The Name Game: Burke Street
In the 1891 “Bird’s Eye View of the Twin-Cities,” shown above, Burke Street was called Shallowford Street, an extension of the street that is known today as First Street. In the foreground of the...
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March 28: Happy Birthday! Katharine King Johnson
Katharine King Bahnson de Braganca Johnson was born in Leaksville in 1921. She graduated from Salem College, where she was Queen of the May in 1941, the year she graduated. Also in 1941, she...