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The city of Jacksonville, Florida, began to grow in the late 18th century as Cow Ford, settled by British colonists.Its major development occurred in the late nineteenth century, when it became a winter vacation destination for tourists from the North and Midwest.
Cowfold is a village and civil parish between Billingshurst and Haywards Heath in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.The village is at the intersection of the A272 and A281 roads.
After Cowford was renamed Jacksonville, a petition dated June 15, 1822, was sent to Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, asking him to designate the city as a port of entry for the United States. [7]
Jacksonville (US: / ˈ dʒ æ k s ən ˌ v ɪ l / JAK-sən-vihl) is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.It is the seat of Duval County, [9] with which the City of Jacksonville consolidated in 1968.
Robin Bruce Lockhart, Half-way to Heaven: The Hidden Life of the Sublime Carthusians (London: Thames Methuen, 1985); Nancy Klein Maguire, An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order (roman à clef, = novel based on real-life stories) (New York: PublicAffairs Books 2006, a division of Perseus Publishing, ISBN hardback ...
Crawford County, in west central Georgia, is Georgia's fifty-seventh county. The 325-square-mile (840 km 2) county was created on December 9, 1822, from Houston County, which had been formed from land given up by the Creek Indians in the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs.
Davidson was born in Cowford, in the Parish of Bellie, Moray, Scotland, and was engaged in salmon fishing as a young man (see River Spey).He was born John Godsman, but changed his name to William Davidson after his grandfather.
Cowford Furnace [ edit ] TQ 559 320 51°03′58″N 0°13′33″E / 51.066037°N 0.225963°E / 51.066037; 0.225963 This furnace was built in 1562, when the builders were in dispute with Lord Abergavenny