The portion of Oregon territory acquired by the United States later formed the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, and parts of the states of Montana and Wyoming.

Originating in Seattle, Washington, as the Seattle Pilots, the club played for one season in 1969 before being acquired in bankruptcy court by current MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and then moved to Milwaukee.

They later acquired houses in Lenox, Massachusetts and in Washington, District of Columbia.

* Bright Star Technology in Bellevue, Washington, founded 1980, acquired 1992.

Offense was led by Chad Maddox (. 307 ) and Ryan Wehrle (. 317 ), and in August, Frontier League all-star Ernie Banks was acquired from the Washington Wild Things and hit. 353 on the season.

The power play was one of the NHL's worst however, so Adam Oates, the third leading point-producer in the league at the time, was acquired from Washington at the trade deadline.

On February 17, 2010, the Cavaliers acquired All-Star forward Antawn Jamison from the Washington Wizards and Sebastian Telfair from the LA Clippers in a three way trade.

They also acquired Rick Mahorn in a trade with the Washington Bullets.

The Nuggets picked 20th in the 2005 NBA Draft ; it was acquired from the Washington Wizards via the Orlando Magic.

George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Washington, acquired the land that now is Arlington National Cemetery in 1802, and began construction of Arlington House.

On February 9, 1971, Ridgewood Village acquired area from Washington Township.

Additional territories were acquired from Randolph Township ( in 1806 ) and Washington Township ( 1840 and 1853 ).

The village that eventually became Bridgeville acquired its name from the very first bridge built at the crossing of Chartiers Creek at the south end of what is now Washington Avenue.

With the eminent construction of the Central Washington Railroad ( later acquired by the Northern Pacific ) through the area in 1889, Davis was approached by land developers Odgers and Reed who were looking to start a town on the site.

In 1858, the Mount Vernon Ladies ' Association of the Union, under the leadership of Ann Pamela Cunningham, acquired the mansion and a portion of the land from Washington's great-grandnephew, John A. Washington, Jr., rescuing it from a state of disrepair and neglect.

The company acquired two steam ships, the Washington and the Hermann which made journeys to Europe.

In 1931, after a series of negotiations, 21 works of art from the Hermitage were acquired by Andrew W. Mellon, who later donated them to form a nucleus of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C. ( See also Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings ).

After his time in Dartmouth, D ' Souza moved to Washington, D. C., where he served from 1985 to 1987 as an editor of Policy Review, an influential conservative journal then published by the Heritage Foundation ( and since acquired by the Hoover Institution ).

Currently, shareholders are fighting what they consider the illegal seizure of Washington Mutual through such websites as WaMuCoup. com and others, claiming that the OTS acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner and seized the bank for political reasons or for the benefit of JPMorgan Chase, which acquired a large network of branches at what they claim to be an unfairly low price.

On February 25, 2010, DC Agenda acquired the assets of The Washington Blade from the US Bankruptcy Court.

In the late 1970s CMRI acquired the old Jesuit scholasticate Mount Saint Michael in Spokane, Washington, making it their congregation's center.

The Washington Post and the New York Times acquired joint control of the European edition, renaming it the International Herald Tribune.

A drawing of Daly by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury ( 1862 – 1947 ) was acquired in 2009 by the American National Portrait Gallery in Washington D. C.

According to a 2002 book by the popular writers James Moseley and Karl Pflock, in early 1957, Jessup was contacted by the Office of Naval Research ( ONR ) in Washington, D. C., and was asked to study the contents of a parcel that it had received.

Bushnell State Park, and a parcel adjacent to the New Preston village center, which the Town of Washington purchased in 2010 with money from its open space fund.

In 1786, the Hardin family settled on a large parcel of land in Washington County, Virginia ( now Washington County, Kentucky ), where they farmed and raised stock.

Washington and his friends ," Croghan wrote to Joseph Wharton, Jr. and to Michael Gratz, " I have sold a parcel of lands to Coll Washington ,", but there were no further sales beyond in today's Perryopolis, Pennsylvania.

Washington Hawkins, the eldest son who has drifted through life on his father ’ s early promise that he would be “ one of the richest men in the world ,” finally gives up the family's ownership of the still-unimproved land parcel when he cannot afford to pay its $ 180 of taxes.

Mount Washington State Park is a parcel perched on the summit of Mount Washington, the highest peak in the northeastern United States.

A P-Patch is a parcel of property used for gardening allotments ; the term is specific to Seattle, Washington.

Governor Norborne Berkeley finally fulfilled Dinwiddie's promise in 1769 – 1770, with Washington subsequently receiving title to near where the Kanawha River flows into the Ohio River, in what is now western West Virginia.

The town ’ s most important early visitor was General George Washington, who passed through the town in 1770 on his way to Wethersfield.

In 1770, George Washington and his friend and personal surveyor, William Crawford ( soldier ), embarked on a journey down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh for the purpose of viewing lands to be apportioned among soldiers who had served in the French and Indian War.

In 1770, the future U. S. president George Washington, then a surveyor, began exploring large tracts of land west of his native Virginia.

In 1770, Washington took the lead in securing the rights of him and his old soldiers in the French War, advancing money to pay expenses in behalf of the common cause and using his influence in the proper quarters.

In August 1770, it was decided that Washington should personally make a trip to the western region, where he located tracts for himself and military comrades and eventually was granted letters patent for tracts of land there.

Later, Christopher Gist and George Washington surveyed the land, in 1751 and 1770, respectively.

By 1770, Washington was publicly condemning Gage's actions in asserting British authority in Massachusetts.

In 1770, near the junction of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, George Washington recorded in his journal a sycamore measuring nearly in circumference at from the ground.

In response to a series of Parliamentary taxes on the colonies, Blair joined George Washington and others in 1770 and again in 1774 to draft nonimportation agreements which pledged their supporters to cease importing British goods until the taxes were repealed.

Of the upper Ohio Valley, assessing the Allegheny, George Washington writes in his journal for Saturday, Nov. 17, 1770, " The Indians who are very dexterous, even their women, in the Management of Canoes, have there Hunting Camps & Cabins all along the River for the convenience of Transporting their Skins by Water to Market.

Union Square is noted for its impressive equestrian statue of U. S. President George Washington, modeled by Henry Kirke Brown and unveiled in 1856, the first public sculpture erected in New York City since the equestrian statue of George III in 1770, and the first American equestrian sculpture cast in bronze.

In 1770 Crawford and Washington travelled down the Ohio River to choose the land to be given to the regiment's veterans.

Gone now from the property is the old log house where George Washington spent the night on October 9, 1770, during his last visit to Romney.

" Chalkey's Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia ": extracted ..., Volume II " states: " In 1770 William Herbert made a settlement upon wasted and unappropriated land on Cubb Creek in Washington County, and occupied it until 1776, when his overseer was killed by the Indians when Rawley Duncan took possession.

In a 1770 trip down Pattersons Creek George Washington pointed out the place where the fort had stood indicating it has fallen to nothing within 15 years.