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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28J6_this-buddah_Avery-Island-LA.html
This Buddah Was built for the Shonfa Templelocated northeast of Peking, by the order of Emperor Hui-Tsung1101-1125
Its builder was Chon-Ha-Chin, most noted of ancient Buddah makers.The temple was looted by a rebel general who took the statue as p…
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In 1936, a year after Jungle Gardens opened to the public, two of Mcllhenny's
friends, Robert M. Youngs and Ernest B. Tracy of New York City, presented him
with a magnificent Buddha statue that they hoped would find an ideal home
among his Asia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28A7_boat-house_Avery-Island-LA.html
This structure is known as the Ward Boathouse. Like Edward
Avery Mclhenny, Charles Willis Ward (1856-1920) ran a
plant nursery and was an avid conservationist. Around 1910,
Mclhenny and Ward met, and with Mclhenny''s permission
Ward set up a h…