Sabkha

The sabkha is a wetland region where groundwater rises and falls seasonally, leaving white alkali deposits on the surface Inland saltgrass is common in this area. Toads can reproduce in sabkha wetlands when they are seasonally filled with sufficient ...

Bathhouse Row

In the1880s, elegant frame bathhouses were erected along Bathhouse Row on the east side of Central Avenue. First to appear was the Ozark Bathhouse, built on bathhouse sites no.4, taking over the previous spot of the Weir and George’s Iron ...

Government Free Bathhouse

U.S. Free Bathhouse, or Government Free Bathhouse was opened in 1878, when the first superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation, Gen. Benjamin F. Kelley, recognized that large numbers of poor visitors were using a spring known as “Mud Hole.” Kelley ...

Crystal and Pythian Bathhouses

Little is known about African American bathing services during the 1860s and 1870s. In the 1880s black patrons could buy bath tickets at the Ozark Bathhouse, the Independent Bathhouse, and possibly the Rammelsberg Bathhouse on Bathhouse Row, but they were ...

Fordyce Bathhouse

Businessman and railroad magnate Samuel Wesley Fordyce was a key figure in the early development and promotion of Hot Springs as an international spa and resort. He first visited in 1873 seeking a cure for lingering health problems caused by ...

Higgins Avenue Bridge

The Missoula Marathon’s twenty-sixth mile crosses the Higgins Avenue Bridge and finishes on its north end, serving as one of many notable events in the river crossing’s long and storied history.

Several “Higgins Avenue Bridges” have been built over the ...

The Grand Concourse- Bronx

The Grand Concourse was conceived during the height of the City Beautiful Movement as the residential Champs Élysées of the Bronx, a broad promenade intended to inspire harmonious social order through grand design. Designed as a wide, tree-lined thoroughfare with ...

Meek/Eaton Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum

The center was officially founded in 1976, by noted historian and pioneering archivist and curator, the late Dr. James N. Eaton, Sr. It opened to the public in 1977 in FAMU’s historic Carnegie Library. Built in 1907, Carnegie Library is ...

Bok Tower Gardens

Bok Tower Gardens offers visitors Florida's most abundant opportunities for aesthetic, cultural and personal enrichment. The lush landscapes of the Olmsted gardens, the majesty and music of the Singing Tower with its 60-bell carillon and the splendor of Pinewood Estate ...

National Historic Landmark- The Statue of Liberty

Constructing the Statue

In 1865, a French political intellectual and anti-slavery activist named Edouard de Laboulaye proposed that a statue representing liberty be built for the United States. This monument would honor the United States' centennial of independence and the friendship ...