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2 unusual facts about Norton, West Virginia


Albert Baisy

Albert Baisy (September 6, 1917 in Norton, West Virginia – April 16, 2005) is a former offensive lineman in the NFL for the Chicago Bears, and Philadelphia Eagles.

Jimtown, Randolph County, West Virginia

On September 22, 2007, the school house bell from the old Norton Grade School in Norton,WV was placed in the steeple at Phillips Chapel.


10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 10th West Virginia was organized at Camp Pickens, Canaan, Glenville, Clarkesville, Sutton, Philippi, and Piedmont in western Virginia between March 12 and May 18, 1862.

2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team

The schools, located 82 miles apart, played 52 times between 1905 and 2004 in "The Battle for the Bell," with the trophy symbolizing the Ohio River separating Ohio and West Virginia.

Bob McFarlane

For those achievements, he was voted the Lou Marsh Trophy winner as Canada's top athlete of 1950 and the winner of the Norton Crowe Memorial Medal as Canada's top amateur athlete.

Caustic Eye Productions

Caustic Eye Productions is a small Charleston, West Virginia based record label and promotions company that was started in August of 2001 by Rod Lanham.

Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr.

(March 4, 1906 – February 10, 2007) was born in Chicago, Illinois to Charles Rudolph Walgreen, the founder of the Walgreen drug store, and Myrtle Norton Walgreen.

Chu-Chin-Chow

Chu Chin Chow, a 1916 play by Frederick Norton and Oscar Asche

Craig Cobb

In 2003 he relocated to Frost, West Virginia, where he opened a grocery store and subsequently registered a business called "Gray's Store, Aryan Autographs and 14 Words, L.L.C."

Crossroads Mall

Crossroads Mall (West Virginia), a shopping mall near Beckley, West Virginia, owned by Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust

David T. Abercrombie

Abercrombie later came to study at Baltimore City College and became a practicing civil engineer and topographer, including explorer and chief of survey for Norfolk & Western Railroad in the coal and timber lands of West Virginia.

Easter Road, Edinburgh

Most of the area comprises tenement housing built for the artisan class in the second half of the 19th century on mainly nursery ground feued on the eastern side by Baron Norton's Estate, (formerly belonging to the Logans of Restalrig) and on the western side by George Heriot's Trust and several other landowners.

Edgar Odell Lovett

After graduating from Shreve High School, he earned his B.A. at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, in 1890.

Finescale saddled darter

Knapp Creek in Pocahontas County, West Virginia is home to a population known colloquially as the Knapp Creek Candy Darter.

Garrison Norton

Norton first joined the government in 1934, when he became deputy general manager of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation.

Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri

Martin Gardner, Non-Euclidean Geometry, Chapter 14 of The Colossal Book of Mathematics, W. W.Norton & Company, 2001, ISBN 0-393-02023-1

Go West, Young Man

She immediately set her eyes on the young mechanic, fixing her car, Bud Norton, played by Randolph Scott.

Godfrey M. Hyams

In the early twentieth century, he was the principal financial manager for the construction of the Deepwater Railway in West Virginia and the Tidewater Railway in Virginia, which were combined in 1907 to form the Virginian Railway (VGN), completed in 1909.

Good, West Virginia

Good is located on the Bloomery Pike (West Virginia Route 127) at I.L. Pugh Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 6/2) east of Bloomery and northwest of Winchester on the West Virginia/Virginia border.

Harper, West Virginia

Harper is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Harry Crandall

At the height of his career, Crandall owned eighteen theaters in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Hebron, West Virginia

Hebron is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Henry M. Mathews

Born in Frankford, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, he received an A.M. from the University of Virginia and B.L. from Lexington Law School.

Henry Roth

Steven G. Kellman, Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (W.W. Norton, 2005).

Hook Norton Ironstone Partnership

The Hook Norton Ironstone Partnership was the first company to quarry ironstone at Hook Norton on a large scale.

ISG Weirton Steel

In 1905 Weir and his partner, James Phillips, bought a tin mill in Clarksburg, West Virginia.

Jimtown, West Virginia

Jimtown is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

John G. Inglis

He left Westinghouse to become Electrical Engineer for the Co-operative Transit Company in Wheeling, West Virginia.

John Norton, 5th Baron Grantley

Norton was born in Florence, Italy, the son of Thomas Norton, 4th Baron Grantley and his wife, Maria, née Federigo, and a grandson of Caroline Norton, the writer, and was educated at Harrow School and the University of Dresden.

Kathy Mattea

Mattea was born in South Charleston, West Virginia, because it had the nearest hospital to her parents' home in Cross Lanes, where she grew up, graduating from nearby Nitro High School.

Kings Norton railway station

Kings Norton Station could see refurbishment of the island platform for passenger use, should the proposal to reopen the Camp Hill Line progress.

Mountain Stage

Over the years, the show has featured such international luminaries as Phish, Barenaked Ladies, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby, the Derek Trucks Band, Chris Thile, Bell X-1, Judy Collins, They Might Be Giants, Norah Jones, Hubert Sumlin & Pinetop Perkins, Charles Brown, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Amos Lee, Joan Baez, Jakob Dylan and Regina Spektor, as well as Kathy Mattea, Tim O'Brien and over a hundred West Virginia artists.

Newington West by-election, 1916

Norton had already indicated his intention to stand down from the Commons at the next general election, and the City of London merchant J. D. Gilbert had already been selected as the Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate.

Norman Tate

Norman ("Norm") W. Tate (born January 2, 1942 in Oswald, West Virginia) is a retired long jumper from the United States, who set the world's best year performance in 1971 by jumping 8.23 metres on 1971-05-22 at a meet in El Paso.

Norton ConnectSafe

Norton ConnectSafe is a free public DNS service offered by Symantec Corporation that claims to offer a faster and more reliable web browsing experience while blocking undesirable websites.

Norton Dominator

Norton abandoned the Domiracer project a year later when the Bracebridge Street race shop closed and the Domiracer and factory spares were sold to Paul Dunstall, who continued with development and began producing Norton performance parts, eventually selling complete Norton Dunstall bikes to customers including Steve McQueen.

Norton le Moors

The closest railway station to Norton le Moors is Longport railway station which is approximately 2.5miles west from the centre of Norton le Moors.

Oxapampa

In March 1857 a group of 300 Tyrolean and Prussian settlers, consisting mainly of poor peasant families and couples who weren't allowed to marry in their home countries, boarded the “Norton” to go to Peru.

Parachute Training School

No. 1 Parachute Training School RAF, in England, initially based at RAF Ringway (which is now Manchester Airport) and currently based at RAF Brize Norton

Patty Parsons

Patty Parsons (born in West Virginia) is the former soulful lead singer of AnExchange, a Marin County, California-based folk rock group of the early 1970s.

Red House, West Virginia

Due to the extremely windy mountain terrain, WV 34 is a very dangerous road for a 21 mile stretch from its junction with WV 62 to Kenna, where it intersects with County Route 21, which provides access to I-77.

Robert Moses' Kin

2004 Cause, collaboration with Youth Speaks; premiered at Youth Speaks Living Word Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Jonathan Norton, composer; Marc Bamuthi Joseph, dramaturg

Robert Norton

Bob Norton (Robert Cecil York Norton 1922-1992), Australian dentist

Rockland, West Virginia

Rockland is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Ronald Frank Thiemann

While acting President of Haverford College, Thiemann officiated at the May 1986 graduation ceremonies during which honorary doctorates were to be awarded to Edwin Bronner, Robert M. Gavin Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. Lewis, head of the Union Pacific Railroad had recently served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the cabinet of Ronald Reagan and overseen the lockout of striking air traffic controllers in 1981.

Ruffin Pleasant

He was also a delegate to the Democratic convention in 1924, which took 103 ballots to nominate John W. Davis of West Virginia as the party's compromise presidential nominee.

Software developer

Some of the notable software people include Peter Norton (developer of Norton Utilities), Richard Garriott (Ultima-series creator), and Philippe Kahn (Borland key founder), all of whom started as entrepreneurial individual or small-team software developers.

Tri-state area

Three other prominent areas that have been labeled tri-state areas are the Cincinnati tri-state area, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; the Pittsburgh tri-state area, covering parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; and the Chicago tri-state area, also known as Chicagoland, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

United States Senate election in West Virginia, 2008

Both Representative Alan Mollohan (D-1st District) and Representative Nick Rahall (D-3rd District) had more formidable challenges from Republicans when compared to 2000 and 2002.

WNVA

WNVA-FM, a radio station (106.3 FM) licensed to Norton, Virginia, United States


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