Hudson's Bay Company Department Store
The overwhelming turnout surprised everyone. After all, no merchandise was on sale. It was the fourth store the company had built on the site since relocating their first store in 1893. So...
- yeg
- retail
- trade
Straitsmouth Cove Landing
Fishermen from Essex and Ipswich began fishing from this site in the mid-1600's. They soaked their catch in brine and sun dried it for shipment to the Caribbean, England and other...
- essex
- ipswich
- massachusetts
- life-saving station
General George Patton
plaque in a park in Patton's California hometown near where he was born and raised****GEORGE SMITH PATTON, JR.1885-1945The descendant of a distinguished pioneer family and son of San Merino's...
- general geor...
- lacy park
- san merino
- pasadena
- wwi
- wwii
- military
- army
Renaissance College (U.N.B.) c. 1895
This Queen Anne style house was sold in 1900 to the bank of Montreal for the manager's use. It was purchased in 1948 by Lord Beaverbrook and given to U.N.B. Alumnae Society as the university's...
- fredericton
- new brunswick
- 1895
- beaverbrook
- bank of montreal
Gable Masion
Gable Mansion The Gable Mansion is an outstanding example of 19th Century Victorian Italianate architecture. One of the last of its style, size, and proportion in California. This structure...
- 1885
- yolo county
- woodland
- california
- ranchers
- victorian italianate
Emlen Tunnell Field
EMLEN TUNNELL FIELD EMLEN TUNNELL Class of 1942 Radnor High School New York Giants defensive End 1948 - 1962 BORN AND RAISED IN GARRETT HILL When you walk on this field, know that...
- radnor
- pennsylvania
- tunnell
- football
- footsteps
Arnold Tavern
ARNOLD TAVERN SITE OF COL. JACOB ARNOLD'S TAVERN. IT WAS USED AS WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS JAN - MAY, 1777. TROOPS WERE IN LOW ANTICA VALLEY. Submitted by @danmcd674
Formerly the Texas School Book Depository Building
This site was originally owned by John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas. During the 1880s French native Maxime Guillot operated a wagon shop here. In 1894 the land was purchased by Phil...
- dallas
- texas
- jfk
- plow company
- book depository
- assasination
Salvation Army
THE SALVATION ARMY OAKLAND CHINATOWN CORPS DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE SERVICE OF MANKIND JUNE 28, 2008 BY COMMISSIONER PHILIP SWYERS TERRITORIAL COMMANDER
- oakland
- califorinia
- bay area
- salvation army
- territorial ...
William McGonagall
William McGonagall / Poet and Tragedian Submitted by @slashdotat
The Crash of Flight 307
The Crash of Flight 307 March 7, 1950 at 9:02PM During its approach through a blinding snowstorm, NWA Flight 307 clipped its left wing on a flagpole at Ft. Snelling Cemetery. Captain...
- minneapolis
- minesotoa
- plane crash
- cemetery
Herman W. Cox, Jr.
Herman W. Cox, Jr., life long resident of Collierville, was a 1939 graduate of Collierville High School. He served as an elected leader of Collierville, first as alderman in 1959 and Mayor in...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Bryant Terrace 1906
Spotted walking down Bryant Street, near the eastern edge of San Francisco's Mission District, after work. It's a non-official-type plaque, devised by someone devoted to the history of this one...
- san francisco
- mission district
- apartments blocks
Interprovincial Bridge
1900 INTERPROVINCIAL BRIDGE BUILT BY DOMINION BRIDGE C L LACHINE P O PONTIAC PACIFIC JR OTTAWA GATINUAU R H. J BEEMER CONTRACTOR GUY C. DUNN ENGINEER Submitted by @bthubbard
- ottawa
- ontario
- bridge
Akin Hall
AKIN HALL BUILT AND DEDICATED IN 1881 BY A. J. AKIN. USED BY CHRIST CHURCH SINCE 1895. MOVED TO FORMER SITE OF MIZZENTOP HOTEL BY LOWELL THOMAS 1936. AKIN HALL ASSOCIATION 1986
Tanks Skole
TANKS SKOLE "Skoleivet var meg dypt usympatisk, dets materialisme, barshel og kulde var min natur sa imot at jeg utponsket det utroligste for a bli det kvitt - om bar for en liten stund." Edvard...
Between Downtown and the Railroad
Triangular block bounded by Detroit, Fifth, and Kingsley, 1897 In 1845 the first St. Thomas Catholic Church, built on Kingsley Street east of Division, was Ann Arbor’s first brick church and its...
- detroit
- michigan
- railroad
- barrel factory
- apple-picking
Industry on Detroit Street
Miller’s Planing Mill, 529 Detroit Street, 1874 (Later the Treasure Mart) Used cars were sold at 514 Detroit Streetin the last part of Andrew Schmidt’s carriage factory buildings, before it was...
- detroit
- michigan
- universal bath
- railroad
- treasure mart
Purgatory Hill
Purgatory Hill Named by the Continental Army encamped here fall of 1778. Site of great barbecue celebrating anniversary of Burgoyne's defeat - Saratoga
- barbecue
- 1778
- saratoga
- akindale farms
Colfax Riot
This plaque marks what it calls the "Colfax Riot," what is now called the "Colfax Massacre." In the midst of political turmoil in 1873, White Supremacist paramilitaries killed over 100 blacks --...
- massacre
- reconstruction
- paramilitaries
- racism