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10 unusual facts about Beaver Dam


Beaver Dam, Arizona

Beaver Dam is home to the three schools that make up the Littlefield Unified School District, the geographically largest school district in Arizona.

Cyrus Amir-Mokri

After attending Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin for one year, Amir-Mokri attended Harvard College, graduating in 1986 with a degree in biochemistry.

Henry W. Miller

From 1864 Miller led a group of Mormons in founding a settlement they called Millersburg at what is now Beaver Dam, Arizona.

Littlefield, Arizona

Littlefield and neighboring Beaver Dam have the distinction of being the only towns in Arizona along I-15.

Pardon My Past

Fred MacMurray grew up in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and this film, the only one ever produced by him, is made reference to no fewer than eight times, or once every eleven minutes in the movie.

Sherry, Wisconsin

This Township is heavily Timbered with Maple Oak Birch & Pine Maple Oak & Birch being the prevailing Kinds - along the Border(?) of Mill Creek there is some good scattering Pine - along the Border(?) of the small stream (?) almost invariably(?) find alder thickets caused by Beaver dams.

Tom Nissalke

Nissalke, who is a graduate of Florida State University, first got his start in coaching on the high school-prep level at the Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

Virgin River

The river then flows across the northwestern corner of Arizona through the Virgin River Gorge and past the towns of Beaver Dam and Littlefield.

Virgin Valley High School

Up until the opening of Beaver Dam High School in Beaver Dam, Arizona (which occurred in the fall of 2004), high school students from the Littlefield Unified School District across the Colorado River attended high school at Virgin Valley.

Yellow Knolls

Yellow Knolls is approximately 15-mi northeast of Littlefield-Beaver Dam, Arizona in the northeast of the Virgin Valley, and about 20-mi southwest of St. George, Utah.


Theodore H. Rowell

Rowell was born in Watertown, Wisconsin, and was the great grandson of John S. Rowell of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin (1825–1907), noted pioneer inventor and manufacturer of farm machinery.

WAUK

The station is owned by Beaver Dam-based Good Karma Broadcasting, LLC, and owned by Craig Karmazin, son of legendary radio executive and current Sirius XM Radio CEO Mel Karmazin.