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The name is derived from "tack", the British sailor slang for food. The earliest use of the term recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1830. [3]It is known by other names including brewis (possibly a cognate with "brose"), cabin bread, pilot bread, sea biscuit, soda crackers, sea bread (as rations for sailors), ship's biscuit, and pejoratively as dog biscuits, molar breakers, sheet ...
Oldest covered bridge in California & longest wooden covered bridge in the world. [136] Menlo Park station: Menlo Park: 1867 Train station: Oldest train station in California. [137] San Buenaventura Pier: Ventura: 1870 Pier: Oldest pier in California. Weaverville Joss House: Weaverville: 1874 Taoist temple: Oldest continuously-operating Taoist ...
Companies portal; Canada portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 184 subcategories, out of 184 total. 0–9. Canadian companies established in 1811 (1 ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in California on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008, [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
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The Water Street historic homes have been a part of Sault Ste. Marie since its founding; exhibits tell the history of the homes and their families. Some of the oldest homes in Sault Ste. Marie to ...
Possibly the oldest extant building / site in Canada. The permanent garrison left in 1854 and it became Canada's first National Historic Site in 1917. de Gannes-Cosby House: 1693 1708 [94] Annapolis Royal: Possibly the oldest, privately owned, wooden house in Canada. Some additions to house up to the 20th century. Adams-Ritchie House: 1686 [95 ...
California's oldest tree, a Palmer's oak thought to be 13,000 to 18,000 years old, may be threatened by a proposed development, environmentalists say.