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Gardiners Island Gardiner's Island is a small island in the Town of East Hampton, New York, in Eastern Suffolk County. It is located in Gardiner's Bay between the two peninsulas at the East end of Long Island. It is long, wide and has of coastline. The island has been owned by the Gardiner family and their descendants since 1639 when Lion Gardiner purchased it from the Montaukett chief Wyandanch. It is one of the larger privately owned islands in the United States, and is slightly smaller than Naushon Island in Massachusetts, owned by the Forbes family. The island is in
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Gardiner Tyler, are held by the Special Collections Research Center at the College of William and Mary. Notes Sources Other sources Julia Gardiner Tyler Julia Gardiner Tyler (May 4, 1820 – July 10, 1889) was the second wife of John Tyler, who was the tenth President of the United States, and served as the First Lady of the United States from June 26, 1844, to March 4, 1845. Julia Gardiner Tyler was born in 1820 on New York's Gardiner's Island, one of the largest privately owned islands in the United States. She was the daughter of David Gardiner, a landowner
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Julia Gardiner Tyler Julia Gardiner Tyler (May 4, 1820 – July 10, 1889) was the second wife of John Tyler, who was the tenth President of the United States, and served as the First Lady of the United States from June 26, 1844, to March 4, 1845. Julia Gardiner Tyler was born in 1820 on New York's Gardiner's Island, one of the largest privately owned islands in the United States. She was the daughter of David Gardiner, a landowner and New York State Senator (1824 to 1828), and Juliana MacLachlan Gardiner. Her ancestry was part Dutch, part Scottish and part
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Gardiners Island Gardiner's Island is a small island in the Town of East Hampton, New York, in Eastern Suffolk County. It is located in Gardiner's Bay between the two peninsulas at the East end of Long Island. It is long, wide and has of coastline. The island has been owned by the Gardiner family and their descendants since 1639 when Lion Gardiner purchased it from the Montaukett chief Wyandanch. It is one of the larger privately owned islands in the United States, and is slightly smaller than Naushon Island in Massachusetts, owned by the Forbes family. The island is in
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census showed an official population of two persons. The highest peak is Devils Peak, at 2450+ feet (747+ m). It was the largest privately owned island off the continental United States but is currently jointly owned by the National Park Service (24%), and the Nature Conservancy (76%). A central valley splits the island along the Santa Cruz Island Fault, with volcanic rock on the north and older sedimentary rock on the south. This volcanic rock was heavily fractured during the uplift phase that formed the island and over a hundred large sea caves have been carved into the resulting faults.
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Wisconsin and Michigan that was eventually resolved in the 1926 United States Supreme Court case "Michigan v. Wisconsin". The northernmost island of the chain is Pirate Island, which at high water levels is little more than a reef awash. The next island to the south is Jack Island, and the next to the south is Little Strawberry Island. The largest island at the very southern tip of the chain is named Adventure Island. Today, all but Pirate Island are privately owned. Strawberry Islands The Strawberry Islands are a small chain of four islands located on the Wisconsin side of Green
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Advance Publications Advance Publications, Inc. is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse Sr., Donald Newhouse and S.I. Newhouse Jr. It is named after the "Staten Island Advance", the first newspaper owned by the Newhouse family, in which Sam Newhouse bought a controlling interest in 1922. The company is nominally headquartered in the "Advance" offices in Staten Island's Grasmere neighborhood, though Advance has never had an official headquarters. As of October 2014, it was ranked as the 44th largest privately held company in the United States, according to "Forbes." "Crain's" ranked Advance Publications the 4th largest
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Winters Brothers Winters Brothers is a privately held waste disposal business in the Northeast United States. Its headquraters are in Westbury, New York; it currently serves the markets of New York and Connecticut, but previously also served Florida and Vermont. It sells its recovered products worldwide. It is the largest waste management firm in Long Island, and one of the largest in Connecticut. The firm has six recycling centers and twelve transfer stations. Originally based in Long Island, in 2011, it purchased the 25 waste disposal companies formerly owned by James Galante to expand into the Connecticut market. The Connecticut
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for normal trucks, and hauling away construction waste. Winters Brothers Winters Brothers is a privately held waste disposal business in the Northeast United States. Its headquraters are in Westbury, New York; it currently serves the markets of New York and Connecticut, but previously also served Florida and Vermont. It sells its recovered products worldwide. It is the largest waste management firm in Long Island, and one of the largest in Connecticut. The firm has six recycling centers and twelve transfer stations. Originally based in Long Island, in 2011, it purchased the 25 waste disposal companies formerly owned by James Galante
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roughly halfway between the U.S. state of Hawaii and the U.S. territory of American Samoa. The atoll consists of an extensive reef, two shallow lagoons, and some 50 sand and reef-rock islets and bars covered with lush, tropical vegetation. The islets of the atoll are all connected, except Sand Island and the two Home Islets in the west and Barren Island in the east. The largest island is Cooper Island in the north, followed by Kaula Island in the south. Cooper Island is privately owned by The Nature Conservancy and managed as a nature reserve. The rest of the atoll
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Banfield Pet Hospital Banfield Pet Hospital is a privately owned company based in Vancouver, Washington, United States, that operates veterinary clinics. Part of the Mars, Incorporated family of companies, Banfield owns clinics in the United States, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Founded in 1955, the company operates many of its 800 plus clinics inside PetSmart stores. Banfield is the largest privately owned veterinary practice in the United States. On April 2, 2014, Banfield Pet Hospital announced its headquarters would be relocating to Vancouver, Washington, from nearby Portland, Oregon. Banfield was founded in northeast Portland, Oregon, in 1955 by Warren J.
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to 1998 and again in 2016. The lighthouse house and surrounding property is privately owned and is not open to the public. The lighthouse is on the National Register of Historic Places, No. 89001407. It was designated on August 8, 1989. The Little Cumberland Island lighthouse is a private property and access in not permitted without permission from the owner. Little Cumberland Island Light The Little Cumberland Island Lighthouse is a privately owned lighthouse in Georgia, United States, on the north end of Little Cumberland Island adjacent to main Cumberland Island, in Camden County on the southeast coast of Georgia.
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new revenue streams while driving costs out of the business. Advance Publications Advance Publications, Inc. is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse Sr., Donald Newhouse and S.I. Newhouse Jr. It is named after the "Staten Island Advance", the first newspaper owned by the Newhouse family, in which Sam Newhouse bought a controlling interest in 1922. The company is nominally headquartered in the "Advance" offices in Staten Island's Grasmere neighborhood, though Advance has never had an official headquarters. As of October 2014, it was ranked as the 44th largest privately held company in the United States,
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an early English settler and soldier in the New World, who founded the first English settlement in what became the state of New York. His legacy includes Gardiners Island which remains in the family and is the largest privately owned island in the United States. He married on September 19, 1855 at the First Congregational Church in Sherburne, New York, Elnora H. Purdy, born February 26, 1835 in Sherburne, New York and died on May 17, 1898 in Tarrytown, New York. She was the daughter of Stephen Purdy and Olive Nancy Crandall. He married in 1900 in Tarrytown, New York,
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Brewster. [This lineage appeared in some genealogies of the Strong family. However, she was actually descended from Rev. Nathaniel Brewster of New Haven and his wife Sarah Ludlow. They died in the Town of Brookhaven.] She was also a descendant of Lt. Gov. Roger Ludlow. He was also a descendant of Lion Gardiner, an early English settler and soldier in the New World, founded the first English settlement in what became the state of New York. His legacy includes Gardiners Island which remains in the family and is the largest privately owned island in the United States. He graduated from
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land formerly owned by Tennessee Ernie Ford. This airport is privately owned, and it is thought to be the largest privately owned commercial airport in the United States. Its construction involved flattening the tops of a series of Ozark Mountains and is thought to be the largest earth moving project in the history of the state. Previously, the closest commercial airport was Springfield–Branson National Airport northwest of Branson, owned by the city of Springfield. Just after 1 a.m. on February 29, 2012, the city of Branson sustained damage from an EF-2 tornado in the 2012 Leap Day tornado outbreak. At
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SSV Oliver Hazard Perry SSV "Oliver Hazard Perry" is a tall ship operated by Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island (OHPRI) a grass-roots non profit based in Newport. The ship is the named after the American Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (1785–1819), the hero of the naval Battle of Lake Erie (1813). It measures , and is a three-masted square-rigged vessel, making it the largest privately owned tall ship and largest civilian sail training vessel in the United States. The SSV "Oliver Hazard Perry" sails as Rhode Island’s Official Sailing School Vessel and "good will ambassador" for the state, as well as
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John Gardiner Calkins Brainard John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795–1828) was an American lawyer, editor and poet. John Brainard was born in New London, Connecticut, in October 1796, son of Jeremiah G. Brainard, formerly a judge of the Connecticut Superior Court. He was a descendant of Lion Gardiner, an early English settler and soldier, who founded the first English settlement in what became the state of New York. His legacy includes Gardiners Island, which remains in the possession of the family and is the largest privately owned island in the United States. Brainard was tutored at home by an elder brother
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Black & Veatch Black & Veatch is a global engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and consulting company specializing in infrastructure development in power, oil and gas, water, telecommunications, government, mining, data centers, smart cities and banking and finance markets. Black & Veatch is the 10th largest majority Employee-Owned company in the United States. With revenues of $3 billion, the company is ranked by Forbes as one of the largest privately owned companies in the United States. Engineering News-Record, which compiles and publishes rankings of the largest construction and engineering firms annually, measured by gross revenues, ranked Black & Veatch 1st in
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Ballast Key Ballast Key is an island in the Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It is the southernmost point of land in the contiguous United States. It is also the only privately owned land within the boundaries of the Key West National Wildlife Refuge, and is being offered on the real estate market for US $15,800,000. Located in the Outlying Islands of the Florida Keys, it is one of the Mule Keys that are nine miles (15 km) west of Key West. The island's are privately owned by Key West developer David W. Wolkowsky through the David
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Academy of Art University The Academy of Art University, formerly Academy of Art College, is a privately owned for-profit art school in San Francisco, California, in the United States. It was founded as the Academy of Advertising Art by Richard S. Stephens in 1929. It has 283 full-time teachers and 1154 part-time teaching staff, and about 12,600 students; it claims to be the largest privately owned art and design school in the United States. The school has open admissions and an admission acceptance rate of 100%. In 2016, its accreditor expressed concern over low graduation rates; approximately 7% of students
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Americans served by public water systems. Most of the private utilities are small, but a few are large and are traded on the stock exchange. The largest private water company in the U.S. is American Water, which serves 15 million customers in 1,600 communities in the U.S. and Canada. It is followed by United Water, which serves 7 million customers and is owned by the French firm Suez Environnement. Overall, about 33.5 million Americans (11% of the population) get water from a privately owned drinking water utility. In addition, 20% of all wastewater utilities in the U.S. are privately owned,
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Cayo Norte Cayo Norte, formerly West Key or North East Key is the largest privately owned island in Puerto Rico and is currently the property of SVI Investments, Inc. The island is located about 0.6 nautical mile (1.0 km) northeast of Culebra Island. It lies 21 nautical miles (36 km) east of Puerto Rico and 12 nautical miles (20 km) west of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The island is part of the municipality of Culebra, Puerto Rico. It is the only privately owned island in the Culebra archipelago, and is not part of the Culebra National Wildlife Refuge as
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public relations in the healthcare system. Through this business, he observed the conditions of elderly patients in hospitals, and concluded that there was a need for better long term care. In 1970, Preston founded Life Care Centers of America in Cleveland, and is the sole owner, chairman and CEO. It later grew to be the largest privately owned long term care facility chain and the third largest privately owned long-term care facility in the United States. As of September 2015, he had a net worth of US$2.1 billion. Preston was married to Kathleen Marchant (1936-2017) until her death. He lives
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Minnetonka, Minnesota Minnetonka ( ) is a suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, eight miles (13 km) west of Minneapolis. The population was 49,734 at the 2010 census. The name comes from the Dakota Sioux "mni tanka", meaning "great water". The city is the home of Cargill, the country's largest privately owned company, and UnitedHealth Group, the state's largest publicly owned company. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Part of the city includes the eastern tip of Lake Minnetonka, one of the
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In 1880, Rev. William Pendleton Chapman, a pastor at the nearby Quidnessett Church, featured the island in his adventure book titled “Budd Boyd’s Triumph: The Boy Firm of Fox Island.” Various other private owners have owned the island since its first habitation. Since 2000 it has been privately owned by a corporation which uses a large wind generator on the east side of the island. Fox Island (Rhode Island) Fox Island is an island in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, in the United States of America. It lies between Conanicut Island and North Kingstown just south of the village of Wickford,
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and Texas. Safeway Insurance Group Safeway Insurance Group is a privately held insurance company, providing primarily automobile insurance. Safeway was founded in 1959 by William J. Parrillo and is currently headquartered in Westmont, Illinois in the United States. Robert J. Parrillo, William's brother, is a key shareholder. Safeway Insurance Group is the largest, privately held, family owned insurance company in the United States. In addition to its headquarters, Safeway maintains field offices in most of the states it conducts business in. Safeway currently conducts business in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida (Safeway Property only), Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New
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Safeway Insurance Group Safeway Insurance Group is a privately held insurance company, providing primarily automobile insurance. Safeway was founded in 1959 by William J. Parrillo and is currently headquartered in Westmont, Illinois in the United States. Robert J. Parrillo, William's brother, is a key shareholder. Safeway Insurance Group is the largest, privately held, family owned insurance company in the United States. In addition to its headquarters, Safeway maintains field offices in most of the states it conducts business in. Safeway currently conducts business in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida (Safeway Property only), Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Tennessee
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Thorpe Island Thorpe Island is one of the middle islands of the Family Islands group and located approximately 15 km East of Tully Heads. The alternate name for this island is Timana Island. In 1770 Captain James Cook discovered The Family Group of Islands. The largest he named "The Father Isle" and titled it Dunk Island, the second largest he named "The Mother Isle", now Bedarra, and the smallest islands where the children, Timana Island the baby, the Twins and the triplets. Thorpe is privately owned with one residence. This is one of only several Australian islands which are owned
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privately-owned transportation company in North America, providing paratransit, fixed route, shuttle and school transportation services. MV Transportation MV Transportation, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas., is the largest privately-owned passenger transportation contracting services firm in the United States. The company provides paratransit, fixed-route, campus and corporate shuttles, and student transportation services, partnering with over 200 city and county government transit agencies, school districts, universities, and corporations. MV serves over 110 million passengers each year across 30 states and Canada with a team of more than 20,000 transit professionals. MV Transportation, Inc., was founded in 1975 in San Francisco, California, by Alex
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father's death, Olmsted stopped using the suffix "Jr.," but anything attributed to Frederick Law Olmsted after about 1896 is necessarily the son's work. Olmsted was born on Staten Island, New York, the son of Frederick Law Olmsted and Mary Cleveland Perkins, and half brother of John Charles Olmsted. After graduating from the Roxbury Latin School in 1890, he began his career as his famous father's apprentice. He worked early on two significant projects: the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and the largest privately owned home in the United States—the George Vanderbilt estate in North Carolina, famously called the Biltmore
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ownership of the material. Regulations tend to state that whoever owns land has ownership of resources there. States and eventually the federal government then have authority over the areas over which they have jurisdiction. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration within the U.S. Department of Labor is in charge of regulating oil extraction. The oil industry in the United States is run by a series of privately owned companies. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration within the United States Department of Commerce developed a graphic of the largest oil spills impacting U.S. waters up since 1969. Since 2000, the largest
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convention center is the tenth largest in the United States Mandalay Bay Convention Center Mandalay Bay Convention Center, located in Paradise, Nevada (part of the Las Vegas metropolitan area) is one of the largest privately owned and operated convention centers in the world. The facility is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International. It is attached to the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino, and is adjacent to the Mandalay Bay Events Center. The facility can support up to 75 breakout sessions and has several ballrooms with the largest being . At opening in January 2003, it was the fifth largest
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Bell Bank Bell Bank is among the 25 largest independently owned banks in the United States and is the largest privately owned bank in the Upper Midwest with assets of more than $5 billion. Through its wealth management division, the company manages more than $6.5 billion in assets. Bell Bank, which employs 1,068 people, is headquartered in Fargo, N.D. It has 20 locations in North Dakota and Minnesota and does business in all 50 states. State Bankshares is Bell Bank's parent company. Bell Bank was founded as State Bank of Fargo in 1966 as a single location in the Northport
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the Thousand Islands), Potter's Forest Preserve (), Mid River Farm Preserve (), Douglas Howard-Smith Preserve (), Rusho Farm Preserve (), Delaney Farm Preserve (), Heineman Forest Preserve () and Grindstone Nature Trail (). TILT acts as a steward of another of wetlands, forest and grasslands on privately held property through conservation easements. Grindstone Island Grindstone Island is the fourth largest of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River and the second largest of the American islands in the St. Lawrence. The island lies near Lake Ontario and is part of the United States of America. In particular, the island
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Cargill family The Cargill family is one of the wealthiest families in the world and as of 2016 was ranked as the fourth wealthiest family in America. The family owns 90% of Cargill, the largest privately owned corporation in the United States. The family members are the descendants of William W. Cargill, who founded the company in Minnesota after the Civil War. The exact wealth of the family is unknown, as the Cargill company is a privately owned business entity with no obligation to disclose exact ownership. At 14 in total according to Forbes estimates, the Cargill family has more
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Seascape Beach Resort The Seascape Beach Resort is a resort and timeshare property located in Aptos, California in the United States. Seascape Beach Resort was founded and built by Aptos Seascape Corporation in the 1960s. The resort is located on 45 acres of the privately owned Seascape Beach, which lies between Capitola and the Pajaro River. The resort is adjacent to Seascape Park. It overlooks the Monterey Bay. It is the largest privately owned single development project in Aptos. While founded in the 1960s, it wasn't until the 1990s that the first condominiums were built. The condos are part of
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to acquire easements for cave rights in adjacent regions and installed artificial entrances for safe access into and out of the caves. Spring Valley Caverns is one of 38 caves located on the Cave Preserve. Ackerman details the history and discoveries on his website. Entry is available to scientists, select nature groups, and Minnesota Caving Club members and is tightly controlled. Located on the privately owned Cave Preserve, the system measures about 5½ miles in length, making it the largest privately owned system in Minnesota. [1] It is listed as the 138th longest in the United States www.Minnesota Caving Club.com
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Houston Chronicle The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. , it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only the "New York Times" and "Los Angeles Times". With its 1995 buy-out of long-time rival the "Houston Post", the "Chronicle" became Houston's newspaper of record. The "Houston Chronicle" is the largest daily paper owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation, a privately held multinational corporate media conglomerate with $10 billion in revenues. The paper employs nearly 2,000 people, including approximately 300 journalists, editors, and photographers. The "Chronicle" has bureaus in
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Houston Chronicle The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. , it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only the "New York Times" and "Los Angeles Times". With its 1995 buy-out of long-time rival the "Houston Post", the "Chronicle" became Houston's newspaper of record. The "Houston Chronicle" is the largest daily paper owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation, a privately held multinational corporate media conglomerate with $10 billion in revenues. The paper employs nearly 2,000 people, including approximately 300 journalists, editors, and photographers. The "Chronicle" has bureaus in
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Mandalay Bay Convention Center Mandalay Bay Convention Center, located in Paradise, Nevada (part of the Las Vegas metropolitan area) is one of the largest privately owned and operated convention centers in the world. The facility is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International. It is attached to the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino, and is adjacent to the Mandalay Bay Events Center. The facility can support up to 75 breakout sessions and has several ballrooms with the largest being . At opening in January 2003, it was the fifth largest convention center in the United States. As of 2017, the
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ISE America ISE America is a privately owned company that is the 17th largest producer of chicken eggs in the United States and is wholly owned by the Japanese food conglomerate ISE Foods Co., Ltd., which is that nations largest egg producer, and the 6th largest egg producer in the world. Founded in 1980, ISE America is based in Galena, Maryland and produces eggs for retail, food service, and further processor markets, whose products include shell, hard cooked, liquid/frozen, and farms eggs, as well as pasteurized eggs. It is, also, entirely integrated, operating its own breeder, hatchery, feed mills, and
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center in Durant that began operating in January 2004. Durant is home to the headquarters of First United Bank, one of the largest privately owned banks in the United States, and First Texoma National Bank. Indian Nation Wholesale, also headquartered in Durant, was the 15th largest wholesaler in the United States as of 2008. Wal-Mart opened a supercenter in Durant in 2003, replacing the older, smaller Wal-Mart that had operated since 1986. Smaller grocery stores in Durant include Green Spray, Save-A-Lot, and Pruett's Grocery Store. Durant is home to the annual Magnolia Festival and the Three Valley Museum. The festival
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Spring Valley Caverns Spring Valley Caverns is a cave system in southeastern Minnesota near Spring Valley, Minnesota in Fillmore County. The region is within the Driftless Area, a region noted for its karst topography, which includes caves and sinkholes. Located on the privately owned Cave Preserve, the system measures over 5 3/4 miles in length, making it the largest privately owned system in Minnesota. It is listed as the 138th longest in the United States In 1966, Jon Henry Latcham discovered one half mile of cave passages on his property. After discovering the cave, Latcham decided to commercialize the cave
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Spring Valley Caverns Spring Valley Caverns is a cave system in southeastern Minnesota near Spring Valley, Minnesota in Fillmore County. The region is within the Driftless Area, a region noted for its karst topography, which includes caves and sinkholes. Located on the privately owned Cave Preserve, the system measures over 5 3/4 miles in length, making it the largest privately owned system in Minnesota. It is listed as the 138th longest in the United States In 1966, Jon Henry Latcham discovered one half mile of cave passages on his property. After discovering the cave, Latcham decided to commercialize the cave
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an inadequate means to prevent overproduction, states have created administrative regulatory agencies to allocate groundwater rights between competing landowners. In those cases the administrative law essentially supplants the tort law, making the tort remedy (or lack thereof) irrelevant. United States groundwater law United States groundwater law is that area of United States law related to groundwater. Groundwater can either be privately owned or publicly owned. Groundwater owned by the State is usually distributed through an appropriation system. Privately owned groundwater may allow unlimited production or limited production rights based on land ownership or liability rules. It is possible to regulate
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Pennridge Airport Pennridge Airport is a public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) north of the central business district of Perkasie in East Rockhill Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is privately owned by Pennridge Development Ent., Inc. The airport is located on top of a ridge and is surrounded on every side by trees. Although the daily operations are under 100 takeoffs/landings, it is the largest privately owned airport between Philadelphia and Allentown. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned CKZ by the FAA but
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Isla San José (Panama) Isla San José is the second largest island in the Pearl Islands, and has an area of 44 km². At the 2000 census, it had a population of 10. The privately owned island has an area of about 17 square miles. Thousands of wild pigs and deer populate Isla San Jose, which has a rugged, rocky shoreline and over 50 beaches. A unit of U.S. soldiers tested chemical arms from 1945 to 1947 on the then deserted island, leaving behind at least eight unexploded 500 and 1,000-pound bombs. A U.S. military text states that the larger
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Grindstone Island Grindstone Island is the fourth largest of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River and the second largest of the American islands in the St. Lawrence. The island lies near Lake Ontario and is part of the United States of America. In particular, the island is part of the Town of Clayton in Jefferson County, New York. The island contains Potters Beach, a private vineyard owned by the Purcell family, summer gift shops, four active beef farms, historic but now abandoned farmlands, and private non-government conservation lands owned by the Thousand Island Land Trust (TILT). New York
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St. Matthews House, Blessing in a Backpack and the Pan-Florida Challenge for Hungry Kids. Johnsonville Foods Johnsonville Sausage is a sausage company headquartered in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. Founded in 1945, it is one of the largest sausage producers in the United States and the largest sausage brand by revenue in the United States. Johnsonville sausage is available in more than 40 countries. Privately owned, the company has approximately 1,400 employees. In 1945, Ralph F. and Alice Stayer (original: Štajer) who were from Slovenia, opened a butcher shop and named it after their hometown, Johnsonville, Wisconsin. The sausage made in their
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Johnsonville Foods Johnsonville Sausage is a sausage company headquartered in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. Founded in 1945, it is one of the largest sausage producers in the United States and the largest sausage brand by revenue in the United States. Johnsonville sausage is available in more than 40 countries. Privately owned, the company has approximately 1,400 employees. In 1945, Ralph F. and Alice Stayer (original: Štajer) who were from Slovenia, opened a butcher shop and named it after their hometown, Johnsonville, Wisconsin. The sausage made in their butcher shop came from an old family recipe, which originated in 19th-century Austria. Johnsonville
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Bechtel Bechtel Corporation ) is an engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company. It is the largest construction company in the United States and the 8th-largest privately owned American company in 2017. Bechtel's business activities began in 1898 when cattle farmer Warren A. Bechtel moved from Peabody, Kansas, to the Oklahoma Territory to construct railroads with his own team of mules. Bechtel moved his family frequently between construction sites around the western United States for the next several years, eventually moving to Oakland, California in 1904, where he worked as the superintendent on the Western Pacific Railroad. In 1906, W.
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Robbins Island (Tasmania) The Robbins Island is a island located in Bass Strait, lying off the northwest coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island, separated from the Tasmanian mainland by a highly tidal area known as Robbins Passage, lies south to the adjacent Walker Island. Robbins Islands is the seventh largest island of Tasmania and is the largest freehold island in Tasmania. Over the years Robbins Island has changed ownership and to this day remains privately owned. The island was part of the territory of the indigenous North West tribe spanning from Table Cape to the western side of Macquarie Harbour,
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was the 20th largest owner of office buildings in the United States. As of 2013, Shorenstein properties, via ten separate investment funds, owns and manages 23.8 million square feet of office properties valued at $7 billion. Shorenstein Properties purchased Capella Tower complex for $255 million. In February 2018, Shorenstein Properties debut a new food hall as one of its upgrades to One Oxford Centre. Shorenstein Company The Shorenstein Company, LLC, is one of the United States' largest and oldest privately owned real estate firms, owning interests in, or managing, some 20 million square feet (2,000,000 m²) of office space. 7
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Lanai Lānai (; ) is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and the smallest publicly accessible inhabited island in the chain. It is colloquially known as Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation. The island's only settlement of note is the small town of Lānai City. , the island was 97% owned by Larry Ellison (Founder and Chairman of Oracle),<ref name="NYTM 2014/09/28"></ref> with the remaining 3% owned by the state of Hawaii and privately owned homes. Lānai is a roughly apostrophe-shaped island with a width of in the longest direction. The land area is , making
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Robins Island Robins Island is a island in Peconic Bay by the eastern end of Long Island off the coast of New Suffolk, New York. The island is privately owned and not accessible to the public and is within the jurisdiction of the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. Robins Island was part of the 1615 deed to William Alexander, Earl of Stirling by King Charles I in which Alexander received all of Long Island and adjacent islands. Alexander gave James Farret power to act as his agent and attorney in settling Long Island.
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and several small outbuildings on the island. Robins Island Robins Island is a island in Peconic Bay by the eastern end of Long Island off the coast of New Suffolk, New York. The island is privately owned and not accessible to the public and is within the jurisdiction of the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. Robins Island was part of the 1615 deed to William Alexander, Earl of Stirling by King Charles I in which Alexander received all of Long Island and adjacent islands. Alexander gave James Farret power to act as his
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Fisherman Island (Maine) Fisherman Island, or Fisherman's Island, is a island, on the central coast of Maine, United States. Located roughly midway between Damariscove Island and the mainland at Ocean Point, the privately owned island has a history of human activity predating the colonial period, and was settled by English fishermen in the 17th century. The island was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015 for the significance of its prehistoric archaeological sites. Fisherman Island is part of a group of islands along the eastern edge of Booth Bay, extending roughly southward from Ocean Point, the southernmost
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Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam. The shipbuilding industry tends to be more fragmented in Europe than in Asia, as European countries tend to have a greater number of small companies, while Asian countries tend to have fewer, larger companies. Most shipbuilders in the United States are privately owned, the largest being Huntington Ingalls Industries, a multibillion-dollar defense contractor, and the oldest family owned shipyard being Colonna's Shipyard in Norfolk, VA. The publicly owned shipyards in the US are Naval facilities providing basing, support and repair. Shipyards are constructed nearby the sea or tidal rivers
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United States groundwater law United States groundwater law is that area of United States law related to groundwater. Groundwater can either be privately owned or publicly owned. Groundwater owned by the State is usually distributed through an appropriation system. Privately owned groundwater may allow unlimited production or limited production rights based on land ownership or liability rules. It is possible to regulate the spacing of wells and groundwater production under any of these systems, but the methods, effectiveness and results of that regulation varies greatly from one system to the next depending on the type of aquifer to be regulated.
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is one of the largest private providers of emergency medical services in the United States. Falck funds its acquisitions and capital expenditures out of its own operating cash flows. The majority of the company is owned by two Nordic-based nonprofit foundations: Lundbeck, a global pharmaceutical company, and the KIRKBI Group, a 75% holder of The Lego Group Falck USA Falck USA is a wholly owned subsidiary of privately held Falck A/S, that provides 24-hour ambulance transport and 9-1-1 response services. Falck USA provides basic life support and Advanced life support services in the United States. Falck entered the US market
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Ira A. Lipman Ira A. Lipman (born 1940) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman emeritus of Guardsmark, a privately owned security company with a payroll of 17,000 employees and 130 offices in the United States, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom and France. In 2015, he sold Guardsmark to Universal Protection Service, the largest private security company in the United States, and he served as its vice chairman until its 2016 merger with AlliedBarton. He has been called "a pioneer in the private security guard business". His work has been cited by the United States
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Foundation. The "Robert I. Ingalls Sr. Hall" on the campus of Samford University in Homewood, Alabama is named in his honor. It was built in 1957, and it is home to the McWhorter School of Pharmacy. Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Sr. Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Sr. (1882–1951) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was born in 1882. He founded Ingalls Iron Works in Titusville, Birmingham, Alabama in 1910. He also established Ingalls Shipbuilding in 1938. They became the largest privately owned steel manufacturer in the Southern United States and the largest shipyard in the Gulf Coast of the United States. In
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Alling and Cory Alling and Cory was a privately owned printing paper and packaging distributor headquartered in Rochester, New York, United States. Founded by Elihu F. Marshall in 1819, the company was the first paper merchant in the U.S. The company remained independent until 1996 when it was bought by Union Camp. Assumed to be among its employees were two United States Presidents and other United States statesmen. At its height, "Alling and Cory" owned more than 20 branch offices from Toledo, Ohio to New York City. At one point, it was the United States' oldest privately owned company in
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Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Sr. Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Sr. (1882–1951) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was born in 1882. He founded Ingalls Iron Works in Titusville, Birmingham, Alabama in 1910. He also established Ingalls Shipbuilding in 1938. They became the largest privately owned steel manufacturer in the Southern United States and the largest shipyard in the Gulf Coast of the United States. In 1937, he started a shipyard in Decatur, Alabama. To accommodate the growing needs of the Second World War, it was moved to Birmingham, Alabama, then to Chickasaw, Alabama, and finally in Pascagoula, Mississippi. By the time
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Freehold . Thorpe Island Thorpe Island is one of the middle islands of the Family Islands group and located approximately 15 km East of Tully Heads. The alternate name for this island is Timana Island. In 1770 Captain James Cook discovered The Family Group of Islands. The largest he named "The Father Isle" and titled it Dunk Island, the second largest he named "The Mother Isle", now Bedarra, and the smallest islands where the children, Timana Island the baby, the Twins and the triplets. Thorpe is privately owned with one residence. This is one of only several Australian islands which
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Burhop's Seafood Burhop's Seafood is a privately owned seafood retailer and one-time wholesaler and full-service restaurant founded in 1926 by Albert E. Burhop in Chicago, Illinois. The company is best known for having partnered with Clarence Birdseye in the 1920s to transport refrigerated seafood into the Midwestern United States for the first time. As a result of this partnership, Burhop's became the largest supplier of seafood to fine restaurants, hotels, and private clubs in Chicago for much of the twentieth century. Per the "Chicago Tribune", by 1988 Burhop's was the largest group of retail seafood stores in the United States.
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Cox Communications Cox Communications (also known as Cox Cable and formerly Cox Broadcasting Corporation, Dimension Cable Services and Times-Mirror Cable) is an American privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and Home Automation services in the United States. It is the third-largest cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6.2 million customers, including 2.9 million digital cable subscribers, 3.5 million Internet subscribers, and almost 3.2 million digital telephone subscribers, making it the seventh-largest telephone carrier in the country. Cox is headquartered at 6205 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd in Sandy Springs, Georgia, U.S., in the
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Detroit Island Detroit Island is a privately owned island in Lake Michigan in the southern part of the town of Washington in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. The island has a land area of 2.578 km² (0.9955 sq mi, or 637.12 acres). The northern end of the island borders the waters of Detroit Harbor. The border between Wisconsin and Michigan was originally defined as "the most usual ship channel" into Green Bay from Lake Michigan but commercial routes existed both to the north and south of the island which lead to a border dispute. In 1936, the U.S. Supreme Court
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plant life from all over the world. The Phoenix Zoo is the largest privately owned non-profit zoo in the United States and is internationally known for its programs devoted to saving endangered species. In 1913, Phoenix adopted a new form of government, switching from the mayor-council system to the council-manager system, making it one of the first cities in the United States with this form of city government, where a city manager supervises all city departments and executes the policies adopted by the Council. Today, Phoenix represents the largest municipal government of this type in the country. The city council
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Barbara Ingalls Shook Barbara Ingalls Shook (1938–2008) was an American heiress and philanthropist. She was a prominent patron of the arts in Birmingham, Alabama. She also served on the Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute in the Reagan administration. Barbara Ingalls Shook was born on September 28, 1938. Her paternal grandfather, Robert Ingersoll Ingalls, Sr. (1882-1951), was the founder of Ingalls Iron Works, the largest privately owned steel manufacturer in the Southern United States, and Ingalls Shipbuilding, the largest shipyard in the Gulf Coast of the United States. She had a sister, Elesabeth Ingalls Gillet, and a step-brother Lathrop
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Sánchez Navarro latifundio The Sánchez Navarro latifundio in Mexico was the largest privately owned estate or latifundio in all of Latin America. At its maximum extent, the Sánchez Navarro family owned more than of land, an area almost as large as the Republic of Ireland and larger than the American state of West Virginia. The Sanchez Navarro Latifundio was more than five times the size of the largest ranch, the XIT, in the United States and extended from north to south. The latifundio was located in the Chihuahuan Desert, mostly in Coahuila, but also in Nuevo Leon, Durango, and Zacatecas.
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TransMontaigne TransMontaigne GP LLC., formerly NYSE:TMG, is an oil pipeline and terminal company based in Denver, Colorado. In 2006, it was the 269th largest company in the United States and as of 2012 it was the 17th largest privately owned company. On September 1, 2006, it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, and subsequently delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. In 2014, Morgan Stanley sold TransMontaigne to NGL Energy. In February 2016 NGL sold TransMontaigne GP LLC to ArcLight Capital Partners for $350 million in cash with Gulf TLP Holdings LLC an affiliate of ArcLight holding a
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at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo. The Bermuda Zoological Society purchased th cottag property and has created a living classroom throughout the island. Trunk Island, Bermuda Trunk Island is the largest island in Harrington Sound, Bermuda. Its area is , and it contains two properties: a mansion plot (66%) and a cottage plot (33%). The island has been owned by the Tucker/Gardner family since the early 19th century and was used as a summer camp for Bermudian groups such as Sea Scouts and Girl Guides in the 1920s and 1930s. It remains privately owned by descendants of the first
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heart attack on February 7, 2015, aged 83. Casper was survived by his wife of more than 60 years, Shirley Franklin Casper, 11 children, six of whom are adopted, 71 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. After his professional career, Casper was a designer for many golf courses, such as The Highlands, The Palm and Eagle Crest in Sun City Summerlin, Nevada. As of 2017, Billy Casper Golf (BCG) is one of the largest privately owned golf course management companies in the United States, with roughly 150 owned or managed courses in their portfolio. Billy Casper Golf annually hosts the "World's Largest
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affordable housing may seek waiver of local zoning and other requirements from the local zoning board of appeals, with review available from the state Housing Appeals Committee if the waiver is denied. Similar laws are in place in other parts of the United States (e.g., Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Illinois), although their effectiveness is disputed. Zoning in the United States Zoning in the United States includes various land use laws falling under the police power rights of state governments and local governments to exercise authority over privately owned real property. The earliest zoning laws originated with the Los Angeles zoning
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2003. It is kept as a wildlife sanctuary. It is home to a seal colony and has never supported a human population. Cedar Island is connected by breakwaters to both Smuttynose Island and Star Island and is privately owned. Isles of Shoals The Isles of Shoals are a group of small islands and tidal ledges situated approximately off the east coast of the United States, straddling the border of the states of Maine and New Hampshire. Some of the islands were used for seasonal fishing camps by indigenous Americans and first settled by Europeans
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Richmond Island Richmond Island, or Richmond's Island, is an island off the coast of Cape Elizabeth in Cumberland County, Maine, in the United States. The island's name honors Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Richmond. Privately owned and unoccupied, it is notable as the site of a permanent fishing post in the 17th century, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 for the significance of that post's archaeological remains. Richmond Island is located off the southern coast of Cape Elizabeth, near the northeastern end of Saco Bay in the Gulf of
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Winter to establish a permanent fishing station on the island. From 1633 to 1643 Winter, with a crew of about 40 men, operated the station, building a substantial house, and engaging in agriculture on the land. The station was fortified against the threats of attack from Native Americans, and the Acadian settlement at Fort Pentagoet in Penobscot Bay. Richmond Island Richmond Island, or Richmond's Island, is an island off the coast of Cape Elizabeth in Cumberland County, Maine, in the United States. The island's name honors Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Richmond. Privately owned and
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decision "Wisconsin v. Michigan" found that Detroit and three other islands were part of Wisconsin. Detroit Island Detroit Island is a privately owned island in Lake Michigan in the southern part of the town of Washington in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. The island has a land area of 2.578 km² (0.9955 sq mi, or 637.12 acres). The northern end of the island borders the waters of Detroit Harbor. The border between Wisconsin and Michigan was originally defined as "the most usual ship channel" into Green Bay from Lake Michigan but commercial routes existed both to the north and south
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Drayton Island Drayton Island is a privately owned heavily wooded island at the northern end of Lake George on the west side of the Saint Johns River's main channel in Putnam County, Florida, United States. Drayton Island, during the steamboat period on the St. Johns River, was a scheduled stop for tourists and boasted a hotel built in 1875 that burned in 1878. A small subdivision was established and several homes that still exist were built. During the Plantation slavery period, prior to 1865, cotton and other export crops were grown on the island. Between freezes, orange groves produced prize
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Hope Island (Maine) Hope Island is a privately owned island in Casco Bay near the city of Portland, Maine, United States. It is a part of the Town of Chebeague Island, in Cumberland County. The island was considered for an LNG terminal. Developer John Cacoulidis and his wife Phyllis bought the island in 1993. In addition to the existing 10,000 sq. ft. house built in 1913 with nine bedrooms, seven bathrooms and five fireplaces, the Cacoulidises built there a separate 3,300-square-foot guest house, a boathouse with an apartment, and roads looping the island. They've also erected horse stables, a chicken
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Private Bank & Trust and its operating bank, Emigrant Bank, the largest privately owned, family-run bank in the United States. Emigrant Bank has just under $7 billion in assets and approximately $1 billion in equity. Under Milstein's leadership, the bank created three internet banks in the United States: Dollar Savings Direct, EmigrantDirect and MySavingsDirect Milstein is chairman of Milstein Properties, a builder and investor active in both residential and commercial development primarily in New York City, and chairs Milstein Brothers Real Estate, a national commercial leasing and management company in the United States, and Milford Management. In 2007, Milstein acquired,
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transformed to emphasize finished products and services. Perhaps the most significant characteristic of the economy is its diversity; the relative outputs of its business sectors closely match the United States as a whole. The economy of Minnesota had a gross domestic product of $262 billion in 2008. In 2008, thirty-three of the United States' top 1,000 publicly traded companies (by revenue) were headquartered in Minnesota, including Target, UnitedHealth Group, 3M, General Mills, U.S. Bancorp, Ameriprise, Hormel, Land O' Lakes, SuperValu, Best Buy, and Valspar. Private companies based in Minnesota include Cargill, the largest privately owned company in the United States,
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privately owned and some are owned by the state of New Jersey. Barnegat Bay Barnegat Bay is a small brackish arm of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 42 miles (67.2 km) long, along the coast of Ocean County, New Jersey in the United States. It is separated from the Atlantic by the long Barnegat Peninsula (colloquially called a "barrier island"), as well as by the north end of Long Beach Island, popular segments of the Jersey Shore. The bay is fed by several small rivers, including the Toms River and Metedeconk River, which empty into the bay through small estuaries along
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Trunk Island, Bermuda Trunk Island is the largest island in Harrington Sound, Bermuda. Its area is , and it contains two properties: a mansion plot (66%) and a cottage plot (33%). The island has been owned by the Tucker/Gardner family since the early 19th century and was used as a summer camp for Bermudian groups such as Sea Scouts and Girl Guides in the 1920s and 1930s. It remains privately owned by descendants of the first owners, although a share of the ownership of the mansion plot has now been donated to the Bermuda Zoological Society, which supports educational programs
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erosion. All that remains of Sunken Island are the rocks in a shallow area just to the northwest of Lewis Island. Lewis Island is the largest of the three remaining islands today, containing sixteen privately owned cottages, while the second largest island, Nelson Island, was purchased in 2005 and now is a year-round private residence. The smallest island, Goat Island, was recently purchased from the Boy Scouts by a private citizen. Along the perimeter of the lake are many homes and private access points to the waterfront. Long Pond is well known for fishing and boating. At the northeast corner
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Transcare EMS TransCare EMS (TransCare) (formerly known as TransCare Corporation) was a provider of advanced life support (ALS) and basic life support (BLS) ambulance transportation services in the areas of New York City, the Hudson Valley, Long Island, the state of Delaware, the Baltimore-Washington DC corridor and in numerous locations in Pennsylvania. It was the largest privately owned ambulance service in the Mid-Atlantic States. In addition, it had 200 international operations and 421 other operating subsidiaries in the U.S. and Canada. It also operated the Statcom - Citywide MARTA Mission Critical Communication Command Center. It was the largest E-911 Emergency
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and Non-Emergency secondary public safety answering service points provider, known as a secondary (PSAP), in the United States & Canada. It was the largest privately owned Public Benefits Corporation ambulance and Paratransit service in the United States, Canada, Mid-Atlantic States, East Coast, West Coast, Northeast, South Coast, Southwest, Northwest, Midwest, Central Coast, Southeast and Mid Pacific. TransCare EMS and Trans-Care Ambulance operated ambulances staffed by emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics and held Emergency Response 911 contracts in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess Counties in New York. Entire United States, Canada, parts of Mexico, with more than 200 international and 421
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readiness training exercises throughout the United States. Draken provides Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) training and Close Air Support (CAS) for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) at MCAS Cherry Point and MCAS Yuma and United States Navy's (USN) Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center (NAWDC) at NAS Fallon. With 109 jets, the company operates the largest fleet of privately owned former military tactical jet aircraft in the world. The company's fleet includes: The company's pilots are a combination of US Air Force, US Navy and US Marine Corps tactical jet pilots who are retired from those services or who continue
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King Street Wharf in Sydney, Finger Wharf in Sydney, Hope Island Resort in Queensland, Broadway Shopping Centre in Sydney, and Rhodes Waterside shopping centre in Sydney. Walker Corporation Walker Corporation is an Australian-based privately owned property development company, with an international development portfolio in USA, Canada and Malaysia. It is Australia's largest privately owned development company, being fully owned and operated by its high-profile co-founder and CEO, Lang Walker. Most notably, Walker Corporation is responsible for the development and restoration of a number of significant Australian sites, including King Street Wharf, Finger Wharf, Broadway Shopping Centre and Rhodes Waterside shopping
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coop, a garage and their own church, and for access both a boat dock and a helicopter pad. In a dispute over property taxes, the two part-time residents attempted but failed in a legislative effort to secede from the town of Cumberland. Hope Island (Maine) Hope Island is a privately owned island in Casco Bay near the city of Portland, Maine, United States. It is a part of the Town of Chebeague Island, in Cumberland County. The island was considered for an LNG terminal. Developer John Cacoulidis and his wife Phyllis bought the island in 1993. In addition to the
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survived. The aircraft was operating an international non-scheduled passenger flight to Duluth International Airport, Minnesota, United States. Malcolm Island Airport Malcolm Island Airport, , is a registered aerodrome located on Hydiak Island, Reindeer Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. Construction began in 1959 by Fred Lockhart and was completed in 1965 with construction taking place over six summer seasons. The airstrip is owned and operated by Arctic Lodges Ltd, that operates a fly-in/fly-out fishing lodge on Dewdney Island, to the northwest. Malcolm Island Is the large Island to the east. On 10 July 1969, a privately operated Douglas DC-3 N139D crashed on take-off
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to developer Pritam Singh. In 1988, the tanks were dismantled while the remaining fuel lines served as conduits for water, sewage, and utilities. Power cables were later laid alongside the existing fuel pipes. In 1994, the island was sold and renamed Sunset Key. The island is now owned by Tom Walsh, who also owns the Margaritaville Key West Resort & Marina. Sunset Key Sunset Key is a residential neighborhood and resort island in the city of Key West, Florida, United States. It is located about off the coast of the island of Key West. The island is privately held among
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the time, it was the second-largest employee-owned company in the United States and ranked by "Forbes" magazine the 48th-largest privately owned company in the country. More than 55,000 employees worked in the Hy-Vee family in 2009. By the end of 2009, there were 228 stores. In 2009, Hy-Vee moved into its eighth state of operations when the store in Madison, Wisconsin opened. Hy-Vee's fourth president, Randy Edeker, was selected to lead the company in December 2009. Ric Jurgens retained the titles of chairman and chief executive officer until 2012, when Edeker assumed those roles. In 2012, Hy-Vee introduced its loyalty
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Shorenstein Company The Shorenstein Company, LLC, is one of the United States' largest and oldest privately owned real estate firms, owning interests in, or managing, some 20 million square feet (2,000,000 m²) of office space. 7 million square feet (650,000 m²) of their space is in San Francisco, California, making it one of the city's largest office landlords. Founded by Walter Shorenstein after World War II, who died of natural causes on 6/25/2010, the company is now owned by his son, chairman and CEO Douglas W. Shorenstein. The President of the company is Glenn A. Shannon. By 2006, Shorenstein Properties
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remains one of the largest employers in the mid-west with over 1,000 people employed in service and support. Analog Devices has its European manufacturing base in Raheen, 3 km south-west of the city centre. The site employs more than 1,000 people. Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Vistakon (the world's largest manufacturer of contact lenses) has a large facility in Castletroy in the National Technology Park and also employs close to 1,000 people. It is Vistakon's only production facility outside the United States and one of the largest contact-lens manufacturing plants in the world. Cook Medical, the world's largest privately owned Medical
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Little Cumberland Island Light The Little Cumberland Island Lighthouse is a privately owned lighthouse in Georgia, United States, on the north end of Little Cumberland Island adjacent to main Cumberland Island, in Camden County on the southeast coast of Georgia. When in service the light marked the entrance to St. Andrew Sound and the Satilla River. It also marked a shoal that extends about south-southeasterly of the light. The Little Cumberland Island Lighthouse was designed by Winslow Lewis and built in 1838. It had fourteen Lewis lamps generating a fixed light, which distinguished it from the older tower to the
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Buck Island (British Virgin Islands) Buck Island is a privately owned island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. A former owner had begun to build a bridge between Buck Island and the mainland of Tortola, but construction ceased when it was discovered that under British Virgin Islands law that would create a right in favour of the general public to cross the bridge and use the island's beaches. Accordingly, he stopped and the bridge was never completed. The island also has an obsolete airstrip on it, which is now in ruins. Curiously, in the adjacent United States Virgin
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the U.S. Coast Guard. Its characteristic is a white flash every 6 seconds. Granite Island Light is one of more than 150 past and present lighthouses in Michigan. Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state. See Lighthouses in the United States. The highest recorded wind speed on the island was on January 18, 2003. Best views of this light are from the water. The privately owned island and light are closed to the public. Granite Island Lighthouse Because it was positioned near the busy shipping lanes of the mid-19th century, a lighthouse was built on Granite Island in 1868
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"The Rose Tattoo" was shot on the island in 1956. The Tennessee Williams Theatre is located on the campus of Florida Keys Community College on Stock Island. Williams had a series of rented homes all over the United States, but the only home he owned was in Key West. Even though Hemingway and Williams lived in Key West at the same time, they reportedly met only once—at Hemingway's home in Cuba, Finca Vigía<nowiki>.</nowiki> The first cruise ship was the "Sunward" in 1969, which docked at the Navy's pier in the Truman Annex or the privately owned Pier B. The Navy's
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