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Plantation, Florida. / 26.12444°N 80.24944°W / 26.12444; -80.24944. Plantation is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the South Florida metropolitan area. The city's name comes from the previous part-owner of the land, the Everglades Plantation Company, and their unsuccessful attempts to establish a rice ...
The Plantation of Ulster ( Irish: Plandáil Uladh; Ulster Scots: Plantin o Ulstèr[ 1]) was the organised colonisation ( plantation) of Ulster – a province of Ireland – by people from Great Britain during the reign of King James VI and I. Most of the settlers (or planters) came from southern Scotland and northern England; their culture ...
The state received its name from that conquistador, who called the peninsula La Pascua Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called Pascua Florida (Festival of Flowers). [2] [3] [4] This area was the first mainland realm of the United States to be settled by Europeans, starting ...
The Grove, known officially as the Call/Collins House at The Grove, is an antebellum plantation house located in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. Territorial Governor Richard Keith Call constructed The Grove circa 1840. By 1851, Call deeded the property to his daughter, Ellen Call Long, who owned it until 1903.
He also acknowledged that he's still in contention to join the Democratic ticket at an event in Bloomington, Minnesota, highlighting a state law increasing criminal penalties for gun crimes.
Scottish Festival Orchestra. The Scottish Festival Orchestra is a Scottish orchestra, assembled from the leading professional orchestral musicians, regularly performing with a wide range of artists at many major venues throughout the country. Ben Folds, Nicola Benedetti, Belle and Sebastian, Idina Menzel and the Chieftains are only a few of the ...
For nine months, McKayla Kennard joked that she and her younger sister, Adrianna Kennard, were expecting “cousin twins.”. Then, on June 18, the siblings, who live in Akron, Ohio, welcomed ...
The first major influx of border English and Lowland Scots into Ulster came in the first two decades of the 17th century. First, before the Plantation of Ulster and even before the Flight of the Earls, there was the 1606 independent Scottish settlement in east Down and Antrim.