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15 unusual facts about Carroll County


Alvin Youngblood Hart

Born in Oakland, California, Hart had family connections with Carroll County, Mississippi, and spent time there in his childhood, hearing his relatives' stories of Charley Patton, "being around these people who were there when this music was going on".

Ayers, Illinois

Ayers, Carroll County, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Illinois

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.

Carroll County, Georgia

During the War between the States, the county provided the Bowdon Volunteers and the Carroll Boys, which were a part of Cobb's Legion.

Carroll County, Tennessee

The Carroll County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport in located four nautical miles (4.6 mi, 7.4 km) northwest of the central business district of Huntingdon, Tennessee.

Dave Foutz

David Luther Foutz was born in Carroll County, Maryland on September 7, 1856, the son of Solomon Augustus Foutz and Miriam Cook.

Hickory Level, Georgia

Hickory Level is a place in Carroll County, Georgia, USA.

John E. McCall

McCall was born in Clarksburg, Tennessee in Carroll County on August 14, 1859, son of Henry M. and Mildred Connally Bowlin McCall.

Marston, Maryland

Marston is a small "ville" in Carroll County, Maryland situated at the three-way crossroads of Maryland Route 407 and Marston Road; it is at this point that Marston Road is divided into North and South.

Robert Strawbridge

The Strawbridge Shrine, in Carroll County, Maryland at the edge of New Windsor, is named after Robert Strawbridge and is dedicated to preserve the history of his ministry.

Sandwich Fair

Carroll County's 4-H members can submit projects and show animals, and as of May 5, 2007, young equestrians will be allowed to mount and dismount in Dutch form.

Tom Ochiltree

Trained by Hall of Fame conditioner Wyndham Walden (founder of Bowling Brook Farm in Carroll County, Maryland), Tom Ochiltree won the Preakness Stakes in the last days of the great match races and the very year the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks were first run: 1875.

Union Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania

It is bordered by York County (West Manheim Township) to the east and by Carroll County, Maryland, to the south.

West Manheim Township, York County, Pennsylvania

The township occupies the southwestern corner of York County, with Adams County to the west and Carroll County, Maryland, to the south.

WIVM-LD

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


Arkansas Highway System

During this time, many motor inns, such as the Tall Pines Motor Inn in Carroll County, Arkansas or the Crystal River Tourist Camp became favored by motorists over roadside camping.

Bowling Brook

He was given the name of his trainer's Bowling Brook Farm at Middleburg in Carroll County, Maryland.

Burton L. French

Born in Carroll County, Indiana, French was the fourth of nine children and moved with his parents in 1880 to Kearney, Nebraska, and to Princeton, Idaho via San Francisco two years later.

Carrollton Township, Boone County, Arkansas

Between 1920 and 1980, the population of Boone County's Carrollton Township included the total population of the town of Alpena, even though Alpena is in both Boone County and in parts of two townships in Carroll County.

Ferdinand A. Brader

From drawings that survive it is known that Brader's Ohio pictures were done in 9 different adjoining counties: Portage, Medina, Wayne, Stark, Summit, Carroll, Columbiana, Mahoning and Tuscarawas continuing through 1895.

Frank Beamer

Beamer is also a direct descendant of Floyd Allen and the notorious Allen clan, the fierce mountain men who shot up the Carroll County, Va. courthouse in a spasm of violence in 1912 that left five people dead, including the judge, prosecutor and county sheriff.

Gibson County, Tennessee

From 1819 the area was part of Carroll County but, as settlement progressed, citizens petitioned for the formation of a new county.

Henryton State Hospital

Henryton State Hospital is a now-demolished hospital complex in Marriottsville, in southern Carroll County, Maryland, just across the Howard County line.

Joseph Cable

Cable was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853), while living in Carroll County.

Kearsarge North

Kearsarge North is a mountain located about 4 miles (6 km) northeast of North Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire.

Kentucky Route 320

KY 320 begins at a dead end at Lock No. 1 on the Kentucky River in Carrol County, heading to the west as two-lane undivided Lock Road.

Krushchev in Iowa Trail

Originally known as the Corn Diplomacy Trail, the Krushchev in Iowa Trail will be a paved recreational trail that runs through the counties of Guthrie and Carroll in Iowa along an abandoned Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line.

LGBT rights in Arkansas

The small town of Eureka Springs in Carroll County is the only incorporated place in Arkansas to allow domestic partnerships (since 2007) and healthcare coverage for domestic partners of city workers (since 2011).

Shiloh Museum of Ozark History

The geographic region covered by the museum includes the following six counties: Benton County, Boone County, Carroll County, Madison County, Newton County, and Washington County.