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Colonial Heights, VA Housing Statistics

SubjectNumberPercent Total housing units7,340100.0UNITS IN STRUCTURE1-unit, detached5,77578.71-unit, attached1602.22 units3014.13 or 4 units1662.35 to 9 units3935.410 to 19 units2633.620 or…

Colonial American and Ivy League Colleges

America's oldest and prestigious universities While a number of present-day colleges were founded as secondary schools before the American Revolution, only nine existed as colleges at that point.…

Immigration Milestones

A Nation of Immigrants The U.S. is a nation of immigrants. The first wave of immigrants to colonial America, from England, France, Germany, and other northern European countries, were fleeing…

Stonington

(Encyclopedia) StoningtonStoningtonstōnˈĭngtən [key], town (1990 pop. 16,919), New London co., extreme SE Conn., on a peninsula jutting into Long Island Sound; settled 1649 from Plymouth, inc. 1662.…

New Hampshire, University of

(Encyclopedia) New Hampshire, University of, main campus at Durham; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1866, opened 1868 as the state college of agriculture and mechanic arts, a…

Middleboro

(Encyclopedia) Middleboro, town (1990 pop. 17,867), Plymouth co., SE Mass.; inc. 1669. Cranberry-processing is a major industry in the town, and fire apparatus, chemicals, and shoes are manufactured…

Bridgewater

(Encyclopedia) Bridgewater. 1 Town (2020 pop. 28,633), Plymouth co., E Mass.; inc. 1656. Manufacturing includes shoes and metal products. Its iron…

Montserrat, island, West Indies

(Encyclopedia) MontserratMontserratmŏntsərătˈ [key], British dependency and island (2015 est. pop. 5,000), 38 sq mi (98 sq km), West Indies, one of the Leeward Islands. It is a rugged, scenic island…