Oregon Trail
DEDICATE TO THE PIONEERS WHO BLAZED THE OREGON TRAIL BY THE LINN CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
- oregon trail
- brownsville
- oregon
Jessie O. Haney
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JESSIE O. HANEY 1999
- water fountain
- drinking fountain
Steve Craig
IN HONOR OF OUR DEAR FRIEND STEVE CRAIG FRIENDS ARE THE SUNSHINE OF LIFE... YOU BRIGHTENED OUR LIFE, DEAR FRIEND. 1954-2006
- redding
- california
- friendship
Yreka Lynching
NEAR THIS SPOT AT 3:AM AUGUST 3, 1935 CLYDE JOHNSON, NATIVE OF ALABAMA, WAS LYNCHES BY A YET UNKNOWN GROUP OF MASKED MEN FOR THE MURDER OF DUNSMUIR CHIEF OF POLICE FRANK R. (JACK)...
- yreka
- california
- lynching
- $35
- alabama
The Shops at 6th & G, Grants Pass
ERECTED BY CHARLES A. WING IN 1949, UPON THE SITE OF THE FIRST BRICK BUILDING IN GRANTS PASS, WHICH WAS CONSTRUCTED BY JOHN W. HOWARD IN 1886 Submitted by @jqmcd
- grants pass
- oregon
- 1886
The Brick Church
Organized in 1856 the Third Presbyterian Church was completed in 1860. Known as The Brick Church, it was a reference point in early Memphis directories. In 1861 citizens of Chelsea met in the...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Defense Distribution DepotMemphis, Tennessee1941-1997
The Memphis Defense Depot was created in 1941 for the Army Quartermaster Corps and located here due to the availability of access to the Frisco Railroad switching yard. It was constructed on...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Funk, Nebraska
FUNK, NEBRASKA - 1887-1987 Civil War veteran P. C. Funk came to Divide Township in Phelps County in 1877 and purchased 160 acres of land two miles north of the present town. By 1883 the...
- funk
- nebraska
- 1887
Fire Bell
Fire Bell 1905 Council passed Ordinance 102 that formed the Brownsville Fire Department a.k.a. Brownsville Hose Co. #1 in June of 1905. Council appointed Chief Engineer (Fire Chief) Roy...
- brownsville
- oregon
- bell
- fire fighters
- hose co
- 1905
Sir Alexander Campbell
Immediately east of the grave of Sir John A. Macdonald... Plaque reads: Father of Confederation Sir Alexander Campbell 1822-1892 A delegate to the International Conferences of 1864...
Sr John Alexander Macdonald
Canada's 1st Prime Minister Plaque reads: Father of Confederation Sir John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 A delegate to the Intercolonial Conferences of 1864-1867 at which the basis was laid for...
Sir John A. Macdonald (1815 - 1891)
Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-1891) John A. Macdonald, a Father of Confederation and Canada's first prime minister, dominated the life of the new nation for a quarter century. Macdonald was...
The Great Farini
The Great Farini (William Leonard Hunt) "Canada's P.T. Barnum" -- In 1860 he became the 2nd person (after France's aerialist Blondin did it in 1859) to walk across Niagara Falls on a...
Randolph Collier Safety Roadside Rest Area
RANDOLPH COLLIER SAFETY ROADSIDE REST AREA BY RESOLUTION OF THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 1970 REGULAR SESSION THIS FACILITY ON INTERSTATE ROUTE 5 FREEWAY DEDICATED TO THE HONORABLE...
- freeway
- i-5
- father of th...
Battle of Fort San Carlos, May 26, 1780
The only Revolutionary War battle fought west of the Mississippi.Submitted by @coderaaron
- revolutionary war
- missouri
- st. louis
- mississippi
A Bomb Placed Here
17 JULY 1974 A BOMB PLACED HERE EXPLODED KILLING ONE AND INJURING THIRTY-FIVE OTHERS Submitted by @dsmd4vid
William Maxwell Lord Beaverbrook
Submitted by @bthubbard .
- fredericton
- new brunswick
- 1879
Weston
WESTON Established, 1837; oldest ex-isting town in the Platte Purchase. Boyhood home of "Buffalo" Bill Cody; last outfitting post for over-land wagon trains; home of Ben Holladay,...
Through This Place Passed General Henry Knox
THROUGH THIS PLACE PASSED GENERAL HENRY KNOX IN THE WINTER OF 1775 - 1776 TO DELIVER TO GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON AT CAMBRIDGE THE TRAIN OF ARTILLERY FROM FORT TICONDEROGA USED TO FORCE...
- revolutionary war
- knox
- george washington
- artillery
- ticonderoga
- boston
- 1775
Supreme Court Hotel
Built as legal offices by solicitor F.E. Paynter, who came 'not to crush quartz but to crush tyranny and injustice'. Opened as a hotel in March 1859. Submitted by @clean_pete.
- castlemaine
- victoria
- australia