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unusual facts about Mineola, NY



100th Aero Squadron

At Mineola Field, instruction was given to the men in the maintenance of Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" aircraft and the Liberty V-12 engine which powered them.

Abraham Cahan

Ronald Sanders, The Lower East Side Jews: An Immigrant Generation. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1987.

Austen Crehore

He departed Mineola, New York (on Long Island) in an Ansaldo S.V.A. (Ansaldo A.300) and was by far the leader of the first leg of the air race.

Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma

It was from this camp that thousands of soldiers, from Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, were given basic training prior to being sent to Camp Mills, Mineola, Long Island, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; or Camp Merritt, Dumont, New Jersey, for disembarkation to France.

Cornelius Wendell Wickersham

Brigadier General Cornelius W. Wickersham died on January 31, 1968, aged 82 in Mineola, New York.

Gaetano Cipolla

Cipolla is the U. S. representative of Legas Publishing, a multilingual publishing company, and is based in Mineola, New York.

Graham Cave

Graham Cave is a Native American archeological site near Mineola, Missouri in Montgomery County in the hills above the Loutre River.

Harold D. Kantner

Kantner built a Bleriot monoplane with a 50 horsepower Gnome engine in which he soloed on June 30, 1911 and was given Fédération Aéronautique Internationale certificate number 65 on October 14, 1911 in Mineola, New York.

KWN31

It also broadcasts hourly weather observations for the following cities: Greenville, Sulphur Springs, Paris, McKinney, Terrell, Mineola, and Mount Pleasant; and elsewhere around the region: DFW Airport, Sherman-Denison, Tyler, and Texarkana.

Legas

Legas is represented in the U. S. by Professor Gaetano Cipolla in Mineola, New York.

Marie C. Jerge

Jerge was born in Mineola, N.Y. She earned her bachelor of arts degree from Smith College, Northhampton, Mass., and a master of divinity degree from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, one of eight ELCA seminaries.

Mettwurst

The town of Mineola, Iowa, which was settled almost exclusively by immigrants from Schleswig-Holstein, hosts an annual heritage dinner with "Schoening-style" cold-smoked Mettwurst known in the Low German dialect as "Metvuss".

Mineola, Iowa

The Palisades featured a variety of famous performers, including the Lloyd Hunter Orchestra of North Omaha, Nebraska, and Lawrence Welk, along with movies, bingo, and school programs with a saloon and lunchroom in front.

This community on the highlands east of Keg Creek was first established as Lewis City during construction of the Wabash Railroad.

Mineola, Texas

Noble Willingham, an actor who appeared in more than 30 feature films and played retired Texas Ranger C.D. Parker in the television series Walker, Texas Ranger.

Mount Horeb Baptist Church

Mount Horeb Baptist Church is a historic church in Mineola, Missouri.

North Shore Bus Company

Within Nassau County, it had lines from Port Washington to Mineola which was known as the Port Washington Line, and from Mineola to Hicksville, called the Hicksville Line.

Portuguese Heritage Society

The Portuguese Heritage Society, also known as Lusitano, is a national not-for-profit organization based in Mineola, New York, founded in 1995.

Shore Line Trolley Museum

Interborough Rapid Transit 3344 "Mineola," the personal private car of August Belmont, Jr. (president of the IRT, which operated New York's first subway)


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