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5 unusual facts about Folsom


Cardwell v. American Bridge Co.

It is entirely within the state, and navigable for small steamboats and barges from its mouth to the Town of Folsom, a distance of thirty miles.

Crespano del Grappa

On September 29, 2000 the city of Folsom, Folsom, California in the USA and Crespano del Grappa, Italy signed the "Declaration of Friendship" at an official ceremony in Crespano del Grappa and entered into a Sister City relationship.

Folsom, New Jersey

E. B. Lewis, illustrator who won the 2006 Charlotte Zolotow Award for his illustrations of My Best Friend by Mary Ann Rodman.

James A. Johnston

Johnston wrote several books during his lifetime including "Prison Life is Different" where he documents his time spent as warden at Folsom, San Quentin, and Alcatraz.

Trek Aerospace

Trek Aerospace Inc is a small engineering company based in Folsom, California, USA.


Abby Folsom

Abigail Folsom (died 1867) was a 19th-century American feminist and abolitionist.

Catron County, New Mexico

Ake Site - A prehistoric archaeological location near the town of Datil in the San Augustine Basin, it has been dated during the Clovis period between 10999 BC 8000 BC, and during the Folsom period between 7999BC and 5999 BC, making it among the oldest inhabited sites in the American Southwest.

Collings

Collings Lakes, New Jersey, area within parts of Buena Vista Township and Folsom Borough in Atlantic County, and Monroe Township, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States

David Folsom

On January 11, 1995, Folsom was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated by Sam B. Hall, Jr..

Folsom High School

Down Beat has also top-ranked the Folsom High Jazz Choir nationally for the past 16 consecutive years.

Down Beat Magazine has ranked Folsom High School’s Jazz Band as the number one High School Big Band in the nation,an honor Folsom High has earned eight times since 1993.

Frank M. Folsom

Frank Marion Folsom (14 May 1894, Sprague, Washington - 12 January 1970, New York City) was an electronics company executive and was a permanent representative of the Holy See.

Gerrit Folsom

In 2000 Gerrit Folsom joined a team of producers to create Where the Heart Is starring Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, and Stockard Channing.

J. D. Folsom

Folsom was promoted to the active roster again on January 2, 2010 after linebacker Channing Crowder was placed on injured reserve.

Jeffrey Chessani

On June 17, 2008 Military Judge Colonel Steven Folsom dismissed all charges against Chessani on the grounds that General James Mattis, who approved the filing of the charges against him, had been improperly influenced by an investigator probing the incident.

Jim Folsom

In the 1997 TNT film George Wallace, directed by John Frankenheimer, Jim Folsom is played by Joe Don Baker, who was nominated for a CableACE award for his performance.

Jim Folsom, Jr.

Only weeks after Folsom assumed the office, state officials were approached by Mercedes-Benz about the possibility of locating its first manufacturing plant outside Germany in Alabama.

He won the Democratic nomination unopposed, and in the general election, he narrowly defeated Republican lawyer Luther Strange for a third, nonconsecutive four-year term in all with the previous six years he served as Lieutenant Governor, Folsom is the longest-serving Lieutenant Governor in Alabama history with ten years of service with his third term ending on January 17, 2011.

Joseph Libbey Folsom

In the Autumn of 1846, Lieutenant Folsom left West Point for California with the First Regiment of New York Volunteers, under the command of Colonel Jonathan D. Stevenson.

Folsom's controversial purchase of Rancho Rio de los Americanos from the heirs of a San Francisco merchant William Alexander Leidesdorff remained tied up in litigation for many years, eventually reaching the Supreme Court of California after Folsom's death.

McJunkin

George McJunkin (1851–1922), the African American cowboy in New Mexico who discovered the Folsom Site in 1908

Morris Kirksey

He worked as a staff psychiatrist for the state Department of Corrections, assigned to San Quentin and Folsom prisons.

New Hampshire Provincial Regiment

Capt. Folsom's company was able to capture the French baggage train and the French commanding officer Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau, as the French and Indian forces tried to disengage from Sir William Johnson's main force.

Rancho Rio de los Americanos

William Alexander Leidesdorff, U.S. Vice Consul at the Port of San Francisco, hired a farm manager and financed construction of four adobe dwellings on the site at today's River Bend Park, near Bradshaw Road and Folsom Blvd, in the city of Rancho Cordova.

Steve Pulcinella

Pulcinella was born and raised in Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania where he began strength training at his high school, Ridley High School in Folsom, with his cousin, now-bodybuilder Dave Pulcinella.

Vance T. Holliday

Research with B.B. Huckell was also carried out at several Folsom sites on the West Mesa area of the Albuquerque Basin.

WPTV-TV

At sign-on, the first words heard on-air were from Control Room Director Vern Crawford: "The power has just been turned on for WJNO-TV channel 5 by Frank M. Folsom, President of The Radio Corporation of America."

Zach Crouch

Zachary Quinn Crouch (born October 26, 1965 in Folsom, California) is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1988 season.


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