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11 unusual facts about Oakwood


Braselton, Georgia

Braselton borders the mailing addresses (not city limits) of Gainesville (Candler), Flowery Branch, Oakwood (Chestnut Mountain side), and Pendergrass.

David Bieber

On December 26, 2003, on the border between the Gipton and Oakwood areas of Leeds, traffic policemen Ian Broadhurst and Neil Roper saw Bieber's stolen BMW car parked at the junction of Grange Park Avenue and Dib Lane, where Bieber had just been into the adjacent post office.

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Hawthorn Hill, the 1914-1948 residence of Orville Wright, located just south of Dayton in Oakwood, Ohio.

Ditton Priors

A basalt axe hammer and flints have been located at Lightwood and Oakwood.

Kai Kasiguran

Kai Kasiguran (born September 8, 1985 in Oakwood Village, Ohio) is an American soccer who is currently a free agent.

Moisant Aviation School

An instructor at the school, Albert Jewell disappeared on 13 October 1913 on flight from the Hempstead airfield to Oakwood, Staten Island, NY to take part in an air race; he is assumed to have come down at sea off the south shore of Long Island.

Oakwood State Bank

The Oakwood State Bank, is a small bank with a single branch in Oakwood, Texas formerly operated by Roddy R. Wiley, Jr. (born c. 1923 - 6 August 2010)

Oakwood, Leeds

Because the LS8 postcode boundary includes Fearnville, Lady wood, Gipton Wood and Hollin Wood, these are sometimes considered part of Oakwood.

Oakwood, Texas

Oakwood (single), a CD release of a song written by The Redding Brothers about the town of Oakwood, Texas, where their grandfather, Billy Jack Redding, grew up.

Wayne Farms

The Dutch Quality House brand was created in 1978, and acquired by the company in 1985 through the purchase of a processing plant in Oakwood, Georgia.

Its 13 processing facilities span the southeast region of the United States with its corporate headquarters located in Oakwood, Georgia.


BaKardi Slang

Later on, he drives a Hummer through various Toronto neighbourhoods, including Regent Park, Oakwood-Vaughan, and Jane and Finch.

Bossanova

The three band members lived in the Oakwood apartments, along with comic Garrett Morris and members of the band White Lion.

Chaviva Hošek

In the 1987 Ontario election, Hošek sought and won a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto constituency of Oakwood, defeating Ontario New Democratic Party incumbent Tony Grande by 1,331 votes.

Crayford

They play at Oakwood stadium, on Old Road, Crayford, who they share with Kent Football United F.C..

Frank Linsly James

He was born and raised in Liverpool; the 1861 census shows him living at his parents home Oakwood House, Elmswood Road, Aigburth, Liverpool.

Henry N. Snyder

After funeral services at the Wofford College Chapel (now known as the Leonard Auditorium, in the Old Main building), Dr. Snyder was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC.

James Sansom Carpenter House

Artist Leon Kroll and his wife visited Des Moines and stayed with the Carpenter's at Oakwood.

Joe Flexer

In the 1995 Ontario election he ran as an "Independent Labour" candidate in Oakwood against NDP MPP Tony Rizzo and placed fourth out of seven candidates with 301 votes.

Josh Colle

He was instrumental in petitioning Metrolinx to include a station at Oakwood Avenue in their final plans for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

Kettering-Oakwood Times

The Kettering-Oakwood Times was a weekly suburban newspaper last owned by Civitas Media of Davidson, North Carolina.

Lake Wawasee

Known geographic place names around Wawasee: Black's Point, Black Stump Point, Jones Landing, Willow Grove, Pickwick Park, Kale Island, Oakwood, Lakeview-South Park, Ogden's Island, Sand Point, Johnson's Bay, Buttermilk Bay, Vawter Park, Ideal Beach, Waveland Beach, Conkling Hill, Morrison's Island, and Nattie Crow Beach.

Lawrence Manor

At the federal and provincial level the area is within the riding of Eglinton—Lawrence (formerly in the federal riding of Eglinton and provincially within Oakwood).

Oakwood–Vaughan

Oakwood–Vaughan is a multicultural neighbourhood in the York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Ronald Brise

Brisé graduated from Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, with degrees in Biology and Biology Education.

Seth C. Moffatt

Seth Moffatt was a resident of Northport and is interred at Oakwood Cemetery of Traverse City.

St Thomas's Church, Oakwood

St Thomas's is a modern Anglican church established in the 1930s as the suburb of Oakwood grew with the extension of the Piccadilly underground line to Cockfosters.

St. Simon Stock Catholic School

This integrates the school with other local schools such as Maidstone Grammar School for Girls, St Augustine Academy, Maplesden Noakes, Oakwood Park Grammar School and Oakwood Park MidKent College, giving students in sixth form a wider choice of subjects to study.

Staten Island Vipers

The Vipers initially struggled to find a ground at which to play, debuting first at Monsignor Farrell High School in Oakwood before being forced out by community opposition.

Tempo FM

The radio's area overlaps in areas with that of Asian Fever FM (East Leeds, in particularly Harehills, Oakwood and Seacroft) and Stray FM (Harrogate), while broadcasting in conjunction with regional radio stations such as Radio Aire, Real Radio and BBC Radio Leeds.

V13

Venice 13, a Mexican American street gang based in the Oakwood neighborhood of Venice, a section of Los Angeles, California

Venice 13

Famous movie stars such as actresses Julia Roberts and Anjelica Huston, and actor Nicolas Cage have taken residency in or around the Oakwood area.

The affiliate, with plenty of animosity for the mostly Caucasian professional newcomers, stated that new home owners in the area at sometimes fail to even notice Oakwood as a gang neighborhood.