Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi
Statue of Ghandi in Glebe Park Canberra with some very wise words: Plaques read: 'Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi APOSTLE of NON-VIOLENCE (Ahimsa) & TRUTH (Satyagrah) 2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948...
- ghandi
- statue
- canberra
- australia
Birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken
BIRTH OF A LEGEND KENTUCKY'S MOST FAMOUS CITIZEN Colonel Harland Sanders began the part of this life that brought him fame in a small gasoline service station on the opposite side of this highway....
- sanders
- fried chicken
- kentucky
- kfc
- corbin
- undaunted
Higbee Memorial
1908 Erected in Loving Memory of Jenny M. Higbee by the Higbee Alumnae Association Her Life-Work is Her Monument Submitted from the Shelby County Register's Office.
- shelby county
- tennessee
Pennsylvania Abolition Society
PENNSYLVANIA ABOLITION SOCIETY Found here, 1775, as the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. In 1787 it became the Pennsylvan-nia Abolition Society which sought...
- pennsylvania
- philadelphia
- 1775
- abolition
Redwood Markers
San Jose Garden Club,Conserving and caring for the Redwood Forest Furyu Floral Designers 111 CAGC In memory of Ilona Smith
- redwoods
- grove
- big basin
- california
Roos Bros. Building
CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1984 ROOS BROS. BUILDING Miller and Pflueger, Architects, 1926 In 1876 the Central Pacific (later Southern Pacific) Railroad expanded into downtown...
- berkeley
- california
- bay area
- roos
- cal
- golden bears
Collierville Christian Church
The Collierville Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) was originally founded in Fayette County, near the close of the Civil War. Construction began at the present location in 1873. Renovation to...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Memory Grove
In Honor Of Our Sons James Francis Abbott William Henry Abele Mack D. Baker John Joseph Brannan, Jr. Daniel Thomas Boswell Alysous B. Coonby Aldino Francis Cuneo Joseph Kenneday Cannon...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Clayborn Temple
This building, designed by architects Long & Kees with E.C. Jones supervising, was dedicated to the worship of God on Jan. 1, 1893. It was the second home of Second Presbyterian Church (organized...
- shelby county
- tennessee
- mlk jr
Gray's Creek Baptist Church
This church is Shelby County's oldest African American congregation. It was founded by two free men of color, preachers Simon Price and Joseph "Free Joe" Harris and numerous slaves, right...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Blue Star Memorial
- dekalb
- georgia
- blue star
- armed forces
Fort Pickering Protecting Memphis
In June 1861, Confederate supporters in Memphis erected earthworks to protect the city here at Fort Pickering, the site of a frontier-era fortified trading post. Capt. William Pickett and his...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Steatite Boulder
GEORGIA STEATITE BOULDER This steatite was found on the site of a prehistoric quarry along Soapstone Ridge 8 miles south of Decatur. It shows the mtehods of Indians in making stone bowls, with...
- decatur
- georgia
- 3000 years old
- girdling
- prehistoric
- soapstone
In Memory of Chicago's Marines
IN MEMORY OF CHICAGO'S MARINES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN BEIRUT, LEBANON OCTOBER 1983 WILL WILL REMEMBER THEIR COURAGE AND DEDICATION TO PEACE GUNNERY SGT. ALVING GELMER MAJ. PAUL HEIN LANCE CPL....
- beirut
- lebanon
- 1983
- marines
- chicago
- midway
- airport
Canberra Time Capsule
Apparently it includes a parking ticket, a licence plate and a letter from the PM. Its fairly underwhelming...
- time capsule
- canberra
- australia
Rockville
ROCKVILLE GEN. J.E.B. STAURT'S CONFEDERATE CAVALRY OCCUPIED ROCKVILLE JUNE 28, 1863, AND CAPTURED 150 U.S. WAGONS ALONG THE WASHINGTON ROAD. FROM HERE THEY MARCHED TO GETTYSBURG. IN JULY, 1864,...
- civil war
- rockville
- maryland
- j.e.b. stuart
- gettysburg
- jubal early
The Suffragette That Knew Jiu-Jitsu Lived Here
London Borough of Islington Edith Garrud 1872-1971 The suffragette that knew jiu- jitsu lived here Islington People's Plaque Submitted by @robdelaney
- london
- england
- garrud
- suffragette
- jiu-jitsu
Devendorf
J. FRANK DEVENDORF 1856 - 1934 PIONEER-BUILDER- FRIEND REMEMBERED AS "FATHER" OF CARMEL-BY-THE- SEA FOUNDED 1900 "CREATION IS A COMBINATION OF VISION AND WILL - VISION GIVE THE PLAN, BUT WILL IS...
- carmel
- california
- edwina
- 1900
- vision
- will
Cotton Exchange Building
The Memphis Cotton Exchange, was first organized in 1873 and is still operating today, though cotton trading is now done by computers. In the early 1950s a seat on the Exchange could cost a new...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Harbormaster
Harbormaster L. BROOKS BOWHAY MONTEREY'S FIRST HARBOR MASTER
- monterey
- california
- 1933
- harbor master