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2 unusual facts about Lusk's Ferry Road


Lusk's Ferry Road

Modern U.S. Route 45 crosses this area, but perpendicular to the apparent route of the old road.

In 1814, John James Audubon attempted to cross Illinois by horse, on his way to Henderson, Kentucky.


Charles Henry Tenney

Judge Tenney's daughter Patricia Lusk Tenney married John Randolph Hearst, Jr., the grandson of newspaper man and publisher William Randolph Hearst.

Christopher Barnewall

He is remembered for building Turvey House and sheltering the future martyr Edmund Campion there; for his impressive tomb in Lusk Church; and for the eulogy to him in Holinshed's Chronicles.

Clayton R. Lusk

Lusk was Temporary President of the State Senate from 1921 to 1922.

Erin go Bragh GAA

In the Junior D Football Championship Erin go Bragh reached the final defeating Round Towers of Lusk in the first round, Innisfalis in the second round, Castleknock in round three, St. Pats of Donabate in the quarter finals and Wild Geese in the semi final.

Frank A. Barrett

He married Alice Catherine Donoghue on May 21, 1919, and they moved to Lusk, Wyoming.

John Bell Hatcher

In 1889 near Lusk, Wyoming Hatcher excavated the first fossil remains of Torosaurus.

Pseudaleuria

The genus was circumscribed by Demaris Lusk in 1987 to contain the type, P. quinaultiana, a species found in the Olympic Peninsula of North America.

Righteous Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Righteous Branch was organized on April 6, 1978, by Gerald Wilbur Peterson, Sr. (born October 8, 1917 in Lusk, Wyoming, died January 1981).

Swords, Dublin

Other buses serving Swords include Dublin Bus route 102 to Malahide, Portmarnock and Sutton, route 33b to Donabate and Portrane, routes 33 and 33a to Lusk, Rush, Skerries, and Balbriggan and Bus Eireann route 101 to Balbriggan, Julianstown and Drogheda.


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