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The county of Hants was established June 17, 1781, on territory taken from Kings County and consisted of the townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport. [3] [a] The name Hants is a long-standing abbreviation for the English county of Hampshire, from the Old English name Hantescire.
Falmouth and the surrounding area was known as Pisiquid by the Acadians.Having migrated from Port Royal (current day Annapolis Royal) (see also Habitation at Port-Royal, an earlier settlement several miles away that predates the French occupation of Annapolis Royal), the Acadians first settled the area in the early 1680s, as the 1686 census lists a number of families on well established farms ...
A lumber yard sorting table in Falls City, Oregon Frank A. Jagger loads his boat full of lumber at the Albany Lumber District in Albany, New York in the 1870s. A lumber yard is a location where lumber and wood-related products used in construction and/or home improvement projects are processed or stored.
Payless Cashways was a building materials retailer based in Kansas City, United States.The company primarily operated during the 1980s and 1990s, and is considered among the first national chains to implement the DIY strategy.
We hear from Duxbury, that in the storm last Sabbath night the 16th instant, a sloop from the Eastward laden with lumber bound in there, where she was owned, one Ripley, master, was cast away on Duxbury Beach, and all the hands (being three in number) perished, viz, [William] Ripley, master, John Alden, son of Briggs Alden Esq. of Duxbury, and ...
Rickel; Company type: Private 1953-1969 Stock Corporation 1969-1994 Private 1994-1998 Originally, "Do It Yourself" Home Center Then, Home improvement Industry: Retail Home improvement
During a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Seward, District of Alaska, with a crew of 16 and a cargo of 150 tons of coal, 150 tons of general merchandise, and 425,000 board feet (1,003 m 3, 35,400 cu ft) of lumber, the 584-gross register ton, 138.9-foot (42.3 m) bark disappeared with the loss of all hands in the Gulf of Alaska.
Newport is also the name of neighboring Newport Town. Newport was founded by European Americans as a settlement in 1793 and was first called Pickerel Point. It was the place where Rogers' Rangers retreated in 1759 after a French and Indian War incursion into Canada. In the 19th century, the village was stimulated by construction of the railroad ...