Liberty Tree Memorial
.@readtheplaque Do you have this one in the Nick's parking lot in Winthrop, MA? https://t.co/JDV2ehqVAz Tweet Submitted by @probablyaliens
- liberty elm
- tree
- 1765
- boston
- winthrop
- keene
- stamp act
- sons of liberty
Rhode Island Irish Famine Memorial
Submitted by @jikamens
- rhode island
- ireland
- famine
- providence
San Diego Fishing Pier
SAN DIEGO FISHING PIER DEVELOPED BY CITY OF SAN DIEGO AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION BOARD DEPARTMENT OF FISH & GAME RESOURCES AGENCY STATE OF CALIFORNIA -1966- Submitted by @theluisfraire
- san diego
- pier
- fishing
Tragic Accident Hop- Pickers
NEAR THIS BRIDGE 30 HOP-PICKERS WERE DROWNED IN THE RIVER MEDWAY IN A TRAGIC ACCIDENT ON THE 20th OCTOBER 1853. THEY ARE BURIED IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD HADLOW. Submitted by @matthiascarter
- drowned
- hadlow
- hop-pickers
- 1853
Burial Vaults
Burial Vaults This is the site of Thomas Holt's mausoleum. The vaults were carved out of the sandstone rock in the 1870s. However no one was ever interred in them. Historic Trail Plaque 2 funded...
- cooks river
- australia
- mausoleum
Hugh Kaul
Hugh Kaul followed in the footsteps of his fatehr and grandfather - linking business success with service to one's community. He successfully organized the Alabama Forestry Association...
- birmingham
- alabama
- zoo
- forestry
- lumber
Ancient Stump
ANCIENT STUMP BACK TO THE DAWN OF THE BRONZE AGE! This root mass was one of many buried beneath the breaches along the Oregon Coast between Newport and Neskowin. It once supported a spruce tree,...
- stump
- bronze age
- newport
- neskowin
- spruce
- 4100 years
- 1998
5th Century Repair to the Colosueum
Plaque reads: '"Decius Marius Venantius Basilius, Senator of the rank of the most famous and illustrious, Prefect of Rome, ordinary Consul, restored the arena and the podium which were destroyed...
- rome italy a...
Restoration Rome Train Station
Plaque reads: 'All' inizio del grande giubileo del duemila alla presenza di Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Presidente Della Republica E' riconsegnata alla Citta' Di Roma la stazione termini...
- rome italy t...
Ponte Fabrico
Plaque reads: 'The bridge takes its name from its first builder, Lucio Fabriclus, who built it in 62BC to join the left bank of the Tiber with Tiber Island. It is built of tuff and peperino,...
- italy rome a...
Chief Kyan Totem Pole
Totem poles are carved to honor deceased ancestors, record history, social events, and oral tradition. They were never worshipped as religious objects. This totem is the second replication of the...
- totem pole
- alaska
- ketchikan
- crane
- thunderbird
- brown bear
- tlingit
- tongass
- native american
- american indian
Romeo
Romeo 2003 - 2009 The spirit of Juneau's friendly black wolf lives on in this wild place.
- romeo
- wolf
- juneau
- alaska
- mendenhall glacier
Oregon Trail
DEDICATE TO THE PIONEERS WHO BLAZED THE OREGON TRAIL BY THE LINN CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
- oregon trail
- brownsville
- oregon
Jessie O. Haney
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JESSIE O. HANEY 1999
- water fountain
- drinking fountain
Steve Craig
IN HONOR OF OUR DEAR FRIEND STEVE CRAIG FRIENDS ARE THE SUNSHINE OF LIFE... YOU BRIGHTENED OUR LIFE, DEAR FRIEND. 1954-2006
- redding
- california
- friendship
Yreka Lynching
NEAR THIS SPOT AT 3:AM AUGUST 3, 1935 CLYDE JOHNSON, NATIVE OF ALABAMA, WAS LYNCHES BY A YET UNKNOWN GROUP OF MASKED MEN FOR THE MURDER OF DUNSMUIR CHIEF OF POLICE FRANK R. (JACK)...
- yreka
- california
- lynching
- $35
- alabama
The Shops at 6th & G, Grants Pass
ERECTED BY CHARLES A. WING IN 1949, UPON THE SITE OF THE FIRST BRICK BUILDING IN GRANTS PASS, WHICH WAS CONSTRUCTED BY JOHN W. HOWARD IN 1886 Submitted by @jqmcd
- grants pass
- oregon
- 1886
The Brick Church
Organized in 1856 the Third Presbyterian Church was completed in 1860. Known as The Brick Church, it was a reference point in early Memphis directories. In 1861 citizens of Chelsea met in the...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Defense Distribution DepotMemphis, Tennessee1941-1997
The Memphis Defense Depot was created in 1941 for the Army Quartermaster Corps and located here due to the availability of access to the Frisco Railroad switching yard. It was constructed on...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Funk, Nebraska
FUNK, NEBRASKA - 1887-1987 Civil War veteran P. C. Funk came to Divide Township in Phelps County in 1877 and purchased 160 acres of land two miles north of the present town. By 1883 the...
- funk
- nebraska
- 1887