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John McShain (December 21, 1896 – September 9, 1989) was an American building contractor known as "The Man Who Built Washington". Born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, the son of Irish immigrants, McShain graduated from St. Joseph's Preparatory School in 1918 after having attended La Salle College High School for several years.
Modern day icemen no longer use a wagon or cart to deliver their ice, but instead use freezer trucks which contain pallets stacked with bags of ice cubes and large blocks (known as cakes) of ice. Many of the old-fashioned small-time routes were bought out in the 1980s and 1990s by large ice corporations that produce and sell ice as well as ice ...
The site was discovered on the property of Roland Marmes, and was the site of the oldest human remains in North America at that time. [4] In 1966, the site became, along with Chinook Point and the American and English Camps on San Juan Island, the first National Historic Landmarks listed in Washington. [5]
Washington was one of the first to use crop rotation and break from growing tobacco in Virginia.
The Men Who Built America (2012) The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen (2018) Napoleon (2003) (Acquired from France2) The Revolution (2006) Roots (2016) Sons of Liberty (2015) Texas Rising (2015) Theodore Roosevelt (2022) Thomas Jefferson (2025) The Titans That Built America (2021) Washington (2020)
MILWAUKEE (WITI) - It's an old adage but a good one - one man's trash is another man's treasure. Chip shows us one Milwaukeean who took that saying seriously. Gar Nelson lives in your typical ...
The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site which is located near Avella in Jefferson Township, Pennsylvania. [4] The site is a rock shelter in a bluff overlooking Cross Creek (a tributary of the Ohio River), and contains evidence that the area may have been continually inhabited for more than 19,000 years.
In Union Gap, Washington -- where apple and cherry orchards hug the banks of the Yakima River -- Liberty Bottleworks is making aluminum water bottles in a factory that once produced RVs.