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unusual facts about Northfield, MA



Andreas Nilsen Rygg

That same year he was honored as an honorary doctor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Australian cricket team in England and the United States in 1878

They then travelled across America by train, a potentially hazardous undertaking in the era of the James-Younger Gang and others, though Frank & Jesse James were still in hiding after the abortive Northfield Raid in 1876.

Barrie Lynch

Born in Northfield, Birmingham, Lynch played youth football for Rubery Hill School and Cross Castle, before playing professionally in England and the United States for Aston Villa, Oldham Athletic, the Atlanta Chiefs and the Portland Timbers.

Bournville School

The combined School has continued to maintain a reputation for excellence in the Selly Oak, Bournville and Northfield catchment areas.

Bradley Ellingboe

Born in Farmington, Minnesota, Ellingboe is a 1980 graduate of Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he received a degree in Music Theory and Composition, studying with Kenneth and Carolyn Jennings.

Carleton Glacier

It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and from Navy air photos, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1963, in association with nearby Rutgers Glacier, after Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, which has sent researchers to Antarctica.

Charlotte Riefenstahl

Charlotte Riefenstahl (24 May 1899 in Bielefeld, Germany – 6 January 1993 in Northfield, Minnesota, USA ) was a German physicist.

Emily Caruso

She attended Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, where she became a member of the University's rifle team.

Gods of Plastic

The Carleton College Gods of Plastic (GoP) are a collegiate men's (open) ultimate team from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Jacobel Glacier

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Robert W. Jacobel, holder of the Grace A. Whittier Chair of Physics at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Jacques Ehrmann

In the meantime, he received a Fulbright scholarship and spent an academic year from 1951 to 1952 at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, the "City of Colleges, Cows and Contentment", a logo he loved to quote.

John Berkey

Many of his original paintings are periodically on display at ArtOrg in Northfield, Minnesota.

John W. North

When John North suffered financial failure in the Panic of 1857, his business interests were purchased in 1859 by his friend, Charles Augustus Wheaton, who had moved to Northfield from Syracuse on the advice of the Norths after the death of Wheaton's first wife.

He is the founder of the cities of Northfield, Minnesota, and of Riverside, California, where John W. North High School and the John W. North Water Treatment Plant are named after him.

Joseph H. Denny

After graduating from college Denny operated a Northfield grocery store and worked as a salesman for Fairbanks Scales.

Kao Kalia Yang

Upon graduation from Harding High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, she attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, though she was by no means certain of her future plans when she began her college career.

Leanna Brown

She attended the Northfield School for Girls (now part of Northfield Mount Hermon School) in Gill, Massachusetts, graduating in 1952.

Leonard Lord

On 26 March 1962 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lambury, of Northfield in the County of Warwick.

Long Ding

After his arrival in the US, Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts was the first team that Ding represented before moving onto Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont.

Louis E. Newman

Louis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning, and Director of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Minto, New Brunswick

Minto was originally named Northfield but it is known to have taken its present name in 1904 upon the retirement of Canada's eighth Governor General, The Earl of Minto.

New Jersey Route 10

The route comes to the Livingston Circle, a realigned traffic circle, with County Route 508 (W. Northfield Avenue) and County Route 609 (Eisenhower Parkway).

Nikki and John Pranksters in Love

Nikki Baker, 25, and John Dahl, 28, met in high school in Northfield, Minnesota.

Northfield railway line

The line went east from the Gawler line and served three stations: Cavan, Pooraka, and Northfield.

Northfield, Illinois

This department is Accredited by CALEA, and was one of the first in the State of Illinois to become so accredited.

Northfield is represented by Republican Robert Dold of Illinois's 10th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, Republican Mark Kirk and Democrat Dick Durbin in the United States Senate, State Representative Daniel Biss, State Senator Jeffrey Schoenberg and Northfield town President Fred Gougler.

The Henry P. Glass House, built in 1948, is located on Dickens St. and is arguably the first passive solar home in America.

Northfield, Massachusetts

Francis Schell, a New York capitalist attracted by his interest in Moody's work at the Northfield Seminary, commissioned architect Bruce Price to design a summer home, which became known as the Northfield Chateau.

Northfield, New Jersey

Dennis Levinson, County Executive of Atlantic County who served on the Northfield council before his election to the Board of Chosen Freeholders.

Paul Manz

Trinity Seminary of Columbus, Ohio bestowed the “Joseph Sittler Award for Theological Leadership” and among his many honorary doctorates is the Doctor of Sacred Music degree from Valparaiso University, and most recently, the Doctor of Music degree from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Robert Kennicott

Kennicott was born in New Orleans and grew up in "West Northfield" (now Glenview), Illinois, a town in the prairie north of the then nascent city of Chicago.

Russian romance

César Cui's 1895 book Russian Art Song: A Study of Its Development was translated in J.R. Walker’s Classical Essays on the Development of Russian Art Songs (Northfield, MN, 1993).

Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt attended public school in her hometown Northfield, Minnesota and received a degree from the Cathedral School in Bergen, Norway, in 1973.

Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge

The sisters came to England in 1863 and by 1910 had houses at Bartestree, Waterlooville, Monmouth, Southampton, and Northfield.

Stony Brook Assembly

Other notable conferences were founded at such places as Chautauqua, NY, Winona Lake, IN, and Northfield, MA, grew in popularity as places of physical rest, entertainment, and spiritual renewal.

Svend Rasmussen Svendsen

Lovoll, Odd S. A Century of Urban Life: the Norwegians in Chicago before 1930 (Northfield, MN: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1988)

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

Younger has put aside plans to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, said to be the largest west of the Mississippi River.

The film purports to recreate the James-Younger Gang's most infamous escapade, the September 7, 1876, robbery of "the biggest bank west of the Mississippi" in Northfield, Minnesota.

The Long Riders

By the time the James-Younger gang rides far north in September 1876 to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, word is out about them and the town has been warned.

Thomas Waterman Wood

In 1850 he married Miss Minerva Robinson, then living in Waterbury, Vermont, and in the same year he built a summer home in the Carpenter Gothic style on the west side of the mountain gorge through which the road leads up to Northfield.

Tropical Park Race Track

A major gambler from Cleveland, Ohio, Silberman was a former majority shareholder of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League who had also owned Randall Park Race Track in North Randall, Ohio and the Painesville Raceway in Northfield, Ohio.

United States House of Representatives election in Vermont, 2004

The 2004 Vermont U.S. congressional election took place between incumbent Representative Bernie Sanders (I-VT) of Burlington, VT, Gregory Tarl "Greg" Parke (R) of Rutland, VT, Larry Drown (D) of Northfield, VT and Jane Newton (LU) of Londonderry, VT.

Ward Sutton

Sutton, a graduate of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, is the brother of writer/musician Mark Sutton.

Weitz Center for Creativity

The Weitz Center for Creativity is an academic building at Carleton College, located in Northfield, Minnesota, United States.

Yngvar Sonnichsen

Bjork, Kenneth O. Saga in Steel and Concrete - Norwegian Engineers in America (Northfield, MN: Norwegian-American Historical Association. 1947)


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