The Great Chelsea fire of 1908, also known as the first Great Chelsea fire, was a conflagration that occurred on April 12, 1908, in Chelsea, Massachusetts...
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The Great Chelsea fire of 1973, also known as the second Great Chelsea fire, was a conflagration that occurred on October 14, 1973, in Chelsea, Massachusetts...
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Great Chelsea Fire may refer to one of the notable fires that have occurred in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S.: Great Chelsea fire of 1908, also known as...
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Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners Volume 11, Part 1880. 1880. pp. 186–187. Retrieved 19 February 2022. "Great Chelsea Fire of 1908". Celebrate...
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1973, the Second Great Chelsea Fire burned 18 city blocks, leaving nearly a fifth of the city in ashes. Both fires originated in Chelsea's "rag shop district...
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Bellingham Square Historic District (category National Register of Historic Places in Chelsea, Massachusetts)
the district was almost entirely built in the aftermath of the Great Chelsea Fire of 1908, and is a monument to the civic planning that took place at...
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fire of 1872 led to the appointment of a board of fire commissioners. The Boston Fire Department also provided assistance in the Great Chelsea Fire of...
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101st Infantry Regiment (United States) (category Infantry regiments of the United States Army)
state, in domestic crises like the Great Chelsea Fire of 1908. The regiment, and units within it, became a source of civic pride in Boston, celebrated...
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June 2017. "London fire: Sense of community shines through". BBC online. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017. "Kensington And Chelsea Councillor Kim Taylor-Smith...
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the first Great Chelsea Fire. In May 1908 the Massachusetts General Court passed an act creating a Board of Control to perform the duties of the mayor...
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fatalities List of hotel fires in the United States List of the deadliest firefighter disasters in the United States Freedmen massacres List of notable disease...
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Balkans, concluding with the story of the captivity, were destroyed in the Great Chelsea fire of 1908, on April 12, 1908, with all her belongings. She was...
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the Great Fire of London, more commonly known simply as the Monument, is a fluted Doric column in London, England, situated near the northern end of London...
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Edmund Billings (category Collectors of the Port of Boston)
of the People's Institute. Billings was a member of relief committees that aided the victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Great Chelsea Fire...
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including many of the city's historical buildings destroyed. 1908 – First Great Chelsea Fire on April 12. Nearly half the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts...
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Benjamin Silverman Apartments (category Apartment buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts)
part of a second wave of Jewish migration to various Boston neighborhoods, particularly in the aftermath of the devastating Great Chelsea fire of 1908, which...
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E. Leroy Sweetser (category Boston University School of Law alumni)
response to the Great Chelsea fire of 1908. In March 1913, Sweetser received promotion to brigadier general and assignment as commander of the Massachusetts...
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Conflagration (redirect from Fire Disaster)
whole sections of a city." Notable examples includes the Great Fire of London in 1666, the Great Fire of Tartu in 1775, the Great Fire of Turku in 1827...
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(Chelsea, MA: 1860) City of Chelsea: Mayor's Address; Elective Officers for 1861; Fourth Financial Report, for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1860 (Chelsea,...
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Congregation Agudath Shalom (category National Register of Historic Places in Chelsea, Massachusetts)
congregation's previous building was destroyed in the great fire. It is the oldest surviving synagogue in Chelsea, a city that was one-third Jewish at the time...
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Battle of Chelsea Creek was the second military engagement of the Boston campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It is also known as the Battle of Noddle's...
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Crosby Hall, London (category History of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. It now forms part of a private residence, which in 2021 was renamed Crosby Moran Hall. The Great Hall, and additional work of 1910 and...
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Convent of Jesus and Mary, Chelsea, Shimla is a private English medium school, founded by a French nun, Marie Claudine Thevenet of the Religious of Jesus...
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London (redirect from London, Great Britain)
culminating in the Great Plague of 1665–1666, which killed up to 100,000 people, or a fifth of the population. The Great Fire of London broke out in...
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‡The Metropolitan Boroughs of Battersea, Chelsea, Islington, Kensington, Lambeth and Paddington. §The Metropolitan Boroughs of Camberwell, Deptford, Fulham...
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The Springfield race riot of 1908 consisted of events of mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans...
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London sewer system (category Metropolitan Board of Works)
such as Chelsea, Deptford and Abbey Mills, pumping stations were built to raise the water and provide sufficient flow. Many sewers north of the Thames...
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Monasteries, about half of the priory's church was ransacked before being demolished in 1543. Having escaped the Great Fire of London of 1666, the church fell...
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Hounslow Coat of arms of Islington Coat of arms of Kensington and Chelsea Coat of arms of Kingston upon Thames Coat of arms of Lambeth Coat of arms of Lewisham...
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John Barradell (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
(born 20 August 1960), served as Town Clerk and Chief Executive of the Corporation of London (2012–23). Educated at Bishop Challoner School, he went up...
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