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Pittsville played an important role in early history of Virginia.Early mineral prospectors found iron ore in the form of Brown Hematite and magnetic ore in the 1860s and in 1878 the Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad was chartered as a means of transporting the ore to market.
In American usage, a publication's masthead is a printed list, published in a fixed position in each edition, of its owners, departments, officers, contributors and address details, [1] [2] which in British English usage is known as imprint. [3]
Berkshire Athenaeum, 1876 building Berkshire Athenaeum, entry to 1876 building. The original Berkshire Athenaeum, now known as the Bowes Building, is a nineteenth century building that still stands on Park Square in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in the Berkshires.
Construction of the oldest portions of the house known as Arrowhead took place in the 1780s. Built by Captain David Bush, the wood frame and clapboard house was apparently used as an inn. The Bush family sold the property to Pittsfield doctor John Brewster in 1844, who in 1850 sold the 160 acres (65 ha) property to the writer Herman Melville ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 252 square miles (650 km 2), of which 86 square miles (220 km 2) is land and 166 square miles (430 km 2) (65.9%) is water. [13]
ASHBURN, Va. — It was the only house in the cul-de-sac with a skating rink in the backyard. When the freeze set in, Peter Livingston would anchor two-by-fours in the ground behind the house ...
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The collision that claimed the lives of 67 people Wednesday bore a hole in the heart of the tight-knit skating community in a Washington, D.C. suburb.