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Rancho San Lorenzo

    Cityof Hayward Fire Station No. 1

      Doug Duffey -- Northeast Louisiana Music Trail #18

      Submitted by: Hasley Cemetery

      Submitted by: Hasley Cemetery

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      Pearl C. Arhontes

        Made for Hayward Fire Dept

        • 1901

        Hayward Fire Dept. 1870

          Mateo Jimenez

            William "Bill" Lepere

              This is the Former Site of Eden Parlor No. 113 N.S.G.W. Hall

                Alex Giuliani Plaza

                • hayward
                • 1999
                • 1997
                • mayor

                Water Saves the Land

                  James A. Garfield and the Civil War

                  James A. Garfield and the Civil War His oratorical powers made him a master recruiter. His willingness to learn earned him important field commands. His talents for organization won him praise,...

                  James A. Garfield and the Civil War His oratorical powers made him a master recruiter. His willingness to learn earned him important field commands. His talents for organization won him praise,...

                  • ohio
                  • historical marker
                  • historical society
                  • us president
                  • garfield

                  Hallowed Ground

                  Commemoration of massacre of Black residents "that occurred on Election Day 1920. Until that episode, historians say, black people comprised about half of the city’s population. Trouble boiled...

                  Commemoration of massacre of Black residents "that occurred on Election Day 1920. Until that episode, historians say, black people comprised about half of the city’s population. Trouble boiled...

                  • racism
                  • cemetary
                  • voting
                  • reconstruction
                  • racial justice
                  • ocoee
                  • july perry

                  Le Petit Prince -- Antoine de Saint Exupery

                  Plaque describing statue of Le Petit Prince: Le Petit Prince Written in New York in 1943 by French Author, Aviator, and WWII Hero Antoine de Saint Exupéry Jean-Marc de Pas, Sculptor Bronze, 2023...

                  Plaque describing statue of Le Petit Prince: Le Petit Prince Written in New York in 1943 by French Author, Aviator, and WWII Hero Antoine de Saint Exupéry Jean-Marc de Pas, Sculptor Bronze,...

                  • petit prince
                  • antoine de s...
                  • scupture
                  • central park

                  Prof. John WInthrop, Mathematician & Philosopher

                  Prof. John Winthrop The greatest American mathematician and philosopher of his time. A fellow of the Royal Society lived here from 1746 - 1779 1714-1779 added by Curiouser

                  Prof. John Winthrop The greatest American mathematician and philosopher of his time. A fellow of the Royal Society lived here from 1746 - 1779 1714-1779 added by Curiouser

                  • john winthrop
                  • mathematics
                  • philosophy

                  Heyward Shepherd

                  ON THE NIGHT OF OCTOBER 16,1859, HEYWARD SHEPHERD,AN INDUSTRIOUS AND RESPECTED COLORED FREEMAN, WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED BY JOHN BROWN'S RAIDERS. IN PURSUANCE OF HIS DUTIES AS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE...

                  ON THE NIGHT OF OCTOBER 16,1859, HEYWARD SHEPHERD,AN INDUSTRIOUS AND RESPECTED COLORED FREEMAN, WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED BY JOHN BROWN'S RAIDERS. IN PURSUANCE OF HIS DUTIES AS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE...

                  • heyward shepherd
                  • john brown
                  • harpers ferry
                  • imageryan

                  Jack Barton Memorial Park

                    Tulanian Rugs

                    Tulanian Rugs Hutchison & Mills, Architects Leslie R. Wilson, Developer & Builder, 1923 In 1922, Armenian genocide survivor Hachadoor Tulanian (1894–1965) arrived in Berkeley and opened an...

                    Tulanian Rugs Hutchison & Mills, Architects Leslie R. Wilson, Developer & Builder, 1923 In 1922, Armenian genocide survivor Hachadoor Tulanian (1894–1965) arrived in Berkeley and opened...

                    • whoopi goldberg
                    • elmwood

                    The Historic Theta Xi Fraternity

                      Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail

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