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unusual facts about Greenville-Pickens Speedway


2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series

For the fourth year in a row, the regular season will start at Greenville-Pickens Speedway on April 11.


Barber–Colman Company

By 1931, the company also had production facilities in Framingham, Massachusetts; Greeneville, South Carolina; Munich, Germany; Chicago; Cincinnati, Ohio; Rochester, New York; and Manchester, England.

Bill Baggs

Others in this group included Ralph McGill at The Atlanta Constitution, Hodding Carter at the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times, and Harry Ashmore at the Arkansas Gazette.

Bo Griffin

Griffin was a host on several South Florida radio stations, including Power 96 and Hot 105FM, as well as a stint on WSPA-FM as morning host from 2005-2007 in her hometown of Greenville.

Charles E. Daniel

He resumed management of his business interests and in 1964 died in Greenville; interment was in Springwood Cemetery.

Charles I. du Pont

He lived with his parents in New York until they established themselves in the wool manufacturing business at Louviers, across the Brandywine Creek from the DuPont powder mills and near Greenville, Delaware.

Chris Duarte

Duarte's concert dates in Asheville, North Carolina; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Greenville, South Carolina; were filmed for the PBS television show, The PBS Project, and featured Steve Bailey on bass and Jeff Sipe on drums.

Dallen Bounds

Law enforcement officers have closed four murders in Greenville and Pickens counties of South Carolina, and officials in the state of Washington suspect he was involved in several other murders.

Daniel Dhers

Dhers resides in Greenville, North Carolina, known as Protown USA because of the strong concentration of BMX riders that live there, including Dave Mirra.

Death of Sean Kennedy

Sean W. Kennedy (April 8, 1987 – May 16, 2007) was a gay American man who was punched and subsequently died as he was leaving a bar in Greenville, South Carolina.

Edwin Foulke

Prior to his nomination, Foulke was a partner with the law firm of Jackson Lewis, LLP in Greenville, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C., where he chaired the firm's OSHA practice group.

Ferguson v. City of Charleston

Soon after the urine screenings began, the case manager in the hospital's obstetrics department heard that police in Greenville, South Carolina, were arresting pregnant women who used cocaine for child abuse.

Gerald McCann

Born in the Greenville section of Jersey City on March 20, 1950, he served as mayor from 1981 to 1985 and again from 1989 to 1992.

Greeneville Astros

Four players from the 2004 Greenville team were called up to Houston late in the 2007 season: Juan Gutiérrez, Felipe Paulino, Troy Patton, and J. R. Towles.

Greenville Drive

The name was chosen due to the presence of BMW US Manufacturing and Michelin in the area and, more generally, due to Greenville's rich automotive past.

Greenville–Spartanburg International Airport

Roger Milliken and other Upstate business leaders helped create the vision of a shared airport.

Greenville, Jersey City

In its broadest definition Greenville encompasses the area south of the West Side Branch of Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and north of the city line with Bayonne, between the Upper New York Bay and the Newark Bay, and corresponds to the postal area zip code 07305.

Greenville, Michigan

Greenville is home to an active music scene and is the hometown of the popular Punk/Metal band Society Kills.

Electrolux closed the Greenville facility in early 2006, as it was in the process of relocating the factory to Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.

Greenville, Ohio

It also holds historic artifacts relating to Anthony Wayne and the Treaty of Greenville as well as Native American artifacts.

Greenville is the historic location of Fort Greene Ville, a pioneer fort built under General Anthony Wayne's command.

Hans Albert Einstein

Heeding his father's advice, Hans Albert emigrated from Switzerland to Greenville, South Carolina in 1938.

Hayward, Oregon

It has a cemetery and once had a post office, and before 1891, the neighboring town of Greenville, Oregon had the only nearby post office.

Henry Milligan

He went to A.I. du Pont High School in Greenville, Delaware.

Hickory Wind

In 2002, an article on the website www.folklinks.com controversially claimed that "Hickory Wind" wasn't, in fact, written by Gram Parsons, but by Sylvia Sammons—a blind folksinger from Greenville, South Carolina—with Bob Buchanan later contributing an additional verse.

Irene Daye

Irene Daye (January 17, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts - November 1, 1971 in Greenville, South Carolina) was an American jazz singer.

Jewell Wallace

He began his coaching career at the high school ranks and coached at El Paso Bowie, El Paso, Greenville, San Angelo and Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas.

Kate Ferguson

She married the Civil War hero General Samuel W. Ferguson (1834-1917), and their house became a social center in Greenville, Mississippi.

KWN31

It also broadcasts hourly weather observations for the following cities: Greenville, Sulphur Springs, Paris, McKinney, Terrell, Mineola, and Mount Pleasant; and elsewhere around the region: DFW Airport, Sherman-Denison, Tyler, and Texarkana.

KXI22

Hourly conditions are given for Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville, Georgia, Atlanta, Rome, Dalton, Athens, and possibly others in Georgia; and Chattanooga, Knoxville, Asheville, Greenville/Spartanburg, and possibly others in surrounding states.

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The Committee challenged Mississippi congressional districts in Brooks v. Winter, which helped Mike Espy to become the first black congressmen from Mississippi in 100 years; it also challenged municipal and county redistricting in Greenville, Jackson, Mississippi; Annapolis, Maryland; and Petersburg, Virginia.

Mark Kilstofte

Mark Kilstofte (born 1958) is an American composer, and professor at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, reared in Pueblo, Colorado.

Mary Grace Quackenbos

Quackenbos arrived at Sunnyside Plantation outside of Greenville, Mississippi in July 1907 to investigate the allegations.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Greenville County, South Carolina

The city of Greenville is the location of 39 of these properties and districts; they are listed separately, while the 33 properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county are listed here.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Greenville, South Carolina

The city of Greenville is the location of 39 of these properties and districts; they are listed here, while the 33 properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county are listed separately.

North Greenville University

WNGR-LP radio is a student-body run product of North Greenville University.

Potton municipal election, 2009

Jacques Marcoux was born to Canadian parents in Greenville, Maine, in 1945 and moved to Canada with his family two years later.

Rockwell Automation

On January 31, 2007, Rockwell Automation sold off their PowerSystems Division which consists of Dodge mechanical and Reliance Electric motors with headquarters in Greenville, South Carolina, to Baldor Electric Company.

Scott Winters

From June to September 2011, Winters worked at WGLM in Greenville, Michigan as an account executive.

Shriners Hospitals for Children

The Shriners had considered closing facilities in Shreveport, Louisiana; Greenville, South Carolina; Erie, Pennsylvania; Spokane, Washington; Springfield, Massachusetts and

South Tar River Greenway

On August 11, 2011, United States Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Senator Kay Hagan announced Greenville will receive $907,609 to design and construct the next phase of the greenway.

Texas State Highway 11

State Highway 11 was one of the original twenty-six state highways proposed in 1917, overlaid on top of the 'Jefferson Highway.' In 1917 the routing was proposed from the Oklahoma border at Denison, south on present day U.S. Highway 69 through Whitewright into Greenville.

Thomas A. Wofford

He was admitted to the bar in the latter year and commenced the practice of law in Greenville.

Upcountry History Museum

The Museum is located on Greenville's Heritage Green with The Children's Museum, the Greenville County Art Museum, the satellite Museum & Gallery of Bob Jones University, the Greenville County Main Library, and the Greenville Little Theatre.

WGTK

WGTK-FM, a radio station (94.5 FM) licensed to serve Greenville, South Carolina, United States

WHTK

WALR-FM, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Greenville, Georgia, United States, known as WHTK-FM in January 1994

William Henry Pierce

First informally and then formally after his ordination in 1886, Pierce worked to convert Natives and suppress indigenous customs (like the potlatch and secret societies) in B.C. coastal villages such as Alert Bay, Bella Bella, Port Essington, Greenville, and Klemtu, and even Wrangell, Alaska.

William Y. Humphreys

Born in Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, Humphreys attended the public schools and Sewanee Grammar School, Sewanee, Tennessee.

WLVX

WLVX was originally a locally focused voice for the communities of Greenville, Pennsylvania, and Youngstown, Ohio.

WNCT

WNCT-FM, a radio station (107.9 FM) licensed to Greenville, North Carolina, United States


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