"Pierre, South Dakota Pierre (; Lakota: ""čhúŋkaške"", ""fort"") is the state capital of the U.S. state of South Dakota, and the county seat of Hughes County. The population was 13,646 at the 2010 census, making it the second-least populous state capital in the United States after Montpelier, Vermont, and the eighth-most populous city in South Dakota. Founded in 1880 on the east bank of the Missouri River opposite Fort Pierre, Pierre has been the state capital since South Dakota gained statehood on November 2, 1889. It was challenged by Huron for the capital and won because of its location in"
"the geographic center of the state. Fort Pierre was named after Pierre Chouteau, Jr., a major American fur trader from St. Louis, Missouri, who was of colonial French origin. Pierre is the principal city of the Pierre Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Hughes and Stanley counties. Pierre is located at (44.367966, −100.336378). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water. Pierre lies on rough river bluffs above the east bank of the Missouri River, overlooking its expanse. It is a few miles away from"
"Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint-Pierre is the capital of the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada. Saint-Pierre is the more populated of the two communes (municipalities) making up Saint Pierre and Miquelon. The commune of Saint-Pierre is made up of the island of Saint-Pierre proper and several nearby smaller islands, such as L'Île-aux-Marins. Although containing nearly 90% of the inhabitants of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the commune of Saint-Pierre is considerably smaller than the commune of Miquelon-Langlade, which lies to its northwest on Miquelon Island. The main settlement and communal"
"transit is provided by River Cities Public Transit. Pierre also has an airport, Pierre Regional Airport, served by one commercial airline. Pierre is one of only four state capitals not served by an Interstate highway (along with Dover, Delaware, Jefferson City, Missouri, and Juneau, Alaska) and the only one not served by any expressways. The nearest Interstate highway is Interstate 90, about south of Pierre via the four-lane U.S. Highway 83. The Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad runs east–west through the city. The railroad crosses the Missouri River on the Chicago and North Western Railroad Bridge. The Pierre School"
"Fort Pierre, South Dakota Fort Pierre is a city in Stanley County, South Dakota, United States. It is part of the Pierre, South Dakota micropolitan area and the county seat of Stanley County. The population was 2,078 at the 2010 census. Fort Pierre is situated at the confluence of the Missouri and Bad rivers. On March 30, 1743, Francois and Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye reached the area of present-day Fort Pierre during their expedition west from Quebec. They left a metal plate buried in a hill to mark their journey and claim the land for France. The Lewis and"
"sixty five or over. St. Pierre, Montana St. Pierre is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hill County, Montana, United States, within the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation. The population of St. Pierre was 350 at the 2010 census, up from 289 at the 2000 census. St. Pierre is located in southeastern Hill County at (48.234885, -109.823352), on the northwestern edge of the Bears Paw Mountains. It is bordered to the south and west by Chouteau County, to the north by Sangrey, and to the east by Rocky Boy's Agency. It is south of Havre, the Hill County seat, and southeast of"
"spending, because of the proximity of many tourist attractions in the Black Hills and Ellsworth Air Force Base. The next eight largest cities in the state, in order of descending 2010 population, are Aberdeen (26,091), Brookings (22,056), Watertown (21,482), Mitchell (15,254), Yankton (14,454), Pierre (13,646), Huron (12,592), and Vermillion (10,571). Pierre is the state capital, and Brookings and Vermillion are the locations of the state's two largest universities (South Dakota State University and University of South Dakota, respectively). With a population of about 14,000, Pierre is the second smallest state capital in the United States. Of the ten largest cities"
"The Pierre The Pierre is a luxury hotel located at 2 East 61st Street, at the intersection of that street with Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan, New York City, facing Central Park. Designed by Schultze & Weaver, the hotel opened in 1930. During 2005, the hotel was acquired by Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces of India. Standing tall, it is located within the Upper East Side Historic District as designated in 1981 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Charles Pierre Casalasco left his father's restaurant in Ajaccio, Corsica, where he had started as a busboy, assumed Charles Pierre as"
"18 and 10.8% of those age 65 or over. Paris, Maine Paris is a town in and the county seat of Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,183 at the 2010 census. The census-designated place of South Paris is located within the town. Because the U.S. Post Office refers to the entire town as South Paris, the town as a whole is commonly referred to as South Paris. The main exception is the area known as Paris Hill, which is a scenic historic district popular with tourists. It was granted by Massachusetts on June 11, 1771 to Captain"
"Montpelier, Vermont Montpelier () is the capital city of the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Washington County. As the site of Vermont's state government, it is the least populous state capital in the United States. The population was 7,855 at the 2010 Census. However, the daytime population grows to about 21,000, due to the large number of jobs within city limits. The Vermont College of Fine Arts and New England Culinary Institute are located in the municipality. It was named after Montpellier, a city in the south of France. Between 1600 and 1800, European settlers began to"
"St. Pierre, Montana St. Pierre is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hill County, Montana, United States, within the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation. The population of St. Pierre was 350 at the 2010 census, up from 289 at the 2000 census. St. Pierre is located in southeastern Hill County at (48.234885, -109.823352), on the northwestern edge of the Bears Paw Mountains. It is bordered to the south and west by Chouteau County, to the north by Sangrey, and to the east by Rocky Boy's Agency. It is south of Havre, the Hill County seat, and southeast of Box Elder. According to"
"of outside activities including sports and clubs. The 2017 football season, lead by coach Leo Pohlkamp, clenched the State title. Pierz, Minnesota Pierz is a city in Morrison County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,393 at the 2010 census. Pierz was named for Father Francis Xavier Pierz ""(Slov.: Franc Pirc)"", a Slovenian born Catholic priest who came to Minnesota during the early 1850s as a missionary to the native Ojibwe people. The town was incorporated on January 12, 1892 under the name ""Rich Prairie"", however on August 15, 1894, residents voted to change the name to Pierz, in honor"
"Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Pierre and Miquelon, officially the Overseas Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (; ), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, situated in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is the only part of New France that remains under French control, with an area of and a population of 6,080 at the January 2011 census. The islands are situated at the entrance of Fortune Bay, which extends into the southwestern coast of Newfoundland, near the Grand Banks. They are from Brest, the nearest point in Metropolitan France,"
"Fort Pierre National Grassland Fort Pierre National Grassland is a United States National Grassland in central South Dakota, south of the capital city Pierre and its neighbor Fort Pierre. The national grassland is primarily a short grass prairie and has a land area of . In descending order of area it lies in parts of Lyman, Stanley, and Jones counties. Part of the movie ""Dances with Wolves"" was filmed there. It is managed by the U.S. Forest Service together with the Nebraska and Samuel R. McKelvie National Forests and the Buffalo Gap and Oglala National Grasslands from common offices in"
"million. The board of directors has turned-down two would-be buyers. The penthouse returned to the market in March 2013 for an asking price of $125 million. The price was adjusted to $95 million later that year. The triplex, which was refurbished, had its price adjusted down to $57 million in 2016. Frequently, The Pierre appeared as a setting in novels, films and in television series. Notes Bibliography Further reading The Pierre The Pierre is a luxury hotel located at 2 East 61st Street, at the intersection of that street with Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan, New York City, facing Central Park."
"and has immigrations control for the country of France. Saint Pierre Island Saint Pierre Island is one of the three main islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. It contains the town of Saint-Pierre, which lies on the island's east coast and is the main population centre of the island group. Several smaller islands lie off the coast of Saint Pierre, notably L'Île-aux-Marins and L'Île-aux-Vainqueurs, both to the east, and Grand Colombier, which lies off Saint Pierre's northernmost point. Saint Pierre and its neighboring islands form the Saint-Pierre commune, one of two communes in Saint Pierre and Miquelon (the other being"
"of the 50 states. Pennsylvania's two most populous cities are Philadelphia (1,567,872), and Pittsburgh (303,625). The state capital and its 10th largest city is Harrisburg. Pennsylvania has of waterfront along Lake Erie and the Delaware Estuary. The state is one of the 13 original founding states of the United States; it came into being in 1681 as a result of a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of the state's namesake. Part of Pennsylvania (along the Delaware River), together with the present State of Delaware, had earlier been organized as the Colony of New Sweden. It was the"
"Hotel St. Pierre The Hotel St. Pierre is a collection of Creole cottages, many dating from the early 1780s, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. Its business address is 911 Burgundy Street. The hotel property includes the Gabriel Peyroux House, erected in 1780 for Gabriel Peyroux de la Roche, a native of France. The house was constructed utilizing the French Colonial ""briquette-entre-poteaux"" (small-bricks-between-posts) architecture and is one of the few extant such examples in New Orleans. This cottage originally stood on the Peyroux plantation on nearby Bayou Road, but it was moved ""to town"" by the family."
"subsequently sold many cooperative apartments in the building. Beginning in 1948, New York City's ABC television and FM radio station (then called WJZ-TV Channel 7 and WJZ-FM 95.5, now WABC-TV and WPLJ) broadcast from a tower atop The Pierre, until moving to the Empire State Building a few years later. President-elect Richard M. Nixon stayed at The Pierre for several months in 1968-69 before moving to Washington, D.C. The Pierre was the scene of the Pierre Hotel robbery in 1972, organized by the Lucchese crime family. This robbery of $27 million would later be listed in the ""Guinness Book of"
"the commune, with junior high, vocational high, and general senior high/sixth-form programmes. Private schools: Saint-Pierre is twinned with: Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint-Pierre is the capital of the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada. Saint-Pierre is the more populated of the two communes (municipalities) making up Saint Pierre and Miquelon. The commune of Saint-Pierre is made up of the island of Saint-Pierre proper and several nearby smaller islands, such as L'Île-aux-Marins. Although containing nearly 90% of the inhabitants of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the commune of Saint-Pierre is considerably smaller"
"Paris, Maine Paris is a town in and the county seat of Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,183 at the 2010 census. The census-designated place of South Paris is located within the town. Because the U.S. Post Office refers to the entire town as South Paris, the town as a whole is commonly referred to as South Paris. The main exception is the area known as Paris Hill, which is a scenic historic district popular with tourists. It was granted by Massachusetts on June 11, 1771 to Captain Joshua Fuller of Watertown, Massachusetts and 59 others (or"
"family who lives in Pierre Part; the series debuted on History in 2010. Pierre Part is located at (29.960975, -91.206612). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.37%, is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 3,239 people, 1,236 households, and 928 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,072.4 people per square mile (414.1/km²). There were 1,355 housing units at an average density of 448.6 per square mile (173.2/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 99.23% White, 0.09% African"
"Paris, Texas Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 25,171. It is situated in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, and northeast of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. Physiographically, these regions are part of the West Gulf Coastal Plain. Following a tradition of American cities named ""Paris"", the city commissioned a replica of the Eiffel Tower in 1993 and installed it on site of the Love Civic Center, southeast of the town square. In 1998, presumably as a response to"
"time. Pierre Parrant Pierre ""Pig's Eye"" Parrant, or Pierre Parent, was the first person of European descent to live within the borders of what would eventually become the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota. His exploits propelled him to local fame and infamy, with his name briefly adorning the village that would one day become Minnesota's capital city. Sources disagree about Parrant's exact history before settling in the Minnesota Territory, but most indicate that he was of French Canadian origin (or perhaps Métis) and born near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, around 1777. For most of his adult life Parrant made his"
"Pierre Parrant Pierre ""Pig's Eye"" Parrant, or Pierre Parent, was the first person of European descent to live within the borders of what would eventually become the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota. His exploits propelled him to local fame and infamy, with his name briefly adorning the village that would one day become Minnesota's capital city. Sources disagree about Parrant's exact history before settling in the Minnesota Territory, but most indicate that he was of French Canadian origin (or perhaps Métis) and born near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, around 1777. For most of his adult life Parrant made his living"
"Concord, New Hampshire Concord () is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the county seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2010 census, its population was 42,695. Concord includes the villages of Penacook, East Concord, and West Concord. The city is home to the University of New Hampshire School of Law, New Hampshire's only law school; St. Paul's School, a private preparatory school; NHTI, a two-year community college; and the Granite State Symphony Orchestra. It is the resting place of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States. The area that would become Concord was"
"Mint Building. Hotel St. Pierre The Hotel St. Pierre is a collection of Creole cottages, many dating from the early 1780s, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. Its business address is 911 Burgundy Street. The hotel property includes the Gabriel Peyroux House, erected in 1780 for Gabriel Peyroux de la Roche, a native of France. The house was constructed utilizing the French Colonial ""briquette-entre-poteaux"" (small-bricks-between-posts) architecture and is one of the few extant such examples in New Orleans. This cottage originally stood on the Peyroux plantation on nearby Bayou Road, but it was moved ""to town"" by"
"Aberdeen (24,410), Watertown (20,530), Brookings (19,463), Mitchell (14,832), Pierre (14,032), Yankton (13,643), Huron (10,902), and Vermillion (10,251). Pierre is the state capital, and Brookings and Vermillion are the locations of the state's two largest universities. Of the ten largest cities in the state, Rapid City is the only one located west of the Missouri River. South Dakota's early economy relied heavily on the soil, minerals and ecology of the area, as nearly all of the earliest white settlers in the area were farmers, miners, or trappers. Although other economic sectors have risen in prominence in recent years, early dependence on"
"in Louisiana since colonial times and are of Creole heritage. Pierre, was named after Dominican Hall of Fame pitcher and former Giants player Juan Marichal, his father's favorite player, who also gave him his middle name, ""D'Vaughn"" because he said it had a ""good rhyme to it."" Pierre attended high school at Alexandria Senior High School. Prior to his professional career, he played at Galveston College and the University of South Alabama, where he was Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year. Pierre began his professional career with the Portland Rockies of the Northwest League, after being selected by Colorado"
"Many notable individuals are interred at Harrisburg Cemetery and East Harrisburg Cemetery. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Harrisburg ( ; Pennsylvania German: ""Harrisbarrig"") is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and the county seat of Dauphin County. With a population of 49,192, it is the 15th largest city in the Commonwealth. It lies on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, west of Philadelphia. Harrisburg is the anchor of the Susquehanna Valley metropolitan area, which had a 2017 estimated population of 571,903, making it the third most populous in Pennsylvania and 96th most populous in the United"
"Vermont Vermont () is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It borders the U.S. states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Vermont is the second-smallest by population and the sixth-smallest by area of the 50 U.S. states. The state capital is Montpelier, the least populous state capital in the United States. The most populous city, Burlington, is the least populous city to be the most populous city in a state. As of 2015, Vermont was the"
"in the 13th round of the 1998 MLB draft. He won the league batting and stolen base titles in his first professional season with 38, and was a fan favorite even at that level. Pierre moved on to the Asheville Tourists the following year, again batting well over .300, and began with the Carolina Mudcats before finishing the year in Colorado. Pierre made his major league debut on August 7, 2000, as a pinch runner for the Rockies against the Pittsburgh Pirates. He made his first start in center field the following day and got his first hit in the"
"Paris, Missouri Paris is a city in Monroe County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,220 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat. Paris was platted in 1831, and named after Paris, Kentucky, the native home of a first settler. A post office called Paris has been in operation since 1841. The Paris Male Academy and Union Covered Bridge are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Paris is located at (39.480162, -92.001245). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. The climate"