Centenary Bridge Pillar
The plaque reads: This reinforced concrete pillar is the only remnant of Centenary Bridge and remains on its original site at the St Kilda end of the now demolished bridge. The 305 metre...
- australia
- port melbourne
- pillar
- bridge
Gold Star Chairs
This plaque is located right beyond the guest services booth inside The Ballpark at Jackson. There is a chain surrounding the two chairs, and the plaque reads: "Please join with the...
- tennessee
- jackson
- ballpark at jackson
- jackson generals
- baseball
- gold star
- us military
The Barassi Line
Australia is a funny place, there is a North-South divide between those that play and support rugby and those that play and support Australian Rules Football. Both of which are locally referred to...
- australia
- sport
- afl
Box Column Remnants
Submitted by @hobaird
- new york
- nyc
- 9/11
- columns
Resting Place for the Skeletal Remains of 38 Aboriginal People
Submitted by Ian Thorp
- melbourne
- australia
- aboriginal
- dreamtime
Montgomery House
MONTGOMERY HOUSE Listed in the National Register of Historical Places, this house was built in 1804 for prominent Lancaster attorney William Montgomery by Harrisburg based...
- lancaster
- pennsylvania
- early federal
- oval room
Thaddeus Stevens
THADDEUS STEVENS 1792 - 1868 LEADING STATESMAN OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD LIVED HERE FROM 1843 UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS DEATH MARKED BY THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1931 Submit @TBuckwalterLNP
- lancaster
- pennsylvania
- civil war
- 1843
Maxim Gorky
IN THIS HOUSE FROM 1902 TO 1904 LIVED ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH GORKY @schwanmitbrille
- maxim gorky
- nizhni novgorod
- russia
- gorky
William Bartram Trail
Located between the parking lot and plaza of the Main Library in Baton Rouge. Plaque reads: NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE GARDEN CLUBS DEEP SOUTH REGION WILLIAM BARTRAM TRAIL TRACED 1773-1777...
- william bartram
- naturalist
- john james a...
- national cou...
Tools for Survival
- obsidian
- oregon
- newberry
- deschutes
- volcanos
Strathcona Avenue Fire Hall
- canada
- fire
- lucien hills
- hamilton theatre
Longe Street's Historic Sites
Submitted by @Rachbcooper
- toronto
- ontario
- yonge
- canada
- lost mud creek
- davisville
- deer park farm
Roman Fortress
ROMAN FORTRESS This plaque marks the site of the Porta Principalis Dextra or North Western Gate of the Roman Fortress of which the foundations as rebuilt circa A.D. 300 lie just below...
- york
- roman
- fortress
- rebuilt
- 300
- porta princi...
Lendal Tower
LENDAL TOWER Dating from about 1300, ti was originally part of the City's defences, with a defensive chain stretching from here to the Tower on the opposite bank. In 1677 it was leased to the...
- five hundred years
- annual rate
- one peppercorn
- york
- waterworks
- england
James Coverdale
MILES CLOVERDALE c.1488-1569 Bishop of Exeter and believed to be a native of York. He translated and published the first complete printed English Bible (1535) and revised the Great Bible of...
- york
- bible
- cromwell
- book of comm...
- 1420
- 1488
- 1569
The George Inn
THE GEORGE INN In Elizabethan times Ralph Rokeby Esq. (d. 1575) Secretary of the Council of the North lived on a house on this site. Subsequently for about two and a half centuries there existed...
- york
- bronte
- hotel
- england
- hostelry
Billy the Kid's Elusive Tombstone
- billy the kid
- tombstone
Newberry is: the Loner Volcano
Caution: Prone to Violent Outburts
- violent outbursts
- newberry
- volcano
- oregon
- deschuttes
Littlefield Building
GEORGE WASHINGTON LITTLEFIELD (1842-1920) CAME TO TEXAS FROM MISSISSIPPI IN 1850. AFTER SERVING IN TERRY'S TEXAS RANGERS IN THE CIVIL WAR, HE MADE HIS FORTUNE RANCHING AND DRIVING CATTLE. HE...
- austin
- texas
- ladies' banking
- bank
- littlefield
- university
Driskill Hotel
BUILT 1885-86 BY COL. JESSE L. DRISKILL (1824-1890), CATTLE KING WHO MOVED TO AUSTIN IN 1869. BRICK DRESSED WITH LIMESTONE. HAD THREE GRAND ENTRANCES – ONE THE LARGEST ARCHED DOORWAY IN TEXAS....
- texas
- austin
- hotel
- cattle
- hotel