Swan House

The Swan House is an excellent example of the Second Renaissance Revival style and represents the architectural and decorative tastes of affluent citizens in the late 1920s. Built by Edward and Emily Inman, heirs to a cotton brokerage fortune, the ...

Site of German Prisoner of War Camp Known as Camp Tonkawa

World War II

Front

Legend [and POW Camp diagram]

See other side for story

Back

Between October and December 1942 more than 900 construction workers labored 24 hours a day to build Camp Tonkawa on the quarter section immediately north of this marker SE¼ Sec ...

The Southwest Boulevard Fire

August 18, 1959

Firefighter Virgil Sams

Captain George Bartels

Firefighter Delbert Stone

Firefighter Neal Owen

Captain Peter Sirna

Civilian Francis J. Toomes

To each who come before this

memorial in remembrance of the final

fire for these six, we pray ...

Flags Flown Over Oklahoma

First Flag

Royal Standard of Spain

Coronado's Expedition

1541

Second Flag

Great Union of Great Britain

Carolina Land Grant

Included Oklahoma

1663

Third Flag

Royal Standard of France

LaSalle Claimed the Territory

Drained by the Mississippi

1682

Fourth Flag

Bourbon Standard

of the Spanish Empire

Ceded by France to Spain,

Treaty of Paris

1763

Fifth Flag

Standard of the

French Republic

Province of ...

Derrick Van Veghten House

Circa 1725

The house stands on its original site over looking the Raritan River. The land was once part of an 834 acre plantation that Derrick’s father, Michael, purchased in 1697. Derrick, who was born here in 1699, was a prosperous ...

Les jardins de la Berbie

Gardens of the Berbie Palace

Entre 1687 et 1703, Hyacinthe Serrori, premier archévêque d’Albi, aménage un lieu d’a rement dans l’ancienne basse cour de Berbie et transforme la muraille en promenoir. La Berbie perd ainsi son côté défensif et la ...

Les berges du Tarn

The Tarn riverbanks

La rive gauche du Tarn correspond à un quartier peuplé dès le Haut Moyen Âge: le secteur des «Combes» .

Ce nom évoque une topographie en forme de gouttière descendant vers le Tarn. Les Combes établissaient un ...

Hôtel de Fenasse

La maison romane ou Hôtel de Fenasse

(XIIe siècle)

Ce bel hôtel de la seconde moitié du XIIe siècle fait partie des quelques édifices civils romans de la région Midi-Pyrénées.

Il appartenait, à l’origine, à une riche famille albigeoise, les Fenasse. Vers 1300, ...

Chesapeake and Ohio 1308

The 1308,built in 1949, was one of the last working steam locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works for a Class 1 railroad in the USA. It primarily hauled coal from Logan Co. Retired from C&O Railway service in 1956. Moved ...

Layton, New Jersey

Layton, once known as Laytons, was originally named Centreville. This village was settled by John Layton in the early 1800's. The first business here was owned by blacksmith Simeon Fisher, followed by Abraham Bell who established a carpenter's shop and ...