LeClaire's Trading Post

The first house on the east side

of Milwaukee was built on this site

in the year 1800 by

Antoine LeClaire as a trading post,

the log house shown on the left

of this view:

The log cabin, stockade ...

Pompei Giubileo [Pompeii Jubilee] 2000

Edifici Privati/Private Buildings

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Text in English:

The destructive fury of Vesuvius raged the 24th August in 79 a.C. Buried under three metres of ash, Pompeii suddenly stopped living. From the Forum to the Temple of Iside; from the House ...

Patee Park Baptist Church

Patee Park Baptist Church is the second oldest Baptist Church in St. Joseph. It began as a Sunday School in 1881 under the leadership of H.G. Walker, an active leader in the First Baptist Church of St. Joseph.

It was organized ...

Twelve Mile Camp

George Washington in 1758 set up a camp a mile north of this point while building Forbes Road. In 1774 Fort Shippen was built at the same site.

Marker is on Lincoln Highway (U.S. 30) 0.1 miles west of Technology Way ...

Goose Pond Mountain Area

This project was designed and constructed by the New York State Department Transportation

History:

The wetland constructed at this site was built by the New York State Department of Transportation Cooperation with Palisades Interstate Park Commission -- Office Of Parks ...

Pinta Trail

Origin of the Pinta Trail is attributed to nomadic Plains Indian tribes. Early Spanish and Mexican expeditions followed the general route of the trail, which extended from San Antonio de Bexar to the San Saba River near present Menard. A ...

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church

Emerson and Fehmer, Boston, Architects; Alfred Howe, Builder

Gothic Revival style church built for congregation organized in 1869. The cornerstone was laid March 23, 1871 and the edifice completed under the leadership of the Rev. Charles O. Brady. Dedicated on March ...

Preservation Park

An Overview

Oakland in the late 19th century was a thriving waterfront city, the second largest in the state. A center of commerce and industry, it was also known for advanced notions of civic improvement. Public schools and academies, convenient transit, ...

Santa Fe Depot

"Won't you be one of the 25,000 visitors at the Grand Canyon of Arizona this summer? It is the world's scenic wonder - nothing like it."

Santa Fe Railroad brochure, 1914.

The Santa Fe train whistle that was heard here on September ...

Margaret's Place and Walk / Lower Garden District

Margaret’s Place and Walk

Margaret’s Place and Walk honors Irish Immigrant Margaret Gaffney Haughery (1813-1882), who devoted her life to orphaned children and the needy. An orphan herself, Margaret lost her husband and baby to illness. Although illiterate, Margaret ...