Owen Smith, 'An Underground Movement: Designers, Builders, Riders'
Owen Smith An Underground Movement: Designers, Builders, Riders 1998 Ceramic mosaic Fabricated by Peter Colombo Artistic Mosaics Commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for ...
- new york
- brooklyn
- sunset park
- subway
- nyct
- art
- mosaic
- owen smith
- 1998
Natural Gas Network in Bashkortostan
The text is in two languages, Bashkir and Russian. It says:"Был йортkа Башkортостандағы тәүге селтәр газы килгән 21.07.1953 В этот дом пришел первый сетевой газ в ...
- infrastructure
- gas
- resources
Nashville’s First Public School
Nashville's first pablic school, Hume School, opened here Feb. 26, 1855. A three story brick building, the school employed 12 teachers and served all grades. In 1874 high school classes were moved to ...
- school
- high school
- nashville
- tennessee
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965) A graduate of Hume- Fogg and Vanderbilt University, Randall Jarrell was a distinguished poet, critic, novelist, essayist, and teacher. Jarrell Joined the U.S. Army Air ...
- school
- high school
- vanderbilt univ...
- vanderbilt
- university
- nashville
- tennessee
- poetry
James Wilson Growden Memorial Field
GROWDEN MEMORIAL FIELDin memory of JAMES WILSON GROWDENMarch 28, 1935 - March 27, 1964FATHER - TEACHER - ATHLETE - LATHROP HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATEDIED WITH HIS TWO YOUNG SONS IN THE GREAT ALASKA ...
- fairbanks
- alaska
- goldpanners
- baseball
Pulaski Bridge
CITY OF NEW YORK ROBERT F. WAGNER MAYOR JOHN CASHMORE PRESIDENT, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN JAMES A. LUNDY PRESIDENT, BOROUGH OF QUEENS PULASKI BRIDGE 1954 DESIGNED AND SUPERVISED BY THE DEPARTMENT ...
- new york
- brooklyn
- queens
- greenpoint
- long island cit...
- bridge
- robert wagner
- john cashmore
- james lundy
Gloria & Don LeVine
In loving memory. Gloria & Don LeVine Married 1946: Partners, Parents, Grandparents "Those were the days..."Submitted by @lampbane
- new york
- brooklyn
- prospect park
- bench
General William Booth
TO THE GLORY OF GOD UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH THE FOUNDER OF THE SALVATION ARMY COMMISSIONER GEORGE S. RAILTON AND SEVEN WOMEN OFFICERS UNFURLED THE FLAG OF THE SALVATION ARMY ...
- new york
- manhattan
- battery park
- the battery
- william booth
- salvation army
Riverview Homes Association
RIVERVIEW HOMES ASSOCIATION Incorporated 1 May, 1923 One of the earliest examples of not-for- profit housing cooperatives in the United States, Riverview Homes was established and constructed ...
- new york
- brooklyn
- sunset park
- finland
- finntown
- 1923
Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline Wetlands Project
Submitted by @Victory4Oakland.
Kiusala
KIUSALA Sunset Court Association, Inc. Built 1925 Eric O. Holmgren, Architect This building is one of more than 30 cooperative apartment buildings surrounding Sunset Park, that were either built ...
- new york
- brooklyn
- sunset park
- finland
- finntown
- 1925
Point Emery
POINT EMERY A small shoreline park located on northwestern edge of Emeryville, Point Emery is a popular place for kiteboarding, kayaking and paddle-boarding access to the San Francisco ...
In Vicinity of French Trading Area
In the mid-1700s, Indians of the region met at a trading ground near this site with Frenchmen who brought them manufactured goods, sometimes including guns and ammunition — products denied them by ...
- texas
- native american...
- colonial histor...
Archer County Copper Mines
(1/4 mile northeast and 5 miles to the south southeast) The civilized world first heard of copper in this area from Texas Rangers after an 1860 campaign against Comanches on the Pease River, about ...
- texas
- archer county
- mining
- civil war
Dad's Corner
The result of a 1923 oil boom, development of a town at this site included some twenty-two businesses, including a food stand operated by a man with the nickname “Dad,” which provided a name for the ...
- texas
- oil
- boomtowns
- ghost towns
Camp Stonewall Jackson
Area Confederate veterans officially formed the Stonewall Jackson Camp #249, United Confederate Veterans, in 1897. The group purchased 106 acres located south of Holliday, along Holliday Creek, as a ...
- texas
- archer county
- civil war
- confederate vet...
The Old Buffalo Road
(About 100 yards to the west) Named for its traffic in buffalo hides and bones, this North Texas road gave subsistence to pioneers while aiding in mass “harvest” of the American bison. As long as ...
- texas
- native american...
- buffalo
- bison
A Jesse James Hideout
(Located 2 blocks west and 2 blocks north) Jesse James, celebrated 1860s-82 Missouri outlaw, used to visit in Archer City in house built by Stone Land & Cattle Company for its manager, Allen ...
- texas
- archer county
- archer city
- jesse james
- frank james
- outlaws
Archer County Discovery Well
(Approximately 13 mi. SE) M.P. Andrews No. 1, drilled in 1911, reached oil sands at 920 feet. Well first flowed oil, March 1912, at rate of 10 barrels a day. Production in this shallow ...
- texas
- archer county
- archer city
- oil
- petroleum
Extinct Town of Anarene
Landowner Charles E. Graham (1872-1937) in 1908 granted the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad a route across his property and platted a town at this site. Anarene was named for his wife ...
- texas
- archer county
- anarene
- ghost towns
- last picture sh...
The Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
September 28, 1874 One of the most significant battles of 1874-75 Indian campaign; columns of troops converging from five directions harassed Indians on the Panhandle Plains for over six months. ...
- palo duro canyo...
- ranald mackenzi...
- comanches
- kiowas
- native amiercan...
The S.P. Hamblen Family
Pioneered at this site, in dugout to the west. S.P. Hamblen (1846-1930) and wife Virginia (1861-1950) settled in Lakeview area (9 mi. S of Claude) in 1889. Hamblen helped establish Lakeview School, ...
- texas
- s.p. hamblen fa...
- prairie dog tow...
William E. Schott
Briscoe County pioneer William E. Schott (1870-1941) was born in Ohio and moved to North Texas in 1885. Still legally a minor, he came to this area in 1890 and filed a claim for the first of his ...
- texas
- briscoe county
- palo duro canyo...
- william e. scho...
Hamblen Drive
Named for William H. Hamblen (1878-1952), who in 1890s pioneered a crude road (about 6 mi. N) into Palo Duro Canyon along old Indian trails. This cut 120 miles off settlers' trips to the courthouse ...
- texas
- brisco county
- palo duro canyo...
- hamblen
- highways
Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway
In 1852, years before the nations’s first transcontinental rail line was completed in 1869, the Texas Legislature chartered what would become the Texas & Pacific Railway Company. The Civil War halted ...
- texas
- palo pinto coun...
- parker county
- mineral wells
- railroads
- resorts