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The Civil War vaulted Cleveland into the first rank of American manufacturing cities and fueled unprecedented growth. It became home to numerous major steel production firms and, in 1883, Samuel Mather co-founded Pickands Mather and Company in the city, specializing in shipping and iron mining. [27]
Mason died in 1635 without ever seeing the colony he founded. Settlers from Pannaway, moving to the Portsmouth region later and combining with an expedition of the new Laconia Company (formed 1629) under Captain Neal, called their new settlement Strawbery Banke. In 1638 Exeter was founded by John Wheelwright.
The Colony of Virginia was a British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776.. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years.
Map of the Shenandoah Valley The Shenandoah Valley in autumn A poultry farm with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background A farm in the fertile Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley (/ ˌ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə /) is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.
Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ʊ k / ⓘ NOR-fuuk, locally / ˈ n ɔː f ɪ k / NAW-fik) is an independent city in Virginia, United States.As of the 2020 census, Norfolk had a population of 238,005, making it the third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, and the 95th-most populous city in the nation. [4]
Hampton is served by several Amtrak trains a day, with direct service from Newport News station in nearby Newport News (on Warwick Boulevard just west of Mercury Boulevard) through Williamsburg and Richmond to points along the Northeast Corridor from Washington DC through Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City all the way to Boston. At ...
The first stretch of I-81 in Tennessee to be completed was the one-mile (1.6 km) segment between US 11W and the Virginia state line, along with the southernmost 5.6 miles (9.0 km) of the Interstate in Virginia.
Concerns for young, single Protestant women alone in cities led to the growth of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) movement. When the Baltimore YWCA was founded in 1883, they only offered their services to white women and so the Colored Women's YWCA was founded in 1896. They merged in 1920. [52]