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2 unusual facts about Battle of Kemp's Landing


Battle of Kemp's Landing

Militia companies from Princess Anne County in the Province of Virginia assembled at Kemp's Landing to counter British troops under the command of Virginia's last colonial governor, John Murray, Lord Dunmore, that had landed at nearby Great Bridge.

Kemp's Landing incorporated in 1778 as Kempsville, and became the county seat for Princess Anne County.


Allen's Landing

In the late 1960s, Allen's Landing was home to the city's premiere psychedelic nightclub, Love Street Light Circus Feel Good Machine ("Love Street"), where bands with names like Bubble Puppy, Neurotic Sheep and American Blues performed mind-expanding music accented with strobe lights and pastel projections.

American Blues

From 1966 to 1968, they played the Dallas-Fort Worth-Houston circuit and headlined in three clubs all called "The Cellar", in Dallas at clubs such as "The Walrus" on Mockingbird Lane, and in Houston at "Love Street Light Circus Feel Good Machine" on Allen's Landing, as late as 1968.

Beirut Memorial

Other memorials to the victims of the Beirut barracks bombing have been erected in the United States, including those at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

California Pacific Railroad

However, in December 1871 there was severe flooding in the Yolo Bypass causing damage to the line between Knight’s Landing and Yuba City.

Carrs

Carr's Landing, also named Carrs, a community in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada

Charon's Landing

Now those plans have been stolen by the brilliant and treacherous former KGB agent Ivan Kerikov, who joins forces with a powerful Arab oil minister to unleash Charon's Landing.

Laclede's Landing, St. Louis

Alternative rock band Wilco references the Landing in "Heavy Metal Drummer", a song off the 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Bobby "Blue" Bland, Henry Townsend, Bo Diddley, Mavis Staples, Johnnie Johnson, Ike Turner, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Fontella Bass, Oliver Sain, Hubert Sumlin, Shemekia Copeland, Little Milton, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Dr. John, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Joe Louis Walker, Roy Gaines, Sonny Landreth, and Ana Popovic!

O'Connor's Landing

A west dining room was added after the Department of Education from Columbus, Ohio needed a place for meetings.

Penn's Landing

Plans are being developed for two casinos (with licenses granted by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board) along the riverfront, with one being owned by the Planet Hollywood parent company.

Petyr Baelish

His skills in commerce and intrigue led him to eventually attain the position of Master of Coin in King's Landing, where he also owns a series of brothels.

Ricardo Gutierrez

Gutierrez has appeared in various television shows including Hill Street Blues, Knot's Landing, Max Headroom, Hunter, and Wiseguy.

Richard B. Fitzgerald

In 1862, he was transferred to the Army of the Potomac's Washington supply base, where he drove mules for the Union army, spending most of 1862 at Harrison's Landing and the Fort Monroe area; he "went to sea" later in the war, likely as a merchant seaman.

Schuylkill, Philadelphia

The hospital has hired a consultant to plan the traffic patterns around the area as they did for Delaware Waterfront and New York's Battery Park.

Summer Sail

The event, with ship tours, live entertainment, music, crafts and food, was held June 19 to June 23, 2007, at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Taylor G. Belcher

After his retirement from public service, Belcher lived in Garrison's Landing in Garrison, New York.

Treaty of Payne's Landing

After touring the area for several months and conferring with the Creeks who had already been settled there, the seven chiefs signed on March 28, 1833 at Fort Gibson, Arkansas Territory a statement that the new land was acceptable.

William Ellery Leonard

He accepted an appointment with a Unitarian church in Bolton's Landing, Massachusetts and moved the family there.

Wolseley Expedition

The expedition travelled to Georgian Bay, then by steamer across Lake Huron to the U.S. Sault Canal where men and materiel had to be transported on the Canadian side of the river, across Lake Superior to the Department of Public Works station at Thunder Bay which Wolseley named Prince Arthur's Landing on May 25, 1870, in honour of Queen Victoria's third son.


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