• Fort Churchill Prince of Wales Fort, an 18th-century Hudson Bay Company fort also known as Fort Churchill Fort Churchill, located in Fort Churchill State...
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    of Churchill. While not part of the city, Eskimo Point and Eskimo Island is located across the river at the former site of the Prince of Wales Fort. Various...
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    Fort Churchill State Historic Park is a state park of Nevada, United States, preserving the remains of a United States Army fort and a way station on the...
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    Second World War. Facilities at Fort Churchill supported the Canadian and American operations of the nearby Churchill Rocket Research Range beginning...
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    The Prince of Wales Fort is a historic bastion fort on Hudson Bay across the Churchill River from Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. The European history of...
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    Fort Churchill after the nearby former military base (now Churchill Airport) and is connected by an all-weather gravel road to the town of Churchill....
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    the United States Army notable for serving as commander of Fort Alcatraz, Fort Churchill and the Department of Alaska. His name is occasionally seen...
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  • Bibb Fort Bowyer Fort Carney Fort Claiborne Fort Condé, open to the public Fort Crawford Fort Dale Fort Decatur Fort Easley Fort Gaines Fort Glass Fort Hampton...
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  • The Fort Churchill Solar Array is a 19.9 megawatt (MWAC) concentrator photovoltaics power station near the city of Yerington in Lyon County, Nevada. It...
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    census. Lahontan Reservoir, Lahontan State Recreation Area and historic Fort Churchill State Historic Park are all located nearby. The area is served by the...
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  • Churchill Butte is a summit in the U.S. state of Nevada. The elevation is 5,928 feet (1,807 m). Churchill Butte was named after nearby Fort Churchill...
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    August 9, 1991. Arcas launch sites include White Sands, Vandenberg, Fort Churchill, Point Mugu, San Nicolas, Cape Canaveral LC43, Eglin, Kronogård, Kindley...
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    results. Riders briskly traversed the route, over snow-covered trails to Fort Churchill, Nevada Territory (the end of the western telegraph line). California's...
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  • Fort Churchill Generating Station is a 226-megawatt plant located at Wabuska, Nevada owned by NV Energy. The plant consists of 2 units and first went into...
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    1,082 Sayisi Dene First Nation formerly known as 'Fort Churchill Indian Band'. Reserve: Churchill 1, c. 2 km2. Population: 817 Akaitcho Territory Government...
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    Elgin Schoolhouse Fort Churchill Ice Age Fossils Kershaw–Ryan Lahontan Lake Tahoe–Nevada Mormon Station Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort Rye Patch South Fork...
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  • release mission USAF GL Fort Churchill 45 km 13 September 1978 - 11:13 GMT SMOKE Aeronomy release mission USAF GL Fort Churchill 45 km 23 October 1979 -...
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    in 1861, and was named for Fort Churchill (which is now in Lyon County), which was named for General Sylvester Churchill, a Mexican–American War hero...
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    several times each week by the Union Pacific to service the NV Energy Fort Churchill Generating Station, near Yerington. The Eagle Salt Works Railroad ran...
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    become larger, more training was implemented. In 1863 at the outpost of fort Churchill, California was tasked with training Nevada Volunteers to be officers...
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    Leonard Rockshelter Fort Ruby Hoover Dam Nevada Northern Railway, East E1y Yards Virginia City Historic District Francis G. Newlands Home Fort Churchill The list...
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    emissions was discovered in 1960, when a pioneering rocket flight from Fort Churchill in Canada revealed a flux of electrons entering the atmosphere from...
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    Pine Nut Mountains in Lyon County. It is limited to the Churchill Narrows near Fort Churchill State Historic Park. This plant was discovered in 1997 and...
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  • Chibougamau Chickney Chicoutimi Fort Chilcotin Fort Chimo Fort Chipewyan Chipewyan Lake Chiswick House Fort Churchill Clapham House (see Reindeer Lake)...
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    Historic Parks Elgin Schoolhouse Fort Churchill Mormon Station Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort Ward Charcoal Ovens Recreation Areas Big Bend of the Colorado...
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    "Candelaria". Western mining history. Retrieved September 18, 2018. "Fort Churchill State Historic Park | State Parks". parks.nv.gov. Retrieved April 1...
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    elimination of the gap in the telegraph service between Fort Kearny in Nebraska and Fort Churchill in Nevada was planned to be divided between teams that...
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    Historic Parks Elgin Schoolhouse Fort Churchill Mormon Station Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort Ward Charcoal Ovens Recreation Areas Big Bend of the Colorado...
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    on the Pony Express line, 75 miles east of Fort Churchill. 5 August 1861: A team laying wire reaches Fort Laramie from the east. 21 August 1861: California...
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    Company as a mate on the sloop Churchill, which was then engaged in the Inuit trade out of Prince of Wales Fort, Churchill, Manitoba. Two years later, he...
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