Golden Spike

A Golden Spike was

driven at this point by

President Harding

on completion of

the Alaska Railroad

July 15 1923

Courtesy hmdb.org

Native Sons of the Golden West

Chispa Parlor No. 139 was chartered April 10, 1889, dissolved April 25, 1896, and reorganized March 14, 1905.

This site was first occupied circa 1860 by the Independent Order of Good Templars, a group dedicated to the prohibition of liquor and ...

Cariboo Gold Fields

Districts Aurifères de Cariboo

English:

A search for the source of placer gold found on lower parts of the Fraser River led to discoveries of lode mines in the Cariboo, of which Williams Creek, is said to have yielded $19,000,000. As a ...

Goldfield

For a 20-year period prior to 1900 the mining in Nevada fell into a slump that cast the entire state into a bleak depression and caused the loss of a third of the population.

The picture brightened overnight following the spectacular ...

Site of the Golden Swan

Built about 1815. An inn 1826–1857. “The Daily True American” published by the Naar family 1857–1872. Subsequently housed various industrial and commercial activities.

Marker is at the intersection of West Front Street and South Warren Street, on the right when traveling ...

Gold Star Mothers Memorial

Gold Star Mothers

Memorial

This memorial is erected

To keep in honored and prayerful memory

all Gold Star Mothers whose children served and died

in wars for this great nation.

Dedicated September 24, 2006

Supervisor Anthony S. Colavita

Councilwoman Vicki Ford

Councilman Rocco Cacciola

Councilwoman Sheila Marcotte

Councilman Michael Cahalin

Pat Pilenza ...

Golda Meir

1898-1978

The UWM Library is named for Golda Meir. Born Goldie Mabowehz in the Ukraine, she migrated to Milwaukee in 1906, was educated at Fourth Street School, North Division High School, and in present Mitchell Hall of Milwaukee Normal School ...

White Gold

Though steeped in legend, the frenzied search

for gold and other materials in Death Valley

produced few fortunes. Borax, the "White

Gold of the Desert," ranks as the valley's

most profitable mineral.

Harmony Borax works, in front of you, was

one of Death Valley's first ...

Goldsborough House

Judge Laird Goldsborough lived here 1897-1970. As onetime Adjutant General of the Philippines he authored the Island's first constitution. Part of the house is of pre-revolutionary construction.

Among other members of this Caroline County family distinguished for public service: W. ...

Gold Discovered Just Downstream in Auburn Ravine! - Why Daylight

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Gold Discovered Just Downstream in Auburn Ravine!

On May 16, 1848, just downstream in Old Town Auburn where North Rich Ravine meets Auburn Ravine, gold was discovered by a Frenchman named Claude Chana. After leaving his ranch along Bear ...