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In Henry T. Williams' The Pacific tourist – Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean published in 1878, the Big Four was replaced by the Five Associates or Representative Men of the Central Pacific Railroad, with Charles Crocker's older brother Judge Edwin B. Crocker (1818–1875), who served as the CPRR attorney from 1865 to 1869, added.
Ambrose Bierce: 1842 – 1914 Author of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, The Moonlit Road, and The Devil's Dictionary [362] Edith Wharton: 1862 – 1937 Pulitzer Prize author of The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, and Ethan Frome [363] Laura Ingalls Wilder: 1867 – 1957 Author of Little House on the ...
Los Angeles, California, U.S. Voorhees, a transient restaurant porter who confessed to the murder of Elizabeth Short, checked out of a hotel in Los Angeles, California, on the morning of 16 January 1947 and was never seen again. [186] 9 April 1947 Joan Gay Croft: 4 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
Capt. Jonathan Parker House Reading: MA ca 1710 Residential Still a private residence at Charles and Pearl Sts. Coronet John Farnum Jr. House: Uxbridge: MA ca 1710 Residential The Cornet John Farnum Jr. House was the site of the first Uxbridge Town Meeting in 1727. The house today is a museum and headquarters of the Uxbridge Historical Society.
In New York in 1869, the cost of living in a boarding house ranged from $2.50 to $40 a week. [3] [a] Some boarding houses attracted people with particular occupations or preferences, such as vegetarian meals. [3] The boarding house reinforced some social changes: it made it feasible for people to move to a large city and away from their ...
[11] [12] [13] Armed resistance ended in California with the Treaty of Cahuenga signed on January 13, 1847. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War, was signed February 2, 1848 and California became a Territory of the United States. Between 1847 and 1849, California was run by the U.S. military.
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, usually referred to as Cardiff, is a beach community in the incorporated city of Encinitas in San Diego County, California.The Pacific Ocean is to the west of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, the rest of incorporated Encinitas is to the east and north, and a beach and lagoon to the south.
Generally, there are two variations of paying guest house: . Home converted guest house; Professionally run guest house with all necessary amenities and staff; In the first version of the guest house, the guests get to live with a family where they get shelter and food (bed and breakfast) only, and for the rest of the jobs like washing clothes and utensils, cleaning of room or area around ...