Ed Ricketts’s Backyard

Historic Cannery Row

You are looking at the backyard of Ed Ricketts’s lab, Pacific Biological Laboratories, where Ricketts lived and worked during the 1930 and 1940s. He collected and preserved tide pool plants and animals and sold them to schools around ...

One Man, Two Worlds

Historic Cannery Row

Doc, the legend

John Steinbeck used his close friend and collaborator, Edward Ricketts, as a model for the famous fictional character Doc. In the novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, set in the 1930s and 1940s, the kindly Doc ...

The Real “Docs”

Historic Cannery Row

Pictured at the right are scientists Frances Clark, W.I. Scofield, Richard Croker, M.J. Linar and J.B. Philips. Working out of Hopkins Marine Station, this group monitored the growing sardine industry by collecting samples from the canneries and keeping ...

Jimmy Swaggart's "Date"

On this date, Oct 11, 1991,

Reverend Jimmy Swaggart

picked up a "Date" at

Clark's Travel Center.

Marker is on Indio Boulevard, on the right when traveling south.

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The Architecture of Defense

The nation's Third System forts, including Fort Knox, all shared similar design features. These features combined to guard against attack by ships, make it impossible for the fort to be taken quickly, [and] provide protection from a land-based, long-term siege.

To ...

A Question of Boundaries

The United States planned Fort Knox to prevent another attempt by the English to control Maine lands east of the Penobscot, as they had successfully done in the American Revolution and War of 1812.

Fort Knox's construction had not yet begun ...

Bethesda

(Boys Home)

This Property Has Been

Placed On The

National Register

Of Historic Places

By The United States

Department Of The Interior

Marker is on Old Montgomery Road, in the median.

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Conflict and Prosperity on the River

Today's peaceful view of the Penobscot River and the community of Bucksport holds few hints of the early conflicts that plagued the area. For nearly two centuries, the river served as a border between clashing interests - French and English, ...

Cantrell Wagon Building

Spartanburg Historic District

National Register

South Carolina

Department of Archives

and History

Cantrell Wagon Building

Spartanburg Historic District

of Historic Places

Marker is on West Main Street, on the right when traveling west.

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Beaufort Historic District

(South Carolina)

Beaufort Historic District

has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This Site Possesses National Significance

in Commemorating the History of the

United States of America

1974

National Park Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on Bay ...