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Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.
Rosemount (Forkland, Alabama) Boxwood Plantation Slave Quarter, Courtland, AL, NRHP-listed. Dudley Snow House, Alabama. Faunsdale Plantation, Alabama. Glencairn (Greensboro, Alabama) Magnolia Grove (Greensboro, Alabama) First National Bank (Huntsville, Alabama) Boxwood Plantation Slave Quarter, Alabama.
The Encyclopedia of Louisville (2014) described slave quarters in the border-state city: "Generally, urban slaves' quarters were connected to their owners' property, usually in 'servant's rooms.' A typical newspaper ad from this period described a brick house for sale as having eleven rooms, two passages, a large kitchen, three servants' rooms ...
Her room — 14 foot, 8 inch-by-13 foot — went unnoticed for decades. The space was converted into a men's bathroom in 1941, considered by some as the final insult to Hemings' legacy. See images ...
Perdido (Spanish for lost) is the deepest floating oil platform in the world at a water depth of about 2,450 meters (8,040 feet) operated by the Shell Oil Company in the Gulf of Mexico. [ 1] The platform is located in the Perdido fold belt which is a rich discovery of crude oil and natural gas. The Perdido spar began production in 2010 and its ...
The Seward Plantation is a historic Southern plantation-turned-ranch in Independence, Texas. Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century. The complex included everything from the main residence down to the pens for livestock. Until the abolition of slavery, such ...
Based on CoreLogic ’s data, the top five states for equity gains year-over-year are: California: $64,000. Massachusetts: $61,000. New Jersey: $59,000. Hawaii: $58,000. [tie] New Hampshire and ...
The America the Beautiful quarters (sometimes abbreviated ATB quarters) were a series of fifty-six 25-cent pieces issued by the United States Mint, which began in 2010 and lasted until 2021. [1] The obverse (front) of all the coins depicts George Washington in a modified version of the portrait used for the original 1932 Washington quarter . [ 2 ]