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10 unusual facts about Windham


Clark Burnham

Clark Burnham (May 22, 1802 Windham, Windham County, Connecticut – December 30, 1871 Utica, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Diogenes Allen

He was ordained in what is now the Presbyterian Church (USA) and called to a pastorate in Windham, New Hampshire.

Holly Karrol Clark

Holly Karrol Clark (born January 19, 1979) is an American actress, model, writer and television producer from Windham, New Hampshire (USA).

Jillian Wheeler

Jillian Lee Wheeler (born May 25, 1991 in St. Charles, Illinois) is an American singer-songwriter and actress currently residing in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Kingsley, Pennsylvania

In 1809, a man named Rufus Kingsley, his wife Lucinda, and their four children John, Nancy, Rufus, and Lucretia moved from Windham, Connecticut to what was then Harford Township (Benning 1).

Loyal Blaine Aldrich

Their son, Stanley Loyal Aldrich, assisted his father operating the observing station in the Chilean Andes until returning to the United States in 1957 so his daughters might receive education at Windham, Maine, where he taught high school mathematics.

Oriental Powder Company

Oriental Powder Company was a gunpowder manufacturer with mills located on the Presumpscot River in Gorham and Windham, Maine.

So Much For Love

The album with the lone exception of "Glorious" was produced, recorded, and mixed by Dustin Burnett at The Halo in Windham, Maine.

Windham, New York

Scott Adams, writer of the Dilbert comic strip, grew up in Windham, and graduated valedictorian from Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School.

Windham, Ohio

Windham's location on the toll highway, however, has in recent years caused an expansion of 3G wireless communication services for the people of Windham.


Assault on Dome 4

Intergalactic extremist Alex Windham (Bruce Campbell) has seized control of Dome 4, a scientific outpost on another planet, after escaping from a penal colony on Mars.

Coso artifact

Chad Windham, President of the Spark Plug Collectors of America, identified the Coso artifact as a 1920s-era Champion spark plug, which was widely used in the Ford Model T and Model A engines.

Cumberland and Oxford Canal

Apples were an important agricultural product of the area; and Oriental Powder Company mills adjacent to the canal in Windham manufactured nearly 25% of the Union gunpowder supply for the American Civil War.

Ernest W. Gibson, Jr.

The son of Vermont Senator Ernest W. Gibson, Gibson, Jr. was born in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, March 6, 1901.

Fabyan

Thompson, Connecticut, rural town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States that contains the village of Fabyan

Fort Apache Studios

The studio is currently located in the village of Bellows Falls, Vermont in space leased in an old hotel called The Windham, owned by the town of Rockingham, Vermont, within which Bellows Falls is located.

Kevin Windham

The 2000 season was more of a challenge to Windham, as he scored just one supercross victory at Dallas, TX, and lost both the supercross title to Jeremy McGrath and the outdoor title to Ricky Carmichael, who was in his rookie 250cc National season.

After a long battle with Yamaha's Chad Reed, Windham claimed 5 victories but still finished second to Reed in the title chase.

Teamed with Carmichael and 125cc Champion Ivan Tedesco, Windham helped his team win the 2005 Motocross des Nations in Ernee, France.

Mammoth Road

At mile 10.3 (16.6 km) Mammoth Road (NH-128) crosses the county line into Rockingham County and into the town of Windham.

North Barningham

The Windham family of nearby Felbrigg Hall purchased the hall and estate, demolishing part of the hall soon after.

Nutfield

Nutfield, New Hampshire, the colonial township from which the modern places of Londonderry, Derry, Windham and parts of Salem, Hudson, and the city of Manchester were formed.

PageDefrag

Winternals: Defragmentation, Recovery, and Administration Field Guide by Dave Kleiman, Laura Hunter, Mahesh Satyanarayana, Kimon Andreou, Nancy G Altholz, Lawrence Abrams, Darren Windham, Tony Bradley and Brian (2006) - Syngress (ISBN 1-597490-792)

Presumpscot River

The river is bridged by Maine State Route 35 between Standish and Windham, near North Windham, by the North Gorham to Windham Center road between Gorham and Windham, by the Maine Central Railroad Mountain Division between North Windham and South Windham, and by U.S. Route 202 in South Windham.

South Wales Borderers

They had been on the East Indiamen Astell, Ceylon and Windham when a French frigate squadron captured the last two at the Action of 3 July 1810 near the Comoros Islands.

South Windham

South Windham, Maine, a census-designated place in the town of Windham, Maine

South Windham, Connecticut, a census-designated place in the town of Windham, Connecticut

Tomahawk Conference, Ohio, 1958-1960

Ned Novell, the Mogadore coach, contacted Ravenna Township and Garrettsville about whether Windham had used freshmen in their games, and then protested to the state that since Windham had violated Rule 2, Section 2 of the Classification of Schools, they had no right to be classified as Class A. Rather, since they had used freshmen at one point in the season, they could not claim that they were a three-year school, and should be reclassified as Class AA.

Waits Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery

It is a Greek Revival–style structure built in 1853 of white pine from Windham, Pennsylvania.

Wheaton, Maryland

Using the call sign W3XK, Charles Francis Jenkins began broadcasting from his home at the corner of Windham Lane and Georgia Ave.

William de Grey, 1st Baron Walsingham

de Grey was the third son of Thomas de Grey, MP, of Merton, Norfolk, and Elizabeth, daughter of William Windham.

William Watson Andrews

He was born at Windham, Windham Co., Conn., graduated in 1831 at Yale, and in 1834 was ordained and installed pastor of the Congregational church at Kent, Conn. He early accepted the tenet of the Catholic Apostolic Church, commonly spoken of as the "Irvingites," and in 1849, having given up his charge at Kent.

William Windham, Sr.

In June 1741, several members of the circle, including Windham, joined Richard Pococke in making an expedition to Chamonix.

Windham Technical High School

Windham Technical High School, or Windham Tech, is a technical high school located in Willimantic, Connecticut.

Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin (1829-1865), a younger son of the 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, by his wife Caroline Tyler, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir George Tyler.