Rochfort Trestle, AB
Rochfort Trestle The community was named after an English homesteader, Cowper Rochfort. The Canadian Northern Railroad constructed the railway and bridge in 1919. The trestle was built with a...
- rail
- railway
- trestle
- train
- alberta
- se-24-57-05
Wildfire Memorial Kamloops
During the summer of 2003 the Thompson-Nicola region endured its most devastating wildfires ever. Unprecedented in numbers and massive in scope, the fires destroyed 89 homes and 7 businesses,...
- wildfire
- memorial
- kamloops
- bc
Marconi's First Radio Transmissions Across Water
1897 1947 NEAR THIS SPOT THE FIRST RADIO MESSAGES WERE EXCHANGED ACROSS WATER BY GUGLIELMO MARCONI AND GEORGE KEMP BETWEEN LAVERNOCK AND FLAT HOLM 11th MAY, LAVERNOCK AND BREAN DOWN 18th MAY 1897...
- marconi
- wireless
- radio transmission
The Comfort Maple
This tree believed to be Canada's oldest sugar maple (Acer Saccharum) was accepted for its preservation April 30 1961 by the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority from Miss Edna Eleanor...
- maple tree
- natural monument
- canada
- ontario
- comfort maple
William Budd lived here
Submitted by: Alistair Wylie
- william budd
- epidemiology
- infectious diseases
Ashburn Colored School
On this site stands Ashburn Colored School, a one- room public schoolhouse built ca. 1892 for African American students. Virginia's public school system, established in 1870, was...
- historic school
- segregation
Snake River Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Project
Why would anyone from Chicago or the San Francisco Bay Area find themselves driving through Warren, Minnesota. In my case, it's because my dad was born there in 1921, and in the summer of 2018...
- minnesota
- marshall county
- warren
- flood control
- red river of...
- snake river
Marc von Trapp
Submitted by Erin Wilson
West Oakland Multi- Service Center
Francis Marion Smith
