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Garbutt
Garbutt may refer to: Places * Garbutt, New York, a hamlet between Scottsville and Mumford * Garbutt, Queensland, a suburb in the city of Townsville, in Australia *Garbutt House Garbutt House is a 20-room mansion in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles built from 1926 to 1928 as the residence of Frank A. Garbutt. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. Frank A. Garbutt Frank A. Garbutt, ..., Frank A. Garbutt's mansion in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles Surname * Garbutt (name) See also * Garbett, a surname {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garbutt, Queensland
Garbutt is a suburb of Townsville in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It is home to the Townsville International Airport and RAAF Townsville. Geography Only the eastern part of the suburb is residential. The southern part of the suburb is an industrial estate. The northern part of the suburb is an airport precinct, consisting of: * Townsville International Airport (formerly known as Garbutt Airport) which has its entrance on Coral Sea Drive () * RAAF Base Townsville, which has its entrance off Ingham Road () *a heliport () * Townsville station of the Bureau of Meteorology The North Coast railway line enters the suburb from the east ( West End) and exits to the west (Mount Louisa). The suburb is served by Garbutt railway station (). History Garbutt is situated in the traditional Wulgurukaba Aboriginal country. Garbutt Methodist church officially opened on Sunday 9 February 1936 on the corner of Ingham Road and Meenan Street. A new Methodist church was opene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garbutt, New York
Garbutt, New York is a hamlet located between the village of Scottsville and the hamlet of Mumford. It sits at the intersection of Scottsville-Mumford Road and Union Street in the Town of Wheatland in Monroe County, New York, United States. Garbutt grew rapidly through the mid-nineteenth century, but starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the collapse of the local economy caused the population to severely decline. History In its 19th-Century prime, Garbutt boasted a train station and rail yard, service by two railroad companies, several industrial plants, a hotel, two schools, a church, mines, three Oatka Creek bridges, a dam and millpond, a barrel factory, and a number of general stores. Yet, as long ago as 1937, it was said, "Garbutt is a hamlet so small that it would scarcely be noticed in passing were it not for the large buildings of the Empire Gypsum Company." Now, even these are gone. The history of Garbutt was written by Carl F Schmidt, an ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garbutt House
Garbutt House is a 20-room mansion in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles built from 1926 to 1928 as the residence of Frank A. Garbutt. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. Frank A. Garbutt Frank A. Garbutt, an inventor, industrialist and movie pioneer, was one of the most prominent citizens of Los Angeles in the late 19th and early 20th Century. He invented and secured patents on certain oil drilling tools in the late 1880s that were the initial source of his wealth. Garbutt became involved in other businesses. He owned oil wells and was one of the original investors in aviation pioneer Glenn Martin's aircraft business, later to become Martin Marietta. He owned interests in a boat-building business, Garbutt-Walsh Inc., and a business operating ferries from San Pedro to Terminal Island. He played a role in the founding of Famous Players–Lasky, later Paramount Studios, Union Oil Company and the Automobile Club of Southern California. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garbutt (name)
Garbutt is a surname associated with English-speaking culture. Etymology In origin, ''Garbutt'' is a personal name. It (and the variants ''Garbut'', ''Garbett'', ''Garbet'', ''Garbert'', ''Garbould'', ''Gorbold'', ''Gorbutt'', ''Gorbett'', ''Gorbert'', ''Carbett'', ''Carbert'', ''Carbutt'', ''Carbould'', and ''Carbott'') come from several different names which were brought to England by settlers associated with the Norman conquest: ''Gerbold'', ''Gerbert'', and ''Gerbod''. All these names themselves came into use among the Normans by borrowing from Continental Germanic, and became confused with one another already in the Middle Ages. Distribution In the spelling ''Garbutt'', the name was borne by 2163 people in the 1881 Census of the United Kingdom, mostly in Yorkshire and County Durham, particularly in the North Riding. As of around 2016, 2877 people bore the name in Great Britain and 72 in Ireland.''The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'', ed. by Patrick H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
