Monumental Church
SA 38 MONUMENTAL CHURCH The church is a memorial to the 72 people, including Virginia Governor George W. Smith, who died when the Richmond Theatre burned here in 1811. Several survivors owed their...
- richmond
- church
- historical
- church
- slavery
Bow and Arrow
The rock outline you see on the distant bluff is an archaeological curiosity. Jacob V. Brower, a Minnesota archaeologist, observed this formation in 1902 and interpreted it as a bow and arrow. ...
- wisconsin
- native
- archaeology
- pepin
Fort Beauharnois
On the shore of Lake Pepin just north of here a French expedition commanded by LaPerriere and accompanied by two Jesuits in September 1727 built a fort and the mission of St. Michael...
- minnesota
- pepin
Maiden Rock
The story of Maiden Rock has several versions. One by Mary Eastman was published in 1849. She heard the story from an old Indian friend, Checkered Cloud, who firmly believed the event...
- wisconsin
- pepin
- sioux
Enroute West to Reorganize the Confederacy
NATION FORD Original trestle completed 1852 by Charlotte & South Carolina R. R. on the site of ancient crossing known as the Nation Form. Burning by Federals April 19, 1865, touched off...
- jefferson davis
- civil war
- cornwallis
- indians
- ford
- cherokee
- catawba
- sumter
- trestle
Once the Home of Farms, Pastures, Tenant Houses
This chimney was once part of a tenant house owned by Stephen Spruill (born 1870) who owned over one thousand acres of land in DeKalb and Fulton County. The tenant house, circa 1900, was...
- washington
- d.c.
- d.c.
- farm
Coit Tower Bench
TO THE MEMORY OF GUGLIELMO MARCONI ERECTED BY POPULAR SUBSCRIPTIONS INAUGURATED BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL-BULLETIN Submitted by @agentFin .
- san francisco
- bay area
- marconi
- california
- mayor
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's Decatur House View
Submitted by @jqmcd
- kennedy
- d.c.
- washington d.c.
- decatur
601 Pennsylvania Avenue
601 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE ON THIS SITE IN 1814, "THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER" WAS FIRST SUNG IN PUBLIC. THE MOST FAMOUS OF SEVERAL HOTELS ON THIS BLOCK WAS BROWN'S MARBLE HOTEL (1851 -...
- lincoln
- d.c.
- washington d.c.
- star spangled banner
- beverly snow
Decatur House
THIS HOUSE, BUILT IN 1819 WAS THE HOME OF COMMODORE STEPHEN DECATUR WHO DIED HERE,MARCH 22, 1820FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED IN A DUEL WITH COMMODORE BARRON ----- AMONG OTHER DISTINGUISHED MEN WHO LIVED...
- decatur
- clay
- d.c.
- washington d.c.
- buren
- dallas
- beale
- truxtun
From This Port John Cabot and His Son
FROM THIS PORT JOHN CABOT AND HIS SON SEBASTIAN (WHO WAS BORN IN BRISTOL) SAILED IN THE SHIP MATTHEW A.D. 1497 AND DISCOVERED THE CONTINENT OF AMERICA © Copyright Basher Eyre and licensed...
- bristol
- england
- cabot
Les champs magetiques
Photo by @harikunzru, submitted by @cyclingtiger
- paris
- automatic writing
Kraemer Paper Company, Inc
Submitted by @mynameiswilson.
- paper
- louisville
- kentucky
Dedicated to Public Service
Emeryville post office.
- emeryville
- california
- bay area
- post office
Laura Ratcliffe -- Civil War Spy
Submitted by @jqmcd.
- civil war
- spy
- virginia
- herndon
The Memory of Hal and Ruth Launders
HERE RESTS THE MEMORY OF HAL AND RUTH LAUNDERS WHO CALLED THIS PLACE THEIR HOME FOR THE LAST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY. ARROWHEAD FARM, A PATCHWORK OF GENTLE PASTURE AND SPOTTED WOODLAND,...
- herndon
- virginia
- centre
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
In December, 1806, a group of German settlers from Berlin, Pennsylvania, led by Jacob and Michael Keffer, arrived in Vaughan Township, where they formed one of Upper Canada's earliest...
- toronto
- ontario
- alan brown
The ZEEP Reactor
A nuclear chain reaction was first initiated in Canada on September 5, 1945, when the ZEEP reactor went into operation here at Chalk River. Originally part of an effort to produce plutonium for...
- toronto
- ontario
- alan brown
Yonge Street
This highway was planned by the first governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe, as a military and commercial route between Lakes Ontario and Huron. Begun in 1795 by the Queen's Rangers it...
- toronto
- ontario
- alan brown
Wellington County House of Industry and Refuge
This is the earliest surviving example of an important 19th-century institution, the government-supported poorhouse. Erected in 1877, it was the shelter of last resort for the homeless and...
- toronto
- ontario
- alan brown