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15 unusual facts about Adams County


Adams County, Pennsylvania

John Studebaker (1833–1917) was the American co-founder and later executive of what would become the Studebaker Corporation automobile company.

Adams County, Washington

62.5% were White, 1.9% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.6% Black or African American, 31.5% of some other race and 2.8% of two or more races.

Adams, Illinois

Adams is an unincorporated community in Burton Township, Adams County, Illinois, United States.

Bloomfield, Illinois

Bloomfield, Adams County, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Adams County, Illinois

Blue Creek, Ohio

Blue Creek is an unincorporated community in western Jefferson Township, Adams County, Ohio, United States.

Ceylon, Indiana

Ceylon is an unincorporated town in Wabash Township, Adams County, Indiana.

Country Meadows, Illinois

Country Meadows, Adams County, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Adams County, Illinois

Dellwood, Wisconsin

Dellwood, Adams County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Adams County, Wisconsin

Hickory Grove, Illinois

Hickory Grove, Adams County, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Adams County which is a suburb of Quincy

Miles Coolidge

In 2002 he was commissioned by the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York to design a billboard for the park's entrance, titled The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio.

Panthera onca mesembrina

Fossils have been uncovered from Cueva del Mylodon, Chile, Piaui, Brazil, and north to Adams County, Washington.

Pine Ridge, Mississippi

Pine Ridge is an Unincorporated Community in Adams County, Mississippi, United States.

Plionarctos

Taunton site, Adams County, Washington (P. harroldorum) about 4.9—1.8 Mya (Plionarctos harroldorum)

Plum pox

In the fall of 1999, plum pox strain PPV-D was detected in an Adams County, Pennsylvania orchard.

Rock Creek, Illinois

Rock Creek, Adams County, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Adams County, Illinois


Adams Central Junior-Senior High School

It is part of the Adams Central Public Schools district, Nebraska District 90, which encompasses much of rural Adams County as well as the town of Juniata.

Buena Vista Marsh, Wisconsin

Buena Vista Marsh is located on fragmented lands south of the Village of Plover and the Wisconsin River, east of Biron, Wisconsin Rapids, and Kellner, north of State Road 73, Adams County, and Waushara County, and west of Bancroft and Interstate 39 / U.S. Highway 51.

Cochran Farm

The web site of the Ohio Historic Preservation Office of the Ohio Historical Society says "William and Rebecca Cochran came from Adams County, Pennsylvania in 1814. They settled in Hamilton County where they lived until 1825. They then moved to Butler County near Millville. William Cochran owned much property in the area and in 1821 purchased the Millville Mill which had been built by Joel Williams in 1805".

Downtown Quincy Historic District

The historic Quincy Post Office, built in 1887, also functioned as the Adams County Courthouse for a time.

East Adams Rural Hospital

Adams County Public Hospital District #2 operates the hospital in Ritzville, as well as Medical Clinics in Ritzville and Washtucna, and is associated with the Ritzville, Lind, and Washtucna Volunteer Ambulance Associations.

Hickory Grove, Adams County, Illinois

Hickory Grove is an unincorporated community and Edge city in Ellington Township, Adams County, Illinois, United States.

Monterey Pass

Previous combat in the area included a June 21 engagement at Fairfield, and subsequent engagements prior to the Battle of Gettysburg included the first combat of Adams County, Pennsylvania, during the Civil War.

Salem, Adams County, Indiana

Salem is an unincorporated hamlet in Adams County, Indiana, approximately 4 miles west-southwest of Willshire, Ohio, on Salem Rd. approximately 3 miles west of the Indiana-Ohio state line, at latitude 40.717 and longitude -84.853.

W43BR

W43BR is carried on Charter Cable throughout the Baraboo-Wisconsin Dells area on channel 10 including Columbia, Sauk, County, Juneau and western portions of Dane counties.

West Manheim Township, York County, Pennsylvania

The township occupies the southwestern corner of York County, with Adams County to the west and Carroll County, Maryland, to the south.

Will P. Stephenson

Will Prettyman Stephenson was born in Bentonville, Adams County, Ohio on July 31, 1868 to Robert Amasa and Arcadia Hopkins Stephenson.