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Amelia Earhart Home

Amelia Earhart, the famed flier, lived here from 1925 until she left to make the first transatlantic flight by a woman on July 17, 1928. Here she wrote the poem "Courage."

Amelia Earhart, the famed flier, lived here from 1925 until she left to make the first transatlantic flight by a woman on July 17, 1928. Here she wrote the poem "Courage."

  • aviators
  • women

William Bowditch House

The William I. Bowditch house at 9 Toxteth Street was a station on the underground railroad before the Civil War. Aboloitionists Sarah and William Bowditch provided safe haven for enslaved...

The William I. Bowditch house at 9 Toxteth Street was a station on the underground railroad before the Civil War. Aboloitionists Sarah and William Bowditch provided safe haven for...

  • underground railroad
  • abolitionists

Marin County Hall of Justice

    Fran and Joan Olsson

      The Chief's House

        Norwood Junction Subway

        The world's first reinforced concrete underpass Submitted by @8obGray

        The world's first reinforced concrete underpass Submitted by @8obGray

        • concrete underpass

        Benson Island

          The Departed Members of the Daly City Fire Department

            Jean and Urban Whitaker

              Edna Elizabeth Cowan

                Grazing Demonstration Project

                  Phoenix

                  Lenda Anders Barth

                  Lenda Anders Barth

                    First Camp After Discovery of San Francisco Bay

                      Officer Eugene A. Doran

                        The San Andreas Fault

                          Royal Roads University: Hatley Park

                            WNYC Transmitter Park

                            WNYC TRANSMITTER PARK 6.61 ACRES WNYC Transmitter Park is located on the site of the former AM-radio transmission towers for public radio station WNYC. Built in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood,...

                            WNYC TRANSMITTER PARK 6.61 ACRES WNYC Transmitter Park is located on the site of the former AM-radio transmission towers for public radio station WNYC. Built in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood,...

                            • new york
                            • brooklyn
                            • greenpoint
                            • park
                            • radio

                            The Blackwater

                            To the southeast is Blackwater Falls, 63 feet high, and its rugged gorge. It drains lovely Canaan Valley, which can be seen from the mountain top, 3700 feet high. It was made famous by "Blackwater...

                            To the southeast is Blackwater Falls, 63 feet high, and its rugged gorge. It drains lovely Canaan Valley, which can be seen from the mountain top, 3700 feet high. It was made famous by "Blackwater...

                              Transmitter House for WNYC

                              CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF PLANT AND STRUCTURES TRANSMITTER HOUSE FOR RADIO STATION WNYC F.H.LA GUARDIAF.J.H.KRACKE COMMISSIONER1936CONSTRUCTED BY WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATIONSubmitted by @lampbane

                              CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF PLANT AND STRUCTURES TRANSMITTER HOUSE FOR RADIO STATION WNYC F.H.LA GUARDIAF.J.H.KRACKE COMMISSIONER1936CONSTRUCTED BY WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATIONSubmitted by @lampbane

                              • new york
                              • brooklyn
                              • greenpoint
                              • radio

                              A Feat of Gravity: The Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System