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4 unusual facts about Chilmark


Chilmark

Chilmark, Massachusetts, United States, a town on the island of Martha's Vineyard

Chilmark, Massachusetts

Chilmark was named for Chilmark in the English county of Wiltshire, the ancestral home of the family of Governor Thomas Mayhew of Tisbury, Wiltshire, England.

Lower Chicksgrove

Most of the settlement at Lower Chicksgrove in the later 18th century was situated along a north-south lane west of the crossing of the Tisbury-Fovant and Chilmark-Ebbesborne Wake roads where the farmsteads belonging to Tisbury manor stood.

Martha's Vineyard Film Festival

The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival (MVFF) is an annual film festival founded in 2001 and held in Chilmark, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha's Vineyard.


Broadway Stores

In 1992, after one and one-half years of bankruptcy negotiations, financier Sam Zell and his Zell/Chilmark Fund completed the reorganization of the newly renamed Broadway Stores, Inc.

Reynolds Stone

In 1968 the Chilmark Press published an edition of The Mountains, a volume of poetry and prose by R. S. Thomas to complement a series of wood engravings made by Stone after John Piper in 1946.


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