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15 unusual facts about Bridgewater


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Some outdoor riot sequences were filmed some 37 miles south of Cambridge at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts after Harvard declined to allow the filming on their campus.

Adele Morales

In the fall of 1956 they moved to a rented "sprawling white saltbox farmhouse" in Bridgewater, Connecticut, near a literary and artistic community that included Arthur Miller and William Styron in nearby Roxbury.

Bridgewater, Connecticut

Van Wyck Brooks (1886–1963), a long-time town resident, was a literary critic, biographer, and historian.

With the death of town resident Van Wyck Brooks, a biographer and critic, a "Van Wyck Brooks Memorial Fund was set up to raise money for a library wing in his name.

Bridgewater, South Australia

It is the former end of the Adelaide-Bridgewater railway line; this route was closed in 1987.

The streets of one part of Bridgewater appear to have been named for Orient Line steam ships: SS Omrah, SS Otway, SS Orsova, SS Orontes (1902–1926), SS Ophir, SS Otranto (1909–1918), SS Orvieto (1909–1931), and SS Orotava (1889–1921).

Brighton Transport Hub

These delays occur in addition to long travel times south of Bridgewater, where the main north/south railway line follows the River Derwent through Hobart's northern suburbs, across 21 level crossings which require slow train speeds to minimize the risk of accidents.

Division of Franklin

It is located in southern Tasmania, including the Hobart suburbs of Bridgewater, Cygnet, Kingston and Lauderdale.

Jeffrey Arenburg

In January 1992, he physically assaulted a radio station manager in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, citing messages being broadcast in his head.

John Van Kessel

John Van Kessel (born December 19, 1969 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player.

Jordan River Bridge

The bridge's main function is to carry East Derwent Highway traffic, as well as pedestrians who travel between Bridgewater and Gagebrook.

Monmouth Land District

It includes the parts of Greater Hobart which are located to the east of the Derwent, such as Rosny Park and Bridgewater.

Royal Hobart Showground

The venue of the Royal Hobart Show has varied over the past 184 years and has included Salamanca Place, Bridgewater, New Town, Tattersalls Park and even the Hobart Town Hall.

Titicut Follies

Titicut Follies is a 1967 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman and filmed by John Marshall, about the patient-inmates of Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

Transport in Hobart

Hobart has a narrow gauge railway corridor which starts at the city centre and travels north towards Bridgewater.


1626 in literature

Elizabeth Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, poet and dramatist (died 1663)

Brandon Copeland

Copeland attended Bridgewater College for four years and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.

Bridgewater Collieries

In order to acquire the mineral rights, in 1810 Robert Haldane Bradshaw, Superintendent of the Bridgewater Trustees bought the

Bridgewater High School

West Bridgewater Middle-Senior High School in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States

Bridgewater Historic District

East Bridgewater Common Historic District, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Bridgewater House, Manchester

Bridgewater House, Manchester is a packing and shipping warehouse at 58–60 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England.

Bridgewater House, Westminster

It was famous, in both incarnations, as the site of the Stafford Galley (in Cleveland House) and Bridgewater Gallery (in Bridgewater House), where the collections of paintings of the Duke of Bridgewater and his nephew and heir George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (whose second son Ellesmere was) were on at least semi-public display.

Bridgewater Iron Works

By 1860, at the dawn of the Civil War, the Bridgewater Iron Company was one of the largest in the country, specializing in heavy castings and forgings, including key parts for the United States Navy, including the famous USS Monitor and the USS New Ironsides iron-clad warships, and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.

Bridgewater railway station

The station opened in the 1880s and was the terminus of the now defunct Bridgewater line.

Chaylon Brewster

Brewster was born on May 6, 1982 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia where he lived for the first 12 years of his life later moving to Kingsville, Ontario, a suburb of Windsor, Ontario where he gained most of his exposure to the Hip Hop scene.

CKBW-FM

In 1952, eventual star actor, Donald Sutherland, finished high school in Bridgewater and his part-time announce duties at CKBW.

Diana and Callisto

Certainly, on Bridgewater's death five years after the purchase, he bequeathed the Titians and the rest of his collection to Gower, who put it on display to the public in his Bridgewater House in London where it would remain on public display for the next century and a half.

Earl of Bridgewater

A scoundrel claiming to be the long-lost but rightful Duke of Bridgewater appears in the 1885 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, which is set before the American Civil War.

Gloria Fox

In 2009, Fox came under scrutiny for a visit she made to the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

Hebbville, Nova Scotia

An auto row is located just outside of Bridgewater town limits on Dufferin St (known as Highway #3 once in Hebbville) and is populated with dealers such as Ford, Volkswagen and Hyundai.

Henry Bradford Nason

Having attended school for a short time at Newburyport, Massachusetts, Henry Bradford entered the Adelphian Academy at North Bridgewater in 1843, where his attention was drawn to the study of natural science, and he began to make collections of the local minerals.

Industrial Estates Limited

Michelin of France, which eventually built three tire manufacturing plants in Granton, followed by Bridgewater and Waterville.

Instigators

The band was formed in 1980 by drummer Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw and guitarist Simon Mooney, both students at Thornhill High School, and the line-up was completed by Simon "Semi" Bridgewater (vocals) and Nicky Djorjevic (bass Guitar).

Lucie Blue Tremblay

The "Frank-Tremblay Safe College Scholarship", named for Tremblay and openly gay Congressman Barney Frank, was created at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

Nahum Stetson

The list of ships with parts made at Bridgewater include the USS Monitor, the USS New Ironsides and much of the fleet of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.

Paul Foot

When his book Murder at the Farm: Who killed Carl Bridgewater? was published in 1986, Stephen Sedley

Pleasant Bridgewater

Bridgewater resigned from that position on 24 January 2009 in order to fight extortion allegations relating to the death of the Travolta autistic son, Jett.

Robert Bradshaw

Robert Haldane Bradshaw (1759–1835), agent to Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater

S bridge

The fourth bridge is located between Old Washington, Ohio and Middlebourne, Ohio along Blend Road, at the intersection of Bridgewater Road, and has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

Teddy Bridgewater

Bridgewater and his Cardinals football team entered the 2013 Sugar Bowl against the Florida Gators as decided underdogs.

The Maritimes

Nova Scotia has a growing metropolitan area surrounding Halifax, but a contracting population in industrial Cape Breton, and several smaller centres in Bridgewater, Kentville, Yarmouth, and Pictou County.

West Bridgewater, Massachusetts

On the state level, West Bridgewater is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Tenth Plymouth district, which includes portions of Brockton and Easton.