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Lake Lyndon B. Johnson (more commonly referred to as Lake LBJ and originally named Lake Granite Shoals) is a reservoir on the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country about 45 miles northwest of Austin. The reservoir was formed in 1950 by the construction of Granite Shoals Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA).
Coolidge, Arizona – named for 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge and the most recent city to be named after a U.S. President; Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner) [156] Cooper River (South Carolina) – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury [156] Cooperstown, New York – William Cooper
Stronghurst, Illinois — William B. Strong and R. D. Hurst, president and vice president, respectively, of the Santa Fe Railroad [18] Valmeyer, Illinois — "valley" and Meyer, local family name [18] Veda Lake — lake in the Oregon Cascades, first stocked by Vern Rogers and Dave Donaldson, who the lake was named after [14]
The new movie "Caddo Lake," from M. Night Shyamalan's studio, was partly filmed in Shreveport. Here's how to stream the film, released last week.
Virginia City is a ghost town in southwest Bailey County, Texas, United States. It was located 2 miles southeast of the present intersection of Farm Roads 298 and 1731 in southwest Bailey County, 25 miles southwest of Muleshoe. It was platted on March 13, 1909, by Matthew C. Vaughn and Samuel D. McCloud.
Named for the John Proffitt ranching family. [400] Provident City: Colorado: 1909 1930s Began as a land promotion in 1909. Mostly abandoned during the Great Depression in the United States. [401] Pumpville: Val Verde: Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. [402] Pyote: Ward [403] Quigley: Jasper [404 ...
Location of counties named for presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as for Benjamin Franklin.. In the United States, a county is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state that consists of a geographic region with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.
Virginia City is a city located in Storey County, Nevada. Virginia City may also refer to: Virginia City, Montana; Virginia City, Texas; Virginia City, a 1940 film starring Errol Flynn; Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center, a power plant in St. Paul, Virginia