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The town of Rondout, New York ( on the Hudson River ) was essentially destroyed by a Federally funded urban renewal program in the 1960s, with more than 400 old buildings demolished, most of them historic brick structures built in the 1800s.
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The town is home to Kerhonkson Elementary school, one of three elementary schools within the Rondout Valley Central School District.
Rondout Creek flows north-east through the town near the center, receiving Coxingkill from the south, and Cottlekill from the north.
Joppenbergh Mountain ( left ), New York State Route 213 | Route 213 ( center ) and the Rondout Creek ( right ), viewed from the Rosendale trestle overlooking the town
Bruceville, in the west part of the town, on Rondout Creek, about two and a half miles from Rosendale, contains a store, a cement mill and fifteen dwellings.
Whiteport, in the north-east part of the town, is about four miles north from Rosendale, and about the same distance south-west of Rondout.
The New York State Thruway ( Interstate 87 ) passes through the town, and the Rondout Creek joins the Wallkill River by the east town line.
* Creeklocks – A hamlet at the east town line, south of Bloomington and on the west bank of Rondout Creek.
* Hickory Bush – A hamlet in the northeast part of the town, south of Whiteport and located on the west bank of Rondout Creek.
In 1869 the town of Rosendale issued municipal bonds to pay for its portion of the Wallkill Valley Railroad, and construction of a railroad bridge spanning the Rondout Creek began the following year.
Rondout Creek passes through the town, as do the Sandburgh, Laurenkill, Beerkill, Fantinekill and VerNooykill creeks.
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A Southerner married to a New Englander, I have lived for many years in a Connecticut commuting town with a high percentage of artists, writers, publicity men, and business executives of egghead tastes.
The Abner Doubleday Little League and Babe Ruth Fields in Ballston Spa, New York, the town of his birth.
* 1944 – World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
The town we now call Accrington covers two townships which were established in 1507 following disafforestation ; those of Old Accrington and New Accrington which were merged in 1878 with the incorporation of the borough council.
Before the Civil War, baseball competed for public interest with cricket and regional variants of baseball, notably town ball played in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Game played in New England.
In his 20s he attended barber school, got married, and moved first to Roy, New Mexico then returned to Turkey in Hall County ( now considered his home town ) to work as a barber at Hamm's Barber Shop.
For the remainder of his life he spent time between Albuquerque, New Mexico and Florida, living the last 13 years of his life in Archer, Florida, a small farming town near Gainesville.
The French period Ville Nouvelle ( New Town ) of Casablanca was designed by the French architect Henri Prost, and was a model of a new town at that time.
Dartmouth College is situated in the rural town of Hanover, New Hampshire, located in the Upper Valley along the Connecticut River in New England.
His grandfather was a newspaper printer from New Jersey who had relocated to Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855, and his father was editor of his own newspaper in the town.
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The town has strong local travel links as Accrington railway station lies on the East Lancashire Line serving trains running locally and trains running from Blackpool to York.
The birthplace of FDR at SpringwoodRoosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York.
LaGuardia then went after the gangsters with a vengeance, stating in a radio address to the people of New York in his high-pitched, squeaky voice, " Let's drive the bums out of town.
In 2000 there was a fatal rail crash on the line that runs through the town from London to York, in which four people lost their lives.
Castles mentioned within the story include Ashby de la Zouch Castle ( now a ruin in the care of English Heritage ), York ( though the mention of Clifford's Tower, likewise a still standing English Heritage property, is anachronistic, it not having been called that until later after various rebuilds ) and ' Coningsburgh ', which is based upon Conisbrough Castle, in the ancient town of Conisbrough near Doncaster ( the castle also being a popular English Heritage site ).
, LeRoy, New York, is still known as the home of Jell-O and has the only Jell-O Museum in the world, which is located on the main road through the small town.
Regardless, the brothers went back to New York, specifically Lansing, New York, to sell plots for the town that did not exist.
Upon arriving in New York, he spent most of his first weeks in town trying to get in contact with Charlie Parker, despite being advised against doing so by several people he met during his quest, including saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.
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