One Australian writer Gerard Henderson has rejected this theory, yet others such as Australian history Professors Judith Brett Latrobe Uni.

The greater Latrobe Valley urban area of which Traralgon is part has a population of approximately 125, 000.

In addition Traralgon has the Latrobe Special Developmental School catering for students from 5 to 18 years of age with an intellectual disability.

Traralgon has a horse racing club, the Latrobe Valley Racing Club, which schedules two race meetings a year including the Cup meeting in December.

In addition, Duquesne Bottling Company has brewed the revived Duquesne Beer, " The Prince of Pilseners ", at the Latrobe plant.

Since 1971 he has owned Latrobe Country Club, where his father used to be the club professional.

Morwell is central to the Latrobe Valley urban area which has a population of approximately 125, 000 and as such has become home to many of the greater urban area's civic institutions, administrative functions and infrastructure.

The design of Brentwood Mansion has traditionally been ascribed to the Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe.

The Latrobe Valley has two couincils, Latrobe City Council ( central & east Latrobe Valley ) & Baw Baw Shire Council ( West Latrobe Valley ).

The Latrobe Valley consists of two Local Government Areas, The City of Latrobe ( central / eastern Latrobe Valley ) which has the bulk of the region's population and also the Shire of Baw Baw ( west Latrobe Valley ).

Latrobe City LGA has a population of approximately 75, 000 with four major population centres: Moe, Morwell, Chruchill and Traralgon, with smaller townships including Boolarra, Glengarry, Toongabbie, Tyers, Traralgon South, Yallourn North, and Yinnar with the administrative headquarters located in Morwell.

Latrobe Valley is currently the only large regional centre in Victoria that does not have a team participating in the Victorian Football League, despite the fact that the area within an approximate 35 km radius of Moe ( Drouin, Warragul, Trafalgar, Moe, Morwell, Churchill, Traralgon and other smaller towns ) has a population well over 100, 000, as large or larger than places such as Bendigo and Ballarat that do have teams participating in the VFL.

The Latrobe Valley Express is delivered free of charge to residences in the Latrobe Valley region twice per week on Monday & Thursday and has a current circulation of approximately 34, 128 ( CAB ).

The LGA has three cities-Moe, Morwell and Traralgon in the Latrobe Valley that form the same statistical area ( or Tri-city ).

The station is located under the intersection of William and Latrobe Streets and has two entrances-via lift or escalator south of Latrobe Street, and by stairs on the north.

When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he ( with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe ) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.

The Latrobe Wharf was built in the 1870s and two hotels emerged to exploit the new centre of activity.

In 1898 Latrobe and two players from their rivials, the Greensburg Athletic Association, formed the very first professional football all-star team for a game against the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club, to be played at Pittsburgh's Exposition Park.

Upon arriving in Philadelphia, Latrobe's two friends, Scandella and Volney, had left due to concerns regarding the Alien and Sedition Acts, but Latrobe made friends with some of their acquaintances at the American Philosophical Society.

Cricket is also popular with two senior cricket clubs, Morwell and Latrobe, the latter of which Peter Siddle played for in his younger days.

Some of his large projects were increased coal production and power generation in the Latrobe Valley, new offshore oil and gas fields in Gippsland, the West Gate Bridge over the lower Yarra River, a new international airport for Melbourne at Tullamarine and two new universities ( Monash University and La Trobe University ).

The two men were almost constantly in each other's company for the week-long visit, and a few months later ( 1818 ) Monroe appointed Bulfinch the successor to Benjamin Henry Latrobe ( 1764 – 1820 ) as Architect of the Capitol in Washington, D. C. ( The Capitol Building had been partially burned by the British in 1814.

In 1954 the line beyond Dandenong was electrified mainly because of the expected briquette traffic from the brown coal mines in the Latrobe Valley, and over the next two years most of the line between Dandenong and Pakenham was duplicated and provided with power signalling, although Narre Warren to Berwick was not done until 1962.

The western section linking Geelong and Melbourne is an important commuter and freight route between the two cities ; the eastern section links Melbourne with the Latrobe Valley.

Arnold Palmer Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles ( 3. 7 km ) southwest of the central business district of Latrobe, and approximately 29 nautical miles ( 53 km ) southeast of Pittsburgh, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.

He added two wings between 1811 – 1814, designed for him by Benjamin Latrobe.

Completion of the Loy Yang power stations, extensive voluntary departures from the electricity industry and privatisation of the Victorian electricity industry in the early 1990s had devastating effects on the economy of the Latrobe Valley.

The bi-weekly Latrobe Valley Express newspaper is delivered to all homes on Monday and Thursday nights, in Traralgon, Morwell and Moe.

In later interviews, McCormack listed five attributes that made Palmer especially marketable: his good looks ; his relatively modest background ( his father was a greenskeeper before rising to be club professional and Latrobe was a humble club ); the way he played golf, taking risks and wearing his emotions on his sleeve ; his involvement in a string of exciting finishes in early televised tournaments ; and his affability.

Benjamin Latrobe intended on lodging at Violet Bank, “ but he ( Thomas Shore ) is at present building, and occupies his offices only, which, in Virginia, follows a plantation house as a litter of pigs to their mother .”

Latrobe in all probability made the acquaintance of Jane Grey Shore Haxall when he visited Petersburg in 1796 and went to the horse races with Thomas Shore on April 21 of that year according to his Journal.

Mr. & Mrs. Haxall were certainly wealthy enough to have hired Latrobe and if they did not consult with him on rebuilding project, they must probably asked him to suggest an architect, he would have named one of his own pupils.

Union troops guarded the Thomas Viaduct and the thoroughfare to Baltimore City with a captured Winans Steam Gun while camping on Lawyers Hill, a community of summer estates built over the years by residents such as Caleb Dorsey (" Belmont "), Baltimore City Supreme Bench Judge George Washington Dobbin (" the Lawn "), Thomas Donaldson (" Edgewood "), John Latrobe (" Fairy-Knowe "), and the Penniman family home (" Wyndhurst ").

Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe ( May 1, 1764 – September 3, 1820 ) was a British-born American neoclassical architect best known for his design of the United States Capitol, along with his work on the Baltimore Basilica, the first Roman Catholic Cathedral in the United States.

Latrobe emigrated to the United States in 1796, initially settling in Virginia where he worked on the State Penitentiary in Richmond.

In 1803, he was hired as Surveyor of the Public Buildings of the United States, and spent much of the next fourteen years working on projects in Washington, D. C. Latrobe spent the later years of his life in New Orleans, working on a waterworks project, and died there in 1820 from yellow fever.

Benjamin Henry Latrobe was born on May 1, 1764 at the Fulneck Moravian Settlement, near Pudsey in West Yorkshire, England, to Reverend Benjamin Latrobe and Anna Margaretta Antes.

Latrobe had problems getting payment for his work on the project, and faced bankruptcy.

In 1795, after his wife's death, Latrobe suffered a breakdown and decided to emigrate to America, departing on November 25 aboard the Eliza.

While in Virginia, Latrobe worked on the Green Spring mansion near Williamsburg, which had been built by Governor Sir William Berkeley in the 17th century, but fell into disrepair after the American Revolutionary War.

Latrobe submitted several papers to the society, on his geology and natural history observations, and became a member of the society.

Following his work on the Philadelphia water works project, Latrobe worked as an engineer of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

In 1803, Jefferson hired Latrobe as surveyor of the Public Buildings of the United States, and to work on as superintendent of construction of the United States Capitol.

Latrobe worked on other transportation projects in Washington, D. C., including the Washington & Alexandria Turnpike which connected Washington with Alexandria, as well as a road connecting with Frederick, Maryland, and a third road, the Columbia Turnpike going through Bladensburg to Baltimore.

Latrobe also provided consulting on the construction of the Washington Bridge across the Potomac River in a way that would not impede navigation and commerce to Georgetown.

He resigned as Architect of the Capitol on November 20, 1817, and without this major commission, Latrobe faced difficulties and was forced into bankruptcy.

Latrobe also worked on projects in Baltimore, including the Baltimore Basilica, the first Roman Catholic Cathedral in the United States of America commissioned by John Carroll.

Latrobe also worked on the Baltimore Exchange project, with hopes of generating more financial capital to use for the waterworks project, completing the project in 1818.