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10 unusual facts about Elizabethtown


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Elizabeth Towne, New Thought writer and The Nautilus magazine editor

Elizabethtown, California

In 1852, a 10 to 15 family wagon train came up Beckwourth Pass (which was created by James Beckwourth, the first pioneer to this area).

Elizabethtown, New York

William Gilliland, an investor, bought up large tracts of land in Essex County.

Mary Post, American teacher and a pioneer of education in Arizona

Orlando Kellogg, U.S. Representative from New York, March 4, 1847 to March 3, 1849

Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

The town was primarily agricultural until the early 1900s, when the Klein Chocolate Company (now part of Mars, Inc.) and several shoe factories (the last of which closed in 1979) opened.

Joshua Jewett

He attended the common schools, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1836 commencing practice in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Joy Bale Boone

Joy Bale Boone spent most her life in Elizabethtown, Kentucky with her first husband, physician Shelby Garnett Bale.

The Town Talk

He has since worked for newspapers owned by Landmark Communications Inc. in Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabethtown, Kentucky; and for Knight Ridder Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania, and Bradenton, Florida.

Van Campen's Inn

It was located at the terminus of Jonathan Hampton's Military Road built in 1755-1756 from the colony's capital Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth, New Jersey) to Morristown to supply the colony's fortifications in the Minisink.


22nd Ohio Infantry

The regiment moved to Parkersburg, Virginia, May 30, then to Burning Springs, Elizabethtown, and to Three Forks.

Catherine McGoohan

She has appeared in films and television series such as The Odd Couple II, Something's Gotta Give, The Girl Next Door, Elizabethtown, General Hospital, Gilmore Girls.

Christ of the Ozarks

The Christ of the Ozarks is featured briefly in the 2005 movie Elizabethtown and in the 1988 movie Pass the Ammo.

Donald Kraybill

Before returning to Elizabethtown College, Kraybill served as provost and professor of Sociology and Anabaptist studies at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Adam Mosgrove House

A native of Enniskillen in Ireland, Mosgrove immigrated to the United States in 1816; he moved to Urbana after living in Elizabethtown and Lancaster, Ohio.

East Market District

Writer and director Cameron Crowe chose the East Market District to shoot scenes for his 2005 film Elizabethtown, starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.

Isaac Brokaw

Brokaw was born in Raritan in Somerset County, but would leave for Elizabethtown where he would work as an apprentice under Aaron Miller, a renowned clock maker.

John Y. Hill

In approximately 1825, he built the Hill House (later known as Brown Pusey House), a Federal-style building in Elizabethtown.

Kathleen Edwards

The track "Summerlong" also featured on the soundtrack of the movie Elizabethtown starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.

Michael G. Long

At Elizabethtown College he teaches courses on Christian social ethics, the Civil Rights Movement, and peace and conflict studies, and works with many notable colleagues including: Donald Kraybill and Jeffery D. Long, among others.

Mike Kurtz

On April 2, 1894, he took part in the robbery of Albert J. Knoll's Jersey Street saloon in Elizabethtown, New Jersey with "Dutch" Fred Ryder and ex-policeman Michael Malone.

North Carolina Highway 231

The first NC 231 was established in 1925 as a new primary routing from NC 21/NC 23, in Elizabethtown, to NC 20, in Acme.

Orlando Kellogg

Kellogg was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, until his death in Elizabethtown, New York, August 24, 1865.

Peter Van Brugh Livingston

Peter Van Brugh Livingston (bp. November 3, 1710 Albany, Albany County, New York - December 28, 1792 Elizabethtown, Union County, New Jersey) was a Patriot during the American Revolution.

Silas Halsey

Born in Southampton, he attended the public schools and studied medicine at Elizabethtown, New Jersey (later Elizabeth.) He returned to Southampton and practiced medicine from 1764 to 1776; he then resided three years in Killingworth, Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War, when he again returned to Southampton.

Sonora, Kentucky

It is included in the Elizabethtown, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Taylor Pond Wild Forest

Other parts of the Wild Forest are in the towns of Ausable, Peru, and Saranac in Clinton County, and the towns of Chesterfield, Elizabethtown, Essex, Jay, Lewis, St. Armand, Westport and Willsboro in Essex County.

Vine Grove, Kentucky

It is part of the Elizabethtown, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area.

West Point, Kentucky

West Point is part of the Elizabethtown, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Whitewater Township, Hamilton County, Ohio

No municipalities are located in Whitewater Township, although four unincorporated census-designated places lie in the township: Elizabethtown in the southwest, Hooven in the southeast, Blue Jay in the north, and Miamitown in the east.

William Singleton Young

He was reelected to the Twentieth Congress and served from March 4, 1825, until his death in Elizabethtown, on September 20, 1827, before the assembling of the Twentieth Congress.