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That year, it was the sixth largest civic club in the United States with more than 1,000 clubs in nineteen states. [6] In 2024, Ruritan National has over 23,000 members in more than 900 local clubs. [5] Its national headquarters is located in Dublin, Virginia. [9] Its publication is the Ruritan Magazine. [10]
Historical marker at Galax. The area that later became Galax was part of an 800-acre (320 ha) land grant given to James Buchanan in 1756 by the British Crown. The first plat map for Galax is dated December 1903; [5] The town founders selected the site for the city on a wide expanse of meadowland bisected by Chestnut Creek and sitting at an altitude of 2,500 feet (760 m) on a plateau. [6]
The 2008 Shad Planking event. The Shad Planking is an annual political event in Virginia which takes place every April near Wakefield in Sussex County.It is sponsored by a chapter of the Ruritans, a community service organization which was founded in the small town of Holland about 30 miles to the southeast.
The Galax Leafs were a minor league baseball team based in Galax, Virginia. From 1946 to 1950, the Galax Leafs played exclusively as members of the Class D level Blue Ridge League, winning the 1947 championship and 1948 pennant. The Galax Leafs were a minor league affiliate of the New York Giants in 1950. The Leafs hosted minor league home ...
Black and White Club (art association) founded in the 19th century in New York This page was last edited on 22 December 2017, at 14:43 (UTC). Text is available ...
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Galax, the wandplant, wandflower, or beetleweed, is a genus in the flowering plant family Diapensiaceae, containing a single species, Galax urceolata (syn. G. rotundifolia, G. aphylla). It is native to the southeastern United States from Massachusetts and New York south to northern Alabama , growing mainly in the Appalachian Mountains at ...
Pigcasso and Lefson are the first non-human/human collaboration to have held an art exhibition together, which took place at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town in 2018. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Pigcasso's most expensive work sold in December 2021 for US$27,000, making it the most expensive animal-made art piece ever to have been sold at the time.