Fleet City 1943 - 1946: Shoemaker, California
Pleasanton Veterans Plaza
Port Sulphur
Hub of the Louisiana sulphur industry. Built in 1932-33 by Freeport Sulphur Company to logistically support Grand Ecaille mine, world's second largest Frasch sulphur mine. It was located in Lake...
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- mining
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Plaquemines Parish
Plaquemines Parish was founded on March 31, 1807 stretching from English Turn south 100 miles along both banks of the Mississippi River. The name originates from plakamin, the Mobile Indian...
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- plaquemines parish
U.S. Marine Hospital
Completed in 1849, this three-story building treatedsailors until abandoned after the 1858 Belle Crevasse.During the War Between the States, gunpowder wasmanufactured at the site and arson was...
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- civil war
- hospital
1893 Hurricane
The 1893 Hurricane hit south Louisiana on the night of October 1 claiming over 2000 lives. One of the survivors was 25 year old Paul Harris who was working as an orange picker on the...
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- disaster
- rotary club
- rotary international
John P. Hale
THE MEASURE OF MY AMBITION WILL BE FULL WHEN WY WIFE AND CHILDREN SHALL REPAIR TO MY GRAVE TO DROP THE TEAR OF AFFECTION TO MY MEMORY THEY MAY READ ON MY TOMBSTONE. HE WHO LIES BENEATH...
Pioneer Cairn Plaza
The Pioneer Cairn Plaza The Dominion Land Survey of 1869 providedan organized method of legally diving thevast expanses of the Canadian West. Thetownship consisting of 36 sections wasthe base unit...
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- pioneer
- cairn
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Lafayette's Tour, NY
Olivier Plantation House & St. Mary's Orphanage
Located on this site from ca. 1820 to 1949 stood the original David Olivier creole-style plantation house. It was purchased by The New Orleans Catholic Association for the Relief of Male Orphans...
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- new orleans
- religion
- plantation