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unusual facts about Waterville, County Kerry


Commercial Cable Company

The technology was well established by this time, and they were able to lay cables from Waterville in Ireland to Canso, Nova Scotia, without the major technical problems of the first Transatlantic telegraph cable.


Anthony Wayne Local School District

The school district serves students who live in the cities of Whitehouse, Waterville, and Monclova Twp.; also it serves students in parts of Swanton, Middleton, and Providence Twp. in Lucas County.

Breeda Moynihan-Cronin

She was born in County Kerry and was educated at St. Brigid's Secondary School, Killarney; Dominican College Sion Hill, Dublin; and Skerry's College, Cork.

Channel South

Channel South is a cable television channel operating in Cork, Limerick, and parts of County Kerry, County Waterford, County Clare and South Tipperary since November 2008, Republic of Ireland.

Charles Winn-Allanson, 2nd Baron Headley

Winn-Allanson was the elder son of George Allanson-Winn, 1st Baron Headley, by his second wife Jane Blennerhassett, daughter and co-heiress of Arthur Blennerhassett, of Ballyseedy, County Kerry.

Chicago Rose of Tralee

Once a Rose qualifies at the Regional Selection, they will return to Ireland for the final Rose of Tralee selection in August in Tralee, in County Kerry, Ireland in hopes of being crowned the International Rose of Tralee during the events live televised broadcast.

Cleveland Cram

Cleveland C. Cram (December 21, 1917, Waterville, Minnesota - January 9, 1999) was a station chief and historian for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Commercial Cable Company

Connections from Waterville to Weston-super-Mare in England and Le Havre in France were soon established by the submarine route after initial use of landlines from Waterville onward to mainland Britain.

Cornwallis Square, Nova Scotia

The village commission was originally established in 1947 as the WCG Commission and was responsible for fire protection, recreation and sidewalks in Waterville, Cambridge, and Grafton.

County Limerick

The N69, a secondary route travels from Limerick City along the Shannon Estuary through Clarina, Askeaton & Glin and continues towards Listowel in County Kerry.

Dan Gwadosky

He earned a B.S. in Management and a M.A. in Computer Technology from Thomas College in Waterville.

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

In the small Irish town of Rathcullen, County Kerry, Darby O'Gill (Albert Sharpe) is the aging caretaker of Lord Fitzpatrick's (Walter Fitzgerald) estate, where he lives in the nearby gatehouse with his lovely, almost grown, daughter Katie (Janet Munro).

Gene Chouinard

During the 1927–28 Chouinard played for the Quebec Castors, the Waterville, Maine, and he also joined the Ottawa Senators for eight games during the 1927–28 NHL season.

George Washington Morse

In 1858, Washington Morse along with D. B. Parsons and J.H. Abbott was commissioned by the government of Minnesota to establish a State road from Waterville to Owatonna.

Gerry Boyle

He began as a reporter at the Rumford Falls Times, a weekly in Rumford, a Maine paper-mill town, then moved to the Morning Sentinel, a daily in Waterville, Maine, his old college town, going on to become a full-time columnist on the paper.

Harold Mahony

The family had a home in Scotland but spent most of their time at Dromore Castle, in County Kerry, Ireland.

Industrial Estates Limited

Michelin of France, which eventually built three tire manufacturing plants in Granton, followed by Bridgewater and Waterville.

John Stoughton Newberry

Newberry was born in Waterville, New York and moved with his parents to Michigan when a child, residing successively in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Romeo.

Kevin McCourt

He was born 14 April 1915 in Tralee, County Kerry, second son among three sons and one daughter of John McCourt, originally of Banbridge, County Down, clerk with the congested districts board at Tralee, and later a distributor with Argosy Libraries, and Mary Christina McCourt (née Small) of Co.

Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah

He wrote People in Bondage, which was published in the USA by Lerner Publishing Group, and Slavery: A Brief Survey, which was published in Ghana by Waterville.

Maine Central class K 0-6-0

Earlier K class 0-6-0s were rebuilt with higher-pressure boilers in Maine Central's Waterville shop between 1913 and 1916 as sub-classes K-6 and K-7.

Miriam O'Callaghan

Her father, Jerry, a senior civil servant in the Department of Energy, came from Currans, a small village outside Castleisland in County Kerry.

Mountains of the Iveragh Peninsula

The Mountains of the Iveragh Peninsula are not found in a single mountain range, but instead consist of a number of unnamed mountain ranges found on the Iveragh Peninsula of County Kerry, in Ireland.

Ó Siochfhradha brothers

Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (1883–1964) and Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha (1900–1986), were brothers who were writers, teachers and Irish language storytellers, from County Kerry, Ireland.

O'Lawlor

As punishment for their courageous battles to protect their religious faith and national independence, the Lawlor chieftains who survived the infamous Massacre of Mullaghmast in 1577 were, with the O'More, dispossessed of their property and forced to settle in County Kerry where some descendants remain.

Pro Wrestling America Live

Pro Wrestling America Live, commonly known as just Pro Wrestling America, is a New England independent professional wrestling promotion based in Waterville, Maine.

Renard GAA

In 1942 playing as "Con Keatings" they won their first title, the Iveragh Junior Championship, by defeating Waterville on a score 1-4 to 1-1.

Rufus Babcock

Rufus T. Babcock (September 18, 1798 - May 4, 1875) was an American clergyman and the second president of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

Samuel Francis Smith

His ordination as a Baptist minister was on February 12, 1834, in Waterville, Maine, where in addition to his ministry, he served as Professor of Modern Languages at Waterville College.

Sandhill Rustic

In Ireland, Sandhill Rustic is represented by the subspecies knilli, which occurs only in County Kerry.

Sandra Ramdhanie

In 1997 Ramdhanie claimed a £50,000 reward for exorcising the Dromquinna Manor Hotel outside Kenmare County Kerry.

Seal of Colby College

The Seal of Colby College is the official insignia of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

Sneem

Sneem (Irish: An tSnaidhm) is a town situated on the Iveragh Peninsula (part of the Ring of Kerry) in County Kerry in the southwest of Ireland.

Surface Combustion

In addition to the headquarters, Surface Combustion also maintains a manufacturing and warehouse facility in another nearby Toledo suburb, Waterville.

Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority

The buses have routes in Toledo and its suburbs, including Maumee, Ottawa Hills, Rossford, Sylvania, Sylvania Township, and Waterville.

Top Quality Wrestling

Top Quality Wrestling is a New England independent professional wrestling promotion based in Waterville, Maine.

Universalist-Unitarian Church

Universalist-Unitarian Church is a historic church on Silver Street and Elm Street in Waterville, Maine.

Valley Heights Jr/Sr High School

Valley Heights Jr/Sr High School was built shortly after the formation of the Valley Heights Public School District in 1966, which serves the communities of Blue Rapids and Waterville, Kansas.

Waterville Valley BBTS

The Waterville Valley BBTS Ski Educational Foundation is a ski and snowboard club based out of Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, United States.

Waterville Village Historic District

, Griffin Rd., Fox Hill Rd., Beals Hill Rd., Lapland Road in Waterville, Vermont.

, Griffin Rd., Fox Hill Rd., Beals Hill Rd., Lapland Rd., Waterville, Vermont

Waterville, New York

Hops (humulus lupulus) were introduced to the area in about 1820; by 1875, Waterville was considered the "Hops Capital of the World."

Waterville, Vermont

The 20th-century American oil painter Emile Gruppe painted Waterville on several canvases from a variety of visual points of view, almost always including the church, the Lamoille River, and the Church St. covered bridge.

William Vitruvius Morrison

His public buildings include Carlow County Court House (1828),Tralee County Court House, County Kerry (1828) and the Ross Monument, Rostrevor, County Down (1826), commemorating Major-General Robert Ross (1766–1814).

WMPX

WPFO Fox 23 in Waterville/Portland, Maine, formerly used WMPX-TV call sign from 1999 to 2002


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