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  2. Timeline of Sunderland - Wikipedia

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    1634 – Bishop Morton's Charter created Sunderland's first Mayor and Corporation. [1] West View of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland. 1698 – Formation of Sunderland Company of Glassmakers; 1669 – Letters patent permitted the erection of a pier and lighthouse. [1] 1719 – Sunderland Parish's Holy Trinity Church opened

  3. Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens - Wikipedia

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    Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is a municipal museum in Sunderland, England. It contains the only known British example of a gliding reptile, the oldest known vertebrate capable of gliding flight. The exhibit was discovered in Eppleton quarry. The museum has a Designated Collection of national importance. [1]

  4. Category:Museums in the City of Sunderland - Wikipedia

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  5. Sunderland Center Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Sunderland Center Historic District encompasses the historic center of the farming town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, on the plains of the Connecticut River.The multi-acre district runs along North and South Main Street (Massachusetts Route 47), roughly from Old Amherst Road to North Silver Lane, and includes Bridge Street and the Sunderland Bridge across the river.

  6. List of open-air and living history museums in the United ...

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    American West Heritage Center, [13] Wellsville; Wheeler Historic Farm, [14] Murray; Virginia. Chippokes State Park, Surry; Claude Moore Colonial Farm, McLean; Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg [15] Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, Staunton; Matthews Living History Farm Museum, Independence [16] Washington. Pomeroy Living History Farm ...

  7. Jack Crawford (sailor) - Wikipedia

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    In 1987 it was loaned to Sunderland Museum and put on display in the local history gallery but has been returned to the owner. The Museum holds Jack Crawford in high regard. There was an exhibition about him on the bicentenary of the Battle of Camperdown and there was a display about him in SeaBritain Year (2005).

  8. History of Sunderland - Wikipedia

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    By 1840 the town had 76 shipyards and between 1820 and 1850 the number of ships being built on the Wear increased fivefold. From 1846 to 1854 almost a third of the UK's ships were built in Sunderland, and in 1850 the Sunderland Herald proclaimed the town to be the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. [70]

  9. Sunderland Art Gallery - Wikipedia

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    Sunderland Museum building (October 2016) The Sunderland Art Gallery is an art gallery based within the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens centre, in Sunderland City Centre. The collection of paintings includes works by the British artist, L.S. Lowry , many with local significance.