In 1848, in order to meet the increasing demand for his wire rope - this famous resident opened a factoy in this state.Later his wire rope(cable) was used to build one of the most famous landmark - approximately 60 miles from his factory.
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I put "wire rope" + 1848 into the Yahoo search engine and came up with John A. Roebling, a German immigrant and engineer who invented wire rope and had a factory in Trenton, NJ. The famous landmark would be the Brooklyn Bridge.\n\nIf you need more info, try what I did in your search engine. There is a lot of information, plus the building of the Brooklyn Bridge is a fascinating story, particularly with regard to Roebling himself. Some great old photos, too. Thanks for this interesting question.  I learned something new today.
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It must not be if they haven’t already seized it for the purpose of building a bingo palace. (Just kidding.) If you have a local reservation, you can check with the officials there and they would be able to tell you about the property.  Otherwise, you can check with the courthouse for property listings, and see if there is a plat book available for your area. Other than that, check with a local historian, they would be able to provide you with information and aid you in research.
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NOTHING is built or made to stand up to how it was made back in the good ole days.\n\nCheap labor. Cheap materials. The cheapest way out so the seller can reap the benefits more.\n\nWe live in a greedy nation!
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is there no other way to reach that workshop?\nwas th right to pass was ever in any way challanged or was denied or did the owner ever protested? or gave you license to pass trough that property.\n      i do not know about easement laws in US but i guess the answer to these question would matter.\n\n just because you were using  someones else/s property it does not automatically give you right of way especially if you have another access to it.
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try this link\nhttp://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/106.html
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Yes ! I was 14 and living in Washington,  DC - my friend and I went to bike in our favorite park ( LITTLE FOREST ) and he brought his dad's metal detector along. There was once a fort     (or fortification) that the soldiers used from the war against the British and during the civil war. We thought that would be a great place to look for goodies and we were right !  We found three stashes of gold coins and relics glore that had  been ( delibrately ) buried since George Washington's & Abe Lincoln's presidencies !   Amazing ( net worth ) then in 1970,  $10,000+   Now - I ain't goin' to say !!!
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I used to live there.  Colonial Williamsburg is a weird situation. SOME buildings are part of the park and have limited admission (via expensive ticket) but the street down the middle - Duke of Gloucester (D.O.G. Street for short) is a public road and open to anyone.  The KKK is, unfortunately, protected by the 1st Amendment.  The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation was plenty miffed.
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use the link below to read about the factory\nThe Beekman family, Colonial-era merchants, built a riverfront mansion near the foot of East 50th Street in 1764. Many sources say that the patriot-spy Nathan Hale was first arraigned there after his capture by the British in 1776. By the mid-19th century the East River waterfront had fallen far from its resort status, and coal yards, lumber mills and other industries dotted the shoreline, at least where there was good river access. \n\nPerhaps because the Beekman mansion's grounds were on a high, rocky bluff without good water access, the house remained standing until the 1870's. But in 1865 the family sold off much of its land around the newly established Beekman Place, including most of the river-facing lots between 49th and 51st Street. To protect the light and air of the brownstone row houses that soon went up at 13-39 Beekman Place, the Beekmans promised to restrict the height of future buildings on their remaining waterfront strip of land, directly below the houses, to no higher than that of Beekman Place itself. \n\nBy the turn of the century bigger and bigger factories were crowding the shoreline -- among them the huge Cremo cigar factory on the current site of River House at 52nd Street -- and the once-genteel private houses were filled with boarders. Still, a clipping from The New York Sun at the Museum of the City of New York, undated but probably from the 1910's, painted a bucolic picture of the clifftop houses looking down on the rocky shore below: ''Mothers in the neighborhood take their knitting and embroidery every afternoon and bask in the shade. . . . Even Coney Island and Rockaway have nothing on the beach at Beekman Place.'' \n\nBy this time the Beekman family estate was trying to void the 1865 height restriction on the waterfront strip -- with a free hand, it said, it could have wiped out the beach and replaced it with a giant steam plant. In 1920 The New York Times reported on what had been a six-year fight to remove the restrictions, which the row-house owners on Beekman Place had fought strenuously to keep. \n\nThe Beekmans' lawyer, Herbert L. Fordham, said that radical changes in the area should void the restriction because it was ridiculous to hang on to the ''half-forgotten vision of terraces and gardens . . . in the midst of towering steam plants, electric light plants and coal pockets. New York needs its waterfront for business.'' \n\nBY 1922 the Beekmans gave up the fight and leased the waterfront strip -- 460 feet long, stretching from 49th up to 51st, and including the empty plot on Beekman Place now occupied by 1 Beekman Place. \n\nThe lease was acquired by a development group that announced plans for a studio apartment on the Beekman Place frontage, and a one-story garage on the waterfront strip. The studio apartment was not built, but the garage, designed by John J. Dunnigan, later a state senator from the Bronx, did go up. It had simple rubble-stone walls and a curved, wood-truss roof. The garage entrance was at 49th street.
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You might read about how the new Woodrow Wilson Draw Bridge was fabricated in a steel assembly plant before being shipped to Alexandria, VA for installation. It was the biggest drawbridge project of it's kind to date.\n\nhttp://www.wilsonbridge.com/
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My hectic life allows me only to give you a link to a charming little town in NW Washington. They have a windmill and their webpage is sure to delight you with more tidbits of info than I could possibly supply...\nhttp://www.lynden.org/
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The USA is not really known for our love of physical history, especially since we don't really have that many monumental buildings. Local history is always being buldozed because new property is more valuable.\n\nI was on the Historical Commission in a former residence, and by the time we were able to begin the legal process of placing a very old home on a historical national protection list, the structure collapsed on its own.
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I'm sure you probably need the period of time in which the "Mason-Dixon" line was established... The Mason-Dixon line was used as a symbol in many peoples minds as the nation was struggling over slavery  the names of the two surveyors who created it will always be associated with that struggle and it's division of land...  I'm including links for that issue... ;)\n\nhttp://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/masondixon.htm\n\nhttp://www.delcohistory.org/ashmead/ashmead_pg15.htm
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The story is buried, but I saw the video. Taped in 1982 and about 54 minutes long,  it has John explaining to undercover agents posing as mid eastern businessmen how he was able to secure political favors beneficial to people looking to do business in his district. These guys wanted to do some coal mining and Mr. Murtha said he was the guy who could pave the way in his neighborhood. To his credit and slick operating style Mr. Murtha did not take the money himself but, he said other unnamed people would contact them in a few days to complete the deal. The agents tried but could not get Murtha to divulge any names.\nJohn Martha is no Marion Barry when behind closed doors.
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"Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2000 times to develop the carbonized cotton thread filiment for the incandescent light bulb.  When asked about it, he said, 'I didn't fail. I found out 2000 ways how not to make a light bulb.'  But he only needed to find one way to make it work."\n\nFrom National Treasure
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You should have asked that prior to your release.  I hear there may be jobs building a fence in Texas.
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Thomas Edison bought a concrete factory, and tried to get people to buy cement houses. What a flop that was. Look at these sites:\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledisonfailures.htm\nhttp://flyingmoose.org/truthfic/edison.htm\nhttp://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/event.php?taid=&id=3456959&lid=1\nhttp://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/pdf/201_edison.pdf#search='Thomas%20Edison%20concrete%20houses'\nhttp://www.wrhs.net/webdesignprojects_spring2004/sjc_final_project2/failed_inventions.htm
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try doing it on major landmarks in france like for ex. the Eiffel Tower. YOu can do a model of it with toothpicks and talke about the history of it!