[permalink] [id link]
The quarter section of land on which the original city was built, was entered by Henry G. Beard, in 1892.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
quarter and section
It modern terms this is called quarter sawn timber and has the least natural shrinkage of any cut section of wood.
This section requires, among other things, that the loan be for a term no longer than 5 years ( except for the purchase of a primary residence ), that a " reasonable " rate of interest be charged, and that substantially equal payments ( with payments made at least every calendar quarter ) be made over the life of the loan.
A prominent section of the old city is to this day called Evraiki ( Εβραική, meaning Jewish quarter ) in recognition of the Jewish contribution and continued presence in Corfu city.
T-L's variable-displacement hydraulic pump which is typically driven by a 480v, natural gas or diesel motor on standard quarter section pivots.
* Within each county, a quarter section of land shall be held in trust for the establishment of seats of justice therein, and also as many quarter-sections as the said legislative councils may deem proper for the permanent endowment of schools
In the first section, the left hand accompanies with a bass line written out in repeated quarter notes, in bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7.
Webbville thrived until 1828 when Beveridge and other Marianna settlers went to Tallahassee and enticed the Florida Legislature with free land, construction of a courthouse, a public square and $ 500 to purchase a quarter section of land to be sold at public auction as a way to finance the new government, if the county seat was moved to Marianna.
The full odds are paid if the horse wins, ( plus the place portion ), with a quarter or a fifth of the odds ( depending on the race-type and the number of runners ) if only the place section of the bet is successful.
The whores worked the saloons on the south side and in the southeast quarter of the town, as far as possible from the proper residential section north of Fremont Street.
To the east of Kell, the Kell road follows mostly modern quarter section roads, with occasional stretches of pioneer roads.
Williamsport was platted by ( and named for ) William Harrison on December 11, 1828, on the south end of the eastern fractional part of the northeast quarter of section 11, township 21, range 8.
A Peace Treaty Pageant, first presented in 1927 in an outdoor amphitheater on a quarter section of Kansas prairie, commemorates this significant event in Western history.
The District grew from a quarter section of farmland purchased by developers into a community.
Also a part of Clinton's history is the Wyoming house, a historic frame house that consists of three separate and distinct sections: the main block built in the third quarter of the 18th century, a c. 1800 kitchen, and a connecting two-bay section of c. 1850.
The Highlands is the most populated neighborhood, with almost a quarter of the city residing here, ZIP Code 01851, and is the southwestern section of the city, bordered to the east by the Lowell Connector and to the north by the railroad.
West Bridgewater is bordered by Brockton to the north, East Bridgewater to the east, Bridgewater to the south, and Easton to the west, as well as a small section ( less than a quarter of a mile long ) of the southwestern corner that borders the town of Raynham.
His home was on the Butternut Creek on the piece of property he purchased, the southwest quarter of section 19.
In 1830, land entries were recorded for William Harris for the southwest quarter of section 17 and Major G. Van Dwyer for the southwest quarter of section 13 ( the eastern portion of the section is now part of Galesburg ).
This plat for east half of the east half of the southwest quarter of section 28 was vacated by an act of the state Legislature on March 25, 1846.
The land purchase was recorded as the north half of the northwest quarter of section 33, which would have been, but in subsequent accounts was frequently described as.
quarter and land
Currently, almost a quarter of the country ’ s most productive land remains unoccupied because of the lingering effects of the 1998 – 2000 war with Ethiopia.
Although other countries have points extending north, virtually all of Finland is north of 60 degrees north latitude ; nearly a quarter of the land area and fully one-third of the latitudinal extent of the country lie north of the Arctic Circle.
At its height, the British Empire covered a quarter of the Earth's land area and comprised a quarter of its population.
Until the 19th century, cider was the largest agricultural export with up to a quarter of the agricultural land given over to orchards.
Telephones are much more accessible in urban areas, with less than a quarter of land lines being in rural areas.
Oman is located in the southeastern quarter of the Arabian Peninsula and covers a total land area of 309, 500 square kilometers.
Agriculture in Venezuela accounts for approximately 3 % of GDP, 10 % of the labor force, and at least a quarter of Venezuela's land area.
In 1893, the eleven outlying districts were incorporated within Zurich, including Aussersihl, the workmen's quarter on the left bank of the Sihl, and additional land was reclaimed from Zurich lake.
The Narmada – Tapi systems carry and enormous volume of water and provide drainage for almost a quarter of the land area of Madhya Pradesh.
Aircraft ( in particular transport aircraft ) comprised about a quarter of the shipments to Britain, followed by food, land vehicles and ships.
Roughly one quarter of the land lying between the summits of the Alps is available for cultivation.
By 1885 corn-growing land declined by a million acres ( 4, 000 km² ) ( 28½ %) and during 1886 the corn price decreased to 31 shillings a quarter.
Langdon, on the 17th of September, in the year following, made the first entry of land recorded in the county, being the east half of the quarter named.
The significance of quarter days is now limited, although leasehold payments and rents for land and premises in England are often still due on the old English quarter days.
Dwight was laid out on 30 January 1854 by Richard Price Morgan, Jr. ( 17 September 1828-20 May 1910 ), James C. Spencer ( 29 July 1828 – after 1990 ), and John Lathrop ( 6 March 1909 – May 1870 ), each of these three men took a quarter of the land.
All of the land around Reddick was plotted into sections, divided into quarter sections equaling 160 acres each, and usually tilled by one family.
At the time he lived to the west in Jackson County, The land entry was the northeast quarter off Section 30, Township 8 South, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian.
Their journey led them to Jay County, Indiana, and on 10 February 1835 Grisell received a Land Patent at the General Land Office at Fort Wayne, purchasing the land “ for the North East quarter of Section thirty-five, in Township twenty-four of Range twelve ,” which contained.
The city fathers moved approximately two miles west, and purchased a quarter of land that was deeded to the New Ulysses Town Company.
Most of the town's population lies either in the west side of town, along Sconticut Neck or in the village of East Fairhaven, with the northeast quarter of the town's land sparsely populated.
quarter and on
The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.
I've got a quarter of a million Germans in my state, and those krautheads tune in on Father Werther every night, and if he tells them to go out and piss in the public square, that's what they do.
This work is progressing on schedule and we expect to make initial shipments in the fourth quarter of this year.
About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).
But, again, we have no real evidence on this from that quarter until the close of the ninth century A.D., when an Arabic scholar, Tabit Ibn Korra ( 836-901 ) is said to have discussed the magic square of three.
Pope Leo 13, on the 13th day of December 1898, granted the following indulgences: `` An indulgence of three hundred days is granted to all the Faithful who read the Holy Gospels at least a quarter of an hour.
In Old Babylonian astronomy, Ea was the ruler of the southernmost quarter of the Sun's path, the " Way of Ea ", corresponding to the period of 45 days on either side of winter solstice.
* Raymond Rambert: Raymond Rambert is a journalist who is visiting Oran to research a story on living conditions in the Arab quarter of the town.
When a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the lee bow.
As the vessel gathers sternway the strain on the cable pivots the vessel around what is now the weather quarter turning the vessel onto the other tack.
In antiquity a bronze figure of Triton on the summit, with a rod in his hand, turned round by the wind, pointed to the quarter from which it blew.
The global financial crisis started to apply downward pressure on growth and employment in the last quarter of 2008.
His goal in the 3 – 1 group win over Argentina was his 25th for England in just 38 appearances, but his individual success could not be replicated by that of the team, which was eliminated in the quarter final by Brazil, who went on to win the tournament.
Passengers carried in the second quarter of 2011, at 322 million, were up 5. 9 % on the previous year.
Each hour consists of headlines on each quarter hour, extended at the top of the hour to form the main part of the daily schedule though these are interspaced with other programmes, generally at weekends.
U-27 was lying off Nicosians port quarter and firing into it when Baralong appeared on the scene, flying the ensign of the United States as a false flag.
Breviary, ink, paint and gold on parchment ; third quarter 15th century ( Walters Art Museum ).
Generally this is in a very small detail, such as the number of leaves on the ear of corn on the recent US Wisconsin state quarter: File: 2004 WI Proof. png.
The war-time restrictions on travel made this a boom time for Hollywood, and nearly a quarter of the money spent on attending movies.
Caltech is on the quarter system: the fall term starts in late September and ends before Christmas, the second term starts after New Years Day and ends in mid-March, and the third term starts in late March or early April and ends in early June.
If a 2, 000 ( lb / ac )/ year sequestration rate was achieved on all of cropland in the United States, nearly 1. 6 billion tons of carbon dioxide would be sequestered per year, mitigating close to one quarter of the country's total fossil fuel emissions.
Oceans are at present CO < sub > 2 </ sub > sinks, and represent the largest active carbon sink on Earth, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air.
Entering the fourth quarter, the Browns held a 10-3 advantage, but the Giants tied it then won it with two minutes left on a 49-yard field goal by Pat Summerall under snowy conditions.
0.712 seconds.