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Alton Castle was founded in stone by Bertram III de Verdun and built on a rocky precipice overlooking the River Churnet in the 12th century, [3] however the site had been fortified in wood since Saxon times. [4] The castle is also referred to in historical documents as Alton, Alverton or Aulton.
Alton houses the district's middle school while elementary and high schools are in Orange City. Spalding Catholic School , which serves elementary grades, is located in a single campus in Alton. It was previously a K-8 school and had multiple campuses, with middle school in Granville , but the Granville campus closed in 2017, and middle school ...
Alton, Staffordshire, England Alton Castle, presently a Catholic youth retreat centre; Alton Towers, theme park, formerly a country estate Alton Mansion; Alton, Wiltshire, England, a civil parish; Alton, a hamlet in Figheldean parish, Wiltshire; Alton Estate, Roehampton, Greater London, England; Alton Water, a manmade reservoir in Suffolk
This episode explores scary attractions across the nation: a motel next to a cemetery that's a Coulrophobia's worst nightmare, a morbid museum that houses haunted artifacts like a demonic Raggedy Ann doll, an old western ranch with a 19th-century schoolhouse that's reportedly haunted by a schoolmarm and her students, a historic Mississippi town ...
The Norman castle was destroyed during the English Civil War. In the 17th century, the former castle was redeveloped as a hunting lodge known as Alerton (or Alverton), which is the ancient name for Alton. The three-storey structure reused one of the castle's former towers, which remains part of the present-day building.
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The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Alton, Iowa. Pages in category "People from Alton, Iowa" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man. He is the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. Wadlow was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a small city near St. Louis, Missouri. [1]