* Dumfries Museum & Camera Obscura, Dumfries, Scotland

* Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum in Scotland

He had a small bookstore in Dumfries that now houses the Weems – Botts Museum, but he continued to travel extensively, selling books and preaching.

* The National Museum of Costume, at Shambellie House, New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

Weems – Botts House Museum is a small, professionally directed museum in Dumfries, Virginia, USA.

* Historic Dumfries: Weems-Botts Museum

Although mainly concentrated in the northern Highlands and the Islands, a few examples occur in the Borders ( for example Edin's Hall Broch ), on the west coast of Dumfries and Galloway and near Stirling.

* A statue of Minerva appears on top of the Minerva Building at Dumfries Academy, Dumfries, Scotland.

Six weeks after Comyn was killed in Dumfries, Bruce was crowned King of Scots by Bishop William de Lamberton at Scone, near Perth on 25 March with all formality and solemnity.

This gesture was to make up for his failure to go on crusade during his lifetime and atone for his sins, not least the sacrilegious murder of John Comyn in the Greyfriars church, Dumfries.

As of 2012, the I-95 / I395 HOV facility is long and extends from Washington, D. C. to Dumfries, Virginia, has two reversible lanes separated from the regular lanes by barriers, with access through on and off elevated ramps.

It stretches from St Bees Head, just south of Whitehaven in Cumbria, to the Mull of Galloway, on the western end of Dumfries and Galloway.

It covers a 587 hectare site at Eastpark Farm, on the north shore of the Solway Firth to the south of Dumfries.

The Adam Brothers ' first major commission was the decoration of the grand state apartments on the first floor at Hopetoun House, followed by their first " new build " at Dumfries House.

Located on the east side of the lowest crossing point of the River Nith, no positive information has been obtained of the era and circumstances in which the town of Dumfries was founded.

The Selgovae inhabited Nithsdale at the time and may have raised some military works of a defensive nature on or near the site of Dumfries ; and it is more than probable that a castle of some kind formed the nucleus of the town.

Although at the time a mile upstream and on the opposite bank of the Nith from Dumfries, Lincluden Abbey was founded circa 1160.

Dumfries was very much on the frontier during its first 50 years as a burgh and it grew rapidly as a market town and port.

Robert Burns moved to Dumfriesshire in 1788 and Dumfries itself in 1791, living there until his death on 21 July 1796.

The trial finally took place on Dalswinton Loch near Dumfries on 14 October 1788.

Work progressed quickly, and on 17 June 1940, the 18 Maintenance Unit was opened at Dumfries.

RAF Dumfries had a moment of danger on 25 March 1943, when a German aircraft shot up the airfield beacon, but crashed shortly afterwards.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

William Charles Wells, predecessor to Charles Darwin on the theory of natural selection was another schooled in Dumfries.

Benjamin Bell after being born in Dumfries went on to become considered the first Scottish scientific surgeon.

Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart left Dumfries to go on and found the University of Sydney Medical School.

The fountain and midsteeple on Dumfries High St

Maxwelltown to the west of the river Nith, was formerly a Burgh in its own right within The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright ( also known as Kirkcudbrightshire ) until its incorporation into Dumfries in 1928 ; Summerhill, Troqueer, Lochside, Lincluden, Sandside are among other suburbs located on the Maxwelltown side of the river.

Although far from the centre of power in Scotland, Dumfries had obvious strategic significance sitting as it does on the edge of Galloway and being the centre of control for the south west of Scotland.

Ecclefechan ( Eaglais Fheichein in Gaelic ) is a small village in the south of Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway.

It was initially a small village, planned and built in 1717 on the Queensberry Estate on the road linking Dumfries to Glasgow.

In February 1306, Robert Bruce and a small party of his followers killed John Comyn, also known as the Red Comyn, before the high altar of the Greyfriars Church in Dumfries.

ITV Border, previously Border Television, is the ITV franchise holder for the England / Scotland border region, covering Dumfries & Galloway, a small part of the south-west area of Ayrshire, the Scottish Borders, parts of north and west Northumberland and the majority of Cumbria.

Lochans is a small village around south of Stranraer, in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland.

In Scotland, they are most common in what today are Argyll and Dumfries and Galloway ( where they form the Clyde-Carlingford group ), though a small outlying group have been found near Perth.

At the same time, a small portion of Beverly Township near the community of Clyde was ceded to North Dumfries Township in Waterloo Region and a more populous but smaller portion of East Flamborough near the community of Aldershot was ceded to Burlington in Halton Region.

Born in Dumfries where his father, who " wanted his boy to play like Cesare Maldini ", ran Matthew's Cafe in Friars Vennel, Matteo started his career at Liverpool F. C., for whom he played between 1992 and 2000 ( with a small Sunderland A. F. C.

Kirkconnel ( Gaelic: Cille Chonaill ) is a small parish and town in Dumfries and Galloway, southwestern Scotland.

Sandhead is a small village in Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland.

Penpont is a small village in the region of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, two miles west of Thornhill.

Keir is a civil parish, containing the small village of Keir Mill, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, one mile south of Penpont.

Cairnryan is a small Scottish village in Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway on the eastern shore of Loch Ryan.