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Lost Creek was so named as it appears in the northern end of the valley below Sewanee, Tennessee and then disappears (or is lost) in the southern end into the Big Sink. [1] An alternative origin of the name has been given as by a visitor in the mid 19th century who, becoming lost among the common Canebrakes for two days, named it as the Lost Cove.
The most meaningful outcome of the Franklin expedition was the mapping of several thousand miles of hitherto unsurveyed coastline by expeditions searching for Franklin's lost ships and crew. As Richard Cyriax noted, "the loss of the expedition probably added much more [geographical] knowledge than its successful return would have done". [ 156 ]
State of Franklin on U.S. map. The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin, Lost State of Franklin, or the State of Frankland) [a] was an unrecognized proposed state located in present-day East Tennessee, in the United States.
John Hartnell was born in Gillingham, Kent to a family of shipbuilders. [2] His parents were Thomas and Sarah (maiden name: Friar, born 1796) Hartnell who were married at Frindsbury, in the Medway Towns area of Kent, on 9 October 1815, and with whom he was living in Gillingham at the time of the census of 1841. [3]
Truman C. Everts (c. 1816 – February 16, 1901) was an American government official and explorer who was the first federal tax assessor for the Montana Territory and a member of the 1870 Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition, which explored the area which later became Yellowstone National Park.
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Lost Creek can refer to several places: Lost Creek (Feather River, South Fork) , a California tributary of the South Fork Feather River with confluence at 39°33′50″N 121°11′25″W / 39.563816°N 121.190186°W / 39.563816; -121.
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