Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slipping away from his newsgathering shadows. Last week he succeeded in motoring without them to Catoctin Furnace, Md., to fish peacefully in Hunting Creek with Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey. All that the newsgatherers learned was that the President caught a pound-and-a-half trout, inspected a site for a ten-room log cabin, ate a picnic supper under the trees with Mrs. Hoover. After dusk he drove back to Washington. His shadows politely rebuked...
...Site. A political trade planted Washington on the Potomac mudflats. Thomas Jefferson gave Southern support to Alexander Hamilton's campaign to have the U. S. assume the full cost of the Revolution. In return, in 1790, Hamilton helped Jefferson pass legislation locating the new capital in the South on the Potomac River. President Washington picked the site?100 sq. mi. ceded by Maryland and Virginia to the U. S. at the head of tide water. He called the new Capital "The Federal City." Jefferson, Madison and the three commissioners chosen to lay out the city, referred to it from...
...site of New Towne, now known as Cambridge, was selected in the early summer of 1630 by a little group of Puritans under John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley. These zealous people, just arrived from England, formed the nucleus of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and proudly carried the royal charter for their new settlement. The party divided, however, and Winthrop with his following removed to Boston, while Dudley remained in Cambridge with his supporters. Where the new gym is to rise was one of the first settled portions of the little village...
Major Simon Willard, one of the founders was apparently the first to build on the site where the shovels are now digging. He located in 1634 where later the Hick's house was to stand. On the other corner of the area, another more eminent man settled directly opposite Dudley's home, the site of which is marked by a polished granite slab on the corner of Dunster and South. This prominent person was John Bridge, whose statue now stands so commandingly on the Cambridge Common. Bridge was a public man of ability, serving as selectman, school supervisor, deacon...
...dwellings which were here up to last fall with the exception of the Hicks and Bridge houses, dated back some eighty or ninety years. Now as we see truck load after truck load of the precious earth rumbling off, some to the Law School, some to the site of the Dean's House at the Business School, and some to Soldiers Field, we are witnessing a great ending. The bones of the old town seen will be scattered to the four winds...