Congregation Sons of Israel Cemetery

The oldest unmarked grave in this cemetery is that of a Jewish peddler killed by Indians in 1840. His grave, supposedly beneath a large tree, was the reason why the surrounding land was designated a Jewish cemetery in 1911. The ...

Florida Theatre (a performing arts center)

Seven stories tall, the Mediterranean Revival style Florida Theatre was considered the finest theater in Jacksonville when it opened in 1927. Roy A. Benjamin, co-architect, figured prominently in the rebuilding of Jacksonville after the fire of 1901. Benjamin designed both ...

West Palm Beach Temple Israel (Reform)

This was the first Jewish congregation in Palm Beach County. Eight families founded it as Beth Israel in 1923. The next year, the congregation moved into a synagogue at 2020 Broward, where it remained until 1951 when the congregation, now ...

Temple Beth El (Reform)

Temple Beth El, the first Jewish congregation in South Palm Beach County, had ecumenical beginnings. The congregation was founded as the Boca Raton Hebrew Congregation in 1967 through the encouragement of a Roman Catholic nun. Mother de la Croix, president ...

Molly S. Fraiberg Judaica Collections, S. E. Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University

This Judaica library is one of the largest in the southeastern United

States. A permanent exhibit features Isaac Bashevis Singer's writing desk, chairs, and lamp. In addition, the library has the 1978 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature's walking cane, Panama ...

Sterling's Men and Boys Store (Now the Florida Department of Environmental Protection)

Isadore "Pop" A. Sterling ran Fort Lauderdale's first Sterling Store, founded in 1935, in a converted garage on Andrews Avenue. By the

early 1940s, he operated Sterling's Men's and Boys Store at this site. Pop became a town legend, widely ...

City of Miami Cemetery

This public cemetery dates from 1897. The walled-in Jewish section (Block 41) was founded in 1915. The last Jewish burial was held in 1964 but most of the graves date from the 1920s and 1930s. Temple Israel, located across the ...

Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Historic Landmark

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Originally Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science

Ingham & Boyd, architects, 1939

Marker can be reached from Children's Way 0.2 miles east of West Commons.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Allegheny Post Office

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Historic Landmark

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Originally Allegheny Post Office

William M. Aiken, Architect 1894-97

Marker can be reached from Children's Way 0.1 miles east of West Commons.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Confederate Soldiers Buried in this Cemetery

[ Front Plaque ]

Erected by The United States to mark the burial place of eleven Confederate Soldiers who, while prisoners of war, died at Terre Haute and were buried in this cemetery, where the individual graves cannot now be identified.

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