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9 unusual facts about Keyser


De Keyser

Thomas de Keyser (1596–1667), Dutch painter and architect, son of Hendrick

Tracey DeKeyser (born 1990), American ice hockey player and coach

Pieter de Keyser (1595–1676), Dutch architect and sculptor, son of Hendrick

Merten de Keyser (died 1536) French painter and publisher working in Antwerp

Keyser High School

Keyser High School is a high school located south of Keyser, West Virginia with an enrollment of more than 800 students from southern Mineral County, WV.

Keyser, West Virginia

Keyser is mentioned in the BBC television mini series The State Within (Season 1, Episode 1).

Catherine Marshall - American author known for her inspirational works, notably the novel Christy; raised in Keyser

Walter E. Rollins, (also known as Jack Rollins) - Songwriter who wrote "Frosty the Snowman" and "Smokey Bear"

René Barrientos

He cooperated with Frederick Pittera, an American inventor and manufacturer of small farm tractors (the chairman of The Tiger Tractor Corp., Keyser, West Virginia, which in 1962 was nominated by the New York Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce for the Presidential 'E' Award for Exports, was endeavoring to introduce a new cooperative farming concept to eliminate world famine with his U.S.-patented small farm tractor equipment.


Andre Keyser

Andre Werner Keyser (8 March 1938 Pretoria - 15 August 2010 Pretoria), was a South African palaeontologist and geologist noted for his discovery of the Drimolen hominid site and of numerous hominid remains.

Back to the Heavyweight Jam

"Keyser Soze" samples the alien-contacting theme from the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, also known as the noise programmed to unlock a door in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.

Burlington, West Virginia

The freight station of Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad, which was built in 1911 to haul fruit from the mountain to Keyser, has also served as the post office and currently houses a branch of the Keyser-Mineral County Library.

Chris Keyser

Chris Marie Keyser is the Executive Director of the Bowling Green/Warren County Primary Care Center, Inc., a Federally Qualified Health Center providing primary care services to the poor of South-Central Kentucky.

Cumberland Times-News

In addition to its Cumberland headquarters, the newspaper maintained satellite bureaus in Frostburg and McHenry, Maryland, and in Keyser, West Virginia.

F. Ray Keyser, Jr.

The son of Vermont Supreme Court Justice F. Ray Keyser, Sr., the younger Keyser was born in Chelsea, Vermont on August 17, 1927.

Merten de Keyser

In 1534 De Keyser printed the second, revised edition of Tyndale's New Testament as well as Joye's fresh edition of the Davids Psalter based on Zwingli's Latin Psalter, and Joye's translation of the book of Jeremiah.

Miss Great Britain Party

The Miss Great Britain Party was founded by Robert de Keyser, the previous chairman of the Miss Great Britain contest (de Keyser had the Miss GB licence revoked after financial difficulties in 2009 and Miss Great Britain is now back with a previous owner Liz Fuller ).

Mountain Subdivision

The cutoff line ran from McKenzie, Maryland to Patterson Creek, West Virginia, providing a bypass of the yard for coal trains moving between Keyser and Brunswick, Maryland.

Nicaise de Keyser

Nicaise de Keyser (26 August 1813 Zandvliet - 17 July 1887 Antwerp), was a Belgian painter who has his talent discovered by the painter Joseph Jacobs who got him a place in the Antwerp art academy.

Stanley C. Wilson

Their firm is regarded as Vermont's best ever collection of legal talent, producing two Governors (Wilson and Davis), one state Attorney General (Carver), and one state Supreme Court Justice (Keyser).

U.S. Route 220 in Maryland

Known as McMullen Highway for much of its length in Maryland, US 220 is the primary north–south route in central Allegany County, connecting Cumberland with its southern suburbs and Keyser, West Virginia to the south and Bedford, Pennsylvania to the north.


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