Alameda Babe Ruth 14-15YO Workd Series champs
Plaque dedicated to the 1985 Alameda Babe Ruth World Series champions, who won the tournament in Jamestown New York in August 1985. Congrats!
- alameda; baseball
Ludgeruskerk
This plaque commemorates the church that was here, and was a landmark building for this part of Utrecht. This used to be the independent community (municipality) of "Zuilen" until 1954, and is...
- church
- lost building
The Kansas City Southern Railway In Port Arthur
The city of Port Arthur was platted in 1895 as the terminus of a railroad envisioned by Arthur E. Stilwell as the shortest route from Kansas City, Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico. The Kansas...
- texas
- railroad
- kcs
Fifth Districts High School
The Fifth Districts High School was built in 1893. It is the work of Mr. John Reason under the leadership of Dr. Henry C. Cotton of Bella Alliance, LA. This location was once called Newtown...
- louisiana
- african american
- school
- education
William Thomas Lewis
William Thomas Lewis was born in Merthyr on August 5th 1837. He was the first son of Thomas William Lewis, an engineer at the Plymouth Iron Works, Merthyr Tydfil. Aged only 27 he became the...
- wales
- union
Greenville's Writers
An extraordinary literary atmosphere in Greenville produced winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and O'Henry Award. Writers influenced by the creative ambience here include William...
- mississippi
- arts
Ascension Catholic Steeple
The original wooden steeple on this bell tower was removed in 1936 for safety reasons. Through the generous private donations of more than 150 families, individuals, and businesses, and a matching...
- louisiana
- church
Port Arthur - Beaumont Interurban Railway
Electric railways known as Interurbans existed in Texas from 1901 until the 1940s to provide frequent opportunities for the public to travel between urban centers. Interurban service...
- texas
- port arthur
- railway
Walker Percy
Walker Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1916, orphaned in late childhood, and adopted at age thirteen by kinsman William Alexander Percy, a poet and patron of the arts from...
- mississippi
- mississippi ...
- novelist
- writer
Shelby Foote
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. was born November 17, 1916, in Greenville. A childhood friend of Mississippi novelist Walker Percy, he began his early career as an author publishing five works of...
- mississippi
- mississippi ...
- novelist
- writer
- civil war
- historian