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Rosecrans(ship)
Rosecrans (a form of Rosenkranz) may refer to: People * Sylvester Horton Rosecrans (1827–1878), American Roman Catholic bishop * William Rosecrans (1819–1898), American army officer during the American Civil War Places * Rosecrans, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Rosecrans, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community Other Note: All of the below are direct or indirect namesakes of General William Rosecrans (see above). * Rosecrans Avenue, a major east-west highway in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California * Rosecrans Hills, Los Angeles County, California * Rosecrans (LACMTA station), station on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority System * Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, California * Rosecrans Air National Guard Base, Saint Joseph, Missouri * Rosecrans Memorial Airport, Buchanan County, Missouri * Rosecrans (ship), a tanker lost off the mouth of the Columbia River, on January 14, 1913 -- see Coast Guard Station Point Adams * U.S.A.T. Rose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coast Guard Station Point Adams
Coast Guard Station Point Adams was a United States Coast Guard base at the mouth of the Columbia River. It was founded in 1888, by the United States Lifesaving Service, one of the service that were amalgamated into the Coast Guard. The original boathouse, barracks, and outbuildings, were built to the Fort Point-type design. During the depression new buildings were built to a design named after then President Franklin Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the .... Equipment The station's first boathouse held two surfboats, where most other station's boathouse held just a single boat. The boats were mounted on a wagon, which its crew would pull to the best place to launch. Wagons were pushed into the surf for launching. In the 1930s the base was the home of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosenkranz
Rosenkranz is the German word for rosary. Rosenkranz, Rosenkrantz, Rosencrance, Rosencrans or Rosencrantz may refer to: * Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two characters in Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' * ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'', a 1966 play by Tom Stoppard ** ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'' (film), a 1990 film based upon the play * Rosenkrantz Tower, a landmark in Bergen, Norway * Rosencrantz, a fictional character in the video game '' Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams'' People * Rosenkrantz (family) * Barbara Rosenkranz (born 1958), Austrian politician * Carlos Fernando Rosenkrantz (born 1958), Argentine lawyer and judge * Eva Rosencrans (1901-1994), American fashion designer * George Rosenkranz (1916–2019), Mexican steroid chemist and contract bridge player ** Rosenkranz double and redouble, contract bridge terms for conventions created by George Rosenkranz. * Hans Rosencrantz (1890–1916), German flying ace * Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz (1805–1879), Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvester Horton Rosecrans
Sylvester Horton Rosecrans (February 5, 1827 – October 21, 1878) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Columbus in Ohio from 1868 until his death in 1878. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in Ohio from 1862 to 1868. Biography Early life Sylvester Rosecrans was born on February 5, 1827, in Homer, Ohio, to Crandell and Jane (née Hopkins) Rosecrans, the youngest of four sons. Crandell's family came from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, then moved to Kingston Township, Ohio. Jane was the granddaughter of Stephen Hopkins, the Colonial Governor of Rhode Island, and grandniece of Esek Hopkins, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War. Sylvester Rosecrans' brother was General William Rosecrans of the Union Army, who fought in the American Civil War. Raised in a Methodist family, Rosecrans spent his childhood in Licki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rosecrans
William Starke Rosecrans (September 6, 1819March 11, 1898) was an American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and U.S. Army officer. He gained fame for his role as a Union general during the American Civil War. He was the victor at prominent Western Theater battles, but his military career was effectively ended following his disastrous defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. Rosecrans graduated in 1842 from the United States Military Academy where he served in engineering assignments as well as a professor before leaving the Army to pursue a career in civil engineering. At the start of the Civil War, leading troops from Ohio, he achieved early combat success in western Virginia. In 1862 in the Western Theater, he won the battles of Iuka and Corinth while under the command of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. His brusque, outspoken manner and willingness to quarrel openly with superiors caused a professional rivalry with Grant (as well as with Secretary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosecrans, Illinois
Rosecrans is an unincorporated community along Rosecrans Road (Illinois Route 173) just west of U.S. Route 41 in northern Lake County, Illinois, south of the Wisconsin state line and west of Lake Michigan. The community is named for American Civil War General William Starke Rosecrans William Starke Rosecrans (September 6, 1819March 11, 1898) was an American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and U.S. Army officer. He gained fame for his role as a Union general during the American Civil War. He was t .... The business district is at the intersection of IL 173 and US 41, east of the residential community. References Unincorporated communities in Lake County, Illinois Unincorporated communities in Illinois {{LakeCountyIL-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosecrans, Wisconsin
Rosecrans is an unincorporated community located in the town of Cooperstown, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ..., United States. Rosecrans is located on County Highway Z west of Maribel. References Unincorporated communities in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin {{ManitowocCountyWI-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosecrans Avenue
Rosecrans Avenue is a major west-east thoroughfare in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California, USA. It has a total length of 27.5 miles (44.3 km). The street is named after U.S. Union General William S. Rosecrans, who purchased of Rancho Sausal Redondo southwest of Los Angeles in 1869. Rosecrans Avenue was originally named Drexel Avenue, and ran through the Rosecrans Rancho which is part of modern-day Gardena. Route description Rosecrans Avenue begins at the beach near El Porto in Manhattan Beach. On its route, it crosses through Manhattan Beach, El Segundo (northside of street only), Hawthorne, Lawndale, Gardena, Harbor Gateway, Willowbrook, Compton, East Rancho Dominguez, Paramount, Downey (for one block between Century Blvd and Lakewood Blvd/ SR-19), Bellflower, Norwalk, Santa Fe Springs, La Mirada, Buena Park (southside of street only; Fullerton and La Mirada connect on the northside near Beach Blvd/ SR-39), and Fullerton where the road ends at Euclid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosecrans Hills
The Rosecrans Hills are a low range of hills in the Transverse Ranges, in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles County, California. The Rosecrans Hills run north–south in the communities of West Athens and Westmont. They are bisected by the Century Freeway ( I−105), and Western Avenue, between Century Boulevard and El Segundo Boulevard. Notable people * Thomas Bones Thomas Bones (1842–1929) was a farmer and land developer who owned and developed property in Madison, New York, Hillsboro, Wisconsin, and Rochester, Minnesota, as well as farmland in the Rosecrans area near Inglewood, California."Final Rites f ... (1842–1929), farmer and land developer in this area References Hills of California Geography of Los Angeles Mountain ranges of Los Angeles County, California South Los Angeles Transverse Ranges Mountain ranges of Southern California {{LosAngeles-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosecrans (LACMTA Station)
Rosecrans station is a busway station located in Los Angeles, California. It is situated between the Harbor Freeway station and the Harbor Gateway Transit Center on the J Line, a bus rapid transit route which runs between El Monte, Downtown Los Angeles and San Pedro as part of the Metro Busway system. The station consists of two side platforms in the center of Interstate 110 under Rosecrans Avenue. The station serves the Harbor Gateway neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Rosecrans station was built between 1989 and 1996 as part of the Harbor Transitway project and opened to passengers on August 1, 1996. J Line buses serve the station twenty-four hours a day; the headway between buses is about four minutes during peak periods, with less frequent service at other times. Rosecrans station is also served by Metro Express route 550 and Torrance Transit route 4, which only run during weekday peak periods. Layout The below-grade platforms are accessed from two ground-level plazas on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is a federal military cemetery in the city of San Diego, California. It is located on the grounds of the former Army coastal artillery station Fort Rosecrans and is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The cemetery is located approximately west of Downtown San Diego, overlooking San Diego Bay and the city from one side, and the Pacific Ocean on the other. Fort Rosecrans is named after William Starke Rosecrans, a Union general in the American Civil War. The cemetery was registered as California Historical Landmark #55 on December 6, 1932. The cemetery is spread out over located on both sides of Catalina Blvd. History Many Fort Rosecrans interments date to the early years of the California Republic, including the remains of the casualties of the Battle of San Pasqual, in which 19 of Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny's men and an untold number of Californios lost their lives. Initially, the dead were buried wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosecrans Air National Guard Base
Rosecrans Air National Guard Base or Rosecrans ANGB, is located on a portion of the Rosecrans Memorial Airport , Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA. It is the home of the 139th Airlift Wing, Missouri Air National Guard and the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center. It is named in honor of Guy Wallace Rosecrans, a U.S. Army Air Service airman killed in World War I. History During World War II, the U.S. Army Air Forces established Rosecrans Field, also called St. Joseph Army Air Field, at Rosecrans Memorial Airport. The Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command took over the field on July 6, 1942. It became the home for the 1st Operational Training Unit (OTU) composed of the 561st Army Air Force (AAF) Base Unit, Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, 61st Aircraft Engineering Squadron, 993rd Guard Squadron, 730th AAF Band, 50th Transport Transition Squadron, Medical and WAC Detachments and the 562nd Training Squadron. In 1947, control of the base shifted from the Army to the newly est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosecrans Memorial Airport
Rosecrans Memorial Airport is a joint civil-military public airport located 3 miles (5 km) northwest of the city of St. Joseph in Buchanan County, Missouri, USA. The airport is one of two bases for the Missouri Air National Guard and also serves general aviation. While the airport is in Missouri, there are no access roads or bridges over the Missouri River to the airport. The only access point is over a bridge in Elwood, Kansas. History The site of Rosecrans Memorial Airport was once called the French Bottoms. It was surrounded by four towns, three of which existed as late as 1979. The northern part of the French Bottoms was settled first, in the 1830s-50s, and has since washed away. The settlers were French-born and/or descendants of earlier French settlers. In 1877 most of the land that now comprises the airport was on a river bank on what was called "made land." This land had been formed by river deposits. By this year the French Bottoms had sixty houses, one church, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
