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Grafton and farm
Much of the surrounding farm land falls within the estate of the Duke of Grafton.
Ritchie was born on a farm in Grafton, North Dakota to J. C. and Charlotte Ritchie, and his family moved to Washington state when he was seven.
Like all Willard brothers, Simon was born on the family farm, in Grafton, on April 3, 1753.
Some current businesses and community buildings include the Haldimand Memorial Arena, the Grafton Community Centre & Library, Grafton Public School, St. Marys Elementary School, Grafton Variety, Prentice's Garage, The Durham Farmers Co-op farm and feed store, the Bullpen, 1812 Antiques, Lantern Books, the Grafton Village Inn and the Lawless Art Gallery.

Grafton and which
Juanita drooped about the place, wearing a haunted, brooding look, which Kate attributed to the baby's death, until the day a letter came for her addressed to `` Miss Juanita Fitzroy '', bearing a Grafton postmark.
Vermont has three creameries that produce what is regarded as first-class Cheddar: the Cabot Creamery, which produces the sixteen-month-old Private Stock Cheddar ; the Grafton Village Company ; and Shelburne Farms.
The PI novel was a male-dominated field in which female authors seldom found publication until Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton were finally published in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Rivers published the results of his experimental treatment of patients at Craiglockhart in paper for The Lancet, " On the Repression of War Experience ", and began to record interesting cases in his book Conflict and Dream which was published a year after his death by his close friend Grafton Elliot Smith.
Such a theory was at odds with the hyper-diffusionism purported by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith which argued that all the cultural traits associated with civilisation must have originated from a single source.
There is a walking track that takes in the northern end of the island, the lighthouse on the north-west point which overlooks Little Fitzroy Island, and the island's peak, which offers stunning 360 degree views over the surrounding reefs and Cape Grafton.
Nudey Beach can be accessed by heading along the trail at the southern end of the resort, and leads along the edge of the island through rainforest, with occasional glimpses out to Cape Grafton, and then descends to Nudey Beach, which was once a nude bathing beach, with some coral available for snorkelers.
It is located along the former Mud Turnpike, much of which is the present New York State Route 2 to Grafton and Williamstown.
Nathaniel Dumbleton, who was first elected to the office of supervisor, moved to the town from Grafton, Vermont, and tradition says that through his influence the town received the name which it has since borne.
nevertheless many of the inhabitants of Grafton have farms which, by years of constant care and cultivation, have been rendered almost as productive as any within the county.
The territory consists of fifteen townships, which are Riley, Grafton, Andover North Surplus, Andover West Surplus, Township C, C Surplus, Richardsontown, Adamstown, Lower Cupsuptic, Parkertown, Upper Cupsuptic, Lynchtown, Oxbow, Parmachenee, and Bowmantown.
Moore attended several Dublin schools including Samuel Whyte's English Grammar School in Grafton Street where he learned the English accent with which he spoke for the rest of his life.
However, internal dissent within the cabinet led to his resignation and the appointment of Lord Chatham as Prime Minister ( the Duke of Grafton was appointed First Lord of the Treasury, one of the few cases in which those two offices were separate ).
The false miracle for example ( dramatised in 2. 1 ) is found only in Grafton, not in Hall or Holinshed ( although a similar scene is also outlined in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Book of Martyrs ( 1563 ), with which Shakespeare may have been familiar ).
One such figure is Margaret of Anjou, and Roger Warren argues that Shakespeare may have taken the inspiration for Margaret's sorrowful departure from Suffolk ( which is found nowhere in Hall, Holinshed or Grafton ) from this poem.
In November 1910, Fry organised the exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists ( a term which he coined ) at the Grafton Galleries, London.
In 1929 Paramount was building a new studio in Grafton, Wisconsin, so it sent Charlie Patton — ' sent up ' by Jackson, Mississippi storeowner H. C. Speir — to the studio of Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana, where on June 14 he cut 14 famous sides which led many to consider him the " Father of the Delta Blues ".
Location of Grafton ( town ), WisconsinAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 21. 4 square miles ( 55. 5 km² ), of which, 19. 8 square miles ( 51. 3 km² ) of it is land and 1. 6 square miles ( 4. 1 km² ) of it ( 7. 47 %) is water.
In 1838, Timothy Wooden purchased approximately of land, which became the business district of Grafton.
A small community called Ulao, which was located just east of Grafton, was annexed by Grafton.
* Grafton was home to Paramount Records, which produced blues and jazz records by artists between 1918 and 1935.
* Grafton is home to the first Costco Store in Wisconsin, which opened on August 30, 2007.
* Grafton is home to the new Aurora Medical Center which opened in November 2010.

Grafton and held
Writing for the court, Chief Justice Grafton Green rejected this argument, holding that the Tennessee Religious Preference clause was designed to prevent the establishment of a state religion as had been the experience in England and Scotland at the writing of the Constitution, and held:
Between 1808 and 1810, he held a personal friendship with Latin American Independence Precursor Francisco de Miranda and paid visits to Miranda's Grafton Way house in London.
Clayton also may have been inspired by Anna Jarvis ' crusade to establish Mother's Day ; two months prior, Jarvis had held a celebration for her dead mother in Grafton, West Virginia, a town about 15 miles ( 24 km ) away from Fairmont.
In a 3-1 decision written by Chief Justice Grafton Green the Butler Act was held to be constitutional, but overturned Scopes ' conviction on a technicality: the judge had set the fine instead of the jury.
Other locations where regattas are held include locations across NSW at Manning River in Taree, Lake Jindabyne, Lake Entrance and Grafton.
Grafton is also known as the Jacaranda City, in reference to its tree-lined streets and annual Jacaranda Festival, held in October / November.
Grafton is also well known for the Grafton Cup horse race, held yearly on the second Thursday in July.
The street is generally held to be named after Henrietta, the wife of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, although an alternative candidate is Henrietta, the wife of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton.
* Dissent without Rockingham's ministry resulted in his resignation and the appointment of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham as Prime Minister, holding the title of Lord Privy Seal but not First Lord of the Treasury, which was held by the Duke of Grafton.
It has been suggested that they received the name because they often held meetings at the Cairo Cafe at 59 Grafton Street in Dublin.

Grafton and original
Many homes in the Vernon Hill and Grafton Hill neighborhoods have been restored to their original appearance inside and out.
In the United States, the original hardboiled style has been emulated by innumerable writers, including Chester Himes, Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, Robert B. Parker, Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, and Walter Mosley.
* Willard house Museum, located in Grafton, Mass., the original homestead of Simon Willard, home to the largest collection of Simon Willard clocks and his patented timepieces.
The original model had been called the Grafton wall clock.
The original Grover's Tavern, the namesake building of the hamlet, still stands today as the Grafton Village Inn, a restaurant and B & B in the heart of the hamlet.
From 1785 through the early 1950s there continued to be a limited community made up of some of the descendants of the original Hassanamisco families residing in Grafton and in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts but only two percent of the Nipmuc petitioners members descend from the Hassanamisco property-owning families.

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