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Remnants of a historic commercial district east of the Rock River, including the 1885 Italianate-styled Hodge and Bucholz Carriage Works, [88] the 1893 Queen Anne-style London hotel, [89] the Merchants Hotel which was built in the 1850s and remodeled in the 1890s, [90] the Peters Block which was begun in 1849 and remodeled to Prairie Style in ...
Pinckneyville is a historic frontier settlement site located near Union, Union County, South Carolina. Pinckneyville was established on February 19, 1791, by the General Assembly of South Carolina Act #1491 along with the Washington district, [ 2 ] and is one of the earliest settlements in the South Carolina backcountry.
Hotel Loraine, also known as The Loraine, is a ten-story hi-rise built as a hotel in 1924 a block southwest of the capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. It was the city's leading hotel from the time of construction to 1968. In 2002 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. [2] Walter Schroeder was a Milwaukee businessman who inherited ...
Pinckneyville was named in honor of Thomas Pinckney. At one point, Pinckneyville was home to two churches, a general store, two grist mills, and a cotton gin. A group of men from Pinckneyville were mustered into Hilliard's Legion. [2] A post office operated under the name Pinckneyville from 1840 to 1903. [3]
Pinckneyville is a city in and the county seat of Perry County, Illinois, United States. [1] The population was 5,066 at the 2020 census . It is named for Charles Cotesworth Pinckney , an early American diplomat and presidential candidate.
In the late 1800s, Minocqua was a logging town. Minocqua Clawson was the first child born in the town. Clawson Hill was a famous landmark in town, and it is now the current location of the Pointe Resort & Hotel at the south end of the Highway 51 bridge. The construction of railroads was a critical component of Minocqua's early growth.
The road passes Beloit College and crosses Wisconsin Highway 81 (WIS 81) before leaving Beloit and going toward Janesville. Along the way, it goes under the Wisconsin and Southern railroad and turns away from the river and passes Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport. US 51 becomes a four-lane undivided highway as it crosses WIS 11. [2]
About 1892, the first of the caves were discovered on the property of Henry A. Alrich, and was soon purchased by Charles Steinbrecher, who, in 1900, built the nearby Maribel Caves Hotel. Over the next several decades, tourists came to see the caves. In 1931, Adolph Cherney bought the property, including the nearby hotel.