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10 unusual facts about Ardmore


Ardmore, Alabama

The railroad company later renamed the town Ardmore, for the community of Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

Ardmore, New Zealand

The suburb is in the Franklin ward, one of the thirteen administrative divisions of Auckland City, and is under local governance of the Auckland Council.

Ardmore, Oklahoma

Jesse Hernandez, an American Professional Mixed Martial Artist and former Offensive Lineman for Ardmore High School and University Of Missouri

Ardmore, Pennsylvania

A. Atwater Kent, prominent early radio manufacturer and philanthropist responsible for creation of the Museum of Philadelphia History on South Seventh Street in Center City Philadelphia

Bristol Freighter

A third is on display at Founders Historical Park in Nelson, and a fourth is being restored at Ardmore near Auckland.

Claud Cockburn

In 1947, Cockburn moved to Ireland and lived at Ardmore, County Waterford, and continued to contribute to newspapers and journals, including a weekly column for The Irish Times.

Johnnie Crutchfield

Before served in the state legislature, Crutchfield served as a city councilman and mayor of Ardmore, Oklahoma.

Landover, Maryland

Located at the Capital Beltway and Landover Road, the mall neighbored the towns of Palmer Park, Ardmore, Glenarden, and Largo.

Truman Spain

After retiring from football, Spain worked as an oil drilling contractor in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

Valspar

In 1960, Valspar merged with Ralph Baudhuin's Rockcote, which gave them more manufacturing in the Midwestern United States and a new headquarters in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.


American Flyers Airline

Reed Pigman died on April 22, 1966 of a heart attack at the controls of an Lockheed Electra (N183H) and the resulting crash killed more than 80 military transients that were being flown under a Department of Defense contract charter from an east coast location en route to Fort Ord, California with a service stop and crew change in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

Castle Coalition

Castle Coalition-trained activists have been successful in saving their homes in places like Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Lakewood, Ohio, and Los Angeles, California.

Ford Bradshaw

After several months on the run, Bradshaw was cornered at Ardmore and killed by sheriff's deputy William Harper while resisting arrest.

George Matthews Harding

After the WWI Harding returned to his painting and teaching in Philadelphia, publishing a limited-edition portfolio of some of his war art entitled The American Expeditionary Forces in Action, married Anita Nisbeth of Ardmore, and established his own studio and home in Wynnewood.

Oklahoma State Highway 142

From there, SH-142 progresses as a two-lane highway approximately 2 miles (3.2 kilometers), passes by Ardmore Middle and High Schools, makes a fairly sharp right turn to the south (near the Valero refinery), and terminates 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) to the south at an intersection with State Highway 199.

Piltown Cross ambush

Returned Great War veteran John Riordan helped plan the engagement involving a feint attack on the RIC barracks in Ardmore.

Railroad electrification in the United States

The PPL-owned Safe Harbor Dam, located near the Exelon-owned Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant between Conowingo, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania, supplies the power for all post-1925 electrical expansion projects, while Exelon supplies the pre-1925 electrification areas through the existing Philadelphia, Ardmore, and Chester substations.

Wynnewood, Oklahoma

They also named Paoli and Ardmore, Oklahoma after towns in Pennsylvania.