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Chester is a census-designated place (CDP) in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.The population was 1,005 at the 2010 census. [3] The CDP is a statistical area encompassing three distinct places: the urbanized center of the town of Chester; a locale known as Chester Depot, which is separated from the town center by the tracks of the former Rutland Railroad; and the village of North Chester.
As in 2000, the majority of town residents in 2010 are female (1,638 to 1,516 male today compared to 1,574 to 1,470 10 years ago). In 2010, 1,262 of the women and 1,117 of the men are older than 19. Chester is 97.5% white (down slightly from 98.8%) while Vermont as a whole is 95.3% white.
The park land on the islands has a total area of 43 acres (17 ha), with two islands downstream of the Allegheny River Lock and Dam Three (officially named the C. W. Bill Young Lock and Dam), and the other island upstream. [2] Twelve Mile Island is the farthest downstream (west) and has a number of houses and buildings on the western four-fifths ...
Ten Mile is an unincorporated community in northern Meigs and southeastern Roane counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. [1] Ten Mile is primarily a summer cottage community on Watts Bar Lake. It includes summer cottages, small locally owned stores and restaurants, a bank, marinas, resorts, churches, and a post office (ZIP code 37880).
The population density was 240.8 inhabitants per square mile (93.0/km 2). There were 2,789 housing units at an average density of 75.6 per square mile (29.2/km 2 ). The racial makeup of the town was 92.24% White , 5.33% Black or African American , 0.30% Native American , 0.61% Asian , 0.02% Pacific Islander , 0.85% from other races , and 0.64% ...
One of Avalon's beaches on the New Jersey shore. Avalon is a borough in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.It is located on Seven Mile Island.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,243, [11] a decrease of 91 (−6.8%) from the 2010 census count of 1,334, [20] [21] which in turn declined by 809 (−37.8%) from the 2,143 counted in the 2000 census. [22]
When the English and Dutch settled their competing claims to Long Island in the 1650 treaty conducted in Hartford, the Dutch partition included all lands west of Oyster Bay and thus the Wantagh area. Long Island then was ceded to the Duke of York in 1663–64, but then fell back into Dutch hands after the Dutch regained New York in 1673.
The Near North Side is arguably the oldest part of Chicago. In the 1780s, in what is now the Near North Side, on the northern banks of the Chicago River near today's Michigan Avenue Bridge, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable built the first known permanent settlement in what was called "Eschecagou." Today, this is marked by Pioneer Court.