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In December of 2003, Good Samaritan Foundation Inc. received the 501c3 status. At that time they began to raise funds to build a cement block school. After all, they had almost 500 children attending the thatch Mission School!
Beaufort is located between Ballarat and Ararat. Its primary industries are related to wool, farming, forestry, quarrying and mining.
The area was once occupied by the Jajowarrung Aborigines who called the area 'Peerick'. The first European in the area was Thomas Mitchell. The first squatters were the Kirklands and a Mr Hamilton who took up land in 1838. The latter's 'Trawalla' station was taken over by Adolphus Goldsmith in 1841.
Gold was discovered in 1852 with another rush at Fiery Creek in 1854. Four settlements sprung up on the Fiery Creek Diggings'; one of which was Beaufort. It was surveyed in 1857 and town allotments were sold from 1858. A Catholic church was built in the early 1860s . . .More...
Beaufort Blavincourt is a co
mmune (municipality) located in the department of Pas-de-Calais in the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. It is a small farming village of about 450 residents--thirteen miles west of Arras. Nearby places of note are: Amiens, a town of art and history including a World Heritage Cathedral and Arras including its World Heritage Site belfry.
Chapdes Beaufort is a commune of about 1000 residents in the Puy-de-Dome department in Auvergne in central France. The site goes back to the stone age and Gallo-Roman times. In 1219 brothers William and Raoul de Beaufort gave some of their land to the Carthusian Order. On the edge of the Sioule River, the Chartreuse du Port-Sainte-Marie was founded, fell into ruins during the French Revolution but now being restored. A galena mine was operated from 1838 by the Society Alphonese Pallu et Cie. This and other area mines ceased in 1898. 
Today the village has a series of modern sculptures made of local volcanic rock--the stone of Volvic. The sculptures are on a path named Chemin Fais Art. The site...More...
Montmorency-Beaufort (region: Champagne-Ardenne) is a commune in the Aube department of north-central France.
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eaufort, also Beaufort sur Doron, is a commune in the Savoie department of Rhone-Alpes region in south-eastern France...on the Doron de Beaufort (river). The town is capital of Beaufortain.
In the 12th century, the town was called Luce, Lucia, the name of a Roman villa. She took the name Sainte-Maxime in the 13th century, Saint Maxime de Beaufort in 1738 and eventually Beaufort-sur-Duron.
Beaufort en Santerre is a commune in the Somme department in the Picardie region in northern France. It is an isolated village of less than 200 residents 25 miles southeast of Amiens. It is surrounded by forest in the middle of the plateau of Santerre. Mainly an agricultural locale since the time of ancient Rome, the region is known for its fertile soil.
Traces of a Roman villa tend to prove the ancient human occupation. The village is mentioned from 1206. Walon of Sarton, canon of Picquigny participated in the Fourth Crusade. Originally there was a castle or fortress belonging to a knight, vassal Bernard Moreuil from 1221-1249. This fortress was rebuilt in the 14th century and altered in the 17th century by Jacque de Cavoye, Lord of Beaufort. Much damage was caused by the armies of Louis II de Bourbon-Conde and d'Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne who devastated the region in 1653. The castle of Beaufort-en-Santerre was severely damaged during World War I.
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