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13 unusual facts about Essex County


Annite

Annite was first described in 1868 for the first noted occurrence in Cape Ann, Rockport, Essex County, Massachusetts, US.

Cullen Jones

While there, he swam for coach Glenn Cassidy and set numerous Essex County swimming records.

Danalite

Danalite was first described in 1866 from a deposit in Essex County, Massachusetts and named for American mineralogist James Dwight Dana (1813–1895).

Essex County, Ontario

Also noticeable in some farmers' fields, are oil pumps, particularly near Belle River and Leamington, Ontario, in the northern and eastern parts of the county, respectively.

Most storms travel from Michigan into Ontario, allowing storm coverage from Detroit TV stations like WXYZ-TV ,WDIV and Fox 2.

Essex County, Vermont

In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, Essex County was the only county in Vermont to vote for George W. Bush, by 10.7% over John Kerry, who won statewide by a 20.1% advantage.

Essex Heritage

Essex Heritage is a non-profit organization charted to promote the cultural heritage of Essex County in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Harrison Cider Apple

In September 1976, a fruit variety collector from Vermont went in search of the Harrison and Campfield Cider Apples in the neighborhood of Orange Mountain in Essex County, New Jersey that Coxe had written about in 1817.

James Allen Latané

James Allen Latané (January 15, 1831 - February 21, 1902) was born in Essex County, Virginia.

Lynn Red Sox

The Essex County city fielded a Detroit Tigers farm club — the Lynn Tigers, initially managed by Kennedy — for the first three months of 1949 but withdrew from the league July 19.

Percival Pembroke

51 s/n K66-B4001 is located at the Essex County Airport in Fairfield, New Jersey.

Spencer Roane

Roane, Ritche and Dr. John Brockenbrough, all natives of Essex County, Virginia became known as the "Essex Junto" because of their political power in the county courts and the officeholders dependent on them.

United States presidential election in Vermont, 1948

Dewey did manage to win back sparsely populated Essex County, in the northeast of the state, which had defected to the Democrats and voted for Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944.


Bernard M. Shanley

His law career was quite extensive, and his professional memberships included Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the American Bar Association, the Essex County and Somerset County Bar Associations, and the American Judicature Society.

Chester B. McLaughlin

Chester Bentine McLaughlin (February 10, 1856 Moriah, Essex County, New York - May 12, 1929 Albany) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Chief Masconomet

He is known for his quitclaim deed ceding all the tribal land, which extended from Cape Ann to the Merrimack River, as far inland as North Andover, Massachusetts and Middleton, Massachusetts, and as far to the southwest as the Danvers River, to John Winthrop the Younger, his heirs and all the settlers of eastern Essex County for a sum of 20 pounds, about 100 dollars.

Clifton, Massachusetts

Clifton is an unincorporated village within the towns of Swampscott and Marblehead in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

Detroit–Windsor Truck Ferry

On the Windsor side of the river, the truck ferry entrance is on Sprucewood Road (County Road 40, CR 40), near the Windsor Salt Mine and Windsor Raceway, and can be accessed from Ojibway Parkway (CR 20).

Eldridge Hawkins

In the 1977 Democratic primary for the Senate seat, Hawkins and tennis star Althea Gibson challenged incumbent Frank J. Dodd, who had the support of Essex County Democratic organization under County Chairman Harry Lerner.

John Bogart

From 1877 on, he was engaged as Engineer for many important enterprises, among them the municipal works at New Orleans, Chicago, Nashville and Baltimore; the designs of the parks at Albany, N.Y., the Public State Grounds at Nashville, the West Side parks of Chicago and the park system of Essex County, New York.

Joseph Blunt

Joseph Blunt (February 1792, Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts – June 16, 1860, New York City) was an American lawyer, author, editor and politician from New York.

Joseph Cryan

Cryan was born on September 1, 1961, in East Orange, the son of John Cryan, an immigrant to the United States from County Roscommon, Ireland, who would later be elected to the General Assembly and served as Sheriff of Essex County.

Linda Dean Campbell

Since 2007 she has been a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the 15th Essex – consisting Precincts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the town of Methuen, Essex County.

Massachusetts Route 62

It shares a quarter-mile long concurrency with Route 28 before continuing eastward through the town into Essex County and the town of Middleton.

N. Bowditch Blunt

Nathaniel Bowditch Blunt (ca. 1804, Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts – July 17, 1854, Lebanon Springs, Columbia County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

New Jersey Route 124

Route 124 crosses the Passaic River and runs along the border of Millburn, Essex County to the north and Summit, Union County, coming to a large interchange with the Route 24 freeway and CR 649 (John F. Kennedy Parkway).

Robert Bierenbaum

Bierenbaum, a licensed pilot, took a two-hour flight in a Cessna 172 from Essex County, New Jersey over the Atlantic Ocean on the day that Gail had vanished.

Susan Tucker

Tucker served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1982 to 1992, in the Senate from 1999 to 2011, representing the district of Second Essex and Middlesex which includes Lawrence and Andover in Essex County and Dracut and Tewksbury in Middlesex County.

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.