Algonquin Provincial Park

Le Parc Provincial Algonquin

Established in 1893, Algonquin was the first provincial park in Canada and the forerunner of Ontario’s extensive park system. Many methods now used across Canada to administer multi-purpose parks and explain nature to the public were developed ...

Peking

1911

Peking was launched in 1911 at Hamburg, Germany by the Blohm & Voss shipyard. She was owned by the F. Laeisz Company of that port, who used here to carry fuel and manufactured goods to the West Coast of ...

Mary Ferrazzali Park

Mary Ferrazzoli (1928-1994) was the visionary leader who founded the Friends of the Waterfront in 1982. She vigorously championed public access and stood firmly opposed to the commercial overdevelopment of the Newport waterfront blocking public rights of way. This park ...

Upper Argillite Alley

Lenape Tribes used the abundant Hunterdon mineral for arrowheads and tools. One of their trade routes, later the Easton-Trenton Road, ran southwards toward Sanhican (Trenton).

Marker is on New Jersey Route 31 at milepost 13.6, 0.4 miles east of County Route ...

Kaiser's Ice Cream Parlour

This property

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Walker Avenue and NW 10th Street, on the left when traveling north on Walker Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Spanish-American and World War Veterans Memorial

In memory of our deceased

World War Veterans

Western District

of Carroll County

In Memoriam

United Spanish War

Veterans

1898

Marker is on Spring Street north of Main Street (Arkansas Route 23), on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Basin Park Sycamore

I stood here growing so many years,

I shared your laughter, I shared your tears.

My life was good, beginning to end,

and this is a wish I'd like to send.

Be happy and kind to all around,

and let not sorrow be ever found.

The ...

Telephone Exchange

1909

This building was constructed in 1909 by John W. Weatherford, the man who earlier built the adjacent Weatherford Hotel. It was the headquarters for the Arizona Overland Telephone Company, housing its offices and physical plant.

Construction started in July 1909 and ...

Phelan-Verot House Built Prior to 1866

On February 5, 1875, Jean-Pierre Augustin Verot, Bishop of Saint Augustine, purchased this cottage from Sarah Phelan. The Sisters of Saint Joseph lived here in the year 1877, when a devastating epidemic of yellow fever swept over the Amelia Island ...

Jones Iron Works Park

In 1869, John P. Jones and sons moved from the fort at Johnson Springs and purchased land and springs on the east bench of the community. Jones, who was an iron worker, built a coke oven and blast furnace where ...