First Step, Fallen Friend The history of the University of Connecticut can be traced back to the Storrs Agricultural School which opened on this site in 1881 in the former Connecticut Soldiers'...
The plaque marks the location of the terminal pier of the Bristol & South Wales Union Railway where passengers from Bristol would board the ferry to Portskewett in Wales. There is also a plaque...
THIS TABLET WAS UNVEILED BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA SIR ERNEST CLARK GCMG.KCB.CBE. TO COMMEMORATE THE CENTENARY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HOBART SAVINGS BANK BY GEORGE WASHINGTON...
Bolivar Point In 1815, Colonel Henry Perry established a military camp here as part of a plan to invade Spanish Texas. In 1816, Galveston-based privateer Lewis-Michelle de Aury forced shiploads of...
Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long (July 23, 1798 – December 30, 1880) Born in Charles county, Maryland, Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long was a Texas pioneer. She married James Long in 1815, and joined him in...