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Logging town that had a post office by 1909. Town site purchased by Courtney Love in the 2000s; [6] some concrete foundations and a smokestack remain. [7] Bossburg [1] Stevens: c. 1892 c. 1910 Semi-abandoned Brief: Burnt Ridge: Lewis: Approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Onalaska [8] 1880s Unknown (schoolhouse shuttered in 1945) [9] Locale ...
Miles was born on 29 September 1958 in the town of Cowansville, Quebec. Her father was a harmonica player and jazz fan while her mother listened to both opera and country music. Miles learned to play the violin, guitar, piano and flute during her school years. [2] She began composing songs at the age of ten and began performing at the age of ...
Bara-Hack is a ghost town in the northern part of the state that is reportedly haunted. [38] Daniel Benton Homestead is a historic house museum in Tolland, Connecticut. It is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of Hessian soldiers and 18th-century lovers Elisha Benton and Jemima Barrows, who tragically died from smallpox. [39]
Ferry Plantation House, or Old Donation Farm, Ferry Farm, Walke Manor House, [3] [5] is a brick house in the neighborhood of Old Donation Farm in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The site dates back to 1642 when Savill Gaskin started the second ferry service in Hampton Roads to carry passengers on the Lynnhaven River to the nearby county courthouse ...
Lynn Alan Miles (Chinese: 梅心怡; pinyin: Méi Xīnyí; 15 June 1943 – 8 June 2015) was an American human rights activist in Taiwan. Miles was born in New Jersey and first went to Taiwan in 1962, at the invitation of his college classmate whose father was a ranking security official. But after a few months of living happily with the family ...
The Tayloes were a greatly distinguished Virginia family: His grandfather, Colonel John Tayloe (d. 1747), was a member of the King's Council in Virginia and owner of more than 3,000 acres (12 km 2) of land (a huge estate at the time), and his father, Colonel John Tayloe II, built the historic Mount Airy manor house in 1758 and was also a member ...
Wash Woods was an unincorporated town on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the former Princess Anne County (now the independent City of Virginia Beach), in the southeastern corner of Virginia. It has been abandoned since the 1930s, except for the Life Saving Station which remained operational until the mid-1950s. [1]
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the US state of Washington. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 260 law enforcement agencies employing 11,411 sworn police officers, about 174 for each 100,000 residents.