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The 1878 history describes the community of Burlington Green as having two churches, a general store, lawyer office, hotel, gristmill, creamery, two blacksmith shops, two wagon shops, a cooper and shoe shop and photography studio, but " This village at one time was a place of much more mercantile and manufacturing interest than at present, having a comb-factory, a hattery, two tanneries, an iron-foundry, a furniture-factory, three stores, two hotels, a cloth-dressing and wool carding-factory, and a card factory.
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The strategic importance of the Bosphorus remains high, and control over it has been an objective of a number of hostilities in modern history, notably the Russo – Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, as well as of the attack of the Allied Powers on the Dardanelles during the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli in the course of World War I.
After naval studies in England between 1871 and 1878, Togo's role as Chief Admiral of the Grand Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War made him a legend in Japanese military history, and earned him the nickname ' Nelson of the Orient ' in Britain.
The Knights of Labor had a mixed history of inclusiveness and exclusiveness, accepting women and blacks ( after 1878 ) and their employers as members, and advocating the admission of blacks into local assemblies, but tolerating the segregation of assemblies in the South.
Sir John A. Macdonald was second-in-line, with 19 years, as the longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history ( 1867 – 1873, 1878 – 1891 ).
* August 9 – The Wallingford Tornado of 1878, the deadliest tornado in Connecticut history, destroys the town of Wallingford, killing 34 people and injuring 70 or more.
Lastly, the work of Célestin Port, Dictionnaire historique, géographique et biographique de Maine-et-Loire ( 3 vols., Paris and Angers, 1874 – 1878 ), and its small volume of Préliminaires ( including a summary of the history of Anjou ), contain, in addition to the biographies of the chief counts of Anjou, a mass of information concerning everything connected with Angevin history.
The building was significant both for its location and history: having stood on one of the most valuable lots in the city centre since 1878 the building had for example served as the first main building of the University of Turku.
During this golden era of Galveston's history, the city was home to a number of state firsts that include among others the first post office ( 1836 ), the first naval base ( 1836 ), the first Texas chapter of a Masonic order ( 1840 ); the first cotton compress ( 1842 ), the first parochial school ( Ursuline Academy ) ( 1847 ), the first insurance company ( 1854 ), the first gas lights ( 1856 ), the first opera house ( 1870 ), the first orphanage ( 1876 ), the first telephone ( 1878 ) and the first electric lights ( 1883 ).
Blessed Pope Pius IX ( 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878 ), born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, was the longest-reigning elected Pope in the history of the Catholic Church, serving from 16 June 1846 until his death, a period of nearly 32 years.
Though arson was suspected, no arrest was made until January 1878, when Henry Wells, an African American with some criminal history was arrested and locked in the garett of the new building, which had been erected in 1877.
The Martin Homeplace Museum showcases artifacts and memorabilia from Caldwell Parish's rich cultural history in a farmhouse built in 1878 on an 1816 Spanish Land Grant.
Though arson was suspected, no arrest was made until January 1878 when Henry Wells, an African American with a criminal history, was arrested and locked in the garret of the new building.
The surrounding area had a reputation for being poorly drained, which prompted the following verses published in the 1878 county history:
An 1889 history that covered several Indiana counties says that in 1878 the town had several stores, a blacksmith shop, a church, school, and a printing office.
The economic history of Edgard included a saw mill operated by Severin Tassin, a brick factory begun in 1878 and several sugar plantations that operated in the century between 1794 and 1894.
Key events in Novinger history include the arrival of the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific railroad and filing of the town plat by founder John C. Novinger in 1878, the establishment of a U. S. Post Office the next year, and the first shaft coal mine in 1883.
According to Samuel T. Worcester's history which was commissioned by the town selectmen in 1878, the town was incorporated in the province of New Hampshire on April 3, 1746, " to have continence forever by the name of Holles ..."
1878 history of the county states the acreage as 27, 217, with an assessed valuation of $ 421, 450 and equalized valuation of $ 473, 576.
The town built by the DuBois brothers and established as a borough in 1878 is by no means the beginning of the history of Duboistown.
* Detailed history of Cumberland, from History of the State of Rhode Island, by Albert J. Wright, 1878.
In England, too, Froude's Irish history had its critics, most notably William Edward Hartpole Lecky in his History of England in the Eighteenth Century, the first volumes of which were published in 1878, and in reviews in Macmillan's Magazine.
Its history of European-Canadian settlement began in 1878 when the first pioneers arrived.
According to the 1878 history Morris contained, assessed valuation $ 834, 276, equalized $ 502, 331.
1878 and describes
In 1878, his birthplace was still of note: " The site of Cromwell's birthplace is still pointed out by tradition, and is in some measure confirmed by the survey of Wimbledon Manor, quoted above, for it describes on that spot ' an ancient cottage called the smith's shop, lying west of the highway from Richmond to Wandsworth, being the sign of the Anchor.
Jules Verne describes in his novel Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen ( 1878 ) that when a fictional African " King of Kazounde " tasted a punch set aflame, " An act of spontaneous combustion had just taken place.
1878 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
* The 1878 Bret Harte poem The Spelling Bee at Angels describes a spelling contest held at a California gold mining camp.
The 1878 edition ofThe Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information describes loxodrome lines as:
A Compendium of Irish Biography ( 1878 ) describes him as:
There, in spring 1878, Rosenberg obtained some small backing and formed a troupe including Spivakovsky ; Broder singers " Schmul with the Hoarse Throat ", " Boris Budgoy " ( Boris Holtzerman ), Laizer Duke, Aaron Schrage ; Jacob Adler, at that time new to performing ; Sophia ( Sonya ) Oberlander, who later married Adler ; and Masha Moskovich, whom Adler in his memoir describes as " a red-gold-haired beauty "; and various others, including singers from a local synagogue choir.
In a personal letter dated February 2, 1878 he writes back to a childhood friend and art collector, on Middlesex Street in Lowell, Massachusetts, addressed to Mrs. F. Cutting, that describes his hectic work schedule as an artist:
1878 and community
In 1904 he married Ethel Hester Moore ( 1878 – 1961 ), and in 1907 he moved with his family to " Sopers ", a house in the village of Ditchling in Sussex, which would later become the centre of an artists ' community inspired by Gill.
Donaldson was named after Captain Hugh Donaldson, a veteran and American Civil War officer who came to the area in 1878 and became a dominant figure of the community.
It was founded by Mormon settlers ( James Pearce ) in January 1878, several months before the neighboring community of Snowflake, Arizona.
The reported healing properties of these springs led to the creation of a small community ; a post office was established on April 26, 1878, and the city was formally laid out in 1885.
The community was and is predominately Catholic and they built their own church in 1878 which was the town's first structure.
In 1878, Benjamin " Pap " Singleton chose Dunlap as the site for his second Singleton Colony, a community of freedmen who had migrated from Tennessee, because of land available under the Homestead Act.
In August 1878, the town was renamed Rushmore in honor of the pioneer shopkeeper, and the community grew rapidly.
In 1878, the community built a two story wood frame school building in the northern part of the village and Miss.
In 1878 he circulated a petition in 1878 to the community recommending that that the name be revised and on July 30, 1879, the Post Office name was changed from " Parkersville " to " Little Silver ".
Times immediately after the close of the war must have been difficult, but by 1878 the little community had succeeded in getting a post office established.
In October 1878, the Dayton, Sheridan and Grande Ronde Railroad, a narrow gauge railway, reached the community.
In 1878 Calvert was a thriving community with some fifty-two businesses.
The community was settled in 1878 by a band of thirteen Mormons led by Jefferson Tidwell.
The community was named in 1878 by the United States Post Office Department, which selected from three names suggested by a resident named William Johnson: " Johnson ," " Ruth ," and " Boaz.
Early on, Carrollton's livelihood was exclusively agricultural, but following the construction of the Dallas-Wichita Railroad through Trinity Mills in 1878, the community began to grow in its industrial significance.
The settlement was established in 1878, when New York investor and financier William Whitewright Jr. ( b. 1815-d. 1898 ), for whom his family name was the community named, purchased a tract of land in the path of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, which was then extending its tracks across the county from Sherman to Greenville.
In 1878, the company surveyed lots for the permanent settlement of Rat Portage (" portage to the country of the muskrat ") — the community kept that name until 1905, when it was renamed to Kenora.
In 1878, Hearst built another wharf far inside the bay and the small community that had been developing near the old wharf now moved to be nearer the new wharf.
After the reluctance on the part of many bishops to accept them, due to their reliance upon donations for their maintenance, a community was finally established in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1878.
The earliest record of Toronto's Chinese community is traced to Sam Ching, who owned a hand laundry business on Adelaide Street in 1878.
Luxton was not initially supportive of Premier Robert A. Davis ( 1874 – 1878 ), but endorsed the Davis ministry after brought John Norquay into cabinet ( Davis's early supporters were primarily from the francophone community, and Norquay's presence gave the ministry greater credibility among the anglophone population ).
In 1878, David Henry Day arrived in the community.
He continued the practice of law in that community until his death on March 6, 1878.
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