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Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Adrianus or Hadrianus. Its ultimate origin is most likely via the former river Adria from the Venetic and Illyrian word adur , meaning "sea" or "water". [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The Etruscans dug canals to drain the "Adrian swamps" (the swamps that surrounded Adria); [3] the Tartaro river was diverted north-east into the Philistina canal. [4] Other canals (the fossiones) were dug parallel to the coastline to allow inland navigation. [5] The town of Adria and its port on the Adria river flourished in the 6th century BC ...
Adrian is a city in Malheur County, Oregon, United States, near the confluence of the Snake River and the Owyhee River. The population was 177 at the 2010 census . It is part of the Ontario , OR– ID Micropolitan Statistical Area .
Former Adrian mayor and longtime Comstock Christmas Riverwalk organizer Jim Berryman, shares some words prior to the annual lighting of Comstock Park, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, in Adrian.
Owyhee Dam (National ID # OR00582) is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Owyhee River in Eastern Oregon near Adrian, Oregon, United States. Completed in 1932 during the Great Depression, the dam generates electricity and provides irrigation water for several irrigation districts in Oregon and neighboring Idaho. At the time of completion, it was ...
Adrian College gave No. 1 UW-River Falls all it could handle, but fell in NCAA Division III women's hockey semifinal
M-52 is a north–south state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan.The southern terminus is on the Ohio border, where it continues as State Route 109 (SR 109). The highway passes through communities like Adrian, where it intersects US Highway 223 (US 223), Chelsea and Webberville along its 127.3-mile-long (204.9 km) course.
Part of the original route, now in Sylvania, Ohio Toledo to Chicago Drawing of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad. On April 22, 1833, the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad was chartered in the Territory of Michigan, [1] to run from the former Port Lawrence, Michigan, now Toledo, Ohio, near Lake Erie, northwest to Adrian, Michigan, on the River Raisin.