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6 unusual facts about Snow Hill


Asher and Mary Isabelle Richardson House

A native of Snow Hill, Maryland, Richardson settled in Dimmit County after his 1877 discharge from the United States Army.

John Walter Smith

Smith was born at Snow Hill, Maryland, and attended private schools and Union Academy.

Judy Johnson

Johnson was born in Snow Hill, Maryland, on October 26, 1899, to Annie and William Johnson.

Political positions of John Edwards

Edwards has advocated his College for Everyone program based on proposal made in his 2004 campaign and the successful College for Everyone pilot program that Edwards and the Carolina non-profit organization Promise and Opportunity Foundation began at Greene Central High School in Snow Hill, North Carolina, a high school in rural eastern North Carolina with a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students.

Snow Hill, Maryland

Snow Hill was founded in 1686 in Somerset County by English settlers who may have named it after a street and neighborhood of the City of London called "Snow Hill".

Weddell Sea

Otto Nordenskiöld, leader of the 1901-1904 Swedish Antarctic Expedition, spent a winter at Snow Hill with a team of four men when the relieve ship became beset in ice and was finally crushed.


Gobowen railway station

Gobowen railway station is a railway station on the Shrewsbury to Chester Line of the former Great Western Railway's London (Paddington) to Birkenhead via Birmingham (Snow Hill) line, serving the small town of Gobowen in Shropshire, England.

Julia A. Purnell Museum

The Julia A. Purnell Museum is located at 208 West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland, United States.

Soho and Winson Green railway station

Soho & Winson Green was an intermediate station on the Great Western Railway's London (Paddington) to Birkenhead via Birmingham (Snow Hill) line, serving the Soho and Winson Green areas.

Worcester County District Courthouses

The District Court of Maryland for Wocester County District Courthouses are located in Ocean City and Snow Hill and serve as the courts of first impression for the majority of residents in Worcester County, Maryland.


see also

Birmingham City Centre

The Midland Metro system, opened in 1999, terminates at Snow Hill station and has stops at St Paul's and the Jewellery Quarter.

David Sutton Phelps, Jr.

Phelps worked on many archaeological sites, some of his more notable sites are the Tar River site, the Neoheroka Fort Tuscarora war site (near snow hill), Lake Phelps, Fort Raleigh (near Manteo), and Hatteras Island.

Girdletree Barnes Bank

The Girdletree Barnes Bank is located on Snow Hill Road (Route 12) between Snow Hill and Stockton, Girdletree, Maryland, United States.

One Snow Hill Plaza

It receives the name Kennedy Tower from the mural dedicated to John F. Kennedy which was located in Snow Hill Circus until it was removed in mid-2006.

Purnell House

George Washington Purnell House, Snow Hill, Maryland, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Smethwick West railway station

Reduced levels of local services continued from Snow Hill to Wolverhampton Low Level; with four trains per day from Snow Hill to Langley Green, via Smethwick West, using Class 122 units, nicknamed "bubble cars".

Snow Hill Lines

Historically, the lines running through Snow Hill station were built by the Great Western Railway, and so they are largely separate from the lines running into New Street station, which were built by the London and North Western Railway and Midland Railway.

Snow Hill railway station

For Snow Hill station in Birmingham, see Birmingham Snow Hill station.

For the former Snow Hill station in London, see Holborn Viaduct railway station.

St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham

The cathedral is in a green public space near Birmingham Snow Hill station and is located on what is now called St Chad's Queensway after the cathedral, at the junction with Snow Hill Queensway and Old Snow Hill (becomes Constitution Hill), part of the Birmingham Inner Ring Road constructed in 1970s.

Stockton, Maryland

In 1876, a railroad (which would eventually become part of the Pennsylvania Railroad) was laid from Franklin City and Greenbackville in Virginia to Snow Hill.

Swedish Antarctic Expedition

Sobral and also the American artist F. W. Stokes joined the expedition and spent the two years with Nordenskjöld at Snow Hill Island, becoming the first Argentine to spend time in Antarctica.

U.S. Route 50 in Maryland

US 50 and two ramps cross the Snow Hill Line of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad, which parallels US 113, at-grade.

Worthington Valley Historic District

Since 1922, Snow Hill and Worthington Farms have been the scene of the Maryland Hunt Cup Steeplechase.

WQMR

WAMS-FM, a radio station (101.1 FM) licensed to serve Snow Hill, Maryland, which held the call sign WQMR from 2000 to 2011