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1856 in the United States

January 26 – Puget Sound War/Yakima WarBattle of Seattle: Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after an all day battle with settlers.

1921 APFA season

The Staleys, who moved from Decatur, Illinois, to Chicago before the season, were named the APFA Champions over the Buffalo All-Americans.

19th Tennessee Infantry

Johnston decided to join Beauregard and so the 19th Tennessee, along with the rest of the brigade, left Decatur, Alabama, on March 15, 1862, and arrived in Corinth, Mississippi, on March 20.

Alexander Laws

On 16 February 1804, Decatur laid his command, the ketch Intrepid, alongside the captured frigate and, as Captain Edward Preble later wrote, “in a Gallant and Officer-like manner, boarded and carried her against all opposition…” Silence cloaked the bold American attack.

All-Around Cowboy

Trevor Brazile of Decatur, Texas currently holds the single season record for the most money won in a season at $507,921 during the 2010 campaign.

Atlanta in the American Civil War

We rode out of Atlanta by the Decatur road, filled by the marching troops and wagons of the Fourteenth Corps; and reaching the hill, just outside of the old rebel works, we naturally paused to look back upon the scenes of our past battles.

Central Decatur Junior - Senior High School

Central Decatur Community School District is located in the county seat of Decatur County, in the community of Leon, Iowa.

Charles Pollard Olivier

From 1912 until 1914 he was professor of astronomy at the Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.

Decatur Land Improvement and Furnace Company

New Decatur was designed as a planned community with the help of famed landscape architect Nathan Franklin Barrett.

Decatur Mall

The Decatur Mall (formerly Beltline Mall, River Oaks Center, and Colonial Mall) is a regional shopping mall located southwest of downtown Decatur, Alabama on State Route 67.

Decatur, New York

From Elisha was descended Lewis Edson Waterman, inventor of the "Waterman Ideal Fountain Pen", who was born in Decatur in 1837, and died in Brooklyn, New York in 1900.

Decatur, Tennessee

Decatur is named after Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr., an early 19th-century American naval officer renowned for his exploits in the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War and the War of 1812.

Gen Fukunaga

So Gen went to a coworker named Daniel Cocanougher whose family owned a feed mill in Decatur, Texas and convinced the Cocanougher family to sell their business and invest in creating a production company.

Gertrude Johnson

After the war the company continued to tour nationally, and in 1954 gave a Royal Command Performance at Melbourne's Princess Theatre in front of Queen Elizabeth II.

Henri Miro

In 1904 Miro's Messe solennelle premiered at the Monument-National and in 1914 his operetta Le Roman de Suzon premiered at the Princess Theatre.

Jack Clay

Jack DeWayne Clay (born October 20, 1926 in Decatur, Illinois) is an American acting teacher, director and actor.

Jacob Jones

He spent time in Decatur's squadron, which was bottled up at New London during 1814.

James Edward Neild

Also in 1890, Neild was given a public testimonial at the Princess Theatre with his friend George Selth Coppin presiding.

Jeff's Last Dance, Volume 1

Jeff's Last Dance, Volume 1 is the first live album by Shawn Mullins and Matthew Kahler, recorded live at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, Georgia on 10 May 1995.

Jeff's Last Dance, Volume 2

Jeff's Last Dance, Volume 2 is the second live album by Shawn Mullins and Matthew Kahler, recorded live at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, Georgia on 1995.

John Lingenfelter

John Lingenfelter (October 6, 1945 in East Freedom, Pennsylvania – December 25, 2003 in Decatur, Indiana) was an NHRA driver, engineer and tuner.

KHBR

KHBR-LP, a low-power radio station (96.7 FM) licensed to Decatur, Arkansas, United States.

McEntire

Rhea-McEntire House, historic antebellum mansion on the shoreline of the Tennessee River's Wheeler Lake in Decatur, Alabama

Meigs County Historical Museum

A new building on Smith Avenue in Decatur, Tennessee, of Meigs County, Tennessee was built to house the collection of the Meigs County Historical Museum.

Midstate College

Over time, Mr. Brown increased his properties to 20 institutions, including Cairo, Decatur, Jacksonville and Rockford in Illinois; Davenport and Muscatine, Iowa; and St. Louis, Missouri.

Morgan O'Brien

Morgan O'Brien was an engineer at the A. E. Staley Company, located in Decatur, Illinois, as well as a football fan who assisted George Halas in managing the administrative matters of the Decatur Staleys (renamed the Chicago Bears in 1922).

MV Delta Mariner

Its primary role is transporting components for the Boeing Atlas V and Delta rockets from the manufacturer, located in Decatur, Alabama, to launch facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

National Watch and Clock Museum

Other highlights include an exhibit of the pioneering automated machinery developed by the American Waltham Watch Company, allowing for the first time to mass-produce watches using interchangeable parts, a large selection of American pocket watches (including Railroad watches), and the "Engel Clock", a complicated "monument" clock built by Stephen Decatur Engel of Hazleton, Pennsylvania.

Ogle Stadium

Ogle Stadium is a 9,000-seat stadium in Decatur, Alabama, located on the southern end of Decatur High School's campus, and is owned by the Decatur City Schools.

Operetta

Nevertheless, American operetta largely gave way, by the end of World War I, to musicals, such as the Princess Theatre musicals, and revues, followed by the musicals of Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others.

Polyplex

Polyplex is setting up a new line in Decatur, Alabama in the United States, and is further expanding into thick film in Thailand and bottle-grade resin in Turkey.

Princess Theatre, Decatur

The theater also sponsors performers that visit the local Decatur City Schools to teach in the schools.

Racking horse

In 1971, the Racking Horse Breeders' Association of America, headquartered in Decatur, Alabama, was formed as the breed registry.

Rusty Morrison

She has also served as a visiting poet at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Redlands, Redlands, California; University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Boise State University, Boise, Idaho; Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon, and Milikin University, Decatur, Illinois.

Sangamon River

Many times the city was forced to warn people not to allow babies to consume water in Decatur because of "blue baby syndrome", Methemoglobinemia.

The river was mentioned in Sufjan Stevens's song "Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Stepmother!".

Second Street–Gun River Bridge

The Allegan County Road Commission hired Yost Brothers of Decatur, Indiana, to construct the bridge.

Stephen Decatur Engle

Stephen Decatur Engle (December 18, 1837 – January 24, 1921) of Sybertsville, Pennsylvania was an American inventor best known as the creator of the Engle Monumental Clock, a clockwork described at the time as The 8th Wonder of The World.

Thomas Coombe

Coombe financed the construction of several large cinemas in Perth and Fremantle, including the Prince of Wales Theatre on Murray Street, the Ambassadors Theatre on Hay Street, and the Princess Theatre in Fremantle.

Tracy L. Gorman

Rev. Gorman has worked at the following churches: First Church of the Nazarene, Decatur, Illinois; Real Life Community Church, Portage, Indiana; Southside Church of the Nazarene, Richmond, Virginia; First Church of the Nazarene, Washington, Pennsylvania; New Life Church, Newburgh, Indiana; and Southside Church of the Nazarene, Muncie, Indiana.

Truxtun Beale

The couple initially divided their time between Washington and California, but settled permanently at Decatur House following Beale’s decision in 1912 to sell Tejon Ranch to a syndicate of investors headed by Harry Chandler and Moses Sherman.

U.S. Route 36 in Illinois

U.S. 36 parallels the old Wabash Railroad from the Mississippi River at Hannibal, MO east to Decatur, IL.

VAE Nortrak North America, Inc.

On March 27, 2009, voestalpine AG said VAE Nortrak bought the assets of Leading Edge Enterprises of Decatur, Illinois in the first step toward expanding its railway division.

Wayne Farms

Eventually, the company acquired processing plants in Danville, Arkansas, Laurel, Mississippi, Decatur, Alabama, Dobson, North Carolina, Pendergrass, Georgia, Enterprise, Alabama, College Park, Georgia and Dothan, Alabama.

WDPT

WEKI, a radio station (1490 AM) in Decatur, Alabama, United States, known as WDPT from 2006 to 2009.

WEAS-FM

callsign meaning = The WEAS callsign was originally licensed to Decatur, Georgia, home to two schools:
Emory and Agnes Scott|

WHDF

WOWL-TV always faced competing NBC affiliates in Huntsville or Decatur, whose signals reached much of its broadcast area.

WPXU

WBUI, a television station (channel 23 analog/22 digital) licensed to serve Decatur, Illinois, United States, which used the call sign WPXU from May 1998 to June 1999


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