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15 unusual facts about Waverly


Capital punishment in Virginia

Executions are carried out at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, and death row is located at the Sussex State Prison near Waverly, Virginia.

Christopher Erb

Born in Waverly, New York and raised in Seattle, Washington, Erb is a graduate of the University of Washington.

Cornerstone Community Church

Cornerstone is part of a network called Zion Fellowship, under the leadership of Dr. Brian Bailey, based in Waverly, New York.

Horace Abbott

He lived at his country estate "Abbotston" in northeast Baltimore near the present location of 33rd Street and The Alameda on one of the highest hills in the city near the village of Huntingdon (now Waverly) to the west and the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello community off Harford Road to the east.

Mountain Top Yard

Late in 1871, the competing upstarts calling themselves the Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV) established themselves above and across the same pass in 1871 and extended that storied road to Sayre Yard astride the stateline between Waverly, New York and Sayre, Pennsylvania.

Populus tremula

The English name Waverly, meaning "quaking aspen," is both a surname and unisex given name.

Rolf C. Hagen Group

Hagen Pet Foods Inc. is based in Waverly, New York where the Nutrience line of premium dog food is produced.

Sayre Yard

Historic Sayre Yard, named after the chief Engineer and first Superintendent of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV) was established across the stateline in 1876 in Waverly, New York and Sayre, Pennsylvania.

The Following

While serving out his sentence at the Virginia Central Penitentiary in Waverly, Virginia, Carroll gathers a cult-like collection of followers, who are willing to murder, kidnap, and even sacrifice themselves in order to execute his plan of revenge against his ex-wife and Hardy.

Waverly, Alabama

The event is held in the neighborhood's open-air amphitheater at Standard Deluxe Inc. (A Internationally known Design & Screen Print Shop/Music Venue) The 2012 Waverly Boogie featured sets from Centro-Matic, Hurray for the Riff Raff and The Pine Hill Haints among others.

Waverly, Minnesota

Hubert Humphrey – (1911–1978), American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States from 1965 to 1969.

Waverly, Pennsylvania

In 1853, it was established as a borough within Pennsylvania; since there already was a borough named "Abington" located near Philadelphia, the town was renamed Waverly after Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels, popular at that time.

Waverly, Tennessee

Hurricane Mills, located a few miles south of Waverly along TN-13, was the site of a substantial mill and carding factory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Waverly, Virginia

Popular legend has it that William Mahone (1826–1895), builder of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad (now Norfolk Southern), and his cultured wife, Otelia Butler Mahone (1837–1911), traveled along the newly completed Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad naming stations.

Shirley MacLaine lived here as a young child when her father, Ira Beatty, was briefly the local school's principal.


Alexander Waverly

Mr. Waverly is the head of the U.N.C.L.E. organisation and was played by the veteran English actor Leo G. Carroll.

Elishama Tozer

Elishama Tozer (July 3, 1741 Lyme, New London County, Connecticut — 1790 Waverly, then in Montgomery County, now in Tioga County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Holtsville, New York

As another post office named Waverly already existed in Upstate New York, the name of the hamlet was changed to Holtsville in 1860, in honor of U.S. Postmaster General Joseph Holt.

Humphreys County, Tennessee

When the western half of the county was split off to form Benton County in 1835, the seat was moved to the more centrally located Waverly.

John Grant Chapman

Chapman died at his sister’s estate, "Waverly", on the Wicomico River in Charles County, Maryland, and was initially interred at St. Johns, a family estate.

KWAY

KWAY-FM, a radio station (99.3 FM) licensed to Waverly, Iowa, United States

Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy

Warnings at Waverly Academy is the 21st installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Nancy Drew goes undercover as a transfer student named "Becca Sawyer" at the Waverly Academy for Girls, an exclusive boarding school in upstate New York.

Newellton High School

(born 1936), a native of Tunica, Mississippi, graduate of Mississippi College in Clinton, former pastor of the Flowers Landing Baptist Church in Newellton, mathematics and chemistry teacher and coach at NHS from 1958-1978, resident of West Monroe and pastor in Waverly in Madison Parish.

Thomas Oliver Selfridge

Rear Admiral Selfridge died in Waverly (now part of Belmont, Massachusetts).

Waverly Films

Waverly Films won the 2008 YouTube Sketchies 2 Contest, sponsored by Toyota Corolla.

In 2009 Waverly Film's six episode animated series on Atom.com, Stickman Exodus, won both a Webby Award and a People's Voice award.

Waverly Township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

In 1853, it was established as a borough within Pennsylvania; since there was another municipality named Abington located near Philadelphia, the town was renamed Waverly after Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (novel), popular at that time.

WAVR

WATS is licensed to Sayre, Pennsylvania and WAVR is licensed to Waverly, Tioga County, New York; the two towns are adjacent to each other and are located on opposite sides of Interstate 86 and New York-Pennsylvania border.

Western Kentucky Railway

When created in 1995, the Western Kentucky Railway owned lines from Providence to a junction at Blackford, and from Blackford north to Waverly and south to the Paducah and Louisville Railway at Princeton.

WIOL

WIOL-FM, a radio station (95.7 FM) licensed to Waverly Hall, Georgia, United States