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12 unusual facts about Goshen


Goshen, Connecticut

Asaph Hall, astronomer credited with discovering the moons of Mars

Goshen, Kentucky

Founded in 1849, the community was first known as Saltillo for the Mexican city near the 1847 Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican–American War.

Goshen, New Hampshire

John Williams Gunnison, US Army officer and explorer of the American West

Goshen, New York

It is the birthplace of the current Army Chief of Staff, and next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey.

Goshen, Oregon

In 1884, Goshen was a station on the Oregon and California Railroad (Later the Siskiyou Line of the Southern Pacific, and today the Central Oregon and Pacific), and the town had a store, blacksmith shop, and a school.

The Methodist Episcopal Church of Goshen was built in 1910; as of 1990 is was a private residence.

Housatonic Council

The Housatonic Council owns and operates Edmund D. Strang Scout Reservation in Goshen, Connecticut.

Edmund D. Strang Scout Reservation (ESSR), formally called Housatonic Scout Reservation (HSR), is located in Goshen, Connecticut.

John Eubank

Eubank continued to play in the minor leagues for several years, concluding his career with the Grays from Goshen, Indiana.

Lawrie Tatum

He was born to Quaker parents George and Lydia Tatum near Mullica Hill, New Jersey in 1822 and moved to Goshen, Ohio in 1831 followed by a move to Cedar County, Iowa in 1844.

Wallace Wilkerson

Authorities quickly captured Wilkerson and kept him under guard in Goshen to prevent him from being lynched.

Willamette Leadership Academy

Willamette Leadership Academy is a public charter military academy in Lane County, in Goshen, in Eugene, Oregon, United States.


Byron W. Bender

After spending 1953–1959 teaching in the Marshall Islands in what was then the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under U.S. administration, he returned to teach linguistics and anthropology at Goshen College in 1960–1962 before completing a Ph.D. in linguistics from Indiana University in 1963.

Goshen Road

The original Goshen Road turned north toward modern Opdyke, following the Big Muddy/Wabash Divide.

Goshen Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio

Within the township's boundaries is the old village of Goshen which was one of the settlements of the Christian Munsee.

Goshen Township is named after the Land of Goshen, whose name was meant to imply fertility of the soil.

Grant Hayunga

Since the first lineup, Goshen has had a revolving cast, with the exception of the current band including Hayunga, Elizabeth DeCicco, Jim Palmer on drums and Jason Reed on bass.

Harvey A. Moyer

On March 29, 1909, Moyer received telegrams of congratulation from E. E. Cady of Goshen, New York and D. W. Fields of Brockton, Massachusetts, the latter stock raiser having recently paid the record price of $8,000 for a Holstein-Friesian cow.

Herbert River

The second season of the U.S. reality television series, Survivor, was filmed on the "Goshen" cattle station in the upper Herbert River region, near the Blencoe Falls and Herbert River Gorge.

Indiana State Road 119

SR 119 from Wakarusa to Goshen was part of the Plymouth–Goshen Trail.

Jon Woods

Restricted by term limits that allow only 3 terms in the House of Representatives, Woods decided to run for the Arkansas State Senate from District 7, which includes most of Springdale, Johnson, Tontitown, Goshen, Elkins, Durham and parts of Fayetteville and all of eastern Washington County.

New Goshen, Indiana

Future Indiana Senator, Birch Bayh, was a resident and graduated from New Goshen High; New Goshen High closed in 1959 and was consolidated into today's West Vigo High School.

Phillips-Williams Fork Reservoir Site

Projectile points were found on the site from the James Allen complex (generally 9350 – 7900 before present) and Goshen / Plainview (generally 11,000 before present).

Stellaland

Stellaland, officially known as the Republic of Stellaland (Dutch: Republiek Stellaland) from 1882–1883 and, after unification with the neighbouring State of Goshen, as the United States of Stellaland (Dutch: Verenigde Staten van Stellaland) from 1883–1885, was a Boer republic located in an area of Bechuanaland, west of the Transvaal.

Thomas Upington

The principle issue that dominated Upington's short Ministry was the conflict over two tiny Boer mercenary states – Stellaland and Goshen – which had been established by Boer invaders in "British" Bechuanaland and which the British demanded were ejected.

West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania

QVC has its headquarters in West Goshen Township, by U.S. Route 202.

WSMM

The station broadcasts at 102.3 MHz and broadcasts an oldies/classic hits format branded as 97.7 and 102.3, The Stream, in simulcast with WSSM 97.7 FM Goshen.

WSSM

WZOW, a radio station licensed to serve Goshen, Indiana, United States, which held the call sign WSSM from 2011 to 2013