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Avon is served by South Dakota Highway 50, which runs east–west in the northern part of town. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 0.64 square miles (1.66 km 2 ), all land.
The first industrial use of hydropower in the United States to generate electricity occurred in 1880, when 16 brush-arc lamps were powered using a water turbine at the Wolverine Chair and Furniture Factory; operated by William H. Powers, his son. [2] [3] In 1885, William T. Powers & Son purchased and moved their operation to the Michigan Iron ...
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Location of Bon Homme County in South Dakota. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bon Homme County, South Dakota. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bon Homme County, South Dakota. The locations of National Register properties ...
Lise Meitner (1878–1968) was an Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission and protactinium.In 1905, she became the second woman from the University of Vienna to earn a doctorate in physics.
Avon Cobourne (born 1979), American football running back; Anthony Eden (1897–1977), British Prime Minister and 1st Earl of Avon; Avon Honey (1947–2010), American politician from Louisiana; Avon Long (1910–1984), American singer and actor; Avon Riley (1958–2020), American football linebacker; Avon Williams (1921–1993), American ...
Emma Amelia Powers was born in Mount Vernon, Wisconsin, October 2, 1858.She was the daughter of Dr. Joseph Lewis Powers and Janette S. (Byam) Cranmer. Her siblings were Julia C. Powers (born 1856), Laura B. Powers (born 1865), Fred Willard Powers (born 1868), and Leland Earnest Powers (born 1871).
Films in which a significant portion of the story takes place in the territory or state of South Dakota. Pages in category "Films set in South Dakota" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.