James Cunningham Jordan, the town's first settler, operated a station on the Underground Railroad assisting fugitive slaves; his Victorian-style house (c. 1850) is preserved and is open for tours.
Leonard Chase, a known abolitionist, also operated a station on the Underground Railroad from 1841 to 1860, hiding escaped slaves in his home near the depot.
Although the majority of LMAs involve the outsourcing of one television station's operations to another, occasionally, a company may operate a station under an LMA, JSA or SSA even if it does not already own a station in that market.
The U.S. Coast Guard operates a station at the oldest (1866) of the city's three lighthouses.
The college operates a station in the Black Hills of South Dakota for teaching biology, environmental sciences, and geology and HoneyRock Camp in northern Wisconsin for student instruction and recreation.
Listeners support three Minnesota Public Radio non-profit stations and two community non-profit stations, the Minneapolis Public Schools and the University of Minnesota each operate a station, and religious organizations run four stations.
One reason is that digital shortwave broadcasts using DRM can cover the same geographic region with much less transmitter power — roughly one-fifth the power — than traditional AM mode broadcasts, significantly reducing the electricity cost of operating a station.
For the last 36 years, Welch has owned and operated a gas station in Oklahoma City.
The writer, with his wife, owned and operated a radio station in Jackson, Calif., for 19 years.
After his N.H.L. career ended, he coached and played in the minors, operated a service station in Vancouver, imported industrial machinery and sold industrial chemicals.
Later he moved to Seoul, where he became an executive with the national gas company, ran the professional soccer team that the company sponsored, and then operated a gasoline station for a few years before he retired.
