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  2. Timeline of Glasgow history - Wikipedia

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    1800: The River Clyde is 14 ft (3.1m) deep, and supports 200 wharves and jetties; there is a large Gaelic community in the city [33] 1800: The Glasgow Police Act is passed by Parliament allowing the creation of the first modern preventative police force [34] 1803: Dorothy Wordsworth visits Glasgow [35]

  3. History of Glasgow - Wikipedia

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    In 1451, the University of Glasgow was founded by papal bull and established in religious buildings in the precincts of Glasgow Cathedral. By the start of the 16th century, Glasgow had become an important religious and academic city and by the 17th century the university had moved from the cathedral precincts to its own building in the High Street.

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Detroit

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    Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Wayne County ...

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    The majority of NRHP properties in Wayne County are in Detroit. These properties represent over a century's worth of the city's growth, from the Charles Trowbridge House (built in 1826, and the oldest known structure in the city) to structures in the Detroit Financial District built in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

  6. List of lost cities, towns, and counties of Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Chestonia grew up around a depot on the Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad that was founded in 1899. At one point, it boasted a post office, nearly 100 residents, and the junction of the East Jordan and Southern and Detroit and Charlevoix railroads. When the last of the railroad tracks in the town were removed in 1962, the depot and post office ...

  7. Who were the men who hid a note in a Scottish lighthouse 132 ...

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    A rich picture has emerged of the three men who left a message hidden inside the walls of a Scottish lighthouse 132 years ago, thanks to the work of genealogists.

  8. National Register of Historic Places listings in Michigan

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    The Sherman City Union Church was built in 1871 as the "Guard of American Revolution Hall", and in 1898 was refitted as a nondenominational church. The church was abandoned in about 1960, but was rescued and refurbished in 1977–78 by local citizens.

  9. Category:History of Glasgow - Wikipedia

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    City of Glasgow (1975–1996) City of Glasgow Bank; Clyde Burghs (UK Parliament constituency) ... Glasgow Police Act 1800; Glasgow razor gangs; Glasgow Salvage Corps;