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Hugh W. Mercer, the son of Hugh Tenant Weedon Mercer and his wife Louisa Griffin (daughter of Cyrus Griffin), was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to a wealthy and well-known family. His grandfather and namesake Hugh Mercer of Scotland had been a general under George Washington during the American Revolution .
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Merced County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
The Kaehler–Rector House is a historic house located at 408 W. 25th St. in Merced, California. Built in the early 1890s, the house was designed by architect Louis Wegner in the Queen Anne style. The house's design includes a corner tower with a conical roof, a veranda extending to the front and east sides of the house, and a complex roof ...
The City of Merced’s Facebook post of Chick-fil-A coming to Merced generated more than 800 comments and 800 likes. “People have a passion for that company and their food,” Serratto said.
Merced County was partitioned from Mariposa County in 1855. [2]In May 1855, John W. Fitzhugh was elected the first County Judge. The county seat was established on Mariposa Creek, approximately 8 mi (13 km) from the present-day site of Merced, on the ranch of Turner & Osborne and court was held in a one-story wooden building with a footprint of approximately 12 ft × 25 ft (3.7 m × 7.6 m).
Merced (/ m ɜːr ˈ s ɛ d /; Spanish for "Mercy") is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County, California, United States, in the San Joaquin Valley.As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 86,333, [8] up from 78,958 in 2010.
Bear Creek, which bisects Merced flowing east to west, had been peacefully running at a depth below 7 feet early Sunday morning. By Sunday night, it had risen to above 11 feet, according to the ...
Prescott Bush (1895–1972), U.S. Senator elected from Connecticut, father and grandfather of Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, respectively; born in Columbus and spent his childhood there until 1908; moved back to Columbus for part of 1923 for a job in business; Patrick Clifford, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, born in ...