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3 unusual facts about San Jacinto


Hyacinth of Poland

In Spanish-language countries, Hyacinth is known as San Jacinto, which is the name of numerous towns and locations in Spanish-speaking countries, and of two battles fought in two of these locations.

Kuisi

On the coastal plain, for example the town of San Jacinto, Bolívar, an ensemble known as the conjunto de gaitas commonly provides the music for the cumbia, porro, and other folk styles such as vallenato.

Russell J. Waters

He served as president of the California Cattle Co., San Jacinto, California from 1903 to 1911.


Blockade of Africa

The first San Jacinto captured the brig Storm King on 8 August 1860, off the mouth of the Congo River, with 616 Africans on board.

Dr. Emilio B. Espinosa Sr. Memorial State College of Agriculture and Technology

The DEBESMSCAT Graduate School has Off-Campus Learning Sites at (1) Cataingan, Masbate, (2) San Jacinto, Masbate, (3) Cawayan, Masbate and (4) Masbate City.

James Murray Mason

While traveling to his post as Confederate envoy to Britain and France, on the British mail steamer RMS Trent, the ship was stopped by USS San Jacinto on November 8, 1861.

William Ronckendorff

On 27 December 1861, he took command of the steamer “San Jacinto,” with which he was present in Hampton Roads to fight the “Merrimac,” and participated in the attack on Sewell's Point, 15 May 1862, and in the capture of Norfolk on 18 May.


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Alfredo Fortabat

The 1926 discovery of large limestone deposits at the San Jacinto Estancia inherited from his father led Fortabat to open a cement factory in the nearby pampas hamlet of Loma Negra (south of Olavarría); the choice of location prompted him to christen the company Loma Negra ("Black Mound").

Anson Jones

The charter for Holland Lodge No. 36 arrived in April 1836, and Jones carried it in his saddlebags during the-Battle of San Jacinto.

Camalaniugan, Cagayan

The town has a church dedicated to San Jacinto or Saint Hyacinth which houses the oldest church bell (Sancta Maria, 1595) in the far east.

Joseph Bennett

Joseph L. Bennett (?-1848), Texas Legislator, Lt. Colonel (Battle of San Jacinto)

Pedley, California

Pedley took its name from William Pedley a former English cricketer who became manager of the San Jacinto Land Company at Riverside, California.

Robert Kleberg

Robert J. Kleberg (1803–1888), German immigrant who fought in the Battle of San Jacinto

San Jacinto Tower

2100 Ross Avenue or San Jacinto Tower, a skyscraper in Dallas, Texas

William Pedley

Pedley went to America where he was manager of the San Jacinto Land Company, who developed part of the Sobrante de San Jacinto land grant at Riverside, California.