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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marion County, Arkansas. Official Website The county is named for Francis Marion, the famous "Swamp Fox" of the Revolutionary War and was created as Arkansas's 35th county in 1836. The county included part of what is now Searcy County, Arkansas, with many opposed to dividing them, which helped fueled the bloody Tutt-Everett War bet...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Merrick County, Nebraska. Merrick County was formed in 1858, and was organized in 1864. It was named for Elvira Merrick, the maiden name of the wife of territorial legislator Henry W. DePuy, who introduced the bill that created the county. Adjacent Counties Hamilton County Polk County Hall County Howard County Platte Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lucas County, Iowa. The county was formed in 1846 and was named for Robert Lucas, a Governor of the Territory. Adjacent Counties Clarke County Warren County Marion County Monroe County Wayne County Cities, Townships & Communities Benton Cedar Chariton (County Seat) Derby English Jackson Liberty Lincoln...
Kivijärven kyläprojektien tarkoitus on toimia työkaluna pitäjän asukkaiden tietojen systemaattisessa tallentamisessa, tietojan tarkistamisessa ja lähdeaineiston lisäämisessä. Toivomus olisi, että projekti säilytettäisiin nimenomaan työkaluna eikä sitä kasvatettaisi massa-ajoilla. Alla talojen/torppien hallitsijat 1843 jälkeen (kesken) Kivijärvi, No 1 Penttilä Kivijärvi, No 1 Penttilä renke...
Projekti aloitettu 4.2.2022. Valitset Toiminnot > Liity projektiin. Kun liittymispyyntösi on hyväksytty, voit liittää profiileja tähän projektiin. Maanmittauslaitoksen paikkatieto Kurkela Lahdenpohjan neljännes Kolkko, Sikuri, Sarkkila, Kalli, Kalmaa, Läykkälä, Nummi, Karhoinen, Haapimaa, Kurkela, Vatsiainen, Vatula, Jämijärvi, Viljala, Kilvakkala, Sammi, Ikaalinen Varhaisin asutus ja ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Iowa. Official Website Wayne County was formed in 1846 but was still attached to other counties for governmental purposes. It was named after General Anthony Wayne. Adjacent Counties Lucas County Appanoose County Gage County, Missouri Mercer County, Missouri Decatur County Cities, Townships & Communitie...
This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this County of West Virginia. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this county. In the second half of 1749, the French explorer, Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville, claimed French sovereignty over the Ohio Valley, burying a lead plaque at the meeting point of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, nami...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dare County, North Carolina. Official Website The county is named after Virginia Dare, the first child born in the Americas to English parents, who was born in what is now Dare County. Adjacent Counties Hyde County Tyrrell County Currituck County Towns & Townships Atlantic Croatan Duck East Lake Hatteras Kill...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Joseph County, Indiana. Official Website Formed in 1830, it was named for the St. Joseph River which flows through it to Lake Michigan. Adjacent Counties Berrien County, Michigan Cass County, Michigan Elkhart County Marshall County Starke County LaPorte County Cities & Towns Mishawaka Indian Village Lakev...
Please add profiles of those who were born in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Official Website Worcester is the county seat of Worcester County. It is named after Worcester, England and is also known as "The Heart of the Commonwealth". History The area was first inhabited by members of the Nipmuc tribe. The native people called the region Quinsigamond and built a settlement on Paka...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Orange County, Vermont. Orange County was organized on February 2, 1781 as an original county within the state and was named for William, of Orange. Adjacent Counties Caledonia County Grafton County, New Hampshire Windsor County Washington County Addison County Towns, Villages & Communities Bradford Braintree Br...
The Transylvanian Saxons (German: Siebenbürger Sachsen; Hungarian: Erdélyi szászok; Romanian: Sași) are a people of German ethnicity who settled in Transylvania (German: Siebenbürgen) from the 12th century onwards. The colonization of Transylvania by Germans was begun by King Géza II of Hungary (1141–1162). For decades, the main task of the German settlers was to defend the southeastern border ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Colorado Springs is the county seat of El Paso County. Official Website History Before it was founded, the site of modern-day Colorado Springs, Colorado, was part of the American frontier. Old Colorado City, built in 1858 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush was the Colorado Territory capital. The town of...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Knoxville, Knox County, Illinois. Official Website Knoxville was established on January 15, 1831, and called Henderson until its name was changed to Knoxville on December 22, 1832 when it became the county seat. It was one of the first 10 municipalities incorporated in the state and is the oldest town in Knox County. James Knox was ...
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in Knox County, Illinois. Official Website The modern Knox County, Illinois, was organized in 1825 and was named in honor of Henry Knox, the first US Secretary of War. Adjacent Counties Henry County Mercer County Stark County Fulton County Peoria County Warren County Cities & Villages Abingdon Altona East Gales...
Olete teretulnud kõik need kes soovivad oma lähedased seoses selle rahupaigaga ära märkida ja projekti lisada. Projekt "Ahja kalmistu" koondab neid, kes on aegade jooksul seal oma rahu leidnud. [ Maetu otsing Haudi andmebaasis ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Projektiga liituda on võimalik nupu "Tegevused" alt valide...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in San Juan County, Utah. Official Website The Utah Territory authorized creation of San Juan County on February 17, 1880 and was named for the San Juan River, itself named by Spanish explorers (in honor of Saint John). Adjacent Counties Grand County Mesa County, Colorado Emery County Wayne County Montrose County, Colorado ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cache County, Utah. Official Website Indigenous peoples occupied the valleys of present Cache County. The valley served the Plains Indians and the Shoshone. Trappers and explorers visited the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. John Henry Weber and Jim Bridger came through in 1824; Peter Skene Ogden and James Beckwourth ...
Homewood Memorial Gardens is comprised of several older cemeteries and burial grounds. Holland (Mount Holland) Cemetery was the burial place of the early Dutch settlers from nearby South Holland, Illinois and saw its first burials in the late 1850s. The other early cemeteries included Fremont Holbrook Cemetery , Oak Ridge Cemetery , and the Doepp Estate Plot . By the early 1900s all of these ce...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Arkansas. Official Website The area that would later become Jefferson County was occupied by the Quapaw when French explorers established the Arkansas Post in the 17th century; the foreigners claimed this area as Louisiana, part of New France. It was formed on November 2, 1829 and named for Thomas Jefferson, third ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Black Hawk County, Iowa. Official Website Black Hawk County was formed on February 17, 1853 from sections of Buchanan County. It was named after Chief Black Hawk , a Sauk leader during the 1832 Black Hawk War . Adjacent Counties Bremer County Buchanan County Benton County Tama County
Boone County was organized November 16, 1820, from a portion of the territorial Howard County. The area was then known as Boone's Lick Country, because of a salt lick which Daniel Boone 's sons used for their stock. Boone County was settled primarily from the Upper South states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. The settlers brought slaves and slave-holding with them, and quickly started cul...
Mexico was laid out as "New Mexico" in 1836 and was a major stop for settlers heading to the Republic of Texas (thus the name "New Mexico"), and it became the county seat under its present name in 1837. The word "New" was dropped after the Mexican War that saw Texas become a part of the United States. There is an apocryphal story about the name. When a University of Missouri student, who was q...
Audrain county was formed from a non-county area with portions under the administration of Montgomery, Callaway, Boone, Ralls, or Monroe counties at various times prior to its official establishment in 1836. The county was organized in December of that year, and was named for The county was organized December 13, 1836, and named for Colonel James Audrain James Hunter Audrain of the War of 1812 ...