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  2. Astoria, Queens - Wikipedia

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    The neighborhood takes its name from Ditmars Boulevard which was named in honor of Abram Ditmars, the first mayor of Long Island City, New York, elected in 1870 (the city became a mere neighborhood when Queens became a part of Greater New York). His ancestors were German immigrants who settled in the Dutch Kills area in the 1600s. [41]

  3. Notes on the State of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Notes was the only full-length book published by Thomas Jefferson in his lifetime. Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) is a book written by the American statesman, philosopher, and planter Thomas Jefferson. He completed the first version in 1781 and updated and enlarged the book in 1782 and 1783.

  4. Cartography of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...

  5. Historical regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...

  6. Category:1870s in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 1870 in Virginia (3 C) 1871 in Virginia (3 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "1870s in Virginia"

  7. History of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The population grew slowly from 700,000 in 1790, to 1 million in 1830, to 1.2 million in 1860. Virginia was the largest state population wise to join the Confederate States in 1861. It became the major theater of war during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Southern Unionists in western Virginia created the separate state of West Virginia in

  8. 1870 United States census - Wikipedia

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    The 1870 United States census was the ninth United States census.It was conducted by the Census Office from June 1, 1870, to August 23, 1871. The 1870 census was the first census to provide detailed information on the African American population, only five years after the culmination of the Civil War when slaves were granted freedom.

  9. History of New York City (1855–1897) - Wikipedia

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    The Great East River Bridge To connect the cities of New York and Brooklyn, Currier & Ives, 1872 The Taylor Map of New York, 1879 The post-war period was noted for the corruption and graft for which Tammany Hall has become proverbial, but equally for the foundation of New York's pre-eminent cultural institutions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...