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3 unusual facts about Westmoreland


Bramwell Fletcher

Bramwell Fletcher (20 February 1904, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England - 22 June 1988, Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States) was a British stage, film and television actor.

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

2005 - A school in the Westmoreland, New York, school district denied a parent request to have the book removed from the ninth-grade curriculum because of its language.

Westmoreland, New Hampshire

When the border between Massachusetts and the Province of New Hampshire was fixed (with Number 2 on the New Hampshire side), the town was regranted in 1752 by Governor Benning Wentworth as Westmoreland, named for John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland.


Anthony Morgan of Kilflgin

By the death of his half-brother, Colonel Thomas Morgan, who was killed at the Battle of Newbury 20 September 1643, he became possessed of the manors of Heyford and Clasthorpe, Northamptonshire; and had other property in Momouthshire, Warwickshire, and Westmoreland.

Archibald Lochry

In 1781, Lochry as the County Lieutenant for Westmoreland County and Colonel Daniel Brodhead, who commanded the Colonial forces at Fort Pitt were unable to agree upon a strategy for meeting Indian attacks upon colonial settlements on the frontiers of Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Arthur William Garnett

Arthur William, the younger son of William Garnett of Westmoreland, inspector-general of inland revenue, was born 1 June 1829, and educated at Addiscombe Military Seminary, where he obtained his first commission in 1846, and proceeded to India in 1848 as a lieutenant of the Bengal engineers.

Brad Bellick

When Charles Westmoreland (Muse Watson), who knows who the murderer is, is too afraid to reveal it, Bellick is outraged and strangles Westmoreland’s cat as revenge.

Bridgetown Heliport

Upscale holidaying clientele in Barbados had also come to rely on Bajan Helicopters to take them to the heliport at the Port Saint Charles marina, The Sandy Lane Hotel, and the Royal Westmoreland Resort upon arrival at the Grantley Adams International Airport.

Cokeville

Cokeville, Pennsylvania, a community in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

G107

WGSM (aka G107), a Classic Hits radio station serving the Westmoreland County area

HAHS

Hempfield Area High School, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States

Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Located in west-central Westmoreland County, it completely surrounds the city of Greensburg.

Herbert Abrams

Other portraits by Abrams are displayed at the Capitol (former Sen. Howard H. Baker ), the Treasury Department (former Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan), the National Portrait Gallery (Miller) in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (Westmoreland and Aldrin).

Indo-Jamaican

The labourers were given one suit of clothing, agricultural tools and cooking pots on their arrival, divided into groups of 20 or 40 and sent, first by mule cart and in later years on overcrowded freight trains to the plantations in Portland, St. Thomas, St. Mary, Clarendon and Westmoreland.

John Ariss

The relationship between the two families was of long standing: Ariss was the great-grandson of Col. Nicholas Spencer of Cople Parish, Westmoreland, who had patented the Mount Vernon estate with his friend Lt. Col. John Washington.

John Leicester, 1st Baron de Tabley

Born at Tabley House in Cheshire, 4 April 1762, he was the eldest son of Sir Peter Leicester, 4th Baronet, by his wife Catherine, coheiress of Sir William Fleming of Rydal, Westmoreland.

Lynn Westmoreland

During his first term in the 109th United States Congress, Westmoreland was appointed to the U.S. House Committee on Small Business, U.S. House Committee on Government Reform, and the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Margaret Webb Dreyer

She studied fine arts at Westmoreland College in San Antonio, at the University of Texas School of Architecture in Austin, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Mary Gregory

The Westmoreland Glass Company of Grapeville, Pennsylvania began marketing their glasswork as Mary Gregory in the 1920s.

Montross

Montross, Virginia, town in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States

New Kensington, Pennsylvania

Like much of Westmoreland County and surrounding areas, the region was a hunting ground for Native Americans of the Six Nations

Reginald Bainbrigg

Account of Antiquities in Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Durham, with several Roman inscriptions, drawings of altars, figures, and descriptions of the country (No. 162)

Richard Crakanthorpe

He was born at or near Strickland in Westmoreland in 1567, and at the age of sixteen was admitted as a student at Queen's College, Oxford.

Richmond-Westmoreland Streets Loop

The Richmond & Westmoreland Streets Loop is a transit loop located in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ryan Westmoreland

Westmoreland attended Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Snowdrift at Bleath Gill

The 10 minute-long film presents a first-hand account of a team of British Railways workmen freeing a goods train stuck in a snowdrift on the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway at Bleath Gill in the Pennines on the border between County Durham, Yorkshire and Westmoreland.

Spike Island, County Cork

The island was later purchased by the British government in 1779 and Fort Westmoreland was developed on the site to designs by Charles Vallancey.

Westmoreland Conservancy

The Westmoreland Conservancy, located in Murrysville, Pennsylvania in the United States, was established in 1991 in order to preserve rural and rustic open spaces for the use, enjoyment and benefit of everyone.

Westmoreland Lock Hospital

The new hospital was founded in 1792, when Westmoreland was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and was located at the corner of present-day Townsend St. and Luke St.

The Westmoreland Lock Hospital was a hospital for venereal disease originally located at Donnybrook and later moved to Lazar's Hill (now Townsend St.), Dublin, Ireland.


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