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The Knight's Tombstone is a significant artifact from early American colonial history, located in Jamestown, Virginia, the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America established in 1607. This tombstone, dating back to 1627, is notable for being one of the oldest surviving tombstones in the United States and for its ...
Citizens of Tombstone believed that Behan and Sadie were married, but Behan was a known womanizer and had sex with prostitutes and other women. In early 1881, Sadie ended the relationship after she came home and found Behan in bed with the wife of a friend [68] and kicked him out, [69] although she used the Behan surname through the end of that ...
Interstate 64 (I-64) in the US state of Virginia runs east–west through the middle of the state from West Virginia to the Hampton Roads region, for a total of 299 miles (481 km). From the West Virginia state line to Chesapeake , it passes through the major cities of Lexington , Staunton , Charlottesville , the state capital of Richmond ...
The tombstone, from 1627, was erected at the Jamestown settlement following the death of Sir George Yeardley, a colonial governor of Virginia. Mystery surrounding 400-year-old Jamestown gravestone ...
Vermillion wound up in Kansas in the late 1870s. From Dodge City, Kansas, he went to Tombstone, Arizona (Arizona Territory), where he possibly previously knew the Earps and Doc Holliday. He was listed by Virgil Earp as special policeman (i.e., deputy city policeman) June 22, 1881. This is the day of the large Tombstone fire of 1881, with which ...
The tombstone is believed to belong to Sir George Yeardley, a colonial governor of the earliest English settlement and one of America’s first slaveholders, who was knighted in 1618. The death of ...
The O.K. Corral hearing and aftermath was the direct result of the 30-second Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, on October 26, 1881. During that confrontation, Deputy U.S. Marshal and Tombstone Town Marshal Virgil Earp, Assistant Town Marshal Morgan Earp, and temporary deputy marshals Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday shot and killed Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury.
The following highways in Virginia have been known as State Route 64: State Route 64 (Virginia 1933-1940), Tennessee to Lebanon, Virginia; State Route 64 (Virginia 1940-1958), now part of State Route 63; Interstate 64 in Virginia, 1957–present