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Blair Athol (horse) was a British racehorse that won the 1864 Epsom Derby; Blair of Athol (ship), ... This page was last edited on 17 August 2022, at 08:09 (UTC).
Blair Athol (1861–1882) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted little more than three months in the summer and autumn of 1864, he ran seven times and won five races including one walk-over .
North Carolina plantation were identified by name, beginning in the 17th century. The names of families or nearby rivers or other features were used. The names assisted the owners and local record keepers in keeping track of specific parcels of land. In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records.
Blair Atholl (from the Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Athall, originally Blàr Ath Fhodla [2]) is a village in Perthshire, Scotland, built about the confluence of the Rivers Tilt and Garry in one of the few areas of flat land in the midst of the Grampian Mountains. [3] The Gaelic place-name Blair, from blàr, 'field, plain', refers to this location.
[12] [8] This name applied to the Listuguj Catholic mission in the early 20th century. [20] The entrepreneur Robert Ferguson (1768-1851) arrived in the area in 1796 from Logierait near Blair Atholl in Scotland and built a house called Athol House: this was actually one of many Scottish names in the North of the county. [28]
“I couldn’t sleep last night,” Grovner told The Associated Press. “My wife said I was sleeping, I was hollering in my sleep, saying, ‘I’m going to save you. I’m going to save you.
Many were recent immigrants, married into local families, purchased land or had occupations that would take them from another place into North Carolina. Company A - "The Duplin Rifles" - many men from Duplin County, NC. The company entered service in April, 1861, as Company C of the 2nd North Carolina Volunteers, stationed near Norfolk, Va. At ...
Sarah Gammon Brown Bickford (December 25, 1856 – July 19, 1931) was born into slavery in either Tennessee or North Carolina. In the 1870s she made her way to the Montana goldfields, trading work as a nanny for transportation.