Winfield Scott House
WINFIELD SCOTT HOUSEHAS BEEN DESIGNATED A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK THIS SITE POSSESSES NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE IN COMMEMORATING THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1974 NATIONAL...
- new york
- manhattan
- greenwich village
- winfield scott
- landmark
- 1974
The Time Capsules
THE TIME CAPSULES DEPOSITED SEPTEMBER 23, 1938 AND OCTOBER 16, 1965BY THE WESTINGHOUSEELECTRIC CORPORATIONAS A RECORD OF TWENTIETH CENTURY CIVILIZATION TO ENDURE FOR 5,000 YEARSSubmitted by @lampbane
- new york
- queens
- flushing
- flushing mea...
- park
- time capsule
- 1938
- 1965
Former Mid Canada Line Radar Site 070 Ramore / Mt. Kempis
In the boreal forest of Northern Ontario, just off the Trans Canada Highway, a 1.2 kilometre drive down a rough road, then a 200 metre bushwack along an overgrown section of what used to be a...
- cold war
- abandoned
- military
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Edmund Pettus Bridgehas been designated a National Historic Landmark This site possess national significance for its association with "Bloody Sunday," a seminal event in the Civil Rights...
Civil Rights Memorial Park
Civil Rights Memorial ParkNever Forget, Never Again.The bloodshed on this bridge named to honor Klan Leader, Edmund Pettus, must fuel our resolve to secure the right to vote in perpetuity....
Greenwood Playground
GREENWOOD PLAYGROUND 3.192 ACRES Green-Wood Cemetery was commissioned in 1838 as the first nonsectarian cemetery in the City of Brooklyn. Its striking Victorian gatehouses and...
- brooklyn
- windsor terrace
- kensington
- green-wood cemetery
- playground
- 1935
- 1922
- 1993
Aliso Creek Adobes
Mormon Battalion Marker
Koret Playground
Captain Brady Tonth, Jr.
A graduate of Mississippi Valley State University, Brady Tonth, Jr. was the first MVSU Air Force ROTC graduate to become a pilot after completing training in Columbus, Mississippi. In 1979,...
- mississippi
- usaf
- pilot
- african american
Alpha Kappa Alpha National Presidents
Both former residents of Vicksburg, B. Beatrix Scott and Ida L. Jackson served as the fifth and eighth national presidents of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1925-1927 and...
- mississippi
- vicksburg
- sororities
- women
Ralph Ellison
Inscription 1: RALPH ELLISON / 1914-1994 / AMERICAN WRITER / LONGTIME RESIDENT OF 730 RIVERSIDE DRIVE / HIS PIONEERING NOVEL, INVISIBLE MAN (1952), / DETAILS THE STRUGGLES OF A YOUNG...
Lest We Forget, Vicksburg
These headstones represent soldiers from Louisiana and Mississippi who died at the hospitals located at Mississippi Springs and Coopers Wells. These soldiers from the Army of Mississippi died...
- mississippi
- vicksburg
- cemetery
- us civil war
Frank Crump, Jr.
Navy veteran and Alcorn College graduate Frank Crump, Jr. taught at Rosa A. Temple High School (1960-1970) and was Vo-Tech Dean at Utica Junior College. During Freedom Summer in 1964,...
- mississippi
- civil rights
Lum Home (Grants Headquarters)
Site of Lum Mansion, Hq. of Gen. U.S. Grant, family & staff, after siege of Vicksburg, 1863. The 26 room house, built about 1820, was later destroyed by order of Capt. Cyrus B. Comstock to build...
- mississippi
- vicksburg
- us civil war