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Stubbings House mansion was very briefly the home of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, the Governor of Quebec and later, during World War II, of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. Another notable resident from 1947 to 1969 was physicist Sir Thomas Merton inventor of the "one-shilling rangefinder" which brought down flying bombs at a range ...
Location of Loudon County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Loudon County, Tennessee.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States.
The Earnest-Broyles House, a two-story brick Federal-style I-house originally built by Henry Earnest, Jr. in 1820. The house has a Colonial Revival-influenced portico and a Federal-influence interior. A two-story frame tobacco barn, built around 1940. A board-and-batten stock/tobacco barn, built around 1920. The barn was originally built to ...
Thompson's Station is a town in Williamson County, Tennessee.The population has grown from 2,194 at the 2010 Census to 7,485 in the 2020 Census. [7] Locations in Thompson's Station listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places include the Jacob Critz House and the Thomas L. Critz House, Thompson's Station Bank, John Neely House, James P. Johnson House, Homestead Manor and James ...
Stubbings is a surname. The vast movement of people that followed the Norman Conquest of England of 1066 brought the Stubbings family name to the British Isles. They lived in Essex having derived from the Old English word stybbing, meaning stumps, and indicates that the original bearer lived in or near an area which had been cleared of trees.
The area which is now Beech Bluff was first inhabited by the Chickasaw, from whom an earthwork remains. [5] In 1852, a post office was established at Beech Bluff, [6] which was then also known as Homer [a] and used as a summer resort. [7]
The 19th-century owners of the printworks began to give the village its present shape by building rows of terraced houses for their workers. The other main employers were the Porritt family who built Stubbins Vale Mill in 1851 and the Ramsbottom Spinning and Manufacturing Co., a co-operative of working men, whose 1861 factory was christened ...
Castalian Springs captured national news headlines when an 11-month-old boy, Kyson Stowell, was found alive in the debris of his house. Originally thought to be a children's doll, the boy moved just slightly and rescuer, David Harmon, noticed the movement. He had been blown 150 yards from the house.