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The village’s first church congregation was also founded. The Story-Griffitt House (a c.1858 I-house) is now part of Story Inn. [5] Story grew in regional importance during the nineteen teens as other villages in Van Buren Township, Brown County, Indiana began to fade. Due to regional prominence of the general store it continued to remain ...
Jean Parker "Shep" Shepherd Jr. (July 26, [1] 1921 – October 16, 1999) [2] was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor.With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated and co-scripted on the basis of his own semi-autobiographical stories.
Image from Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story (1898) Image from the execution of Vasco Núñez de Balboa in Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (1906). During his writing career, which lasted 30 years, he wrote more than 40 books, mostly travel books, but also bird books, and biographies about Amerigo Vespucci, Hernán Cortés, and Israel Putnam.
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New Bridge was a prosperous mill hamlet, centered upon a bridge strategically placed at the narrows of the Hackensack River.In the American Revolution, New Bridge Landing was the site of a strategic bridge crossing the Hackensack River, where General George Washington led his troops in retreat from British forces November 20, 1776.
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Hackensack was the exonym given by the Dutch colonists to a band of the Lenape, or Lenni-Lenape ("original men"), a Native American tribe. The name is a Dutch derivation of the Lenape word for what is now the region of northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack rivers. While the Lenape people occupied much of the mid-Atlantic area ...
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