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Bank of British North America

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Newfoundland and Labrador, Division No. 1 (Avalon Peninsula), St. John's
This Italianate style building, Newfoundland’s first commercial bank building, constructed in 1849 to the design of Halifax architect David Stirling. The mansard roof was added in 1885. Burnt out and rebuilt after the 1892 fire, it retains a very fine interior, designed by William Howe Greene, in the manager’s residence above the banking floor.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Frankfort Grade School

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Kansas, Marshall County, Frankfort


Entered on the
National Register
of Historic Places
Dec. 27, 1972

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Peacetime Use

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Newfoundland and Labrador, Division No. 1 (Avalon Peninsula), St. John's
Caption, top, left (English / French): The importance of Signal Hill to St. John’s goes beyond its guns, signal masts and hospitals. Poet, songwriters and artists alike have celebrated the Hill’s timeless strength. It has become a proud symbol of endurance for the City below. / L’importance de Signal Hill pour St. John’s va bien au del de ses canons, de ses mâts de signalisation et de ses hôpitaux. Poètes, bardes et artistes ont immortalisé la résistance obstinée de ce massif rocheux, en faisant le symbole de l’endurance de la ville qu’il abrite.

Caption, bottom, right (English / French): The Hill is a natural assembly point for civic and national celebrations. In more quiet times its scenery, historic attractions and trails appeal to tens of thousands of visitors annually. / Signal Hill est un lieu de rencontre tour indique pour pique-niques et célébrations. Son panorama, ses hauts-lieux historiques et ses sentiers de randonnée attirent chaque année des dizaines de milliers de visiteurs.

(Landmarks) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Former Bank of British North America

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Newfoundland and Labrador, Division No. 1 (Avalon Peninsula), St. John's
English
This Italianate style building recalls evolution of banking in Newfoundland, Designed by Halifax architect David Stirling for the Bank of British North America, it opened in 1850 at a time when British investors controlled banking in the colony. Subsequent local ownership by the Commercial Bank (1857-1894) and the Savings Bank (1897-1962) points to a long and vibrant period when Newfoundland investors shaped the colony’s financial institutions. The Bank of Montreal then operated here until 1985, bringing to a close the building’s remarkable 135-year history as a bank.

French
Cet édifice de style à l’italienne rappelle l’évolution de l’activité bancaire à Terre-Neuve. Conçu par l’architecte David Stirling de Halifax pour la Bank of British North America, l’immeuble a ouvert ses portes en 1850, époque où les investisseurs britanniques contrôlaient les banques de la colonie. Accueillant ensuite des banques locales, la Commercial Bank (1857-1894) et la Savings Bank (1897-1962), il illustre la longue quête des investisseurs terre-neuviens pour façonner leurs propres institutions financières. Le Banque de Montréal occupa enfin les lieux jusqu’en 1985, complétant les 135 années de son histoire bancaire.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First African Baptist Church

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Virginia, Richmond
Tracing its roots to 1780 as the First Baptist Church, the First African Baptist Church was bought and organized by freedmen and slaves in 1841. The present building was erected on the same site in 1876. The establishment of First African Baptist Church led to the organization of other local black churches. In 1865, the site hosted the first Republican State Convention held in Virginia and Jefferson Davis's last speech as president of the Confederacy, and later a lecture by Booker T. Washington. The Rev. John Jasper, Henry “Box” Brown, and Maggie L. Walker were baptized at First African Baptist Church.

(African Americans • Churches, Etc. • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Curzon Place

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Texas, Tarrant County, Fort Worth
A. C. (Clayton) Luther (1896-1982), a Tennessee native, began to develop the area in the early 1930s with residential and commercial buildings. In the 1940s, he began construction of the Luther Apartments on Highland Street. The apartments were later renamed Curzon Place Apartments when Highland was renamed Curzon Avenue. From Luther’s travels to Florida, California and Europe, he developed a particular architectural style with Spanish, Moorish and Mediterranean variations. Over the years, many prominent families have occupied this unique property, whose primary architect was A. C. Webb. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2012
Marker is Property of the State of Texas


(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Louis Day

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Texas, Medina County, Castroville
Since as early as 1847 residents of Castroville have conducted a community holiday on or about the 25th of August--the Catholic observance of the Feast of St. Louis. Local tradition recalls that early processions escorted clergy from the priests' house adjacent to St. Louis Church, with clanging of anvils and the blare of the community band.

Through the years a picnic became traditional on the church grounds following High Mass. Before the festivities, men smoked sausage and pit-barbecued beef. Women prepared potato salad, cabbage slaw, and desserts. An evening dance in a local establishment ended the day-long celebration.

The St. Louis Society, founded in 1875, traditionally organized the event. Since 1889 the celebration has raised funds for the benefit of the Parish church and school. After the 1920s, the picnic and dance were held at Wernette's Garden. That site (4 blocks NNW) was donated to the parish and renamed Koenig Park in 1949. The dance pavilion there was erected in 1953.

The celebration is now held annually on the Sunday nearest August 25. The procession begins at the church after Mass, and winds through the city to Koenig Park for the picnic lunch and evening dance. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

(Churches, Etc. • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Alsatians of Texas

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Texas, Medina County, Castroville
In 1842, Empresario Henry Castro brought his first colonists to Texas to settle land west of the Medina River. Most of the immigrants were from the Rhine River area of Europe. Many claimed the province of Alsace, on the border of France and Germany, as their homeland. The Alsatian colonists brought with them their combined French and German heritage, which has left a distinctive mark on this area of the state.

In 1844, Castro laid out a townsite, which the settlers chose to name Castroville. It became the center of Alsatian culture in Texas. The houses, European in style, are primarily single-story dwellings of cut limestone, mortared with adobe, and white-washed. Over the years, farming has been the major occupation of people in the area, as it was in Alsace.

The Alsatian immigrants and their descendants have made a distinct impression on area politics, holiday customs, cuisine, and religion. Winemaking, using grapes grown along the Medina River, is another early tradition that has continued over the years.

The history of Alsatians in Texas is a reflection of ethnic and cultural diversity in the state's rich heritage.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Chris LeDoux

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Mississippi, Harrison County, Biloxi

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Born in Biloxi, Chris LeDoux (1948-2005), the Singing Bronc Rider, pursued dreams of success as both a competitive rodeo cowboy and latter day Western singing star and achieved both. The 1976 World Champion Bareback Bronc Rider released modern and traditional cowboy song records for his rodeo fans from 1973-1991. When Garth Brooks, a fan of LeDoux’s exuberant live performing style mentioned him in a 1989 hit, LeDoux became a major label star on Capitol Records himself.

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Chris LeDoux Born on October 2, 1948, here in Biloxi, Chris Lee LeDoux was the son of an Air Force major stationed at Keesler Air Force Base. Young Chris lived here for the first year and a half of his life and for another year at the age of twelve, which yielded the boyhood memories of fishing holes and black-eyed peas reflected in his song “Born in Mississippi.” The military family moved frequently, including a period in Texas. Having learned to ride horses on his grandparents’ Michigan farm, LeDoux focused on competitive rodeo riding as a career by the age of fourteen, and began playing guitar and writing songs as a sideline while in high school in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was developing his talent as a sculptor in college in Wyoming and New Mexico when he left school to compete riding bareback full-time. He would compete in some 80 rodeos a year, and go on to become the world championship of bareback bronc riding in 1976.

In 1972, in part as a way to cover rodeo entry expenses, LeDoux formed the independent country music record label American Cowboy Songs with his dad Al, who was now retired, and relocated to Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, near Nashville. Al and Chris’s mother Bonnie effectively ran the record company, shipping out to his rodeo fans the tapes of songs he wrote and recorded, songs that reflected the rodeo cowboy life, and promoting him as “The Singin’ Bronc Rider.” Chris married Peggy Rhoads of Kaycee, Wyoming, that same year; they would raise five children at their Kaycee home base. While competing in rodeo, LeDoux would sell some four million dollars worth of 22 albums he described as encompassing “Western soul, sagebrush blues, cowboy folk and rodeo rock ‘n’ roll,” enough so that when he retired from the rodeo circuit in 1980, he was able to re-focus on performing his music, his energetic, bold live shows making him a Western cult figure.

In 1989, he came to national attention when emerging country megastar Garth Brooks referred to playing a “beat up Chris LeDoux record” in his hit “Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old).” He then signed with a record company, the Liberty label at Capitol Records, and had a Top Ten National Hit, in 1992, a Grammy-nominated duet with Brooks, “Whatcha Gonna Do With a Cowboy.” Chris LeDoux can be credited with reviving the Western end of what had been “Country & Western” and setting the stage for more explosive, visual country arena shows in the musical career that spanned the rest of his life, which was shortened by liver disease. LeDoux died in March 2005, and was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and awarded the Academy of Country Music’s Pioneer Award posthumously later that year.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Brookhaven Light Artillery

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Mississippi, Lincoln County, Brookhaven
Also known as Hoskin's Battery, this unit was organized on May 11, 1861. The battery saw action in numerous engagements, including the Battle of Jackson on May 14, 1863. In June 1863 the unit was engaged at Mechanicsburg, Miss. and served with distinction during the Atlanta Campaign and at the Battle of Nashville in 1864.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Brookhaven

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Mississippi, Lincoln County, Brookhaven
Founded by Samuel Jayne in 1818, it grew rapidly as a railway terminus after 1851. Was recruiting and hospital center during Civil War. Since 1907 has led in dairy industry.

(Agriculture • Railroads & Streetcars • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stephen Kult Clothing Store

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Minnesota, Carver County, Carver
Carver Historic District
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places

by the United States
Department of the Interior
Stephen Kult Clothing Store
1871


(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bluff Trail Overlook

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Texas, Bastrop County, near Cedar Creek
The bluff stands 80 feet above the Colorado River at Wilbarger Bend. Josiah Wilbarger was an early settler whose family owned the land on the opposite side of the river during the 1800s. Josiah was one of a few Texans who were scalped and lived to tell the story. There was also a lumber mill just east (downstream) of this overlook, known as McKinney's Mill. The mill was located on the Colorado River to transport pine, cedar and cottonwood lumber to surrounding communities along the river. The steep bluffs and canyons that are the namesakes of McKinney Roughs are the remnants of ancient oyster beds and offshore reefs. These areas are harder ground than the surrounding sandy soils that have eroded away to form the steep canyons within the park.

WILBARGER, JOSIAH PUGH (1801-1844) Josiah Pugh Wilbarger was one of the earliest settlers in Texas. Wilbarger and his wife Margaret arrived at Matagorda on Dec. 26, 1827. Wilbarger taught at Matagorda for a year before moving to La Grange, where he taught and did surveying until he settled in Stephen F. Austin's colony in a bend of the Colorado River 10 miles above the site of present Bastrop. This is the land on the opposite side of the river. He was granted a league of land (about 4,428 acres) in January 1832. In August 1833, Wilbarger was a member of a surveying party that was attacked by Native Americans near Pecan Springs, about four miles east of the site of present Austin. He was scalped but was still alive when he was found the next day by Reuben Hornsby, and was taken to the Horsnby home for treatment. Wilbarger never completely recovered from his wound, although he lived for about 11 more years. He died at his home near Bastrop on April 11, 1844, survived by his wife and five children.

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cape Spear Lighthouse

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Newfoundland and Labrador, Division No. 1 (Avalon Peninsula), Blackhead
English
Cape Spear, Newfoundland’s oldest surviving lighthouse, has served as the chief approach light for St. John’s harbour since 1836. Constructed by local builders Nicholas Croke and William Parker, it consists of a stone towner surrounded by a frame residence, a common lighthouse design on Canada’s east coast. The light mechanism in use in the 19th century came from Inchkeith lighthouse in Scotland. Modern equipment was installed in 1912 and remains in use in the concrete tower built nearby in 1955. Much altered during the 19th century, the old lighthouse has been restored to its original appearance.

French
Construit par les entrepreneurs locaux, Nicholas Croke et William Parker, ce phare est le plus ancien de Terre-Neuve et le principal repère du port de Saint-Jean depuis 1936. La tour de pierre qui s’élève au milieu d’une maison en bois rappelle l’architecture familière des phares dans l’Est du Canada. Le mécanisme en usage au XIXᵉ siècle venait du phare Inchkeith en Écosse. Un mécanisme moderne fut installé en 1912 et il sert encore dans la tour de béton construite près d’ici en 1955. Le phare, qui a été grandement modifié au cours de XIXᵉ siècle, la été restoré dans son aspect original.

(Communications • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Herbert J. Russell, C.B.E.

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Newfoundland and Labrador, Division No. 1 (Avalon Peninsula), St. John's
This plaque is dedicated to the memory of

Herbert J. Russell, C.B.E.

Mr. Russell began his carrer with the Newfoundland Railway on September 12, 1906, as an express messenger and stenographer. He rose quickly through various management positions to become general manager on August 29, 1923 ant the age of 32. He died in service as general manager on February 26, 1949. Mr. Russell was a man of many interests and during his lifetime made a substantial contribution to the Newfoundland Railway, and to the province as a whole.

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Memorial Terrace

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Virginia, Richmond
1788
This site was a part of the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts where the Virginia Convention of 1788 voted to approve the proposed U.S. Constitution on June 25th.

1806
Richmond Theatre opened in three-story brick building.

1811
Theatre destroyed by fire on December 26th claiming 72 victims, including Governor George W. Smith and former U.S. Senator Abraham Venable. Dr. James McCaw and slave, Gilbert Hunt, saved many from the burning building.

1812
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall headed the building committee to raise funds to erect a memorial on site.

1812
Robert Mills, first native born American architect and architecture student of Thomas Jefferson, designated the octagonal church with a Delorme dome.

1812-184
Construction of Monumental Church led by master builder, Isaac Sturdevant from Boston.

1814
First Episcopal service of Monumental Church held on May 4th.

1824
Marquis de Lafayette honored on October 31st at special church service.

1845-1850
Altar introduced, central pulpit removed, and upper windows in sanctuary enlarged.

1873-1874
Sunday school building added.

1878-1901
Stained glass windows installed, including one Tiffany stained glass window.

1899
Mural of the Resurrection in the apse and fresco of Angel Gabriel on the dome painted.

1919
Virginia Commonwealth University, formerly Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health, moved to church vestry.

1965
Church deconsecrated and deeded to Medical College of Virginia Foundation.

1971
Designated as National Historic Landmark by National Park Service.

1976-1981
Medical College of Virginia Foundation begins restoration returning to the original Mills design.

1976
Sunday school building demolished.

1983
Medical College of Virginia Foundation deeded church to Historic Richmond.

1985-1987
Stained glass windows replaced with clear windows to replicate Mills design and roof restored with copper dome.

2003-2012
Historic Richmond completed $3.5 million restoration including replica of monument.

2014
Celebration of 200th anniversary, installation of Memorial Terrace and restoration of marbleized altar.

(Churches, Etc. • Disasters) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wright Brothers Flying School

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Alabama, Montgomery County, Maxwell Air Force Base

On this site in 1910
stood the hanger
of the
Flying School of the
first men to fly:
The Wright Brothers

(Air & Space) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lister Hill Center

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Alabama, Montgomery County, Maxwell Air Force Base

This facility is dedicated to the memory of Senator Lister Hill who faithfully served his state and the nation for forty-five years as a member of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. An Infantry Officer during World War I, Senator Hill's commitment to a strong national defense and an independent Air Force contributed significantly to the development and continued existence of Maxwell AFB and Air University. Considered to be the godfather of Maxwell, he was instrumental in bringing the Air Corps Tactical School here in 1931 and spearheaded permanent construction at Maxwell Field. As Chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Senator Hill fought to expand the fledgling Air Corps and made Maxwell Field an integral part of that program. After World War II, he contributed to establishing the Air Force as a separate service and locating Air University at Maxwell AFB. It is in gratitude for his tireless efforts on behalf of Maxwell Air Force Base, Air University, and the United States Air Force for over four decades that this building is named in his honor.

(Air & Space • Education • Politics) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Air Corps Tactical School

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Alabama, Montgomery County, Maxwell Air Force Base

Established here in 1931, was the birthplace and nurturing ground of American air doctrine. In the ferment of a decade of thought and debate, the Air Corps Tactical School gave rise to concepts for the strategic and operational deployment of U.S. air power against two formidable aggressor nations separated by half a world. Validation of this revolutionary approach to warfare came with victory over the Axis with fewer casualties than in advancing a few hundred miles in World War I.

Most of America's senior air officers of World War II – including the legendary Claire Chennault, Ira Baker, Harold George, Haywood Hansel, Laurence Kuter and Curtis LeMay – were instructors or graduates of the school. This memorial honors their visionary achievements and stands in tribute to the intellectual energy which fashioned the air power concepts so crucial to victory.

Air University, born of the Air Corps Tactical School, continues the legacy – generating ideas needed for the rapid advance of the air and space power so vital to our nation and its future.

This monument is a replica of the propeller and wings insignia worn by air officers at the time.

(Air & Space • Military • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Swan's Chapel

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Texas, Jones County, near Avoca
In 1905 J.L. Swan donated this land for a school and a cemetery. In 1913 the school was moved down the road by the work of Herman and Emma Breland Lieb with Tom and Laura Rowland and many others. The Church of Christ bought the property. A tabernacle was built in the early 1920's. In later years a new church building was erected of rock. It was lost due to fire on January 25, 1997.

(Churches, Etc. • Education) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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