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The United States General Land Office was an independent agency of the United States government responsible for public domain lands in the United States. It was created in 1812, and it merged with the United States Grazing Service in 1946 to become the Bureau of Land Management .
Location of Vermilion Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. The locations of National Register ...
The first of 362 land offices was opened at Steubenville, Ohio, on July 2, 1800; the last at Newcastle, Wyoming, on March 1, 1920. The peak year for land offices was 1890, with 123 in operation. The subsequent closing of the public domain gradually reduced the number of land offices, until, in 1933, only 25 offices remained.
Hans Christian Heg (December 21, 1829 – September 20, 1863) was a Norwegian American abolitionist, journalist, anti-slavery activist, politician and soldier, best known for leading the Scandinavian 15th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment on the Union side in the American Civil War.
Hegg is an unincorporated community located in the town of Ettrick, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, United States. [1] The community was named for Hans Christian Heg [ sic ], an antislavery activist.
The iron ore of the Mesabi Range and the Vermilion Range led to the development of the cities of Chisholm, Hibbing, Virginia, and Ely. Three of the iron mines are National Historic Landmarks: Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, Mountain Iron Mine, and the underground Soudan Iron Mine.
Vermilion County is a county in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois, between the Indiana border and Champaign County. It was established in 1826 and was the 45th of Illinois' 102 counties. It was established in 1826 and was the 45th of Illinois' 102 counties.
Vermilion is a city in Erie and Lorain counties in the U.S. state of Ohio, on Lake Erie. Its population was 10,659 at the 2020 census . [ 5 ] Located about 35 miles west of Cleveland and 17 miles east of Sandusky , it is part of the Cleveland metropolitan area and Sandusky micropolitan area .