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Coach of a noble family, c. 1870 The word carriage (abbreviated carr or cge) is from Old Northern French cariage, to carry in a vehicle. [3] The word car, then meaning a kind of two-wheeled cart for goods, also came from Old Northern French about the beginning of the 14th century [3] (probably derived from the Late Latin carro, a car [4]); it is also used for railway carriages and in the US ...
Eagle City was another new boomtown growing from the discovery of gold, silver, and lead in the Coeur d'Alene area; it is now a ghost town in Shoshone County, Idaho. [157] Earp joined the crowd looking for gold in the Murray -Eagle mining district, and they paid $2,250 for a 50 feet (15 m) diameter white circus in which they opened a dance hall ...
By 1872, the area had become the center of New York's horse carriage industry. The locality had not previously been given a name, and city authorities called it Longacre Square after Long Acre in London, where the horse and carriage trade was centered in that city. [33] William Henry Vanderbilt owned and ran the American Horse Exchange there ...
Buzzards Bay was a chestnut horse bred in Florida by Jay Shaw. He was sired by Marco Bay, a winner of the Tampa Bay Derby who earned over a quarter of a million dollars during his racing days. Buzzards Bay's dam was Life's Lass, whose sire was Seneca Jones, a son of Alydar. The colt was initially sent into training with trainer Rodolfo Garcia.
Holmes Peak, north of the city, is the tallest point in the Tulsa Metro area at 1,360 ft (415 m) [42] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 186.8 square miles (484 km 2), of which 182.6 square miles (473 km 2) is land and 4.2 square miles (11 km 2) (2.24%) is water.
The City of Miami was analyzed to have a median park size of 2.6 acres, park land as percent of city area of 6.5%, 87% of residents living within a 10-minute walk of a park, $48.39 spending per capita of park services, and 1.3 playgrounds per 10,000 residents.
The contract between New York City and the Staten Island Railway Company would have the company pay the city $500 three months after the Mayor signed the contract, with a sum of $100 for each crossing the second track would pass over or an annual amount of $800 from the date of the contract's signing until October 28, 1934.
These early buses had solid tyres and a legal speed limit of 12 miles per hour (19 km/h), but were faster than the horse-drawn coaches they replaced. [ 134 ] [ 135 ] By 1907 buses connected with Great North train services and conveyed passengers to Strathdon , Midmar , Echt, Cluny Castle and Aberchirder , between Cock Bridge and Tomintoul a ...