The Great Fall River fire of 1928 occurred on February 2–3, 1928 and destroyed a vast portion of downtown Fall River, Massachusetts. Although the city...

1925 Decatur St. Fire, Atlanta, Georgia, left 6 firefighters dead, 8 others seriously injured. 1928 – Great Fall River fire of 1928, Massachusetts 1931 –...

landscape is still prominent. Fall River's official motto is "We'll Try", dating back to the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1843. Nicknamed The Scholarship...

The city of Fall River, Massachusetts once had over 120 cotton textile mills and was the leading cotton textile center in the United States during the...

by William C. Atwater. The Great Fall River fire of 1928 damaged the Fall River Navigation Company building. Fall River Navigation Company was active...

businesses. After the closing and subsequent 1928 fire of the Pocasset Mills, the property of the Fall River Manufacturing Company was occupied by various...

which made a schoolhouse of it. It was burned in the great fire of July 1843. Other early churches established in Fall River include the First Baptist...

Old Colony & Fall River Railroad Museum was a small railroad museum located in Fall River Massachusetts. The Old Colony and Fall River Railroad operated...

Pocasset Mills were the site of the origin of the Great Fall River Fire of 1928. The mills were destroyed along with a vast portion of the city's business district...

impacted by the Great Fire of 1928, which destroyed many buildings located in what is now the historic district. As a result, many of the buildings date...

Fall River F.C. was an American soccer club based in Fall River, Massachusetts. During the 1920s and early 1930s they were one of the most successful...

The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire...

The Great Fall River Fire of 1928 destroyed the Pocasset Mills and the adjacent Granite Block, which had both been constructed directly over the river to...

Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, also known as the San Felipe Segundo hurricane, was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the North Atlantic...

circus act and group of daredevil stunt performers who perform highwire acts without a safety net. They were first known as The Great Wallendas, but the...

The defense of the Great Wall (simplified Chinese: 长城抗战; traditional Chinese: 長城抗戰; pinyin: Chángchéng Kàngzhàn) (January 1 – May 31, 1933) was a campaign...

create the Eastern Soccer League. These actions, part of the 1928–1929 "Soccer Wars", along with the Great Depression, financially devastated the ASL, ESL and...

named in memory of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, was founded as the Chicago Fire Soccer Club on October 8, 1997, the Great Fire's 126th anniversary...

2024) The Fall of the House of Usher: (1928 American, 1928 French & 1950) Fall in Love Like a Star (2015) Fall of the Mohicans (1965) The Fall of the Roman...

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 historical sports drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Colin Welland and produced by David Puttnam. It is based on...

an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the northern plains, extending into the subarctic and...

partially drained by the river. The Caney Fork flows through two impoundments— Center Hill Lake and Great Falls Lake— both of which create sizeable artificial...

1928. Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners Volume 11, Part 1880. 1880. pp. 186–187. Retrieved 19 February 2022. "Great Chelsea Fire of...

A fire resulting from an explosion at an antiques exhibition in Todi, Italy killed 34. May 11 – The Notre Dame de Lourdes Church fire in Fall River, Massachusetts...

Chiang resumed command. By April 1928, the nationalist forces had advanced to the Yellow River. With the assistance of allied warlords, including Yan Xishan...

Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk...

(equivalent to $70.1 million in 2023) to the effort in March 1928. The creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park proved much more complex than...

Applications 15.6 (2005): 1915–1928. online Peirce, Neal R. The Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States (1973);...

failure of his business, Whitney began robbing wealthy travellers and by 1690 he had a gang of over 50 men. On 10 July 1807, the Great Fire of Stevenage...

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