In 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy conceived the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, a transcontinental highway to be built through the South.

He reappeared in Abilene, Texas in 1930 as a 62-year-old construction laborer on the George R. Davis House, built in Prairie School architecture.

The franchise company was started in 1969 as National Fast Food Corp. National Fast Food's principals at the time included S. Robert Davis, a real estate developer who built and leased several Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken properties, his friend Dave Thomas, who sold his Colonel Sanders franchises back to that company for $ 3, 000, 000 and went on to found Wendy's, and L. S. Hartzog, who at the time ran a chain of bakeries selling biscuits to Colonel Sanders franchisees nationally.

The Baumgardener's Covered Bridge was built in 1860 by Davis Kitch at a cost of $ 1, 284.

In 1854 the army built Fort Davis in northern Presidio County.

Willing's home was the first to be built in the new town, and Jefferson Davis once made a speech from the front yard.

Among the automobiles locally manufactured were the Richmond, built by the Wayne Works ; the " Rodefeld "; the Davis ; the Pilot ; the Westcott and the Crosley.

The Davis Memorial is a monument in the Mount Hope Cemetery, built by John Milburn Davis in honor of his wife Sarah after her death.

George Rudy's school house was built before 1840 and between the years of 1840 and 1848, the school had four teachers: Washington Sale, Dave Cowan, Frank Davis, and Joseph C. Norman.

The original portion of Tacony built about 1845 was probably used as an overseer ’ s house or a " camp house " because Davis, like many other wealthy landowners, lived in a luxurious mansion on the Natchez bluff.

* Altona is in the northwest part of the township, located where 5 Mile Road crosses the Little Muskegon River at In 1868, William Seaton and Bartley Davis built a sawmill and Harrison J.

Sylvester Davis, the first settler in the township, came to section 20 in the spring of 1855 and built a more permanent dwelling later that fall.

Many were built for and commanded by the famous Captain, Thomas P. Leathers, whom Jefferson Davis had wanted to head the Confederate defense fleet on the Mississippi River.

The Davis House, built in the 1750s, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 and is the oldest existing structure in Coram.

The town of St. Pauls was built up around St. Pauls Presbyterian Church which was built on land donated in 1799 by William Davis.

Morris Davis built it very precisely, rejecting many loads of lumber if they had knotholes or any defects.

Ezra T. Clark was an early settler of Farmington who later founded the Davis County Bank and built several houses in the area, some of which are located in the Clark Lane Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In April 1910, Ernest E. Davis built a large Opera House.

Davis supposedly suggested the name West Union, in deference to a proposed town of Union to be built on the eastern side of the creek.

Old Houses along the Parade Ground at Fort Stotsenburg, PI. Although some were built as early as 1903, all the houses along Wirt Davis Avenue, oringally called Officers ' Row, were completed by 1904.

Fox's assets included Pebble Beach Golf Links, the Aspen Skiing Company, and a Century City property upon which Davis built and twice sold Fox Plaza.

It built on the avant-garde experiments which Zawinul and Shorter had pioneered with Miles Davis on Bitches Brew, including an avoidance of head-and-chorus composition in favor of continuous rhythm and movement ) but taking the music further.

During the American period, Governors-General Francis Burton Harrison and Dwight F. Davis built an executive building, the Kalayaan Hall, which was later transformed into a museum.

Bogart's disputes with Warner Bros. over roles and money were similar to those the studio had with other less-than-obedient stars, such as Bette Davis, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, and Olivia de Havilland.

A few critics go as far as to call Walkin the album that created hard bop, but the point is debatable, given the number of musicians who were working along similar lines at the same time ( and of course many of them recorded or played with Davis ).

The Kay Davis wordless vocal feature " Transblucency " ( 1946 ) was not going to have a similar reach.

Reuben Hersh has also promoted the social view of mathematics, calling it a " humanistic " approach, similar to but not quite the same as that associated with Alvin White ; one of Hersh's co-authors, Philip J. Davis, has expressed sympathy for the social view as well.

At the same time, a similar commission was issued to Hopkin Davis, as Captain of foot in Choptanck and St.

Two teams of astronomers, Daniel P. Whitmire and Albert A. Jackson IV, and Marc Davis, Piet Hut, and Richard A. Muller, independently published similar hypotheses to explain Raup and Sepkoski's extinction periodicity in the same issue of the journal Nature.

Some of the collaborative cues by Davis and Juno Reactor are extensions of material by Juno Reactor ; for example, a version of " Komit " featuring Davis ' strings is used during a flying sequence, and " Burly Brawl " is essentially a combination of Davis ' unused " Multiple Replication " and a piece similar to Juno Reactor's " Masters of the Universe ".

Notably, Paul Cohen received the Fields Medal during 1966 for his work on the first problem, and the negative solution of the tenth problem during 1970 by Matiyasevich ( completing work of Davis, Putnam and Robinson ) generated similar acclaim.

Instead of paying a high salary for Gruden, Davis opted to trade the rights for Gruden to the Buccaneers in exchange for four draft picks, in a deal similar to what Patriots owner Robert Kraft made with the New York Jets to get head coach Bill Belichick in 2000.

This version of Bizarro was once a Kryptonian experiment ( similar to Davis Bloome / Doomsday ) turned into a wraith, trapped in the Phantom Zone until Clark accidentally released him.

He was referred to as Davis ' military adviser but exercised broad control over the strategic and logistical aspects of the Army, a role similar in nature to the current Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

Many authors, including Davis and Mermelstein, have commented that the spectral basis functions of the cosine transform in the MFC are very similar to the principal components of the spectra, which were applied to speech representation and recognition much earlier by Pols and his colleagues.

Journalist David E. Davis, in a 2009 article in Automobile Magazine, noted that despite Nader's claim that swing-axle rear suspension were dangerous, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen all used similar swing-axle concepts during that era.

In 1973, Taito released an early team sport video game, Davis Cup, a tennis doubles game with similar ball-and-paddle gameplay but played in doubles, with both players controlling two paddles each.

" Davis told Christian Challenge that it " was similar to a baseball team owner telling team members that ' we are the greatest team on earth '" prior to a baseball game.

The legendary Rat Pack of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr., along with similar artists such as Bobby Darin, Jackie Gleason, Wayne Newton, Louis Prima, Sonny King, and Sam Butera are notable examples.

* Type II, also at first printed by Archer & Daly, is very similar to type I. Frederick Halpin designed and engraved the image of Davis.

Stephen Hendry's 1989 win prefigured his decade of dominance similar to the one prefigured by Davis's win in 1980 ; its significance was emphasised by the fact that the losing finalist was Davis himself.

They also led France to six straight Davis Cup wins, 1927 through 1932, in an era when Cup matches enjoyed a prestige similar to today's FIFA World Cup finals.

Davis wanted to organize the sons of GAR members into a military-style organization whose objectives were similar to those of the GAR and whose members would provide assistance to those in the GAR.

: For other persons with similar names, see Samuel Davis ( disambiguation ), Sammy Davis ( disambiguation ) and Sam Davies ( disambiguation ).

A similar claim was made by Cornette during the announcement of the ROH HDnet program moving its tapings to the OVW / Davis arena.