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The William Parsons House

THE WILLIAM PARSONS HOUSE In memory of Lt. William Parsons 1690-1768 William (Bill) Parsons 1933-1986 and Those Historic Homes Destroyed Or Lost In The Name Of Progress This building is a one-half...

• house
• progress
• scale
• massachusetts
• northampton

Collyer Park

COLLYER PARK - 1871 This is one of three parks shown on the original square-mile plot of Longmont. It is named for Robert Collyer, Chicago minister, temperance leader and president of...

• longmont
• chicago
• collyer
• arbor day

Texas Historical Commission: Hilton Hotel

Hilton Hotel Designed by the Architectural Firm of Lang and Witchell, this hotel was built in 1925 for Conrad Hilton and was the first to bear the Hilton name. The hotel advertised...

• texas
• hilton
• hotel

Refining Crude Oil - Samuel Kier's Still

 In downtown Pittsburgh, at the corner of Grant St and 7th Ave appears this plaque. Samuel Kier developed a process to refine crude oil into kerosene for lamp fuel. "Near this site in the 1850s...

"Hubbard's Folly"

"Hubbard's Folly" On this site about 1834, Gurdon S. Hubbard built Chicago's first warehouse for storing pork and other pioneer produce. Because of its size and substantial construction,...

• chicago
• illinois
• hubbard's folly
• gurdon s hubbard
• chicago river
• riverwalk
• wacker drive

Rust

Site of pioneer American settlerWilliam Rust's blacksmith shopCirca 1889 In 1909 Rust was named the first postmaster of Rust, California, which was renamed El Cerrito in 1917 El Cerrito Historical...

• el cerrito
• california
• bay area
• blacksmith
• postmaster
• mail

Rosita's Bridge

"ROSITA'S BRIDGE Dedicated to ROSITA FERNANDEZ,singer of songs which have helpedto build the bridge of understandingfor the many cutures that makeSan Antonio a great place to live..." Submitted by...

• san antonio
• texas

An End to the Beginnings of All Wars

FDR Memorial off the National Mall. Submitted by @RhiannonGiddens

• washington
• washington dc
• dc
• fdr
• roosevelt

Letter from the Alamo

Commandancy of the AlamoBejar, Feby. 24, 1836To the People of Texas & All Americans in the WorldFellow citizens & compatriotsI am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna I...

• alamo
• texas

Edmonds Independent Telephone Company

HISTORIC SITE EDMONDS INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE COMPANY Constructed in 1924, this building held telephoneswitchboards and equipment until 1950. TheSunset Telegraph and Telephone Company...

• edmonds
• telephone

Over the River and Through the Woods

"Grandfather's House" Submitted by @csixty4

• grandfather's house
• over the river
• songs
• medford
• massachusetts

Jack London

"Jack London January 12 1876 - NOvember 22, 1916 Oakland's famed native son was the noted author of 'The Call of the Wild', 'The Sea Worl', and 'South Sea Tales'. He was at various times a...

• jack london square
• oakland
• jack london

The United Nations, Jack London Square

UN Plaque in Jack London Square, Oakland "THE UNITED NATIONS FOUNDED 1945 SYMBOL OF WORLD COMMUNITY THIS FLAGPOLE RAISED MAR. 26, 1966AND DEDICATED OCT 24, 1975UNDER THE SPONSORSHIP OFTHE UNITED...

• jack london square
• oakland
• united nations

Captain Isaac Hall

ON THIS SITE LIVED CAPTAIN ISAAC HALL WHO COMMANDED THE MEDFORD MINUTE MEN AT LEXINGTON AND BUNKER HILL PAUL REVERE STOPPED HERE ON HIS MEMORABLE RIDE TO CONCORD APRIL 18-19 1775 TO WARN CAPTAIN...

• paul revere
• revere
• hall
• revolution
• revolutionary war

Depoe Bay

"It is not true. Life is not slain by death.The vast, immortal sea shall have her own,shall garner to her this expiring breath,shall reap where she has sown." Submitted by @tylerdotdotdot

• sea

Old Fort Snelling

"Old Fort Snelling [...] Colonial ChapterDaughters of the American Revolution1934"

• minnesota
• minneapolis
• fort
• dakota

Dallas Power & Light

'This 1931 Art Deco building served as an annex to the adjoining 19 story headquarters of Dallas Power & Light Co. Lang and Witchell, who changed the skyline of Dallas, served as architect...

• dallas
• power
• light

The Eastland Disaster

While still partially tied to its dock at the river's edge, the excursion steamer Eastland rolled over on the morning of July 24, 1915. The result was one of the worst maritime disasters...

• chicago
• illinois
• eastland
• eastland disaster
• chicago river
• great lakes
• ship
• steamer
• disaster
• capsize
• western elec...

Boston's New West End

"After 1959: Charles River Park." Today, the West End is a mixed-use commercial and residential area. A few non-residential areas were spared from the urban renewal of the 1950s,...

• boston
• west end
• urban renewal

Boston's Old West End Memorial

"Before 1959, the West End." By the 1950s, Boston's West End had turned into a working poor residential area with scattered businesses with small meandering roads much like the North End....

• boston
• west end
• tenements
• razed