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The legend of "Claire of New Orleans" is born after two fishermen find a wedding dress floating around on the Mississippi River one day. The legend tells that the Countess Claire Ledux disappeared on her wedding day in the year of 1840, and when the dress was found, the people of New Orleans assumed that the bride had committed suicide by throwing herself into the river.
The company originated from John Westcott's Westcott Carriage Company which was founded in Richmond, Indiana in 1896. It was reorganized as the Westcott Motor Car Company in 1909. John Westcott sold his interest to Burton J. Westcott in 1916 and production moved to Springfield. [1] In 1917 output reached 2,000 cars with it peaking in 1920. [1] [2]
The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, was a runaway train event involving a CSX Transportation freight train in the U.S. state of Ohio on May 15, 2001.
Velie was a brass era American automobile brand produced by the Velie Motors Corporation in Moline, Illinois from 1908 to 1928. The company was founded by and named for Willard Velie, a maternal grandson of John Deere.
The CAA maintains directories of carriage collections, carriage museums, museums with carriage collections, and driving and carriage clubs. They organize tours, driving events, educational seminars, and symposia. Since 1963 the association has published the magazine The Carriage Journal approximately five times a year. They maintain a video ...
The present factory site on Monoosnock Creek was purchased and first developed in 1868. At its height in the early 1920s, the company produced 200,000 carriages per year, and employed between three and four hundred workers. The company's fortunes waned during the Great Depression, and it closed its doors in 1952. Francis A. Whitney, in addition ...
McFarlan Carriage Company was founded in 1856 by English-born John B. McFarlan (1822-1909). J. B. McFarlan's grandson, Alfred Harry McFarlan (1881-1937) ...
In 1893, Charles Patterson bought out the remaining shares of the J. P. Lowe & Company and the name was changed to C.R. Patterson, Son & Company, to mark the inclusion of his son Samuel to the business. [3] Samuel C. Patterson fell ill in 1897, and died in 1899. [3] His eldest son Frederick Douglas Patterson moved home to help with the business ...