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St. Mark's Church

  Submitted by @jqmcd 

• washington dc
• dc
• church

General Washington's Lots

  HERE WERE THE LOTS ACQUIRED ON OCTOBER 3, 1798 BY GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON AND ON WHICH HE BUILT TWO BRICK DWELLINGS FROM DESIGNS BY DR. WILLIAM THORNTON. A DWELLING REMODELED FROM...

• washington dc
• dc
• general washington
• wilkes
• dwellings

Between the United States and Canada

Submitted by @jqmcd 

• washington dc
• dc
• canada

William Phelps Eno Memorial Pedestrian Mall

THE WILLIAM PHELPS ENO MEMORIAL PEDESTRIAN MALL WILLIAM PHELPS ENO 1858 - 1954 [sic]  FOUNDER OF ENO FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPORTATION, INC. WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT  [The death date is apparently...

• westport
• connecticut
• pedestrian
• mall

The Sandy Springs

Submitted by @jqmcd.

• georgia
• springs
• sandy
• todo

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