Mark Hopkins Hotel
THE MARK HOPKINS HOTEL WAS CONCEIVED, FINANCED AND BUILT BY COMSTOCK LODE MINING ENGINEER GEORGE D. SMITH WHO OPERATED IT FROM ITS OPENING IN DECEMBER 1926 THROUGH JANUARY 1962. HE...
The Hurdy Gurdy
Submitted by Ben Becker
Park Square Building
Submitted by Ben Becker
Tip O'Neill
Taunton Flag
- meteor flag
- loyalty to t...
The United Nations Conference on International Organization
The Herbst Theatre
The Great Buddha Image at Lahaina
Baxter's Curve Train Robbery
BAXTER'S CURVE TRAIN ROBBERY IN THE EARLY HOURS OF MARCH 13, 1912, BEN KILPATRICK, A FORMER SIDEKICK OF BUTCH CASSIDY AND SUNDANCE KID, AND OLE HOBEK ATTEMPTED ONE OF THE LAST MAJOR...
- texas
- ice mallet
- railroad
- robbery
Uphams Corner Health Center
Submitted by Ben Becker
The Earth Scientist J. Tuzo Wilson
The Earth scientist J. Tuzo Wilson (1908-1993), a key contributor to the theory of plate tectonics, was director general of the Ontario Science Centre from 1974 to 1985. Le spécialiste des...
Hendrix House
Submitted by nealjennings
To the memory of Trim
This is a companion plaque to the one beside Trim, Matthew Flinders' Intrepid Cat (https://readtheplaque.com/plaque/trim-matthew- flinders-intrepid-cat ), outside the State Gallery of New South...
- trim
- cats
- matthew flinders
A Bronzed Aussie and his Blue Heeler Dog
Submitted by @_marty_k
The Federals Occupy Port Gibson
About dark on May 1, 1863, Gen. W. E. Baldwin's Confederates retreated through Port Gibson. After crossing the suspension bridge over Little Bayou Pierre, the Confederates set it afire. On...
- mississippi
- civil war
Bayou Pierre Presbyterian Church
Following the arrival of Presbyterian missionaries in 1801, Joseph Bullen and James Smylie organized the Bayou Pierre Church at this site in 1807. After part of the congregation formed the...
- mississippi
- civil war
- church
Battle of Port Gibson - A.K. Shaifer House
Confederate Gen. Martin E. Green on the afternoon of April 30, 1863, posted his brigade near Magnolia Church, with an outpost here. Shortly after midnight. Green rode forward to check on...
- mississippi
- civil war battle
- port gibson
Leon Olson
Leon Olson loved to walk here.https://oaklandwiki.org/Leon_Olson
- oakland
Al Capp Amphitheater
Submitted by @beckerben
- comic sans
Abigail Adams Birthplace
ABIGAIL ADAMS BIRTHPLACE ABIGAIL SMITH ADAMS, THE WIFE OF JOHN ADAMS, 2ND PRESIDENT, AND MOTHER OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, 6TH PRESIDENT, WAS BORN HERE IN 1744. Submitted by @MaryAnnHogan525