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Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Hattiesburg is a city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, located primarily in Forrest County, Mississippi, Forrest County (where it is the county seat and largest city) and extending west into Lamar County, Mississippi, Lamar County. The city population was 45,989 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, with the population now being 48,730 in 2020. Hattiesburg is the principal city of the Hattiesburg metropolitan area, Hattiesburg Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses Covington County, Mississippi, Covington, Forrest County, Mississippi, Forrest, Lamar County, Mississippi, Lamar, and Perry County, Mississippi, Perry counties. The city is located in the Pine Belt (Mississippi), Pine Belt region. Development of the interior of Mississippi by European Americans took place primarily after the American Civil War. Before that time, only properties along the major rivers were developed as plantations. Founded in 1882 by civil engineer William H. Hardy, Hattiesburg was na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCRA
KCRA-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Sacramento, California, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Hearst Television alongside Stockton, California, Stockton-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KQCA (channel 58). Both stations share studios on Television Circle off D Street in downtown Sacramento, while KCRA-TV's transmitter is located in Walnut Grove, California. History The station first signed on the air on September 3, 1955. It was founded by the Central Valley Broadcasting Company, a partnership of the Kelly and Hansen families of Sacramento. Central Valley Broadcasting also owned KCRA radio (1320 AM, now KIFM (AM), KIFM, and 96.1 FM, now KYMX); the AM station's call letters were intended to be "KRCA", but the middle two letters were erroneously transposed by a typist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) when that station's original license was drafted in 1945 and was never corrected. By the time KCRA-TV went on the air, the KRCA call letters had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sutter County, California
Sutter County is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 99,633. The county seat is Yuba City. Sutter County is included in the Yuba City, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Sacramento- Roseville, CA Combined Statistical Area. The county is located along the Sacramento River in the Sacramento Valley. History The Maidu were the people living in the area of Sutter County when European settlers arrived. Sutter County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. Parts of the county were given to Placer County in 1852. Sutter County is named after John Augustus Sutter, a German native born to Swiss parents. He was one of the first Europeans to recognize the Sacramento Valley for its potential in agriculture. His Hock Farm, established in 1841 on the Feather River just south of present-day Yuba City, was the site of the first major farm in the Central Valley, and used extens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi (; Ecclesiastical Latin: "'' Body of Christ"'') is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and largest city of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio Counties. It is southeast of San Antonio. Its political boundaries encompass Nueces Bay and Corpus Christi Bay. Its zoned boundaries include small land parcels or water inlets of three neighboring counties. The city's population was 317,863 in 2020, making it the eighth-most populous city in Texas. The Corpus Christi metropolitan area had an estimated population of 442,600. It is also the hub of the six-county Corpus Christi-Kingsville Combined Statistical Area, with a 2013 estimated population of 516,793. The Port of Corpus Christi is the fifth-largest in the United States. The region is served by the Corpus Christi International Airport. The city's name means body of Christ in Ecclesiastical Latin, in reference to the Christian sac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seguin Gazette
The ''Seguin Gazette'' is a newspaper based in Seguin, Texas, covering the Guadalupe County, Texas, Guadalupe County area of Central Texas. It publishes twice a week — Wednesdays and Sundays. It is owned by Southern Newspapers Inc. History The ''Seguin Enterprise'' began publication in 1888 and the ''Guadalupe Gazette-Bulletin'' traces its origins to 1890. The ''Gazette-Bulletin'' changed its name to the ''Seguin Gazette'' in 1952. In 1979, publisher John C. Taylor of the ''Gazette'' and ''Enterprise'' publisher Otha L. Grisham agreed to a merger, but in effect, Taylor and the ''Gazette'' soon took over the operations and Grisham retired. The new combined daily newspaper was called ''Seguin Gazette-Enterprise''. Southern Newspapers bought the paper in 1984. In 1999, it moved from afternoon to morning publication. The newspaper changed its name to the ''Seguin Gazette'' in 2011. References About Us seguingazette.comSeguin Gazette-Enterprise Texas Press Association ''Segu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guadalupe County, Texas
Guadalupe County (, ) is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 172,706. The county seat is Seguin. The county was founded in 1846 and is named after Guadalupe River. Guadalupe County is part of the San Antonio metropolitan statistical area. History Indigenous paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers were the first inhabitants of the area, thousands of years before European colonization. Later, historic Indian tribes settled in the area, including Tonkawa, Karankawa, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, and Comanche. In 1689, Alonso de Leon named the Guadalupe River in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. In 1806, French army officer José de la Baume, who later joined the Spanish army, was rewarded for his services to Spain with title to of Texas land, the original El Capote Ranch. The grant was reaffirmed by the Republic of Mexico after it achieved independence. Following Mexico's independence from Spain, Anglo-Americans from the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azcentral
''The Arizona Republic'' is an American daily newspaper published in Phoenix. Circulated throughout Arizona, it is the state's largest newspaper. Since 2000, it has been owned by the Gannett newspaper chain. Copies are sold at $2 daily or at $3 on Sundays and $5 on Thanksgiving Day; prices are higher outside Arizona. History Early years The newspaper was founded May 19, 1890, under the name ''The Arizona Republican''. Dwight B. Heard, a Phoenix land and cattle baron, ran the newspaper from 1912 until his death in 1929. The paper was then run by two of its top executives, Charles Stauffer and W. Wesley Knorpp, until it was bought by Midwestern newspaper magnate Eugene C. Pulliam in 1946. Stauffer and Knorpp had changed the newspaper's name to ''The Arizona Republic'' in 1930, and also had bought the rival ''Phoenix Evening Gazette'' and ''Phoenix Weekly Gazette'', later known, respectively, as ''The Phoenix Gazette'' and the ''Arizona Business Gazette''. Pulliam era Pulliam, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona Daily Sun
The ''Arizona Daily Sun'' is a six-day newspaper in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. It publishes an entertainment supplement on Thursdays called "Flagstaff Live!". It also publishes a monthly magazine, Northern Arizona's Mountain Living Magazine. It was formerly owned by Scripps League Newspapers, which was acquired by Pulitzer in 1996; Lee Enterprises acquired Pulitzer in 2005. History Artemis E. Fay published the first issue of the weekly Peach Springs , native_name_lang = hu , settlement_type = Census-designated place , image_skyline = Peach Springs-John Osterman Shell Gas Station-1929.jpg , imagesize = , image_caption = John Osterman Shell ..., ''Arizona Champion'' on September 15, 1883. On February 2, 1884, he relocated the paper to Flagstaff. In May 1891, the paper was renamed to ''The Coconino Sun''. On August 5, 1946, the paper was again renamed to the current ''Arizona Daily Sun''. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Littlefield, Arizona
Littlefield is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona, Mohave County, Arizona, United States, that is located in the Arizona Strip region. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 256, down from 308 in 2010. It lies just south of Interstate 15 in Arizona, Interstate 15, next to the Virgin River, approximately northeast of Mesquite, Nevada. Littlefield is located in the 86432 ZIP Code. History Littlefield was first settled by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Latter-day Saints, also known as Mormons, in 1865. Littlefield is the former home of the Littlefield Unified School District, the geographically largest school district in Arizona. The only remnant of the school district in Littlefield itself is the historic adobe Littlefield Schoolhouse, currently under renovation. Geography Littlefield is in the northwest corner of Mohave County (and the state of Arizona), along Interstate 15, with ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oregonian
''The Oregonian'' is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 1850, and published daily since 1861. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest by circulation. It is one of the few newspapers with a statewide focus in the United States. The Sunday edition is published under the title ''The Sunday Oregonian''. The regular edition was published under the title ''The Morning Oregonian'' from 1861 until 1937. ''The Oregonian'' received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the only gold medal annually awarded by the organization. The paper's staff or individual writers have received seven other Pulitzer Prizes, most recently the award for Editorial Writing in 2014. ''The Oregonian'' is home-delivered throughout Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, and Yamhill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pendleton, Oregon
Pendleton is a city and the county seat of Umatilla County, Oregon. The population was 17,107 at the time of the 2020 census, which includes approximately 1,600 people who are incarcerated at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution. Pendleton is the smaller of the two principal cities of the Hermiston–Pendleton Micropolitan Statistical Area. This micropolitan area covers Morrow and Umatilla counties and had a combined population of 92,261 at the 2020 census. History A European-American commercial center began to develop here in 1851, when Dr. William C. McKay established a trading post at the mouth of McKay Creek. A United States Post Office named Marshall (for the owner, and sometime gambler, of another local store) was established April 21, 1865, and later renamed Pendleton, after politician and diplomat George H. Pendleton (1825–1889), who served as a U.S. Representative and Senator from Ohio. The city was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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