Eastland, Texas.
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Erected by Civic League in memory of those from Eastland Co who made supreme sacrifice in World War Lewis Alexander Dulin • Dennis George Perdue • Winter Daniels • James Lee Miller • James B. Wright • EdgarA. Bailey • Ernest . . .
(War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Erected by Civic League in memory of those from Eastland Co who made supreme sacrifice in World War Lewis Alexander Dulin • Dennis George Perdue • Winter Daniels • James Lee Miller • James B. Wright • EdgarA. Bailey • Ernest . . . (War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
When women first demanded "the elective franchise" or the right to vote at the 1848 convention, they secured their own and the Wesleyan Chapel's place in history. In 1908 this community and descendants of the convention's . . . 
Erection of a fort was begun April 12, 1811 by the thirty-three members of the Astor party who sailed around Cape Horn in the ship Tonquin and established here the famous fur trading post which was the first American . . . 
Methodist worship services were held in Eastland County as early as 1865. Soon after the town of Eastland was laid out in 1875, Methodists began meeting in a small log house. The congregation was organized and served for a . . . 
Birthplace of Ranald MacDonald First Teacher of English in Japan The son of the Hudson's Bay Co. manager of Fort George and Chinook Indian Chief Comcomly's daughter, MacDonald theorized that a racial link existed between . . . 
Before engines - they fished in boats powered by the wind in their sails & were called the Butterfly Fleet. They were at the mercy of the wind & tides & as such it was a very dangerous profession. They did not always come . . . 
On Christmas Eve, 1885, direct current flowed from a small dynamo in a planer shed of West Shore Lumber Mills to light Astoria's first electric lamps. Wires strung across housetops connected the dynamo to 30 arc lamps. . . . 
City Ordinance 1891 "No minor permitted on the streets after 8 P.M. in winter, 9 P.M. in summer. This bell has hung in several locations in West Astoria since 1904 and was rung for many years to remind people of the curfew. . . . 
Trabajo Arqueológico Este lugar se conoce desde 1872, cuando lo reportaron viajeros que buscaban minerales, describiéndolo como una fortaleza rodeada de murallas, con trincheras y torreones. Se le dió el nombre de . . . 
1748 · 1998 El 15 de Sep. de 1919 la ciudadanía Vizarronense juro luchar por el rescate de la categoría de municipio que perdió el 8 de april de 1916 En el 250 aniversario de haberse jurado Pueblo Vizarron renovamos este . . . 
Funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Public Art Building Communities Grant Program DC Commission on The Arts & Humanities The name Glover Park which first appeared in advertisements in 1926, honors the . . . 
Front Glover Park Art on Call •Landmarks •Parks •Historical Landmarks Back Police and fire call boxes were installed throughout Washington, D.C. neighborhoods to provide emergency communication links between . . . 
Ahead on the hill is Holy Rood Cemetery, the first Catholic parish cemetery in Washington. Established by Georgetown's Holy Trinity Church in 1832, the cemetery contains the remains of more than 7,300 whites and African . . . 
As one of Washington's oldest commercial corridors, Wisconsin Avenue has been a direct route to the Potomac River for more than 250 years. Originally an Indian trail, the route became known as Frederick Pike and linked the . . . 
This is a selection of people, renowned in their perspective professions, who at one time called Burleith their home. •Actress Nancy Ordway (1914-2005), a 1940s radio star, lived at 1710 35th Street. She starred in the . . . 
Burleith's built environment dates to the early nineteenth century. The oldest existing home, 1814 35th Street (earlier known as Fayette Street), was built in 1803. Three other structures on 35th Street were built in 1830, . . . 
The Western High School building in Burleith, which now houses Duke Ellington High School of the Arts, was home to the school's cadet's from 1897 to the 1970s. More than a high school military unit, the main object of the . . . 
You are standing in the midst of Burleith, a community of about 530 single family houses bounded by Reservoir Road to the south, Whitehaven Parkway to the north, and 35th and 39th Streets to the east and west respectively. . . . 
Front The early mansions of wealthy ship owners, merchants and land speculators in this part of Georgetown were built high above the Potomac River with fine views, or prospects, of the harbor filled with ships and the wilds . . . 
Originally the first lighthouse in the Oregon Territory. Was built in 1857 near the mouth of the river. It was undermined and destroyed by flood in Feb. 1864. Rebuilt here in 1891 and completed in 1894. It shines a guiding . . . 
