As early as the 1750s, residents used to race their horses along what is now Main Street in the village's downtown.

It flows through a huge cavern before joining the Don beside Blonk Street bridge, named after Benjamin Blonk, who was the tenant of Castle Orchards Wheel from the 1750s to the 1770s.

Around the 1750s, the land was commonly known as Fenton Vivian By the 1850s, the area around Duke Street and China Street had become populated during the rapid development of the Potteries.

Increasing numbers of main roads were turnpiked from the 1750s to the extent that almost every main road in England and Wales was the responsibility of some turnpike trust.

In the late 1750s, at the height of the social season, he was receiving five or six sitters a day, each for an hour at a time.

Although many observers from the 1880s onward predicted that Yankee politicians would be no match for new generations of ethnic politicians, the presence of Yankees at the top tier of modern American politics was typified by Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, and by Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean ( as well, to some observers, by 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Forbes Kerry, descendant through his mother, of the Scottish Forbes family, which emigrated to Massachusetts the 1750s ).

* Giuseppe Bonno ( 1711 – 1788 ) was Kapellmeister to the Prince of Saxe-Hildburghausen in the 1750s and 1760s.

The purpose of these marriages was to cement the various complex alliances that Maria Theresa had entered into in the 1750s due to the Seven Years ' War, which included Parma, Naples, Russia, and more importantly Austria's traditional enemy, France.

By the 1750s it was the largest city and busiest port in British America.

The conflict over the expansion of British settlement into the Allegheny Valley and the surrounding Ohio Country was a primary cause of the French and Indian War in the 1750s.

There was more war in the 1750s.

In the 1750s, 40 % of those sent to the Bastille were arrested for their role in manufacturing or dealing in banned material ; in the 1760s, the equivalent figure was 35 %.

By the 1750s the Crown ( rebuilt in 1889 ), was providing for coach travellers and by the 1800s it had a handful of cottages and Cricklewood House as neighbours, and was known for its “ pleasure gardens ”.

A blockhouse was built at the site in the 1750s to protect Halifax from attacks by the Mi ' kmaq people.

Pearsontown Plantation was first settled in the 1750s, then incorporated as the town of Standish on November 30, 1785.

The first family was William and Noah Mitchell in the 1750s.

* Germantown was the site of a former planned manufacturing community begun in the 1750s to encourage German immigration and is now a residential neighborhood.

These include: Potter's Tavern, said to have been built in the 1750s, but restored to its appearance in 1776 when it was home to The Plain Dealer, considered New Jersey's first newspaper ; Brearley ( Masonic ) Lodge, founded by General James Giles in 1795, and still active ; the so-called " Nail House " ( c. 1815 ; second build c. 1855 ), administrative home of the Cumberland Nail & Iron Works that established Bridgeton's industrial prowess in the early nineteenth century ; the first Cumberland National Bank building ( 1816 ), only the second bank chartered in New Jersey ( now part of the Bridgeton Library ); and the David Sheppard House ( 1791 ), recently restored with assistance from the Garden State Historic Trust and home to the Cousteau Coastal Center of Rutgers University since 2008.

The name " Somerville " was taken from four brothers of the Somerville family, William, Edward, John and James from Drishane and Castlehaven, County Cork, Ireland, who first founded the town in the 1750s.

Early life in Berkeley Heights is documented in the Littell-Lord Farmhouse Museum & Farmstead ( 31 Horseshoe Road in Berkeley Heights ), an museum surrounding two houses, one of which was built in the 1750s and the other near the turn of the century.

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.

Mount Airy was settled in the 1750s as a stagecoach stop on the road between Winston-Salem and Galax, Virginia.

The community was given its name by the first European pioneers to settle the area in the 1750s.

The painter Peter Andreas Rysbrack was commissioned to paint a series of eight paintings to record the transformation of the garden from formal Jacobean to informal picturesque at the end of the 1750s.

The lake dates to the 1750s when the dam was used to provide water power for iron production.

During the 1750s Messiah was performed increasingly at festivals and cathedrals throughout the country.

Baughman's Fort was built in the 1750s and the settlement was supposedly destroyed by Native Americans shortly thereafter, though no factual evidence exists to support this theory.

By the early 1750s Fox and Pitt were both viewed as likely future leaders of the country.

He was an enthusiast for English country dancing, fostering their popularity at the court of Turin in the 1750s.

In the 1750s the path became the route by which Lenape, unhappy with the treaty that had given away much of their land rights in western Pennsylvania, raided white settlements in central Pennsylvania.

A road along the present path of SR 120 has existed at least since the 1750s.

* Popkin, Jeremy D. A History of Modern France ( 2005 ), 384pp ; textbook coverage from 1750s ; excerpt and text search

In the early 1750s he moved to Slighhouses and set about making improvements, introducing farming practices from other parts of Britain and experimenting with plant and animal husbandry.

Portrait of Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer by William Hogarth from the late 1750s, parodying Renaissance images of Francis of Assisi.

Company interests turned from trade to territory during the 18th century as the Mughal Empire declined in power and the British East India Company struggled with its French counterpart, the La Compagnie française des Indes orientales, during the Carnatic Wars of the 1740s and 1750s.

Portrait of Richardson from 1750s by Mason Chamberlin

Industry developed eastwards along the bank of the Thames during the industrial revolution from 1750s onwards ; the Thames provided water for transport, for steam engines and for water intensive industrial processes.

Some of the finest tapestries are examples from the Gobelins workshop, including a set of ' Jason and the Argonauts ' dating from the 1750s.

Next, in the 1740s and 1750s, French settlers meandered north from the Pointe Coupee Post in south French Louisiana and named many of bayous.

The African American Museum, located in the historic district, uses the latest technology to provide insights into the culture and life of the Free People of Color in the community and their contributions to the Attakapas region from the 1750s on.

During the 1750s and the Seven Years War, warriors from this fort were allied with French officers in attacking British colonists in the Champlain, Mohawk and Ohio valleys.

The first European settlers came to York in the early 1750s, having migrated south from Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Her influence over Louis increased markedly through the 1750s, to the point where he allowed her considerable leeway in the determination of policy over a whole range of issues, from military matters to foreign affairs.

The Hellfire Club had previously used Medmenham Abbey, 8 miles ( 13 km ) away from West Wycombe on the River Thames, as a meeting place, but the caves at West Wycombe were used for meetings in the 1750s and early 1760s.

According to Ian Bent ( Bent, 1987 ), analysis is " an approach and method can be traced back to the 1750s ... it existed as a scholarly tool, albeit an auxiliary one, from the Middle Ages onwards.

Boydell made a small fortune in the 1750s from these imported prints.