Cotton Town is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP...
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under Pennsylvania law. Bald Eagle Beavertown Blue Knob Brooks Mill Canan Station Canoe Creek Carson Valley Charlottsville Clappertown Claysburg Cotton Town...
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Cotton Mather FRS (/ˈmæðər/; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on...
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were hand-printed on undyed, red, dark brown or black hand-woven natural cotton fabric depending on the occasion and the wearer's role; nowadays they are...
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Cab Calloway (redirect from Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra)
American jazz singer and bandleader. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era. His...
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official name of the town to "Pillow". During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Pillow had numerous industries, including a cotton mill, a burial vault...
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Township. Mount Joy is often named in lists of "delightfully-named towns" in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Lititz, Bareville...
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Hickory Ridge, Arkansas, segregated Black housing to a "slum" west of the Cotton Belt Railroad. In 1910, as a response to a rape allegation, residents expelled...
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Other communities in the township include Ski Gap, Klahr, Friesville, Cotton Town, and Sproul. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township...
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Albany (redirect from Albany (town), WI)
Albany, Pennsylvania Albany, Texas Albany, Vermont, a town Albany (village), Vermont, a village in the town Albany, Green County, Wisconsin, a town Albany...
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Ambridge is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. Incorporated in 1905 as a company town by the American Bridge Company, Ambridge is...
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Canisteo, New York (redirect from Canisteo (town), Steuben County, New York)
from Pennsylvania, since at the time access was primarily via the Susquehanna River; there were no direct links to Albany or New York City. The town was...
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Simmons, chair of the North Carolina Republican Party (at-large) Kimberly Cotton-West, vice chair of the Washington County Republican Party (1st district)...
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agriculture (mainly cotton, rice and sugar), using African American slaves working large farms while plantation owners tended to live in towns and cities. This...
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Penndel is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,328 at the 2010 census. Penndel Borough, although small, is rich...
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Davidson (1783-1867), Pennsylvania State Senator for the 17th district from 1817 to 1824 Stephen Duncan, the wealthiest cotton planter in the South prior...
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affection for their towns; such was the case at Pullman. Although many small company towns existed in mining areas of Pennsylvania before the American...
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municipal functions. The City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania have a fully consolidated city and county government. Part of the Minor...
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WOWT. June 30, 2023. Retrieved June 29, 2023. "Trump to hold rally in Pennsylvania next week". July 21, 2023. Mize, Frances (November 13, 2023). "Trump...
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Stephen Duncan (category American cotton plantation owners)
studied medicine in Pennsylvania, but moved to Natchez District, Mississippi Territory in 1808 and became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest...
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blacksmith from Evansburg, Pennsylvania, George B. DeArment, began hand-forging farrier's tools and selling them from town to town out of the back of a wagon...
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Industrial Revolution (section Cotton)
cotton goods consumed in Western Europe was minor until the early 19th century. By 1600, Flemish refugees began weaving cotton cloth in English towns...
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County; it manufactured cotton seed oil and cottonseed meal. By 1900, the town had cotton gins, cotton warehouses, and a cotton mill. The city also had...
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This list of cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania also includes information...
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top portion was relocated to the town's meeting house.[citation needed] Captain William Coit wrote in The Pennsylvania Journal of November 29, 1775 that...
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Middlebury, Vermont (redirect from Middlebury (town), Addison County, Vermont)
Middlebury appears as stock footage, standing in for a fictional Pennsylvania town, in the 30 Rock episode "Episode 210". The bridge over the waterfall...
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Frankford, Philadelphia (redirect from Frankford Borough, Pennsylvania)
is the seat of numerous manufacturing establishments, including several cotton-mills, calico print-works and bleacheries, woollen-mills, iron-works, &...
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Christmas decoration (section Cotton batting)
ornament is painted or decorated with metal trims, paper clippings, etc. Cotton batting Christmas ornaments were popular during the German Christmas toy...
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Birmingham, Alabama / Miami, Florida July 14, 2011 (2011-07-14) Detective Warren Cotton investigates the murder of three family members, including a 12-year-old...
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around 8,000 to 6,000 BC. Later, gourds, watermelons, castor beans, and cotton were also collected.: 64–75 Sorghum was first domesticated in Eastern Sudan...
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