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The manor of Stanton was owned for some two centuries by the Bache family, but passed to Thornhill by the 1696 marriage of Mary Pegge, heiress of the estate, to John Thornhill of Thornhill. The Thornhill family and their direct descendants are still in residence. The house has three principal building phases.
The Captain George Flavel House Museum (/ f l ʌ v ɛ l /) [2] known also as Capt. George Flavel House and Carriage House [3] or the Flavel Mansion, [4] [5] is now a house museum in Astoria, Oregon, United States.
Astoria is an incorporated town in Fulton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 929 at the 2020 census. [4] It was originally laid out as the town of Washington in 1836, relocated as Vienna in 1837, and renamed as Astoria in 1839. The name honors fur titan John Jacob Astor, who supposedly owned land in or near the town. [5]
Thornhill, 1999 Moxy Früvous album; Thornhill was the name of a play that John Cassavetes and others were developing in 1983, about Eugene O'Neill; Thornhill College, Derry, Northern Ireland; Thornhill Academy, Sunderland, England; Thornhill Community Academy, West Yorkshire, England; Thornhill Secondary School, Ontario, Canada
Thornhill Crescent - southwest end. Thornhill Square is the largest square in Islington and was for many years one of its largest open spaces, [1]: 136 although for many years the gardens were open only to key-holders. [1]: 143 Thornhill Square together with Thornhill Crescent form an unusual large ovoid ellipse.
Astoria has a lively local community and hosts a number of neighborhood events. Since 2020, the 31st Ave Open Street, a branch of NYC Open Streets, [140] runs programming on 31st Avenue with local businesses and artists. [141] Shop Small Astoria, a collective of independent retail stores, host neighborhood shopping and drink crawls. [142]
Thornhill is a surname of English origin, primarily tracing back to Lancashire and Yorkshire and taking its name from any of the nearby places also called Thornhill. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Notable people
Astoria has one sister city, [99] as designated by Sister Cities International: Walldorf, Germany, which is the birthplace of Astoria's namesake, John Jacob Astor, who was born in Walldorf near Heidelberg on July 17, 1763. The sistercityship was founded on Astor's 200th birthday in 1963 in Walldorf by Walldorf's mayor Wilhelm Willinger and ...