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During the Civil War, on 28 February 1861 Confederate troops captured more than 80 camels [2]: 155 and two foreign drivers at Camp Verde. A Texas Ranger company was assigned the camp in 1862 and J.W. Walker was in care of the camels, some of which were used to transport salt from San Antonio and Brownsville and San Elizario, while some ...
The town of Camp Verde came about from the Old Camp Verde military camp. The town grew around the old Williams community store (opened in 1857), which was built to serve the soldiers stationed at the base. After Williams died in 1858, German immigrant Charles Schreiner acquired the store. After the camp was abandoned, the store continued to ...
The first part of the trip required traveling from Camp Verde through San Antonio, Fort Davis, and El Paso, crossing the Texas–New Mexico Territory border, and passing through Albuquerque to arrive at Fort Defiance. The expedition left San Antonio on June 25, 1857, and 25 pack camels accompanied a train of mule-drawn wagons.
Formerly the oldest continuously operating general store in Connecticut, the Colebrook Store lasted 195 years before shuttering in 2007, only to be reopened under new management in 2014 — and ...
Hi Jolly or Hadji Ali (Arabic: حاج علي, romanized: Ḥājj ʿAlī; Turkish: Hacı Ali), also known as Philip Tedro (c. 1828 – December 16, 1902), was an Ottoman subject of Syrian and Greek parentage, [1] and in 1856 became one of the first camel drivers ever hired by the US Army to lead the camel driver experiment in the Southwest.
The highest point in town (and in Strafford County) is 1,700 feet (520 m) above sea level, on the western slope of Copple Crown Mountain, along the town's eastern border. The mountain's 1,868-foot (569 m) summit is in the neighboring town of Brookfield, in Carroll County. New Durham is served by New Hampshire Route 11.
For the largest space, a new 150,000-square-foot building, company president Sandy Spurgin said they are in negotiations with “a large-scale general merchandise retailer whose stores include a ...
The town hall was built in 1908, replacing in function the town's original 1770 meetinghouse, which still stands in the rural New Durham Corner area to the south. The new location of the town's civic heart was occasioned by changes in the town's economic focus due to the construction of new roads, and arrival in the 1850s of the railroad. In ...