Royal Canadian Navy

To commemorate the contribution made by ships and men to the naval service of Canada for seventy year since it was founded on 4th May, 1910.

Since November, 1910 when H.M.C.S. Rainbow arrived in Esquimalt, ships and men of the R.C.N. ...

Shipping in the Port of Savannah

Savannah's port is one of the busiest in the United States. The terminals that serve the port are only surpassed in East

Coast trade volume by the combined ports of New York and New Jersey. Some of the world's largest ...

Old Elko Fire Bell

According to the early history of Elko, Nevada, this curfew and fire bell played a vital role for local citizenry. It often rang to signal disastrous fires, deaths of celebrities, and celebrations.

Harbinger of both good tidings and bad, the ...

Sutro’s Steam Train

All aboard for Lands End

In the early 1880s, three miles of sand dunes separated the developed areas of San Francisco from Lands End, where Adolph Sutro was developing popular seaside attractions – Cliff House, the gardens of Sutro Heights, ...

S.S. Dorchester Memorial

The Ship

Built 1926

Statistics:

Length overall · 368'

Beam · 52'

Draft · 19'

Gross tons · 5,649

Speed (knots) · 12

Radius (miles) · 5,500

Propulsion · Recip. eng.

Passengers · 788

Cargo (cu. ft.) · 187,250

Jan. 24, 1942 Became U.S. Warship USAT

Jan. 22, 1943 Departed N.Y. to Greenland ...

Motorless Flight

To honor the pioneering spirit

and enthusiam of the Citizens

of Akron who supported the

significant advances to

motorless flight from

1929 to 1936

a commemorative flight

today re-enacts the

first towed glider

flight 50 years ago

from Akron to Columbus

carrying U.S. mail in

a Gross 4-place glider.

June 29, 1985

The National ...

Burger's Tavern

[Masonic Emblem]

This tablet

erected by the members of

Orange Lodge No. 14, A.F.M.

marks the spot of Burger's

Tavern in which the lodge

was organized on May 28, 1789

It commemorates one hundred

and thirty eight years of

uninterrupted ...

Ceres Volunteer Fire Department

Dedicated to the

CERES VOLUNTEER

FIRE DEPARTMENT

Organized June 1, 1911

George W. Wood

First Chief

— Reorganized 1921—

Erected by the People of

Ceres 1940

Marker can be reached from 3rd Street near El Camino Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Spanish 18-Pounder

Spanish 18-pounder bronze smooth bore

gun cast in Lima, Peru, 1769

Captured by the United States Navy from the

Mexicans in California in 1847

Marker is on Blake Road near Maryland Avenue, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

United States Marine Hospital

This building, designed by Robert Mills,

widely known architect was erected 1833

for the care of sick and disabled merchant

seamen. It served also as a teaching clinic

for the Medical College of South Carolina,

and after 1860 as a military hospital for

the Confederacy. Following ...