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unusual facts about Cumberland, Rhode Island


Cynthia Farrelly Gesner

19 July 1962 in Cumberland, Rhode Island, is an American film actress and entertainment lawyer, known for appearing in the film Kingpin which was directed by her brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly.


Awashonks

Awashonks (also spelled Awashunckes, Awashunkes or Awasoncks) was a female sachem (chief) of the Sakonnet (also spelled Saconet) tribe in Rhode Island.

Baron Ellenborough

In 1844 he was created Viscount Southam, of Southam in the County of Gloucester, and Earl of Ellenborough, in the County of Cumberland.

Battle of Fort Cumberland

Allan's work was made more difficult by the arrival of Colonel Goreham and his troops to refortify Fort Cumberland, and by the activities of Michael Francklin, a former Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and a vocal Loyalist.

Battle of Petitcodiac

During Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755), on August 28, Monckton sent Major Joseph Frye with an expedition of 200 provincial militia from Fort Cumberland in two armed sloops, with instructions to clear Acadians settlements on the Petitcodiac River.

Bunty James

Bunty James (born 1933, Maryport, Cumberland, England) is a former British television presenter who is best known for her appearances on the educational children's television science programme How in the 1960s and 1970s with Jack Hargreaves, Jon Miller and Fred Dinenage.

Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park

When Union Major General Ambrose Burnside attacked the Cumberland Gap and Knoxville, Tennessee, Camp Nelson's distance from the Gap and Knoxville, combined with lack of railroads and the weather, hampered the Union advance.

Charles, Providence, Rhode Island

By the 19th century, the improvement in infrastructure and proximity to the West River caused corporations such as the Silver Spring Bleaching and Dyeing Company to move to the area.

Charter Oak State College

Notable alumni include former professional football player Marvin Jones, Oklahoma State Representative Jason Murphey, Rhode Island State Representative Larry Valencia, and Connecticut television news anchor Al Terzi.

Christina Goulter

Between 1994 and 1997 Goulter served as an Associate Visiting Professor of Strategy at the US Naval War College in Rhode Island.

Cookeville Railroad Depot

Although Crawford died shortly thereafter, his sons continued his work, and managed to extend the tracks to Monterey, at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau.

Cumberland County Biker/Hiker Trail

The Cumberland County Biker/Hiker Trail is a Pennsylvania rail trail at Pine Grove Furnace State Park and is almost entirely on the "Old Railroad Bed Road" between Fuller Lake and Laurel Lake.

Cumberland County, Kentucky

Cumberland County was the birthplace of Joel Cheek who later made Maxwell House coffee.

Cumberland County, Maine

The video game Trauma Team takes place in Cumberland County in the year 2020, referencing Portland and Portland's Back Cove.

Cumberland Gap, Tennessee

In 1888, a work camp was established at Cumberland Gap by Scottish-born entrepreneur Alexander Arthur (1846–1912) to house workers needed to build a tunnel for the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville Railroad.

Cumberland Island National Seashore

Cumberland Island National Seashore preserves most of Cumberland Island in Camden County, Georgia, the largest of Georgia's Golden Isles.

Cumberland Presbyterian Center

Chick-fil-A purchased the original Memphis Cumberland Presbyterian Center property with the intention of developing a restaurant on the site.

Cumberland Presbytery

History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988, by Matthew H. Gore, Joint Heritage Committee of Covenant and Cumberland Presbyteries.

Cumberland Subdivision

At its east end, the Cumberland Subdivision becomes the Metropolitan Subdivision; at its west end (at Mexico, Maryland) it becomes the Cumberland Terminal Subdivision.

Cumberland-Galleria

The Atlanta Opera, founded in 1979, has moved its base to this location.

Danny Walsh

Born in the Cumberland mill village of Valley Falls, Walsh was a clerk in a Pawtucket hardware store before he entered bootlegging in 1920.

Eastern Distribution Center

Tenants at DDC’s New Cumberland base include all branches of the Armed Forces.

Eugene Ballet

Ms. Pimble's work has been performed by Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Omaha, Washington Ballet, Nevada Dance Theatre, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Kansas City Ballet, State Ballet of Rhode Island, and Dance Galaxy, among others.

Felix Zollicoffer

Zollicoffer moved west and established an encampment at Mill Springs, Kentucky (near present day Nancy, Kentucky) on the south bank of the Cumberland River.

Forbes Road

In contrast to the Forbes Road's successors, the National Road, now US 40, largely followed Braddock's Road across the Appalachian Mountains from Cumberland into Pennsylvania.

Fort Cox, West Virginia

Cox's fort and ferry later served as a means of transportation for General Edward Braddock and his soldiers en route to Cumberland from Winchester during the French and Indian War.

Fred J. Shields

He was acting as president of the college there when he left for North Scituate, Rhode Island to replace President J.E.L. Moore at the Eastern Nazarene College on the advice of John W. Goodwin.

George Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham

Lord Wittenham married Hilda Georgina, daughter of Sir Frederick Graham, 3rd Baronet, of Netherby in Cumberland, in 1895.

Howes Brothers

They took pictures across New England, particularly in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Humphrey Fleming Senhouse

His grandfather, Humphrey Senhouse of Netherhall, Cumberland, married Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Sir George Fleming, bishop of Carlisle.

James Lowther

Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet (1673–1755), Member of Parliament for Appleby, Carlisle, and Cumberland

James Pollard Espy

After leaving the University in 1808 he taught an academy at Cumberland, Maryland.

Johnnie Armstrong

He burnt Netherby in Cumberland in 1527, in return for which William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre burnt him out at Canonbie in 1528; and Gavin Dunbar, the Archbishop of Glasgow as well as Chancellor of Scotland, intervened with an excommunication for Armstrong, whose activities made the central authority look weak and were a hindrance to diplomacy with England.

Judsonia, Arkansas

Though the school died in 1883, the town streets still bear the names of several well-known 19th-century Baptists: Judson and Hasseltine (after Adoniram Judson and his wife, Ann Hasseltine Judson), Wayland (after Francis Wayland, president of Brown University in Rhode Island), Wade (after missionary Jonathan Wade) and Boardman (after missionary George Boardman, whose widow, Sarah Hall Boardman became Judson's second wife).

Louisa Woosley

Almost a hundred years after Louisa's ordination, the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination elected their first female General Assembly moderator, Beverly St. John.

Lucy Isabelle Marsh

Marsh married Walter Colwell Gordon, a medical doctor, in 1910, and moved to Providence, Rhode Island.

Maud Karpeles

In 1892 a women's settlement had been created in Cumberland Road, Canning Town the purpose of which was to enable the poorest girls to take part in sport and cultural activities.

Maurice Ruddick

Maurice A Ruddick (1912–1988) was an Afro-Canadian miner and a survivor of the 1958 Springhill Mining Disaster, an underground earthquake, or "bump" as the miners call it, in the Springhill mine in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

Milton Semer

He was lawyer for Fernand St. Germain, Democratic U.S. Representative from Rhode Island, during an ethics investigation; St. Germain was cleared of all charges in 1987.

Mount Savage, Maryland

A small blue-collar community, Mount Savage lies at the base of Big Savage Mountain in the Allegheny Mountains, between the cities of Frostburg and Cumberland.

New Cavendish Club

It is located at 44-48 Great Cumberland Place in the Fitzrovia district.

New Embassy Theater

The New Embassy Theatre is a performance theater located in the downtown mall of Cumberland, Maryland at 49 Baltimore St. The theater mounts live performances of classic theatre fare such as Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera and Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, as well as lesser-known work such as "The Mystery of Irma Vep" and "The Lady In Question," original works and local historical plays.

Russell County, Ontario

Cumberland Township became part of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton in 1969, and is now part of the single-tier city of Ottawa.

Russell Rea

Rea was the third son of Daniel Key Rea from Eskdale in Cumberland and his wife Elizabeth, who was the daughter of Liverpool shipbuilder Joseph Russell.

Saint Francis' Satyr

It is a subspecies of N. mitchellii and is only known from a single metapopulation on Fort Bragg military base in Hoke and Cumberland Counties.

Solway Firth Spaceman

On 23 May 1964, Jim Templeton, a firefighter from Carlisle, Cumberland (now part of Cumbria), took three photographs of his five-year-old daughter while on a day trip to Burgh Marsh.

Thayer Street

Thayer Street in Providence, Rhode Island is a popular destination for students of the area's nearby schools of Brown University, Moses Brown School, Wheeler School, RISD, Providence College, Johnson & Wales University, and Rhode Island College.

The Church on Cumberland Road

"The Church on Cumberland Road" is a song written by Bob DiPiero, John Scott Sherrill and Dennis Robbins, and recorded by American country music group Shenandoah.

USS Canonicus

Four ships of the United States Navy have been named Canonicus for Canonicus, a chief of the Narragansett Indians, who befriended Roger Williams, and presented him with a large tract of land for the Rhode Island colony.

William Dalston

Dalston was the son of Sir George Dalston of Dalston Hall, near Carlisle, Cumberland and his wife Catharine Thornworth.

WomanStats Project

The Project has published articles in International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Peace and Conflict, Journal of Peace Research, Political Psychology, Cumberland Law Review, and World Political Review, and has a forthcoming book from Columbia University Press.


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