Le Domaine CASTRES

Une “campagne” au coeur du village. Malgré le patronage officiel de Rouget de Lisle, pour les gens du cru, le “plan de Castres” sert toujours à designer la place et tour le quartier.

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Domain CASTRES

A ...

Les Remparts

[The Ramparts]

Capestang a connu plusieurs enceintes successives pour accompangner sa croissance durant le Bas Moyen Age. Ce vestige appartient à la dernière, construite à la demande de l’archevêque de Narbonne en 1356, en pleine guerre de Cent Ans. L’année précédente, ...

Brookhaven Historic District

Developed in 1910, the Brookhaven Historic District is the oldest planned golf course and country club residential community in Georgia. It consists of three separately platted subdivisions with similar street patterns, houses and landscape features that merged together to create ...

Warren County Patriots

This monument is dedicated to those

Patriots laid to rest in Warren County

Indiana whose Service and Sacrifice

helped form our Nation during the

American Revolution

[ Row One ]

Humphrey Beckett ? Richard Biddlecomb ? George Dixon ? Peter Dixon ? ...

The Nations Capital Begins Here 1791-1793

Jones Point Park

After the Revolutionary War, the new nation searched fora permanent seat of government. President George Washington favored a 10-mile square territory along the Potomac River that encompassed the economically important ports of Georgetown and Alexandria. In 1791, the ...

Abraham Lincoln - As - A - Boy Statue

The sculpture of Abraham Lincoln – as – A – Boy was created by the Daub Firmin Hendrickson Sculpture Group, and dedicated May 31, 2008. The Group designed the granite bearing the Gettysburg Address and excerpts from Lincoln’s Second Inaugural ...

D.C.'s First Building Block

Jones Point Park

In 1791, surveyors on Jones Point began to lay out the ten-mile square that would become Washington, D.C. The first marker for the survey—the south cornerstone—was set in place on this spot. Although the stone within this protective ...

City of Hillsboro

In 1853, the Texas Legislature carved Hill County out of Navarro County. Named for physician and Republic of Texas Secretary of War Dr. George Washington Hill, the new county had only recently attracted Anglo settlement, following the establishment in 1848 ...

Box Canyon Ruins

The Box Canyon ruins are typical of many pueblos found in this region. Early inhabitants constructed walls of nearby sandstone and limestone, and used local soils to cement the stones together. The flat roofs were built of timbers laid side-by-side, ...

The Citadel / Natural Features

The Citadel

It was a remarkable achievement, to use primitive mortar and local stones to build the walls above you straight up from the edge of the top of the rock. “The Citadel” is the modern name given to this ruin ...