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Saint John's nickname is Love City. [6] Since 1956, approximately 60% of the island is protected as Virgin Islands National Park, administered by the United States National Park Service. [7] The economy is based predominantly on tourism and related trade. [8] Saint John is 50.8 km 2 (19.6 sq mi) in area with a population of 3,881 (2020 census). [5]
The Persimmon Mound is a historic site near Rockledge, Florida, located approximately 10 miles southwest of Rockledge on the east bank of a former channel of the St. Johns River. On 14 April 1994 it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
St. John'sis the capital and largest city of the Canadian provinceof Newfoundland and Labrador. It is located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsulaon the island of Newfoundland. The city spans 446.04 km2(172.22 sq mi) and is the easternmost city in North America (excluding Greenland). [8][9][10][11]The closest European settlement is Fajã ...
St. John's University is a private Catholic university in Queens, New York City. It was founded in 1870 by the Congregation of the Mission (C.M., the Vincentian Fathers) with a mission to provide the youth of New York with a Catholic university education. [ 4 ] Originally located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, the flagship campus was ...
St John's College, Cambridge. St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, [4] is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corporation established by a charter dated 9 ...
George Street is a small street located in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, that is known for its many bars and pubs. The two-block long street houses nothing but bars, pubs and restaurants. George Street is open only to pedestrians in the evenings and during most of the business day, being open to traffic only in the mornings to allow ...
St. John's Market was a municipal retail market hall in Liverpool, England, housed in a purpose-designed building erected between 1820 and 1822 to a design by John Foster, Junior. It quickly came to be seen as a model for market halls erected elsewhere in the UK in the 19th century.
St. John's College is a private liberal arts college with campuses in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico.As the successor institution of King William's School, a preparatory school founded in 1696, St. John's is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States; [6] [7] the current institution received a collegiate charter in 1784. [8]