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| Cabot (village), Vermont |
Cabot is a village located in Washington County, Vermont. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 239. (references) |
| Cabot Creamery |
The Cabot Creamery Cooperative is a American dairy cooperative started in 1919 by farmers in Cabot, Vermont. The original plant had an investment of $3,700 in total, which was paid by 94 farmers in proportion to the number of cattle which each owned. By 1960, the cooperative had 600 member farmers. In 1992, the cooperative merged with Agri-Mark, another large New England farmers' cooperative. (references) |
| Cabot family |
The Cabot family of Massachusetts was founded by John Cabot, merchant, who moved to Boston in the early 18th century and founded a shipping dynasty that traded in opium, slavery and piracy. After a century or so, the family settled into the aristocracy of New England and became one of the pre-eminent Boston Brahmin clans. (references) |
| Cabot Head |
Cabot Head is a point of land on the Northeast tip of the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada. The Bruce Peninsula separates Georgian Bay from the rest of Lake Huron. Cabot Head is so named in honor of the explorer, John Cabot, although John Cabot never explored the Great Lakes. (references) |
| Cabot House |
Cabot House is one of twelve upperclass undergraduate residences at Harvard University. Formerly known as South House, the name was changed in 1985 to honor Harvard benefactors Thomas Cabot and Virginia Cabot. The house is composed of six buildings surrounding Radcliffe Quadrangle; in order of construction, they are Bertram Hall (1901), Eliot Hall (1906), Whitman Hall (1911), Barnard Hall (1912), Briggs Hall (1923), and Cabot Hall (1937). All six of these structures were originally women-only Radcliffe College dormitories until they were integrated in 1970. Along with Currier House and Pforzheimer House, Cabot is part of the Quad. (references) |
| Cabot Oil |
Cabot Oil Corporation is an independent petroleum exploration and production company based in Houston, Texas (United States). (references) |
| Cabot Tower |
Cabot Tower was built in 1897 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland, and Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. It is located on top of Signal Hill overlooking the city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless message at a position near the tower, the letter "S" in Morse Code sent from Cornwall, England. (references) |
| Cabot Trail |
The Cabot Trail is a Canadian highway located in the province of Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island. It is also the name of a provincial government-designated "Scenic Route" for tourism-marketing purposes. (references) |
| Cabot, Cabot & Forbes |
Cabot, Cabot & Forbes was founded by Francis Murray Forbes in 1897 as a real estate management firm. (references) |
| Edward Clarke Cabot |
Edward Clarke Cabot (August 17 1818-January 5 1901) was a Boston architect and watercolor painter. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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