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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) opened Mevagissey Lifeboat Station on 2 October 1869 on ground leased from Earl of Mount Edgcumbe at Portmellon. The lifeboat was a 33 ft (10 m) standard Self-Righter with sails and 10 oars named South Warwickshire. The boathouse at Portmellon was sold after the lifeboat was moved into Mevagissey ...
Mevagissey harbour at dusk. The harbour is built on the site of a medieval quay. The first Act of Parliament allowing the new port to be built was passed in 1774. The inner harbour, consisting of the current East and West Quays, was constructed from this time. An outer harbour was added in 1888, but seriously damaged in a blizzard in 1891. The ...
The inner harbour at Mevagissey was created after an act of Parliament authorised the construction of a pier in 1775. By the 1850s there were about 80 fishing boats in the village and small cargo vessels also called at the harbour such as the French schooner Rochellaise which ran aground near the entrance on 14 July 1857.
Richmond is often subdivided into North Side, Southside, East End and West End. The Greater Richmond area extends beyond the city limits into nearby counties. Descriptions of Richmond often describe the large area as falling into one of the four primarily geographic references which somewhat mirror the points of a compass: North Side, Southside, East End and West End.
The Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which includes three other cities (Petersburg, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights) and adjacent counties, is home to approximately 1.3 million Virginians or 15.1% of Virginia's population. [7] The Richmond region is growing steadily, adding nearly 400,000 residents in the past two decades.
Richmond's Baby Box is the 242nd in the nation (128th in Indiana) built by Safe Haven Baby Boxes, a non-profit organization formed in 2015 by Monica Kelsey as a legal alternative to end infant ...
Heligan House. The Heligan estate (/ h ɛ ˈ l ɪ ɡ ən /; Cornish: Helygen, meaning willow tree) was the ancestral home of the Tremayne family near Mevagissey in Cornwall, England. . Purchased by Sampson Tremayne in 1569, the present house was built in 1692 and extended in the early 19th centu
Shockoe Slip began developing in the late 18th century following the move of the state capital to Richmond, aided by the construction of Mayo's bridge across the James River (ultimately succeeded by the modern 14th Street Bridge), as well as the siting of key tobacco industry structures, such as the public warehouse, tobacco scales, and the Federal Customs House in or near the district.