Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On November 30, 1927, Leonard Woods, a black coal miner and resident of Jenkins, Kentucky, was lynched on the Virginia-Kentucky border at Pound Gap. Woods had been jailed in Kentucky for the murder of 29-year-old Herschel Deaton of Coeburn, Virginia, following an altercation on November 27. On the night of the lynching, a crowd estimated ...
Virginia Margaret Graham (1 November 1910 – 17 February 1993) [1] [2] was a London-born English writer, critic and poet, whose humorous verses on Second World War subjects were republished in London by Persephone Books in 2000 as Consider the Years 1938–1946. [3] The first edition was published in 1946 by Jonathan Cape.
The Draper's Meadow Massacre was an attack in July 1755, when the Draper's Meadow settlement in southwest Virginia, at the site of present-day Blacksburg, was raided by a group of Shawnee warriors, who killed at least four people including an infant, and captured five more. [1]
Kentucky County, 1776–1780, as established by the Virginia General Assembly. [1]Kentucky County (aka Kentucke County), later the District of Kentucky, was formed by the Commonwealth of Virginia from the western portion (beyond the Big Sandy River and Cumberland Mountains) of Fincastle County effective 1777. [2]
Population density in the American Colonies in 1775. At the time of the Westervelt Massacre, in 1780, Kentucky was part of the Commonwealth of Virginia.The Westervelt family arrived during the American Revolutionary War and were among the first colonists to settle in the territory.
Death Toll: 6,000–12,000. ... Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia. It was the second-most intense hurricane in U.S. history, with barometric pressure reaching almost 27 inches. ...
In the days since, guns have killed at least 2244 more people. Chicago has seen more recent gun deaths than any other city in the U.S. In a speech there, President Obama said "too many of our children are being taken away from us" as a result of gun violence.
1895 – The Rotunda, University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia. 1897 – Fire at the Bazar de la Charité, Paris, France on 4 May, killed 126, mostly women. 1899 – Windsor Hotel East 47th Street/5th Avenue Manhattan, New York—at least 33 and possibly 45 people killed (estimates vary).