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The Alamo Ranchhouse, near Steamboat, Nevada, is a historic "plantation style mansion" that was built in 1887. Also known as the Moffat Ranchhouse , it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
In 1882, the family founded the Alamo Ranch, 3 mi (4.8 km) south of the town of Mancos on homesteaded land. By 1895 the family owned 1,000 acres (400 ha) of heavily-mortgaged land. [2] Richard Wetherill married Marietta Palmer on December 12, 1896 in Sacramento, California. [3]
According to his older brother, John, James Bowie was born in Logan County, Kentucky, on April 10, 1796 (Historical marker: 36° 46' 25"N 86° 42' 10"W). [5] [6] In his 1948 book, Bowie Knife, historian Raymond Thorp gives Bowie's birth date as April 10 but does not support it with any documentation. [7]
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The Thunderbird Archaeological District, near Limeton, Virginia, is an archaeological district described as consisting of "three sites—Thunderbird Site, the Fifty Site, and the Fifty Bog—which provide a stratified cultural sequence spanning Paleo-Indian cultures through the end of Early Archaic times with scattered evidence of later occupation."
In the series, Dutton Ranch is witness to plenty of drama – and the same can be said for Chief Joseph Ranch in real life. The ranch’s lodge and barns was built in the early 1900s (Yellowstone ...
SAN ANTONIO — It was the bloodiest armed conflict in Texas history. On Aug. 18, 1813, some 1,400 people died at the Battle of Medina and during the merciless streak of executions that followed.
Llangollen, which takes its name from the Welsh language and historic small Welsh market town of the same name (Llan meaning "Church; a religious settlement; or an enclosure" and Saint Collen, a 7th-century monk who founded a church beside the river), [2] was originally part of a 10,000-acre (40 km 2) land grant on which a two-story manor house was built in the late 1770s.