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Sydney Crooks (born Sydney Roy Crooks, 24 February 1945, Westmoreland, Jamaica), also known as Sidney Crooks, Sidney Roy, Luddy Pioneer, Luddy Crooks, Brother Coleand now Norris Cole, [1] is a Jamaican singer and record producer, and founder and original member of the classic Jamaican vocal trio The Pioneers since 1962.
Jefferson Prairie Settlement was a pioneer colony of Norwegian-Americans located in the Town of Clinton, in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States.This site and the nearby Rock Prairie settlement outside Orfordville served as centers for both Norwegian immigration and developments within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. [1]
The Barlow Road (at inception, Mount Hood Road) is a historic road in what is now the U.S. state of Oregon.It was built in 1846 by Sam Barlow and Philip Foster, with authorization of the Provisional Legislature of Oregon, and served as the last overland segment of the Oregon Trail.
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The pioneers crossed the mountains and met at Sumrill's Ferry (present-day West Newton, Pennsylvania) on the Youghiogheny River. During the bitterly cold winter, the men built three log canoes, two flatboats , the 45-ton Adventure Galley (also known as the Mayflower , in honor of their Pilgrim ancestors) and the three-ton Adelphia .
Many of their descendants still live in Kentucky [5] including members of the McNitt Company, a group of pioneers who were attacked by Native Americans on October 3, 1786. [3] [6] The park is crossed by portions of the Wilderness Road and Boone's Trace, another pioneer trail blazed by Daniel Boone.
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At Martin's Station 40 to 50 additional pioneers joined the venture [citation needed]. On their way, they met nearly a hundred refugees fleeing Native American attacks further down the road. [21] Despite the danger, the party kept going toward Kentucky. Since some of the streams were flooded, the pioneers had to swim with their horses.