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Allensworth is an unincorporated community in Tulare County, California. [2] Established by Allen Allensworth in 1908, the town was the first in California to be founded, financed, and governed by African-Americans. [3] The original townsite is designated as Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park. The 2020 United States census reported ...
The town had several businesses and public buildings: bakery, drugstore, livery stable, barbershop, church, school, library, and a machine shop. Sources such as the Oakland Sunshine, a leading black Oakland, California newspaper, in 1913 claimed that Allensworth generated nearly $5,000 monthly in its business ventures. [3]: 178
A Google Maps Camera Car showcased on Google campus in Mountain View, California in November 2010. The United States was the first country to have Google Street View images and was the only country with images for over a year following introduction of the service on May 25, 2007. Early on, most locations had a limited number of views, usually ...
Old Allentown now is also the home of the United Way's Allentown Promise Neighborhood initiative, modeled on the work of Geoffrey Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone. The Allentown Promise Neighborhood takes a systems approach to improving the academic performance and the college and career readiness of the children in its nine block area.
Juan Manuel Sierra, 33, a.k.a. Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, was arrested last Thursday after 'attempting to start a fire' with a blowtorch in a West Hills neighborhood, authorities said.
The below map was current, as of 2:30 p.m. PT. Evacuation orders were issued for an area including the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2024. Life-threatening ...
North of Allentown in Whitehall Township, a seven-mile (11.2 km) portion of PA 145 is known as MacArthur Road, named in honor of General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur Road is a divided highway ; between U.S. Route 22 (US 22) and Eberhart Road, it is six lanes wide with a Jersey barrier and jughandles while the remainder of the road a four-lane ...
Allentown, California, now called Toadtown, California; Allentown, Georgia, a city in four counties in Georgia; Allentown, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Tazewell County; Allentown, New Jersey, a borough in Monmouth County; Allentown, Buffalo, a neighborhood in Buffalo, New York; Allentown, a hamlet in the town of Alma, New York in ...