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5 unusual facts about White Plains


Henry Jacques Gaisman

Mr. Gaisman died in White Plains in 1974, at age 104, and was buried at the Gates of Heaven cemetery in Hawthorne, NY.

Perro de Presa Canario

In April 2013, a 5-year-old girl in White Plains, Maryland was attacked and critically injured by family-owned dogs at her home.

Sanger Brown

He was born in Bloomfield (Ontario), Canada, graduated in 1880 at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College (New York City), was assistant physician at the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane (White Plains, N. Y.) in 1882–1885, and acting medical superintendent there in 1886.

Synagogue Council of America

The organization dissolved in 1994, facing financial difficulties and fractiousness among its members, the organization effectively collapsed after a proposal to relocate the council's offices from Manhattan to White Plains, New York, where it would have been housed in a Reform congregation, was rejected by Orthodox members of the organization.

White Plains

Battle of White Plains, a battle near White Plains, New York during the American Revolutionary War


Bunge Limited

Bunge Limited (formerly Bunge International, and prior to that Bunge y Born) is a Bermudan food processing corporation with its headquarters in White Plains, NY.

Combe Incorporated

Combe Incorporated, based in White Plains, New York, is a privately owned personal-care company founded in 1949 by Ivan Combe.

J. Anthony Lukas

J. Anthony Lukas was born to Elizabeth and Edwin Lukas in White Plains, New York, followed by a younger brother in 1935, Christopher Lukas.

James Tilton

He served with distinction and saw action at the battles of Brooklyn, White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton.

John Todd Zimmer

John Todd Zimmer (Bridgeport, Ohio, February 28, 1889 – White Plains, New York, January 6, 1957) was a leading American ornithologist.

Norm Sebastian

After working as a meteorologist at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, Sebastian became one of the initial meteorologists at The Weather Channel when that network launched in 1982.


see also

Central Avenue

New York State Route 100 from southern tip of the route to White Plains, in Westchester County, New York

Elliot Mazer

From 1989 to 2005 Mazer served as Senior Vice President of New Business Development for Radio Computing Services, Inc (RCS) in White Plains, New York.

Hiddenite

The first specimens of the hiddenite variety of spodumene were recovered about 1879 near the tiny settlement of White Plains, west of Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina.

New York State Route 127

Winding up the hills of White Plains, the route crosses through the North Street section, becoming a four-lane residential street past White Plains Senior High School.

Paul Alan Levi

He has taught at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Rutgers University, Manhattan School of Music, New York University, Lehman College, and Baruch College, and has been the composer in residence at Wolf Trap Farm Park, Portland State University, and the White Plains High School.

Pete Tauriello

Later he went on to program WBRW in Somerville, New Jersey, and WERA in Plainfield, New Jersey (as Peter Jaye) with announcer stints at beautiful music WPAT-FM, WNSR New York and WFAS AM/FM White Plains.

TWC Aviation, Inc.

is an international business aviation company with operations centers at San Jose International Airport, in San Jose, California, Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles, and Westchester County Airport, in White Plains, New York.

U.S. Route 1 in New York

A mile past that junction and downtown, NY 127, also bound for White Plains, forks left at Keeler Avenue as 1 itself begins to trend more to the east into Rye, passing Rye Neck High School at the town line.

Walter Spence

He was on his way from New York City to his home in Hawthorne and had stepped off the train to call his wife during a stop at White Plains.