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Benham may refer to: People * Benham (surname) Places * Benham Park, Berkshire, England * Benham, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Benham, Kentucky, United States * Benham Falls, a series of rapids in Oregon, United States * Benham Plateau, also known as the Benham Rise Other uses * USS ''Benham'' (DD-49), Aylwin-class destroyer * USS ''Benham'' (DD-397), Benham-class destroyer * USS ''Benham'' (DD-796), Fletcher-class destroyer * Benham (automobile) The Benham was an automobile manufactured in Detroit, Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 1 ..., an automobile produced in Detroit, Michigan from 1914 to 1917 See also * Marsh Benham, Berkshire, England {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benham (surname)
Benham is an Anglo-Scottish locational surname, from Benham, Berkshire, or Binham, Norfolk. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew E. K. Benham (1832–1905), American admiral * Charles Benham (1860–1929) Author, newspaper editor and amateur scientist * Chris Benham, cricketer * Ellen Ida Benham (1871–1917) science teacher in South Australia. * Flip Benham, Christian fundamentalist * Henry Washington Benham, 19th-century American soldier * Isabel Benham (1909–2013), American railroad finance expert * Jade Benham, Australian politician * Jane Benham Hay (1829–1904), English artist * Jessica Benham, American politician and disability rights activist * Joan Benham, actress. * John Lee Benham (1785–1864), founder of Benham & Sons of Wigmore Street, London, cooking apparatus manufacturers ** Edward Benham (died 1869), son of the above and founder of Benham & Co., printers of Colchester, Essex. Editor of '' Essex County Standard'' *** Sir William Gurney Benham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benham Park
Benham Park is a mansion (on the site of Benham Valence Manor) in the English ceremonial county of Berkshire and district of West Berkshire. It is west of Newbury within 500m of a junction of the A34 trunk road Newbury by-pass outside the town side, in the Marsh Benham locality of Speen, a village within and outside the Newbury by-pass. The house is a Grade II* listed building and park is Grade II. Architecture and history The manor of Benham Valence was granted by Elizabeth I to Giovanni Battista Castiglione, her Italian tutor, in 1570. He is buried at St Mary's Church in Speen. The current house was built in 1774-1775 by William Craven, 6th Baron Craven, and was designed by the architect Henry Holland. Benham Park was three storeys high, nine bays wide, in a plain neoclassical style, of stone, with a tetrastyle Ionic portico. The interiors have been altered. The Circular Hall in the centre of the building, with its large niches and fine plasterwork, is probably as d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benham, Indiana
Benham is an unincorporated community in Brown Township, Ripley County, in the U.S. state of Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s .... History An old variant name of the community was Benhams Store. A post office opened under the name Benham Store in 1866, the name was shortened to Benham in 1888, and the post office was discontinued in 1934. John Benham, Jr., served as a first postmaster. Geography Benham is located at . References Unincorporated communities in Ripley County, Indiana Unincorporated communities in Indiana {{RipleyCountyIN-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benham, Kentucky
Benham is a home rule-class city in Harlan County, Kentucky, in the United States. The city was formally incorporated by the General Assembly in 1961. The population was 512 at the 2020 census, up from 500 at the 2010 census. History Benham was originally a company town for International Harvester. The Benham Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of the coal town. Geography Benham is located in eastern Harlan County at (36.964832, -82.954035), in the valley of Looney Creek, between Looney Ridge to the north and Benham Spur to the south. Looney Creek flows west to the Poor Fork of the Cumberland River in neighboring Cumberland. Kentucky Route 160 is Benham's Main Street, leading west to Cumberland and east through Lynch to the Virginia border at the crest of Black Mountain just north of its summit, the highest point in Kentucky. According to the United States Census Bureau, Benham has a total area of , all of it land. Demogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benham Falls
Benham Falls are rapids of the Deschutes River located between Sunriver and Bend, Oregon, United States. With a pitch of 22.5°, they are rated Class 5 for watercraft, and are the largest falls on the upper Deschutes. The falls were created by the eruption of nearby Lava Butte approximately 6,000 years ago, as the lava flow dammed the Deschutes, forming a lake known as Lake Benham. The river eventually flowed over the dam, draining the lake and thus forming Benham Falls. Around 1885, J. R. Benham attempted and failed to file a land claim near the falls, though they were later named for him. Today, there are forest roads connecting Benham Falls to Lava Butte, Lava River Cave, and Sunriver Resort. A footbridge connects the forest road to an easy-to-navigate trail near the river and falls. on Trails.com. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benham Plateau
The Benham Rise, officially known as Philippine Rise, is an extinct volcanic ridge located in the Philippine Sea approximately east of the northern coastline of Dinapigue, Isabela. The rise has been known to the people of Catanduanes as Kalipung-awan as early as the precolonial era of the Philippines, which literally means "loneliness from an isolated place". Under the Philippine Sea lie a number of basins including the West Philippine Basin, inside of which is located the Central Basin Fault (CBF). The Philippine Plateau is located in the CBF and its basement probably is a micro-continent. - Total pages: 440 Several scientific surveys have been made on the feature to study its nature and its impact on tectonic subduction, including one about its effects on the 1990 Luzon earthquake. The Philippines claimed this feature as part of its continental shelf in a claim filed with the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on April 8, 2009, and which was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Benham (DD-49)
USS ''Benham'' (Destroyer No. 49/DD-49) was an built for the United States Navy prior to the American entry into World War I. The ship was the first U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of Rear Admiral Andrew E. K. Benham. ''Benham'' was laid down by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in March 1912 and launched in March 1913. The ship was a little more than in length, just over abeam, and had a standard displacement of . She was armed with four guns and had eight 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. ''Benham'' was powered by a pair of steam turbines that propelled her at up to . After her January 1914 commissioning, she assisted her sister ship when that ship suffered an explosion in one of her fire rooms in April. After a period in reserve, ''Benham'' served on Neutrality Patrol duty. As a part of that duty in October 1916, she was one of several U.S. destroyers sent to rescue survivors from five victims of German submarine off the Lightship Nantucket. She picked up officers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Benham (DD-397)
USS ''Benham'' (DD-397) was the lead ship of her class of destroyers and the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Andrew Ellicot Kennedy Benham. She missed the Attack on Pearl Harbor, being an escort for the aircraft carrier on her way to Midway Atoll at the time. She also served off Hawaii during the Doolittle raid, rescued survivors from several ships, and operated during the Battle of Midway and the landings on Guadalcanal, among other missions. She was torpedoed and rendered unusable, for which she was sunk at the end of 1942. Construction ''Benham'' was laid down on 1 September 1936 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at their yard in Kearny, New Jersey. The destroyer was launched on 16 April 1938 and sponsored by Mrs. A. I. Dorr, grandniece of Rear Admiral Benham. ''Benham'' was commissioned on 2 February 1939 with Lieutenant Commander T. F. Darden in command. Service history Assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, ''Benham'' patrolled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Benham (DD-796)
USS ''Benham'' (DD-796) was a in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 and from 1951 to 1960. She was then transferred to Peru where she served as BAP ''Villar'' (DD-71) until being scrapped in 1980. Service history ''Benham'' was the third ship of the U.S. Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Andrew E. K. Benham (1832–1905). She was launched on 30 August 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Company, Staten Island, New York; sponsored by Mrs. Harold Benham, wife of a grandson of Rear Admiral Benham; and commissioned on 20 December 1943. World War II 1944 After fitting out at New York, ''Benham'' conducted her initial shakedown training in Long Island Sound before sailing southeast to Bermuda in early January 1944. After arriving in Kingston, Jamaica on 14 January, she carried out four weeks of shore bombardment, anti-submarine, and carrier escort exercises before returning to New York on 13 February. Following post-shakedown availability, she proceeded to Norfolk, Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benham (automobile)
The Benham was an automobile manufactured in Detroit, Michigan, by the Benham Manufacturing Company from 1914 to 1917. Approximately 60 units were produced. Benham Manufacturing was the successor to the S&M (Strobel & Martin). The Benham had a Continental Continental may refer to: Places * Continent, the major landmasses of Earth * Continental, Arizona, a small community in Pima County, Arizona, US * Continental, Ohio, a small town in Putnam County, US Arts and entertainment * ''Continental'' (al ... engine. References * Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Michigan Defunct companies based in Michigan Companies based in Detroit {{Brass-auto-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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