National Historic Landmark-Majestic Theatre

National Historic Landmark - Majestic Theatre

The great movie palaces gradually replaced burlesque as entertainment within everyone's reach, rich and poor alike. In the 1920s and '30s, the picture palace flourished in big cities and small towns, as fantasy worlds into ...

National Historic Landmark-Lyndon Baines Johnson Boyhood Home

National Historic Landmark - Lyndon Baines Johnson Boyhood Home

From 1913 to 1920, and again from 1922 to 1930, this small one story frame house was the family home of Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), 36th President of the United States (1963-1969).

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National Historic Landmark-John Nance GarnerHouse

National Historic Landmark-John Nance Garner House

From 1920 to 1957, this was the residence of John Nance Garner (1868-1967), of one of the most influential U.S. Representatives.

Garner served in the House from 1903 to 1933; as Speaker (1931-33), he led ...

Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center

Located in Building 30 at the Johnson Space Center (known as the Manned Spacecraft Center until 1973), the Houston MCC was first used in June 1965 for Gemini 4. It housed two primary rooms known as Mission Operation Control Rooms.

These ...

Old Jacksonville Beach Elementary School

Mother Rhoda Martin founded the Jacksonville Beach Elementary School for Colored People. In 1939 the county built a four-room brick school structure, which also served as a community center, well-baby clinic and recreational area for the community. The building was ...

National Historic Landmark-St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

National Historical Landmarks- St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

The Athenanaeum's construction (1868-1873), its collection of American landscape paintings and books, its original role as a public library and free art gallery, and the industrial origins of the fortune that provided it, all contribute ...

National Historic Landmark-Justin S Morrill Homestead

National Historical Landmarks

Justin S Morrill Home

Morrill was responsible for the Morrill Acts (1862, 1890), which provided for land grant colleges. He designed and constructed this Gothic Revival house in 1848-51, and retained ownership while in the Congress as a Representative ...

Lake Jesup

Lake Jesup is located in Seminole County and is part of the St. Johns River System. General Thomas Sidney Jesup of the United States Army named the lake after himself during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). The lake is 13 ...

Private Rosamond Johnson Jr.

U.S. Army Private Rosamond Johnson, Jr. was one of many African American soldiers who died to protect freedoms that a segregated society often denied them. Born on May 18, 1933, Johnson lied about his age and joined the Army at ...

Corporal Jonathan R. Spears

USMC Corporal Jonathan R., J.R., Spears was a selfless individual that became an unfortunate casualty of the recent conflict in Iraq. Born in Pensacola, Florida on June 30, 1984 to Marie and Timothy Spears, J.R. grew up in the small ...