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[2] Name on the Register Image Date listed [3] Location City or town Description 1: Americus Historic District: Americus Historic District: January 1, 1976 (Irregular pattern along Lee St. with extensions to Dudley St., railroad tracks, Rees Park, and Glessner St.; also E. Church St. and Oak Grove Cemetery
Lenox got its start in the year 1871, following construction of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad through the territory. [4]According to The Des Moines Register, residents of Lenox and nearby New Market in Taylor County recall sundown town ordinances to restrict the presence of people of color. [5]
To honor history while making the house their own, they took it apart piece by piece—then rebuilt the home, incorporating the original materials. A Young Georgia Couple Restores An 1800s Family ...
Americus is the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia, United States. [4] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 16,230.It is the principal city of the Americus Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Schley and Sumter counties [5] and had a combined population of 36,966 at the 2000 census.
Americus is also home to two colleges. Georgia Southwestern State University, a public four-year institution established in 1906, is part of the University System of Georgia. South Georgia Technical College, which stands near Souther Field, was a training base for American and British aviators during World War I (1917–18).
In 1879, the Americus Recorder began as a tri-weekly publication owned by Merrel Callaway. The Americus Recorder was a competitor of the Sumter Republican newspaper at this time. A few years later, Calloway sold his interest in the Americus Recorder and the Americus Times was then officially established in 1890.
The Lenox Hotel is a historic building located in Lenox, Iowa, United States. The original Lenox hotel had been built in 1874, and was destroyed in a fire in 1912. [2] Local businessmen formed the Lenox Hotel Company to construct a new building in its place. Vern Dunlap was the general contractor who built the new hotel, which was completed in ...
Americus Vespucius Rice (1835–1904), American politician, banker, and businessman; Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512) Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer whose first name was Americus in Latin; Saint Emeric of Hungary (died 1031), also known as Saint Americus or Emeric, a Hungarian prince; Americus Symmes (1811–1896), son of John Cleves ...