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The world's first steam dredger was built in Sunderland in 1796-7 and put to work on the river the following year. [32] Designed by Stout's successor as Engineer, Jonathan Pickernell jr (in post from 1795 to 1804), it consisted of a set of 'bag and spoon' dredgers driven by a tailor-made 4-horsepower Boulton & Watt beam engine.
Queen Anne's War (Old French War). Colonel John Bradstreet sailed sixty long boats into Sandusky Bay and encamped on September 20, 1704. [20] War of 1812. United States General William Henry Harrison had troops drag boats across what was known as the de Lery portage from Sandusky Bay to Lake Erie in order to engage British warships in the lake ...
With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Sunderland was a key target of the German Luftwaffe bombing. Luftwaffe raids resulted in the deaths of 267 people and destruction of local industry [64] while 4,000 homes were also damaged or destroyed. [65] Many old buildings remain despite the bombing that occurred during World War II. [66]
Mowbray Park is a municipal park in the centre of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, located a few hundred yards from the busy thoroughfares of Holmeside and Fawcett Street and bordered by Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens to the north, Burdon Road to the west, Toward Road to the east and Park Road to the south. The park was voted best in ...
The French replaced the blockhouse with a fort, called Fort Sandoské, at a site now within Ottawa County, Ohio.From about 1749 or 1750 to around 1753, Fort Sandoské (misleadingly referred to as "Fort Sandusky" in English and on Evans' map of 1755) was a French military fort on the northwest side of Sandusky Bay.
1831 – (October); the first UK outbreak of cholera occurred in Sunderland – 200 people died. [4] 1832 – Sunderland became a parliamentary borough under the Reform Act, returning two members of Parliament. [1] 1835 – St Mary's Church, Sunderland completed. 1835/6 – Establishment of the modern Borough Council, with the first modern Mayor
This is a list of historic country estates in Lake County, Ohio built between the years 1895 and 1930. Around 1885 the city of Cleveland, Ohio was home to an estimated 70 millionaires. Around 1885 the city of Cleveland, Ohio was home to an estimated 70 millionaires.
After that the Sunderland Barracks were mainly used by Royal Artillery units. [10] By the turn of the century many of the barracks built in the late 18th century were in poor condition and in May 1909, the War Office started considering disposal of the Sunderland site. [11]