The French in North America (Les Français en Amérique du Nord)
France was the first of the three great European powers to recognize and appreciate the strategic importance of Natchez. Operating out of bases in Quebec, French explorers crossed the Great...
- mississippi
- natchez
- adams county
The Natchez People (Les Natchez)
The Natchez tribe of American Indians lived in the Natchez bluffs area along the lower Mississippi River valley. Archaeological evidence shows them in the region as far back as 700 CE. A...
- mississippi
- native americans
- natchez
- adams county
Temple of Relief
Submitted by @benjiw.
John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath (1939) was a prolific writer who showed great compassion for the ordinary person caught up in political and economic circumstances beyond...
Pioneer Mothers
Norman R. Howard
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."
- 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...
- 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
- 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
First Camp After Discovery of San Francisco Bay
Officer Eugene A. Doran
