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31 unusual facts about Camden


All Fall Down, The Brandon deWilde Story

She resides in Camden, Maine, with her family and conducts an art photography of children business.

Birmingham pen trade

He approached five craftsmen who worked for John Mitchell in Navigation Street, with a view to setting up business in Camden, New Jersey, USA.

Camden Valley Way

Camden Valley Way is an important link between Sydney and the historic town of Camden.

Camden, Alabama

Henry Aaron Right fielder, born in Camden, moved to Mobile as a child.

Camden, Delaware

Eric Buckson, born in Camden and a current Kent County Levy Court Commissioner

Carol Bachofner

In 2009, Bachofner was invited to be a presenter of poetry by indigenous writers at the Maine Literary Festival in Camden, Maine.

Cynthia L. Mahoney

Cynthia L. Mahoney was born in Camden, South Carolina to Dallas John Mahoney, Jr. and (the late) Elizabeth Jennings Mahoney.

David Hoffman

Hoffman spent much of his career producing films in Camden, Maine.

Delaware SPCA Law Enforcement

They are based out of the Kent County SPCA in Camden, Delaware.

Dip pen

Esterbrook approached five craftsmen who worked for John Mitchell in Navigation Street with a view to setting up business in Camden, New Jersey, USA.

Duron Harmon

He attended Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Delaware, and played high school football for the Caesar Rodney Riders.

Edward Irvin Scott

Around 1878, the paper commission failed, and the family lived in Camden, New Jersey,

Fred Chernoff

He was born in Los Angeles, California and graduated from Hollywood High School and Rugters University -- Camden.

Gilbert Patten

Meanwhile, he managed a semi-professional baseball team in 1890–1891 in Camden, Maine before leaving for New York.

Gold Creek Homestead

Anthony's second eldest son Edmund Rolfe spent his early working life as a teamster, transporting building materials e.g. sandstone, wool, wheat and even drinking water from and to as far afield as Camden and Braidwood.

Gordon Bok

Gordon Bok (born October 31, 1939) is a folklorist and singer/songwriter who grew up in Camden, Maine.

Heather Garriock

Garriock runs the Macarthur Youth Football Academy, based in the southwestern Sydney area of Camden.

Heather Mitchell

Attended Camden High School in Camden, New South Wales between 1971–1976 and was School Captain in her final year.

Helen W. Gillmor

She was a lecturer at the International Legal Center of the United States Agency for International Development, in Seoul, South Korea from 1969 to 1970, returning to private practice in Camden, Maine in 1970, and in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1971 to 1972, 1974 to 1977, and 1985 to 1994.

Jeremiah W. Farnham

Jeremiah W. Farnham (born in Camden, Maine; died February 20, 1905, Seattle, Washington) was an American merchant sailor and sea captain.

Kay Aldridge

In her later years she lived in Camden, Maine, and was a locally renowned hostess, often sitting 10 or more people at dinner and regaling them with stories and laughter.

Lane Kirkland

Kirkland was born in Camden, South Carolina and rose over his career to head the 16-million-member American labor movement.

Norumbega

In 1886 Joseph Stearns, the inventor of the duplex telegraphy system, built a mansion named "Norumbega Castle", which still stands on US Route 1 in Camden, Maine, overlooking Penobscot Bay.

Philadelphia Pythians

Their first game was played at Diamond Cottage Park in Camden, New Jersey because they could not gain access to the Parade Grounds at 11th and Wharton in Philadelphia.

Piper PA-24 Comanche

Country music singers Patsy Cline, "Cowboy" Lloyd Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins were on board a Comanche owned and piloted by Cline's manager, Randy Hughes, when it crashed in deteriorating weather near Camden, Tennessee on March 5, 1963, killing all on board.

Rutgers Law School

Rutgers School of Law–Camden, an American law school originally established in 1926 as "South Jersey Law School", which merged with Rutgers University in 1950

South Tucson, Arizona

In most crime categories, South Tucson has higher 2006 crime rates than those of Camden, New Jersey, which is the United States's most dangerous city on Morgan Quitno's statistics.

Tar: A Midwest Childhood

The fictional location of Tar: A Midwest Childhood bears a resemblance to Camden, Ohio where Sherwood Anderson was born, despite him having spent only his first year there.

Tenants Harbor Light

Local lighthouse tours and other longer distance cruises (from Camden or from Tenants Harbor) can also provide views of this lighthouse.

Vere Street

Vere Street, Camden, a street near Lincoln's Inn Fields and Clare Market

WLKI

WLKI's primary service area includes the cities of Angola, Fremont, Clear Lake, Orland, and Waterloo in Indiana, Coldwater, Bronson and Camden in Michigan, and Edon, Ohio.


1950 Pulitzer Prize

Meyer Berger of The New York Times, for his 4,000 word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey.

Amy Foster

Zdzisław Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Life, translated by Halina Najder, Rochester, New York, Camden House, 2007, ISBN 1-57113-347-X.

Barry Reisman

The show stayed at WIBF for 23 years until 1992 when it moved to WSSJ-AM in Camden, NJ.

Benton County, Tennessee

Aside from Camden, other major communities include agrarian communities Big Sandy and Holladay.

Camden Airport

Camden Municipal Airport, an airport located in Camden, Alabama, United States

Camden Medical Centre

Camden Medical Centre was designed by the American architect Richard Meier, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984.

Camden Professor of Ancient History

The Camden Professorship of Ancient History at the University of Oxford was established in 1622 by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, and endowed with the income of the manor of Bexley.

Camden South, New South Wales

It sits within the state electorate of Camden, represented by Labor's Geoff Corrigan, the former Mayor of Camden, and the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Liberal's Pat Farmer, the former ultra-marathon runner.

Camden Toy

His father, Malcolm, worked at the makeup department of Paramount Pictures under Wally Westmore and introduced Camden to makeup effects at an early age.

Camden Valley Way

It is the former Hume Highway alignment between the localities of Cross Roads and Camden.

Camden Yards Sports Complex

The Camden Yards Sports Complex is located in Baltimore, Maryland.

Campbell Field

Campbell's Field, a 6,425-seat baseball park in Camden, New Jersey, United States

Chislehurst

Charles Pratt (1714–1794), Baron Camden from 1765 and 1st Earl Camden from 1786, Attorney General, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Lord Chancellor, lived at Camden Place from c.1760.

Cobbitty, New South Wales

The suburb is in the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by former marathon runner Pat Farmer (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

Colombians in the United Kingdom

Despite this, the largest numbers can be found in the boroughs of Lambeth, Islington, Southwark and Camden.

Currans Hill, New South Wales

The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Russell Matheson (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

DeKalb massacre

Johann de Kalb, a German soldier shot during the Battle of Camden in South Carolina, 1780

Ephraim Francis Baldwin

Perhaps the best known are the passenger car shop in Baltimore that is now the central roundhouse at the B&O Railroad Museum, the passenger station at Point of Rocks, Maryland and the B&O Warehouse at Camden Yards in Baltimore.

Garman sisters

Along with her sister Kathleen she ran away to London where they lived in a one room studio at 13 Regent Square in Camden on the outskirts of Bloomsbury.

Global Battle of the Bands

The first two days were held at the Camden Underground, followed by the Finals at the Camden Electric Ballroom on December 6, 2007.

Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

It is located in parts of the independent cities of Chesapeake and Suffolk in Virginia, and the counties of Camden, Gates, and Pasquotank in North Carolina.

Kings Bay

Kings Bay, Georgia, a small town located in Camden County on the southern coast of Georgia

Laurieton, New South Wales

A Catalina seaplane carrying entertainer Bob Hope was forced to make an emergency landing on Camden Haven adjacent to Laurieton on August 14, 1944.

Leola, Arkansas

In 1864, the Camden Expedition (part of a larger military operation, the Red River Campaign), under the command of General Frederick Steele, marched his union troops along the Old Camden Road that passed through Leola after his supplies were depleted and Gen. Kirby's Confederates were on his rear flank as they approached the Jenkins Ferry on the Saline River.

Lew Dietz

Other books included The Story of Boothbay (1937), Camden Hills. An Informal History of the Camden-Rockport Region (1947), The Allagash, (1968, 1978, 2001), originally published as part of the Rivers of America Series); Touch of Wildness A Maine Woods Journal (1970); Pines for the King's Navy, (1955), concerning the struggle among settlers, Indians, and the British king for Maine's timber, and Full Fathom Five (1958), illustrated by his wife, the artist Denny Winter.

Lily Parr

The 2009 Lily Parr Exhibition Trophy took place at the Hub Regent's Park, London, as part of Camden LGBT History month again, on Sun 15th Feb after a meet the team event at the Black Cap on 14th Feb.

London Tigers F.C.

The head office is based in the City of Westminster, but the organisation works across the London Boroughs of Camden, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Tower Hamlets, Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham.

Lyn Spencer

During the early 1970s, Spencer was a youth worker at the Camden Youth Project in North London and an English & drama teacher at Heworth Grange Comprehensive School in Felling, Gateshead.

Martin Belmont

The album was released on Goldtop Recordings/Jungle Records in September 2009 with a launch concert at Dingwalls, Camden featuring performances by most of the album's guest singers.

Maureen Flannigan

Flannigan had a recurring role on The WB series 7th Heaven as Shana Sullivan, the girlfriend of Matt Camden.

Mouthfull

Influenced by the San Francisco and Toronto Queercore scenes, the band set up the pioneering queercore night club Up To The Elbow in Camden in London.

Oran Park, New South Wales

The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by former ultra-marathon runner Pat Farmer (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

Palmyra, New Jersey

Southbound service from the station is available to Camden, including a transfer to the PATCO Speedline available at the Walter Rand Transportation Center.

Peter Francisco

In a petition Francisco wrote 11 November 1820 to the Virginia Legislature in his own words, he said that at Camden, he had shot a grenadier who had tried to shoot his Colonel (Mayo); he escaped by bayoneting one of Banastre Tarleton's cavalrymen and fled on the horse making cries to make the British think he was a Loyalist, and gave the horse to Mayo.

Sun Carriage

Relocating to Camden and joined by fellow Plymouth exile Chris Leech on second guitar they recorded the "Sun Carriage/Determined" (written by Ron Price) demo 7" (very rare, only about ten were pressed) for the fledgling Head Records run by Jeff Barrett (later the founder of Heavenly).

The Lines

A summer of Urban festivals, including The Camden Crawl, Live In Leeds, Liverpool Sound City and Dot to Dot, support slots with Ash and Ocean Colour Scene and more recently dates with Peter Doherty's on his solo tour.

Trevor Fisk

He first worked for Cooper Medical Center in Camden, New Jersey and then for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.

Warrington Cycle Campaign

The first facility the site featured in March 2001 was in Warrington, but the feature quickly went national, with the April 2001 facility showing a cycle lane in Camden, then in October 2007 it went international and featured a cycle lane in France.

William Job Collins

Regent High School in Somers Town, London, formerly South Camden Community School and previously Sir William Collins Secondary School which was named after him.