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9 unusual facts about Greencastle


Benjamin Franklin Davis

As sunlight broke, the wagon drivers were startled to discover drawn pistols from their blue-clad escort, and as a result Davis's command not only escaped to Union lines at Greencastle, Pennsylvania, by morning September 15, but also captured Longstreet's forty-wagon reserve ordnance train with no losses.

Geiser Manufacturing

In 1899 the company expanded outside Waynesboro and bought the Crowell industrial park in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, and began producing its Geiser's first gasoline engines there.

Greencastle, Pennsylvania

He sent John D. Imboden's cavalry to escort a large wagon train carrying Confederate wounded.

In the summer of 1863, the war touched close to home when Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia invaded lower Pennsylvania in what later became known as the Gettysburg Campaign.

In 1845, following the succession crisis in the Latter Day Saint movement, Sidney Rigdon (one of the three main contenders along with James Strang and Brigham Young for leadership of the Latter Day Saints following the death of Joseph Smith, Jr.) took his followers to Pennsylvania and formed a Rigdonite Mormon settlement at Greencastle.

Inishowen

As the coastline turns towards the East it reaches Lough Foyle and Shroove on the mouth of the Lough and then Greencastle (a port used by fishing boats and landing point for the car ferry to and from Magilligan in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland).

Koran Dunbar

Dunbar is originally from Hartford, Connecticut, and moved to Greencastle, Pennsylvania when he was a child with his grandparents, Elmer Dunbar and the late Ellen Dunbar.

Stanley Dunbar Embick

Embick was born in Greencastle, Franklin County, Pennsylvania on January 22, 1877.

Waynecastle, Pennsylvania

Waynecastle is a very small village between Waynesboro and Greencastle in Pennsylvania.


Asbury College

DePauw University, a liberal arts college in Greencastle, Indiana, formerly known as Indiana Asbury College or just Asbury College

Burtonsville, Maryland

Public schools in Burtonsville include Burtonsville Elementary School, Greencastle Elementary School, Benjamin Banneker Middle School, and Paint Branch High School.

Coolock

Coolock lies at the centre of majority working class Northside suburbs such as Kilbarrack, Donaghmede and the Edenmore part of Raheny, and itself includes localities such as Ayrfield, Bonnybrook, Darndale, Priorswood, Greencastle and Kilmore West.

Mabel Leigh Hunt

She was raised in Greencastle and, from age ten until her physician father died, in Plainfield (a center of Indiana Quaker activity).

WJNZ

94.3 WREB Greencastle, Indiana — was WJNZ from 1979 to 1995


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