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Annex is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. Its population was 235 as of the 2010 census . [ 5 ] The community is located on the south bank of the Snake River across from Weiser, Idaho ; a bridge carrying U.S. Route 95 Spur connects the two.
Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1742. A charter is a document that gives colonies the legal rights to exist. Charters can bestow certain rights on a town, city, university, or other institution. Colonial charters were approved when the king gave a grant of exclusive powers for the governance of land to proprietors or a settlement company.
Bullet holes in the main staircase of the house are still visible. Speaking in 1864, Samuel Smith reported that "[o]ur people gathered up the Americans who were killed in and about the house, and laid them side by side in the south room, and when Mrs. Russell came back to her home she found them there, weltering in their own blood, her husband ...
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The two "bullet holes" in the wall were drilled by the pub's landlady in the 1990s. [ 4 ] The pub is included in CAMRA 's heritage guide for its interior, which includes a "remarkably intact room from the 1930s" with wood panelling, an Art Deco frieze and a Tudor-style pink marble fireplace.
The land for the Annex was bought by the U.S. Navy in 1941, from local landowners, to expand the nearby Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot, in Hingham.The Depot was the main ammunition supplier for Naval Forces of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, during World War II, employing 2,091 civilians along with 721 naval officers and sailors and 375 Marine guards at its peak in June, 1945. [1]
A map of Los Angeles County with the city of Los Angeles in red, showing the Shoestring Strip annexation, which reaches south to the San Pedro area and the Port of Los Angeles. A "shoestring annexation" is a term used for an annexation by a city , town or other municipality in which it acquires new territory that is contiguous to the existing ...
The building was constructed in the Middle Ages as a monastery.Later it served as a residence for the Dutch statesman William the Silent.William was assassinated in the Prinsenhof by Balthasar Gérard in 1584 - the holes in the wall made by the bullets at the main stairs are still visible.