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Mother María Encarnación Rosal

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, Guatemala.
Sierva de Dios Madre Maria Encarnacion Rosal Madre, Maestra y Guia de la Congregacion Bethlemita Las Hermanas Bethlemitas, el Comité Pro-Centenario y el pueblo católico de Guatemala, con amor y para perpetua memoria 1886 . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Churches & Religion • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Coronel Luis Aguilar Pelaez

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, Guatemala.
La Corporación Municipal de Quetzaltenango Homenaje a la memoria del ilustre quetzalteco, coronel e ingeniero Don Luis Auguilar Pelaez por sus valiosos servicios a su tierra natal y la patria en el primer centenario de su . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

350th Anniversary of Founding of Santiago Tejutla

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, Guatemala.
1627-1977. La Honorable Corporacion Municipal periodo 1976-1980 y pueblo de Tejutla, rinden un sincero homenaje de reconocimiento a nuestros antepasados fundadores de este pueblo, bautizado con el nombre de “Santiago . . .

(Colonial Era • Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Maisons des faubourgs / Suburban Houses

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Rimouski, Quebec.
Les faubourgs de Québec et de Montréal sont les premières excroissances périurbaines de la Nouvelle-France. Entre ville et campagne, le bâti y jouit d'abord d'une densité moindre et les maisons s'implantent seules, bordées . . .

(Architecture • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Captain Bennett Landing

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St. Francisville, Louisiana.
Captain Philip Morris Bennett, Sr. (Ferry pilot from 1930-1965) Ferries were a means of transporting vehicles across the Mississippi River between St. Francisville and New Roads from 1930 thru 2012. In the beginning it was . . .

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bayou Sara Depot

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St. Francisville, Louisiana.
Last Vestige of both town and railroad.

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

Old Burying Ground

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St. Francisville, Louisiana.
Established by 18th Century Capuchin Friars. Second plaque mounted on cemetery gate Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery For All Faiths and Garden Memorial St. Francisville, Louisiana Established January, 1970.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches & Religion) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Liberal Revolution and General Barrios

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, Guatemala.
Municipalidad y pueblo tejutleco rinden homenaje al primer centenario de la Revolucion Liberal de 1871 Tejutla junio 30 1971 Municipalidad, Coordinadora Inter-institucional Municipal y pueblo de Tejutla al primer centenario . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bayou Boeuf Elementary School

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Kraemer, Louisiana.
On March 27th, 2004, the Bayou Boeuf Elementary "Little Red School House” celebrated its 100th year of service and was named the "Denise C. Borne Memorial School House” in honor of Mrs. Borne's lifelong commitment to public . . .

(Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Roppe Hospital and Solidarity Dispensary

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, Guatemala.
Hospitalito “Roppe” Dispensario Solidario En 1967, Tejutla fue uno de los lugares elegido por Dios para ser anfitriona de la misión Belga, encabezada por el Rvdo. Juan Vander Vaeren, Srita. enfermera Marlen Spaas Josten, . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Churches & Religion • Man-Made Features • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Starí Grad

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, Croatia.
The text of this marker appear in three languages: Croatian (top), German (middle) and English (bottom). Only the English text has been transcribed. To view the text in another language, click on the marker image to enlarge . . .

(Forts, Castles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Varaždin - Stari grad

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, Croatia.
The text of this marker appears on the righthand side in three languages: Croatian (top), English (middle) and German (bottom). Only the English text has been transcribed. To view the text in another language, click on the . . .

(Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rubén Mérida Escobar

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, Guatemala.
El Estado de Guatemala a través del Programa Nacional de Resarcimiento – PNR – Como un justo reconocimiento a la memoria del ilustre Profesor: Rubén Mérida Escobar. Quien por sus ideales de ver a una patria con paz y . . .

(Civil Rights • Education • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Greene Springs and Site of Archeological Discoveries

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near Snyder, Texas.
Located at a place occupied by man for centuries, these springs compose the first, live (running) water that flows into the South Fork of the Clear Fork of the Brazos River. The waters, which collect in large potholes in a . . .

(Native Americans • Natural Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Grand Theatre

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Electra, Texas.
Electra’s population surge in the 1910s led local business leaders to hire Meador & Wolfe of Ft. Worth to design a theatre to accommodate the town’s growing entertainment needs. It opened here in 1920 and featured . . .

(Architecture • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Television History was Made Here / Aquí Se Hizo Historia en la Televisión

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San Antonio, Texas.
This site was the longtime home of KWEX-TV, a pioneering national and international broadcasting innovator. Por un largo tiempo, este fue el hogar de KWEX-TV, un innovador y pionero de los medios televisivos a nivel nacional . . .

(Communications • Hispanic Americans • Industry & Commerce • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Denaud

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Denaud, Florida.
The combined pressure of growing white settlement in Florida and federal policy of relocating Indian tribes west of the Mississippi sparked the outbreak of the 2nd Seminole War in 1835. Controlling the coasts and campaigning . . .

(Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hurricane of 1928

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Ortona, Florida.
The Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928 was the most deadly hurricane ever to strike the state of Florida. An estimated 2500 persons in South Florida died when the storm came ashore on September 16, 1928 near the Jupiter Lighthouse . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Disasters) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Santa Monica City Hall

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Santa Monica, California.
City Hall was built in 1938 from a plan by architects Donald B. Parkinson and J.M. Estep in the Classical/Moderne style. Commissioned under the Federal Emergency Administration of the Public Works Program, the design is . . .

(Architecture • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Barton Historic District

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West Bend, Wisconsin.
Barton Historic District Has been placed on the National Register Of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior 1992 Erected by Barton Historical Society 1998

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