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The city is the original home of Little League Baseball, founded in 1939 as a three-team league. In the late 19th century, when Williamsport was known as "The Lumber Capital of the World" because of its thriving lumber industry, it also was the birthplace of the national newspaper Grit in 1882.
Arriving via Dallas Love Field Airport, President Trump participated in a Roundtable at the Gateway Church Dallas Campus, and then attended a Republican fundraiser at the home of Kelcy Warren, the CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, whose company built the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
Chapter Charter date and range Institution Location Status References Alpha: May 17, 1905 – 1990; 2000–2015: Middlebury College: Middlebury, Vermont: Inactive [a]Beta
French map of West Point in 1780 Artillery cadet in 1805, wearing a mixture of commissioned and non-commissioned uniforms prescribed for artillery cadets West Point, from Phillipstown (1831) engraving by W. J. Bennett showing the original buildings of the United States Military Academy
eBay was founded as AuctionWeb in California on September 4, 1995, by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as a hobby to make some extra money. [2] One of the first items sold on AuctionWeb was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to ask if he understood that the laser ...
1847 map showing the location of the Portsmouth Earthworks northeast of Portsmouth. [7] According to early 20th-century historian Charles Augustus Hanna, a Shawnee village was founded at the site of modern-day Portsmouth in late 1758, following the abandonment of Lower Shawneetown. [8]
Canton was founded in 1805, incorporated as a village in 1822, and reincorporated as a city in 1838. [14] The plat of Canton was recorded at New Lisbon, Ohio, on November 15, 1805, by Bezaleel Wells, a surveyor and devout Episcopalian from Maryland born January 28, 1763.
One of the main points of the committee was to spread the word that the college was to be built in the legacy of her father, John C. Calhoun, who did much for the state of South Carolina. In honor of his wife, Thomas Green Clemson founded Clemson Agricultural College 1889 and opened in July 1893, with a student body of 446 men.