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The river rose, flooding the town, and the bridge had to be dynamited to halt the flood. [51] The next year, a fire destroyed most of Fairbanks, and the damage was estimated at $1.5 million. [52] The town was quickly rebuilt, [53] and the town's first hospital, St. Joseph's, was built on the north bank of the Chena. [54]
Over time a small settlement including some homes, an inn and a store grew at the Cow Ford, and in 1822, shortly after Spain ceded the Floridas to the United States, resident Isaiah D. Hart proposed establishing a town on the north bank. Hart eventually convinced his neighbors to join him in donating land for the venture, and the first streets ...
In 1904–1905, W.R. Amon and his son Howard purchased 2,300 acres (9 km 2) and proposed a town site on the north bank of the Yakima River. Postal authorities approved the designation of this town site as Richland in 1905, naming it for Nelson Rich, [7] a state legislator and land developer.
The first phase of the 12-acre Landings at River North project, set to open later this year, will have four buildings that will consist of 651 apartments, 73,000 square feet of restaurant and ...
TowneBank is a bank headquartered in Suffolk, Virginia with 44 branches in Virginia and North Carolina.They have owned the naming rights to TowneBank Stadium and TowneBank Tower at Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium since 2019.
Across western North Carolina and parts of eastern Tennessee, Helene’s destruction continued to emerge on Sunday. The storm washed away bridges, closed roads, destroyed buildings and cut off power.