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5 unusual facts about Marengo


Butterfield Cobblestone House

According to local tradition, it reflected Joseph's success in the Chicago stockyards and the farm he owned in Marengo, Iowa.

Marengo, Indiana

The Marengo Warehouse and Distribution Center, an underground facility, has space leased by the United States Department of Defense as well as the Centers for Disease Control, whose contract specified that the contents of their space did not have to be revealed to the warehouse management.

Marengo, Washington

Marengo, Washington is an unincorporated populated place in Columbia County, Washington.

It began in the early 1850s as a settlement by Louis Raboin, a Metis from Illinois, along with his Flathead wife and their six children.

May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence

Another person was killed in the St. Louis Metropolitan area while the fifth fatality was northwest of Louisville, Kentucky in the Marengo area where 80% of the town was damaged or destroyed.


Benton Community School District

The Benton Community School District, part of the WaMaC Conference, comprises eight rural towns located in the state of Iowa (United States of America): Atkins, Newhall, Norway, Watkins, Van Horne, Keystone, Elberon, Blairstown; additional students from Marengo, Garrison.

Bosco Marengo

There was a nuclear enrichment plant in Bosco Marengo, which started operating in 1973.

Chancellor of Austria

Thugot's chancellorship did not survive the Austrian defeats by the French at the battles of Marengo and Hohenlinden in 1800 and he was replaced by Johan Ludwig Joseph Cobenzl (1800–1805), his predecessor's cousin, but who in turn was dismissed following the Austrian defeat at Austerlitz in 1805.

Confederate Park

Confederate Park, in Demopolis, Alabama, now known as Demopolis Town Square, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Marengo County, Alabama

Jean Louis Barthélemy O'Donnell

At the age of sixteen, he joined the staff command of General Clarck, upon the departure of Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, for the Marengo campaign, where French forces defeated the Austrian army on 14 June 1800, forcing them to withdraw from Italy west of Ticino.

Levi Marengo

Levi Luis Marengo (born January 20, 1987, Paramaribo) is a Dutch footballer who played for the AZ Alkmaar youth team in 2006/7, CD Ourense from 2007-2009, Eerste Divisie club Stormvogels Telstar in 2009/10 and Jove Español since then.

Milwaukee District West Line

Metra has long range plans to eventually extend the line to Huntley and Marengo, Illinois, and, in the long term, out to Rockford.

Orson Rogers House

In the 1840s the area was home to a number of Native American settlements and the Rogers' were among the first white settlers of the Marengo area.

Rick Wanamaker

Rick Wanamaker (born March 20, 1948 in Marengo, Iowa) is an American track and basketball athlete, known principally for winning the decathlon in the 1971 Pan American Games and for blocking a shot against Lew Alcindor in the 1969 NCAA national basketball semi-finals.

Shiloh, Alabama

Shiloh, Marengo County, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama, United States

Sweet Water High School

The late 1920s saw some consolidation of Marengo County schools, with children from former schools in Beaver Creek, Exmoor, and Aimwell moved to Sweet Water.


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