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Omaha is located in the northwest corner of Stewart County near the juncture of the Chattahoochee River and Hannahatchee Creek. [2]Georgia State Route 39 is the main road through the community, leading east 12 mi (19 km) to U.S. Route 27 near Louvale and south 22 mi (35 km) to Georgetown.
Magalieskruin is a suburb located in the northern part of Pretoria. The suburb is mostly located on the Magaliesberg and entirely south of Sefako Makgato Drive ( R513 ). [ 1 ] It is bordered by Montana Park to the east and Wonderboom to the west.
A post office called Pretoria was established in 1900, and remained in operation until 1917. [2] The community's name is a transfer from Pretoria, in South Africa. [3] The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Pretoria as a town in 1907. [4] The town's municipal charter was repealed in 1995. [3]
John was hired as the superintendent of the construction. In the early 1860s Creighton traveled to Montana to mine gold, eventually installing a telegraph line from Salt Lake City, Utah to Helena, Montana. [2] [4] During Creighton's life in Montana, he is credited with helping rid the state of the desperados who made it inhospitable towards ...
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
Bryan, T. Conn. Confederate Georgia University of Georgia Press, 1953. Chaplin, Joyce E. "Creating a Cotton South in Georgia and South Carolina, 1760–1815." Journal of Southern History 57.2 (1991): 171–200 online. Coleman, Kenneth. Confederate Athens, 1861–1865 University of Georgia Press, 1967; the city of Athens in the war years
Founded by catholic immigrants from Baden, the village was named after an early settler named Maurus Biehle, who donated land to the settlement. Bingen: Washington: Named for Bingen am Rhein in 1892 by founder P. J. Suksdorf [16]: 19 Birkenfeld: Oregon: Named after Anton Birkenfeld, a German immigrant who founded the community in 1910. [17 ...
The Omaha Land Company, made of businessmen including representatives from the Lone Tree Ferry Company that founded Omaha City, "secured" land around the city of Omaha in late 1854. [2] This was quickly subdivided and lots were quickly distributed to persuade influential legislators who supported Omaha City becoming the territorial capitol.