Columbia Encyclopedia

Search results

500 results found

Fort McMurray

(Encyclopedia)Fort McMurray, former city, now part of the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo, NE Alta., Canada. Originally a fur-trading post on the Athabasca and Clearwater rivers, Fort McMurray was a town of 1...

Fort Worth

(Encyclopedia)Fort Worth, city (2020 pop. 918,915), seat of Tarrant co., N Tex., on the Trinity River 30 mi (48 km) W of Dallas; settled 1843, inc. 1873. An army post...

Consumers' Union

(Encyclopedia)Consumers' Union, product testing and rating organization founded (1936) to provide consumers with information and counsel regarding major retail goods and services. Through its monthly Consumer Repor...

Fort Sill

(Encyclopedia)Fort Sill, U.S. military reservation, Comanche co., SW Okla., 4 mi (6.4 km) N of Lawton; est. 1869 by Gen. Philip Sheridan. A 95,000-acre (38,445-hectare) field artillery and missile base, it is the h...

Fort Stanwix

(Encyclopedia)Fort Stanwix, colonial outpost on the site of Rome, N.Y., controlling a principal route from the Hudson River to Lake Ontario. Originally a French trading center, it was rebuilt by the English general...

Necessity, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Necessity, Fort: see Fort Necessity. ...

Niagara, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Niagara, Fort: see Fort Niagara. ...

Meigs, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Meigs, Fort: see Fort Meigs.

Mims, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Mims, Fort: see Fort Mims.

Monroe, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Monroe, Fort: see Fort Monroe.