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Orlando Ferguson
Orlando Ferguson (November 6, 1846 – February 3, 1911) was a South Dakota resident best known today for a detailed flat earth map he created in 1893. Biography Ferguson was born near Du Quoin, Illinois in 1846. He married in 1872 and moved to the Dakota Territory in the early 1880s, finally settling in Hot Springs, South Dakota in 1886. There, he ran a grocery store for a few years, and later built a hotel. After the hotel was lost in a fire, he built a bath house around the Siloam Springs. While often referred to as "doctor", Ferguson was not a formal medical doctor or trained as such. The name came from the sick who visited the bath house. Ferguson died in Hot Springs in February 1911.(9 February 1911)Two Older Timers Gone ''Hot Springs Weekly Star''(10 February 1911)Orlando Ferguson Passed Away ''The Black Hills Union'' Flat earth map In 2011, Ferguson was the subject of press attention after a copy of his 1893 flat earth map was donated to and accepted by the Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlando Ferguson Image In Flat Earth Map
Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida, Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Greater Orlando, Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau figures released in July 2017, making it the List of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 23rd-largest metropolitan area in the United States, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States, and the third-largest metropolitan area in Florida behind Miami and Tampa, Florida, Tampa. Orlando had a population of 307,573 in the 2020 census, making it the List of United States cities by population, 67th-largest city in the United States, the fourth-largest city in Florida, and the state's largest inland city. Orlando is one of the most-visited cities in the world primarily due to tourism, major events, and convention traffic; in 2018, the city drew more than 75 million v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
