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11 unusual facts about Englewood


Area code 415

For a short time in the early 1950s, area code 318 was temporarily used, initially by customers in Englewood, New Jersey participating in the first customer direct distance dialing experiment to reach San Francisco as well as some areas north of the Golden Gate.

Brad Lidge

Lidge currently resides in Englewood, Colorado, with his wife, Lindsay, and their two children, daughter Avery Grace and son Rowan Thomas.

Eleanor King

King was a member of the Congress on Research in Dance, and director of Mino Nicolas' American Dance Repertory Theater, a position she held until her death on February 27, 1991, aged 85, in Englewood, New Jersey.

Englewood Township, New Jersey

On March 17, 1899, the remainder of Englewood Township was combined with parts of Ridgefield Township to form Englewood, New Jersey (City).

Englewood, Kansas

The northern terminus was actually established in 1912 at Forgan, Oklahoma, then later rail service to Forgan ended in 1973, as Altus, Oklahoma became the northern terminus of the successor company.

Joseph Schacht

Joseph Franz Schacht, born in Ratibor, 15 March 1902, died in Englewood, 1 August 1969, was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York.

May Maxwell

Mary "May" Maxwell (née Bolles; born 14 January 1870 in Englewood, New Jersey; died 1 March 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an early American member of the Bahá'í Faith.

Mary Ellis Bolles was born to John Bolles and Mary Martin Bolles, in Englewood, New Jersey.

Palisades Mountain House

The Palisades Mountain House was a hotel located atop the palisades in Englewood, New Jersey during the late 19th century.

Providence St. Mel School

A charter school was added in Chicago's Englewood community area during Fall 2006 and is known as Providence Englewood.

Tom Jorgensen

Jorgensen attended Parker High School in the Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.


Azalea Park, Florida

Schools within the neighborhood include Azalea Park Elementary School, Chickasaw Elementary School, Dover Shores Elementary, Englewood Elementary School, Stonewall Jackson Middle School, and Colonial High School.

Bruce McKenna

McKenna, a native of Englewood, New Jersey, is the son of paleontologist Malcolm McKenna and Priscilla McKenna, who had served as Englewood's City Council President.

Congregation Beth Israel Abraham Voliner

Perl had received his semicha (rabbinic ordination) from Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and had previously served as Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, New Jersey.

Englewood High School

Lemon Bay High School, the only public high school in Englewood, Florida

Helicon Home Colony

Helicon Home Colony was an experimental community formed by author Upton Sinclair in Englewood, New Jersey, United States, with proceeds from his novel The Jungle.

John M. Woolsey

Born in Aiken, South Carolina to William Walton Woolsey and Katherine Buckingham Convers Woolsey, Woolsey attended private school in Englewood, New Jersey and Phillips Academy.

Kappa Alpha Pi

Kappa Alpha Pi National Fraternity, a secondary school fraternity founded in 1904 at Englewood High School in Chicago, Illinois

Koko Jones

She played percussion professionally at the early age 13 with a group called "Spoonbread" who were signed to All Platinum Records of Englewood, NJ.

Kurt Schaffenberger

While working for Binder's studio, which was located in Englewood, New Jersey, Schaffenberger took over an apartment from the local high school football coach, Vince Lombardi (who had yet to achieve success in the National Football League).

Lil' Miss murder

Entering the DNA profile into law enforcement's CODIS database got a hit showing that it belonged to Dale Wayne Eaton, 57, of Moneta, Wyoming, who, at the time, was incarcerated in Englewood federal prison at Littleton, Colorado, on an unrelated weapons charge.

Lyndon Woodside

Lyndon Woodside (March 23, 1935, Florence, South Carolina-August 23, 2005, Englewood, New Jersey) was the 10th conductor of the Oratorio Society of New York.

Sheila Frazier

While living in Englewood, some of her neighbors included Clyde McPhatter, Van McCoy, The Isley Brothers, and Dolly and Jackie McLean.

The Santaroga Barrier

Wolfe, G.K. "Santaroga Barrier, The – Frank Herbert", in Magill, Frank Northern (editor) (1979) Survey of Science Fiction Literature Salem Press, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp.

Wayne A. Cauthen

Wayne Cauthen grew up in Englewood, New Jersey and graduated Cum Laude from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, and attended graduate school at the University of Colorado.