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The Monroe Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. It encompasses 376 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 4 contributing objects in a predominantly residential section of Monroe. The district developed between about 1874 and 1940 and includes notable examples of ...
January 6, 1988. Monroe Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. It encompasses 25 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Monroe. The district developed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and includes notable examples of ...
This list of cruisers of the United States Navy includes all ships that were ever called "cruiser", either publicly or in internal documentation. The Navy has 13 Ticonderoga -class cruisers in active service, as of 23 September 2023, with the last tentatively scheduled for decommissioning in 2027. With the cancellation of the CG (X) program in ...
Heavy cruisers. Veinticinco de Mayo class. Veinticinco de Mayo (1929) - Scrapped 1960. Almirante Brown (1929) - Scrapped 1962. Light cruisers. La Argentina (1937) - Retired 1972. Brooklyn class. Nueve de Julio (1936, ex-USS Boise) - Assigned 1951, retired 1977. General Belgrano (1938, ex-USS Phoenix) - Assigned 1951, sunk 1982 in the Falklands War.
2404284 [ 3] Website. www .monroenc .org. Monroe is a city in and the county seat of Union County, North Carolina, United States. [ 5] The population increased from 32,797 in 2010 to 34,551 in 2020. [ 6] It is within the rapidly growing Charlotte metropolitan area. Monroe has a council-manager form of government.
The Brooklyn-class cruiser was a class of nine light cruisers built for the United States Navy between 1935 and 1938. Armed with five triple 6-inch (152 mm) gun turrets (three forward, two aft), they mounted more main battery guns than any other standard US cruiser. The Brooklyn -class ships were all commissioned between 1937 and 1939, in the ...
Barbettes 5 in (127 mm) (6.5 in (165 mm) in CA-38) Conning tower 5 in (127 mm) The New Orleans-class cruisers were a class of seven heavy cruisers built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1930s. These ships participated in the heaviest surface battles of the Pacific War. Astoria, Quincy, and Vincennes were all sunk in the Battle of Savo ...
The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads (also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road, and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle [citation needed]) took place during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War in Cumberland County, North Carolina (now in Hoke County), on the grounds of the present day Fort Liberty Military Reservation.