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6 unusual facts about Rockland


John Faunce Leavitt

In 1952 the maritime artist's works were the subject of a one-man show at the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine.

Ottawa Regional Road 174

Although the road continues through the towns of Rockland and Hawkesbury to the Quebec border, the portion east of the Ottawa city boundary is known as Prescott and Russell County Road 17.

Rockland, Greater Victoria

Rockland is an historic neighbourhood of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, located just southeast of downtown and northeast of Beacon Hill Park, and comprising the northern portion of the official city neighbourhood of Fairfield.

Rockland, Maine

Louise Nevelson, artist, emigrated from Russia to Rockland as a child

Rockland, Massachusetts

On the state level, Rockland is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fifth Plymouth district, which includes the towns of Hanover and Norwell.

Rockland, West Virginia

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


A. W. Tillinghast

Another notable Tillinghast golf course was created specifically for Paramount Pictures founder Adolf Zukor in 1920, now known as Paramount Country Club, in Rockland County, NY.

Carkeek

Jack Carkeek, (1861–1924), American Cornish champion wrestler from Rockland, Michigan United States

Charles Fechter

The last three years of his life were spent in seclusion with his then wife, Lizzie Price, on a farm which he had bought at Rockland Centre, near Quakertown, Pennsylvania, where he died.

CHLT-DT

Also, as with CKSH-DT, CHLT enjoys cable coverage throughout selected areas of Northern New England, as far east as Augusta and Rockland, Maine, and as far south as Barre, St. Johnsbury and Chelsea, Vermont.

David Carlucci

Carlucci was born and raised in Rockland County, graduating from Clarkstown High School North.

Edward Lawry Norton

Edward Lawry Norton (28 July 1898, Rockland, Maine–28 January 1983, Chatham, New Jersey) was an accomplished Bell Labs engineer and scientist famous for developing the concept of the Norton equivalent circuit.

Five Families

In the state of New York the families have increased their criminal rackets in Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk) and the counties of Westchester, Rockland and Albany.

Fox River State Recreational Trail

The trail begins at the CityDeck in Green Bay, Wisconsin, follows the Fox River south through De Pere, then deviatiating east, away from the river, were it follows a former railroad bed through Rockland, Wrightstown, Greenleaf, Holland, and ends at Ott Road in Hilbert.

George A. Blauvelt

George Alanson Blauvelt (November 11, 1866 in Ramapo, Rockland County, New York – October 16, 1924 in Monsey, Rockland Co., NY) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Hal Rockland

Rockland was the second of three Rockland brothers to join the gay porn industry, following in the footsteps of his older brother, Vince Rockland.

Hanover, Massachusetts

On the state level, Hanover is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fifth Plymouth district, which includes the neighboring towns of Norwell and Rockland.

Harmony Hall

The Jacob Sloat House, Sloatsburg, New York, formerly called Harmony Hall, listed on the NRHP in Rockland County, New York

Hasidic Judaism

However, the most rapidly growing community of American Hasidic Jews is located in Rockland County and the western Hudson Valley of New York State, including the communities of Monsey, Monroe, New Square, and Kiryas Joel.

Lenore Ulric

She died of heart failure in Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, New York on December 30, 1970, aged 78.

Monsey

Monsey, New York, a hamlet in Rockland County, New York, United States

Monsey Church

With the opening of the New York State Thruway and the Tappan Zee Bridge in the mid-1950s, Rockland County grew rapidly—and the Monsey Church with it.

New York Metropolitan Transportation Council

Voting members of NYMTC comprise representatives of the counties of Putnam, Rockland, Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk; the New York City Departments of City Planning and Transportation; the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and the New York State Department of Transportation.

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) is the metropolitan planning organization for New York City, Long Island, and the lower Hudson Valley (Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester counties).

News 12 Networks

News 12 Hudson Valley, based at 235 West Nyack Road in West Nyack, New York, launched in 2005 and reaches more than 140,000 homes through the Cablevision and Time Warner Cable (channel 156) systems serving Rockland and Orange counties.

Norwell, Massachusetts

On the state level, Norwell is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fifth Plymouth district, which includes the neighboring towns of Hanover and Rockland.

Per Bergsland

After arriving at the POW camp, he gave his name as "Peter Rockland" (Per = Petrus, meaning rock in Greek, and Berg meaning mountain or rock in Norwegian) to the Germans.

Ping Pong over the Abyss

The title comes from Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl," section 3: "I'm with you in Rockland / where you scream in a straight jacket that you're losing the game of the actual ping pong of the abyss."

Rockland Records

The soundtrack to the 1999 Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy movie Life was released on the Rockland label, and Sparkle was the first artist to release an album on the label.

Rockland the Opera

It is based on a long-forgotten miners' strike at the town of Rockland in Upper Peninsula of Michigan's Ontonagon County.

Rockland the Opera, commissioned by the Pine Mountain Music Festival (PMMF), is an historically-based tragic opera in 14 scenes composed and written by Jukka Linkola of Nivala, Finland, first performed in 2011.

Transpo

Clarence-Rockland Transpo provides a public transportation service to residents of Clarence-Rockland, a city in eastern Ontario, Canada.

U.S. Route 45 in Michigan

After leaving town, US 45 runs northward parallel to the Middle Branch of the Ontonagon River, and the highway crosses the river near a roadside park south of Rockland.

University College at Rockland

URock is located on the fourth floor of the Breakwater Building, located at 91 Camden Street on Route 1 in Rockland.

Urie Bronfenbrenner

His father worked as a neuropathologist at a hospital for the developmentally disabled called Letchworth Village, located in Rockland County, N.Y.

Vince Rockland

Vince Rockland (born December 29, 1973 in Darmstadt, Germany) is an award-winning, American performer, active between 1993 and 1999, and known primarily for his work in all-male adult films, although he also acted in other adult genres.

Rockland's best-known film is Three Brothers, which costarred his two brothers, older sibling Shane Rockland and younger sibling Hal Rockland.


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