`` On each side of the Hoogli, where we are now sailing, are the Hindoo cottages, as thick together as the houses in our seaports.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of april 29th to may 7th, 1961, as Rhode Island Heritage Week, advising our citizens that throughout this week many historic houses and beautiful gardens will be open to visitors as well as industrial plants, craft shops, museums and libraries and I earnestly urge all to take advantage of these opportunities to see as many of these places as they can during this outstanding week.

There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.

The Carnegie-donated library is now owned by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, and houses the Flood Museum.

The houses built by the Perano family are now operated as tourist accommodations.

British architects Brenda and Robert Vale have said that, as of 2002, " It is quite possible in all parts of Australia to construct a ' house with no bills ', which would be comfortable without heating and cooling, which would make its own electricity, collect its own water and deal with its own waste ... These houses can be built now, using off-the-shelf techniques.

Today it no longer houses collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts it once held now form part of the independent British Library.

The historic Chicago Cultural Center ( 1897 ), originally serving as the Chicago Public Library, now houses the city's Visitor Information Center, galleries and exhibit halls.

The former site of Commodore's operational headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania, now houses the headquarters and broadcast studios of leading cable retailer QVC, Inc. ( On November 26, 2004, QVC became the first retailer to sell the DTV, a " C64 in a joystick " designed by Jeri Ellsworth.

In Livonia ( present-day Latvia and Estonia ), in 1441, 1442, 1510 and 1514, the Brotherhood of Blackheads erected a tree for the holidays in their guild houses in Reval ( now Tallinn ) and Riga.

In 2002, Djibouti agreed to host a U. S. military presence at Camp Lemonnier, a former French Foreign Legion base outside the capital that now houses approximately 3, 500 American personnel.

The airport itself, now called Eindhoven Airport, had moved earlier to a new location, paving the way for much needed new houses.

The station's new Main Building, which now houses the Immigration Museum, was opened in 1900.

Main Building, which now houses the Immigration Museum

The area where Green Hedges once stood is now occupied by houses and a street called Blyton Close.

The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.

To get rid of the books from the past ( and their copies ), the government implemented a program using the firemen to burn the books ( now that houses were being rebuilt to be fire-resistant ) and placate the masses.

There is also Fraser Square which is not so square-like since it now opens out into Middle Street but it still houses the Imperial Hotel.

This mansion house now houses the Museum of the Basque Country, whose exhibits highlight physical, political, economic and linguistic features of Basque History and renowned Basque personages.

In 1998 Giger acquired the Château St. Germain in Gruyères, Switzerland, and it now houses the H. R. Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work.

Due to the threat of war, plans for a lavish museum were never implemented, but once the war was over it was possible to construct the relatively understated but well-lit modern exhibition extension, opened in 1977, that now houses much of the collection.

The original functions of an inn are now usually split among separate establishments, such as hotels, lodges, and motels, all of which might provide the traditional functions of an inn but which focus more on lodging customers than on other services ; public houses, which are primarily alcohol-serving establishments ; and restaurants and taverns, which serve food and drink.

The French traveller Laurent d ' Arvieux described the city in 1659 as " now desolate, and consists only of about fifty poor houses, in bad condition ...

The houses were demolished in 1927 and the site is now occupied by the Hay – Adams Hotel.

These mews now provide very attractive private accommodation which can fetch similar prices to flats in the grand houses they once served.

New Tazewell is home to a number of factories, including furniture manufacturer England Furniture Incorporated now a division of La-Z-Boy, DeRoyal Industries, Bushline Furniture, King Business Forms, Giles Industries, Homesteader Cargo Trailers and others.

The arena was designed by Italian architect / engineer Pier Luigi Nervi in conjunction with the ( now defunct ) local firm of Williams and Tazewell, which designed the entire complex.

The National Park Service now proposes to preserve an area in Pottawatomie County, northeast Kansas, as a `` Prairie National Park ''.

And now, the woman, tired and trembling, came here to the DeKalb County cannery.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.

The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.

Portions of the lands of the former County of Baden now became the District of Baden in the newly created Canton of Aargau.

The name " Quinte " is derived from " Kente ", which was the name of an early French Catholic mission located on the south shore of what is now Prince Edward County.

According to Geoffrey Keating, the main Beltane fire in medieval Ireland was on the hill of Uisneach, in what is now County Westmeath.

In his 20s he attended barber school, got married, and moved first to Roy, New Mexico then returned to Turkey in Hall County ( now considered his home town ) to work as a barber at Hamm's Barber Shop.

The area formerly known as " County Dublin " is now defined in legislation solely as the " Dublin Region " under the Local Government Act, 1991 ( Regional Authorities ) ( Establishment ) Order, 1993, and this is the terminology officially used by the four Dublin administrative councils in press releases concerning the former county area.

In 2004, Chiang Fang-liang, the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo, asked that both father and son be buried at Wuzhi Mountain Military Cemetery in Xizhi, Taipei County ( now New Taipei City ).

Prior to its takeover the company was headquartered in a facility in Northwest unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States that now serves as HP's United States headquarters.

Aerial map of the Compaq headquarters, now the Hewlett-Packard USA campus in unincorporated area | unincorporated Harris County, Texas

The railroad town of Allenton is a former community on U. S. Highway 66 located ( now ) at the junction of Interstate 44 and Business Loop 44 in western St. Louis County.

It came to refer specifically to the County of Flanders, lasting from 862 to 1795, whose territory was situated in the northwestern part of what is now Belgium ( the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders ), with extensive portions in what is now northern France ( French Flanders ), and a small area that is now part of the Netherlands ( Zeelandic Flanders ).

* 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.

Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Phoebe Penn Dagworthy ( Charlton ) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County, Maryland ( now Carroll County, Maryland ).

Carver was born into slavery in Diamond Grove, Newton County, near Crystal Place, now known as Diamond, Missouri, possibly in 1864 or 1865, though the exact date is not known.

Hastings Borough Council is now in the second tier of local government, below East Sussex County Council.

Due to this outward expansion, in 1965 the old County of London ( which by now only covered part of the London conurbation ) and the London County Council were abolished, and the much larger area of Greater London was established with a new Greater London Council ( GLC ) to administer it, along with 32 new London boroughs.