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William Richard Higgins (January 15, 1945 – July 31, 1989) was a United States Marine Corps colonel who was captured in Lebanon in 1988 while serving on a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission. He was held hostage, tortured [ 1 ] and eventually murdered by his captors.
Hills and Dales Estate is the home built for textile magnate Fuller Earle Callaway and his wife Ida Cason Callaway completed in 1916 in Lagrange, Georgia. The property includes the pre-Civil War Ferrell Gardens started by Nancy Ferrell in 1832 and expanded by her daughter Sarah Coleman Ferrell beginning in 1841.
LaGrange Daily News is a newspaper owned by Boone Newspapers, Inc. which owns community newspapers throughout the Southeast, Texas, Minnesota, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. [6] Boone acquired the paper from Civitas Media in 2016.
Sportspeople from LaGrange, Georgia (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "People from LaGrange, Georgia" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
LaGrange is a city in and the county seat of Troup County, Georgia, United States.The population of the city was estimated to be 30,858 in 2020 by the U.S. Census Bureau. [4] [5] It is the principal city of the LaGrange, Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, Georgia-Alabama (part) combined statistical area.
As of 2020, its population was 3,719. Most of the city is in Troup County, which is part of the LaGrange micropolitan statistical area, and hence part of the Atlanta-Athens-Clarke County-Sandy Springs, GA combined statistical area. [citation needed] A sliver in the south is in Harris County, which is part of the Columbus metropolitan ...
Higgins was born September 3, 1928, in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland.He was ordained a Catholic priest on June 21, 1953, at All Hallows Seminary in Dublin, Ireland.He was transferred to the Florida Diocese of St. Augustine where he worked in Miami, and then in Tampa where he founded St. Lawrence Catholic Church in 1958.
The central library, LaGrange Memorial, is located in LaGrange, Georgia. THRL is a member of PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that covers 53 library systems in 143 counties of Georgia. [2] Any resident in a PINES supported library system has access to the system's collection of 10.6 million books. [3]