Sentences with phrase «oncethriving lumber town»

Frogs filled the streets of the former lumber town, encircled homes and set the air throbbing with their massed croaking.

The titular heroine, just married to George, detrains in the Carolina lumber town and starts bossing the crews around.

Most of the Jennings Fellows who were in the sexting session had not heard of Tunkhannock, PA (a former lumber town, population roughly 2000, in the northern part of the Keystone State) where the sexting students went to school.

With its original roots as a military garrison and then a gritty lumber town, Fort Bragg skirted under the radar of most visitors.

You play as Special Agent Francis York Morgan who arrives in Greenvale — a oncethriving lumber town — with the task of solving the murder of a young girl.

To get a good understanding of local history, kick things off at The Pittock Mansion, a century - old symbol of Portland's dramatic transformation from a small lumber town to a bustling city.

Claire Falkenstein (1908 - 1997) was born in Coos Bay, a small Pacific lumber town in Oregon.

Newport was settled in 1793 and eventually became a lumber town.

The city of Saginaw was a thriving lumber town in the 19th century and an important industrial city and manufacturing center throughout much of the 20th century.

A lumber town in British Columbia was in peril when the mill closed.

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Design elements pay homage to Hinckley's history as a lumber and rail town which is reflected in the diner's abstract art murals and rich wood ceiling detail.

Three dilapidated buildings sit on a vacant lumber yard in the Town of Smithtown and have been abandoned for about 12 years, according to town Councilman Edward WehrhTown of Smithtown and have been abandoned for about 12 years, according to town Councilman Edward Wehrhtown Councilman Edward Wehrheim.

Early history and career: Michael Merzenich was born in 1942 in the town of Lebanon in the US state of Oregon, the son of a factory foreman and supervisor and a German - American mother in this small agricultural and lumbering community.

Across town at Sheldon High, building trades teacher Jeff Merker says lumber companies are more than happy to part with extraneous boards — as long as the school comes and gets them.

WEED, Calif. — There's an old - fashioned goodness to Weed, this once - lumbering, now - slumbering town of 3,100 people.

The town was originally a shipping center and served as a port between the cities of Lewes and Wilmington for grain, lumber, and tanbark.

Travel 140 kilometres (87 miles) to the former lumber milling town of Walpole and have a coffee at Four Sisters Coffee Shop before you visit the Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk, a 40 metre (131 foot) high walkway through the forest's canopy designed to move — which is fun or scary, depending on your perspective — with the majestic red - barked tingle eucalyptus trees that are found nowhere else in the world.

Aside from the park and the sheer beauty of the drive, there are other historic finds along the way, such as the lookalike cottages in the tiny town of Scotia, once a booming «company town» for the local lumber company.

Completed in 1878, the railroad put the town of Alamosa on the map with its new found supply of ore, lumber and cattle and export of agricultural and mining products, with passenger and freight services continuing until 1950.

The city established itself as a railroad town with a flourishing lumber trade and, today, is spread alongside a section of Route 66.

Cambria started out as a fishing and quicksilver mining town, and later, for its dairy and lumber exports, but it wasn't until 1958, when Hearst Castle was opened to the public, that Cambria came into its own as a popular tourist destination.

Built by one of the great lumber barons of the 19th century, the William Carson Mansion is a sight to behold in Old Town Eureka.

If he just wanted that, it would've been much easier (and more likely) to open a couple of lumber yards in town and be done with it.

Born in 1902 in Iron River, Mich., a poverty - stricken mining town, he worked in mines and lumber camps as a teenager while showing a precocious talent for drawing.

Formerly a timber town, Cottage Grove never recovered from decreased logging and modernization of the lumber mills in the 1990s and the financial crisis of 2008.

Pine was also the major species of Canada's lumber trade for decades, exported to build the canals and railways that connected cities and towns throughout the U.S. and Canada.

In its early years, Huntington was a port town and steamboats shipping lumber and coal out west stopped there daily.

The lumber mill across town doesn't have the same risks that the coffee shop you visit everyday has, so there is no exact average for a business insurance policy in Oregon.

Not too impressed with their lumber - I buy mine at the local small - town supplier & it is bee - yoo - ti - ful, same price.