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Restored Rapp-Owen Granary. The restored Rapp-Owen Granary, a five-story, brick, sandstone, and wood structure completed in 1818, is "the largest granary of its type built by German craftsmen in the United States" and "served as David Dale Owen's laboratory from 1843 to 1859." (Owen was appointed Indiana's first state geologist in 1837.)
One of the oldest timber-frame houses in America. The oldest part of the house was built between 1640 and 1653 by Joseph Loomis, who came to Connecticut Colony from England in 1638. Later additions to the Loomis house were made around the turn of the 18th century. It is now a part of the Loomis Chaffee School. Newman–Fiske–Dodge House: Wenham
Ksar Hadada is a fortified granary village that was built by North African Berber communities to store grain and crops Golghar granary built in 1786, Patna, India. From ancient times grain has been stored in bulk. [1] The oldest granaries yet found date back to 9500 BC [2] and are located in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A settlements in the Jordan ...
The Granary Burying Ground in Massachusetts is the city of Boston's third-oldest cemetery, founded in 1660 and located on Tremont Street.It is the burial location of Revolutionary War-era patriots, including Paul Revere, the five victims of the Boston Massacre, and three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine.
Long before the U.S. declared its independence on July 4, 1776, many European explorers had already founded lasting settlements. These are 10 of the oldest inhabited cities in the U.S. that you ...
The Fort Nisqually Granary, moved along with the Factor's House from the original site of the second fort to this park, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Built in 1843, the granary is the oldest building in Washington state and one of the only surviving examples of a Hudson's Bay Company " post-and-plank " structure.
This article lists the oldest known surviving buildings constructed in the Americas, including on each of the regions and within each country."Building" is defined as any human-made structure used or interface for supporting or sheltering any use or continuous occupancy.
Oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the Americas. Present-day capital of the Dominican Republic. 1497 St. John's [6] Newfoundland and Labrador: Canada: Oldest English-founded city in North America, [7] seasonal until c. 1630 1508 Caparra: Puerto Rico: United States 1509 Sevilla la Nueva: Seville, St. Ann's Bay: Jamaica