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Olivier Plantation House & St. Mary's Orphanage

Located on this site from ca. 1820 to 1949 stood the original David Olivier creole-style plantation house. It was purchased by The New Orleans Catholic Association for the Relief of Male Orphans...

Located on this site from ca. 1820 to 1949 stood the original David Olivier creole-style plantation house. It was purchased by The New Orleans Catholic Association for the Relief of Male Orphans...

  • louisiana
  • new orleans
  • religion
  • plantation

Basin Street

Buried in the ground beneath in the ground beneath our feet and embodied in the architecture reaching toward the sky are the remnants of New Orleans' history. The Basin Street area is no...

Buried in the ground beneath in the ground beneath our feet and embodied in the architecture reaching toward the sky are the remnants of New Orleans' history. The Basin Street area is no...

  • louisiana
  • new orleans

Dooky Chase's Restaurant

Making Rights Real - Louisiana Civil Rights Trail    Dooky Chase's Restaurant gained notoriety as a safe place where people of all races could sit down to meet and discuss strategies for the Civil...

Making Rights Real - Louisiana Civil Rights Trail    Dooky Chase's Restaurant gained notoriety as a safe place where people of all races could sit down to meet and discuss strategies for the Civil...

  • louisiana
  • new orleans
  • civil rights
  • restaurant

McDonogh 19 Elementary School

Making Rights Real - Louisiana Civil Rights Trail      On November 14, 1960, three six-year-old girls-Leona Tate, Tessie Prevost and Gail Etienne- integrated McDonogh 19. Known as the "McDonogh...

Making Rights Real - Louisiana Civil Rights Trail      On November 14, 1960, three six-year-old girls-Leona Tate, Tessie Prevost and Gail Etienne- integrated McDonogh 19. Known as the...

  • louisiana
  • new orleans
  • lower ninth ward
  • civil rights
  • education

Black Yankees and The Sea

PORTSMOUTH Black Heritage Trail Black Yankees and The Sea People of African-origin or descent have been part of Portsmouth since at least 1645. This waterfront was an entry port for enslaved...

PORTSMOUTH Black Heritage Trail Black Yankees and The Sea People of African-origin or descent have been part of Portsmouth since at least 1645. This waterfront was an entry port for enslaved...

    In Memory of Sam and Mira Kon

      Mariam K. Altman

        Beebe Building

          The Ohio State Reformatory

            The Cradle of Professional Football

              Saint Tikhon

              SAINT TIKHON RUSSIAN ORTHODOX ARCHBISHOP OF NORTH AMERICA 1898-1907 CONSECRATED & LIVED IN ST. NICHOLAS CATHEDRAL. ELECTED PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW IN 1917. WILLIAM C. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2020 647 13

              SAINT TIKHON RUSSIAN ORTHODOX ARCHBISHOP OF NORTH AMERICA 1898-1907 CONSECRATED & LIVED IN ST. NICHOLAS CATHEDRAL. ELECTED PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW IN 1917. WILLIAM C. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2020 647 13

                Major "Dick" Bong

                MAJOR "DICK" BONG "America's Ace of Aces". It was here that Major Richard Bong was born. received his education. and grew to manhood. After attending Superior State College where he received his...

                MAJOR "DICK" BONG "America's Ace of Aces". It was here that Major Richard Bong was born. received his education. and grew to manhood. After attending Superior State College where he received his...

                • wwii
                • army air corp
                • grew to manhood

                Donald P. McCullum

                Submitted by @DIYGene.

                Submitted by @DIYGene.

                  Aunt Maggie’s House

                  "Aunt Maggie's House" Mouat's installed Salt Spring's first electric generator here in the 1920s. Later, Mouat's made sausages and smocked hams here. From 1935, the building was used as a...

                  "Aunt Maggie's House" Mouat's installed Salt Spring's first electric generator here in the 1920s. Later, Mouat's made sausages and smocked hams here. From 1935, the building was used as...

                  • salt spring

                  D.P. Butler, SR., M.D. Memorial Highway

                  Representative Franklin County  1904-1908   1924-1928      Senator Franklin & Pike Counties  1932

                  Representative Franklin County  1904-1908   1924-1928      Senator Franklin & Pike Counties  1932

                  • mississippi
                  • politics
                  • memorial