harrisonburg and Three Notch Roads which connected the region to the Natchez Trace & the El Camino...

                      Area once settled by the Choctaw Nation. Anglo- Americans settled here near the crossroads of the Harrisonburg and Three Notch Roads which connected the region to the Natchez Trace & the El...

                      • louisiana