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Danville: Encyclopedia II - Blackhawk California - Blackhawk Country Club

Opened in 1979, Blackhawk Country Club is a 4,800 acre (19 km²) country club community where luxurious residential neighborhoods are surrounded by thousands of acres of permanent open lands. Blackhawk is divided into seven individual neighborhoods, the largest being Country Club West and Country Club East. Blackhawk California - Athletic facilities. In the middle of Country Club West is the 6,904 yard (6,313 m) Lakeside golf course, designed by Bruce Devlin and Robert Von Hagge. The newer 6,700 yar ...

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Blackhawk California, Blackhawk California - Blackhawk Ranch 1917 to 1979, Blackhawk California - Blackhawk Country Club, Blackhawk California - Athletic facilities, Blackhawk California - Blackhawk Plaza, Blackhawk California - Land use

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Danville: Encyclopedia II - Confederate States of America - Government and politics

Confederate States of America - Constitution. The Confederate States Constitution provides much insight into the motivations for secession from the Union. Based to a certain extent on both the Articles of Confederation and on the United States Constitution, it reflected a stronger philosophy of states' rights, curtailing the power of the central authority, and also contained explicit protection of the institution of slavery, though international slave trading was prohibited. It differed from the US Constitution c ...

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Confederate States of America, Confederate States of America - History, Confederate States of America - Government and politics, Confederate States of America - Constitution, Confederate States of America - Capital, Confederate States of America - International diplomacy and legal status, Confederate States of America - Confederate flags, Confederate States of America - Political leaders of the Confederacy, Confederate States of America - Geography, Confederate States of America - Economy, Confederate States of America - Armed Forces, Confederate States of America - Military leaders of the Confederacy, Confederate States of America - Significant dates

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Danville: Encyclopedia II - Crescent Amtrak - History

Before Amtrak took over the route, a train called the Southern Crescent was operated by the Southern Railway, a predecessor of Norfolk Southern, from Washington, DC's Union Station south to New Orleans. The Southern Railway did not join Amtrak when it was created in 1971, but continued to operate the Southern Crescent independently. The Southern Crescent became one of the two last privately operated long-distance passenger services in the United States. On February 1, 1979, Southern left the passenger business and turned ...

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Crescent Amtrak, Crescent Amtrak - History, Crescent Amtrak - Tracks, Crescent Amtrak - Station stops

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Danville: Encyclopedia - American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to primarily African American citizens of the United States. There have been many movements on behalf of other groups in the U.S. over time, but the term is often used to refer to the struggles between 1955 and 1968 to end discrimination against African-Americans and to end racial segregation, especially in the U.S. South. See African American for informati ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - Alamo California

Alamo is a census-designated place located in Contra Costa County, California. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 15,626. The Tri-Valley's unincorporated community of Alamo has nothing to do with the ill-fated 19th century Texas fortress. Instead, it was named by the Spanish in 1850 for the poplar trees that lined San Ramon Creek. Alamo California - Geography. Alamo is located at 37°51'32" North, 122°1'58" West (37.858988, -122.032722)GR1. Ac ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - Arkansas State Highway 10

Arkansas State Highway 10 is a major east-west highway in western and central Arkansas. Its western terminus is at the Oklahoma state line where it continues as Oklahoma State Highway 120 between Rock Island, Oklahoma and Hackett, Arkansas. Its eastern terminus is in downtown Little Rock, near access to Interstate 30. The path of Arkansas 10 covers mountainous terrain, particularly in its more western portions. Mount Magazine, Arkansas' highest point, lies just to the north of the highway, as does the adjoining Mount Magazine S ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - CSS Patrick Henry

CSS Patrick Henry was built in New York City in 1853 by the renowned William H. Webb for the Old Dominion Steam Ship Line as the civilian steamer Yorktown, a brigantine-rigged side-wheel steamer. She carried passengers and freight between between Richmond, Virginia and New York City. Yorktown had anchored in the James River when Virginia seceded from the Union on 17 April 1861 and was seized and turned over to the Confederate Navy. Commander John Randolph Tucker, who commanded the newly organized James River Squadron, directed that Yorktown be converted into a gunboat and renamed P ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - Confederate States of America

Various European and Native American languages regionally The Confederate States of America—also referred to as the Confederate States, CSA, the Confederacy and Dixie (colloquially)—was a country that existed between 1861 and 1865 in North America, comprising states that seceded from the United States of America. The territory of the CSA consisted of most of the southeastern portion of today's United States. As its existence was contested by the United States for the whole of its b ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - Bay Area Rapid Transit

BART (in full, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District) is a rapid transit electric train service that serves parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, including the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Daly City, Richmond, Fremont, Hayward, Walnut Creek, and Concord. It also serves San Francisco International Airport and, via AirBART buses, Oakland International Airport. The BART acron ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - Illinois

Barack Obama (D) Illinois (pronounced [ˌɪ.lɨˈnɔɪ̯] or "ill-i-NOY") was the 21st state to join the United States, located in the former Northwest Territory. Its name was given by the state's French explorers after the indigenous Illiniwek people, a consortium of Algonquin tribes that thrived in the area. The word Illiniwek means simply "the people." The capital of Illinois is Springfield, while its largest city is Chicago. The U.S. ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - Tobacco

N. acuminata N. alata N. attenuata N. clevelandii N. excelsior N. forgetiana N. glauca N. glutinosa N. langsdorffii N. longiflora N. obtusifolia N. paniculata N. plumbagifolia N. quadrivalvis N. repanda N. rustica N. suaveolens N. sylvestris N. tabacum N. tomentosa
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Danville: Encyclopedia - Adlai E. Stevenson

Adlai Ewing Stevenson I (October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) was a Congressman from Illinois and the twenty-third Vice President of the United States. Adlai E. Stevenson - Early life. Stevenson's parents, John Turner Stevenson and Eliza Ewing Stevenson, were Presbyterians of Scotch-Irish descent. John Turner Stevenson's grandfather, William, migrated from Northern Ireland about 1748, settling first in Pennsylvania and then in North Carolina. The family moved to Kentucky in 1813. Stevenson was ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - Yell County Arkansas

Yell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2000, the population is 21,139. The county has two county seats, Dardanelle and Danville. Yell County was formed on 5 December 1840 and is named after Archibald Yell who was the first member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas, Governor of Arkansas, and who fell in combat at the Battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican War. It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county. Yell County Arkansas - Geography. According to ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - County Connection

County Connection (Central Contra Costa Transit Authority) is a public transit agency in and around Concord, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. County Connection - Service Area. It provides service to the communities of: Concord Pleasant Hill Walnut Creek Moraga Orinda Danville Rossmoor Tassajara Diablo Dublin Pleasanton Clayton Martínez San Ramón Avon ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - Ward Hill Lamon

Ward Hill Lamon (January 6, 1828 - May 7, 1893) was a personal friend and frequent bodyguard of the American President Abraham Lincoln. Lamon was famously missing the night Lincoln was assassinated, having been sent by Lincoln to Virginia. His association with Lincoln started in the 1850s, when he became a law partner and traveled with Lincoln. The two had a law office in Danville, Illinois up until 1858. While Lamon had Southern sympathies and his hatred of abolitionism set him apart from Lincoln, they remained friends, despite their very different characters. Lamon joined the then-youn ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - Crescent Amtrak

The Crescent is a passenger train operated by Amtrak in the eastern part of the United States. It runs 1377 miles (2216 km) daily from Pennsylvania Station in New York City to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal in New Orleans, Louisiana as train 19 and returns on the same route as train 20. Most of the route of the Crescent is on the Norfolk Southern Railway. Crescent Amtrak - History. Before Amtrak took over the route, a train called the Southern Crescent was operated by the Southern Railwa ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia II - Blackhawk California - Blackhawk Ranch 1917 to 1979

(All 1917 to 1979 information is from "Blackhawk & The Mountain–A Twentieth Century History," an article in the Fall 1998 issue of the Mount Diablo Review which is critical of post-1970s development.) Blackhawk Ranch was established in 1917 by Ansel Mills Easton and his son-in-law William Q. Ward, in an area east of the San Ramon and Sycamore Valleys. The name came from a famous Irish racehorse named Blackhawk that Easton's family had once owned. The land passed through the hands of several owners, including Raymond Force (the owner of the Caterpillar Tractor Company), a business called C ...

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Blackhawk California, Blackhawk California - Blackhawk Ranch 1917 to 1979, Blackhawk California - Blackhawk Country Club, Blackhawk California - Athletic facilities, Blackhawk California - Blackhawk Plaza, Blackhawk California - Land use

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Danville: Encyclopedia - Danville California

Danville is a city located in a part of Contra Costa County, California called the San Ramon Valley, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 41,715. It is in the local area still referred to as the Town of Danville and it still preserves the characteristics of a town — being compact, largely self sufficient as far as shopping goes, and having only a couple commercial centers. Its downtown is noted for its somewhat rustic charm, intensively upgraded owing to its now extremely affluent de ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - Contra Costa County California

Location of Contra Costa County within California.      District One      District Two      District Three      District Four      District Five      John M. Gioia      Gayle B. Uilkema      Mary N. Piepho      Mark ...

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Danville: Encyclopedia - Virginia

Tim Kaine (D-Governor Elect) George Allen (R) The Commonwealth of Virginia is one of the original thirteen states of the United States that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution, and is part of the South. It is one of four states that use the name commonwealth. Virginia was the first part of the Americas to be colonized permanently by England. Virginia's U.S. postal abbreviation is VA, and ...

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