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14 unusual facts about Hopewell


Benjamin Hawkins

In 1786, Hawkins and fellow Indian agents Andrew Pickens and Joseph Martin concluded a treaty with the Choctaw nation at Seneca Old Town, today's Hopewell, South Carolina.

Eddie Edmonson

Earl Edward Edmonson was born on November 20, 1889 in Hopewell, Pennsylvania.

Hopewell Academy

:For other uses, see Hopewell.

Hopewell Museum

The Hopewell Museum is in Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey.

Hopewell, Davidson County, Tennessee

The role of Hopewell and the manipulation of the votes of its predominantly African-American population for the purposes of early 20th century machine politics in Tennessee is described in The Secrets of the Hopewell Box by James D. Squires (Vanderbilt University Press, ISBN 085-26519-245.)

Hopewell, Greenup County, Kentucky

It's named Hopewell because an early resident hoped his iron furnace operation would be as successful as that of one in Pennsylvania (now the Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site).

Hopewell, Illinois

Hopewell, Illinois is the location used by author Terry Brooks in his fantasy novel Running with the Demon.

Hopewell, New York

Daniel Myron LeFever, American gunmaker, inventor of the hammerless shotgun, born in Hopewell (1835).

Hopewell, St. Mary's County, Maryland

:For the place formerly of this name, see Spencers Wharf, Maryland.

Hopewell, Washington County, Missouri

Its location is along one of the routes of the infamous Cherokee Trail of Tears.

Iron Mountain Baby

He was interred at Hopewell, Missouri Cemetery.

Johnny Darrell

Darrell was born in Hopewell, Alabama but grew up in Marietta, Georgia.

Paris, Kentucky

In 1789, the town was formally established as Hopewell after Hopewell, New Jersey, his hometown.

Robert H. Thayer

Thayer assisted Charles Lindbergh's lead lawyer, Henry Skillman Breckinridge on the famous Lindbergh kidnapping case in 1932, staying at the Charles A Lindbergh residence in Hopewell, New Jersey, until the body of the child was found on 12 May 1932.


Bill Whitten

He has worked regularly with producer Dave Fridmann and has collaborated on recordings with members of Mercury Rev, Joan as Police Woman, The Flaming Lips, Antony and the Johnsons, Favourite Sons, Home, Shady, The Silent League, Hopewell, The Jealous Girlfriends, The Mooney Suzuki, VietNam (band), Mike Bones and others.

Carl Erskine

He is devoted to his son Jimmy, who has Down syndrome and lives at home and holds a job nearby at the Hopewell Center for people with developmental difficulties, and to his granddaughters Abbey and Dannae.

City Point

City Point, Virginia, an extinct town (now a portion of Hopewell, Virginia)

Experimental archaeometallurgy

The first recorded experimental work in copper was conducted by Cushing in 1894 in order to demonstrate that copper plate found in Hopewell mounds in Ohio could have been produced by the Hopewell people and not come from European trade.

Flipper's New Adventure

He flees by motorboat to the Bahamas, where he witnesses a vacationing British family of Sir Halsey Hopewell (Tom Helmore), being taken hostage by some recently escaped convicts.

Hopewell Project

The Hopewell Project, a solar-powered residence in Hopewell, New Jersey.

The Bangkok Elevated Road and Train System, commonly known as the Hopewell Project, a failed elevated highway and rail construction project in Bangkok.

Hopewell Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania

One-time National Football League player and Hall-of-Famer Tony Dorsett played football for the Hopewell Vikings, setting several records during his high school career, then moving to the Pitt Panthers, and the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos of the NFL, setting even more records and ensuring his enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Hopewell Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey

Portions of the township have been taken to form Columbia Township (March 12, 1844, returned to Hopewell Township on March 11, 1845), Cohansey Township (March 6, 1848) and Shiloh borough (April 9, 1929).

Hopewell Valley, New Jersey

Hopewell Valley is also the site of the notorious kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh infant in 1932.

James Madison Leach

Leach died in Lexington, North Carolina on June 1, 1891, and is interred in Hopewell Cemetery, near Trinity, North Carolina.

Jason Russo

Jason Sebastian Russo (born 1973), singer and guitarist with the psychedelic rock band Hopewell

Jason Sebastian Russo

At the age of 19, Russo found himself touring alongside his brother Justin as bassist for critically acclaimed Mercury Rev during the band's peak, before moving on to focus entirely on his own eclectic psychedelic rock band Hopewell.

John I Crawford Farm

The John I Crawford Farm, also Hopewell Farm, is located on NY 302 in the Thompson Ridge section of the Town of Crawford in Orange County, New York, USA.

Keystone Bridge Company

Valley Road Bridge, Stewartstown Railroad, Stewartstown RR tracks over Valley Rd., Hopewell Township Stewartstown, PA (Keystone Bridge Co.), NRHP-listed

Ralph Wrenn

On 18 April 1672 Wrenn was appointed commander of the Hopewell fireship, and in the following year of the Rose dogger.

The Crookes

The band formed in 2008, naming themselves after the suburb Crookes in Sheffield, where the guitarists Alex Saunders and Daniel Hopewell met before later recruiting George Waite on vocals and Russell Bates on drums.