Stringtown, Oklahoma while Bonnie Parker was visiting her mother, Clyde Barrow and two associates were drinking alcohol at a dance in Stringtown (illegal under Prohibition). They were approached by Sheriff C. G. Maxwell and his deputy, at which time Clyde opened fire, killing deputy Eugene C. Moore. That was the first killing of a lawman by what was later known as the Barrow Gang, a total which would eventually amount to nine slain officers. In the 1940s during World War II, Fritz Johann Hansgirg, the Austrian inventor of magnesium and heavy water processes was interned at the U.S. alien internment camp located
Brane Barrow Brane Barrow Brane Barrow, also known as Chapel Euny Barrow or Hut Barrow, is a Neolithic chambered round barrow, near the hamlet of Brane, Cornwall (). It is located two miles southwest of Sancreed. The chamber has a height of 0.9 metres, a width of 1.2 metres and a length of 2.3 metres. The surrounding mound measures 6.1 metres diameter by 2.1 metres high. The only mutilation is on the south where the side of the barrow has been removed to expose the chamber. The barrow was described by William Copeland Borlase in 1872 and is in much the same