Kerens (other)
Kerens may refer to: * Kerens, Texas, a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States * Kerens, West Virginia * Richard C. Kerens (1842-1916), an American politician and diplomat See also * Keren (other) Keren may refer to: Places Inhabited places * Keren, Eritrea, a city in Eritrea, formerly called Cheren * Keren Subregion, Anseba region, Eritrea Other places * House of Keren, a historical house in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia * Keren, a cr ...

Kerens, Texas
Kerens is a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,573 at the 2010 census. History Kerens was established in 1881 when the St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas was built through the county, according to the Texas Handbook of History, and was named for Judge R. C. Kerens of St. Louis. The railroad bypassed the nearby settlement of Wadeville, and within a short time all of the businesses from Wadeville moved to the new town. By the mid-1890s, the handbook said, the town had three cotton gin-mills, four grocery stores, two hotels, two drug stores, a wagonmaker, and a weekly newspaper named the ''Navarro Blade''. Big Tex, the giant icon of the State Fair of Texas, had his beginnings in Kerens. In 1949, residents built a Santa Claus constructed from iron drill casing and papier mache to help encourage holiday sales. In 1951, State Fair president R. L. Thornton purchased Santa's components for $750 and had Dallas artist Jack Bridges transform them into a ...
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Kerens, West Virginia
Kerens is an unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. Kerens is north-northeast of Elkins, along Leading Creek. Kerens has a post office with ZIP code 26276. The community was named in honor of Richard C. Kerens Richard C. Kerens (1842 – September 4, 1916) was an American contractor and politician. Kerens was born in Killberry, County Meath, Ireland, and was brought to the United States, U. S. in infant, infancy. He was educated in the public schools ..., a railroad official. References Unincorporated communities in Randolph County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia {{RandolphCountyWV-geo-stub ...
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Richard C
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ...
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