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In 1700, a settler, Nicholas Vechte, built a farmhouse of brick and stone now known as the Old Stone House, which later played a critical role in the 1776 Battle of Long Island, when American troops fought off the Redcoats long enough to allow George Washington to retreat.
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1700 and settler
* William Bates ( Quaker immigrant ) ( died 1700 ), the borough's first English settler.
1700 and Nicholas
After the church spire collapsed in 1700, amateur architect and Dean of Christ Church Henry Aldrich designed a new church ; it is thought, however, that on some of the later features of the church, the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor, one of Britain's great Baroque architects, is to be found, namely on the tower and spire.
Nicholas Staggins ( died 13 June 1700 ) was an English composer.
March 1775 ), the eldest son of John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, by his marriage with Mary ( 1700 – 1768 ), daughter of Nicholas Lepell.
1700 and built
Starting from 1700, nineteen artificial islands with fortresses were built in the gulf by Russia.
It was later used as a church until about 1700, when Gloria Dei ( Old Swedes ') Church of Philadelphia was built on the site.
This was built circa 1700, for informal meals and entertainments in the gardens rather than for the larger state dinners which would have taken place inside the palace itself.
* 1700 BC – Zimri-Lin, ruler of Mari in Syria commanded the construction of one of the first ice houses near the Euphrate, additional ice houses built until 17th century AD, i. e. by Tj ' n Sje Hwang-ti, ...
Others among the 19 grade II listed buildings in Bowlish include Coombe House, which was built c. 1820 ; 14, 15 and 16 Combe Lane, which were built around 1700 with 18th-century alterations ; 26 to 29 Combe Lane, which is a former mill built around 1700 and enlarged in 1850 ; and 30 and 31 Combe Lane, which are two weaver's cottages dating to about 1850.
The great palace was gradually built between 1700 and 1400 BC, with periodic rebuildings after destruction.
The organ — of a deep and mellow tone, and highly ornamented by figures in relief — was built at Canterbury sometime around 1700.
New Hope Tavern was built along the road prior to 1700, and the area around it became known as New Hope Village.
It is the site of the Kolomoki Mounds, a park preserving major earthworks built by indigenous peoples of the Woodland culture more than 1700 years ago, from 350 CE to 600 CE.
These range from the large ceremonial Indian mound and cave at Nanih Waiya, built about 1700 years ago and sacred to the Choctaw ; to the still thriving Williams Brothers Store, a true old-fashioned general store founded in 1907 and featured in National Geographic in 1939 as a source of anything from “ needles to horse collars ”, and still offering everything from bridles, butter and boots to flour, feed and fashion.
In 1700, Johannes Van Emburgh built the first home in Ridgewood, having purchased a property in 1698.
It is believed that it was built by early Finnish-Swedish settlers at some time after 1638 and before 1700, but its precise age has not been determined with scientific methods.
Officially known as the Saddle Rock Grist Mill, it was built circa 1700 and is located inside a small cove that opens onto Little Neck Bay off Long Island Sound.
The first Society of Friends meeting house was built in 1700.
The village includes a 20-acre national historic district consisting of 15 houses, a church, and a library built between about 1700 and 1965.
There was also an Anglican church, built in 1700.
These include the Old Grammar School, Bakers Cottage and the Malt House with Malt Cottage ( all built before 1700 ), and Church House with Andertons, Coppinghall and Milton Cottage ( all 18th century ).
Next on the left, is Tong Hall, a 17th-century manor house built in the late 17th century, and is part of the historic part of the area, replacing a much older building ( A capital messuage ( manor house ) is recorded in 1343 as part of the holdings of the Tong family, but destroyed by fire around 1700 )
In the village there is Elvington Hall, built during Elizabethan times and remodelled in the 18th century by John Carr ; famous writer Laurence Sterne lived there for a period of his childhood ; Roger Jacques and Simone Sterne, his grandparents, controlled the manor prior to 1700.
Private investors financed and built transportation systems like sailing ships, paddle steamers ( after 1830 ), steam ships ( after 1860 ), refrigerator ships ( after 1890 ), toll roads ( after 1700 ), canals ( after 1760 ), railroads ( after 1830 ) allowed people, goods, foods and animal crops to be gathered and shipped cheaply and with increasing rapidity over ever increasing distances.
1700 and farmhouse
Lower Court farmhouse was built in about 1700 as the manor house for Westend.
It was likely reduced to a farmhouse in 1700.
Also worth seeing is a timber-frame farmhouse built about 1700 that was brought back into use as a dwelling after renovation.
1700 and brick
The earliest structures were of logs construction, but brick structures were common by 1700.
The Poplars was built in about 1650 and re-faced with brick in about 1700.
1700 and stone
Glebe cairn in Kilmartin Glen in Argyll dates from 1700 BC and has two stone cists inside one of which a jet necklace was found during 19th century excavations.
Turquoise dated at 700 A. D. was mined in pre-Columbian America ; in the Cerillos Mining District in New Mexico, estimates are that " about 15, 000 tons of rock had been removed from Mt Chalchihuitl using stone tools before 1700.
* c. 1700 BC: Earliest archeological evidence of stone walls built around the city.
Aside the Bedesten, originally the Grand Bazaar structures were built with wood, and only after the 1700 fire, they were rebuilt in stone and brickwork, and covered.
Honiton Garage dates from about 1700 and the Market Hall ( which originally had arcades on the ground floor and an assembly room above ) has a modest early-19th-century stone front.
The present day Wharfe bridge was constructed on the foundations of the stone original in around 1700, though it has been substantially modified at least twice since then.
A stone lion relief found at Beth Shan, near the Sea of Galilee ( now at the Israel Museum ), dated to about 1700 BC, has been interpreted by professor Bill Humble as confirming this identification, since lions are often pictured in Hittite art.
Elm Tree House, built of the local stone in about 1700, with Tuscan porch added later
They were embedded in the stone of the beach in such a way as to make him believe that they had been there for 100 – 150 years (~ 1700 AD ).
1700: A severe fire leads to new buildings, built in stone ; the estimated population is 60, 000
1700 and now
After the establishment of a French colony in Saint Domingue ( now Haiti ), some mahogany from that island probably found its way to France, where joiners in the port cities of Saint-Malo, Nantes, La Rochelle and Bordeaux used the wood to a limited extent from about 1700.
The Portuguese were able to wrest much of the coastal trade from Arabs between 1500 and 1700, but, with the Arab seizure of Portugal's key foothold at Fort Jesus on Mombasa Island ( now in Kenya ) in 1698, the pendulum began to swing in the other direction.
* Sir Walter St John's School, now Thomas's day school, was founded in 1700.
By 1700, a number of families had made their homes in this area, now known as South Windsor.
The area that is now Florham Park was first settled by the English sometime between 1680 and 1700, and the community was long recognized as a prime farming area.
In 1700, three small Spanish villages were founded in what is now the outskirts of Hermosillo, Nuestra Señora del Pópulo, Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles and la Santísima Trinidad del Pitic.
By 1700, Ojibwe ) had come to what is now Minnesota and at times they had come into conflict with each other.
Bell Beakers have now been radiocarbon dated to 2900 to 1800 / 1700 BC, which would make them contemporary with Corded Ware, but with an origin in coastal Portugal where the earliest occurrences are found.
Around 1700, Netley Abbey came into the hands of Sir Berkeley Lucy ( also spelled Sir " Bartlet ") who decided in 1704 to demolish the by now unfashionable house in order to sell the materials.
What is now Longwood Gardens was originally purchased from William Penn in 1700 by a fellow Quaker named George Peirce ( 1646 – 1734 ).
During the Great Northern War ( 1700 – 1721 ) the territory of what is now Leningrad Oblast was returned from Sweden by Russia under Peter the Great, who founded Saint Petersburg amidst the land in 1703, which soon became the capital of the Russian Empire.
The word " bonnet " for male headgear was generally replaced in English by cap before 1700, except in Scotland, where it remains in use, now especially for military headgear, like the Feather bonnet ( not to be confused with those worn by Native Americans, for which " bonnet " was also used ), Glengarry, Kilmarnock and Balmoral.
Against a prevailing view that 18th century Americans had not perpetuated the first settlers ' passionate commitment to their faith, scholars now identify a high level of religious energy in colonies after 1700.
Ouezzine was connected by an 600 mm gauge narrow gauge railway via Ain Dfali, Mechra Bel Ksiri to Port Lauatey, now Kenitra, forming part of the 1912-1914 French built extensive narrow gauge network of Chemins de fer Militaires du Maroc, the largest 600 mm gauge network ever existed in Africa with total length of more than 1700 kilometres.
The LJ Torana formed the basis of the Chevrolet 1700 in South Korea, produced by GM Korea ( now GM Daewoo ) between 1972 and 1976.
He had many improvements made in the Prussian army, notably the introduction of the iron ramrod about 1700, and he now took the field at the head of a Prussian corps on the Rhine, serving at the sieges of Kaiserswerth and Venlo in 1702.
Hale's house at 39 Hale Street, Beverly, where he lived from 1694 until his death in 1700, is now a museum, the John Hale House.
He may have been born into the Catawba tribe about 1700 near what is now Buffalo, New York.
The oldest rocks in the area that now includes Death Valley National Park are extensively metamorphosed by intense heat and pressure and are at least 1700 million years old.
She raised her grandson, Nicolaus Ludwig, Imperial Count von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf ( 1700 – 1760 ), the Renewer of the Unitas Fratrum i. e. Moravian Church, in the Castle ( now in ruins ) in Großhennersdorf.
* The Toronto Santa Claus Parade ( Started in 1904 with just a single float, it now boasts over 24 floats, 24 bands, and 1700 participants.
In 1954, Ford Motor Company donated the town of Alberta, Michigan and 1700 acres ( 7 km² ) of land to what is now the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science at Michigan Technological University.
We now know it held at least 10, 000 inhabitants by 1700 bc http :// www. bbc. co. uk / worldservice / africa / features / storyofafrica / 3chapter4. shtml The evolution of its residential area is highly complex, yet it seems to correspond to a protected zone reserved for an elite population, much like African capitals further south in later periods.
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