This gun, one of a battery of eleven, at St. Eustatius, N.W.I., on November 16, 1776, fired the first salute by a foreign power to the Flag of the United States. This painting by Memphis...
"Property of the Hess Estate which has never been dedicated for public purposes." This is a triangle at the intersection of Seventh Ave and Christopher Street in New York's West Village. From...
Submitted by @WittelLuke
IN THE LATE HOURS OF NOVEMBER 25, 1944 A C-47 ARMY CARGO PLANE EN ROUTE FROM CHICAGO TO MINNEAPOLIS CRASHED INTO BLUE MOUND 400 - 500 FEET NORTH OF THIS MONUMENT. THE PLANE HAD ENCOUNTERED A...
THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF BLUE MOUND WAS CONSERVED AND ENHANCED BY THE VISION AND UNTIRING EFFORTS OF JOHN MINIXWHO MADE THIS OUTSTANDING FEATURE OF WISCONSIN ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC AS A...
Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema 1996 ALEXANDER "SANDY" MACKENDRICK (1912-1993) Film Director who made Whisky Galorehere on Barra Submitted by @slashdotat
Plaque reads: Here The Canadian Club Movement Had It’s Beginning December Sixth 1892 ------- Erected by the Women’s Canadian Club of Hamilton – December Sixth 1913 This Plaque Erected...
POWERS CROSSING This embankment, the original site of the TH&B railway trestle bridge over Binkley Hollow, is part of an Ancaster Creek flood/erosion control project. The creek forms the...
The Pigott Building, 36 James Street South, was Hamilton's first skyscraper. It was for decades an office building until its conversion to condo units. Plaque reads: City of Hamilton 1929...
From the lone shieling of the misty island, mountains divide us, and the waste of seas - Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides. This shieling...
This house, built in 1884, was home to Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1952-53 while he was enrolled in the Graduate School of Boston University. The building was rehabilitated in 1987 by the...