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Housing Units (2000): 468
Land area (2000): 1.463242 sq. miles (3.789779 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.463242 sq. miles (3.789779 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31710
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.279715 N, 94.291520 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50543
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Gowrie
Wikipedia
Gowrie may refer to several places:
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Gowrie, a province in Scotland
- Carse of Gowrie, the southern part of Gowrie noted for its farmland
Gowrie may also refer to:
- Gowrie, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra, Australia
- Gowrie, Iowa, United States
It may also refer to several people:
- Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, former Governor-General of Australia
- John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator
It may also refer to several other topics:
- The Earl of Gowrie, a peerage title in Scotland and the United Kingdom
- The Gowrie Conspiracy, an attempt to kidnap the soon-to-be James I of England in 1600
- Gowrie railway station, Melbourne, Australia
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, a number of ships with this name
Gowrie is a region and ancient province of Scotland, covering most of the eastern part of what became Perthshire. The province is the home of such ancient Scottish royal sites as Scone and perhaps Forteviot.
Its chief settlement is the city of Perth. Today it is most often associated with the Carse of Gowrie, the part of Gowrie south of the Sidlaw Hills running east of Perth to Dundee.
Usage examples of "gowrie".
Earl of Gowrie, aged twenty-two, at the family town house in Perth, some twelve or fourteen miles from Falkland.
King and the Master went upstairs alone, while the Earl of Gowrie took Lennox and others into his garden, bordering on the Tay, at the back of the house.
Cranstoun now rushed up the dark stairs, followed by Gowrie, two Ruthvens, Hew Moncrieff, Patrick Eviot, and perhaps others.
Erskine and Ramsay now locked the door opening on the narrow stair, at which the retainers of Gowrie struck with axes.
Not a vestige of plot or plan by Gowrie and his party was discoverable.
James had summoned the Master to meet him at Falkland, they said, and Gowrie had never expected the return of the Master with the King.
He therefore proposed to send back with Ruthven a retainer of his own with a warrant to Gowrie, then Provost of Perth, and the Bailies, to take over the man and the money.
James adds that, though he himself knew not that any man was with Ruthven, he had two companions, one of whom, Andrew Henderson, he now despatched to Gowrie, bidding him prepare dinner for the King.
Duke of Lennox, Mar, and others that he was riding to Perth to speak with Gowrie, and would return before evening.
Hay, and one named Moncrieff, who were then with Gowrie on business to which he at once refused to attend further, in the case of the Hays.
Ruthven was deranged, in consequence of harsh treatment by his brother, Gowrie, is explained by a dispute between the brothers about the possession of the church lands of Scone, which Gowrie held, and Ruthven desired, the King siding with Ruthven.
He said that on the night of August 4 Gowrie bade him ride very early next day with the Master of Ruthven to Falkland, and return with any message that Ruthven might send.
An hour later Gowrie bade him put on a shirt of mail and plate sleeves, as he meant to arrest a Highlander in the Shoe-gait.
Lennox off with a false reason for his accompanying Ruthven alone in the house of Gowrie, James privately arranges that Ruthven shall quietly summon him, or Erskine, to follow upstairs, meaning to goad Ruthven into a treasonable attitude just as they appear on the scene.
He calculates that Lennox, Erskine, or both, will then stab Ruthven without asking questions, and that Gowrie will rush up, to avenge his brother, and be slain.