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In 1955 a group of Decatur businessmen founded the Soy Capital Bank to trade on the nickname. Decatur was awarded the All-America City Award in 1960, one of eleven cities honored that year. [12] [13] Decatur is an affiliate of the U.S. Main Street program, in conjunction with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Born in Decatur [1] Charles J. Givens: Feb 5, 1941: Jul 12, 1998: Financial lecturer and author Born in Decatur [2] Nathan H. Lents: Sep 22, 1978: Biologist, professor, and author Born in Decatur James W. Loewen: Feb 6, 1942: Aug 19, 2021: Author, historian, and sociology professor Born in Decatur [3] Richard Peck: Apr 10, 1934: May 24, 2018
Originally founded as Villanueva de La Serena, the city was destroyed completely in a native uprising in 1549 and re-founded the same year as San Bartolomé de La Serena; its founding date is for this reason sometimes listed as 1549. Second oldest European city in Chile. 1545: Potosí: Potosí: Bolivia: 1545 San Juan de los Remedios: Villa ...
In 1881, the Wise County Old Settlers Reunion held their first meeting. This has become an annual tradition in Decatur, and the reunion continues to take place during the last full week of July. Decatur Baptist College (now Dallas Baptist University) was established in Decatur in 1898. It was the first two-year institution of higher education ...
Decatur may refer to a number of places, streets, military establishments, schools, and others mostly named after Stephen Decatur: Places in the United States
1942: Graco. Graco started out not as the maker of baby products we know today, but as a metal company. It wasn't until the '50s that it made something that would change its trajectory: the ...
New Decatur was founded in 1887 and incorporated in 1889. However, residents of the older Decatur resented the new town, founded and occupied by people who moved down from northern states. Animosity was built until New Decatur renamed their town "Albany" after Albany, New York, in September 1916. The impetus to meld the two towns came from the ...
Decatur (/ d ə ˈ k eɪ t ər /) is a city and the county seat of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.With a population of 24,928 in the 2020 census, [4] the municipality is sometimes assumed to be larger since multiple ZIP Codes in unincorporated DeKalb County bear Decatur as the address.