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