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41 unusual facts about Freeport


1851 Atlantic hurricane season

A small 90 mph (150 km/h) hurricane was first observed on June 25, about 75 miles (120 km/h) southeast of Freeport, Texas.

2009 Central American and Caribbean Age Group Championships in Athletics

However, it had to be relocated to Nassau, New Providence, because the reconstruction of the stadium in Freeport could not be completed in time.

This is already the third time, that the event is hosted by the Bahamas, after 1987 in Nassau, New Providence and 2001 in Freeport, Grand Bahama.

Albert Heinrich

Albert S. Heinrich, American aviator in Freeport, New York, who flew the first American monoplane, and designed the Heinrich Pursuit aircraft

Albert Tillman

He opened the world's first dedicated dive resort, The Underwater Explorers Society (UNEXSO) in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island.

Amien Rais

Rais led ICMI's Expert Council, but resigned in 1997 under pressure from Suharto because he argued on the Busang and the Freeport cases.

Andre Deveaux

Deveaux was born in Freeport, Bahamas, but he is a naturalized Canadian citizen who was raised in Welland, Ontario.

Bre-X

Bob Hasan, another Suharto acquaintance, negotiated a deal whereby Bre-X would have a 45% share, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold would run the mine, and Hasan would get a cut as well.

A week later, on March 26, 1997 the American firm Freeport-McMoRan, a prospective partner in developing Busang, announced that its own due-diligence core samples, led by Australian geologist Colin Jones, showed "insignificant amounts of gold".

Chuck Dunaway

After a brief time in Galveston and Freeport, Dunaway returned to Houston and his hometown favorite station KNUZ as a DJ.

Colette Bonheur

Colette Bonheur, whose real name is Colette Chailler, is a Quebec singer born in Montreal on September 20, 1927 and died in Freeport (Bahamas) on October 15, 1966.

Collin Mitchell

Collin Mitchell (born September 23, 1969 in Freeport, Bahamas) is a Canadian curler from Brooklin, Ontario.

Donnie McClurkin

He was ordained and sent out by Winans in 2001 to establish Perfecting Faith Church in Freeport, New York, where he is now Senior Pastor.

Edgar Harkness Gray

Upon his ordination he became the pastor of the Baptist Church in Freeport, Maine (1839).

Following ordination Gray served the Baptist congregations in Freeport, Maine and in Bath, Maine.

FCX

Freeport-McMoRan, a mining company whose NYSE ticker symbol is FCX

Frank Lazarus

In 1993, he was a consultant to a University Feasibility Study at the Port Authority of Freeport, Bahamas.

Freeport Jet Wash Jets

The Freeport Jet Wash Jets are one of the four women's GBFL franchises that play in Freeport, Bahamas.

Freeport-McMoRan

In 1935 the Board of Directors included chairman John Hay Whitney, Kidder, Peabody & Co., Eugene L. Norton, Langbourne M. Williams Jr. (president), Monro B. Lanier, Chauncey Stillman, Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller, David M. Goodrich.

Richard Adkerson is President and Chief Executive Officer of Freeport and James R. Moffett is the company's Chairman.

Freeport, Maine

Both U.S. 1 and Interstate-295 run directly through Freeport, the latter with three and a half exits.

Freeport, Minnesota

Garrison Keillor, creator of Lake Wobegon and host of A Prairie Home Companion, has written that Stearns County in general and Freeport specifically, in addition to other small Minnesota towns, were inspirations for his fictional town, Lake Wobegon.

Freeport, Nova Scotia

The community is final destination of actor Brad Pitt in the movie World War Z (2013), although this scene was not actually filmed in Freeport but Lulworth Cove in the UK.

Freeport, Pennsylvania

Donald R. Lobaugh, U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II

Hawksbill Creek Agreement

The Grand Bahama Port Authority was created to develop and administer the land and thus the city of Freeport was planned and built from scratch.

Kakamega Orphan Project

Friends of Kakamega, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Freeport, Maine, raises funds and organizes sponsorships to support these orphans in rural Kakamega, Kenya.

L.L.Bean Signature

L.L.Bean is a privately held mail-order, online and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.

Luis de Torres

The Luis de Torres Synagogue in Freeport, Bahamas is named after Luis de Torres, and there is a great amount of traditions on his life.

Lynn Ullom

Ullom left Cameron in 1987 to accept a teaching job at Lakeland High School in Freeport, Ohio.

MS Grandeur of the Seas

The remainder of the cruise was canceled and passengers were flown back to their point of origin from Freeport, Bahamas.

MS Maasdam

In April 2006 Maasdam emerged from drydock in Freeport, Bahamas after a multi-million dollar (US) refit.

MV John Hamilton Gray

The vessel operated casino cruises from Freeport, Texas in late 2001 and early 2002 then from Port Aransas, Texas, for the remainder of the 2002 season before being mothballed at Freeport, Bahamas, and placed for sale, following the failure of U.S. Coast Guard safety and U.S. government hygiene inspections.

Ric Frazier

Ric Frazier (born April 1971 in Freeport, Texas) is an American photographer and an advertising director specializing in underwater photography.

Richard Wayne Dirksen

Dirksen was born in Freeport, Illinois, the eldest son of Richard Watson Dirksen and Maude Logemann.

Satam al-Suqami

On May 19, Suqami and Waleed al-Shehri took a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Freeport, Bahamas where they had reservations at the Princess Resort.

Stars Football League

In Florida, the SFL also proposed a team named the "Orange" (initially in Tampa and then in Fort Pierce) and a team based at South County Stadium in Port St. Lucie, neither of which came to fruition; likewise, the plan to play a game in Freeport, Bahamas's Grand Bahama Stadium also never occurred.

Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko

At the time he was working as an antique dealer at 598 Madison Avenue, and he was living in Freeport, New York on Long Island.

Wallace Groves

Wallace Groves (c. 1902–30 January 1988) was a prominent financier, who, after his release from federal prison in 1944, moved to the Bahamas and there founded and operated the free trade zone, resort, and casino development Freeport on Grand Bahama Island.

Winston H. Bostick

Winston H. Bostick, born in Freeport, Illinois, received both his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.

WWG40

WWG40 (sometimes referred to as Bay City All Hazards) is a NOAA Weather Radio station that serves the Bay City/Freeport area and surrounding cities.

ZNS-TV

ZNS-TV's two transmitters - serving Nassau and Freeport - are the only over-the-air TV stations in the Bahamas; the rest of the country gets these channels (and a privately owned station) via Cable Bahamas, a private company which has an exclusive license to operate cable TV services until 2009.


Arthur F. Bentley

Arthur Fisher Bentley (October 16, 1870 in Freeport, Illinois – May 21, 1957 in Paoli, Indiana) was an American political scientist and philosopher who worked in the fields of epistemology, logic and linguistics and who contributed to the development of a behavioral methodology of political science.

Barna

Notably, Cormac Folan of Freeport in Bearna represented Ireland in Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Bill Whitney

In the years since he worked his way through the ranks at a variety of local radio stations including: WKEN in Dover, WGSM in Huntington, New York, WLIX in Islip, New York, and WGBB in Freeport, New York.

Brazosport High School

The high school serves Freeport, as well as surrounding Jones Creek, Oyster Creek, Quintana, and Surfside Beach.

Cabot Cove

This would place Cabot Cove 18 to 22 miles northeast of Portland, somewhere between Freeport and Brunswick (placing it in Cumberland County) and off of U.S. Route 1.

Cambridge Main Street Bridge

To meet this need, four bridges were built in the area: this bridge, the Freeport Bridge and Bridgeport Bridge in Kitchener, and the Caledonia Bridge (now renamed) in Caledonia.

Daniel C. Ferguson

In 1950 after earning an MBA from Stanford University he began his business carrier with Newell Rubbermaid and beginning in 1962, the affiliated Newell Companies, including Western Newell, Newell Window Furnishings and Newell Manufacturing were consolidated into a single corporation and was headquartered in Freeport, Illinois.

Daniel K. Ludwig

These were: the Hamilton Princess and Southampton Princess in Bermuda; the Bahamas Princess (formerly the King's Inn) and the Xanadu Princess Tower (formerly the International) in Freeport; the Acapulco Princess and the Pierre Marques in Mexico; and the Francis Drake in San Francisco.

Green Ronin Publishing

Other notable products include the Freeport, Thieves' World and The Black Company d20 settings, Mutants & Masterminds, Blue Rose, and True20.

Illinois Service

A new line, the Black Hawk to Dubuque, Iowa via Rockford, Freeport and Galena, based on a former service to Dubuque that ran from 1974 to 1981

Josef Spudich

He taught and coached in Sikeston, Missouri, Cairo and El Dorado Springs; then starting in 1942, at Freeport High School, Freeport, Illinois, where he was head football coach from 1951–1954.

MV John Hamilton Gray

The Lloyd's Registry shows the vessel as demolished on March 15, 2004; however, records indicate that the vessel departed Freeport on April 30, 2004, passing the Suez Canal on June 11 and being scrapped later that month.

North Luzon West Expressway

Tipo, Hermosa, Bataan
North Luzon Expressway (R-8) in Clark Logistics Area, Clark Freeport Zone, Angeles City

Paul Makanowitzky

Paul Makanowitzky (June 20, 1920 Stockholm - February 24, 1998 Freeport, Maine) was an American violinist, and violin teacher.

Peoli, Ohio

Situated between Newcomerstown and Freeport, it is made up of approximately ten houses and the Peoli Church (1870-c.1991), and the Peoli Cemetery—the final resting place of baseball legend Cy Young.

SiN Episodes

Areas that are featured in Emergence include the Freeport Docks, Sintek Supremacy Tower, and Radek's hidden drugs lab on board a beached, derelict oil tanker.

Texas State Highway 288

From the Harris-Brazoria County Line to Freeport, it is referred to as the Nolan Ryan Expressway, in recognition of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan who grew up in Alvin, Texas, which is not directly on this road.

TorilMUD

Brad McQuaid, with Kris’ permission, used it as the model for the city of Freeport in EverQuest.