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Sparsely-populated Keeweenaw County was a mining center in the later 19th century but in the 20th century turned into a resort community.
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He was finally found in the Bates Hole region of Natrona County, two counties away.
For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.
In presenting plans for such express buses before the Montgomery County Council, the administrator of the NCTA, C. Darwin Stolzenbach, was frankly seeking support for the projects his agency will soon be launching.
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The Essex bridge was a toll crossing until 1868, when the County Commissioners laid out all the Merrimack bridges as highways.
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Of Scotch-Irish-Scandinavian descent, Greer Garson was born in County Down, Ireland.
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 paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.
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.
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Jackson's father was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in current-day Northern Ireland, around 1738.
County and mining
Approximately 75 % of the island's population is located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ) which includes all of Cape Breton County and is often referred to as Industrial Cape Breton, given the history of coal mining and steel manufacturing in this area.
A village in the UK is a compact settlement of houses, smaller in size than a town, and generally based on agriculture or, in some areas, mining ( such as Ouston, County Durham ), quarrying or sea fishing.
Goldbearing limonite gossans were productively mined in the Shasta County, California mining district.
Stephen F. Austin was born in the mining regions of southwestern Virginia ( Wythe County ), in what is now known as Austinville some west of Richmond, Virginia .< ref >
The County still contains extensive natural resources that could be tapped, but the jobs produced from new mining activity may be at a similar level as those replaced by technology.
Phosphate mining also played a major part in the history of the County until the end of WWII in which phosphate mining was largely moved overseas.
In the beginning, the area that became Kern County was dominated by mining in the mountains and in the desert.
County government was created in 1866 with the county seat in the mining town of Havilah, in the mountains between Bakersfield and Tehachapi.
One of the strikes was a mining strike in Clay County, and the other was a railroad workers ' strike in Logansport ; both groups were unhappy with large wage cuts.
On February 1, 2006, two fatal mining accidents occurred in the communities of Uneeda and Wharton in Boone County.
* 1590 Spanish explorer Gaspar Castaño de Sosa leads a mining expedition of 170 who pass through the western section of Crockett County to reach the Pecos River.
White County was the site of a very large saltpeter mining operation during the Civil War.
The coal mining industry employed thousands of White County men for decades, but as the 20th century went on, the mines started to close and the people started to move away, and the industry had vanished by the time of World War II.
Cravens was also mining Nickajack Cave in nearby Marion County.
As Pittsburgh developed in the mid-19th century, Fayette County become a center of coal mining and coke production.
The initial economic interest in Union County was mining, but most of the mines were in the area annexed by Baker County in 1901.
The Lakeview area of Lake County also includes a perlite mine and once included uranium mining ( now subject to clean-up operations ).
Coal mining, both strip and underground, has been an important industry in Meigs County since the late 19th century, although mining of all types largely ceased by the 1990s.
At the turn of the century, gold mining was a successful industry in Catawba County.
The county's first boom came in the early 20th century, when Rhyolite and Tonopah, as well as Goldfield in nearby Esmeralda County were all experiencing mining booms.
Created in 1861, Lander County sprang forth as the result of a mining boom on the Reese River, along the old pony express line ; taking a considerable portion of Churchill and Humboldt counties with it.
By the start of the American Civil War in 1861 there were several small river mill settlements, some mining camps and about nine or ten towns ( seven platted ) in Jasper County, Missouri.
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