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  2. McFadden Wharf - Wikipedia

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    McFadden Wharf was built in what is today Newport Beach, California, Orange County in 1888. The McFadden Wharf was located at the site of the current Newport Pier. Under Mexican rule the port in Newport was called San Joaquin Bay. Brothers from Delhi, New York James McFadden and Robert McFadden came to California and purchased land.

  3. Balboa Pavilion - Wikipedia

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    The pavilion was designed by Los Angeles freelance architect Fred R. Dorn, who would later go on to work as an associate of Morgan, Walls & Clements.On July 1, 1906, the 65-foot (20 m)-high Victorian style building was fully completed to coincide with the completion of the Pacific Electric Railway Red Car Line extension to central Balboa near the Balboa Pavilion on July 4, 1906, after only 10 ...

  4. Newport Landing, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

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    Newport Landing is a community in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, located in the Municipal District of West Hants. This community is also known as Avondale, and has civic signage listed for both names. The historical name was 'Newport Landing'. Newport Landing is home to the Avon River Heritage Society and Museum and served as a living ...

  5. USS La Moure County (LST-1194) - Wikipedia

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    La Moure County. (LST-1194) USS La Moure County (LST-1194) was the sixteenth of twenty Newport -class tank landing ship of the United States Navy (USN) which replaced the traditional bow door -design tank landing ships (LSTs). The second vessel named after a county in North Dakota, the LST was constructed by National Steel and Shipbuilding ...

  6. Christopher Newport - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Newport (1561–1617) was an English seaman and privateer.He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America.

  7. Hants County, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

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    The world's largest open pit gypsum mine is located in Milford, East Hants and currently produces approximately 8,000 tons of gypsum daily. George Elliot Clarke's poem, "West Hants County", tells of the difficult condition of black workers in the gypsum mines. Barite was also an extremely important ore to Hants County. The largest barite mine ...

  8. USS Newport (LST-1179) - Wikipedia

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    USS Newport (LST-1179) was the third ship of the United States Navy (USN) to bear the name of the Rhode Island city. The first of her class of landing ship tanks (LST), she was capable of a sustained speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). Her ability to adjust her draft, accompanied by her unique bow-ramp design, helped bring a new degree of ...

  9. Hatfield Marine Science Center - Wikipedia

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    Hatfield Marine Science Center. The Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC) is a marine science research and education center next to Yaquina Bay of the Pacific Ocean in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is operated by Oregon State University in cooperation with five state and federal agencies co-located on site. Named after Mark Hatfield, a former U ...