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Hedwigs Hill, Texas

Hedwigs Hill, Texas is an unincorporated farming and ranching community, established in 1853 just off U.S. Highway 87, located 5 miles south of Art in southern Mason County, Texas.

Hilda is an unincorporated farming and ranching community established c. 1852 in Mason County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located on RM 783, halfway between Mason and Doss. Hilda was founded by German immigrants settling in the Fisher–Mill ...

Holy Trinity Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Holy Trinity Church was the first German-speaking Roman Catholic church in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was located at West Fifth Street and Mound Street in Cincinnatis historic West End. The parish was founded in 1834 and the church was dedicated on Oct ...

Immanuel Hall

Immanuel Hall, previously known as Immanuel Evangelical Church, is a historic Late Gothic Revival church in the Carpenter Gothic style located in Hinsdale, Illinois. It was constructed in 1900 by Lutheran German immigrants for three thousand doll ...

Klein, Texas

Klein is an unincorporated community in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston within north Harris County, Texas, United States, roughly bordering Texas State Highway 99 to the north, Texas State Highway 249 to the west, Interstate 45 to th ...

Old St. Marys Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Old St. Marys Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Cincinnatis historic Over-The-Rhine neighborhood. It is the oldest continually-used house of worship in Cincinnati. The Old SV. Mary is the oldest Church in Cincinnati and from 2017, home to the ...

Philippus United Church of Christ

Philippus United Church of Christ is located on the northwest corner of West Mcmicken and Ohio Avenues, in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The church is a landmark because of a gilded hand, with its index finger pointing to ...

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church (Detroit, Michigan)

The Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Convent and Rectory is a Roman Catholic church complex located at 1000 Eliot Street in Detroit, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1975 and listed on the National Register of Hist ...

St. Johns United Church of Christ of Siegel

St. Johns United Church of Christ is a church in Douglas Township in Bremer County, Iowa. Founded in 1874 by German settlers in the area of the now-defunct town of Siegel. The church has been in continuous operation and remains active, although t ...

Salem United Church of Christ

The Salem United Church of Christ, known in previous generations as the Salem German Evangelical Reformed Church or Deutsche Evangelisch Reformierte Salems Kirche, is located at 1425 Sycamore Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnat ...

Schuetzen Park (New Jersey)

Schuetzen Park is a privately owned park in North Bergen, New Jersey, United States, that has existed since 1872 and is located on the ridge of the Hudson Palisades at Kennedy Boulevard and Bergen Turnpike just north of the Marginal Highway. Its ...

Tivydale, Texas

Tivydale, Texas is an unincorporated farming and ranching community located in Gillespie County, located 14 miles west of Fredericksburg, and was originally known as Bunkesville and Pumpkinville.

Walburg, Texas

Walburg, originally called Concordia, is an unincorporated area located at the crossroads of Farm to Market Road 972 and Farm to Market Road 1105 in Williamson County, Texas, United States, thirty-three miles northeast of Austin. Walburg is a Ger ...

Walhalla, Texas

Washington Residential Historic District

Washington Residential Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. At the time of its nomination it consisted of 327 re ...

Winedale, Texas

Winedale is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas, United States. The community was originally named Truebsal and was located in Washington County, in 1879 the post office had the name Winedale. In 1881 the post office closed and a ...

Budapest, Missouri

A post office called Budapest was established in 1912, and remained in operation until 1922. The community most likely was named after Budapest, in Hungary, the native land of a share of the early settlers.

Kossuth Colony Historic District

The Kossuth Colony Historic District, named for Lajos Kossuth, is a nationally recognized historic district bounded by Baltimore Street, Mack Avenue and Notre Dame Avenue in Dayton, Ohio. The Kossuth Colony was built in 1906 to house Hungarian im ...

Stockyards, Cleveland

Stocklands is a city planning area on the west side of Cleveland, Ohio. It is located between I-71 to the south, roughly Ridge Road to the west, West 44th Street to the east, and just south of I-90 to the north.

Cork Hill District

The Cork Hill District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The historic district covers 18.7-acre and stretches from the campus ...

M.V. Gannon House

The M.V. Gannon House was an historic home located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Shamrock Acres

St. Josephs Church Complex (Cumberland, Rhode Island)

St. Josephs Church Complex is an historic Roman Catholic church complex at 1303 Mendon Road in Cumberland, Rhode Island within the Diocese of Providence. It includes a Gothic Revival style church along with two late 19th-century, clapboard-sheath ...

Tyrone Township, Le Sueur County, Minnesota

Tyrone Township is a township in Le Sueur County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 564 for the 2000 census. Organized in 1858, it was named after County Tyrone in Ireland.

History of the Lithuanians in Baltimore

The history of the Lithuanians in Baltimore dates back to the mid-19th century. Thousands of Lithuanians immigrated to Baltimore between the 1880s and 1920s. The Lithuanian American community was mainly centered in what is now the Hollins–Roundho ...

Ramath Orah

Congregation Ramath Orah is an Orthodox synagogue located in Manhattans Upper West Side, close to Columbia University. It occupies a neo-Georgian building on West 110th Street, originally built in 1921 as the first stage of a large West Side Unit ...

Orthodox Church in America Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America

The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America is one of three ethnic dioceses of the Orthodox Church in America, and a former diocese of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The diocesan center is located in Jackson, Michigan. Its territory includes paris ...

Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of the Americas

The Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox metropolis of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Metropolia covers the territory of the United States and Canada. The Church is headed by Nicholas, Archbishop of th ...

Romanian-American organizations

Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce. Romanian-American Network Inc. a Romanian heritage and cultural oasis in USA. Romanian-American Center Focus Publishing, Publisher of the Romanian-American Yellow Pages and Romanian Impact Magazine. Romanian ...

First Evangelical Reformed Church

The First Evangelical Reformed Church on Kentucky Route 80 in the small community of Bernstadt, Kentucky, is a historic church built in 1884. It has also been known as Swiss Colony Church. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places ...

Helvetia, Oregon

Helvetia is a small unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon. It is located in the Tualatin Valley along U.S. Route 26, 15 minutes west of Portland. It was named by Swiss immigrants to Oregon in the 19th century. Notable features are ...

Timeline of Latino civil rights in the United States

1894: The AHA was founded in Arizona in 1894 to defend Mexicanos rights and improve their life quality. The Alianza was one of the first regional Mexican American organizations. By 1930 the Alianza had almost 300 lodges scattered throughout the S ...

Magnolia Park, Houston

Magnolia Park is an area of the East End, Houston, Texas, located near the Houston Ship Channel. One of the oldest Hispanic neighborhoods in the City of Houston, Magnolia Park was formerly incorporated as the City of Magnolia Park in eastern Harr ...

List of Native Americans in the United States Congress

This is a list of Native Americans with documented tribal ancestry or affiliation in the U.S. Congress. All entries in this list related to native American tribes based in the United States. No Alaska natives never served in Congress. There are n ...

French people in Nebraska

French people have been present in the U.S. state of Nebraska since before it achieved statehood in 1867. The area was originally claimed by France in 1682 as part of La Louisiane, the extent of which was largely defined by the watershed of the M ...

History of Addis Ababa

The history of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, formally begins with the founding of the city in the 19th century by Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II and his wife Empress Taytu Betul.

Battle of Algiers

Battle of Algiers or Algiers expedition may refer to: The Invasion of Algiers in 1830 by France. The Bombardment of Algiers 1783 by Spain. The Bombardment of Algiers 1784 by Spain, Portugal, Malta, and the Two Sicilies. Part of Operation Torch 19 ...

History of Amsterdam

Amsterdam has a long and eventful history. The origins of the city lie in the 12th century, when fishermen living along the banks of the River Amstel built a bridge across the waterway near the IJ, which at the time was a large saltwater inlet. W ...

History of Ankara

The history of Ankara can be traced back to the Bronze Age Hatti civilization, which was succeeded in the 2nd millennium BC by the Hittites, in the 10th century BC by the Phrygians, and later by the Lydians, Persians, Macedonians, Galatians, Roma ...

History of the Australian Capital Territory

The history of the Australian Capital Territory as a separate administrative division began in 1911, when it was transferred from New South Wales to the Australian federal government. The territory contains Australias capital city Canberra and va ...

Federal Territory Vigilance Association

The Federal Territory Vigilance Association was an Australian lobby group set up to represent the interests of landholders whose property was resumed to form the Australian Capital Territory. It was formed in 1911 by settlers who considered that ...

History of Baku

Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan Republic, which was also the capital of Shirvan, Baku Khanate, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and Azerbaijan SSR and the administrative center of Russian Baku governorate. Baku is derived from the old Persian Bag ...

History of Bangkok

The history of the city of Bangkok, in Thailand, dates at least to the early–15th century, when it was under the rule of Ayutthaya. Due to its strategic location near the mouth of the Chao Phraya River, the town gradually increased in importance, ...

Fortifications of Bangkok

The fortifications of Bangkok consist of several series of defensive structures built to protect the city during the late Ayutthaya to early Rattanakosin periods. The earliest structures were built when Bangkok was an outpost of Ayutthaya guardin ...

Military chronology of Belgrade

Conflicts that took place in Belgrade is a timeline of events that includes wars, battles, skirmishes, major riots and other related items that have occurred on the territory of todays city of Belgrade and resulted in large loss of life or large ...

History of Bern

The city of Bern, founded in 1191 and first mentioned in a document in 1208, grew to become the biggest aristocratic city-state north of the Alps and a major power in the Old Swiss Confederacy. The former extent of Bern included the cantons of Be ...

History of Bucharest

The history of Bucharest covers the time from the early settlements on the localitys territory until its modern existence as a city, capital of Wallachia, and present-day capital of Romania.

Egyptian Laws and Legislations Related to Conserving Cultural Heritage in Historic Cairo Area

It is "The law for protection of monuments". This law was updated in 2010 and the executive regulations were issued in the same year. This law was the only enforced law in the field of heritage conservation until law no.144 of 2006 and its execut ...

Residential Architecture in Historic Cairo

Historic Cairo covers the area that was built up during the Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, French occupation and even Mohamed Ali periods. Cairo’s historic city covers an area of around 32 square kilometers on the eastern bank of the Nile riv ...

History of Chișinau

Chișinau has a recorded history that goes back to 1436. Since then, it has grown to become a significant political and cultural capital of South East Europe. In 1918 Chișinau became the capital of an independent state, the Moldavian Democratic Re ...