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Greenfield was also home to two Courtaulds rayon factories and a sulphuric acid plant from 1936 to 1985. [5] In 1842 William Crockford, of London gambling club fame, built the Zinc Smelting Works on the northern side of the coast road adjacent to the gas works. The factory was said at the time to be the most modern in Britain with its own ...
Courtaulds, Greenfield works, Flint 1893: 1933 W6 0-4-0ST 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in: Preserved Coleford Great Western Railway Museum: Built for Ironbridge Power Station, transferred to Birch Hills Power Station in 1951, then in 1958 to Stourport-on-Severn Power Station where its cab was cut down.
By 1850, Courtauld employed over 2,000 people in his three silk mills, and he had recruited partners including (in 1828) his brother, George Courtauld II (1802–1861) and (in 1849) fellow Unitarian social reformer Peter Alfred Taylor (1819-1891 – son of Peter Taylor who died the following year).
St. Louis and Kansas City Railway: MKT: 1895 1897 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway: St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railroad: RI: 1884 1905 Kansas City Rock Island Railway: St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railway: WAB: 1872 1879 Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway: St. Louis, Kennett and Southeastern Railroad: SLSF: 1906 1950
Dade County is a county located in the southwest part of the U.S. state of Missouri.As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,569. [1] Its county seat is Greenfield. [2] The county was organized in 1841 and named after Major Francis L. Dade of Virginia, who was killed in the Second Seminole War in 1835.
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In 1933, Bernard Dickmann became Mayor of St. Louis and decided to build a new facility on a 17-acre site in Forest Park. The building cost about $117,000, with about 45% coming from Public Works Administration funds, and William C. E. Becker, then Chief Engineer of Bridges and Buildings for the city, was assigned to design the building.
However, the St. Louis County Council stepped into the process. On April 17, 1957, in a 4–3 vote, the Republican members of the council voted to save the park from destruction, agreeing to pay $429,625 for the park. St. Louis then created a new Rosalie Tilles Memorial Park within the city limits, at 38°36′01″N 90°17′23″W ...