Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk 1907 - 2007
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk 100th Anniversary
The Original Boardwalk "Black & White" Ice Cream Stand
Loofe Carousel
Teche Tunnel
Running below here said to be used as an escape route for early 19th century pirate Jean Lafitte leading to Bayou Teche.
- louisiana
- new iberia
- jean lafitte
- pomeroy
Shadows-on-the-Teche
Life Began Along Bayou Teche Shadows-on-the-Teche is a historic house museum property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. A white- columned brick building constructed between 1831 and...
- louisiana
- plantation
- new iberia
The Massé - Darby House
Represents a distinct style of French Colonial domestic architecture once common throughout Louisiana but now rare. Built on a Spanish land- grant to Andre Massé. Probably in the period 1764-1776,...
- louisiana
- architecture
- st. mary parish
Bayou Teche Patriots
In early 1779, Francisco Bouligny led a group of Spanish colonists to establish a new town called Nueva Iberia on the banks of Bayou Teche in the Attakapas region. By August of that...
- louisiana
- revolutionary war
- iberia parish
Brownell Memorial Park and Campanile
This park, tower and carillon is a gift to mankind by the Brownell Foundation, endowed by Mrs, Claire H. Brownell who wishing to commemorate the memory of her parents and family has provided this...
- louisiana
- carillon
- bell tower
- nature
- park
Baton Rouge Film Trail - Celtic Studio
"I can't shake the feeling, in spite of all that's happened, earth is still my home." - Tom Cruise as Jack in Oblivion (2013) As the premier purpose- built stage space of Louisiana, Celtic Studios...
- louisiana
- baton rouge
- film
- movies
- studio
Goudeau School 1905-1952
The Goudeau School was built in the 1930s by the Avoyelles Parish school authorities to educate African American children. It evolved out of the Antioch Baptist Church, started on this location in...
- louisiana
- education
- african americans
Simon Bolivar
Liverpool Royal Navy
In Serach of the Pony Express: Solano House
West Bow-Well
Davis Pony Express River Steamers
Nantucket Railroad
The Nantucket Railroad operated for 36 years from 1881 to 1917. It started from Steamboat Wharf and traveled along the Easy Street basin across this site, ultimately transporting passengers to...
- railroad
- nantucket
- resorts
The Algonquin Round Table
The Algonquin Hotel Site of the legendary Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s where such acid-tongued wits as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcot traded barbs and bon mots daily...
- sinclair lewis
- william faulkner
- harold ross
- gertrude stein
- james thurber
Belvedere Tower
Belvedere Tower Erected in 1869 as a lookout, it now houses the New York Meteorological Observatory which was founded in 1868 by Dr. Daniel Draper who was its director until his retirement in...
- meteorology
- belvedere tower
- belvedere castle
- central park
Grand Junction News
Upon this site in October 1882 a vital cultural influence in the town of Grand Junction was established by the printing of the first newspaper - The Grand Junction News Edwin Price, Editor...
- colorado
- newspaper
- grand junction
- 1800s