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Built: Various: NRHP reference No. 76000726 [1] Added to NRHP: October 22, 1976: The Golconda Historic District is a designated historic district in the Pope County, ...
The town was named Sarahsville upon the organization of Pope County in 1816, [4] but changed its name to Golconda on January 24, 1817, after the ancient city of Golkonda [5] in India. In 1840, the Buel House, a single-family home presently-owned by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, was built. [6]
Much of central Golconda was named a historic district, the Golconda Historic District, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1] The Pope County Courthouse was named a contributing property to the district, [3]: 10 and a later Forest Service survey of the region deemed it the district's focal point. [6]
Golconda is a fortified citadel and ruined city located on the western outskirts of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. [1] [2] The fort was originally built by Kakatiya ruler Pratāparudra in the 11th century out of mud walls. [3]
Chesterfield, Virginia: ca. 1768 Built by Thomas Jefferson's wife's brother in law and first cousin, Frances Eppes. Jefferson's daughters came to Eppington to live while he was Minister to France. Lucy Elizabeth died at and is buried here. Battersea: Petersburg, Virginia: 1768 Built for Colonel Jonn Banister, signer of the Articles of Confederation
SS Golconda (1887) was a 5,874 GRT passenger-cargo ship of the British India Line that was lost in 1916. SS Golconda (1919) was a 5,316 GRT cargo ship, built by William Gray & Company at Sunderland for the British India Line. She was wrecked in the Karnaphuli river, Chittagong in 1940. [4]
Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...
Another early structure was the Purana Pul, built in 1578 [13] across the Musi River. [14] The Tomb of Abdul Qadir Amin Khan at Patancheru is also from this period. The Qutb Shahi rulers built elaborate caravanserais, or resthouses, including the Shaikpet Sarai and Taramati Baradari.