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This monumental flagstaff
commemorates the Dutch establishment of New Amsterdam and the seventeenth
century European settlement which launched the modern metropolis of New York
City. More below.
To see what an impact Schoonovers have made on where they lived, look at the names of these places:
Place, State, County, Geographical site, Latitude/Longitude
Schoonover Lake, AR, Yell, reservoir , 350512N 0931218W
Schoonover Lake Dam AR, Yell, dam, 350512N 0931218W
Schoonover Gulch, CO, Douglas, valley, 391228N 1051543W
Schoonover Buttes, CO, Moffat, summit, 402848N 1084635W
Schoonover Pasture, CO, Moffat, flat, 402845N 1084710W
Schoonover Gulch, ID, Ada, valley, 433806N 1160139W
Schoonover Lake, MI, Kalamazoo, lake, 422867N 855133W
Schoonover School (historical), MO,Henry, school, UNKNOWN
Schoonover Cemetery, MO, St. Clair, cemetery, 380215N 0935305W
Schoonover Lake, NE, Garden, lake, 415855N 1022822W
Schoonover Creek, NV, Elko, stream, 413039N 1160409W
Schoonover Creek, NV, Lander, stream, 391540N 1173040W
Schoonover Lake, OH, Allen, reservoir, 404448N 0840548W
Schoonover Lake Dam, OH ,Allen, dam, 404448N 0840548W
Schoonover Park, OH, Allen park, 404452N 0840551W
Schoonover Hollow, PA, Tioga, valley, 414014N 0773202W
Schoonover Cemetery, PA, Wayne, cemetery, 413532N 0751557W
Schoonover, WA, Adams, populated place, 471354N 1183449W
Schoonover Knob, WV, Clay, summit 382555N 0810823W
Schoonover Bridge, WY, Johnson, bridge, 440839N 1060819W
Schoonover Flats, WY, Washakie, flat, 440151N 1071639W
Schoonhoven Park, CT, Fairfield, populated place,410839N 0731342W, Bridgeport
Schoonhoven Quarry, IL, Stephenson, mine, 422052N 0893503W, Freeport East
Camp Van Schoonhoven, NY, Rensselaer, camp, located on Burden Lake near Averill Park, NY
Schoonover Streets in the United States:
Schoonover Street, Pocahontas AR
Schoonover Street, Elverta CA
Schoonover Lane, Middletown DE
Schoonover Drive, Warner Robins, GA
Schoonover Drive, Craig MO
Schoonover Road, Lone Jack MO
Schoonover Road, Barton NY
Schoonover Drive, Corning NY
Schoonover Road, Tunkhannock PA
Schoonover Drive, Summerville SC
Schoonover Road, Mossyrock WA
Schoonover Road, Odessa WA
Schoonover Road, Ritzville WA
Schoonover Street, Richland Center ,WI
Schoonover Road, Schofield WI
Schoonover Road, Webster ,WI
Schoonover Street, Gillette WY
Schoonover Stadium, Kent State University
"Facilities: Kent State University broke ground November 25 on a new $3 million varsity baseball field, which has been funded in part by the largest single gift to the university's athletics department. The lead gift of $1.53 million has been provided by the Schoonover family in honor of Harold A. (Hal) and Julia Schoonover of Akron, Ohio, who have been supporters of Kent State for more than 50 years. The new stadium will be known as Schoonover Stadium. 'Our family is pleased to make this gift to Kent State University in order that our parents and the contributions they have made to the university will be remembered forever,' said Steve Schoonover, who runs the Schoonover Foundation in Minden, Louisiana. 'Their hearts and dedication have been with Kent State since the days after World War II when my dad was a catcher and letterman at KSU, and remains that way today. Our dad was the first Schoonover to ever have received a college education, and he set the example for all of us who have followed in his footsteps to college.' Features of the new Schoonover Stadium, which will open in spring 2005, will include seating that will double the capacity of the current stadium to 1,148, with 200 new chairback seats; a landscaped plaza, public restroom building, picnic area and entrance gate with display area for memorabilia; field improvements, including new bullpens, backstop and outfield fence as well as an underground drainage and sprinkler system; field lighting, a state-of-the-art scoreboard and improved public address system; and a skybox for media and VIPs, along with camera bays adjacent to the dugouts and center field. Hal Schoonover lettered in baseball as a catcher at Kent State from 1947 to 1949, serving as team captain as a senior. He helped lead the 1948 team to a record of 12-7-1, which established a school record for wins that stood until 1959. In the late 1960s at the request of then-Kent State head coach Dick "Moose" Paskert, Schoonover taught a young Kent State outfielder named Thurman Munson to play catcher. Munson went on to become the American League Rookie of the Year in 1970 as a catcher and the AL MVP in 1976 ... "
Another interesting bit of information:
According to ReferenceUSA database, on July 10, 2005 there were 3,350 Schoonovers in the U.S. with listed residential phones. On July 15, 2007, there were 3124.
Designed
by H.A.van den Eijnde (1869-1939), a sculptor from Haarlem in the Netherlands,
it was dedicated on St. Nicholas Day, December 6, 1926 to mark the tercentenary
of Dutch settlement, and the purchase of the island of Manhattan from Native
Americans. At that time it stood south of Castle Clinton, then the site of the
New York Aquarium. In 1939 the monument underwent restoration and the
inscriptions were recut. Subsequently, a fire caused damage to the monument.
When the park was closed from 1940 to 1952 for renovations and to build the
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, the monument was relocated to its present site at the
northeast entrance.
In 1609, the Dutch East India Company ship De Halve Maen (The Half Moon)
entered the harbor. The river still carries the name of the ships commander, an
Englishman named Henry Hudson. Subsequent trading missions led to the formation
in 1614 of the New Netherland Company which stretched from Delaware to
Connecticut. In 1621, the States General of the Netherlands established the
Dutch West India Company. Around this time, Dutch and Walloon families formed a
small community at the southern end of the island, though the precise date and
circumstances of New Amsterdams creation remain the subject of debate. Also in
question is the location of the almost mythical purchase of the land now known
as Manhattan by Dutch provincial Director General Peter Minuit from the Lenape
people, an event depicted on the south-west faade of the monument.
New Amsterdam grew in size and prosperity over the ensuing decades, and became
its own municipality in 1653the same year that a fortification wall was built
between the Hudson and East Rivers at what is now Wall Street. This wall was
built to defend against an invasion from New England during the First
Anglo-Dutch war. Opposite todays monument site, and the present-day location of
the National Museum of the American Indian (formerly the Old Custom House),
stood Fort Amsterdam. The waters of the harbor lapped at a shoreline, which has
been extended repeatedly over the past three centuries. New Amsterdam was
surrendered to the British in 1664 and renamed New York.
Though comprising about .003% of the citizenry, the Dutch have had far-reaching
influence on local culture. Two boroughsthe Bronx and Brooklyn
(Breuckelen)numerous streets, and the New York Knickerbockers professional
basketball team derive their names from the Dutch. Old Dutch-style Houses such
as the Dyckman Farmhouse (circa 1785) in northern Manhattan and the Wyckoff
House (circa 1652) in Flatbush, Brooklyn survive a bygone era. Monuments to the
Dutch legacy dot the landscape, and include Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitneys statue
of Dutch director general Peter Stuyvesant, commissioned for the 1939 New York
Worlds Fair, which has stood on the western side of Stuyvesant Square Park
since 1941. Above all, New York Citys preeminence in commerce is a direct
outgrowth of its origins as a Dutch mercantile trading outpost.
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