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6 unusual facts about Samuel Hill


Historic Columbia River Highway

The original highway was promoted by lawyer and entrepreneur Sam Hill and engineer Samuel C. Lancaster, to be modeled after the great scenic roads of Europe.

--photo of the Maryhill Loops here?-->The eventual highway was primarily designed by engineer and landscape architect Samuel C. Lancaster, a lifelong friend of good roads promoter Samuel Hill.

Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale

before= Sir Samuel Hill-Wood

Maryhill Loops Road

The Maryhill Loops Road was an experimental road in south central Washington, United States, built by Good Roads promoter Samuel Hill with the help of engineer and landscape architect Samuel C. Lancaster, climbing the Columbia Hills from the Columbia River and Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway to his planned Quaker utopian community at Maryhill, Washington.

Maryhill, Washington

Maryhill is named after the wife and daughter of regional icon Sam Hill, who purchased land and envisioned a community there shortly after the turn of the 20th century.

Sam Hill Memorial Bridge

It was named in honor of the early bridge proponent and builder of the nearby Maryhill Museum, Sam Hill.


Peter Hill-Wood

He is the third generation of his family to serve as chairman of Arsenal, following his father, Denis Hill-Wood (in office 1962–1982), and his grandfather, Samuel Hill-Wood (1929–1936 and 1946–1949) from Glossop, Derbyshire.


see also

Hill-Wood baronets

Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet, of Hengrave, was the son of John Hill Wood, elder brother of the aforementioned Samuel Wood, father of Sir Samuel Hill-Wood, 1st Baronet (see Wood baronets).

Sam Hill

Giv'at Shmuel (English: Samuel Hill), a city in the Center District of Israel

Viscount Hill

The Baronetcy, of Hawkestone in the County of Shropshire, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1727 for the first Viscount Hill's grandfather Rowland Hill, with remainder to his cousins Samuel Hill, of Shenstone, Thomas Hill, of Tern (whose eldest son Noel Hill was created Baron Berwick in 1784) and Rowland Hill, brother of Thomas.