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Cerro Gordo County was formed in 1851 and named after a battlefield in the Mexican War, where General Winfield Scott defeated the Mexican General Santa Anna on April 18, 1847.
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Holmes County has had three county seats in its history, the first being Cerro Gordo, then Westville, and finally Bonifay.
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The first party came by boat by way of the Tennessee River, landing in May at " the easteward curve of the Tennessee " at Cerro Gordo.
The county has seven incorporated towns: Bolton, Cerro Gordo, Chadbourn, Fair Bluff, Tabor City, Lake Waccamaw, and Whiteville.
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Cerro Gordo County is a county located in the U. S. state of Iowa.
The county is named for the Battle of Cerro Gordo, which took place during the Mexican-American War.
Cerro Gordo County is part of the Mason City Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Cerro Gordo County was the site of the airplane crash north of the city of Clear Lake, in which rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, along with their pilot Roger A. Peterson, were killed on February 3, 1959.
2000 Census Age Pyramid for Cerro Gordo County.
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He learned to appreciate the value of flanking movements over frontal assaults ( used by Scott at Cerro Gordo ) and the value of siege operations ( Veracruz ).
In 1880 a new mill was constructed at Hawley by the Owens Lake Mining and Milling Company for processing ore from the Cerro Gordo Mines in the mountains to the east.
The success of the Cerro Gordo mines caused Keeler to boom until silver prices plummeted in the late 1800s.
A second boom of zinc mining in the early 1900s brought new life to the town and a tramway was built to bring the ore from Cerro Gordo to Keeler.
Cerro Gordo is a village in Piatt County, Illinois, United States.
Cerro Gordo is located at ( 39. 891002 ,-88. 733362 ).
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Dougherty is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.
Meservey is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.
Plymouth is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States, along the Shell Rock River.
Rock Falls is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States, along the Shell Rock River.
Rockwell is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.
Swaledale is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.
Thornton is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.
Ventura is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.
Cerro Gordo Township is a township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the village population is 24, 877 inside the village limits due to the new housing developments at El Cerro de Los Lunas ( Huning Ranch ) It is the county seat of Valencia County.
Cerro Gordo is a town in Columbus County, North Carolina, United States.
* Cameron, Iowa, an unincorporated community in Cerro Gordo County
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On 13 April 2004, much of the mountain was blanketed by an accumulation of hail during a storm, an unusual event that caused a commotion among the local community in Cerro El Pital, El Salvador.
In 1982 NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical observatories — Kitt Peak ; the National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico ; and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
His administration was shadowed by the Cerro Maravilla ( Maravilla Hill ) affair, where two independence activists were killed by police agents.
One such occurrence was taken from Cerro Paranal.
He joined Paraguayan club Cerro Porteño in May 2008 but was sacked in August of the same year after a string of poor results and was replaced by Pedro Troglio.
West of the municipality lies the Boquerón Volcano and Cerro El Picacho, El Picacho is the highest point in the Municipality ( 1, 929 meters / 6, 328 feet ). El Boquerón Volcano is was dormant for the past century, having its latest eruption in 1917.
Although the mouth of the Orinoco in the Atlantic Ocean was documented by Columbus on 1 August 1498, during his third voyage, its source at the Cerro Delgado-Chalbaud, in the Parima range, was first explored in 1951, 453 years later.
The name of the airport was changed in 1981 by the military government for Omar Torrijos International Airport, in honor to the Panamanian leader who died in July 31, 1981, at the age of 52 in a plane crash in Cerro Marta, Coclesito in very bad conditions.
Despite national and international pleas for amnesty, Juárez refused to commute the sentence, and Maximilian was executed by firing squad on 19 June 1867 at Cerro de las Campanas in Querétaro.
It was named by Virgil Bogue, a construction engineer for the Northern Pacific Railway after Cerro de Pasco, a city in the Peruvian Andes, where he had helped build a railroad.
The battlefield was an area between Tudela and the nearby hills that are within your setting, the front Spanish: Cerro de Santa Barbara, Tudela, Torre Monreal, Santa Quiteria, Cabezo Maya hill where was the hermitage of San Juan de Calchetas, and populations: Urzante ( disappeared ), Murchante, Cascante.
In 1936, he became known across the globe for a photo ( known as the " Falling Soldier " photo ) long falsely presumed to have been taken in Cerro Muriano on the Cordoba Front of a Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death.
In 2003, the Spanish newspaper El Periodico claimed the photo was taken near the town of Espejo, 10 km from Cerro Muriano, and that the photo was staged.
Internacional was the top-seed of Group 5, which also contained Ecuador side Deportivo Quito and Emelec, as well as Cerro from Uruguay.
Cerro Maxtumatzá was established in 1997 and with an area of 613. 70 hectares within the municipality.
A strategic military position was created here, at what is now called the Cerro ( large hill ) del Fortín to keep an eye on the Zapotec capital of Zaachila and secure the trade route between the Valley of Mexico, Tehuantepec and what is now Central America.
The Spanish expedition under Orozco set about building a Spanish city where the Aztec military post was at the base of the Cerro de Fortín.
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