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11 unusual facts about Millbrook


1947 New York City smallpox outbreak

A total of 12 patients were confirmed to have smallpox, 9 in Manhattan and 3 in Millbrook, New York.

James Mott

James taught for two years at the Nine Partners Boarding School in Millbrook, New York where his grandfather was the superintendent.

Millbrook, Bedfordshire

The vale adjoining Millbrook is reputed to be the location that inspired the 'Slough of Despond' in John Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress'.

Millbrook, Southampton

John Ralfs, the notable 19th century botanist, was born here, as were footballers Kevin Gibbens and Phil Warner who both played for Southampton F.C., along with comedian Mike Osman.

Move Like This

According to Billboard, the album was recorded in engineer Paul Orofino's studio in Millbrook, New York.

Obadiah Titus

He was interred in Nine Partners (Friends) Burial Ground at Millbrook, New York.

Rachel Kempson

In 2003, four days before what would have been her 93rd birthday, she died of a stroke at the home of her granddaughter, Natasha Richardson, in Millbrook, New York.

Robert Pollok

He was buried in the nearby churchyard of St Nicholas, Millbrook.

Sheryll Murray

Born Sheryll Hickman at Millbrook, Cornwall, to Cornish parents, her mother's family lived at Millbrook and her father's family originated from Calstock.

Squire sidecars

In 2002 Motor Cycle News set a Guinness World Record for a motorcycle and trailer reaching a timed speed of 139.5mph at Millbrook in Bedfordshire, UK, pulling a Squire D21 trailer behind a Kawasaki ZZ-R1100 motorcycle.

William H. Schlesinger

William H. Schlesinger (b. April 30, 1950) is a biogeochemist and the president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, an independent not-for-profit environmental research organization in Millbrook, New York.


Carson Robison

Robison's daughter Patricia was married in October,1950 to Daniel Murphy at Carson's farm/recording studio near Millbrook, N.Y. Robison died in 1957 in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Dave Clements

As a junior he played for the Larne suburban team of Millbrook before signing for Irish league club Portadown F.C. in 1961.

Lordswood, Southampton

According to the Anglo-Saxon Charter of 956 Aldermoor Lordswood, Lordshill and Coxford are all within the ancient boundary of the Manor of Millbrook and were farmland within the county of Hampshire, until the 20th Century when it was absorbed into Southampton.

Mary Flagler Cary Arboretum

The Mary Flagler Cary Arboretum (1,924 acres; 7.7 kmĀ²) is a nonprofit arboretum located on U.S. Route 44 near Millbrook, New York.

Millbrook High School

Millbrook School, a private, coeducational preparatory school in Millbrook, New York

New York, Westchester and Boston Railway

In 1906 bankers Oakleigh Thorne and Marsden J. Perry bought the stock of the NYW&B on behalf of the Millbrook Company, a holding entity.

Oakleigh Thorne

Combined with the assets of the competing New York & Portchester Railroad, the Millbrook Company was created as a holding entity that was transferred to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad following the Panic of 1907.

Sheryll Murray

Murray previously represented Rame as a Cornwall County Councillor and served as Leader of the Conservative Group on Caradon District Council, when a Councillor for Millbrook, prior to her election to Parliament.

Thorne Memorial School

Christopher Gray has found that Beardsley, who established himself later with the 1903 Dutchess County Court House in Poughkeepsie and went on to design many public buildings in the state, lived on the same Millbrook street as Frank Welling, supervisor of the construction for the school board.