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The seal of the Post Office Department showed a man on a running horse, even as railroads and, later, motorized trucks and airplanes moved mail. In 1971, the Post Office became the United States Postal Service, with rates set by the Postal Regulatory Commission, with some oversight by Congress. Air mail became standard in 1975. In the 21st ...
St George's Hill is a 964-acre (3.9 km 2) private gated community in Weybridge, Surrey, England. Compromising more than 450 properties, the land that is now the contemporary St George's Hill estate was purchased by builder W. G. Tarrant in 1911. Over the following decades, Tarrant masterminded the development of St George's Hill into a country ...
A sharp increase in fuel prices: While transportation costs are typically higher on the West Coast, the entire nation has seen expensive gas. Fuel costs nearly $0.20 more per gallon now than in ...
In 1912, builder W. G. Tarrant had started developing St George's Hill in Weybridge – a development of houses based on minimum 1-acre (4,000 m 2) plots around a golf course. In 1922, Tarrant acquired the development rights for the Wentworth Estate, getting Harry Colt to design a golf course around the "Wentworths" house. Tarrant erected large ...
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Kenwood is a house on the St George's Hill estate, Weybridge, Surrey, England. Originally called the Brown House, it was designed by architect T. A. Allen, and built in 1913 by Love & Sons, a local building firm. The estate was constructed around the Weybridge Golf Club, which was designed in 1912 by Harry Colt.
Notable buildings include the Methodist Church, the St. Georges Historical Society Building, Commodore MacDonough School (1923), Gam's Store (c. 1855), the former African-American school (now the post office, c. 1925), Odd Fellows Lodge (1875), and the Nuttall House.