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Major GK Lim. RAMC Dr Lim Gim-Kheang 林廣泉 Sierra Leone c 1944
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possibly originally from Singapore,or Hong Kong. With a burra peg on the verandah.
Is this our Doctor? One imagines he’s a medical doctor from Malaysia. Let’s see
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The Straits Times, 17 November 1958, Page 14
Singapore doctor’s colt wins in UK
Article also available on microfilm reel NL1804 [Lee Kong Chian Reference Library – On shelf]
Singapore doctor’s colt wins in UK LINGFIELD PARK, Sun.
Dr. G. K. Lim of Singapore won the November Nursery Handicap for two-year-olds here today with his colt Signal. Signal, by the Epsom Derby winner Blue Peter out of Lovely Day, [sired by Dastur, sired by Solario]
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drew away in the final stages of the seven
Signal was trained by Fred Armstrong at Newmarket, but I see no owner listed.
Dr Lim seemed to be a member of the Singapore Turf Club. Perhaps the same chap.
Ah, here we go…
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August 5 1941
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
Lieutenant
26 June 1941
Gim Kheang Lim M.B. 191348 林廣泉
There’s a 1933 note here to say he was registered to practice in Hong Kong at no. 32 Hill Road
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and a post-war BBC programme from 1947
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Dr. Neville Whymant, who knows China well, will be the English guest, Dr. and Mrs. G.K. Lim (in China Lim Gim-Kheang and Lee Yu-Lan 李鈺蘭 ) the hosts, and the four medical students will be Chien Jo-Lung, Kiang Tao, King Sing-Yui and Tan Sien-Sen. The conversation takes place in Dr. Lim’s house in Hankow – now recovering from its heavy aerial bombardment during the war.
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5 June 1990
322 Acknowledgements [Articles + Illustrations]
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322 Acknowledgements Tha Family of the late DR. LIM GIM KHEANG wishes to extend their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends and business associates for their attendances, condolences, wreaths, donations and assistance during their recent bereavement. Thanks Appreciation Is also extended to doctors nurses of Gleneagles Hospital the Wesley..
More about Dr Lim
In 1937 he was living at 30 Osnaburgh Street NW1 with Shan Young Lim, who may have been his wife or sister.
In 1938 he lived with Boon Hean Chew and Shan Yong Chew, who may have been Shan Yong Lim at 14 Havergal Villas, Green Lanes Turnpike Lane N15.
The following year only Dr GK Lim and Chew Shan Yang lived at the above.
He was described as a physician and surgeon, MB BS DCF, DTM+H[Engl] in the phone books of that tme. Telephone BOWes Park 1174.
By 1943, he had moved to 38 Heath Street, Hampstead, NW3 Telephone HAM 6816 which was also current in 1946, but by 1949, into 1950 he had again moved to 29 Hampstead High Street.
At Heath Streeet, his wife appears to be Phyllis Lee, with an additional voter, Maximin E L Limfat.
The last entry for 1951 shows him with Phyllis Lee and Pamela Lau, after which they departed for Penang, Malaysia on the P&O Liner Canton on June 29 1951, described as a Doctor and housewife, aged 42 and 36 respectively.
An entry for 1933 at 9 Taviton Street, NW1 may also have been during his student days.
On November 12, Chew Shan Lim, aged 36, of the Green Lanes address left Liverpool for Penang on the Shanghai bound Markunda of the P&O Line
Chew Shan Yong Lim now aged 43 arrived back in the UK at London, presumably having left in 1940 on March 23 1948 along with Kean Chye Lim, a student aged 29 who was intending to reside at 4 Meadway Gate, Golders Green NW11. Her intended address was that of Dr GK Lim.
Subsequently Chew Shan Yong Lim moved to Australia, living variously at 31 Kensington Road, Summer Hill NSW in the 1960s, and later at 34 Devonshire Street, Chatswood, NSW.
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in Western Australia in 1979
Some more information about Mrs GK Lim is online – the Straits Times of June 2 1956
where it says she is the warden of the Singapore YWCA [at Fort Canning] hostel and was the director of catering at the YWCA Bedford House during her 15 year stay in London
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She joined the hostel in Singapore in 1955 but is leaving in July 1956 to tour the far east, followed by Australia and America. She is an expert on English, Chinese and Continental cookery and holds a diploma for institutional and catering management.
"She also supervised school meals for London City [sic] Council [probably London County Council]
"she has not decided on plans after her tour"
Must have been great fun going globe trotting then away from your husband ,who is silent in those two articles.
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North Carolina National Guard Families of JFHQ Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment celebrate the holidays in Raleigh, North Carolina, Dec. 5, 2021. Soldiers and their families spent the day visiting with Santa, making holiday crafts, watching holiday Movies and enjoying a holiday meal together. (North Carolina National Guard photo by Sgt. Wayne Becton)
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LEGOLAND Windsor a theme park dedicated to children aged 3-12 years old and of course big kid adults.
An inspirational land where the kids are the hero and adults relive their childhood.
The fun never stops and imagination knows no bounds, a family attraction like no other.
Set in 150 acres of beautiful parkland, LEGOLAND Windsor is a unique family theme park with over 55 interactive rides, live shows, building workshops, driving schools and attractions.
It’s amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks – nearly 55 million of them!
From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park.
Fun Facts about LEGOLAND Windsor
There are 34 LEGO pieces in an average Miniland figure.
The largest model in Miniland is the Canary Wharf Tower which is 5.2 metres tall and took 3 model makers 850 hours to complete using 200,000 LEGO Bricks!
The smallest models are the pigeons in Trafalgar Square which contain 5 LEGO bricks each
New in 2011 – Atlantis Submarine Voyage
Take a deep breath and submerge yourself in an underwater adventure.
Plunge into the depths with this world-first LEGO® submarine ride and immerse yourself in a magical underwater adventure.
So what’s New in 2012
STAR WARS MINILAND EXPERIENCE – The Force has arrived at LEGOLAND
Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND®Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO®Star Wars experience.
LEGOLAND WINDSOR RESORT HOTEL – Now open
An exciting LEGO adventure awaits you, as the amazing 150 room, fully themed LEGOLAND Hotel opens at LEGOLAND Windsor RESORT!
Staying overnight at the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel is a must for all LEGO fans. From the spectacular dragon-guarded entrance and interactive LEGO features through to the brightly coloured pirate splash pool and fully themed bedrooms, the new hotel will inspire imaginations and create laugh-out loud memories. With dedicated indoor play areas, entertainment and a buffet-style restaurant serving child-friendly meals, it’s the perfect family treat.
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SUWON AIR BASE — Soldiers and Families, from both U.S. and Republic of Korea units, as well as members of the local Suwon community, participated in a joint Ulchi Freedom Guardian Victory Celebration, here, Aug. 30.
Hosted by the 6-52nd Air and Missile Defense Battalion, the celebration was intended to strengthen the friendship between the Iron Horse battalion and its sister units, while commemorating the successful completion of the UFG exercise.
The celebration consisted of friendly sports competitions as well as a Southern-style barbecue meal.
This celebration has been an annual tradition; however, this year is more meaningful due to the recent sinking of ROK Corvette Cheonan and the 60th anniversary of the Korean War.
Representing the ROK military community this year were the elite ROK Army Special Warfare Training Group, 510th Air Defense Artillery Battalion and the ROK Air Force’s 10th Fighter Wing. In addition, Han Young-lyuol, the vice chief of the Gyeonggi Province International Relations and Trade Division, as well as Kim Yong-ho, the chairman of the East Suwon Chapter of People to People International, attended the event.
The most popular event during the celebration was the Wii Boxing Tournament, a newly introduced competition. Both U.S. and ROK Soldiers were able to enjoy the thrill of a perfect “knock out” on the big screen, while standing in a painstakingly recreated boxing ring. To enhance the realism, pre-fight statements, coupled with an original soundtrack from ESPN, were recorded and played during the matches.
A more traditional sports category, jok-gu, or foot volleyball, was also introduced this year. Jok-gu can be best described as a fusion of soccer and volleyball. Introduced by the Korean Army in 1966, it has remained popular ever since.
The celebration concluded with a trophy presentation ceremony, during which the coveted Iron Horse-shaped trophies were presented.
The ROK Special Warfare Training Group won the soccer and jok-gu tournaments, while 6-52 AMD took home the championship trophies for tug-of-war, Wii boxing and basketball.
U.S. Army photos by 1st Lt. Austin Liu
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Food, games, a toy giveaway and a visit from Santa welcomes Steel Brigade Soldiers and their families at the North Carolina National Guard’s 113th Sustainment Brigade Christmas party at their headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, Dec. 4, 2016. Children and their parents waited in line for a chance to visit Santa. Then the families got a chance visit Santa’s workshop, usually a suite of offices off the unit’s drill hall, packed with dolls, games and toys of all types thanks to the Dollar Tree and Operation Homefront Other events included award presentations for several retired Soldiers and a holiday meal prepared by the unit’s cooks with help from the American Legion. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs/Released)
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Tyler Shaw and Ariel Kandy of Ohio, look into downtown Cincinnati during the Survivors Outreach Services riverboat cruise in the Ohio River June 13, 2021.
The two were in attendance supporting the Williams family who lost Army Staff Sgt. Wesley Williams in 2012.
About 300 friends and family members from around five states enjoyed the cruise up the river along with a meal, music and fun all hosted by Northern Kentucky’s B&B Riverboats. The day is designed to recognize the surviving family members of military service members who have given their lives in defense of our nation. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Benjamin Crane)
Dinner Before the Shelton Christmas Concert – 04
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dinner starts early for the youngest
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The United States Department of Agriculture donates commodities through programs such as The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), which the San Antonio Food Bank (SAFB) packages and palletizes them for fast distribution from its San Antonio, TX., headquarters, on Monday, October 31, 2011. SAFB is a non-profit organization that serves as a clearinghouse by receiving and storing truckloads of donated food, produce, and other grocery products, they then distributes these items to over 500 service agencies that help people in need.
“We couldn’t do what we do without our partnership with USDA’” said President and CEO Eric Cooper. He continues, “We are privileged in partnering (with the USDA) to feeding kids, through the summer, with the Summer Food Service Program, and throughout the year, with the Child and Adult Care Feeding Program (CACFP). Then in our approach to feeding seniors, we partner with USDA in the Commodities Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), and the Senior Farmer’s Market (Nutrition) Program. And then work to bring all our (needy) parties together with our Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Outreach. You know, once families have access to food we believe it is important to educate them. Through the support of the SNAP-Education Program we are able to educate them during their time of need. With this comprehensive approach we are really able to get the right food, at the right amount, at the right time, to needy families throughout our community – which allows us to feed the fifty-eight thousand we do, each week.”
SAFB serves 16 counties in Southwest Texas and states, “Nearly one out of every four children and one out of every five adults in Southwest Texas lives in poverty and has difficulty meeting basic nutritional needs.” According to SAFB, sixty-five percent of the people requesting emergency food have children. “Additionally, the senior citizens and those living on a fixed income generally have limited funds for a consistent grocery budget.”
San Antonio is the seventh largest city in the nation with surrounding farms and ranches near its rivers and water supplies. When available they provide fresh surplus produce. Other commodities come from the food industry and manufacturers. The major food brand companies that for various reasons have surplus commodities donate it to SAFB.
Texas farmers supply fresh produce to their Fresh Produce Program.
Public donations come in the form of money, food, volunteer time, and advocacy.
Their fleet of trucks pickup and deliver food as needed.
USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
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George Washington, Jefferson County & the Thompsons (1) by Jim Surkamp
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Today is Saturday April 15th, 2016. We’re here at an exhibit, which actually is featuring some of my slave research. My name is Monique Crippen-Hopkins and I’m going to tell you some history on my father’s maternal side. They have deep roots here in Charles Town. They were actually enslaved from several generations from the Washington family.
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George Washington, his five brothers, and sister were acquiring land in the northern Shenandoah Valley ever since 1748 when George Washington as a teenager conducted a surveying expedition across the southern part of what is today Jefferson County, West Virginia.
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He wrote in his diary after crossing the Shenandoah River near Ann Lewis Road into what is today Jefferson County: “Monday 14th. We sent our Baggage to Capt. Hites (near Frederick Town) went ourselves down the River about 16 Miles to Capt. Isaac Penningtons (the Land exceeding Rich & Fertile all the way produces abundance of Grain Hemp Tobacco &c.) in order to Lay of some Lands on Cates Marsh & Long Marsh. As a result of this valuable land and early intelligence, George’s generation – half-brothers Lawrence and Augustine from his father’s first marriage, along with Charles, Samuel, John and sister Betty – ultimately owned a total of well over 8,000 acres hereabouts and in Clarke County.
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In this narrative we concentrate just on George Washington’s lands and those of John Augustine Washington and his descendants because the latter’s lands are where Monique Crippen-Hopkins’ ancestors worked, lived, and made the properties beautiful and productive. This story is only possible by the work of Galtcho Geertsema, a surveyor and plat researcher in Martinsburg, who is formally credited by the Virginia State Library for saving and organizing into understandable form the plats and records of the earliest land purchases of the Washington family in the eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, much of which would have been buried and forgotten in local deed rooms and out of the purview of internationally-accessible archives.
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He owned this piece, this piece and this piece. Galtcho what is that document that you have in your hand? These are plats of George Washington’s tracts in the Carter 50,212 acre tract that lies mostly in Clarke County, Virginia , and he divided them up in order to rent them out. This shows some of the George Washington surveys that he made – two of these here are in Clarke County, Virginia. The boundary line between Clarke and Jefferson runs about here and two of these land grant surveys were made by George Washington in Clarke County, Virginia. And what is north of that? Do we have Jefferson County north of that? Yeh, these are all Jefferson County. In the south corner of Jefferson County he had several surveys that he made, some of them for Washingtons – Lawrence, Charles and George and some for other people. And a little farther north in Jefferson County, just west of Charles Town, he had a lot of surveys made and land granted to him and his brothers – and just of that around Charles Town – here’s Charles Town – he had several tracts there – and up here – and there’s a tract here that has a house called – by the name of Beallair – that was also a Washington house. Is it clear?
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The Washington invasion, one could jest, of this area began with George’s surveys of nine parcels between August 20, 1750 and March 25, 1751 for brother Lawrence, totaling 4899 acres. But our Founding Father didn’t hesitate to snap up some good deals for himself.
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Not yet the owner of Mt. Vernon, George made one of his first ever land purchases October 20, 1750 of 453 acres, called Dutch George’s, at a location today on both sides of Middleway Pike and between the north-south running Childs and Willingham Roads. This purchase was soon followed by two purchases of adjacent parcels between October and December 3rd, 1750 totaling 550 acres and becoming the site of George Washington’s absentee-owner farm called Bullskin or “The Mountain Quarter” and after his death, was called Rock Hall. Less than two years later in mid-March, 1752, he added 552-acres bought from one Robert Johnston, followed on March 17th, 1752 by the purchase of 760 more acres south and adjacent to the rest of Bullskin Plantation. The 1862-acre site as of 1760 stretched as far south as Withers LaRue Road in Rippon.
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Today the surviving property is located on the south side of Summit Point Road and opposite South Jefferson Elementary School. The original land includes the property of the Hillbrook Inn, and the Burns family owns, just west of that, the land with a barn, spring house, and a substantial stone house. In the earliest days there were overseers Christopher Hardwick, and later, Edward Violet and his wife, along with eleven to sixteen enslaved African-Americans – more or less the range of enslaved persons there over the next thirty years. – who plowed and seeded fields for corn, (initially tobacco, and later wheat),
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dug fence posts and planted hedgerows, dug drainage ditches, cleared lands, fed and cared for the horses, hogs, sheep and cattle, milked the cows and churned out butter, wove and spun from the harvested flax – all while keeping the human household fit and well season-long. In a sense, George was third in line, after Lawrence to ever take possession of Mt. Vernon, which, at that time was a story-and-a-half, measuring thirty-three feet wide and forty-seven feet long with two chimneys on each end. So he focused on his 1862 acres of combined adjacent tracts playing his part in the emerging Washington family fiefdom of lands in today’s Jefferson County. An absentee-landowner, George’s help came from an overseer at Bullskin, supported beginning in 1750 by eleven enslaved persons who had previously worked for George’s deceased father, Augustine: Fortune (30), George (20), Long Joe (30),
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Winna (Winney) (30); Belindar (25), Jenny (12), Adam (10); Natt (10), London (20), Milly (10) and Frank (5). The modern-day editors of George Washington’s Papers concluded: The names of a number of the slaves that GW inherited from his father appear in his diaries and correspondence in the 1750s, indicating that they were living on GW’s Bullskin plantation in Frederick County. George’s detailed instructions to Bullskin Farm would likely have been like those to others: Get the corn planted above all. Clear the acreage; drain and turn the marshy Bullskin bottom lands into meadow – then plant there too. Not until the corn is planted or it is too late to do so, should one build a dwelling – but make that dwelling sixteen-feet by eighteen-feet, the lower portion of which was to be of logs with diamond corners and covered with three-foot shingles, and lastly an outside chimney. Start a woodlot.
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And oh yes, plant an apple and peach orchard. Hogs could run free, feasting on rotten fruit, Nature’s berries and nuts. Better “little good porke, than much bad porke,” George would say to explain why all the hogs should run free, no matter how much they rooted deep into his hedgerow fence. They heedlessly discharged their valuable manure across the meadow, favoring the planting the following spring. You wait and pick the absolute best hogs to be penned and fattened up en route to the dinner table of Virginia ham, ale and piping hot buttered Indian cornbread, a favorite meal of George’s.Fences reinforced with hedgerows and maybe even parallel ditches proved enough against the onslaughts of any animal – hog, cattle, horse, goat or sheep – curious, nosy or yearning to be free beyond the property line. In a word, Bullskin thrived.
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On July 26, 1752 – the older Lawrence made a hasty return from Bermuda to his home, Mt. Vernon, deathly ill and soon died. Lawrence left his lands in Jefferson County mostly to siblings, two of whom – Charles and Samuel – would build and move here for the balance of their lives. Following the death of Sarah in 1754 and Lawrence’s only child,
George, as executor of his brother’s estate, arranged to lease Mount Vernon that December. Bullskin Farm was bearing fruit. It was marked on the Jefferson-Fry map of the area dated 1755. But a new military career and the demands of Mt. Vernon were pulling on George’s time and attentions. He thus needed the help of brother John or “Jack” Augustine Washington, who also had lands inherited from brother Lawrence close to Bullskin that Jack had been preparing to develop. Jack and his wife, Hannah Bushrod, had given the name “Prospect Hill” to the their four adjacent parcels, comprising 1534 acres inherited from Lawrence. John Augustine and his wife, Hannah Bushrod, inherited about 1534 acres as four adjacent parcels of land. They inherited a 311-acre parcel along the Bullskin, once part of a 1020-acre parcel of Jost Hite, and passed along from Andrew Pitts and then Lawrence Washington, getting ever smaller. Adjacent and north of this parcel, John Augustine began farming a second inherited parcel. This 12-sided, 613-acre parcel was surveyed August 23, 1750. Lawence Washington obtained a Fairfax grant to it March 20, 1752. A 175-acre parcel, included in the mentioned Aug. 20, 1750 survey by George Washington of his half-brother’s land, is a narrow, southeast-to-northwest strip of land between the previous two parcels. Lawrence received a grant for tht October 13. 1750. Sharing a long north-south border to the first Prospect Hill tract, John Augustine also inherited from Lawrence another rectangular, 435-acre parcel.
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In 1755 George turned to Jack for help in running Bullskin, the Ferry Farm and Mt. Vernon so he could volunteer to serve as an aide to British General Edward Braddock in an expedition west to fight the French-allied Shawnees. The force coming from Dick’s Farm went on to Littler’s Mill and Winchester.
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George Washington’s Virginians met them there and they joined the main portion to the westward of where now stands Martinsburg. The entire party then moved, byway of the Warm Springs (Berkeley Springs) Road, to its sad fate not long afterward.
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When George returned from the disastrous defeat at the blades and tomahawks of the Shawnees at Monongahela July 8-9 he admitted a guilty pleasure at having several bullet holes in his uniform and his love for the the action and risk of combat. But he wrote brother Jack: We have been most scandalously beaten by a trifling body of men; but for fatigue, and the want of tim⟨e⟩ . . . You may expect to see me there on Saturday or Sunday night, which is as soon as I can well be down as I shall take my Bullskin Plantations in my way. Pray give my Compliments to all my Friends. I am Dear Jack Your most Affectionate Brother.
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A wave that followed the defeat of barbarous murders of families around Winchester and the fear of the residents was plainly spelled out in a letter from George, to Governor Dinwiddie. George was promoted to colonel, more recruits were sent and he was put in charge of a vast plan to build protective forts along the frontier – and he immediately went to work building in the autumn of 1755 in Winchester Fort Loudoun. Washington marked out the site of the fort, and superintended the work; he bought a lot in Winchester, erected a smith’s shop on it, and brought from Mount Vernon his own blacksmith to make the necessary iron work for the fort. It covered an area of about half an acre; within which area, a well, one hundred and three feet deep, chiefly through a solid limestone rock, was sunk for the convenience of the garrison.
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The labor of throwing up this fort was performed by Washington’s regiment. As work proceeded on all the forts for the next three years, George used his men to build a similar blacksmith shop and dig a well – still extant on the Braddock Road portion running through brother Jack’s Prospect Hill land in Jefferson County.
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On November 6, 1935 by Susan G. “Zan” Gibson who grew up in another home called “Marquee,” wrote in the Spirit of Jefferson: the Well was a mile or more west of Charles Town – The spot where General Braddock camped in 1755 and dug his well and put up a blacksmith shop. I lived a goodly part of my life near this Well. I played about it as a child with my neighbor children. Two soldiers of the American Revolution lived across the field from this Well. They taught their children and grandchildren that it was Braddock’s Well. All our visitors were taken to see this Well. There we would meet other people with their visitors. Until of late it was a shrine.
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Secretly, I made a New Year’s resolution to learn to cook. Being a newlywed who had no clue how to cook, I’ve come a hell of a long way. IN the past few week I’ve started really stepping out of the box, trying some more difficult recipes… earlier this week my husband even bought me Julia Child’s masterpiece so I could learn a few french dishes as well.
Tonight was Surf and Turf a la Warren Family. So good, I’m off to hae a heart attack now.
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(ps. I can’t wait to move! I can take out all my good dishes and cooking gear from the wedding FINALLY, and hopefully have a lovely place with better light!)
Family Day
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The UCA office of student life sponsored Family Day prior the Bears’ football game with Nicholls State on Saturday. The event featured carnival-style attractions for families to enjoy as well as a free meal and concessions.
