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December 22, 1983 (100, 200, and 300 blocks of Pine St. Amasa: This historic district contains structures primarily built between 1890 and 1920. The district includes the township hall, a railroad depot, a church, four bars, a senior citizen's center, a lumber company office, three commercial structures, and one single-family residence.
Runnymede is a water-meadow alongside the River Thames in the English county of Surrey, bordering Berkshire and just over 20 miles (32 km) west of central London.It is notable for its association with the sealing of Magna Carta, and as a consequence is, with its adjoining hillside, the site of memorials.
Production boomed, and in 1902, the company also began construction of a nearby village, dubbed Marlborough, for plant workers. By 1905, Marlborough had 400 citizens. [ 3 ] However, problems quickly arose, as the produced cement was inferior, production was costly, and the enormous energy demands of the plant required construction of the ...
Location of Michigan within the United States. The following is a List of Michigan State Historic Sites.The register is maintained by the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, which was established in the late 1960s after the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. [1]
In 1823, Lemuel Taylor moved from New York state to settle on a 400-acre parcel of land at this location on Stony Creek. He built a dam and gristmill, which opened in 1824 and provided a base for a small community. By 1825, the village had a blacksmith, distillery, store, and post office. A hotel was built in the 1830s.
In 1927, the Packard Motor Car Company acquired a 560-acre (2.3 km 2) site north of their factory, intending to build an automotive testing facility. The company hired Albert Kahn to design the buildings of the facility, which was opened in 1928. Packard operated the facility until their 1957 collapse, after which Ford Motor Company bought it ...
A second quarry was opened in the area, and eventually two large companies, the Lake Huron Stone Company and the Cleveland Stone Company, took over all operations in the area. [2] By 1888, Grindstone City had a population of about 1500, and the two companies employed 200 men. Both companies rented houses to workmen and operated a company store.
The company modeled the development on Rosedale Park in Detroit. The first wood-sided houses were built in 1925. When the Great Depression hit, construction stopped for a time; the developer bricked over existing homes, and continued with brick construction when building resumed later in the 1930s. 69: St. Florian Historic District