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Returning to the U.S., Tillie settled on Stockton, California to grow the tomatoes. After persuading farmers in the area to experiment raising the tomatoes, she convinced Pacific Can Company to build a plant at Stockton with an option for her to buy it. [4] By 1940, she had made San Joaquin County the top tomato-producing county in the United ...
Steel plate engraving of George Worthington c. 1860. George Worthington (September 21, 1813 – November 9, 1871) was a 19th-century merchant and banker in Cleveland, Ohio, who founded the Geo. Worthington Company, a wholesale hardware and industrial distribution firm, in 1829 (until 1991 Cleveland's oldest extant business), as well as numerous banking and mining concerns, and contributed to ...
One of the town's earliest gristmills, built in 1821, was a predecessor to the Acme-Evans Company. [47] The Indianapolis Steam Mill Company, the town's first incorporated business, completed a new mill along the White River in 1831, but it closed in 1835. Other early industrial enterprises included a sawmill, flourmill, and a wool-carding factory.
Cleveland was initially called Portland and, under the latter name, was laid out and platted in 1834. [3] The community was renamed Cleveland in 1855. [4]A post office was established in Cleveland in 1852 and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1903.
In its early years, many farms covered the township. Today, the township's original area is divided between several municipalities: Cleveland, a small portion of Brook Park, Fairview Park, Lakewood (incorporated as a village on August 31, 1889 [26]), Linndale, and Rocky River. [27]
Brendonwood Historic District, also known as Brendonwood Common, is a national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana.It encompasses 85 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing object in a planned suburban residential section of Indianapolis.
Throughout the early half of the 20th century, Hulman & Co. became nationally known for its Clabber Girl baking powder which it began producing in 1899. In 1945, the company purchased the Indianapolis Motor Speedway , in what many thought was an unusual investment for a company with a rich history in the food and beverage industry and owned the ...
Washington Street–Monument Circle Historic District is a national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, covering the first two blocks of East and West Washington and Market streets, the south side of the 100 block of East Ohio Street, Monument Circle, the first block of North and South Meridian Street, the first two blocks of North Pennsylvania Street, the west ...