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This film project encourages students to engage more deeply with Guam’s cultural heritage by visiting...
When the Guam Museum opened at the Garden House, Plaza de España in 1954, members of the Guam Women’s...
Guam Teachers’ Association called for collections to begin for a Guam Museum. In 1925 a group of CHamoru...
Joey San Agustin was a curator of the Guam Museum from 1994 until his passing in 2001. Initially hired...
Anthony J. Ramirez was the curator of the Guam Museum from 1995 to 2012. In 2008, he created a booklet...
Rita Franquez had a short but fruitful role with the Guam Museum. The former teacher was the assistant...
William Hernandez was trained and certified in museum work at the National Museum of the Philippines...
For 30 years, from 1960 to 1990, the Guam Museum was under the administration of the Guam Public Library....
The American Legion is a federally chartered veterans organization that supports veterans’ issues and...
US Navy Corpsman Hiram W. Elliott (1880 - 1949) came to Guam in the early 1900s to work at the Maria...
Gertrude Costenoble, also known as Trudis Alemån, was born 20 December 1893, in Reinfelden, Switzerland....
Andrew T. Laguaña (1950 - 2022) was part of the first generation of island-born architects, and the first...
In the late 1950s a very young Laura Souder spent Saturdays with her father, Paul, at the Guam Museum...
The Guam Historical Club was a small group of people interested in Guam history in the 1950s and 1960s....
Research and Reflect on Guam’s Quest for Self-Determination. The United States began its colonial administration...
The United States began its colonial administration of Guam in 1898. Today, more than 120 years later,...
The United States began its colonial administration of Guam in 1898. Today, more than 120 years later,...
For many CHamorus, the 1950 passage of the Organic Act seemed a welcome reward after a long drive for...
The passage of the Organic Act of Guam created a civil, or non-military, government for the island, thus...
As the island entered into a postwar reconstruction period, the two leading causes of conflict between...
This film project compels university/college students to enhance their traditional classroom learning...
Jump Start Your Art: Marketing, Resources, and Guides. The Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities Agency...
Lt. Governor of Guam 1987-1995. Frank Flores Blas, Sr. (1941-2016) was a Chamorro politician, businessman...
In 1817 Adelbert von Chamisso recorded the CHamoru terms for what he assumed were cardinal directions:...
Summary Workshop Report e-publication. In May-June 2016, Guam is hosting the Festival of the Pacific...
Guam, the largest and southernmost island of the Mariana Islands chain, has a unique and complex cultural...
Wallis and Futuna is an Overseas Territory of France in the South Pacific between Tuvalu to the northwest,...
Tuvalu consists of nine low lying atolls in the South Pacific located midway between Hawai'i and Australia....
Tokelau consists of three tropical coral atolls (from the northwest, Atafu, Nukunonu and Fakaofo), as...
Samoa includes nine inhabited islands on top of a submarine mountain range. The largest islands are Savai'i...
Pitcairn is a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the last British...
Originally, Norfolk was settled (perhaps only seasonally) by East Polynesians some 1,000 years ago. The...
Niue, off the coast of Tonga, is one of the world’s largest coral islands. With a landmass of 259 sq...
Before World War II, most Māori lived with other members of their tribes in rural areas of New Zealand....
New Caledonia is a self-governing territory of France, also known as a Special Collectivity, located...
Hawai'i encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian archipelago, which is comprised of hundreds of...
The islands of French Polynesia make up a total land area of 3,521 sq km (1,359 sq mi), scattered over...
Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is a small volcanic island that encompasses about 67 sq mi of land mass,...
The Cook Islands were first settled in the 6th century by Polynesian people who migrated from Tahiti...
American Samoa, located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Samoa, consists of five main islands...
Palau is an archipelago located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is the westernmost portion of the Caroline...
The Marshall Islands are near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date...
Nauru is a 21 sq km (8 sq mi) oval-shaped island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, located 42 km (26...
Kiribati consists of about 32 atolls and one solitary island (Banaba), extending into the eastern and...
Together, the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) are made up of around 607 islands...
The CNMI is composed of 22 islands and islets in the western Pacific. The commonwealth is a part of the...
The Republic of Vanuatu is a south Pacific island nation comprised of some 80 islands that span over...
Tonga is an island nation located south of Samoa and about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand....
The Solomon Islands are located east of Papua New Guinea and about three hours by plane north of Australia....
In the heart of Melanesia is the nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG), which occupies the eastern half of...
The Republic of Fiji is a Melanesian island nation located about 1,770 km (1,100 miles) northeast of...
Australia, often touted as the world’s largest island but smallest continent, is home to aboriginal and...
In 2007, Guam commemorated the 90th anniversary of the scuttling of the SMS Cormoran II. The festivities...
First Global Trade Route in the Pacific. From 1565 to 1815, Spanish galleons sailed the Pacific Ocean...
The Manila Galleon Trade Route was the major route traveled by Spanish galleons from 1565 to 1815 across...
When Miguel López de Legazpi's expedition departed Mexico in 1564 with four ships across the Pacific...
The Spanish Forzado System. Before the Mariana Islands served as an official penal colony for political...
The Manila Galleons. On 15 August 1568 the Spanish galleon San Pablo, anchored off the southwest coast...
Personnel of the Manila Galleons. The galleons that passed through the Marianas carried scores of crew...
Guampedia Author. Leiana San Agustin Naholowaʻa received her bachelor's degree in Literature and Writing...
Project Contributors. Toni "Malia" Ramirez, Antonia Degracia Castro, and Pale' Eric Forbes, OFM Cap....
Executive General Orders issued by Naval Governor William John Maxwell (28 March 1914 - 29 April 1916)....
Executive General Order issued in 1916. To go back to the list of General Orders click here. Note: there...
Executive General Order No. 191. It is hereby ordered and decreed that: –
1. Executive General Orders...
Executive General Order No. 180. 1. All merchants, persons, corporations and agencies engaged in trade...
General Order No. 74. By virtue of appointment from the Home Government the undersigned hereby assumes...
General Order No. 48. It is hereby ordered and decreed: 1. That whenever a document shall purport to...
General Order No. 39. It is hereby ordered and decreed: 1. That on the 1st day of April, 1902, the industrial...
General Order No. 10. 1. The Spanish system of taxation on real estate is hereby abolished, and in lieu...
General Order No. 1. It is prohibited to sell, issue, or in any way to dispose of any intoxicating spirituous...
General Orders issued by Acting Naval Governor Raymond Stone (16 May 1904 - 2 Nov. 1905). To go back...
General Orders issued by Acting Naval Governor Raymond Stone (28 Jan. 1904 - 16 May 1904). To go back...
General Orders issued by Naval Governor William Elbridge Sewell (9 February 1903 – March 1904). To learn...
General Orders issued by Naval Governor William Swift (11 Aug. 1901 - 1 Nov. 1901). To learn more read...
General Orders issued by Naval Governor Seaton Schroeder (19 July 1901 – 2 Nov. 1903). To learn more...
General Orders issued by Naval Governor Richard P. Leary (1 Aug. 1899 – June 1900). To learn more read...
Ernest Max Adolph. My father’s name was Ernest Max Adolf, perhaps he had already changed his last name...
From December 1914 to April 1917, Guam was the backdrop for one of the earliest stories of the United...
The German cruiser that was scuttled in Apra Harbor in April 1917 at the start of World War I was actually...
Details and description. The SS Rjasan (or Riasan) was a Russian passenger and mail carrier built by...
When the SMS Cormoran II arrived in Guam in December 1914, among the hundreds of crew members were individuals...
Located in East Hagåtña on the beachside of Marine Corps Drive is a small cemetery maintained by the...
After more than two years of internment on the United States territory of Guam, the German cruiser SMS...
The partial list presented here that researcher James Oelke-Farley compiled for Guampedia, indicates...
By 1920, after the end of World War I, the men of the SMS Cormoran II who had been taken as prisoners...
Adalbert Zuckschwerdt (1874 - 1945) was the captain of the German raider SMS Cormoran and its successor...
US Naval Captain William John Maxwell (1859 - 1934) was Governor of Guam from 28 March 1914 - 29 April...
The US Naval Cemetery, along side Marine Corps Drive in East Hagåtña, was first opened by the US Naval...
The German cruiser Cormoran II, intentionally scuttled by its own captain during World War I, sits on...
Guampedia Author. James Oelke-Farley serves as a historian for War in the Pacific National Historical...
Founded in 1965 by the late Senator Cecilia Cruz Bamba, the Guam Memorial Hospital Volunteers Association...
First CHamoru Woman US Naval Officer. Genevieve Perez Ploke Snow (1941 -2011) was born in Hågat, Guam...
First Chamorro Woman to Preside over Association of Pacific Island Legislatures. Herminia Duenas Dierking...
First Woman to Establish a Music and Arts School on Guam. Carmen "Meling" Romualdez Dela Cruz (1910-1995),...
Guam's biggest celebration. After World War II was over community leader Agueda Iglesias Johnston convinced...
Milestones in Marianas History. The third Marianas History Conference, set for Susupe, Saipan on September...
Businessman, rancher, patriarch. Don Pascual Artero y Saez (1875 - 1956) was a prominent Spanish businessman,...
Shop for our 101 Amazing Facts About Guam in the Guampedia Heritage Gift Shop.
Lourdes Aflague "Lou" Leon Guerrero, (1950 - ) was elected as the first woman governor of Guam in November...
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