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1820 – Great Savannah Fire burned almost 500 structures, with damages of about US$4 million. [14] 1821 – Paramaribo, Suriname, fire destroyed over 400 houses. 1821 – Great Fire of Fayetteville destroyed 500 buildings in the city. 1825 – The 1825 Miramichi Fire destroyed the city of Miramichi, New Brunswick.
The river was first called after Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe by Alonso de León in 1689. It was renamed the San Augustin by Domingo Terán de los Ríos who maintained a colony on it, but the name Guadalupe persisted.
The Frijole Ranch, also known as Guadalupe Ranch, Spring Hill Ranch and the Rader-Smith Ranch, is located in Guadalupe Mountains National Park in extreme west Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1978, [1] and represents a significant period in the settlement and ranching of the Guadalupe Mountains.
Guadalupe River State Park is a Texas state park located on a section of the Guadalupe River in Kendall and Comal Counties, northwest of Bulverde, Texas United States and is administered by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The land was acquired by deed from private owners in 1974 and was opened to the public in 1983. [2]
Rancho Cucamonga, California (ranch) Rancho Mirage, California, resort city ("mirage ranch") Rancho Palos Verdes, California (a shortened version of the Mexican land grant Rancho de los Palos Verdes which means "range of green trees") Rancho Santa Margarita, California (named for Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores)
The Spanish governor Manuel María de Salcedo, with about 800 men, was patrolling the Guadalupe River area, in search of the revolutionaries. He later found them on the lower San Antonio River at Goliad. They had easily taken and were controlling the Spanish fort there, Presidio La Bahia. [4] Magee was besieged for four months.
A 15-year old mansion built by former NFL star Rod Kush in Gretna, Neb., was reduced to smoldering rubble on Sunday after firefighters set the abandoned home ablaze as part of their training. The ...
The second main area of the cave is an extensive set of caverns linked to the underground extension of the Guadalupe River. During a 1975 expedition of the Cave Without a Name, cavers mapped out over 2.7 mi (4.3 km) of caverns, making it the seventh-longest cave in Texas.