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4 unusual facts about Downriver


Hoon-Yung Hopgood

He represents roughly half of the cities which make up the Downriver area of Metro Detroit, as well as other cities in Wayne County.

Jock McFadyen

During the 1990s McFadyen found a fellow traveller in the writer Iain Sinclair whose Downriver and Lights out for the territory mirrored the artist’s preoccupation with the eastern plains of the city and its estuary.

John D. Dingell Park

The purpose of the Downriver Linked Greenways is to link the communities and parks of the Downriver area through environmentally smart trails for bikers, hikers and others who love the outdoors.

Tim Slagle

Slagle was born in Detroit, Michigan, and adopted by a middle-class family, living in the blue collar area of South Suburban Detroit known as Downriver.


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An Inland Voyage

They then went by rail to France, starting downriver at Maubeuge and ending at Pontoise, close to the Seine.

Battle of Dujaila

Downriver, the Field Marshal von der Goltz and his senior Ottoman commander, Khalil Pasha, erected a series of well sited defensive positions at the Hanna and the Sanniyat on the left bank of the river and the Dujaila along the right bank.

Battle of Hanna

After these defeats, the relief force (now reduced to around 10,000 men) was ordered once again to attempt to break through the Ottoman lines and continued its movement up the Tigris until it encountered 30,000 of the Ottoman Sixth Army, under the command of Khalil Pasha, at the Hanna defile, 30 miles downriver of Kut-al-Amara.

Celtic Music Radio

The transmitter is located within the Shieldhall waste water treatment works several miles downriver on the banks of the River Clyde, and is rated at 55 Watts EMRP.

Daniel Garber

Returning to America in 1907, on the advice of artist William Langson Lathrop he settled at Cuttalossa just downriver from Lumberville, Pennsylvania, six miles up the Delaware River from New Hope.

Dellwood, Oregon

Dellwood is the site of a Weyerhaeuser log yard and was once a log dump for sending rafts of logs downriver to Coos Bay for export.

Diego de los Reyes Balmaseda

The Viceroy of Peru found that Antequera's proceedings had been illegal due to his ability to both try the governor and succeed him, and merchant supporters of Antequera had their goods impounded at Reyes' behest downriver of Asunción in Corrientes.

Fort Conde

After Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville moved Mobile downriver in May 1711 (following the death of his brother D'Iberville in 1706), he planned the next capital city (after 1718) to be on the Mississippi River, in similar fashion to being on the Mobile River, and so Adrien de Pauger also designed the Vieux Carré in New Orleans, Louisiana, which was built from 1719-1722.

Hamilton, Kentucky

Lewis Loder (1819–1904), a magistrate and tavern keeper from Petersburg, Kentucky, in the same county, records going downriver to Hamilton on the steamer to purchase barrels of whiskey.

John Churchill Chase

This street runs perpendicular to the Mississippi River, through the New Orleans Warehouse District, about two blocks downriver (North, at this point) from the Crescent City Connection Bridge.

John D. Dingell Park

In 1999 Michigan Congressman John Dingell hosted the Downriver Summit, in which the Downriver Linked Greenways were created.

Karl Bodmer

Wintering at Fort Clark near the Mandan villages, they continued downriver the following spring, having spent over a year on the Upper Missouri.

Koppers

In 1943, Koppers, at the US Government's behest, built a factory in Kobuta, Pennsylvania on the left bank of the Ohio River just downriver from Beaver, to manufacture styrene-butadiene monomer, a building block used to make a form of synthetic rubber for the World War II defense effort.

Krka National Park

The Krka National Park is located entirely within the territory of Šibenik-Knin County and encompasses an area of 109 square kilometers along the Krka River: two kilometers downriver from Knin to Skradin and the lower part of the river Čikola.

Magazine Street

From Canal through the Central Business District and Lower Garden District, Magazine Street is one-way in the upriver direction; downriver traffic forks to join Camp Street, the next street away from the river.

Max Schmitt in a Single Scull

The course was 3 miles long: beginning near Turtle Rock (Turtle Rock Light is the lighthouse at the northwest end of Boathouse Row), proceeding upriver under the Girard Avenue and Pennsylvania Railroad Connecting Bridges to a stake near the Columbia Railroad Bridge, making a 180-degree turn around the stake, and then heading downriver back to the starting line.

Mequinenza

A little further downriver are the towns and villages of Flix, Asco, and Vinebre, where exceptional fishing can be enjoyed in more scenic surroundings.

Michigan Mega Conference

Member schools were predominantly located in suburban Wayne County, Michigan, mainly in Downriver.

Michigan's 13th congressional district

From 2003 to 2013 it included the east side of Detroit, portions of the city's near west side, the inner suburbs of River Rouge, Harper Woods, Ecorse, the downriver communities of Lincoln Park, and Wyandotte, as well as the upscale Grosse Pointe suburbs.

Muskingum River

Traveling downriver, he recorded arriving on December 14 at the western Wyandot town of Muskingum, at present-day Coshocton.

Rous River

In its upper reaches, Rous River is fed by a minor tributary, Hopkins Creek, on the southern slopes of the McPherson Range, south of Mount Merino; and downriver of Numinbah near the small villages of Chillingham, Jacksons Creek enters the river.

Samuel Mason

By 1797, he moved the base of his river piracy further downriver to Cave-in-Rock on the Illinois shore.

Short Brothers of Sunderland

In 1860 Short moved the yard moved downriver to Pallion and his four sons became partners in the business.

Snake River Bridge

However, the construction of the Wanapum Dam downriver of the bridge in the 1960s flooded the town of Vantage, and state officials decided to replace the existing two-lane bridge, which had become unsafe for high volume traffic, with a new four-lane bridge.

Southgate, Michigan

The city of Southgate features the Splash Park/Downriver YMCA (also called Southgate Fun & Fitness Centre), as well as the Michigan headquarters for the Sonic Drive-In fast food restaurant chain.

Ust-Kut

During the summer months, passenger ferries depart downriver from Ust-Kut to Yakutsk and Tiksi.

War Memorial Plaza

It is said that the first public singing of the future National Anthem occurred on the stage here in late September 1814, when the poem of "The Defence of Fort McHenry" written by Francis Scott Key aboard a truce ship downriver from the British fleet as it bombarded Fort McHenry during September 12–14, 1814 several weeks earlier and set to music with the tune "To An Anacreon in Heaven", a so-called English drinking song.


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