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44 unusual facts about Stockton


2007–08 Victoria Salmon Kings season

At the 2008 All-Star Game festivities in Stockton, Ash Goldie showed his impressive skills during the two-day event.

Anthony Chabot

He was involved in several other businesses during this time, including a paper mill in Stockton, the Judson Manufacturing Company in Oakland, the Pioneer Pulp Mill Company near Alta (Placer County), the Puget Sound Iron Company, and a large tract of land in Washington state for the cultivation of cranberries.

Bob Heinz

Heinz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended Messmer High School in Milwaukee and Lincoln High School in Stockton, California.

Bob Swenson

Robert Charles Swenson (born July 1, 1953, in Stockton, California) played college football for the University of California.

Chris Olivero

Christopher Anthony Olivero (born October 15, 1984 in Stockton, California) is an actor known for his guest roles on Boston Public, 24, CBS's CSI: Miami, Ghost Whisperer, and his most recent role in the ABC Family channel program Kyle XY as Declan McDonough.

Dean Spanos

Dean continued his golfing career at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

Delaware River Greenway Partnership

The Delaware River Greenway Partnership (DRGP) is a non-profit organization, created in 1989 and located in Stockton, New Jersey, in the historic Prallsville Mills complex.

Doddingtree

The lower division consisted of the Manors of Abberley; Astley; Alton; Bayton; Bewdley; Doddenham; Dowles; Glasshampton; Mamble; Ribbesford; Great Witley; Rochford; Shelsley Beauchamp; Rock; Shrawley and Stockton.

Eastern Distribution Center

Until September 1997, two regional offices - Defense Distribution Region East in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, and Defense Distribution Region West in Stockton, California, managed a vast network of distribution depots within their respective geographic boundaries.

Edward Forbes Walker

Hackworth, Stockton-on-Tees and in 1853 moved again, this time to the works of Messrs. Thomas Richardson and Son, Hartlepool.

Emil John Raddatz

He served as Mayor of Stockton before representing Utah's seventh district in the 1st State Legislature.

Flounders' Folly

There are also no known records of his having ships or interests in Liverpool or Bristol, as he was a man hailing from the north-east of England, near Stockton-on-Tees.

Ghorghushti

The largest Ghorghushti population in the United States is in Stockton, California a city in Northern California.

History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830

In 1821 an Act of Parliament was approved for a tramway between Stockton and Darlington.

HM Prison Holme House

HM Prison Holme House is a Category B men's prison, located in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England.

Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs

Yeatman was born at Manston House, Dorset, the younger son of Harry Farr Yeatman JP by his marriage to Emma, daughter and heiress of Harry Biggs, of Stockton House, Wiltshire.

John Nisby

Nisby was born in San Francisco, California and attended Edison High School in Stockton, California.

Keith Alan Morris

It was shot in Stockton, Missouri, with a student crew from Indiana (where he trained the students in the classroom for one year prior).

Kieran Hanrahan

Over the years, Hanrahan has helped to found a number of traditional bands, including Inchiquin, Stockton's Wing, and the Templehouse Ceili Band.

Levin H. Campbell, Jr.

After the war Campbell continued his service, including assignments at: the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, Washington, D.C.; Stockton Ordnance Depot, Stockton, California; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; and Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.

Louis Rankin

Rankin played football, basketball, and track for the Lincoln High School Trojans of Stockton, California.

Lynell Hamilton

Lynell Hamilton (born August 5, 1985 in Stockton, California) is a former American football running back who has most recently worked as a graduate assistant at San Diego State University.

Mary Moore-Bentley

In 1943 she was committed to the Mental Hospital at Stockton in Newcastle, where she died in 1953.

New Zealand State Highway 67

The road passes through alternating areas of farmland and temperate rainforest vegetation as it passes the settlements of Waimangaroa (turn right here for Denniston), Granity (turn right here for Millerton, Stockton and Stockton Mine), Ngakwau and Hector.

Oleg Gorobiy

In 2004 he joined the national Dragon boat squad as a helmsman, winning four gold medals at the 2004 European championships at Stockton-on-Tees, England.

Ryan Coleman

He graduated from Cesar Chavez High School in Stockton, California in the year 2009 and currently is working on his music and comedic acts.

Savage Sun

Christopher Lee Schamber, better known by his stage name Savage Sun, is an American rapper from Stockton, California.

SS Cawarra

Along with other wrecks they were used in the construction of the Stockton breakwall where plaques commemorate the loss of each of the ships including the Cawarra.

Stockton Plateau Hydro Project

Some of the water used will be drained from the Stockton coal mine which is expected to reduce the pollution levels in the Ngakawau River.

Stockton Rugby Club

Stockton Rugby Football Club is an amateur sports club based in Stockton-on-Tees.

Stockton-Lindquist House

The Stockton-Lindquist House (SLH) is the oldest historic home in the small town of DeLand, Florida and one of the oldest Historic Sites in Volusia County, FL.

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.

Stockton, Missouri

Emil Liston (1890–1949), basketball coach and administrator, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame

Stockton, New Jersey

JP Miller (1919–2001), a leading writer of teleplays during the Golden Age of Television.

Stockton, New South Wales

Stocktonians are particularly proud of Dave Sands, a local resident and champion boxer during the years immediately after World War II.

Stockton, Shropshire

The River Camlad flows to the south and there was once a mill (Stockton Mill).

Stockton's Wing

The band took its name from a line in the Bruce Springsteen song, "Backstreets" - "Slow dancin' in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing..."

The Roads Must Roll

The technicians who maintain the Stockton section of the road have been persuaded by a radical social theory, Functionalism, that their role in maintaining the nation's transport infrastructure is more important than that of any other workers and that they should therefore be in control.

Wallace Battery

Wallace Battery was an artillery battery located on the northern side of the entrance to the Hunter River at Stockton, New South Wales, Australia.

Webster Slaughter

Slaughter was born in Stockton, California, where he attended Franklin High School.

West Bromwich Town Hall

The Town Hall, situated in the centre of High Street, was built between 1874 and 1875 in brick and stone to an Italian Gothic design of the architects Alexander & Henman of Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough and the building contractors were Trow & Sons of Wednesbury.

Willard Harrell

He went to Edison High School, Stockton, California, in the late 1960s and early 1970s and played under its legendary coach, Charlie Washington.

Harrell attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

Wiltshire County Cricket Club

He mentions a match at Stockton, Wiltshire in 1799 which was reported as "an event so novel in the county of Wiltshire".


16th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 16th Michigan Infantry was organized as Stockton's Independent Regiment at Plymouth and Detroit, Michigan between July and September, 1861.

1975 World Series

This was the only World Series broadcast for Stockton, who would become a prominent national sportscaster for such networks as CBS, Fox, and TNT.

Aislaby

Aislaby, County Durham, in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and ceremonial county of County Durham

Ashbel Green

They had three children: Robert Stockton Green (1787–1813), Jacob Green (1790–1842), and James Sproat Green (1792–1862), the latter of whom served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and was the father of Robert Stockton Green (1831–1895), Governor of New Jersey.

Central California Traction Company

The railroad operated over the same line from Stockton to Sacramento until 1998 when service between Lodi and Sacramento was suspended.

Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law

In 1967, the Secretary of the Navy officially designated the academic post as the Charles H. Stockton Chair of International Law in honor of Rear Admiral Charles Stockton, a former faculty member and President of the Naval War College, who had been the U.S. Navy's first uniformed expert in International Law.

Christ Church, York

Christ Church is located on Stockton Lane in Heworth, York, England.

Clarence Railway

But after Tennant died in 1839, the running of the HD&RCo was taken over by Stockton on Tees solicitor, Ralph Ward Jackson.

Countess of Stockton

The Countess of Stockton is a courtesy title granted to the wives of the Earl of Stockton.

David E. Potter

He has written and lectured widely on technology and the new economy, including the Stockton Lecture at London Business School in 1998, one of the Millennium Lectures at 10 Downing Street in 1999, and the Tacitus Lecture, 2000 at the Guildhall.

ECHL Hall of Fame

The ECHL Hall of Fame inaugural class was inducted during the 2008 ECHL All-Star Game festivities at Stockton Arena in Stockton, California and included ECHL founder Henry Brabham, the ECHL's first commissioner Patrick J. Kelly, and former players Nick Vitucci and Chris Valicevic.

Eddie Macon

He was a track star at Edison High School, and was drafted into the United States Army during World War II in 1945, and was stationed for seven months at Yokohama, Japan after the war's conclusion.

Eleoncio Mercedes

He debuted as a professional boxer on July 2 of 1978 with a win over Darryl Jones in Stockton.

Fisherton Delamere

The civil parish, was extinguished in 1934, when Fisherton was transferred to Wylye, and Bapton to Stockton.

Girdletree Barnes Bank

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

Hust Stockton

During a Thanksgiving Day game in 1926, a pass from Stockton to Two-Bits Homan netted the Yellow Jackets a 20-14 victory over the Green Bay Packers.

John Houston Stockton (September 23, 1901 - April 27, 1967) was a professional football player for the Frankford Yellow Jackets from 1926 until 1928.

Jerry Sloan

After the retirement of long-time Jazz anchors Malone and Stockton, Sloan coached a younger group of budding stars, including Carlos Boozer, Andrei Kirilenko and later, Deron Williams.

Linden, California

Pavement, a band hailing from nearby Stockton, immortalizes the town in "Feed 'Em To The (Linden) Lions," song three on their 1992 EP, Watery, Domestic.

Lorna Sage

The eldest child of Valma and Eric Stockton, she was named after Lorna Doone.

Mind Ripper

The movie begins with the family unit of Stockton (Lance Henriksen), daughter Wendy (Natasha Gregson Wagner), and son Scott (Giovanni Ribisi), preparing for a visit to the desert.

New Jersey in the American Revolution

Distinguished lawyer Richard Stockton, New Jersey-born and College of New Jersey graduate, sacrificed his royal judicial title and his considerable international economic interest in order to be an elected delegate for New Jersey at the General Congress.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

The ceremonial county of North Yorkshire also includes the boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees (south of the river), Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland however these are covered by the Cleveland Fire Brigade.

Preston Park, Stockton-on-Tees

The land was originally a private residence with large grounds but has since become the property of Stockton Borough Council after being purchased from Sir Robert Ropner.

Pueblo de Los Ángeles

Los Angeles was not retaken until Commodore Stockton again captured the city on January 10, 1847, after the battles at the Siege of Los Angeles, Battle of Dominguez Rancho, Battle of San Pasqual, Battle of Rio San Gabriel and the Battle of La Mesa.

Ryedale

The district lost about half its population in 1996, when an expanded City of York became a unitary authority, specifically the parishes of Clifton Without, Earswick, Haxby, Heworth Without, Holtby, Huntington, Murton, New Earswick, Osbaldwick, Rawcliffe, Skelton, Stockton-on-the-Forest, Strensall, Towthorpe, and Wigginton.

Sharon Ito

After working at radio stations KJOY Stockton and KGNR in Sacramento, Ito began her TV career at KXTV News10 in Sacramento in 1985 as a producer and news reporter.

Stockton Airport

Stockton Metropolitan Airport in Stockton, California, United States (FAA: SCK)

Stockton Heath

In the 1900s George Formby Senior moved his young family to Stockton Heath and it was from here that George Formby Junior began his entertainment career.

Winterton Hospital

When services were moved to North Tees General Hospital in Stockton in the 1960s the site became a Community hospital providing services such as X-rays and respite care.

Worimi conservation lands

They were created in February 2007 when Crown land at Stockton Bight was granted to the Worimi Local Aboriginal Land Council.