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Burlington, 5 places in Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, Vermont, and Wisconsin – Burling family (This family owned the land upon which the city in Vermont was built. The other cities derive their name from the Vermont one). [91] [93] [94] Burnet, Texas – Governor David G. Burnet [91] Burnsville, Indiana – Brice Bruns (founder) [91]
The Channel was used by steamboats to reach the port at Jefferson, until water levels fell after the removal of the Great Raft.. Caddo Lake has been used by Native Americans for hundreds of years, but substantial commercial development would only begin with invention of the steamboat and US annexation of Louisiana and Texas by treaty (Texas is the only State in the United States to have joined ...
The first Virginia City set used on the show from 1959–1970 was located on a back lot at Paramount. It was also used in episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel, Mannix and The Brady Bunch. In the 1970 Bonanza episode "The Night Virginia City Died", Deputy Clem Foster's pyromaniac fiancée leveled the town in a series of fires. This allowed for a ...
The new movie "Caddo Lake," from M. Night Shyamalan's studio, was partly filmed in Shreveport. Here's how to stream the film, released last week.
The world’s largest honky-tonk — where Yellowstone’s Kevin Costner & Modern West and Ryan Bingham have performed — was the setting for Scott Bakula’s character’s fight in Guitar Bar in ...
Places named for people can be found at List of places in the United States named after people. Some places have an indeterminate etymology, where it is known that they are named after a city in a particular country, but there is more than one place with that name and the etymology does not distinguish which one.
Alvarado, Texas (named after Alvarado, Veracruz, in Mexico) Alvarado, Virginia (named after Alvarado, Veracruz in Mexico) Amador City, California (named for José María Amador; amador means "lover" in Spanish) Amarillo, Texas ("yellow"), seat of Potter County, Texas; Andalusia, Alabama (named after the Spanish region of Andalusia)
Texarkana Reservoir (Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana) original name of reservoir on the Sulphur River in Texas, renamed Lake Texarkana, now known as Wright Patman Lake; Lake Texoma — a man-made lake on the Red River that divides Texas and Oklahoma; Uvada Reservoir [54] (Utah and Nevada) Lincoln County, Nevada