In its 65 years of production here at 600 North Washington, Brin Glass supplied interior glass and mirrors for homes and businesses throughout the region, including some of Minneapolis' most iconic buildings: the ISA Tower, Sears Roebuck in . . . — — Map (db m256283) HM
Mina Miller Edison was not content simply to be the wife of America's most famous inventor. As a devout Methodist, she firmly believed that each individual possesses the power to make positive change in their community. Her passion for . . . — — Map (db m95020) HM
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt believed that all Americans had the right to a good standard of living. The Roosevelts greatly prized their own home grown produce. During the Great Depression and the war years, they knew that people with neither . . . — — Map (db m210610) HM
The Murray Hill Historic District takes its name from the eighteenth-century estate of merchant Robert Murray and his wife Mary Murray. Speculative real estate development in the neighborhood grew in the 1850s after the creation of a grassy mall on . . . — — Map (db m157648) HM
The first non-segregated music club in American history, was located in this building. Founder Barney Josephson, a courageous shoe salesman, started the club in 1938.
Famous people like Eleanor Roosevelt, Charlie Chaplin and Piet Mondrian . . . — — Map (db m163177) HM
Formal education began for students of Happy, Texas when the original settlement, two miles east, moved to this townsite in 1906 in response to the newly laid Santa Fe Rail Line. Sarah Ann Rose taught local students in a one-room frame schoolhouse . . . — — Map (db m91351) HM
Kump House
Home of Gov. Herman Guy Kump. Built 1924-25, on site of Civil War-era Goddin Tavern. Designed by Clarence Harding of Washington, DC. Eleanor Roosevelt and other notables were guests during 1930s and '40s. Named to National . . . — — Map (db m23300) HM
Commercial development along upper Main Street followed the industrial expansion spurred by the Civil War. As Northampton became a manufacturing center, its business district expanded to accommodate a growing and changing population. In the 1860s . . . — — Map (db m138438) HM
Fountain Street Baptist Church
In 1869, the Reverends Nathan A. Reed and Isaac Butterfield merged their two churches into the Baptist Church of the City of Grand Rapids. The Reverend Dr. Samuel T. Graves served as pastor until 1885, when . . . — — Map (db m176448) HM
The Daniel Boone Tavern, constructed at a cost of $135,000, was opened September 1, 1917, by the Columbia Hotel Company. A considerable part of the cost of the building was raised by popular subscription. For many years the hotel served as the . . . — — Map (db m250044) HM
The house before you today is dramatically different from the farmhouse FDR’s father purchased in 1867. Over the years, the home reflected the changing circumstances in FDR’s life. In good times, he expanded the house to meet the needs of his . . . — — Map (db m83110) HM
The Firemen’s Memorial (1913) in Riverside Park is one of the most impressive monuments in New York City. The monument was designed by H. Van Buren Magonigle (1867-1935) and its sculptures are attributed to Attilio Piccirilli (1866-1945). . . . — — Map (db m54004) HM
National Youth Administration
Woodstock Resident Work Center
has been placed on the
National Register of
Historic Places in 1993
by the United States
Department of Interior — — Map (db m269267) HM
[First panel] Inspiring Family
Grandfather Robert G. Fitzgerald came south after the
Civil War as a teacher and an activist for democracy. He
was immensely proud of his service in the Union Army
and Navy and often chose to be . . . — — Map (db m232526) HM
"Fireproof" was an important word to the Columbus business community. Between 1889 and 1893, five downtown Columbus theaters were constructed and destroyed by fire. These fires also claimed the Seneca, Deshler, and Vendome hotels and resulted . . . — — Map (db m203909) HM
Carved out of a remote wilderness, McConnellsburg served the flood of travelers heading west in the late 18th century. Taverns, like the Fulton House, sprang up all along the packhorse trail from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.
Whether by . . . — — Map (db m167242) HM
On this site stood Wallace Hall, constructed in the early seventies and named for Florence
Wallace, a faculty member in the Social Studies (later History) Department from 1938 until her
retirement three decades later. Although she grew up . . . — — Map (db m265054) HM
Built in 1858 by Cleland Kinlock Huger (1818-1912), this house shows the influence of the Italian Renaissance and Italian Villa styles in the quoins on its front corners, in its classical entablature, and its off-center entrance tower. Square . . . — — Map (db m300874) HM
Residents of Sullivan’s Island had never held title to their land and homes. Instead, they were given long-term leases with the understanding that if their property were ever needed for national defense, that would take precedence. From 1895 to . . . — — Map (db m225199) HM
Prior to modern indoor plumbing, people in homes and public spaces utilized a small structure that contained an outdoor toilet. Outhouses were generally made of wood and located fifty to one hundred yards away from the house. They usually contained . . . — — Map (db m288952) HM
The Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) was created by Congress in response to the Great Depression and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 5, 1933. The purpose of the CCC was to create thousands of public works jobs for young . . . — — Map (db m272724) HM
At this location on June 5, 1933, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, dedicated Douglas International Airport as the first international airport in the United States.
Designed by J. P. Sexton as the . . . — — Map (db m28357) HM
To your right is Lucy Diggs Slowe Hall, a Howard University dormitory. It opened in 1942 as U.S. government housing for African American women who came to DC to take new war-related jobs or fill in for men who left to join the military during . . . — — Map (db m130836) HM
"a magnificent waterfront entranceway…"
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
architect of the Nation's Capital City, describing the Southwest Waterfront to President George Washington
Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and . . . — — Map (db m109326) HM
Ellen Axson Wilson was First Lady of the United States (1913-1914) when her husband, Woodrow Wilson became our 28th President. She grew up in Rome, where her father, the Rev. Samuel Edward Axson, was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. . . . — — Map (db m171076) HM
Named after statesmen and former slave, Frederick Douglass, this school opened in 1920.
That year the Kokomo School Board recommended that all African-American students in first through seventh grades enroll only at Douglass.
With no . . . — — Map (db m205336) HM
March 17, 1937 was a very special day in Bristow as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt arrived in town for the dedication of the Klingensmith Park Amphitheater. This facility was built by the combined efforts of the National Youth Administration and the Works . . . — — Map (db m272845) HM
Charl Ormand Williams, an Arlington native, began teaching in a one-room school house in Shelby County when she was sixteen. She followed her sister, Mabel C. Williams, as Superintendent of Public Instruction for Shelby County, serving in that . . . — — Map (db m204746) HM
Named for Tennessee's first governor and promoted as the finest hotel between Roanoke and Chattanooga, the John Sevier opened on August 5, 1924. The hotel was planned in three stages, with a second section completed in 1929. The third section was . . . — — Map (db m157840) HM
Many people owned this mill, but none were named Cabell.
Willoughby Newton first built a mill here in 1746. Lane, Love, Harrington, Britton, and Triplett followed before Edward Caple purchased the property in 1846. Caple ground corn, . . . — — Map (db m191608) HM
Established 1933,-'34 under Federal
Homestead Act, one of several model
planned-communities nationwide, and
a pet project of Eleanor Roosevelt,
to assist unemployed through self-sufficient farming and handicrafts.
Town built on 2,400 acres, . . . — — Map (db m169689) HM
"It was fabulous. That's the only word I can think of right now. It changed my life completely…within one day, my life changed overnight." - Glenna Williams
Arthurdale's 165 houses were built in three phases beginning . . . — — Map (db m169793) HM
Murdock Hill
The hilltop where you are standing, known as Murdock Hill, is one of the highest points in the town of Westbrook. Just west of here the land slopes downward significantly and the forested upland gives way to salt marshes surrounding . . . — — Map (db m249923) HM
The original 1997 memorial barely hinted at Franklin Roosevelt's paralyzed legs - much as FDR had during his Presidency. Roosevelt's battle with polio was not a secret. The president worried that if people knew he was unable to walk, his . . . — — Map (db m197626) HM
Dolores Huerta's efforts to promote harmony and social justice have made her a towering figure in the American civil rights and labor movements. Born in 1930 in New Mexico, Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) with César Chávez in the . . . — — Map (db m298965) HM
Mary McLeod Bethune was born on a farm near Mayesville, South Carolina, in 1875, the fifteenth child of former slaves. She rose from those humble beginnings to become a world-renowned educator, civil rights and human rights leader, champion for . . . — — Map (db m306531) HM
Born in Savannah, Georgia, May 15, 1860
Moved to Rome, Georgia, March 1866
Graduated from Rome Female College, 1876
Attended New York Art Students League, 1884-1885
Her father, The Rev. Mr. Samuel Edward Axson was pastor of Rome’s . . . — — Map (db m39430) HM
The Clifty Inn has undergone many changes, but the lovely site overlooking the Ohio River remains the same.
In 1924, the two-story Clifty Inn opened at this location. The Madison Courier reported, "The vistas are superb and the panoramas not . . . — — Map (db m312179) HM
1920 Clifty Falls became Indiana's third state park. William A. Guthrie, James Watkinson Lilly, and Michael Christian Garber Jr. were all driving forces in the development of Clifty Falls as a State Park. The purchase price of the original . . . — — Map (db m303194) HM
In 1941 the American military did not want the Tuskegee Airmen to fly. By May 8, 1945, the end of World War II in Europe, only the Nazis felt that way.
The heroics of the Tuskegee Airmen led to President Truman's 1948 order ending racial . . . — — Map (db m227759) HM WM
U.S. Senate candidate Harry S Truman visited Greenville on October 2, 1934, during a campaign swing through southeastern Missouri. Her gave speeches that day along U.S. Route 67 at the county courthouses in Fredericktown, Greenville, and Popular . . . — — Map (db m187284) HM
All the land visible from this point was once owned by the Livingston family. Robert Livingston, Sr., "The Founder" (1654-1728), acquired a 160,000-acre land patent in 1686. His property extended 9.5 miles along the eastern shore of the Hudson . . . — — Map (db m149847) HM
Experience an Unbroken Tradition
The Montgomery Place Orchards farm stand has a long lineage. Janet Livingston Montgomery first created the Montgomery Place estate on nearby River Road two centuries ago. When this widow of Revolutionary War . . . — — Map (db m303735) HM
Unveiled in 1994, this dynamic statue of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882-1947) is by the well-known sculptor Neil Estern (b. 1926). La Guardia, the son of a United States Army bandleader, was born on December 11, 1882, at 177 Sullivan Street in . . . — — Map (db m140734) HM
In the early 1950s , the City of New York proposed running a four-lane, partially sunken broadway through the middle of Washington Square Park. In February 1952, Mrs. Shirley Hayes (1912-2002), a young mother of four sons (Dennis, Timothy, . . . — — Map (db m138949) HM
President David Ross Boyd (1853-1936) arrived in Norman on August 6, 1892. Born in Ohio and educated at Wooster College, he had been hired as the first president of the fledgling University. He later recalled, “Not a tree or shrub broke the . . . — — Map (db m278633) HM
Powerful Transformations
Named for First Lady Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, the town of Dandridge became the Jefferson County seat in 1793. Dandridge spent almost 150 years as the center of government and commerce in Jefferson County. A . . . — — Map (db m225853) HM
The Netherlands Carillon has moved around the Washington, D.C. area and grown over time. In 1952, Queen Juliana presented the carillon symbolically to President Truman in Meridian Hill Park.
In 1954, 49 bells were installed in a temporary . . . — — Map (db m301818) HM
"We felt like one big family, willing to help someone with their troubles.
Nobody had too much; we were all striving for the same thing."
- Lova McNair
Because Arthurdale depended on the homesteaders working together . . . — — Map (db m170280) HM
The lower level held Greendale's first Post Office, which opened on December 16th, 1938. The first Greendale Postmaster was Ed Bengs; he was also a Greendale resident. In 1938 postage for a first-class letter was 3 cents!
The upper level was . . . — — Map (db m182905) HM
Established in 1939 by Tuskegee aviators Forrest Shelton, Stanley Kennedy,
and Joe Wright Wilkerson. Initially known as SKW Field, the facility
was renamed for Stanley Kennedy. The 55-acre airfield was leased by
Tuskegee Institute in February . . . — — Map (db m304219) HM
This is not the time for women to be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots are a weapon waiting to be used.
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942
LIFE [Magazine cover] JULY 19, . . . — — Map (db m257137) WM
”. . . Now I shall plant, if at all, more for the public than for myself.”
John Quincy Adams, diary entry for July 5, 1826, shortly before beginning the first major planting program at the White House. Massachusetts . . . — — Map (db m61677) HM
MacMurray College was founded as Illinois Conference Female Academy in
1846 by Methodist preachers. It became Illinois Woman's College in 1899 before
acquiring its final name in 1930. MacMurray College was a major presence in
Jacksonville for 174 . . . — — Map (db m229609) HM
Welcome to Columbia County Historical Society's interpretive exhibit exploring the
early heritage of the site, specifically the people, stories and events that shaped the
history and character of northern Columbia County.
The cultural heritage . . . — — Map (db m244315) HM
The U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson accepted the separate-but equal pretense used to justify racial segregation by the states. Two years later, white supremacists regained control of the North Carolina . . . — — Map (db m257468) HM
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), originally designed as a New Deal Program under the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, provided work for young men during the Depression Era, a time of excessive unemployment. From . . . — — Map (db m270585) HM
Banner One: Blazing Trails in the Wilderness and for Freedom – Following buffalo and ancient Indian trails, the Cherokee and Shawnee were succeded by surveyors and explorers including Daniel Boone (1760). Colonial settlers showed their . . . — — Map (db m210119) HM
The earliest efforts to provide relief in the coal camps were privately funded. In May 1933, as part of the
First Hundred Days legislation, Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act. This included funds
for the subsistence homestead . . . — — Map (db m165098) HM
En homenaje a quien fuera muerto el 14 de April de 1968 por cazadores furtivos en el Alto Iguazú cuando defendía el patrimonio natural de la humanidad.
Cuerpo de Guadaparques Nacionales, 09 de Octubre de 1991. . . . — — Map (db m26254) HM
Princess Juliana travelled extensively as a representative
of the Netherlands, encouraging support for the war.
In Canada, she hosted foreign dignitaries at her home,
and visited the Royal Netherlands Army, stationed in
Stratford, Ontario. . . . — — Map (db m274136) HM
Dr. Dorothy Height worked to advance women's, civil, and human rights with many of our nation's leaders. How many can you recognize?
Back
Dr. Dorothy Height
Has lived at 700 7th Street, SW since 1983. As President Emmerita . . . — — Map (db m112797) HM
The Bailey Brothers served the United States of America honorably World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War
Archie and Josephine Bailey were married in 1905 and made Punta Gorda their home. They raised their large family in their . . . — — Map (db m249137) HM
Elnora Evelyn Briggans Ford was born on October 11, 1920, in
Independence, Kansas.
Elnora grew up near Coffeyville, and graduated from Kansas State Teachers
College in Pittsburg. Her first teaching job was in rural Wallace, Kansas
teaching . . . — — Map (db m271462) HM
Dedicated to the Families of those who have fallen in all Wars and Conflicts throughout our history. We honor them all.
The New Jersey Gold Star Family Monument Foundation
Mission Statement
To create a tranquil setting that is . . . — — Map (db m209026) WM
1828: City of New York purchases Blackwell's Island for charitable and corrective institutions.
1832: The penitentiary opens, built from stone quarried on the island.
1839: New York City Asylum for the Insane opens. . . . — — Map (db m204135) HM
Today, it is the proud home of SUNY Schenectady, but the former Hotel Van Curler once welcomed famous performers and corporate travelers. Inside, you'll still find the marble pillars and terrazzo of the hotels first floor reception space (now the . . . — — Map (db m267980) HM
The Evening Bulletin published the photo (large image) in 1939 of the "old Henry Charles Lea Mansion, which is being torn down to make way for a modern funeral home." The Bringhurst Funeral home (bottom left) at the southwest corner of . . . — — Map (db m191917) HM
The Public Ledger Building, on the south side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street, was designed by Horace Trumbauer and completed in 1924. The Public Ledger was Philadelphia's leading newspaper during the early 1900's and was absorbed into . . . — — Map (db m220488) HM
San Diego’s Cultural Oasis
Located just minutes away from downtown San Diego, Balboa Park provides an enriching experience for more than 14 million visitors from near and far each year. Referred to as “the Smithsonian of the . . . — — Map (db m73907) HM
James Hall Nichols
Born on 17 February 1835, James Hall Nichols built West End in the early 1870s. His father, Richard James Nichols, a Connecticut native, farmed a large plantation in the community of Midway, near Milledgeville, Georgia . . . — — Map (db m229222) HM
[CENTER FRONT PANEL]
"There is no pleasure in achievement if it is not shared."
- Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams (Earley)
[Center panel main photo caption reads]
Captain Charity Adams and Officer Candidates-Parade Grounds, . . . — — Map (db m287034) HM WM
The Price of Liberty in
undiluted full measure is
sacrifice, pain, and blood -
these Patriots paid the Price
for Us All
————————
In War, There is no
Substitute for Victory.
Gen . . . — — Map (db m88768) WM
Welcome to St. John's College, the third-oldest college in America, founded in 1696 as the King William's School. Four of the college's founders signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, George Washington visited the school in 1791, and . . . — — Map (db m287110) HM
Welcome to St. John's College, the third-oldest college in America, founded in 1696 as the King William's School. Four of the college's founders signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, George Washington visited the school in 1791, and . . . — — Map (db m287114) HM
Welcome to St. John's College, the third-oldest college in America, founded in 1696 as the King William's School. Four of the college's founders signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, George Washington visited the school in 1791, and . . . — — Map (db m287116) HM
Welcome to St. John's College, the third-oldest college in America, founded in 1696 as the King William's School. Four of the college's founders signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, George Washington visited the school in 1791, and . . . — — Map (db m287117) HM
Welcome to St. John's College, the third-oldest college in America, founded in 1696 as the King William's School. Four of the college's founders signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, George Washington visited the school in 1791, and . . . — — Map (db m287118) HM
"Chinese Movie Land"
China City — bordered by Ord, Spring,
and Main streets — pandered unabashedly to Chinese stereotypes. The entire
block was enclosed within a miniature
"Great Wall." Tourists rode rickshaws
down the "Passage . . . — — Map (db m229918) HM
West Coast Apollo
When the Lincoln Theatre opened
on South Central Avenue at 23rd
Street in 1927 — resplendent, at a cost
of $500,000, with Moorish Revival
architecture, a 25-foot-wide marque, a big stage, an orchestra pit, . . . — — Map (db m228980) HM
As we mark the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the women's right to vote, we honor our foremothers — the brave women suffragists around the United States who protested and picketed for their constitutional right to vote. The ratification of . . . — — Map (db m276339) HM
Korean War
Memorial
The Forgotten War
1950-1953
Dedicated June 25th, 2006
Korean War Veterans Association of Northwest Ohio
Chapter 131
Major U.S. Combat Units
8th Army •
2nd Infantry Division •
7th Infantry . . . — — Map (db m175159) WM
This house, built in 1868 by Saturnio Carrion, was restored in 1951 by Paul E. Traweek.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 386. — — Map (db m127951) HM
This garden is inspired by the victory gardens of World War II.
During America's involvement in World War II (1941-1945), the Victory Garden Program strove to reduce demand for commercially grown vegetables, packaging materials, and . . . — — Map (db m164272) HM
The first Jewish settlers of Curacao came in 1651. They were descendants of the families who had fled the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal five generations or so earlier. In Curacao they found a safe haven where they were able to settle in peace . . . — — Map (db m267501) HM
A Rutgers athlete and Columbia law graduate, Robeson won renown as a singer and actor. He was a noted interpreter of Negro spirituals. His career suffered because of his political activism, and he lived his last years here in retirement. — — Map (db m71383) HM
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