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4 unusual facts about Claiborne


Claiborne, Alabama

The coming of the American Civil War saw the construction of batteries along the lower Alabama River and at Claiborne.

Claiborne, Maryland

In 1938 the ferry route was changed to run from Claiborne to Romancoke on Kent Island, and then Matapeake on Kent Island to Sandy Point, on the western shore.

Its name can be traced back in honor of William Claiborne, a fur trader who founded an English settlement on nearby Kent Island in 1631.

Matthew Tilghman

Matthew died at his home Rich Neck, near Claiborne, Maryland on May 4, 1790 and was buried in a family cemetery there.


17th Ward of New Orleans

Going roughly from the river to the lake, the 17th Ward includes the Carrollton Riverbend area, Upper or West Carrollton with the noted Oak Street commercial area, the Leonidas neighborhood, Palmer Park at Carrollton and Claiborne, Northwest Carrollton, Hollygrove and Dixon neighborhoods (known for producing a number of rap music artists, such as Lil Wayne, Mack Maine, Fiend, and DJ Hollygrove.

Arcadia, Louisiana

Danny Roy Moore (born 1925), former state senator from Bienville and Claiborne parishes

Claiborne Avenue

The oldest section of Claiborne Avenue runs through the Tremé neighborhood; in several phases there had been a street named for Governor Claiborne since the neighborhood was first developed in the early nineteenth century.

Claiborne Fox Jackson

Claiborne Jackson son of Dempsey Carroll and Mary Orea "Molly" (Pickett) Jackson, was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, where his father was a wealthy tobacco farmer and slaveholder.

Danny Roy Moore

From 1948 to 1960, Moore's seat was held by William M. Rainach of Summerfield in Claiborne Parish, who was an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in the 1959 Democratic primary.

David T. Caldwell

The Second Judicial District also includes Bienville and Claiborne parishes; each of the three parishes in the district has a separate judge based in Jonesboro, Arcadia and Homer, respectively.

Ferdinand Claiborne Latrobe

Latrobe was born in Baltimore, the son of John H.B. Latrobe and Virginia Charlotte Claiborne, and the grandson of the American architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

Herbert Pell Cup

The Herbert Claiborne Pell Cup, established in 1958, is presented by the Ida Lewis Yacht Club, of Newport, Rhode Island, to the winning Challenger for the America's Cup.

Kenneth Volentine

The company claimed copyright-infringement because inmates and visitors to the Claiborne Parish Detention Center for a $3 fee could purchase pirated copies of recordings by such performers as Eminem, John Tesh, and George Strait.

KSHV-TV

The two stations share studio facilities located on Jewella Avenue, between Claiborne Avenue and Ninock Street, on the western side of Shreveport; KSHV's transmitter located near Mooringsport (southeast of Caddo Lake).

Loretta Claiborne

The portrait of Mrs. Shriver depicts her with four Special Olympics athletes, including Loretta Claiborne, and one Best Buddies participant and was painted by David Lenz, the winner of the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition in 2006.

Claiborne was born partially blind and was unable to talk or walk until the age of four.

Maryland Route 33

The state highway was extended north to MD 404 in Matapeake on Kent Island when the western terminus of the ferry from Claiborne was moved to Romancoke in the late 1930s.

New Orleans Regional Transit Authority

The buses that have been restored to operation have returned to several major thoroughfares, including Elysian Fields Avenue, Esplanade Avenue, Claiborne Avenue, St. Claude Avenue, Judge Perez Drive, General Meyer Avenue, Lapalco Boulevard, Robert E. Lee Boulevard, and the Chef Menteur Highway.

Preston Claiborne

Claiborne attended Newman Smith High School in Carrollton, Texas, where he played for the school's baseball team.

Robert F. Kennon

Kirkpatrick's widow, Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick, is a native of Claiborne Parish and a past political figure in her own right.

The Irresistible Revolution

Claiborne's writing style relies heavily on personal anecdotes and quotations from Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., theologians and writers such as Walter Wink, John Howard Yoder, Francis of Assisi, and C.S. Lewis, as well as The Bible.

Topsider

Topsider stood his entire career at Claiborne Farm and died there on October 18, 1992 as a result of a hernia in his diaphragm.

Tulane/Gravier, New Orleans

A subdistrict of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: St. Louis Street to the north, North Claiborne Avenue, Iberville Street, North and South Derbigny Street, Cleveland Street, South Claiborne Avenue to the east, the Pontchartrain Expressway to the south and South Broad Street to the west.

V. E. Howard

Howard, at the age of eighty-six in 1995, on the advice of his physicians, transferred theInternational Gospel Hour to the West Fayetteville Church of Christ in Fayetteville in Lincoln County in southern Tennessee, under the minister Winford Claiborne.


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