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Kannapolis, North Carolina
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Kannapolis is a city in Cabarrus and Rowan counties, in the U. S. state of North Carolina, northwest of Concord and northeast of Charlotte and is a suburb in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The city of Kannapolis was incorporated in 1984, the population was 42,625 at the 2010 census, which makes Kannapolis the 20th largest city in North Carolina. It is the home of the Kannapolis Intimidators, the Class A baseball affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, the center of the city is home to the North Carolina Research Campus, a public-private venture that focuses on food, nutrition, and biotech research. Early meaning and usage of the name was a direct reference to Cannon Mills Corporation. Early published name variations include Cannon-opolis and Cannapolis, a widely accepted origin of the word Kannapolis comes from the combination of the Greek words kanna and polis, which some believed meant City of Looms. Dr. Gary Freeze, Catawba College history and politics department chairman, after mill workers or newspapers called the town Cannapolis, J. W. Since, Freeze said, Jim Cannon didnt study Greek, Cannon did not name the city of looms. In 1906 J. W. Cannon purchased the land later became Kannapolis, and acquired a total of 1008 acres in Cabarrus. Approximately 808 of those acres of farmland, purchased along the wagon road between Salisbury and Charlotte, became the location of the new textile mill, Cannon Manufacturing. Cannon Manufacturing began production in 1908, in 1914 Cannon Manufacturing became known as the world’s largest producer of sheets and towels. Shortly after, Mr. Cannon opened plants in Rowan County, Concord, mill founder J. W. Cannon’s youngest son, Charles A. Cannon, consolidated all the separate mills into the giant Cannon Mills Company in 1928. The Meek House and Harvey Jeremiah Peeler House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Kannapolis is located on the boundary of Cabarrus and Rowan counties, with a greater portion of its area in Cabarrus County. U. S. Route 29 passes through the city east of the area, U. S.29 leads northeast 15 miles to Salisbury. Interstate 85 bypasses the city on the south and the east, i-85 leads northeast 65 miles to Greensboro and southwest 21 miles to Charlotte. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 32.5 square miles, of which 31.9 square miles is land and 0.58 square miles. Kannapolis City Schools is the school system for the city. Two additional systems also serve its jurisdiction, Cabarrus County Schools, Franklin Heights Christian Academy is a private, non-profit Christian educational institution that is operated by Franklin Heights Baptist Church. Faith Christian Academy is a private, non-profit Christian educational institution that is operated by Faith Baptist Church, shaw University has an extramural site in Kannapolis offering undergraduate, graduate and continuing educational programs
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Textile
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A textile or cloth is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, hemp, Textiles are formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, or felting. The words fabric and cloth are used in textile assembly trades as synonyms for textile, however, there are subtle differences in these terms in specialized usage. Textile refers to any material made of interlacing fibres, a fabric is a material made through weaving, knitting, spreading, crocheting, or bonding that may be used in production of further goods. Cloth may be used synonymously with fabric but is often a piece of fabric used for a specific purpose. The word textile is from Latin, from the adjective textilis, meaning woven, from textus, the word cloth derives from the Old English clað, meaning a cloth, woven or felted material to wrap around one, from Proto-Germanic kalithaz. The discovery of dyed flax fibres in a cave in the Republic of Georgia dated to 34,000 BCE suggests textile-like materials were made even in prehistoric times. The production of textiles is a craft whose speed and scale of production has been altered almost beyond recognition by industrialization, however, for the main types of textiles, plain weave, twill, or satin weave, there is little difference between the ancient and modern methods. Textiles have an assortment of uses, the most common of which are for clothing and for such as bags. In the household they are used in carpeting, upholstered furnishings, window shades, towels, coverings for tables, beds, and other flat surfaces, in the workplace they are used in industrial and scientific processes such as filtering. Textiles are used in traditional crafts such as sewing, quilting. Textiles for industrial purposes, and chosen for other than their appearance, are commonly referred to as technical textiles. Technical textiles include textile structures for applications, medical textiles, geotextiles, agrotextiles. In all these applications stringent performance requirements must be met, woven of threads coated with zinc oxide nanowires, laboratory fabric has been shown capable of self-powering nanosystems using vibrations created by everyday actions like wind or body movements. Fashion designers commonly rely on textile designs to set their fashion collections apart from others, armani, the late Gianni Versace, and Emilio Pucci can be easily recognized by their signature print driven designs. Textiles can be made from many materials and these materials come from four main sources, animal, plant, mineral, and synthetic. In the past, all textiles were made from natural fibres, including plant, animal, in the 20th century, these were supplemented by artificial fibres made from petroleum. Textiles are made in various strengths and degrees of durability, from the finest gossamer to the sturdiest canvas, microfibre refers to fibres made of strands thinner than one denier
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Iconix Brand Group
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Iconix Brand Group is an American brand management company that licenses brands to retailers and manufacturers primarily in the apparel, footwear, and apparel accessory industries. Its brands are available in stores as Kohls, Kmart, Sears, Macys, Target. The company began as Candies, Inc. whose brand it purchased in 1993, the Bongo brand was purchased in 1998. The Badgley Mischka brand was purchased in 2004, the Joe Boxer and Rampage brands were acquired on July 22,2005 and September 15,2005, respectively. In 2006, the acquired the Mudd, London Fog, Mossimo, Ocean Pacific brands on April 11, August 29, November 1. The company continued with acquisitions in 2007 with the purchase of *Cannon, Danskin, on November 15,2007, Iconix bought the Starter brand from Nike. On October 27,2009, Iconix paid $109 million for a 51% stake in urban fashion brand Eckō Unltd and it acquired full ownership in May 2013. On June 3,2010, Iconix and Charles M. Peanuts Worldwide also acquired United Medias licensing arm, in 2011, Iconix acquired electronics brand The Sharper Image. On October 2012, Nike Inc. announced that it had agreed with Iconix Brand Group to sell English brand Umbro for USD $225 million, the acquisition was completed in December 2012. In 2013, Iconix acquired Lee Cooper from Sun Capital Partners, in 2015, Iconix bought the Strawberry Shortcake brand from American Greetings. Iconix also acquired American rights of Pony, in February 2013, Iconix acquired control of the Buffalo David Bitton brand in an effort to expand into higher-end brands. Iconix paid Buffalo International ULC $76.5 million in cash for a 51% stake in the brand, Buffalo David Bitton was founded in 1985 in Montreal. The brand offers denim collections, apparel, outerwear, intimates and accessories. It is targeted to men and women aged 18–34 and is sold at Bloomingdales, Macys, Dillards and Lord & Taylor, sold in Canada, United States, Panama, Mexico, Russia and the UK. 2 80% ownership, through Peanuts Worldwide,3 Founded by minority owner and CEO Jay Z List of companies of the United States#I Iconix Brand Group homepage
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Cabarrus County, North Carolina
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Cabarrus /kʌˈbærʌs/ County is a county located in the south-central part of the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 178,011, the county seat is Concord, which was incorporated in 1803. Cabarrus County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, among its significant historic sites is the Reed Gold Mine, a National Historic Landmark. The first gold discovered in the United States was found here in 1799, so much gold was mined that President Andrew Jackson established the US Mint to control it. This was an area of cultivation in the antebellum era. Coleman Manufacturing Company, started in 1897, is believed to be the first cotton mill in the nation to be built, Dancy, and partners primarily from Wilmington, North Carolina, although investors also came from capitalists in the county. The county was formed on December 29,1792 from Mecklenburg County, located in the Piedmont, it was named after Stephen Cabarrus of Chowan County, speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons. Beginning about 1750, the county was settled mainly by immigrants, Germans on the eastern side and Scotch-Irish in the western area of the county. When it came time to choose a location for the county seat and county government, each ethnic group wanted the county located close to their populations. Stephen Cabarrus wrote to the citizens pleading with them to come together in peace to choose a location for their county seat, a central area of the county was chosen in 1796 and aptly named Concord, a derivative of two French words with and peace. Representative Paul Barringer introduced a bill into the legislature to incorporate Concord. The town of Concord was begun on land owned by Samuel Huie, the first substantiated gold find in America was in 1799 by young Conrad Reed while playing in Little Meadow Creek, located on the Reed farm in southeastern Cabarrus County. According to research, Conrads find was a gold chunk approximately the size of a shoe and his father John Reed took the nugget into Concord to a silversmith, who informed Reed that the rock did not have any value. The elder Reed returned home with it, holding it for three years until a trip in 1802 to Fayetteville, where he sold the nugget to a jeweler for $3.50, over time John Reed learned that the jeweler sold the large nugget for several thousand dollars. Reed returned to Fayetteville insisting on more just compensation and this discovery and news of the sale spurred the beginning of gold mining in the area. Reed deserted, as did many other Hessians and he traveled from Georgia to North Carolina, where he settled in an ethnic German community sometime around 1787 and began farming. Reed first developed placer mining on his property, then underground mining and his facility became known as Reeds Gold Mine. Large amounts of gold were being discovered at the Reed Gold Mine and in mines in the United States
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YMCA
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The Young Mens Christian Association is a worldwide organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 57 million beneficiaries from 125 national associations. It was founded on 6 June 1844 by George Williams in London and aims to put Christian principles into practice by developing a body, mind. These three angles are reflected by the different sides of the triangle—part of all YMCA logos, from its inception, it grew rapidly and ultimately became a worldwide movement founded on the principles of Muscular Christianity. YMCAs continue to be religious organisations, many national or local organisations de-emphasise this aspect, the different local YMCAs are voluntarily affiliated through their national organisations. The national organisations in turn are part of both an Area Alliance and the World Alliance of YMCAs, the World Alliances main motto is empowering young people. It was associated with industrialisation and the movement of people to cities to work. The YMCA combined preaching in the streets and the distribution of religious tracts with a social ministry, philanthropists saw them as places for wholesome recreation that would preserve youth from the temptations of alcohol, gambling, and prostitution and that would promote good citizenship. The YMCA was founded by George Williams, a London draper and he and his colleagues were concerned about the lack of healthy activities for young men in major cities, the options available were usually taverns and brothels. By 1851, there were YMCAs in the United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. In 1855,99 YMCA delegates from Europe and North America met in Paris at the First World Conference of YMCAs and they discussed joining together in a federation to enhance cooperation amongst individual YMCA societies. This marked the beginning of the World Alliance of YMCAs, the conference adopted the Paris Basis, a common mission for all present and future national YMCAs. Its motto was taken from the Bible, That they all may be one, in 1865 The Fourth World Conference of YMCAs, held in Germany, affirmed the importance of developing the whole individual in body, mind, and spirit. The concept of work through sports, a new concept for the time, was also recognised as part of this muscular Christianity. Today the YMCA is more focused on inspiring youths and their families to exercise, in 1878, World Alliance of YMCAs offices were established in Geneva, Switzerland. Later, in 1900, North American YMCAs, in collaboration with the World Alliance, set up centres to work with emigrants in European ports, as millions of people were leaving for the USA. In 1885, Camp Baldhead, the first residential camp in the United States and North America, was established by A. Sanford and Sumner F. Dudley, both of whom worked for the YMCA. The camp, originally located near Orange Lake in New Jersey, moved to Lake Wawayanda in Sussex County the following year, by 1910, the YMCA was an early influence upon scouting, including the Boy Scouts of America and German Scouting. Edgar M. Robinson, a Chicago-area YMCA administrator, briefly left the YMCA to become the BSAs first director, the Blue Ridge Association for Christian Conferences and Training was formed in 1907, and shortly thereafter built the Blue Ridge Assembly conference centre
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Charlotte /ˈʃɑːrlət/ is the largest city in the state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Mecklenburg County and the second-largest city in the southeastern United States, just behind Jacksonville, Charlotte is the third-fastest growing major city in the United States. In 2014 the estimated population of Charlotte according to the U. S. Census Bureau was 809,958, the Charlotte metropolitan area ranks 22nd-largest in the U. S. and had a 2014 population of 2,380,314. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2014 U. S. Census population estimate of 2,537,990, residents of Charlotte are referred to as Charlotteans. It is listed as a global city by the Globalization. Charlotte Douglas International Airport is an international hub, and was ranked the 23rd-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2013. Charlotte has a subtropical climate. The city is located several miles east of the Catawba River and southeast of Lake Norman, Lake Wylie and Mountain Island Lake are two smaller man-made lakes located near the city. The Catawba Native Americans were the first to settle Mecklenburg County and were first recorded in European records around 1567, by 1759 half the Catawba tribe had been killed by smallpox. At the time of their largest population, Catawba people numbered 10,000, Mecklenburg County was initially part of Bath County of New Hanover Precinct, which became New Hanover County in 1729. The western portion of New Hanover split into Bladen County in 1734, Mecklenburg County formed from Anson County in 1762. Further apportionment was made in 1792, with Cabarrus County formed from Mecklenburg and these areas were all part of one of the original six judicial/military districts of North Carolina known as the Salisbury District. The area that is now Charlotte was settled by people of European descent around 1755, Thomas Polk, who later married Thomas Spratts daughter, built his house by the intersection of two Native American trading paths between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers. One path ran north–south and was part of the Great Wagon Road, within decades of Polks settling, the area grew to become Charlotte Town, incorporating in 1768. The crossroads, perched atop the Piedmont landscape, became the heart of Uptown Charlotte, in 1770, surveyors marked the streets in a grid pattern for future development. The east–west trading path became Trade Street, and the Great Wagon Road became Tryon Street, in honor of William Tryon, the intersection of Trade and Tryon—commonly known today as Trade & Tryon, or simply The Square—is more properly called Independence Square. While surveying the boundary between the Carolinas in 1772, William Moultrie stopped in Charlotte Town, whose five or six houses were very ordinary built of logs, local leaders came together in 1775 and signed the Mecklenburg Resolves, more popularly known as the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. While not a declaration of independence from British rule, it is among the first such declarations that eventually led to the American Revolution
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National Guard of the United States
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All members of the National Guard of the United States are also members of the militia of the United States as defined by 10 U. S. C. National Guard units are under the control of the state. The majority of National Guard soldiers and airmen hold a civilian job full-time while serving part-time as a National Guard member, local militias were formed from the earliest English colonization of the Americas in 1607. The first colony-wide militia was formed by Massachusetts in 1636 by merging small older local units, the various colonial militias became state militias when the United States became independent. The title National Guard was used from 1824 by some New York State militia units, National Guard became a standard nationwide militia title in 1903, and specifically indicated reserve forces under mixed state and federal control from 1933. The first muster of militia forces in what is today the United States took place on September 16,1565, appropriately enough, this muster occurred in the shadow of an oncoming hurricane. This Spanish militia tradition and the English tradition that would be established to the north would provide the nucleus for Colonial defense in the New World. The militia tradition continued with the first permanent English settlements in the New World, Jamestown Colony and Plymouth Colony both had militia forces, which initially consisted of every able bodied adult male. By the mid-1600s every town had at least one militia company, as a result of the Spanish–American War, Congress was called upon to reform and regulate the training and qualification of state militias. The first national laws regulating the militia were the Militia acts of 1792, in 1903, with passage of the Dick Act, the predecessor to the modern-day National Guard was formed. It required the states to divide their militias into two sections, the law recommended the title National Guard for the first section, known as the organized militia, and Reserve Militia for all others. During World War I, Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1916, Congress also authorized the states to maintain Home Guards, which were reserve forces outside the National Guards being deployed by the Federal Government. The National Guard of the states, territories, and the District of Columbia serves as part of the first-line of defense for the United States. C. Where the National Guard operates under the President of the United States or his designee, the governors exercise control through the state adjutants general. The National Guard may be called up for duty by the governors to help respond to domestic emergencies and disasters, such as hurricanes, floods. The National Guard is administered by the National Guard Bureau, which is a joint activity of the Army, the National Guard Bureau provides a communication channel for state National Guards to the DoD. S. C. The National Guard Bureau is headed by the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, prior to 2008, the functions of Agricultural Development Teams were within Provincial Reconstruction Teams of the US Government. Today, ADTs consist of soldiers and airmen from the Army National Guard, today, ADTs bring an effective platform for enhanced dialogue, building confidence, sharing interests, and increasing cooperation amongst the disparate peoples and tribes of Afghanistan
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World War I
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World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history and it was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved. The war drew in all the worlds great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances, the Allies versus the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. These alliances were reorganised and expanded as more nations entered the war, Italy, Japan, the trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. This set off a crisis when Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia. Within weeks, the powers were at war and the conflict soon spread around the world. On 25 July Russia began mobilisation and on 28 July, the Austro-Hungarians declared war on Serbia, Germany presented an ultimatum to Russia to demobilise, and when this was refused, declared war on Russia on 1 August. Germany then invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg before moving towards France, after the German march on Paris was halted, what became known as the Western Front settled into a battle of attrition, with a trench line that changed little until 1917. On the Eastern Front, the Russian army was successful against the Austro-Hungarians, in November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers, opening fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and the Sinai. In 1915, Italy joined the Allies and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers, Romania joined the Allies in 1916, after a stunning German offensive along the Western Front in the spring of 1918, the Allies rallied and drove back the Germans in a series of successful offensives. By the end of the war or soon after, the German Empire, Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, national borders were redrawn, with several independent nations restored or created, and Germanys colonies were parceled out among the victors. During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the Big Four imposed their terms in a series of treaties, the League of Nations was formed with the aim of preventing any repetition of such a conflict. This effort failed, and economic depression, renewed nationalism, weakened successor states, and feelings of humiliation eventually contributed to World War II. From the time of its start until the approach of World War II, at the time, it was also sometimes called the war to end war or the war to end all wars due to its then-unparalleled scale and devastation. In Canada, Macleans magazine in October 1914 wrote, Some wars name themselves, during the interwar period, the war was most often called the World War and the Great War in English-speaking countries. Will become the first world war in the sense of the word. These began in 1815, with the Holy Alliance between Prussia, Russia, and Austria, when Germany was united in 1871, Prussia became part of the new German nation. Soon after, in October 1873, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck negotiated the League of the Three Emperors between the monarchs of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany
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A.L. Brown High School
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A. L. Brown High School is a comprehensive public high school in Kannapolis, North Carolina. It is the high school in the Kannapolis City Schools district as well as the city of Kannapolis. As of the 2005/06 school year, the current enrollment is 1,350 students, Brown was recognized by DPI as a School of Distinction under the states ABC standards for public education for the 2003–2010 school years. During the expansion of the Cannon Mills Corporation during the 1920s, Centerview School was constructed in 1924, about the same time that a new Concord High School opened. Later in the early 1930s Centerview School was renamed J. W, Cannon High School, after the towns founder. A few years later Cannon High School was destroyed by a fire, in 1951, the school was renamed A. L. Brown High School, and moved to a new building southeast of the old facility. The former building was converted into a high school under the name Cannon Junior High School. In 1974, A. L. Brown was almost destroyed by a fire started in the attic, fearing auditorium damage, then on January 10,1982, James William Cannon Junior High School was completely destroyed by a fire. Many additions have been built on to Brown and there is a vocational building as well as a free-standing gymnasium. During the 2006/07 school year, a newer facility opened on campus. These free-standing buildings give A. L. Brown its unique character, instead of a traditional single building like most high schools, Brown has a small, college-like atmosphere with numerous buildings around a central courtyard. All of the buildings on the campus are built in the Colonial Williamsburg style of architecture, all of the buildings are brick with white trim, modeled after most of Kannapolis. The $8.1 million,50, 000-square foot STEM Academy, designed to resemble the nearby North Carolina Research Campus Core Lab, the top two floors offer modern science labs, while the second floor will house communication classes. The basement has a center and an international welcome center. Opening March 2012 is the Stroup Arts Center and this building will replace the previous Vocational Building or V-Building. This center will provide an Exceptional Childrens Department, Dance Studio, Art Studio, Drafting, Culinary Arts, Foods 1 &2, Theatre,1924 – Central High School Opens 1930 – Renamed J. W. Cannon High School 1933 – J. W, Cannon High School burns down because of faulty wiring 1934 – Cannon HS is rebuilt 1950–51 – A. L. Brown High School is constructed 50 yd southeast of Cannon High. 1957 – An 8-classroom science wing is added to the west end of the main building,1958 – The W. J. Bullock Physical Education Building is constructed
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Foot towel
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A foot towel is a small, rectangular towel which, in the absence of a rug, carpet or bathroom mat, is placed onto the bathroom floor to dry the feet on emerging from the shower or bath. The use of the towel is not widespread. A reason for this may be the fact that it tends to slip and slide around on tiled floors and does not have the grip or friction of a rug. However, some of the recently produced foot towels include a specially designed under-surface. There are two types of foot towel, A large foot towel with space for both feet can be employed Two separate and smaller foot towels can be placed side by side to serve the same purpose. This allows one to widen the distance between both towels, the disadvantage being potential separation of the towels which could result in injury to the user. Both varieties of foot towel are widely available, as with regular bath towels, foot towels come in a variety of colours. Decorative foot towels can be purchased, albeit at a higher price, some foot towel manufacturers feature landscapes and cartoon characters on their products. The Integrated Convertible Foot Towel, enables an individual to dry his or her feet without stooping or bending over, and without putting a towel or rug on the floor
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Marshall Field's
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Marshall Field & Company, commonly known as Marshall Field’s, was a department store in Chicago, Illinois, that grew to become a chain before being acquired by Macys, Inc. on August 30,2005. Marshall Field & Company traces its antecedents to a dry goods store opened at 137 Lake Street in Chicago, Illinois in 1852 by Potter Palmer, eponymously named P. Palmer & Company. Just prior to the American Civil War, in 1860, Field and bookkeeper Levi Z. Leiter, became partners in the firm, then known as Cooley. In 1864, the firm, then led by senior partner John V. Farwell, Sr. was renamed Farwell, only for Field and Leiter to soon withdraw from the partnership with Farwell when presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Potter Palmer, plagued by ailing health, was looking to dispose of his business, so on January 4,1865, Field and Leiter entered into partnership with him. So the firm of P. Palmer & Company became Field, Palmer, Leiter & Company and his brother, Milton Palmer, left at this time as well. The store was renamed Field, Leiter & Company, sometimes referred to as “Field & Leiter”, the buyout, however, did not bring an end to Potter Palmer’s association with the firm. In 1868, Palmer convinced Field and Leiter to lease a new, six-story edifice he had just built at the northeast corner of State, the store was soon referred to as the “Marble Palace” owing to its costly marble stone face. When the Great Chicago Fire broke out on October 8,1871, news of this, the Company’s drivers and teams were ordered out of the barns. Parker, a salesman, rushed to the store’s basement, broke up boxes. These employees worked feverishly through the night to remove vital records, at one point, the gas tank exploded, which put out the store’s gaslights. The men worked on by candlelight and the glow from the approaching flames, early in the following morning however, the citys waterworks burned, thus ending the water supply and making further efforts useless. The last employee had scarcely made it out of the building when it burst into flames, the store burned to the ground. However, as a result of the employees herculean efforts, so much merchandise was saved that the store was able to reopen in only a few weeks in a temporary location. Six months later, in April 1872, Field & Leiter reopened in a building at Madison. Salesman Parker stayed on with the Company for 45 more years and this store was expanded in 1876, only to be destroyed by fire again in November 1877. Field, Leiter & Company now reclaimed their traditional location at the northeast corner of State, in January 1881, Field, with the support of his junior partners, bought out Levi Z. In 1932, this building was leased to the later famous nationwide mail-order firm Sears, in 1887, the landmark seven-story Henry Hobson Richardson-designed, Romanesque-styled, Marshall Fields Wholesale Store opened on Franklin Street between Quincy and Adams
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Eden, North Carolina
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Eden is a city in Rockingham County, North Carolina in the U. S state of North Carolina. The population was 15,527 at the 2010 census, the city was incorporated in 1967 through the consolidation of three separate towns, Leaksville, Spray, and Draper. Several small historic downtown areas have opened up, such as the Olde Leaksville shopping district, the phone Area code is area code 336. Eden is the largest city in Rockingham County, North Carolina and is a city of the Piedmont Triad over the 10,000 population. Eden is part of the Greensboro-High Point, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, Eden is located at 36°30′23″N 79°44′42″W. The Smith and the Dan River have their confluence on the side of Eden. The Dan River flows along Edens southern border while the Smith River flows from the north bisecting the city on its route to meet the Dan River, the city of Greensboro is 25 miles Southwest and Reidsville is 11 miles Southeast of the City. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 15.2 square miles. Eden was a 70, 000-acre estate owned by William Byrd II, the estate was originally called The Land of Eden. During the last years of his life, William Byrd II dreamed of bringing large numbers of Swiss Protestants to the Land of Eden and he envisioned an industrious, self-sufficient colony that would thrive on the abundance of the frontier. Byrds dream was not to be realized, Byrd died August 26,1744, as the Land of Eden began to be surrounded by the settlement of Scotch-Irish, whom Byrd had compared to the Goths and Vandals. Eden descended to William Byrd III, who shared none of his fathers dreams of colonization, young Byrd married Elizabeth Hill Carter in 1748. He sought to dispose of Eden to gain cash to support his grand lifestyle and he was finally successful on November 8,1755, when he sold 26,000 acres in North Carolina to two merchant brothers from the island of Antigua, Simon and Francis Farley. By this time, settlement was increasing at a considerable pace, the Farley brothers attempted to create plantations on some of the richest acres, but more frequently, settlers squatted on the land and built homesteads. Many later settlers migrating to the Dan River Area knew little of William Byrd and they were familiar with an old Indian village in the area near Town Creek and the Farley holdings. This location became the center of settlement, and the 26,000 acres came to be called the Sauratown tract, in 1775, James Parke Farley and his new bride moved from cosmopolitan Williamsburg, Virginia, to the Sauratown. Farley claimed that Sauratown was his, created new plantations, and he built a home overlooking the Dan River. Farley was also a member of the 3rd Provincial Congress that met at Hillsboro, in 1776, the family left the Sauratown, partly as a result of Elizabeth Farleys fathers suicide and perhaps also of her dislike of frontier life
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Fieldale, Virginia
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Fieldale is a census-designated place in Henry County, Virginia, United States. The population was 879 at the 2010 census and it is part of the Martinsville Micropolitan Statistical Area. The local militia trained on Col. Wallers acreage, the settlement was subsequently known as Wallers Ford for over a century. A Virginia Historical Highway Marker unveiled in September 2007 marks the location of Col. Wallers plantation. In 1916, Marshall Field & Company purchased the site from the Waller heirs and established Fieldcrest Mills, the town of Fieldale, Fieldale was the first town in southwestern Virginia with sidewalks, electric lighting, and municipal water and sewer. The Fieldale Historic District, Marshall Field and Company Clubhouse, Fieldale is located at 36°41′59″N 79°56′22″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 1.6 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 929 people,420 households, the population density was 575.6 people per square mile. There were 473 housing units at a density of 293. 1/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 97. 20% White,1. 83% African American,0. 11% Pacific Islander, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 08% of the population. 31. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 16. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.78. In the CDP, the population was out with 20. 3% under the age of 18,4. 8% from 18 to 24,25. 5% from 25 to 44,25. 3% from 45 to 64. The median age was 44 years, for every 100 females there were 96.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.4 males, the median income for a household in the CDP was $23,450, and the median income for a family was $30,845. Males had an income of $25,278 versus $18,472 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $12,919, about 19. 4% of families and 22. 0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 34. 5% of those under age 18 and 18. 8% of those age 65 or over. 7–10 Waller Home in 1930, myhenrycounty. com
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Martinsville, Virginia
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Martinsville is an independent city near the southern border of the U. S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,821 and it is the county seat of Henry County, although the two are separate jurisdictions. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Martinsville with Henry County for statistical purposes, Martinsville is the principal city of the Martinsville Micropolitan Statistical Area, with a population of 73,346 as of the 2000 census. Martinsville was founded by American Revolutionary War General, Indian agent and explorer Joseph Martin and he developed his plantation Scuffle Hill on the banks of the Smith River near the present-day southern city limits. General Martin and revolutionary patriot Patrick Henry, who lived briefly in Henry County, the citys chief industry for many early years was the manufacture of plug chewing tobacco. The Henry County area became known as the tobacco capital of the world. In the wake of the collapse of the economy following the American Civil War. Stepping into the breach were several thriving plug firms which sold their merchandise across the nation beginning in the nineteenth century. Local families were involved in these companies, bestowing their names on them and reaping sizeable profits until the early twentieth century. Reynolds and James Buchanan Duke bought out most firms, among the earliest of these firms were D. H. Spencer & Sons and Spencer Bros, other families soon joined in founding other early firms, including the Gravelys, the Comptons, the Ruckers, the Wittens, the Lesters and the Browns. The citys main industry for a century was furniture construction, Martinsville declared itself an independent city in 1928, while retaining its status as county seat. DuPont in 1941 built a manufacturing plant for producing textile nylon filament. During the Cold War, the city was identified as a target for bombing by the Soviet Union. This nylon production jump-started the growth of the industry in the area. For several years Martinsville was known as the Sweatshirt Capital of the World, business leaders in the mid-20th century, like Whitney Shumate, worked to improve sub-standard housing in Martinsville. He helped clear out a portion of Martinsville called Mill Town, new homes were constructed in the neighborhood, built with sound materials and with all city services for the first time. What had originally considered a depressed civic area rapidly became a center of progress as middle class blacks finally began to prosper
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
