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- On June 10, 1838, the infamous Myall Creek Massacre took place at Myall Creek Station where twenty eight Aboriginal men, women and children were massacred and their bodies burned.The ensuing court case marked the first time in Australian history that white men were tried for crimes against Aborigines. large crowd took part in the annual ceremony at the Myall Creek Memorial on Sunday to observe the annual commemoration of the massacre of 28 Aboriginal children, women and men on June 10, 1838. “We can’t as a nation walk on an international stage if we don’t clean our backyard.” (26-May-14) [ Read more...
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Why did the Myall Creek massacre occur? The Myall Creek massacre of aboriginal women, children and elderly men took place at Myall Creek Station, near Bingara, which is not far from Inverell in northern New South Wales.here were trials following the Myall Creek massacre. The first  trial was held on 15 November 1838, and twelve white settlers were  charged with murder, but acquitted. This … was a clear miscarriage of  justice.
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Mount Hermon, California In 1841, California's first water-powered sawmill was built at the junction of Bean Creek and Zayante Creek by Peter Lassen, Isaac Graham, J. Majors, and F. Hoeger. Mount Hermon, known as Tuxedo Junction prior to 1906, was a stop on the South Coast Pacific Railroad from Alameda to Santa Cruz.
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My Lai Massacre On March 16, 1998, a gathering of local people and former American and Vietnamese soldiers stood together at the place of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam to commemorate its 30th anniversary. American veterans Hugh Thompson and Lawrence Colburn, who were shielding civilians during the massacre, addressed the crowd.hese hamlets were marked on the U.S. Army topographic maps as My Lai and My Khe. The U.S. military codeword for the alleged Viet Cong stronghold in that area was Pinkville, and the carnage was initially referred to as the Pinkville Massacre.
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Chelmsford, Massachusetts Chelmsford is bordered by two sizable rivers: the Merrimack River to the north, and the Concord River to the east. Named after Chelmsford, England, the town was incorporated in May 1655 by an act of the Massachusetts General Court. When Chelmsford was incorporated, its local economy was fueled by lumber mills, limestone quarries and kilns.
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Battle of Moores Creek Bridge See also: Moore's Creek Bridge (Battle) From February 15 to 21, 1776, the days leading up to the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, Whig forces under commander Colonel James Moore camped on Rockfish Creek.
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City History City History . On July 29, 1847 a group of pioneers known as the Mississippi Company, led by John Holladay, entered the Salt Lake Valley. Within weeks after their arrival, they discovered a free flowing, spring fed stream, which they called Spring Creek (near Kentucky Avenue).
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- Original records were destroyed by fire, but it is known that there used to be two schools, Upper and Lower Camp Creek, serving residents in east Springfield. In 1948,the two schools consolidated with Springfield in 1948, with the current building constructed in 1949.
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Exploration and Settlement of Maine Exploration and Settlement of Maine. The first significant English settlement in Maine occurred in 1607 with the establishment of Popham Plantation at the mouth of the Kennebec River. The driving forces behind this venture were John Popham and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, wealthy English businessmen.
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Texas - Gaines County Maps, Gaines County Plat Books and Parcel Maps with GIS Parcel Data Rockford Map provides highly accurate Gaines County parcel map data containing land ownership, property line info, parcel boundaries and acreage information along with related geographic features including latitude/longitude, government jurisdictions, school districts, roads, waterways, public lands and aerial map imagery.
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- 2nd Annual State of the Stream Report: Freshwater Mussels (Unionidae) – French Creek, Pennsylvania (2004). The 2nd Annual State of the Stream Report details the results of freshwater mussel surveys on the mainstem of French Creek conducted in 2003.
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- In July of 1630, Governor John Winthrop and the Massachusetts Bay Colony settlers arrived in Salem, then traveled down to Charlestown – then called Mishawum. Mishawum had no pure water, while Shawmut had beautiful springs.
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- The Middle Feather was designated wild and Scenic on October 2nd, 1968. The Middle Fork of the Feather River was one of the first nationally designated wild and scenic rivers. The river runs from it headwaters near Beckwourth, California, to Lake Oroville.
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Warren, Massachusetts The second Warren, Massachusetts is now the town of Warren, Maine. On November 7, 1776, Upper Town of St. Georges Plantation was incorporated as a town and named after Joseph Warren, the Revolutionary War hero. Maine separated from Massachusetts in 1820.
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Boulder Creek, California Boulder Creek served as the upper terminus of the San Lorenzo Valley Logging Flume terminating in Felton, which began construction in 1874 and when formally opened in October 1875 was augmented by a new rail line to transport logs to the wharf in Santa Cruz.
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- The Maxwell Basin Recreation Area is located along the Monongahela River in the communities of Fredericktown and Millsboro, Pennsylvania. There will be a series of scheduled events throughout the spring, summer and fall providing a wide variety of fun and entertainment for our visitors. Celebrate. The River of the Year.
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Natick, Massachusetts 1 The station tree is a 500-year-old black oak that the original surveyors used to mark the boundary between Natick and what was then part of Needham. 2  That boundary is now the Natick-Weston town line on Winter Street, near the campus of The Rivers School in Weston, MA.
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Ouray A fall day at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool. Established in the late 1870s during gold and silver strikes, Ouray survived those boom-and-bust days because it's such a wonderful place to relax. Natural hot springs feed the town pool, where both locals and visitors come to soak in the therapeutic waters.
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- This magnificent 400 year old flooded gum is located in Myall Lakes National Park. There is an excellent viewing platform and picnic area. Enter from the Old Pacific Highway (Wootton Way) north of Bulahdelah along Stoney Creek Road.
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Malmedy massacre The Malmedy massacre was a war crime in which 84 American prisoners of war were killed by their German captors near Malmedy, Belgium, during World War II. The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, at Baugnez crossroads, by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper, a German combat unit, during the Battle of the Bulge. The term also applies generally to the series of massacres committed by the same unit on the same day and following days, which were the subject of the Malmedy massacre trial, part of t
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Facilities Blanton Mill facility is 800 acres in size and works in conjunction with the Shoal Creek Waste Water Treatment Plant. Together they service the western portion of Griffin and parts of Spalding County. The land application site was constructed in 1998 and is permitted for 2.25 MGD.
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North Powder River, Oregon The primitive road now found paralleling the stream is a portion of a route to early-day mining camps. This road was originally constructed in 1864 by the Dealy Wagon Road Company as one of the earliest routes across the Elkhorns to Bourne and Sumpter.
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- Hermon is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,416 at the 2010 census. The town was headquarters to the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, a regional line which ran from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec eastward to Bangor, Maine and the coast.
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- French Creek near Saegertown, Pennsylvania. French Creek takes its most remote source from Chautauqua County in New York, in a reforestation area near the town of Sherman. It is joined by western and southern branches soon after it enters Pennsylvania east of Wattsburg.
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A Brief Look At: The Dams Of The Columbia River Construction began on McNary Dam, just east of the town of Umatilla, Oregon, in 1947 and the dam was fully completed in 1957. The water behind the dam was known as the Umatilla Rapids before the dam flooded them and the body of water was renamed Lake Wallula.
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- Built in 1818 as part of the National Road, the bridge was sacrificed to flood control in 1943 when the Army Corps of Engineers built a dam just south of Confluence, Somerset County, and created the Youghiogheny River Lake. The lake also took the little town of Somerfield, east of the bridge, where 142 people lived in the early 1940s.
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- In July of 1630, Governor John Winthrop and the Massachusetts Bay Colony settlers arrived in Salem, then traveled down to Charlestown  then called Mishawum. Mishawum had no pure water, while Shawmut had beautiful springs.