The Gainesville Servicemen's Center
The City of Gainesville purchased the Servicemen's Center lot on December 7th 1942. The Federal Works Agency constructed a #37,000 building with a ballroom, stage, dressing rooms, second...
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Thelma Boltin Center
THELMA BOLTIN CENTER The city bought this building for $12,500 in 1946 and retained Miss Boltin as Director. A 1928 graduate of Emerson College, she returned to Gainesville after teaching in...
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Historical Auburn Fire House
HISTORICAL AUBURN FIRE HOUSE ERECTED IN 1891 BY THE VOLUNTEER FIREMEN OF AUBURN HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY No 2 WITH FUNDS RAISED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION DEDICATED MAY 21, 1892 IN CONTINUOUS USE...
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Destroyed by Fire 1855, 1859 and 1863
CITY OF AUBURN GOLD DISCOVERED NEAR HERE BY CLAUDE CHANA MAY 16, 1848. AREA FIRST KNOWN AS "NORTH FORK" OR "WOOD'S DRY DIGGINGS". SETTLEMENT GIVEN NAME OF AUBURN IN FALL OF 1849....
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Site of the First Public Hanging Area & Graveyard
Submitted by Sheila Paske.
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Plaque, Shrine, Strabane
Located at Townsend, it reads, "The Convent Angelus Bell Donated by the Sisters of Mercy Strabane Blessed on the 11th February, 1999 By Bishop Francis Lagan" The bell has an inscription on it, "J...
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Plaque, Strabane Sisters of Mercy
Pictured here H3497 : St. Joseph's Convent of Mercy, Strabane © Copyright Kenneth Allen and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph
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Kay Monument (detail)
John Kay was a prolific inventor. Plaques around the sides of SD8010 : Kay Monument, Bury commemorate his other inventions as well as the 'flying shuttle', for which he is most famous. This one is...
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Kay Monument, Inscription
This bronze plaque is beneath the relief portrait of John Kay on the north face of SD8010 : Kay Monument, Bury. The inscription reads: THE GIFT OF HENRY WHITEHEAD OF HASLAM HEY TO HIS NATIVE...
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The Royal Oak (4) - West Country Ales plaque, Main Road, Hallow
An interesting detail on this pub, is this West Country Ales plaque. The ceramic plaque is affixed to the front wall of the pub. It was first used by the Gloucestershire brewers, West...
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Bridge plaque, Antrim (2)
See J1486 : Bridge plaque, Antrim (1). A close look at the top left of the plaque where the words BRIDGE BUILT IN YEAR 1708 are just about legible. © Copyright Albert Bridge and licensed for...
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Plaque, The Church of St Michael's and All Angels
Behind the plaque are interred the ashes of the poet Thomas S Eliot. Link © Copyright Maigheach- gheal and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph
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Bandstand, Larne (5)
The commemorative plaque recording the bequest from Robert Thomas Ross. © Copyright Albert Bridge and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph
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Plaque on the dam at Llyn Egnant, Ceredigion
The date given is 1966 which I am assuming is the year the dam was completed and officially "opened" by the Chairman of local water authority of the time. © Copyright Roger Kidd and licensed...
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Loughborough Station - commemorative plaque
Need I say more? © Copyright Chris Allen and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph
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York: toll removal plaque on Lendal Bridge
Looking along the start (travelling northeast) of the parapet of Lendal Bridge, past a metal plaque which states that the bridge was declared free from toll on the 7th day of August 1894. The...
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Name and number plaque on Austcliff Bridge near Caunsall
Bridge number 24 on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal is called Austcliff Bridge. This is probably the original 18th century spelling, because other places nearby use the spelling...
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Wakefield Stars:- Dame Barbara Hepworth, sculptor
The sculptor Barbara Hepworth, 1903 1975, was born in Wakefield, where she attended Wakefield Girls High School. Hepworths sculptures are on display at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and at...
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The Hepworth Wakefield - footbridge 1
Pedestrian access to the Hepworth from Thornes Lane, (where the car park for the gallery is located). The footbridge crosses the River Calder. Re the plaque in the pavement:-...
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Wakefield Stars:- Sir Martin Frobisher, Elizabethan explorer
Sir Martin Frobisher was born in Altofts around 1535 and eventually became a privateer, like another famous Elizabethan seaman, Sir Francis Drake, with whom he accompanied on a voyage to the West...
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