Canajoharie Academy

Site of

Canajoharie Academy

1824-92

Susan B. Anthony Taught Here 1846

50. Charles F. Wheelock, Prin.,

1880-91

Marker is at the intersection of Otsego Street and Cliff Street, on the right when traveling north on Otsego Street.

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Dedicated to the Memory of James (Jim) Earnest Cook

1884 – 1955

Beloved lifelong citizen of Cochran and Bleckley County, he was a banker, farmer, mayor, Rotarian, Mason, Shriner and a never failing friend to all. His example to do all men good helped shape the lives and destiny of ...

W.J. Murphy - Eads Brothers Building in 1903

The first mention of this property is from 1838 when it was part of the brickyard that manufactured bricks to build the second Fort Smith. In 1877 the City Hotel was built here. In 1897, identical buildings were constructed to ...

Church of Saints John and Paul

Callahan, Siskiyou Co., California

Erected about 1858

Father James Croke. A missionary priest held first service here.

First Catholic Church in Scott Valley

Marker is on East Fork Road south of California Highway 3, on the left when traveling south.

WTVJ/Capitol Theater

The Capitol Theater opened in 1926 as the first of the Wometco Theater chain, a company founded by Mitchell Wolfson, Sr., and his brother-in-law, Sidney Meyer. In 1949, the Capitol was converted into the studios of WTVJ, Florida's first TV ...

Congregation Beth Jacob (Orthodox)

Beth Jacob was the first Jewish congregation founded on Miami Beach (1927) and is its oldest synagogue (1929). It was located well south of 5th Street, the northernmost boundary of where Jews were allowed to settle. In 1936, the congregation ...

Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant

This is considered to be Miami Beach's oldest Jewish-owned business. It is also one of the most famous. Joe and Jennie Weiss arrived in 1913 and ran a snack bar and bath house. In 1917, they moved to the south ...

Sanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum

The only museum dedicated to Florida's Jewish experience from 1763 to the present opened in 1995. The Museum is housed in Ira Giller's award-winning restoration of an Art Deco synagogue designed by Henry Hohauser in 1936. Especially noteworthy are its ...

City Cemetery, Jewish Section

Founded as a city cemetery in 1865, grave sites in the Jewish section date from the 1880s. Among the early Jewish pioneers buried here are Berman and Rose Weintraub, who operated a successful grocery business in 1900 and assisted fellow ...

Benjamin F. Hobbs

First Teacher in Elk Co.

1848 – 1871

Marker is on Kansas Route 99 near Native Road, on the right when traveling north.

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