Holy Cross Catholic Church
Father Frederic Baraga (1797-1868) first landed on Beaver Island as a missionary in 1832. This church was built in 1860 and consecrated by Baraga, then Bishop of the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie....
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Old Fish Market
From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by chrisinplymouth, full page.License is Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
The Queen's Hospital and the Birmingham Accident Hospital
Submitted by @caddickbrown
Royal William Victualling Yard
ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD COMMISSIONED TO BE BUILT IN 1824 IN THE REIGN OF. KING GEORGE IV WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF SUPPLYINC VICTUALS TO HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY COMPLETED IN THE REIGN OF...
September 3, 1935
Remember September 3, 1935 During a doc strick, police arrsested 21 longshoremen picketing Pacific Coast Terminals. ILWU Local 502 still works the Fraser River. Submitted by @WeBuildBC
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St. Paul's Chapel
ST PAUL'S CHAPEL THIS FAMOUS EXAMPLE OF GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE, BUILT 1764-166, WITH SPIRE AID PORTICO ADDED 1794-1796 IS THE ONLY CHURCH STRUCTURE SURVIVING THE COLONIAL ERA OF NEW YORK CITY THE...
English Elm
ENGLISH ELMULMUS PROCERA PLANTED 1906 DESIGNATED BY THE DAVIS CITY COUNCIL AS A LANDMARK TREE PLACED BY PACIFIC TELEPHONE EMPLOYEES OCTOBER 1969 Submitted by @jqmcd
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William Davidson and Peter Mitchell
WILLIAM DAVIDSON, 1740-1790 Born in Banffhire, Scotland, Davidson was the first English-speaking settler in Miramichi. As a pioneer in the fishing, masting, lumbering and ship-building indus-...
Anthony J. Drexel
ANTHONY J. DREXEL (1826 -1893) Entrepreneur and philan- thropist Drexel created the world's first trans- Atlantic banking network from an office first located here. It financed many U.S. railroads...
Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson March 9, 1947 April 26, 2013 Beloved Husband and Father May all who rest here be touched by his love, light, humor and smile
Boxcar
NEW MEXICO STATE FAIR FORTY & EIGHT FRENCH BOXCAR PAVILION HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICOo BRUCE KING, GOVERNOR NEW MEXICO STATE FAIR COMMISSION GILLE JARAMILLO, CHAIRMAN JIMMIE RANDALS,...
Valenzuela Adobe
SITE OF THE VALENZUELA ADOBE Antonio Valenzuela, early ploneer of the town of San Juan Capistrano, built the adobe in the early 1840s, probably on the ruins of a mission Indian adobe dating to...
Algiers Dry Dock
Andre Seguin built the first dry dock in Algiers in 1819 on land purchased from Barthelemy Duverjé. As the City did not want ship building and repair businesses on their side of the river,...
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Algiers Courthouse
Erected in 1896To replace the Duverjé Plantation House which served as the courthouse from 1866 until it burned in the great Algiers Fire of 1895. Barthelmy Duverjé acquired title to the...
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Valena C. Jones Elementary School
Valena C. Jones School came largely through the efforts of Rev. Alfred Lawless, Beecher Congregational Church and the Seventh Ward Educational League. In 1904, they began a quest for an adequate...
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Fannie C Williams Pioneer in Public Education
As one of New Orleans' premier educators in the first half of the twentieth century, Fannie C. Williams steered this school through decades of challenge and change. An active civic leader, she was...
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Uncle Jim's Cabin
UNCLE JIM'S CABIN IN 1853 JAMES OTTERSON BUILT A HOTEL NEAR THIS CORNER IT WAS THE FIRST BUILDING IN WHAT WAS TO BECOME MAYFIELD, LATER A PART OF PALO ALTO. TRAVELERS BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO AND...
SP Depot
SP Depot Five years after the University Farm opened in 1908, this Mis- sion Revival station was built by Southern Pacific to replace the original Davisville depot, which had served...
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Mackinac Island
In 1670 a Jesuit priest, Father Claude Dablon, wintered here. The British in 1781 made it a center of their military and fur-trade activity. The island was occupied by the Americans in 1796. Held...
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