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12 unusual facts about Deerfield


Badge of Military Merit

Daniel Bissell Jr.'s badge was discovered in an unidentified barn in Deerfield, New Hampshire in the 1920s by Captain William Willey, according to the American Independence Museum in Exeter, New Hampshire, who displayed the framed item at their historic site.

Bob Utley

His academic studies then went on hiatus until 1987 when he began a Doctorate in Ministry with Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois - which he completed in 1988.

Chicagoland Jewish High School

Due to growth in its student body, CJHS moved from its Morton Grove campus to a state-of-the-art high school in Deerfield in fall 2007.

Ephraim Faience Pottery

Ephraim Faience Pottery is an art pottery company founded in 1996 in Deerfield, Wisconsin, United States by Kevin Hicks and two partners who have since left the company.

Henry Brown Fuller

He left the Cornish Art Colony to live with his mother in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and died in 1934 in New Orleans.

Jack Jumping

Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, MA has been holding Jackjumping races at their Winter Carnival for over eighty years.

John Boyd Avis

Avis was born in Deerfield, New Jersey, the son of a New Jersey assemblyman, and the great-great grandson of a Revolutionary War soldier who had fought at Valley Forge.

Milton C. Pickens

During a training flight on May 26, 1944, Pickens lost altitude above Deerfield and circled the village's downtown while trying to regain altitude.

Peterboro Basket Company

The company's history dates to 1841, when Amzi Childs came to Peterborough from Deerfield, Massachusetts to work on the manufacture of lead pipe.

Philip Vickers Fithian

After convincing his father of the values of an advanced education, he enrolled at the local Presbyterian academy run by Deerfield Presbyterian minister Enoch Green.

Q. Todd Dickinson

Dickinson began his legal career as a patent and trademark lawyer with Baxter Travenol Laboratories in Deerfield, Illinois, and then took a job with the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania law firm of Blenko, Buell, Ziesenheim and Beck.

Shaun Gayle

On March 3, 2009, a Chicago woman, Marni Yang, 41, was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the death of Rhoni Reuter at Reuter's Deerfield condominium.


Avdy Andresson

Avdy Andresson (15 November 1899 in Viluvere, Estonia – 27 August 1990 in Deerfield, New Jersey, United States) was the Estonian Minister of War in exile from April 3, 1973 until two months before his death on June 20, 1990, and disputed Commander of Armed Forces from 14 October 1975.

Bernard Sarachek

Bernard "Red" Sarachek (born October 19, 1912, Bronx, New York; died November 14, 2005, Deerfield Beach, Florida) was a basketball coach at the Yeshiva University in New York City from 1940 to 1969 and a mentor of such famous coaches as Red Holzman of the New York Knicks and Lou Carnesecca of St. John's University.

Bobby Deerfield

Formula One auto racer Bobby Deerfield is a calculating, control-obsessed loner who has become used to winning the checkered flag on the track.

Brian Bram

Brian Bram, born May 9, 1955 in Chicago and raised in Deerfield, Illinois, played a minor role in the underground comix movement with his contributions to American Splendor, the comic book series written and published by Harvey Pekar.

Deerfield Academy

He stepped down in June 2006 and soon after assumed the position of Founding Headmaster at King's Academy in Madaba, Jordan, a school inspired in part by HM King Abdullah II's Deerfield years in the 1980s.

A short list of the best-known rivalries among American boarding schools would include AndoverExeter, GrotonSt. Mark's, LawrencevilleHill, and, perhaps tops for fierce observance, Deerfield–Choate.

Deerfield Beach High School

Allen West, Republican U.S. Representative for Florida's 22nd congressional district since 2011 and lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, taught U.S. history at Deerfield Beach High in the 2004–2005 school year.

Deerfield School

Deerfield Beach Elementary School in Deerfield Beach, Florida, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Broward County, Florida

Old Deerfield School in Deerfield Beach, Florida, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Broward County, Florida

George Washington Morse

In 1856 he and his family moved to the town of Deerfield in Steele County, Minnesota.

Level of Care Utilization System

It is published by the American Association of Community Psychiatrists and distributed by Deerfield Behavioral Health in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Philip Vickers Fithian

Fithian returned home to do advanced ministerial studies with Green at Deerfield rather than accept an invitation from College of New Jersey president John Witherspoon to stay and study with him at Princeton.

Saint Grottlesex

In contrast, the so-called academies, such as Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, and Milton, were generally founded in the late eighteenth century as places to "combine scholarship with more than a little Puritan hellfire" and, originally, were often the first educational step in preparing men for the Puritan ministry.

Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts

Notable features include the Bridge of Flowers, a former trolley bridge over the Deerfield River that is now maintained by the Shelburne Falls Women's Club as a floral display from April through October; and the glacial potholes of the Deerfield River.

The Gordie Foundation

Gordie went to Colorado after three years at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts where he participated in athletics, music and drama.

Township High School District

Township High School District 113 — the Lake County district of Deerfield High School and Highland Park High School

Tri-State Tollway

In addition, tolls at the Waukegan Toll Plaza were increased, and additional toll plazas built on exits south of Deerfield at Lake-Cook Road, Willow Road and Golf Road (Illinois Route 58).

Wisconsin Highway 73

About 4 miles north of Deerfield, it meets Interstate 94 at Exit 250, and continues north another 4 miles to Marshall where it has a brief cosigning with WIS 19.

Xavier University MBA Program

Xavier University also conducts MBA courses in off-campus locations in West Chester, Ohio and Deerfield Township, Ohio.