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The Chapman family owned the Belle Ewart Ice Company, located on the present-day Belle Ewart Park, and changed the name to ...
According to “The History of the Great American Steam Piano” by Steven Espensheid, the first steamboat fitted with a calliope was the Str. Unicorn, at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1860. Many ...
“Scary Pittburgh” includes a child’s tombstone from 1860, the green-skinned ... look closely enough … you can see people on the steamboat that’s in the foreground.
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman helped more than 70 ... grew and expanded. [Whistle from a steamboat] Today the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal can accommodate many of the world's largest ...
WORCESTER — It was about 170 years ago when Worcester was first introduced to a new and incredibly loud sound that created enough din to be heard miles away. And hear it they did, so much so ...
John Bardes, assistant history professor at Louisiana State University, noted in 64 Parishes that “by 1860, Louisiana produced about one ... Often, “the bride’s father chartered a steamboat to take ...
Now residing at 7 Thomson St. in Barrie in 1922, Robson returned to his farming roots, raising pure bred White Leghorn hens ...
2024: Scientists announce the discovery of a long-lost branch of the River Nile, now dried up, that once ran near many of Egypt’s pyramids. On the same day, actor Dabney Cioleman dies aged 92.
Eventually, Fulton’s steamboat was christened the Clermont ... two-thirds of the 1,150 factory workers were children. By the early 1860s, an estimated one-fifth of the workers in Britain ...