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Uncle Sam diamond. Uncle Sam is the nickname for the largest diamond ever discovered in the United States. It was found in 1924 in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, at the Prairie Creek pipe mine, which later became known as the Crater of Diamonds State Park.
A. ^ Harry Winston Diamond Mines owns 40% and Diavik Diamond Mines, which is 100% owned by the Rio Tinto, owns 60%. B. ^ Dominion Diamond Corporation owns 88.9% while Charles Fipke and Stewart Blusson each own 10%.
In the resulting conflict, mines were flooded by sabotage, and on July 17 a crowd of union miners and sympathizers destroyed the surface plant of the Prairie Creek coal mine #3 and murdered two non-union miners. [1] Resulting litigation in federal courts stretched to an out-of-court settlement of a nominal $27,500 in 1927.
Prairie Creek may refer to: Prairie Creek, Arkansas; Prairie Creek, Florida in Alachua County, FL; Prairie Creek, Indiana; Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, in California; Prairie Creek (California) Prairie Creek (Iowa River tributary), a stream in Iowa; Prairie Creek (Brush Creek tributary), a stream in Missouri
The Prairie Creek Site is an archaeological site in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. Located approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Washington in Daviess County , it lies along the southern bank of the westward-flowing Prairie Creek, a White River tributary.
Prairie Creek is a stream in the west central Douglas County, Missouri. [1] It is a tributary of Cowskin Creek. The stream headwaters are just north of the Ava city limits. It flows south through the west part of the city then turns southwest to west. The stream passes under routes 14 and 5 within west Ava.
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park is a state park, located in Humboldt County, California, near the town of Orick and 50 miles (80 km) north of Eureka. The 14,000-acre (57 km 2 ) park is a coastal sanctuary for old-growth Coast Redwood trees.
Prairie Creek is the Redwood Creek tributary drainage basin including the inland portion of Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Prairie Creek drains southerly through a Plio-Pleistocene non-marine sedimentary and metasedimentary formation to a confluence with Redwood Creek approximately one mile upstream of Orick, California .