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Earl Vaughn at age 6. Earl Wray Vaughn was born on June 17, 1928, to John H. and Lelia F. Vaughn in their farmhouse in the Oregon Hill community of Rockingham County, North Carolina. He was the youngest of eleven children. While in school, Vaughn assisted with tobacco work on his parents’ farm. He attended Ruffin High School and graduated in ...
Historical marker ()The Snowden-Gray mansion is located on East Town Street in Downtown Columbus, close to Topiary Park. [1] The surrounding Town-Franklin neighborhood is considered the city's first suburb, first subdivided in the 1840s, with early fashionable residences constructed in the 1850s, and its lots filling in during the subsequent prosperous decades. [2]
Evans Lustron House in Columbus, Indiana. This is a list of notable Lustron houses. A Lustron house is a home built using enameled metal. There were about 2500 prefabricated homes built in this manner.
The Edward V. Rickenbacker House is a historic house in the Driving Park neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.Built in 1895, it was the childhood home of Eddie Rickenbacker (1890–1973), who at various times in his life was a flying ace, Medal of Honor recipient, race car driver and a pioneer in air transportation.
Books. The Biographical Encyclopœdia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century.Cincinnati and Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Company. 1876. A Centennial Biographical History of the City of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio.
Bob Braun began his career at the age of thirteen with WSAI Radio, hosting a Saturday morning Knothole Baseball sports show. [2] He joined WCPO-TV in 1949. In 1957, after winning the $1,000 top prize on television's Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts talent show, Braun was immediately hired by WLWT and WLW-AM.
Rush Creek Village Round House. Rush Creek Village is a historic neighborhood in Worthington, Ohio, just north of Columbus.It was founded in 1954 by Martha and Richard Wakefield, who—along with architect Theodore Van Fossen—designed and built a community of 48 houses (later expanded to 51) based on Frank Lloyd Wright's principles of Usonian architecture.
The current mansion that houses the governor is the second governor's mansion and was purchased in 1957 to house the governor and his family. The original residence, the Old Governor's Mansion in Columbus, was purchased after an embarrassing incident in 1916 occurred with the governor-elect James M. Cox.