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Yelamu

BEFORE 1776 THE NATIVE YELAMU PEOPLE LIVE NEARBY IN THE VILLAGE OF CHUTCHUI, RELOCATING EACH WINTER TO THE BAYSIDE VILLAGE OF SITLINTAC. A CREEK FLOWS PAST GRASSLAND AND CHAPARRAL TOWARD THE BAY...

BEFORE 1776 THE NATIVE YELAMU PEOPLE LIVE NEARBY IN THE VILLAGE OF CHUTCHUI, RELOCATING EACH WINTER TO THE BAYSIDE VILLAGE OF SITLINTAC. A CREEK FLOWS PAST GRASSLAND AND CHAPARRAL TOWARD THE BAY...

    Commemorating 150 Years of Gold

    CITY OF GREATER BENDIGO COMMEMORATING 150 YEARS OF GOLD Mrs. Margaret Kennedy and Mrs. Farrell found gold near this spot in the spring of 1851. Discovery of gold marked the beginning of Bendigo,...

    CITY OF GREATER BENDIGO COMMEMORATING 150 YEARS OF GOLD Mrs. Margaret Kennedy and Mrs. Farrell found gold near this spot in the spring of 1851. Discovery of gold marked the beginning of...

      Dorthea Bate

      Dorothea Bate, a paleontologist, ornithologist & zoologist, has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Bate was the first female scientist employed by @NHM_London & spent 50 years there. DORTHEA...

      Dorothea Bate, a paleontologist, ornithologist & zoologist, has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Bate was the first female scientist employed by @NHM_London & spent 50 years there. DORTHEA...

      • palaeontology
      • women
      • natual history
      • wales
      • carmarthen

      Ethan Rarick

      During his time at this residence from 1999 - 2007  Ethan Rarick wrote  California Rising The life and times of Pat Brown  and  Desperate Passage The Doner Party's perilous journey west  ...

      During his time at this residence from 1999 - 2007  Ethan Rarick wrote  California Rising The life and times of Pat Brown  and  Desperate Passage The Doner Party's perilous journey west...

      • rarick
      • pat brown
      • berkeley
      • donner party

      China Wall of the Sierra

      China Wall of the Sierra Charles Crocker, construction chief of the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR), contracted for a workforce of approximately 12,000 Chinese laborers to push the CPRR tracks...

      China Wall of the Sierra Charles Crocker, construction chief of the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR), contracted for a workforce of approximately 12,000 Chinese laborers to push the CPRR tracks...

      • sierra nevada
      • donner pass
      • chinese
      • california
      • transcontine...
      • central paci...

      Oldest Continuously Operating Passenger Railroad in the West

      Plaque located at the Caltrain station at 4th and Townsend streets in San Francisco's far South of Market area (and not to far from Phone Company Park, where the Giants play). Here's the text,...

      Plaque located at the Caltrain station at 4th and Townsend streets in San Francisco's far South of Market area (and not to far from Phone Company Park, where the Giants play). Here's the...

      • san francisc...
      • san francisco
      • san jose
      • railroads
      • caltrain
      • transit

      Nebraska's Butte County

        Butte Country Perhaps no spot in Nebraska is so surrounded by historical and geographical landmarks as this one. Numerous landmarks of the period of the Indian Wars are visible from here. The...

        Butte Country Perhaps no spot in Nebraska is so surrounded by historical and geographical landmarks as this one. Numerous landmarks of the period of the Indian Wars are visible from here. The...

      • nebraska
      • great plains

      Wilver Dornell Stargell

        Depoe Bay Memorial Wall

        At rest on land or at sea, you live on in memory.

        At rest on land or at sea, you live on in memory.

          Anti-German Hysteria

          OHIO HISTORICAL MARKER ANTI-GERMAN HYSTERIA The United States' declaration of war on Germany in April 1917 resulted in a tragic display of hysteria directed against everything and anything German....

          OHIO HISTORICAL MARKER ANTI-GERMAN HYSTERIA The United States' declaration of war on Germany in April 1917 resulted in a tragic display of hysteria directed against everything and anything German....

          • wwi
          • ohio
          • german

          Nike Site Summit

            Nova Scotia Tree for Boston

            This is the home of the Nova Scotia Tree for Boston. Each year, Nova Scotia gives a tree to thank the people of Boston for their help in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917....

            This is the home of the Nova Scotia Tree for Boston. Each year, Nova Scotia gives a tree to thank the people of Boston for their help in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917....

            • boston
            • halifax
            • nova scotia
            • explosion
            • tree
            • holidays
            • christmas

            In Memory of David McKean

            IN MEMORY OF DAVID McKEAN 3RD AND YOUNGEST SON OF THE LATE ROBERT McKEAN ESQ. OF KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND; WHO DIED IN THIS CITY, OF YELLOW FEVER, IN THE MIDST OF HIS USEFULNESS, ON THE 7TH DAY OF...

            IN MEMORY OF DAVID McKEAN 3RD AND YOUNGEST SON OF THE LATE ROBERT McKEAN ESQ. OF KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND; WHO DIED IN THIS CITY, OF YELLOW FEVER, IN THE MIDST OF HIS USEFULNESS, ON THE 7TH DAY OF...

              Birthplace of the "Star Spangled Banner"

              THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER WAS BORN HERE -•- The flag that flew from the ramparts at Fort McHenry - and inspired the famous poem by Francis Scott Key - was sewn at this site in 1813.   ...  ...

              THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER WAS BORN HERE -•- The flag that flew from the ramparts at Fort McHenry - and inspired the famous poem by Francis Scott Key - was sewn at this site in 1813.   ......

              • baltimore
              • inner harbor
              • war of 1812
              • star spangled banner
              • francis scott key

              Millennium Park

              Mayor Richard M. Daley dedicated Millennium Park 16 July 2004as a gift to the people of Chicago.  This park is an enduring tribute to Chicago's long history of architectural and artistic...

              Mayor Richard M. Daley dedicated Millennium Park 16 July 2004as a gift to the people of Chicago.  This park is an enduring tribute to Chicago's long history of architectural and artistic...

              • chicago
              • millennium park
              • 2004

              Depoe Bay

              TO THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF DEPOE BAY THE COURAGE TO SUCCEED  The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...it is with an...

              TO THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF DEPOE BAY THE COURAGE TO SUCCEED  The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...it is with...

              • depoe bay

              Hooks Brothers Photography Established in 1907

              Covering much of the 20th century, the company chronicled and documented the history and lives of black Memphis and Memphians. Among the subjects and luminaries captured on film by the Hooks...

              Covering much of the 20th century, the company chronicled and documented the history and lives of black Memphis and Memphians. Among the subjects and luminaries captured on film by the...

              • shelby county
              • tennessee

              Fowler Pear Tree

              FOWLER PEAR TREE  PLANTED AS PART OF AN ORCHARD CIRCA 1868 A. D. JACOB D. FOWLER, WHO WITH HIS PARTNER MORRIS H FROST, CLAIMED AS A HOMESTEAD THIS MAJOR PORTION OF THE AREA WHICH NOW, COMPRISES...

              FOWLER PEAR TREE  PLANTED AS PART OF AN ORCHARD CIRCA 1868 A. D. JACOB D. FOWLER, WHO WITH HIS PARTNER MORRIS H FROST, CLAIMED AS A HOMESTEAD THIS MAJOR PORTION OF THE AREA WHICH NOW, COMPRISES...

              • mulilteo
              • 1863

              St. Anthony's Hall

              ST. ANTHONY'S HALL The ancient hall of the guild of St. Anthony which was founded prior to 1418 and dissolved in 1627. From 1705 to 1946 it housed the York Blue Coat Boys' School. Submitted by @slashdotat

              ST. ANTHONY'S HALL The ancient hall of the guild of St. Anthony which was founded prior to 1418 and dissolved in 1627. From 1705 to 1946 it housed the York Blue Coat Boys' School. Submitted by @slashdotat

              • york
              • guild
              • anthony

              Temple Judea