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What is now Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q was opened by Junius and Maggie Moore in downtown Smithfield, North Carolina in 1977 as Smithfield Bar-B-Q, [1] soon followed by a second restaurant in nearby Clayton, NC.. The business expanded in 1979 to Salter Path.
Sylph was a pilot boat first built in 1834, by Whitmore & Holbrook for John Perkins Cushing as a Boston yacht and pilot-boat for merchant and ship owner Robert Bennet Forbes. She won the first recorded American yacht race in 1835. She was a pilot boat in the Boston Harbor in 1836 and 1837 and sold to the New York and Sandy Hook Pilots in ...
The Collins Line, as it was commonly known at the time, were the ships and lines run by the shipping company, I. G. Collins (later I. G. Collins and Son). Israel Collins had left the sea in 1818 to establish the shipping company in New York City. The firm traded in a fairly small way. In 1824, Israel was joined by his son Edward.
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smithfield-nc.com Smithfield is a town in and the county seat of Johnston County, North Carolina , [ 5 ] United States. As of the 2010 census , its population was 10,966, [ 6 ] and in 2019 the estimated population was 12,985. [ 7 ]
A cartoon from 1852, depicting the Collins–Cunard rivalry. With government subsidies promised, initially at $385,000 a year, [9] [n 2] and with the backing of the leading investment bank Brown Brothers, Collins founded the New York and Liverpool United States' Mail Steamship Company, familiarly known as the Collins Line.
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The E. K. Collins was a 19th-century Sandy Hook pilot boat built in the early 1840s. She was named for the American shipping magnate Edward Knight Collins . During a winter storm , the Collins ran ashore on the outer bar of Fire Island in 1856.