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07000197 [ 1] Added to NRHP. March 21, 2007. The Rouse Simmons was a three-masted schooner famous for having sunk in a violent storm on Lake Michigan in 1912. The ship was bound for Chicago with a cargo of Christmas trees when it foundered off Two Rivers, Wisconsin, killing all on board. The legacy of the schooner lives on in the area, with ...
The Christmas Tree Ship is the second EP by I Like Trains. It was released on 24 November 2008. It is an entirely instrumental concept album, based on the storm that sank the Rouse Simmons . The Rouse Simmons was a schooner that for twenty years delivered Christmas trees to Chicago, until on the night of November 23, 1912 it was lost in a storm ...
Among these ships was the Rouse Simmons, a Christmas tree ship which sank in Lake Michigan in 1912. Christmas tree shipping continued to occur in Chicago into the 1930s. [1] Ships laden with Christmas gifts for distribution were also referred to as "Christmas ships" in the early twentieth century, [2] even inspiring a popular World War I -era ...
A choppy 140-nautical-mile journey that reenacts the odyssey made by the original Christmas tree ship in the 1900s, the schooner Rouse Simmons. For many families, Christmas trees are normally ...
A drama is unfolding a few miles offshore of Round Island Beach Park. Since Dec. 8, an offshore supply ship has been anchored there in about 40 feet of water. The captain and crew of the L/B Jill ...
A fact from Rouse Simmons appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 January 2007. The text of the entry was as follows: The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know ... that the schooner Rouse Simmons , known as "The Christmas Tree Ship", was transporting over 5,000 Christmas trees to Chicago when it sank in 1912?
December 26, 2022 at 1:00 AM. This year’s 65-foot Christmas tree in Sundance Square marked the 76th anniversary of the Fort Worth Community Christmas Tree project. The Norway Spruce arrived in ...
Rouse Simmons (September 10, 1832 – September 10, 1897) was an American politician and businessman. Background. Born in Marcy, New York, Simmons moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1849. He was a merchant and was in the insurance and real estate business. His brother was Zalmon G. Simmons.