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Keswick Reservoir
Keswick may refer to: Places Australia *Keswick, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide **Keswick railway station, Adelaide **Adelaide Parklands Terminal (formerly Keswick Rail Terminal) Canada *Keswick, Edmonton, Alberta *Keswick, Ontario * Keswick, New Brunswick, on the Saint John River near Fredericton *Keswick Ridge, New Brunswick United Kingdom *Keswick, Cumbria * Keswick, North Norfolk, part of Bacton * Keswick, South Norfolk United States *Keswick, California * Keswick, Iowa * Keswick, Baltimore, Maryland * Keswick, Michigan * Keswick, Pennsylvania, see Keswick Theatre *Keswick, Virginia ** Keswick (Powhatan, Virginia), listed on the National Register of Historic Places People *Keswick family, descendants of the founders of Jardine Matheson Other uses *Keswick Christian School, Florida *Keswick Convention The Keswick Convention is an annual gathering of Conservative evangelicalism in the United Kingdom, conservative evangelical Christians in Keswick, Cumbria, Keswick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick, South Australia
Keswick() is an inner south-western suburb of Adelaide, adjacent to the Adelaide Park Lands, park lands, and located in the City of West Torrens. The suburb is home to the Keswick Barracks, the headquarters of the Royal District Nursing Service (South Australia), Royal District Nursing Service, the Keswick Cricket Club and Richmond Primary School. The Adelaide Parklands Terminal for interstate passenger trains, formerly known as Keswick Terminal, was within the boundary of the suburb until 1987 when, inclusive of adjacent business sites and covering a total area of , it was declared a suburb in its own right. History The area was inhabited by the Kaurna people before settlement by Europeans. Keswick railway station, Adelaide, Keswick railway station was opened on 6 April 1913. It serviced the local Adelaide train network before being eventually closed and demolished in March 2013. The District Headquarters of the 4th Military District, known as Headquarters Building, Keswick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick, Baltimore
Keswick is a residential neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. The area is mostly surrounded by, and sometimes considered a part of, the Roland Park neighborhood. It also borders the Evergreen neighborhood to the north and Guilford to the east. Keswick is delineated as south of West Cold Spring Lane, east of Kittery Lane, north of Overhill Road, and west of Stony Run stream. History The Roland Park Company purchased most of the land surrounding what is today Keswick. By 1915, Roland Park had been largely completed the company looked to purchase the Allen L. Carter property between St. Mary's Female Orphan Asylum and the Stony Run stream. During the 1920s and 1930s the Carter property was developed into a small residential neighborhood with Keswick Road being used as the namesake for the new area. A small commercial block, serving the neighborhoods of Keswick, Evergreen and Roland Park emerged at the intersection of West Cold Spring Lane, Schenley Road, and Kittery Lane. To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Keswick may refer to: Places Australia *Keswick, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide **Keswick railway station, Adelaide **Adelaide Parklands Terminal (formerly Keswick Rail Terminal) Canada *Keswick, Edmonton, Alberta *Keswick, Ontario * Keswick, New Brunswick, on the Saint John River near Fredericton *Keswick Ridge, New Brunswick United Kingdom *Keswick, Cumbria * Keswick, North Norfolk, part of Bacton * Keswick, South Norfolk United States *Keswick, California * Keswick, Iowa *Keswick, Baltimore, Maryland * Keswick, Michigan * Keswick, Pennsylvania, see Keswick Theatre *Keswick, Virginia ** Keswick (Powhatan, Virginia), listed on the National Register of Historic Places People *Keswick family, descendants of the founders of Jardine Matheson Other uses *Keswick Christian School, Florida *Keswick Convention The Keswick Convention is an annual gathering of Conservative evangelicalism in the United Kingdom, conservative evangelical Christians in Keswick, Cumbria, Keswick, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick Convention
The Keswick Convention is an annual gathering of Conservative evangelicalism in the United Kingdom, conservative evangelical Christians in Keswick, Cumbria, Keswick, in the English county of Cumbria. The Christian theological tradition of Higher Life movement, Keswickianism, also known as the Higher Life movement, became popularised through the Keswick Conventions, the first of which was a tent revival in 1875 at St John's Church in Keswick. History The Keswick Convention began in 1875 as a focal point for the Higher Life movement in the United Kingdom. It was founded by an Anglican, Canon T. D. Harford-Battersby, and a Quaker, Robert Wilson. They held the first Keswick Convention in a tent on the lawn of St John's vicarage, Keswick, beginning with a prayer meeting on the evening of Monday, 28 June. During the conference—which continued till Friday morning—over 400 people attended uniting under the banner of "All One in Christ Jesus"—which is still the convention's wat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick Christian School
Keswick Christian School is a private, pre-Kindergarten-twelfth grade, Christian school in the outlying area of St. Petersburg, Florida. It was founded as Grace Livingston Hill Memorial School in 1953. It had an enrollment of around 650 students in 2007. It has an interdenominational student body, mostly of Protestant background. The campus spans , set among tall oak trees reminiscent of its once rural surroundings, and is about half of a mile outside Seminole, Florida, whose city council annexed the school into its city limits in 2000.Norton, Wilma (July 13, 2000). "School's Growth Concerns Neighbors." ''St Petersburg Times''. Retrieved April 9, 2007, from Lexis Nexis Academic. The school is accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Founding Following a temporary location started with help from Roy Gustafson and her other friends at "the Baptist Church on 22nd Avenue South" in St. Petersburg in 1952, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick Family
The Keswick family () are a business dynasty of Scottish origin associated with the Far East region since 1855 and in particular the conglomerate Jardine Matheson. As tai-pans of Jardine Matheson & Company, the Keswick family have at some time been closely associated with the ownership or management of the HSBC, the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company Ltd., the Canton Insurance Office Ltd, (now the HSBC Insurance Co), The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, Star Ferry, Hong Kong Tramway, the Hong Kong Land Investment and Agency Co Ltd, and the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co Ltd. First generation The Hon. William Keswick (1834–1912) The founder of the dynasty, William Keswick was born in 1834, in Dumfriesshire in the Scottish Lowlands. His grandmother, Jean Jardine Johnstone was an older sister of Dr. William Jardine, the founder of Jardine Matheson & Company His father Thomas Keswick had married Margaret Johnstone, Jardine's niece and daughter of Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick (Powhatan, Virginia)
Keswick is a historic plantation house near Powhatan, in Chesterfield County and Powhatan County, Virginia, US. It was built in the early-19th century, and is an H-shaped, two-story, gable-roofed, frame-with-weatherboard building. It is supported on brick foundations and has a brick exterior end chimney on each gable. Also on the property are a contributing well house, a smokehouse, the circular "slave quarters," a kitchen, a two-story brick house, a shed, and a laundry. an''Accompanying photo''/ref> It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. History The builder and first owner of "Keswick" was Charles Clarke, who received a grant of 1,500 acres on the south bank of the James River in both Henrico and Goochland Counties (today Chesterfield and Powhatan Counties) sometime in the early eighteenth century. In the middle of the eighteenth century, Clarke married Marianne Salle (a member of one of the Huguenot families settled in Powhatan County). To house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick, Virginia
Keswick is a census-designated place in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States, about six miles (9.7 km) east of Charlottesville. Community Keswick has few businesses, and lacks a central business district. It is predominantly residential, with a mixture of large farms, estates, middle-income, and low-income housing. Since many of the parcels of land in Keswick are large, it is relatively undeveloped and retains its natural environment, which includes views of the Southwest Mountains. The drive through Keswick "has often been cited as one of the most scenic in America," writes the ''New York Times.'' Many of the estates were plantations in the 18th century. No major development took place in Keswick until the 1990s, and the development since then has been subject to strict scrutiny by Albemarle County officials. Oakland School, a special boarding and day school for children with learning disabilities, is in Keswick, as is the Keswick School, a boarding school for st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick Theatre
The Keswick Theatre is a theater in the Keswick Village section of Glenside, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Horace Trumbauer designed the exterior in the Tudor Revival Style, which has remained essentially unaltered. When opened it had 1,366 seats. The first performance was on Christmas Day in 1928 in a private event held for the Kiwanis Club. The Keswick Theatre opened to the public on December 27 with vaudeville and the film ''Glorious Betsy''. Shot as a silent film with some speaking sequences, the Keswick showed a silent version as the sound equipment was not yet ready. In 1955 the theatre was renovated to show CinemaScope films. The theatre operated until 1980. After closing it was threatened with demolition until a community group formed to re-open it as a live performance venue. During this period the Keswick presented performances by Fred Waring and the Young Pennsylvanians and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The venue also hosted performances by Theodore Bike ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick, Michigan
Bingham Township ( ) is a civil township of Leelanau County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 2,577. The township is named for Kinsley S. Bingham, a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Michigan. History Bingham Township was created in 1864 from part of Centerville Township. Communities *Bingham () is an unincorporated community within Bingham Township. A post office was established in the area in 1878, and a sawmill built in 1881. The post office at Bingham closed in 1908. In 1903, an extension of the Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad was extended from Traverse City via Bingham and Suttons Bay to Northport, although it was removed in 1996, and was replaced by the Leelanau Trail, a recreational rail trail. *Keswick () is a ghost town within Bingham Township. Named for Keswick, New Brunswick, Canada, Keswick was established with a rural post office operating from 1889 to 1910. Geography According to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick, Iowa
Keswick is a city in Keokuk County, Iowa, United States. The population was 242 at the time of the 2020 census. History The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway built a 66-mile branch to What Cheer via Keswick in 1879 The town is named for Keswick, England, the home town of a local woman who had offered lodging to the track-laying crew. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics 2020 census As of the census of 2020, there were 242 people, 92 households, and 59 families residing in the city. The population density was 542.4 inhabitants per square mile (209.4/km2). There were 110 housing units at an average density of 246.6 per square mile (95.2/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 94.6% White, 0.4% Black or African American, 0.0% Native American, 0.0% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 2.1% from other races and 2.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino persons of any race comprised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
