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unusual facts about Carroll, Nebraska


Nebraska Highway 57

The southern terminus of the northern segment of Highway 57 is south of Carroll at Nebraska Highway 98, while its northern terminus is north of Hartington at an intersection with Nebraska Highway 12.


1888 in the United States

January 12 – "Schoolhouse Blizzard": Blizzards hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of whom are children on their way home from school.

1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game

Late in the half, Nebraska got on the board after a seven-play, 80-yard drive culminated in a Turner Gill touchdown pass followed by the extra point by Kevin Seibel.

Alice or the Last Escapade

The film is very loosely inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, including the protagonist's name being Alice Carroll (a combination of the Alice character and the author's pseudonymous surname).

Boardman High School

Joe Schiavoni, current Ohio state Senator representing Mahoning, Carroll, and parts of Stark and Tuscarawas Counties.

Brandt Hershman

He currently serves as the Majority Whip and represents Senate District 7, which includes parts of White, Tippecanoe, Jasper, Clinton, Carroll and Howard Counties.

Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper

Production company Frontier Films devised Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper as a comedy quiz show vehicle for Brendan O'Carroll.

Brian Solis

He has also written the foreword for several best selling books including, Social Media ROI (Olivier Blanchard), At Your Service (Frank Eliason), Share This Too (Paul Fabretti), Social ROI (Vincenzo Cosenza), Think Before You Engage (Dave Peck), Smart Business Social Business (Michael Brito), The Hidden Power of Your Customers (Becky Carroll), The Social Customer (Adam Metz), Twitfaced (Jacob Morgan), Social Media Geek-to-Geek (Synopsys).

Bruce Carroll

In 2012 Carroll co-wrote the piece Hands of Hope with fellow performers, David Meece and David L Cook.

Central Carroll High School

The band was invited to play at the NAIA College Football National Championship Game in December 2010, representing National Champion, Carroll College, and represented Carroll College again in the 2011 NAIA title game.

Christian Peter

This inaction led Redmond to file a Title IX suit against Nebraska in 1995; the suit was settled two years later with Nebraska paying $50,000 and the other two agreeing to pay an undisclosed sum of money.

Cole White

Prior to White joining the Army, the only member of his family with any military experience is his grandfather on his mother's side, Michael Carroll, who was in the Navy during World War II.

Conference of Chief Justices

The first meeting, organized by the Council of State Governments and funded by private foundations, and held in St. Louis, Missouri, was held at the behest of New Jersey Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons and Missouri Chief Justice Laurance M. Hyde, who was elected as the first chairman by the representatives of the 44 states in attendance.

Crawford Notch

In the Carroll portion of the notch, the Appalachian Mountain Club has built and operates the Highland Center Lodge and Conference Center, and has renovated the Queen Anne style Victorian-era Crawford Notch Maine Central train depot as a bookstore.

Damien Comolli

Comolli made an instant impact at Liverpool as he was responsible for the signings of two players, Luis Suárez and Andy Carroll, on January 2011's transfer deadline day, with Carroll's signing breaking the record for most expensive British player ever and eighth most expensive player in history, overtaking David Villa and Wayne Rooney.

David Jacques Way

Born in Elk Creek, Nebraska, Way was educated at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in its earliest days, where he gained his lifelong interest in graphic design and typography.

Dillard's

In 1988, Dillard's purchased the three-unit Miller & Paine chain in Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as more significantly, a half-interest and operational control of The Higbee Co., based in Cleveland, Ohio with partner Edward J. DeBartolo Corp.

Ed Carroll

Carroll played briefly for the 1929 Boston Red Sox who finished in last place in the American League, winning only 58 games and losing 96, 48 games behind the Philadelphia Athletics champions.

Elaine Stuhr

Elaine Stuhr (born 1936) is a Nebraska state senator from Bradshaw, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature and farmer.

Exeter-Milligan Public School

The girls basketball team completed a perfect 28-0 season in the 2003-04 high school season winning the Nebraska Class D1 State High School Championship defeating Elm Creek in the championship game 57-46.

Fabyan

Carroll, New Hampshire, mountain town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States that contains the railroad junction of Fabyan

George Joseph Lucas

On June 3, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named Lucas the fifth Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska.

Haus of Gaga

:Little monsters: Helen Green (artist) and Emma Carroll (hired in the Born This Way Foundation).

Hugues Lebailly

He is known for his work on nineteenth-century English literature, particularly his studies of Lewis Carroll which, in combination with the work of Karoline Leach and others, have begun a reassessment of Carroll's life and personality.

Isham Reavis

The new judge left Nebraska in August 1869, taking the newly completed Transcontinental Railroad to California before boarding a ship south to the mouth of the Colorado River.

Jacobson v. United States

Among its other targets had been another middle-aged Nebraska farmer, Bob Brase, of Shelby.

JC Carroll

Another chance meeting with film music composer Michael Kamen led to Carroll being asked to play accordion on a movie called Don Juan DeMarco, featuring Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp.

Jocelyn Brando

Jocelyn and Marlon Brando and their sister Frances grew up mostly in the Midwest—in Omaha, Nebraska, Evanston and Libertyville, Illinois, though the family also spent time in California.

Katherine Glass

Her role on the show as the naive cousin of Carolee Aldrich (Jada Rowland) and nurse Mary Jane "MJ" Match Carroll was replaced by Amy Ingersoll.

KBRX

KBRX-FM, a radio station (102.9 FM) licensed to O'Neill, Nebraska, United States

Kim Carroll

Carroll also composed music for the dark comedy 'Congratulations', the dramatic feature 'Gone Missing' along with the music for the short films 'Hellholes', 'Insex', 'The Pool', and 'La Carretera'.

KLNE

KLNE-FM, a radio station (88.7 FM) licensed to Lexington, Nebraska, United States

KLTQ

KOOO, a radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to serve La Vista, Nebraska, United States, which held the call sign KLTQ from 2002 to 2007

Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben

The organization supports financial need based scholarship programs, administers Nebraska's Pioneer Farm program, Good Neighbor Awards, and Ike Friedman Leadership Awards.

Loma, Nebraska

Loma was a filming location and the primary setting of the 1995 film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (as the fictional village of Snydersville, Nebraska).

Maryland Route 30

Carroll County is a heavily Republican county in a heavily Democratic state, and until the election of Bob Ehrlich as governor in 2002, the state had not had a Republican governor since Spiro Agnew left office in 1969.

Mike Ekeler

After seven years in private business for himself, Ekeler returned to the game when he began volunteer coaching for V. J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School in Omaha, Nebraska from 1999 to 2001, and as an assistant coach at Manhattan High School in Manhattan, Kansas in 2002, back in the town where he had played for Kansas State almost a decade before.

Mount Macdonald

The original name of the peak was Mount Carroll, but was renamed to honour the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald.

Nancy Carroll

For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Nancy Carroll has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1719 Vine Street.

Nebraska Outback

The outback is connected with the rest of Nebraska by way of four Nebraska byways: Bridges to Buttes Byway (Highway 20), the Outlaw Trail (Highway 12) and small sections of the Loup Rivers Scenic Byway (Highways 91/11), and the Sandhills Journey (Highway 2) in Blaine County.

Philip Abbott

A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Abbott was a secondary lead in several films of the 1950s and 1960s, including Miracle of the White Stallions (1963).

Pine Ridge, Nebraska

Whiteclay, Nebraska, known to the U.S. Census Bureau as "Pine Ridge, Nebraska"

Prairie schooner

Prairie Schooner a magazine published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Rebel Records

The label was founded in Mount Rainier, Maryland in 1959 by Dick Freeland, Bill Carroll and Sonny Compton.

Sawyer Brown

Sawyer Brown wrote "The Nebraska Song" in honor of Brook Berringer, a Nebraska Cornhuskers quarterback who died in a plane crash on April 18, 1996.

U2 Tower

As of September 2007, Carroll was appealing this in the Commercial Court.

United States presidential election in Nebraska, 2008

Democratic Mayor Mike Fahey of Omaha said that he would do whatever it takes to deliver the electoral vote tied to the 2nd Congressional District to Obama, and the Obama Campaign considered Nebraska's 2nd congressional district "in play".

Uranium mining in Wyoming

The uranium will be absorbed onto ion-exchange resin beads at the mine; the beads will be shipped to existing facilities of Power Resources Inc. (Cameco) in Wyoming and Nebraska for recovery of the uranium.

William B. Cassel

Cassel was appointed to the court on April 26, 2012 by Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, filling a position made vacant by the appointment of John M. Gerrard to the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.

WIVM-LD

WIVN-LD is carried by Time Warner Cable on channel 4 & channel 989 in Tuscarawas, Holmes & Carroll Counties.

Your Time Has Come

The song was inspired by the 1980s song "People Who Died," by The Jim Carroll Band, an emotional salute to the casualties of New York drug culture written by poet and singer Jim Carroll, who also wrote the autobiographical The Basketball Diaries.


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