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The Belleville News-Democrat has been featured on the television programs 60 Minutes, Dateline and Nightline, as an example of investigative reporting. [3] In 2003, an article in Editor & Publisher called the News-Democrat one of "Ten newspapers that do it right" under the leadership of former publisher, Gary Berkeley, and former editor, Greg Edwards.
Belleview is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. [3] The population was 308 as of the 2020 Census , down from 343 from the 2010 census .
Rowdies Rugby Football Club – the only rugby football club in the Belleville area. Lindenwood Stadium is a college football stadium with alternating red and gray stripes. It has been called "The nation's most original (hideous) football field." [22] Belleville was home to the Belleville Stags (1947–1949), who were a minor league baseball team.
Belleview Precinct is located in Calhoun County, Illinois. The population was 227 at the 2020 census, down from 283 at the 2010 census, and it contained 144 housing units. [2] Until 1834, the territory comprising the current precincts of Carlin, Crater, and Hamburg was part of Belleview Precinct. In 1834, Illinois Precinct was formed (which was ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.02 square miles (5.23 km 2), of which 1.98 square miles (5.13 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) is water. [7]
The home passed from the West family in 1814 to a Col. Augustine J. Smith, who bought the plantation from the last West, James, who died in 1814. Smith is known to have enlarged the original 155 acres (63 ha) to over 1,800 acres (730 ha). This included the draining of the swamps along the Potomac River and building a dike. This increased his ...
Bellevue is 3 miles (4.8 km) from Downtown Cincinnati. [5]Before Bellevue was founded, the area was used for hunting, fishing, and warfare by Native Americans tribes such as the Illini, Miami, Shawnee, Cherokee, and Tuscarora. [6]
Bellevue was the home of Henry Morrison Flagler when he partnered up with John D. Rockefeller to start Standard Oil. Flagler later went on to build the Florida Overseas Railroad, to Key West, Florida. The property of his former Bellevue residence on Southwest Street is the current location of the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum.