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25 unusual facts about Falmouth


16th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

In the Battle of Crampton's Gap it was in the van and lost heavily; was held in reserve at Antietam; at Fredericksburg was posted on picket duty, and after the battle went into winter quarters near Falmouth.

35th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

In March, 1862, camp was broken for the Manassas movement and in April the 35th proceeded to Falmouth, Virginia.

7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Following the battle, the regiment helped garrison Harper's Ferry until the end of October, when it marched through the Loudoun Valley to Falmouth, Virginia.

82nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment arrived at Falmouth, Virginia late in November; participated in the battle of Fredericksburg; returned to its camp at Falmouth; was active at Chancellorsville in May, 1863; after a short rest at Falmouth marched to Gettysburg and there suffered fearful loss, 192 members out of 365 engaged, Col. Huston being numbered among the dead.

Albert Vander Veer

After passing a New York state examination he was commissioned in December, 1862, assistant surgeon of the Sixty-sixth Regiment New York Volunteers, and ordered to join his regiment at Falmouth, Virginia.

Britton Bath Osler

His father, Featherstone Lake Osler (1805-1895), the son of a shipowner at Falmouth, Cornwall, was a former Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and served on H.M.S. Victory.

Brood XIV

In 2008 in Massachusetts, Brood XIV severely damaged trees in Mashpee and Falmouth.

Diogo Antônio Feijó

The Brazilian deputies were unsuccessful, and Feijó, with five others, left Lisboa secretly for Falmouth, where, on 22 October 1822, they published a manifesto explaining their conduct.

Falmouth, Virginia

Chatham Manor, the 1771 home of William Fitzhugh and a Union headquarters during the Civil War, is located downstream from Falmouth, opposite the historic district of Fredericksburg.

Among the community's significant historic structures is Belmont, the home of American artist Gari Melchers, now a historic house museum administered by University of Mary Washington.

Jamaican local government election, 2012

It was decided by the independent candidate that the mayorship of Falmouth, the capital of Trelawny, would be awarded to the PNP with the JLP receiving the deputy mayor position.

James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn

He died, unmarried, from consumption at Falmouth, soon after landing from Lisbon, where he had been wintering in the warmer winter clime.

Jay Pina

Jay Pina (born May 2, 1964 in Falmouth, Massachusetts) is an American boxer.

Larinda

It was moved from its home to the launching point in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Lokata Company

The Ministry of Defence tried to requisition his patent, but he defied the secrecy order and went public and a public row arose about possible loss of employment making Lokata Watchmans in Falmouth, Cornwall where he lived.

The Lokata Company (pronounced low-kay-tah, "locator") was formed in the late 1970s in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.

Maurice Southgate

Fortunately, Southgate was able to swim away, being picked up by another vessel which later docked in Falmouth, Cornwall.

Norman Potter

Potter died of a heart attack in 1995 while bicycling in Falmouth.

Paul Harney

As his competitive playing days were winding down, Harney used his prize money to open his own course in East Falmouth, Massachusetts, which he owned until his death.

Shekerley Mountains

The range stretches for 15 km along the south coast of the island from near Johnsons Point in the west to Falmouth in the east.

Stephen H. Weed

From December 1862 through January 1863, he was stationed at Falmouth, Virginia.

The Bolitho novels

However, the Church of King Charles the Martyr, which occurs in the books, really does exist in Falmouth.

Twinkle Brothers

The Twinkle Brothers were formed in 1962 by brothers Norman (vocals, drums) and Ralston Grant (vocals, rhythm guitar) from Falmouth, Jamaica.

University of Health Sciences Antigua

The University of Health Sciences Antigua (UHSA) is a private, for-profit medical school located in Dowhill near Falmouth, Antigua, in the Caribbean.

Valmouth

The town's name is a parody of actual seaside towns in the southwest peninsula of Britain, such as Falmouth, Dartmouth, Teignmouth, Exmouth and Weymouth.


53rd Pennsylvania Infantry

The regiment wintered at Falmouth and did not to take part in the Mud March that January.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 17

US Bus 1 & 17 continues to run northwest until they reach US 1 where US BUS 1 terminates, but US BUS 17 joins and cross the Rappahannock River, and enters Falmouth.

Chris Hersch

From 2004 to 2012, Chris Hersch taught guitar, banjo, and general music at many schools in the Boston area: Powers Music School (Belmont, Massachusetts), Cape Cod Conservatory (Falmouth MA), Community Music Center of Boston (Boston), Brookline Music School (Brookline, Mass), and BU High School (Boston).

Clive David Smith – Yachtsman

'Bluebottle' is now on permanent loan to the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall.

Cyril Power

These were mainly landscapes of the surrounding areas, often Helford River and the Falmouth area of Cornwall as well as some floral studies.

Escape to Last Man Peak

First published in 1975, it chronicles the adventure of ten orphans who embark on a dangerous journey across Jamaica, from Spanish Town, St. Catherine to Last Man Peak located near Falmouth, Trelawny, after a deadly pneumonia epidemic kills the caretakers of their orphanage, and propels the country into a state of anarchy and desolation.

Falmouth Marathon

The Falmouth Road Race, a shorter race also held in Falmouth, Massachusetts

Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth

Lord Falmouth married Hannah Catherine Maria Smith, daughter of Thomas Smith, of Worplesdon, Surrey, and widow of Richard Russel, in 1736.

James Seddon

Born in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia, Seddon was a descendant of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling.

Jim Wearne

In spring 2002 at Castel Pendynas, Pendennis, Falmouth in Cornwall, Wearne was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd for services to Cornish Music in America (in Cornish: Rag gonys dhe Ylow Kernewek yn Ameryky) with the bardic name Canor Gwanethtyr - Singer of the Prairie.

John W. Menzies

Menzies served as a judge of the chancery court from 1873 to 1893 and afterwards resumed practicing law until his death in Falmouth, Kentucky on October 3, 1897.

Kingcraft

When Lord Falmouth decided to dispose of all his horses in 1884 Kingcraft was bought for 500 guineas by Lord Rossmore.

Loch Long One Design

They have been seen as far afield as Kyle of Lochalsh, Falmouth and even across the Atlantic; at least one was exported to the USA, and another was transported to Brazil by the artist Simon Starling and features as a piece of installation art!

Maine State Route 88

These include (again heading northward) Portland Country Club, Skillins garden center and the Falmouth Sea Grill (all in Falmouth); Town Landing Market (which was once featured in a national Coca-Cola commercial) (Falmouth Foreside); and the Lower Falls Landing plaza (Yarmouth).

Moncure D. Conway

His father was a wealthy gentleman farmer, a slaveholder, and county judge whose home, known as the Conway House, still stands in Falmouth at 305 King Street (aka River Road) along the Rappahannock River.

National Maritime Museum Cornwall

The 20th century when Falmouth was a jumping off point for D-Day and the first and last port of call for sailors like Robin Knox-Johnston, the first man to sail solo around the world, and Ellen MacArthur who broke the solo round the world sailing record having left from, and returned to the museum

Packet Newspapers

The earliest, founded in 1801, was the Cornwall Gazette & Falmouth Packet, which lasted under that title for less than two years when the proprietor, one Thomas Flindell (1767-1824), was imprisoned for debt.

Pendleton County, Kentucky

Other schools in the county are Sharp Middle School, named for Phillip Allen Sharp, American geneticist and molecular biologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993) and National Medal of Science (2004), located between Falmouth and Butler, Northern Elementary in Butler, and Southern Elementary in Falmouth.

A Union Army recruiting camp was established in Falmouth in September 1861.

Penryn railway station

Axle counters allow one train to be in the section between Penwithers Junction and Penryn, and another between Penryn and Falmouth Docks.

Presumpscot River

The first Maine paper mill was built on the river at Falmouth in 1731 by General Samuel Waldo.

Raid on Grand Pré

The next day Church left Grand Pré and went on to raid Pisiguit (present day Windsor and Falmouth, Nova Scotia, not far from Grand Pré), where he took 45 prisoners.

Romeyn B. Ayres

At Fredericksburg he commanded the corps artillery stationed across the Rappahannock River on Falmouth Heights.

Samuel Middleton Fox

The two homes belonged to his Falmouth grandparents, Sarah (born Lloyd) and Alfred Fox, who had a house in Falmouth called Woodhouse Place and a coastal residence and garden called Glendurgan (now a National Trust property).

Severn-class lifeboat

It so impressed the crew at Falmouth that they pressed the RNLI to station it there until their own boat was built, and so it was stationed there from January 1997 until December 2001 when it was replaced by Richard Scott Cox.

St Gluvias

The village is now a suburb on the northern edge of Penryn which is situated two miles northwest of Falmouth.

Stanley Armour Dunham

The most recent native European ancestor was Falmouth Kearney, a farmer who emigrated from Moneygall, County Offaly, Ireland, during the Great Irish Famine and settled in Jefferson Township, Tipton County, Indiana, United States.

The Bolitho novels

The fictitious Bolitho ancestral home near Falmouth was inspired by a house which Reeman saw and photographed in the 1960s at Philleigh near the King Harry Ferry in Cornwall.

The Gabbards

The Gabbards host a three-day Christian Music event, the Gabbard Homecoming, at the Griffin Center Amphitheater in Falmouth, Kentucky each August.

Thomas Corker

Thomas Corker (born Falmouth, Cornwall, England, died 1700) was a prominent English agent for the Royal African Company and worked in the Sherbro, Sierra Leone.

West Falmouth Train Station

The West Falmouth Train Station was located on Old Dock Road in West Falmouth, Massachusetts.