Sentences with phrase «local legend held»

Local legend held that the house was where John Wilkes Booth hid out to avoid capture for his assassination of Abraham Lincoln; after serving as caretaker for the property for a time, Booth revealed his true identity to the owners on his deathbed.

A settlement since the third century, local legend holds that Pickering gained its name when King of the Britons, Peredurus, lost a ring which was later found in the belly of a pike caught in the local beck.

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They held an online vote featuring a long list of local celebrities, politicians, and legends to replace the old mural.

In New Orleans, he was one of several forensic pathologists overseen by the parish coroner, Frank Minyard, a trumpet - playing local legend who has held his elected office for more than 35 years.

A groundbreaking ceremony recently was held for a new cancer center on the campus of Nash UNC Health Care, which will be named after a local athletic legend and cancer survior.

After all, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild looks decent enough, but I don't go gaga over first - party Nintendo games simply because some lumberjack holds them in the highest regards as he sips his Belgian ale from a local micro brewery while listening to Travis Scott.