Old Photograph Train Stuck In Snow Dingwall Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train stuck in snow near Dingwall, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Greenloaning Church Scotland

Old photograph of Greenloaning Church by Braco, Perthshire, Scotland. Greenloaning is located by the Allan Water and the Stirling to Perth Railway line. It is one mile south of Braco and five miles north of Dunblane. There is a currently mothballed primary school and the Allanbank Hotel which has existed as an Inn since the 18th Century and was founded by the Monteath family. It was also the site of the Strathallan Farmer's Club founded in 1804. Greenloaning is the home of the Greenloaning Burns Club. The railway station was closed in 1956, but part of the station building still survives. John Monteath was Tenant farmer of Harperstone, near Greenloaning in 1784. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Lawn Bowling Green Leven Fife Scotland

Old photograph of bowlers on the Lawn Bowling Green in Leven, Fife, Scotland. The bowling green in Leven was established in the 1860s, a period when the area was becoming a hub for recreational activities, including golf, which began there as early as 1846.


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Old Photograph Union Street Rosehearty Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage car, people, houses and cottages on Union Street in Rosehearty located four miles West of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village which is now named Rosehearty was founded by a group of shipwrecked sailors from Denmark in the 14th century. In 1424 the Fraser family built Pitsligo Castle a few hundred yards inland which was then later enlarged by the Forbes family in 1570. The remains of the Castle are visible from the village. Rosehearty didn't officially exist until it was granted a charter in the 1680s by King Charles II. Sir Walter Murdoch, born 1876, died 1970, was an Australian academic and essayist; Murdoch University in Western Australia is named after him; Walter Murdoch was born in Rosehearty and spend the first 10 years of his life there, the youngest of 14 siblings, before emigrating with his family to Melbourne in 1886; his father James Murdoch was the Free Kirk minister at Rosehearty.



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Old Photograph Dollar Monument Falkirk Scotland

Old photograph of the Dollar Monument in Falkirk, Scotland. Falkirk is situated in the Forth Valley, almost midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Captain Robert Dollar, born 1844, died 1932 was a Scots American industrialist born in Bainsford, Falkirk. The title " Captain " was honorary and he was called the “ Grand Old Man of the Pacific ". Both were bestowed after his entry into the shipping industry. Dollar became a lumber baron, shipping magnate, philanthropist; he was also a Freemason. He was born on 20 March 1844, to William Dollar and Mary Melville. He was the oldest of three boys that included brothers John and James. His mother died in 1853, and Robert dropped out of school and worked in a machine shop and then as an errand boy for a lumber shipping company to help support the family. After the death of Robert's mother, his father married a servant girl named Mary Easton, and in 1857 they had a daughter, also named Mary. Shortly afterwards, the family emigrated to Canada. Robert began working at a lumber camp as a cook's helper when he was 14 years old, and later found work in a barrel stave factory. He learned French, and worked his way up to doing the camp accounting. Robert met Margaret S. Proudfoot in a Presbyterian Church, and they were married in 1874. They had four children: Alexander Melville and Robert Stanley were born in Bracebridge. The timber was playing out, so in 1885 the family moved to Marquette, Michigan, where Mary Grace and John Harold were born. In 1888, the family moved to San Rafael, California, and Robert bought timberland and logging camps in Sonoma, a mill and lumber business at Usal in Mendocino county, and other places such as Oregon and as far north as British Columbia. In 1895, he acquired his first vessel, a single steam schooner called Newsboy, to move his lumber from the Pacific Northwest to markets down the coast.

Robert Dollar had interests in China that included land, buildings, and wharves for his ships. The Dollar Steamship Line had offices in Alexandria, Egypt, Manila and Zamboanga, Philippines, Genoa, Italy, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, CA, Oakland, CA, and Portland, OR. The company had wharves on the West Coast at Bandon and Reedsport, OR, Seattle, WA, and Honolulu, HI; on the East Coast at Boston, MA, New York, NY, and Washington, D.C.; on the Great Lakes at Cleveland, OH, Toronto, ON; Chicago, Ill; in Asia, at Kobe and Yokahama, Japan, at Shanghai, Hankow, Tientsin, Yangtze River, Tayeh, and Wuchang, China; at Havana, Cuba, and at Naples, Italy.



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