Greenamyer Sculpture
Submitted by @beckerben
Helena Gutteridge
Helena Gutteridge
Center For Independent Journalism
St. Philip Roman Catholic Church
The Quaker meetinghouse on this site was purchased at auction by local Catholics in 1863. St. Philip Roman Catholic Church has been on this corner since then. Its first school opened in 1880....
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Northern Gate
From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by chrisinplymouth, full page.License is Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
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Hartford Memorial Baptist Church
The Hartford Memorial congregation was the first African American church on Detroit’s west side. It began, under Rev. Edgar Edwards (1875-1942), as the international,...
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Blach House
From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by Elizabeth Thomsen, full page.License is Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
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Port Allegany
From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by HystericalMark, full page.License is Attribution- ShareAlike License
Walter D. Stone Memorial Zoo
Submitted by @beckerben.
St. Mary of Czestochowa Roman Catholic Church / Katolicki KosciÕ_l Matki Boskiej Czestochowskiej
The Polish refugees who immigrated to Dwight Township in the 1840s in order to escape Prussian domination worshipped at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Port Austin. In 1903 in an effort to retain...
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Girl Scout Cookies
GIRL SCOUT COOKIES On November 11, 1932, Girl Scouts baked & sold cookies for the first time in the windows of the Philadelphia Gas & Electric Co. here. This endeavor soon became a...
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Original Homestead of Walker Percy
Homestead owned by Walker Percy, who was an American author and philosopher. He is best known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the...
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Lake Superior
Le lac superieur the French called it, meaning only that geographically it lay above Lake Huron. In size, however, Lake Superior stands above all other freshwater lakes in the world. The...
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Michigan State Fair
America’s first state fair, conducted by the Michigan Agricultural Society with the support of the legislature and local citizens, was held in Detroit on September 25-27, 1849. About eight hundred...
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Danielle Marie Shieman
Family and Friends are Never Forgotten This Family Picnic Area is Dedicated In Memory of Danielle Marie Shieman September 9, 1991 - December 6, 1991
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John Hinkel Park
CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 2001 John Hinkel Park Clubhouse, John Gregg, Designer, 1918 Amphitheater, Vernon Dean, Designer, 1934 In 1919 John and Ada Hinkel donated seven...
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Across the Peninsula
Old Portage Road, which ends near here, has been used to cross the peninsula since this shore was first settled. It closely parallels the Indian trail which was the way of the trapper and traveler...
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First Baptist Church
In 1883, Pastor T. S. Howell from Bunker Hill Church in rural Marion County, and six local believers met at the courthouse to organize a Baptist church within the city limits of Columbia. Early...
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Temporary State Capital
The 5th session of the Mississippi Legislature met in Columbia in Nov. 1821, and in a special session in June 1822. Walter Leake was inaugurated Governor here in January 1822; the...
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