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3 unusual facts about Amherst, New Hampshire


Ainsworth Blunt

Ainsworth Emery Blunt was born on February 22, 1800 in Amherst, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County) to John Isaac (1756-1836) and Sarah (Eames) Blunt (1765-1858).

Dave Lapham

His nephew, Richard Lapham, earned first-team accolades as a high schooler at Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire in 2005 and played offensive tackle for Boston College.

Renee Mallett

Renee Mallett is also the owner and art director of Nolia Gallery, a fine art gallery located in Amherst, New Hampshire.


493d Bombardment Group

Aircrews left McCook in early May and flew the northern transport route to the U.K.; via New Hampshire, Labrador, thence to Debach by way of Iceland and Wales, or by way of Northern Ireland.

Amherst Center for Russian Culture

The Amherst Center for Russian Culture was created by Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts after the gift of a major collection of Russian books, manuscripts, periodicals and ephemera by Thomas P. Whitney in 1991.

Amherst County, Virginia

Powhatan Ellis, (1790–1863), born in Amherst County, justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, United States Senator from Mississippi, and minister to Mexico.

Baird House

Theodore Baird Residence, Amherst, Massachusetts, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and also known as Baird House (and listed as Baird House on National Register of Historic Places)

Buffalo Bulls baseball

The Buffalo Bulls baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University at Buffalo in Amherst, New York, USA.

Calvin Warburton

Entering politics at the age of 66, Warburton ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in New Hampshire's 1st congressional district in 1976.

Charles Bridgeman

A contemporary of Bridgeman’s, Horace Walpole, describing his colleague’s design style in his essay On Modern Gardening, wrote: ‘though he still adhered much to strait walks with high clipt hedges, they were only his great lines; the rest he diversified by wilderness, and with loose groves of oak, though still within surrounding hedges’ (Amherst, 1896, p. 249).

Commodore Nutt

: Not to be confused with United States Representative from New Hampshire, George W. Morrison (October 16, 1809 – December 21, 1888)

Darby Field

Of Irish ancestry, if not born in Ireland, he was in Boston, Massachusetts, by 1636 and settled in Durham, New Hampshire, by 1638, where he ran a ferry from what is now called Durham Point to the town of Newington, across Little Bay.

Exeter incident

The Exeter incident was a highly publicized UFO sighting that occurred on September 3, 1965 approximately 5 miles from Exeter, New Hampshire, in the neighboring community of Kensington.

Fox sisters

"Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity", Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Fraser Papers

Fraser's 3,700 employees worked in several pulp and paper mills in North America, including in Madawaska, Maine and in New Hampshire in the US, and Thurso, Quebec, and Edmundston, New Brunswick in Canada.

Fryeburg Water Co.

The Fryeburg Water Co. was ordered by the New Hampshire Utilities Commission (NHPUC) to provide the residents of East Conway, New Hampshire with Poland Spring bottled water (incidentally, the water that the utility sold to the Nestlé subsidiary) until the company fixed a pipeline that brought water from the spring in Maine to the homes in New Hampshire.

Guaranteed Kill

Guaranteed Kill is the first album from the New Hampshire group Scissorfight.

Herbert L. Osgood

He attended graduate school at Amherst and Yale, and spent a year in Berlin, before returning to the United States to teach at Brooklyn High School and resume graduate studies at Columbia under Burgess, who had recently moved there.

James M. Warner

He graduated from Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire in 1854, and attended Middlebury College for two years, until he was accepted as a cadet in the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1855.

Jim Forsythe

Jim Forsythe (born October 1, 1968) is a former Republican member of the New Hampshire Senate, having represented the 4th District from 2010 to 2012.

John William Gregg

John William Gregg (January 8, 1880, New Hampshire - 1969 Berkeley), was a 20th-century professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute

The institute conducts projects and partnerships with the National Weather Center, the University of New Hampshire, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Air Force, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Mount Washington Observatory, the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and many other agencies.

LETTERS

In addition to the Author and Germaine Pitt (or 'Lady Amherst', unrelated to any of Barth's previous novels), the correspondents are: Todd Andrews (from The Floating Opera), Jacob Horner (from The End of the Road), A.B. Cook (a descendent of Burlingame in The Sot-Weed Factor), Jerome Bray (associated with Giles Goat-Boy and Chimera) and Ambrose Mensch (from Lost in the Funhouse).

Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.

(October 3, 1927 – October 27, 2002) was (for one month) the New Hampshire Attorney General and (for eleven months) an appointed United States Senator.

Michael Slive

Early in his life, he practiced law in New Hampshire, serving as judge of the Hanover District Court from 1972 to 1977, and was a partner in a Chicago law firm.

Minear

Richard Minear, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

New England Interstate Route 10

New England Route 10 was a multi-state north–south state highway in the New England region of the United States, running through Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

Oyster River Cooperative School District

Oyster River Cooperative School District (ORCSD) is a public school district in Durham, New Hampshire, United States, serving the towns of Durham, Lee, and Madbury, Durham is home to the main campus of the University of New Hampshire.

Penacook, New Hampshire

Most of Penacook is located in the Merrimack Valley School District, though part is in the Concord School District.

PhyloXML

A shortcoming of current formats for describing phylogenetic trees (such as Nexus and Newick/New Hampshire) is a lack of a standardized means to annotate tree nodes and branches with distinct data fields (which in the case of a basic species tree might be: species names, branch lengths, and possibly multiple support values).

Port Perry

Port Perry has attracted many film crews over the years, both for feature film and television; it doubled as the Maine town of Mooseport in the 2004 film Welcome to Mooseport and was used briefly as a small town in New Hampshire during the sixth season of The West Wing.

Rashad McCants

McCants began his high school career at Erwin High School in Asheville, but finished at New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire.

Robert Thurman

At Amherst College Thurman met his lifelong friend Prof. Lal Mani Joshi, a distinguished Indian Buddhist scholar.

Samuel Penhallow

Removing to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he there married Mary Cutt, a daughter of John Cutt (1625–1681), president of the province of New Hampshire in 1679, a successful merchant and mill-owner, and thus came into possession of considerable property (including much of the present site of Portsmouth).

Stacey Bentley

In her high school days she was a diver and later continued her education at Franconia College in New Hampshire.

Temasek Junior College

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

Thomas Gustave Plant

Plant used his fortune to build Lucknow, an estate on a mountain overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, where he lived with his second wife.

Thomas Wiggin

This document, which some historians have claimed is a forgery, purports to transfer land along the seacoast of present-day New Hampshire from the local Indians to a group of English colonists led by Reverend John Wheelwright.

Tony Bellinger

Tony Bellinger is the head coach for the Bishop Guertin High School (New Hampshire) boys varsity team, a position he has held for over 15 seasons.

U.S. Army Birthdays

Delegate John Sullivan of New Hampshire, a 35-yearold lawyer, became the seventh brigadier general instead of Nathaniel Folsom.

UConn–UMass football rivalry

The first game played between the two schools took place on November 6, 1897, in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Uncial 076

The manuscript once belonged to Lord Amherst in Norfolk.

United States Customs District of Salem and Beverly

He was a governor of the Arkansas Territory before being elected to Congress in 1824 for New Hampshire.

United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, 2008

The 2008 congressional elections in New Hampshire were held on November 4, 2008 to determine who would represent the state of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives during the 111th Congress from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2011.

University of Nashville

Lindsley, along with George Ticknor at Harvard, Jacob Abbott at Amherst, and James Marsh at the University of Vermont, was considered one of the leading educational reformers of the era.

Webster County, Georgia

The County is named for Daniel Webster, U.S. representative of New Hampshire and U.S. representative and U.S. senator of Massachusetts.

William Amherst, 3rd Earl Amherst

He was born in Mayfair, London, the son of Viscount Holmesdale (later 2nd Earl Amherst) and was baptised on 3 May 1836 in St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London.

Yiddish Book Center

In 2001 Ruthe B. Cowl (1912–2008) of Laredo, Texas, donated $1 million to create the Jack and Ruthe B. Cowl Center, which promotes "Yiddish literary, artistic, musical, and historical knowledge and accomplishment" at the Amherst headquarters.

Zajonc

Arthur Zajonc (born 1949), professor of physics at Amherst College in Massachusetts

Zoe Weizenbaum

Weizenbaum attended Amherst Regional High School for her freshman year, before she decided to return to Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School where she went to middle school.


see also

Souhegan

Souhegan High School, along the Souhegan River in Amherst, New Hampshire