Documenting the historical links between people and places as recorded by commemorative plaques

Talking Town The Former Town Hall Built on the site of the old cockpit by the local board of health to replace their overcrowded rooms in Patricroft City of Salford Eccles History Trail

Church Street, Eccles, United Kingdom

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North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #B-54

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Tallest brick lighthouse in nation at 208 feet. Constructed, 1869-1870, to mark Diamond Shoals. Replaced 1802 structure.

NC 12 at Buxton, NC, ,

Texas Historical Marker #10215

James Harper Starr. Connecticut-born. Came to Texas 1837. A doctor in Nacogdoches. Secretary of the Treasury and army surgeon, Republic of Texas. At start of Civil War appointed to take and sell the property of enemy aliens, the proceeds going to Treasury of Confederacy to aid the war effort. Became Postmaster General for western C.S.A. in 1864. The South was then spit in two parts by federal control of the Mississippi River. Starr's problem was to provide mail service in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas and to devise means to get mail through the enemy military lines and naval blockade to and from westerners fighting east of the river and the confederate capital. This was essential to soldier and home front morale and to maintain necessary military and governmental communications. The mail was carried by pony express, wagons, blockade running vessels, stage coach lines, couriers, spies and army details. Starr competed with the army to get drivers, wagons and horses. Draft by military of postal employees was fought by writs of habeas corpus. "Men" under 16 were hired. Printing facilities were limited and forms, supplies, stamps had to be smuggled. The children of a cabinet officer once came through enemy lines with $3,000,000 worth of stamps for him. After the war, Starr in 1865 looked into East Texas oil showings. He founded Marshall's first bank. Starr county was named in his honor. Erected by the State of Texas 1963 #10215

Courthouse lawn, Marshall, TX, United States

Copse Cross Toll Gate erected by the Ross Turnpike Trust in 1748

, Ross-on-Wye, United Kingdom

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Carl Von Linné 1707 - 1778 Carl Von Linné den store botanisten bedrev läkarpraktik i detta hus åren 1739-1742

Slussplan 9, Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden

The Old Crown Inn The inn first recorded nearby in 1460, came to prominence during the civil war siege of 1643 when Colonel Edward Massey, commander of the garrison defending Gloucester set up his headquarters here, the inn closed in 1760 but was re-established in 1990

The Old Crown - Westgate Street, Gloucester, United Kingdom

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Sir Col Edward Massie
(1619-1674) Colonel

The Old Crown Inn, Gloucester
(1460-present) inn

Les Cloches des Halles, groupe de Résistance, a la mémoire de leur regretté camarade, Orville J. Cunningham, citoyen américain, arrêté le 24 septembre 1942, mort le 4 décembre 1943.

English translation: Les Bells des Halles, a resistance group, has the memory of their late comrade, Orville J. Cunningham, an American citizen, arrested on 24 September 1942, died on 4 December 1943. [AWS Translate]

21 rue Boissy-d'Anglas, Paris, France

"A Great Time to Be Alive" On October 22, 1959, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., pastor, civil rights leader and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) made his only visit to Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Vada Phillips Felder, local educator, activist, and friend of Dr. King’s had invited him to Fort Worth when they both attended a church conference in Nashville. Upon his arrival, Dr. King was greeted by African American community leaders. He also experienced some anger, hate and bomb threats. He stayed upstairs in Vada Felder’s home on Stewart Street, and attended a reception at the Bellaire Drive West home of the Revs. Alberta and Harold Lunger, Professor of Social Ethics, Brite College of the Bible (now Brite Divinity School) at Texas Christian University. That evening four hundred people were in attendance when Dr. King spoke at the historic Majestic Theater at 1101 Commerce Street. On that occasion the theater was integrated when African Americans were, for the first time, allowed to enter through the front door and sit in the lower seats. In 1954 Vada Felder was the first African American to graduate from Brite College of the Bible with a Masters of Religious Education. She was a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church for over 50 years, authored Christian Education materials, founded and operated United Christian Leadership School, and taught in Fort Worth’s James Guinn Elementary School and at Bishop College. She said that Dr. King’s visit “…gave us courage. He taught us that we could stand up and do what was right – and do it in peace”. It was truly a great day to be alive in Fort Worth, Texas Sponsored by Dr. Gary & Anne Lacefield in memory of mother Carol Ann Tatum

Main Street, Fort Worth, TX, United States

Улица названа именем комсорга завода Электросигнал Геращенко А.С., погибщего в боях за Родину в 1942 году

Moskovskiy prospekt 12, Voronezh, Russia

Methodist Church John Wesley, who travelled throughout 18th century England, preached in the nearby fishing village of "Fluckburgh" in 1759, but it was not until 1867 that his followers began to meet regularly in Grange at a stone barn by the shore. Later they met morning and evening at Berners Close until this present Church opened in 1874 on land donated by Alexander Brogden of Holme Island. His wife laid the foundation stone. The Reverend Bamford Judge, first incumbent, was given permission by Furness Railway Company to walk over the railway viaduct, a facility that saved him considerable time on the Arnside and Kendal Ministers Circuit.

Kents Bank Road, Grange-over-Sands, United Kingdom

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John Wesley MA
(1703-1791) evangelist

Alphonse de Lamartine poète et homme politique 1790-1869 aimait venir se reposer dans cet hôtel dont le propriétaire Joseph Bressoud, était son Président de Comité Electoral

English translation: Alphonse de Lamartine poet and politician 1790-1869 liked to come and relax in this hotel, whose owner Joseph Bressoud, was his Electoral Committee Chairman

Hotel de Bourgogne - Rue Kenneth John Conant, Cluny, France

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Alphonse de Lamartine
(1790-1869) poet

Joseph Bressoud
hotelier

At Nafferton Lodge on this site lived Sir Leonard Hill FRS (1866-1952) Medical researcher and his son Austin Bradford Hill FRS (Tony) (1895-1991) Joint discoverer of the link between smoking and cancer

Gate pier at Entrance to Nafferton Rise, Loughton, United Kingdom

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Leonard Hill
(1866-1952) physiologist

Austin Bradford Hill
(1897-1991)