Fossilized Tree Stumps, Newtown Creek
Wattieza (division Pteridophyta, class Cladoxylopsida) These fossils are stumps of some of the oldest trees known to exist. They are 385 million-year-old fossils of trees that grew in the Gilboa...
- brooklyn
- greenpoint
- newtown creek
- wattieza
- gilboa
The Rosie Lee Davis Memorial Garden
Saint Denis Tomb
Beneath this building, former site of the Church of Saint Francis, the first Catholic Church in Natchitoches, lie the remains of The Chevalier Louis Juchereau de Saint Denis.Born at...
- louisiana
- colonial era
- gravesite
The Red River Campaign
In April 1864, life along tranquil Cane River was brutally disrupted when the Civil War reached area residents. In an operation known as the Red River Campaign, Union naval and land forces...
- louisiana
- civil war
Original Sunrise School
In 1889, W. R. Melton donated a one-acre tract of land at this site "for the cause of Religion and Schools.” The school located here, which served the Sunrise community, was a one-room...
- mississippi
- education
Bay Creek Baptist Church
Established in 1896 by Rev. Joseph Lewis Bryant, a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1908-1912). Bryant also served as the cogregation's first pastor. The first sanctuary was...
- mississippi
- church
- religion
Bridging Communities
1)The Huey P. Long Bridge (U.S.190), completed in 1940, allowed both rail and automobile traffic to cross the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge. Approximately 17,000 vehicles use the bridge daily....
- louisiana
- port allen
- baton rouge
- rotary club
- west baton r...
Largest Passenger Sea Plane In U.S.
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Babson Reservoir
Eureka Dye Company
EUREKA DYE COMPANY 1915 COMMERCIAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTED FOR OWNERS CHARLES DOUGLAS MEYERS (1868-1926), MANAGER OF EU- REKA DYE WORKS; AND SISTER, CAROLINE KELLOCH MEYERS (1866-1956). IN 1922,...
- topsy
- elephant
- large quantities
- circus