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3 unusual facts about Sutter's Mill


Addison Pratt

Pratt was present at the discovery of gold in California, working on Sutter's Mill at the time of discovery.

Richard Barnes Mason

When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, Mason made a report of the finding to President James K. Polk.

Sutter's Mill

The mill was also the namesake and inspiration for a song by singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg.


2nd Virginia, Company D

During the Civil War, the company was a part of the original "Stonewall Brigade," commanded by General Thomas J. Jackson of Lexington, Virginia, originally a native of Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), and Jackson's Mill, near present-day Weston, West Virginia.

Alfred John Keene

Derby silk mill, 1895 Alfred John Keene (1864-1930) was a British watercolour artist working in Derby.

Atlanta Campaign

Concurrent attempts by two columns of Union cavalry to cut the railroads south of Atlanta ended in failure, with one division under Maj. Gen. Edward M. McCook completely smashed at the Battle of Brown's Mill and the other force also repulsed and its commander, Maj. Gen. George Stoneman, taken prisoner.

Barrie Rutter

When Trackers was performed at Salt's Mill, Saltaire "He was deeply affected by the raw emotion of speaking to a northern audience in a northern voice in a classical play".

Battle of Boykin's Mill

Colonel Edward N. Hallowell, former commander of the famed 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment and wounded at Fort Wagner, led one of the brigades including his former unit now consisting of over 700 men.

Battle of Moore's Mill

The Missouri State Militia commanders and Union Volunteers began to converge on Joseph C. Porter’s recruiters and associated guerrillas, fighting small action at Vassar Hill on July 19, Florida on July 22, and Santa Fe on July 24.

Meanwhile, on July 22 General Schofield with the aid of Missouri’s provisional Governor Hamilton Rowan Gamble ordered a compulsory militia enrollment, the Enrolled Missouri Militia, in an effort to raise a sufficient body of men for community defense.

The Battle of Moore's Mill was an American Civil War battle that took place in Central Missouri on July 28, 1862 along Auxvasse Creek near modern day Calwood.

Beck's Mill

It was built in 1864, one year after John Hunt Morgan demanded for ransom for every Washington County mill to be spared from burning.

California Battalion

The men in the battalion were all volunteers formed from the 60 men of Captain Frémont's Corps of Topographical Engineers (roughly half were soldiers the rest Indians and mountain men) and initially from the Bear Flag Republic members from Sutter's Fort who had started the rebellion in California.

Carlo Schmid-Sutter

In what can be considered an acknowledgement of his long career in Swiss federal politics, but also as a reverence of his most conservative colleagues in parliament, Schmid received 11 votes to succeed Joseph Deiss in the Swiss Federal Council elections of 14 June 2006 although he did not officially stand for the office.

Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (*1959 in Laufenburg) is a Swiss Bioethicist and has been the president of the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics for many years.

Cobbinshaw Reservoir

Cobbinshaw Reservoir was built by James Jardine to feed the Union Canal (Scotland) via the Bog Burn, Murieston Water, and through Mid Calder to the Almondell Aqueduct and Lin's Mill Canal Feeder which feeds into the canal just east of the Almond Aqueduct.

Connor's Mill

The Municipal Council ran the Power Station until finally in 1955 the State Grid operated by the SEC was connected to Toodyay.

Conquest of California

The American Marines, sailors and militia easily took over the cities and ports of northern California; within days they controlled Monterey, San Francisco, Sonoma, Sutter's Fort in Sacramento and other small towns in Northern California.

Der Kaiser von Kalifornien

The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.

Divisionism

Scientists or artists whose theories of light or color had some impact on the development of divisionism include Charles Henry, Charles Blanc, David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville, David Sutter, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Ogden Rood and Hermann von Helmholtz.

Draper's Mill, Margate

A mill was marked on Robert Morden's map of 1695, Harris's map of 1719 and the 1819-43 Ordnance Survey (OS) map.

Edward Potter

Edward E. Potter, Union general in the American Civil War; actions included the Battle of Boykin's Mill

Folck's Mill

It is historically significant for its association with the August 1, 1864, Civil War "Battle of Folck's Mill." In that battle, Union troops commanded by General Benjamin F. Kelley engaged General John McCausland’s Confederate forces as they advanced along the Baltimore Pike towards Cumberland after having burned the town of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, two days previously.

Gunfight at Blazer's Mill

Barricading himself in the house, Buckshot Roberts ignored both his painful wound and the Regulators’ gunshots, armed himself with a single-shot .50-70 Government Springfield rifle belonging to Blazer (one source claims it was a Sharps rifle which belonged to Dr. Appel) and readied himself for a fresh onslaught.

Buckshot Roberts wanted no part in the Lincoln County War and had made plans to leave the area, selling his ranch and waiting for the check from his buyer.

The Regulators, to include Billy the Kid, Charlie Bowdre, and led by Richard "Dick" Brewer, were in the process of hunting down anyone believed to have been associated with the murder of John Tunstall, which had sparked the Lincoln County War.

Hamlet's Mill

Consequently, de Santillana and Dechend prefer to rely on the work of "meticulous scholars such as Ideler, Lepsius, Chwolson, Boll and, to go farther back, of Athanasius Kircher and Petavius...".

Harper's Mill

The official name of the mill at Disneyland is Harper's Cider Mill and serves as part of the stage for the nighttime show Fantasmic!.

Harry Benjamin

Later he also practiced in San Francisco (at 450 Sutter Street) in the summer of every year.

Jacob P. Leese

During the Bear Flag Revolt of 1846, Leese was taken prisoner with Vallejo and held captive at Sutter's Fort.

Jeff Weise

(He sets the story in Grover's Mill, Minnesota, which is reminiscent of Grover's Mill, New Jersey, the site of a fictional landing of aliens in the radio version of War of the Worlds, broadcast in 1939 starring Orson Welles).

Jessup's Mill

Jessup Mill is an 102-year-old grist mill, standing on the banks of the Dan River, in the community of Collinstown in northwest Stokes County, North Carolina.

Kara Hui

In the early years, Hui's family resided in the poor shanty town of Rennie's Mill.

Karin Keller-Sutter

On 22 September 2010, Keller-Sutter was a candidate for the Swiss Federal Council to succeed Hans-Rudolf Merz but was not elected.

Kurt Sutter

Sutter also hired several crew members whom he had worked with on The Shield, including unit production manager and producer Kevin G. Cremin, post-production supervisor and producer Craig Yahata, and directors Guy Ferland, Stephen Kay, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Paris Barclay, Terence O'Hara and Billy Gierhart.

Lawrence Everhart

His regiment engaged in skirmishes with the British led by Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at Stony Church, Monks Corner, and Rugley's Mill.

Lombe's Mill

Lombe's Mill was built next to Thomas Cotchett's 1704 mill on the west bank of the River Derwent in Derby.

Pure Storage

In August 2012, Pure Storage raised $40 million in Series D funding round led by Mike Volpi's Index Ventures, along with existing investors Greylock, Redpoint and Sutter Hill, for a total of $95 million capital raised.

Ryan Sutter

Ryan Allen Sutter (born on September 14, 1974 in Fort Collins, Colorado) was the "winner" (final bachelor) chosen by Trista Rehn on the television show The Bachelorette.

Saltaire railway station

It is a busy commuter station both for passengers travelling to Leeds and Bradford and for staff in companies based in Salt's Mill, as well as serving tourists visiting the UNESCO World Heritage site at Saltaire.

Sutter Brown

Sutter was first owned by Kathleen Brown who gave the pet to her Brother after he won the 2010 California gubernatorial election.

Sutter Brown (born September 24, 2003) is the pet dog of the Brown family, First Family of the State of California, Governor Jerry Brown and First Lady, Anne Gust Brown.

Sutter Creek, California

In the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Sutter Creek was shown as the lawless hideout of Big Smith, played by M. C. Gainey.

Telegarden

Project members included George A. Bekey, Steven Gentner, Rosemary Morris, Carl Sutter, Jeff Wiegley, and Erich Berger.


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