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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
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Irish Linen Guild is a promotional organization of the Irish linen industry that was founded in 1928. [1] The Guild's main role is to promote Irish linen in national and international markets, through its website. The guild's brand's trademark is the focus of all promotional activities.
The Living Linen Project was set up in 1995 as an oral archive of the knowledge of the Irish linen industry still available within a nucleus of people who were formerly working in the industry in Ulster. [1] For over three hundred years linen manufacture has been an important industry, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Bloomington was originally called Lewisville, and under the latter name was laid out in 1842. [2] A post office was established under the name Bloomington in 1847, and remained in operation until 1906. [3]
Irish linen (Irish: Línéadach Éireannach [1]) is the name given to linen produced in Ireland (including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). Linen is cloth woven from, or yarn spun from, flax fibre , which was grown in Ireland for many years before advanced agricultural methods and more suitable climate led to the ...
The Irish moved from Whiskey Island when better employment and housing opportunities became available and except for a Depression-era Hooverville, Whiskey Island was left largely to the railroads, a salt mine owned by Cargill, and the set of four large Hulett ore unloaders [2] at the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, which when built in 1911 was the largest ore-unloading dock on the Great Lakes. [4]
William III's policy was to discourage the Irish woollen trade, but to build up linen manufacture there. [1] Crommelin was the most prominent Huguenot attracted by Southwell. [2] He arrived at Lisburn in the autumn of 1698, and made recommendations for improving the linen industry in a memorial of 16 April 1699; which were implemented quickly.