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6 unusual facts about Marblehead


Agnes Surriage Frankland

Born Agnes Surriage to Edward and Mary (Pierce) Surriage in the spring of 1726, Agnes grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts with seven brothers and sisters.

Clarence Howard Clark, Jr.

He was an avid yachtman who was a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia; the New York Yacht Club; and the Eastern Yacht Club and the Corinthian, both of Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry

The portage across Marblehead Peninsula is named DeLery Portage because of his documentation of it in his 1754 journal.

Stannard Rock Light

Blocks of stone were cut at Marblehead, Ohio and shipped to the site for construction of the tower.

The Triolettes

Loretta Clemens Tupper (Born 6 May 1906, Marblehead, Ohio - Died 17 September 1990, The Bronx, NY) was later famous for her acting career, she played the old lady in the Fruit of the Loom commercials and a character on the TV show Sesame Street called Mrs. Trump.

Viscount Lake

Eight days later, Capt. John Dennis of the American schooner Adam, out of Marblehead, saw Jeffrey waving his arms and rescued him.


Alberg

Carl Alberg (1900, Göteborg – 1986, Marblehead), ship engineer and sailboat constructor

Clifton, Massachusetts

Clifton is an unincorporated village within the towns of Swampscott and Marblehead in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

Edward Augustus Holyoke

Born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, son of the Reverend Edward Holyoke, a former President of Harvard, Edward Augustus graduated from that college in 1746.

Essex Hospital

The owners of the future Essex Hospital were four popular Marblehead political figures: John Glover, Jonathan Glover (John Glover's brother), Azor Orne, and Elbridge Gerry; they purchased Children's Island (Catt Island) on September 2, 1773.

Lakeside, Ohio

It is located in Ottawa County's Danbury Township, near the town of Marblehead.

Nick Scandone

Together with crewmate Maureen McKinnon-Tucker, a paraplegic from Marblehead, Massachusetts, he won the Gold medal at the U.S. Paralympic trials in 2007 held off of Newport, Rhode Island.

Robert S. Newman

Newman remained at La Trobe University until 1989, when he returned to Marblehead to start a new life in an old place.

Steveston, British Columbia

It was used in the 2010 film adaptation of The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud as a stand-in for Marblehead, Massachusetts, and the television movie A Cooler Climate as the fictional Steveston, Maine.


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