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9 unusual facts about Fayette


David V. Mitchell

From September 1968 to June 1970, Mitchell taught English, world literature, and journalism at Upper Iowa College in Fayette, Iowa.

DeWayne Frazier

DeWayne Frazier is the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Campbellsville University after serving the past three years as the Senior Vice President for International Programs (SVP for IP) at Upper Iowa University (UIU) in Fayette, Iowa.

Eight Witnesses

Toward the end of June, 1829, at the Peter Whitmer, Sr. home in Fayette, New York, Joseph Smith (with Oliver Cowdery as scribe) finished the translation of the Book of Mormon.

Horace Mellard DuBose

He served the following appointments in Mississippi: Chotard Circuit (1877-79) and Fayette Circuit (1879-80).

John H. Mickey

He married as his first wife, on September 10, 1867 at Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, Morinda McCray, born April 8, 1849 at Fayette, Indiana, the daughter of James McCray and Mary Harlan.

Spencer Darwin Pettis

Pettis moved west in 1821, settling in central Missouri's Boonslick region, opening a law practice in the Howard County seat of Fayette, Missouri.

Strickland v. Sony

In March 2005, Thompson announced he was filing a lawsuit on behalf of the families of two of the three victims in Fayette, Alabama.

Upper Iowa University

Established in 1857, Upper Iowa University (UIU) is a private institution of higher education with its residential campus located in northeast Iowa, United States near the Volga River in the rural community of Fayette, where around 900 students are enrolled.

Yellowstone Lake State Park

Located near Blanchardville in Lafayette County, in the town of Fayette, the man-made lake is sustained by the Yellowstone River which enters on the northwest side, and the man-made dike built on the southeast side.


Alta, West Virginia

Alta, Fayette County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia

Barrett Rich

Barrett Rich is a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 94th District, encompassing Fayette, Hardeman and Tipton.

Braden

Braden, Tennessee, town in Fayette County, Tennessee, United States

Bridgeville, Pennsylvania

Jenna Morasca, winner of Survivor: The Amazon (resident of South Fayette Township, which uses the Bridgeville mailing address)

Château de la Grange-Bléneau

Eight years after La Fayette's death, his grandson Jules de Lasteyrie (1810–1883) married Olivia de Rohan-Chabot (1813–1899), the daughter of the émigré Louis de Rohan, Vicomte de Chabot, and Lady Charlotte Fitzgerald, daughter of the second Duke of Leinster.

Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church

Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church, also known as United Church of Fayette, is a historic Evangelical and Reformed church located at Fayette in Seneca County, New York.

David Holsinger

The fourth movement, titled "Chasing the Band Bus on MO240" includes "Washington and Lee Swing", the fight song for Fayette High School.

Dixie, West Virginia

Dixie, Nicholas County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Nicholas and Fayette counties

Dolores Gresham

Her Senate District 26 encompasses the counties of Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, McNairy and Wayne in the western part of the state.

Fayette County, Tennessee

Fayette County is part of the Memphis, TN–MSAR Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Fayette County, Texas

Fayette County is the location of the real Chicken Ranch, which was the basis of the musical and feature film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

KTLH

KSSZ, a radio station (93.9 FM) licensed to serve Fayette, Missouri, United States, which held the call sign KTLH from June 1994 to September 1996

Mon–Fayette Expressway

The Southern Beltway is planned to be a high-speed east-west link between the Mon–Fayette Expressway, Interstate 79, U.S. Route 22, Interstate 376, and Pittsburgh International Airport.

Mon–Fayette Expressway Bridge

The Mon–Fayette Expressway Bridge, officially the Ronald C. "Smokey" Blakewell Bridge is a high-level girder bridge that carries vehicular traffic across the Monongahela River between Luzerne Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania and Centerville in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

National Trail Conference

Founded in 1935, the National Trail Conference was named after the National Road, which runs through the heart of the conference in Effingham and Fayette Counties and coincides with U.S. Route 40.

Price Hill, West Virginia

Price Hill, Fayette County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fayette and Raleigh counties

Rib Lake, Wisconsin

In 1891, Fayette Shaw started a tannery in Rib Lake, which used tannic acid from locally harvested hemlock bark to tan hides from as far away as South America to make leather.

Round Top, Texas

Round Top is also the home of the oldest building in Fayette County, Moore's Fort, which was moved there from nearby La Grange.

Southern State Community College

The college is divided into four campuses located in Sardinia (South), Washington Court House (Fayette), Hillsboro (Central), and Wilmington (North campus), Ohio.

Thaddeus Mosley

Most notable has been the Touchstone Center for Crafts in Farmington, Fayette County, where he has taught wood sculpture every summer for more than 20 years.

Virginia State Route 57

Just after passing the WHEE radio tower, the state highway enters the city of Martinsville, its name changes to Fayette Street, and the road curves northeast under the railroad track toward downtown.

West Union, Iowa

West Union is the home of the North Fayette Valley Community School district, which comprises the communities of West Union; Clermont; Elgin; Wadena; Hawkeye; Fayette, the unincorporated town of Alpha and the surrounding rural areas.

Whitewater Memorial State Park

Four counties gave up part of their land so that the state of Indiana could create the memorial park: Fayette, Franklin, Union and Wayne.

WVexplorer

Later that year, Sibray, as publisher, was named in a trademark suit filed by the Fayette County New River Gorge Bridge Day Commission over use of the name "Bridge Day," 3 which had been employed since 2002 by the publisher of "wvbridgeday.com."


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