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Hammerton

Hammerton's Ferry, pedestrian and cycle ferry service across the River Thames in Richmond upon Thames, London


7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Following the battle, the regiment helped garrison Harper's Ferry until the end of October, when it marched through the Loudoun Valley to Falmouth, Virginia.

Allison Nelson

His father, John B. Nelson, who ran Nelson's Ferry across the Chattahoochee River, was an early DeKalb County settler who was murdered in 1825, when Allison was three years old, by John W. Davis.

Anthony Walton White

On May 6, 1780, with the remnant of Major Benjamin Huger's cavalry, he crossed the Santee River and captured a small party of British, but while waiting at Lanneau's Ferry to recross the river, he was surprised and defeated by Col. Banastre Tarleton.

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Brown's Ferry

Battle of Brown's Ferry, an American Civil War battle also known as Brown's Ferry or Battle of Wauhatchie at the Tennessee ferry crossing point

Brown's Ferry, Tennessee, a ferry crossing point over the Tennessee River near Chattanooga, Tennessee

Brown's Ferry, Tennessee

Brown's Ferry, Tennessee is an historical crossing point over the Tennessee River between Lookout Valley and Moccasin Bend in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge

Planning began in the early 1950s for a new bridge to ease the congestion of the nearby Slade's Ferry and Brightman Street Bridges, as well as to carry the proposed Cape Cod Expressway over the Taunton River.

Dingman's Ferry Bridge

The village of Dingman's Choice, which became quite identified with the ferry, had its name changed by the Post Office to Dingman's Ferry in 1868.

Flood's Ferry

Flood's Ferry is the site of a large marina on the old course of the River Nene.

Grindleton

Craven in the Domesday Book shows that up till 1066 Earl Tostig was lord of Grindleton and the surrounding areas of West Bradford, Waddington, Bashall Eaves, Great Mitton, Hammerton, Slaidburn, Dunnow, Newton, Bogeuurde, Easington, Radholme Laund and Lees.

Hammerton

Green Hammerton, village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire

Kirk Hammerton, village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire

Hammerton railway station serves the villages of Kirk Hammerton and Green Hammerton in North Yorkshire

Hardy Pace

He is the namesake of Pace's Ferry, an important ferry in the 19th century; and Pace's Ferry Road, a major road in north Atlanta.

Lady Louisa Stuart

Later the same year, Medows married another lady, Frances Augusta Hammerton, and went on to become a Lieutenant-General, a Knight of the Bath, and Governor-General of Madras.

Lee's Ferry

Scenes from the movie Into the Wild (based on the book by Jon Krakauer) were shot on location at the Lee's Ferry National Park Service Station, which featured actors Emile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless and Steven Wiig as the Lee's Ferry Ranger, Steve Koehler.

Payette River

Logging helped to spur even more people to move into the area, and in 1911, the Idaho Northern Railroad was constructed by the OSL, running from Emmett near the mouth of the Payette along the river, past present-day Black Canyon Reservoir, up into the North Fork watershed and ending just below Long Valley at Smith's Ferry on the river, named for a settler who bought the operation in 1891.

Robertville, South Carolina

It is also located on the historic Sister's Ferry road where the left wing of General William Sherman's army marched through and torched the town in the "Carolina Campaign."

Sister's Ferry

Sisters Ferry is a historical site where the left wing of Union Maj. Gen. William Sherman's Army crossed the Savannah River during the beginning of General Sherman's "Carolina's Campaign" near the end of the American Civil War.

The Oratory, Liverpool

These include a monument dated 1834 to the Nicholson family by Francis Chantrey, one to William Earle, who died in 1839, by John Gibson, to Dr William Stevenson, who died in 1853, by J. A. P. Macbride, to William Hammerton, who died in 1832, by Gibson, to William Ewart, who died in 1823, by Joseph Gott, to Emily Robinson, who died in 1829, by Gibson, and to Agnes Jones, who died in 1868, by Pietro Tenerani.


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