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First Catholic Church in North America

Citation required but this is super interesting and supposedly the first Catholic Church in the America’s.  Talking with the architect who is renovating this church and uncovered this. The A is a...

Citation required but this is super interesting and supposedly the first Catholic Church in the America’s.  Talking with the architect who is renovating this church and uncovered this. The A is a...

    Veracruz

      Pointed at Jerusalem

        Papantia de Olerte

          Ninomiya House

          Ninomiya House Dedicated May 2016Tei Ninomiya was the first Asian student to graduate from Smith College. Born in 1887, in Matsuyama, Shikoku, Japan, she graduated from Smith in 1910 at a time...

          Ninomiya House Dedicated May 2016Tei Ninomiya was the first Asian student to graduate from Smith College. Born in 1887, in Matsuyama, Shikoku, Japan, she graduated from Smith in 1910 at a...

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          • 1910

          Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz U.S.N

            Goodman

              John L. K. Brown

                Reid Martin Mason

                  George V. Halloran

                    Berthold and Inge Hannes

                      Sawtown 1906 - 1934

                      SAWTOWN 1906-1934  THIS ABANDONED SAWMILL IS ALL  THAT REMAINS OF A LOGGING COMMU-  NITY THAT ONCE INCLUDED MORE  THAN 600 PEOPLE. SAWTOWN'S MILL  PROCESSED ALL THE CYPRESS LUMBER  CUT WITHIN 50...

                      SAWTOWN 1906-1934  THIS ABANDONED SAWMILL IS ALL  THAT REMAINS OF A LOGGING COMMU-  NITY THAT ONCE INCLUDED MORE  THAN 600 PEOPLE. SAWTOWN'S MILL  PROCESSED ALL THE CYPRESS LUMBER  CUT WITHIN...

                        Little River School House / Isaac and Lucy Berry

                        The original, one-room, log schoolhouse on this site opened in 1877 under the direction of Isaac and Lucy Berry. The multi-racial community known as Little River raised the present building in...

                        The original, one-room, log schoolhouse on this site opened in 1877 under the direction of Isaac and Lucy Berry. The multi-racial community known as Little River raised the present building...

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                        Detour Reef Light Station

                        Located where the St. Mary’s River enters Lake Huron from Lake Superior, DeTour Passage separates the Upper Peninsula from Drummond Island. It has long been a choke point for Great Lakes shipping....

                        Located where the St. Mary’s River enters Lake Huron from Lake Superior, DeTour Passage separates the Upper Peninsula from Drummond Island. It has long been a choke point for Great Lakes...

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                        Hank Greenberg

                        Hank Greenberg 1B, LF 1930-1946   Greenberg was the first Tiger inducted into the military during World War II, interrupting his outstanding baseball career for four full seasons.  He finished his...

                        Hank Greenberg 1B, LF 1930-1946   Greenberg was the first Tiger inducted into the military during World War II, interrupting his outstanding baseball career for four full seasons.  He finished his...

                          Our Saviour's Lutheran Church

                          Organized as a Scandinavian congregation in 1868, Our Saviour’s became a Danish church in 1875 and served the American Evangelical Lutheran Synod until 1962. First used for worship in 1869, the...

                          Organized as a Scandinavian congregation in 1868, Our Saviour’s became a Danish church in 1875 and served the American Evangelical Lutheran Synod until 1962. First used for worship in 1869,...

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                          Kathleen Blake Coleman

                          Submitted by @chrisbateman

                          Submitted by @chrisbateman

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                          The Wormeley Horse Trough

                          THE WORMELEY HORSE TROUGH  THIS GRANITE HORSE TROUGH, ORIGINALLY SITUATED AT THE FOOT OF  THORN HILL ROAD IN 1911, WAS GIVEN IN MEMORY OF KATHERINE  PRESCOTT WORMELEY BY HER FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR,...

                          THE WORMELEY HORSE TROUGH  THIS GRANITE HORSE TROUGH, ORIGINALLY SITUATED AT THE FOOT OF  THORN HILL ROAD IN 1911, WAS GIVEN IN MEMORY OF KATHERINE  PRESCOTT WORMELEY BY HER FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR,...

                            Brattle House Cambridge

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                            Polonia Monterez