BC Permanent Building

City of Vancouver Heritage Building

This small scale but well-executed example of Beaux-Arts classicism was designed by Thomas Hooper (the architect of Shaughnessy's Hycroft Mansion) and Elwood Watkins. Built in 1907 for Thomas Talton Langlois' BC Permanent Loan Company, after 1935 ...

Birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken

Kentucky's Most Famous Citizen

Birth of a Legend

Kentucky's

Most Famous Citizen

Colonel Harland Sanders began the part of his life that brought him fame in a small gasoline service station on the opposite side of this highway. Born on September 9, 1890, near ...

The Chesapeake Bay : History Happened Here

Shields of the Republic

In World War II more than 700,000 American men and women went to the conflict through the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation. Over 900,000 more arrived, including the wounded, survivors of sea battles and prisoners of war. ...

Corporal James Harvey Hustis

In memory

of

Corporal James Harvey Hustis

Died November 8th, 1918

of wounds received in action

September 27th, 1918 in the Argonne,

France

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Erected by

78th Company

New York State Home Defense Reserve

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Crown Street, on the left when traveling west ...

Harrisburg Public Library Dauphin County Library System

Founded in 1889, the Harrisburg Public Library became a national model of 19th Century efforts to bring the world's information to community residents, a role that continues today. Its first home was at 125 Locust Street in a building erected ...

Leon Day Park

This park is named for Leon Day, an outstanding player in the Negro Leagues who was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. A resident of southwest Baltimore, Day joined the Baltimore Black Sox in 1934 when African Americans ...

Niagara Apothecary

La Pharmacie De Niagara

Acquired by the Ontario Heritage Foundation in 1969, the Niagara Apothecary is a fine example of a Confederation era commercial establishment and pharmacy. Although the building probably dates to the 1820's. It was extensively renovated in 1866 ...

The Pleasanton Hotel

In 1864, five years before the first railroad arrived in Pleasanton, John W. Kottinger demonstrated his faith in Pleasanton”s future by building the communities first hotel, The Farmer’s Hotel.

The building was purchased by Henry in 1891 and burned to the ...

Calistoga Depot

Built by Sam Brannan for the Napa Valley Railroad in 1868 one year before the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Second oldest remaining railroad station in California. Northern terminus of the Napa Valley Railroad and its successors the Napa Valley ...

Jose Gasparilla

An 18th Century West Indiaman

This vessel named for Jose Gaspar a gentleman Lieutenant of the Royal Spanish Navy, who achieved great fame as a pirate headquartered on Florida's Gulf Coast.

As leader of a mutinous uprising, Lt. Gaspar seized command of ...