Port Allen, Louisiana.
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At one time, all east-west traffic now traveling U.S. Route 190 crossed the Mississippi River via ferry to this site. The ferry was first used by horses and wagons, later by cars and trucks, and always by pedestrians. The . . .
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At one time, all east-west traffic now traveling U.S. Route 190 crossed the Mississippi River via ferry to this site. The ferry was first used by horses and wagons, later by cars and trucks, and always by pedestrians. The . . . (Environment • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
He invented communications satellites in 1945. His "Exploration of Space" (1952) was used by Wernher von Braun to convince President John F. Kennedy to go to the Moon, and he wrote "2001: A Space Odyssey" here At The . . . 
Novelist Lived Here
The floodwalls protecting Morgan City were built under the authority of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with the assistance of the Atchafalaya Basin Levee District and Morgan . . . 
Operation Freedom's Sentinel Died of non-combat injuries sustained in a combat area (Afghanistan): SPC Kyle E. Gilbert • 2-14 Inf • Sep 2015 —————————————————— Operation Inherent Resolve Died of non-combat injuries . . . 
The community of Pierre Part in nearly surrounded by water and was inaccessible by land until the Mid-20th century, thus isolated from much of the world. Bayous lace this portion of south Louisiana. The highest land in the . . . 
Killed in Action (Afghanistan) SPC Christian J. Chandler • 2-87 IN • Apr 2014 SGT Shawn M. Farrell II • 1-32 IN • Apr 2014 SGM Wardell B. Turner • HQ USAG • Nov 2014 Died of combat injuries sustained in combat area . . . 
Killed in Action (Afghanistan) CPT Aaron R. Blanchard • 2-10 AVN • Apr 2013 1LT Robert J. Hess • 2-10 AVN • Apr 2013 LTC Todd J. Clark • 2 BCT • Jun 2013 LTC Jaimie E. Leonard • 2 BCT • Jun 2013 SGT Javier Sanchez, Jr. • 2 . . . 
Lake Palourde covers 11,520 acres and is one of a number of large lakes that once existed within the historic Atchafalaya River Basin's 3-million-acre landscape. Lake Palourde is just east of Morgan City. The word palourde . . . 
The first Howard County Courthouse, located in the historic district of Ellicott City Maryland, was a pre-existing structure rented by the Howard District Commissioners from George Ellicott in 1840 to house judicial . . . 
1220 Quincy Street, NE Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), internationally acclaimed artist and teacher, lived here from the 1950s into the 1970s. Born and educated in Boston, Jones joined the Howard University Art Department in . . . 
Franciscan Monastery D.C. Historic Preservation Division Landmark Designee November 8, 1964 National Register of Historic Places Designee January 17, 1991
Sacred to the memory of Very Rev. Godfrey Schilling, O.F.M. 1896-1901 Commissary 1911-1922 Founder of this Memorial Church and Monastery of the Holy Sepulcher in 1897. Fr. Godfrey was the first American Missionary to the . . . 
Sacred to the memory of Very Rev. Charles A. Vissani, O.F.M. First Commissary General of the Holy Land for the United States 1880 - 1896 The first to conduct and American Catholic pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1889, and to . . . 
Sacred to the memory of Very Rev. Charles A. Vissani, O.F.M. Founder of the cause of the Holy Land in the United States Erected to commemorate the centenary of the First Commissariat in New York City in 1880 Fr. Charles . . . 
Erected to the memory of the very Reverend Commissaries of the Holy Land for the United States; who have, since 1880 contributed to the preservation of the Holy-Places and prospered the charitable missionary activities of . . . 
Corinthian Capital Circa 2nd-3rd century AD. This capital, the top of a column, is from Jerusalem. Capitals of this type can be seen in Roman buildings constructed during the time of the Roman occupation of the Holy Land. . . . 
In loving memory Carlo Angelo Facchina First Mosaicista for the Franciscan Monastery Born Sequals, Italia 1870 Died Brookland, D.C. 1948
Fort Bunker Hill One of the Civil War Defenses of Washington erected in the fall of 1861, Fort Bunker Hill occupied an important position between Fort Totten and Fort Lincoln in the defense of the National Capital. Thirteen . . . 
Fort Bunker Hill Civil War Defenses of Washington 1861-1865 Image captions: Fort Bunker Hill from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers drawing. Built by the 11th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment who named the fort after . . . 
