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Brodhead School District
Brodhead may refer to: People * Brodhead (surname) Places * Brodhead, Colorado, a US ghost town * Brodhead, Kentucky, a US city * Brodhead, Wisconsin, a US city * Brodhead Creek, a Pennsylvania stream * A hamlet in the town of Olive, New York Olive is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in Ulster County, New York, Ulster County, New York (state), New York, United States. The town is west of Kingston, New York, Kingston, New York (state), New York and is inside the Catskil .... See also * Broadhead (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brodhead (surname)
Brodhead is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Daniel Brodhead II (c.1700-1755), American judge and first European settler of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania *Daniel Brodhead (1736–1809), American military and political leader during the American Revolutionary War * Eva Wilder Brodhead (1870–1915), American novelist and short story writer * Jefferson Davis Brodhead (1859–1920), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania * John Curtis Brodhead (1780 -1859), U.S. Representative from New York *John Romeyn Brodhead (1814 - 1873), American historical scholar * John Brodhead (New Hampshire) (1770 - 1838), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire. *Richard Brodhead (1811 – 1863), American lawyer and politician *Richard H. Brodhead Richard Halleck Brodhead (born April 17, 1947) is an American scholar of 19th-century American literature and served as the ninth president of Duke University. Early life and education Brodhead was born April 17, 1947, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brodhead, Colorado
Brodhead is an extinct coal mining town located in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. The townsite is located at at an elevation of . The Brodhead post office operated from August 14, 1902, until April 29, 1939. Introduction The town site is about north of Aguilar on the western side of Interstate 25 approximately 18 miles (29 km) north of the town of Trinidad. Nearby points of interest include the Ludlow Monument, a monument to the coal miners and their families who were killed in the 1914 Ludlow Massacre. The population was a mix of Mexican and European immigrants. Some of the miners are known to have come from Stafford, England. Evolution of the Town Brodhead was a mining town built and owned by a company formed by three brothers: Henry C. Brodhead (President) who was married to the author Eva Wilder Brodhead, Albert G. Brodhead (Vice President), and Robert S. Brodhead (Secretary and General Manager) and operated between the late 1890s and the mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brodhead, Kentucky
Brodhead is a list of Kentucky cities, home rule-class city in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, Rockcastle County in southeastern Kentucky. The population was 1,211 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is part of the Richmond, Kentucky, Richmond–Berea, Kentucky, Berea Richmond-Berea micropolitan area, Micropolitan Statistical Area. Brodhead has been noted for its place names considered unusual, unusual place name. History What is now Brodhead was originally a stagecoach stop and droving, drover's stable known as Stigalls Station. When the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, L&N Railroad reached the area in early 1868, a train station was established, and the town was given its current name. The town is believed to have been named for the contractor responsible for building the rail line in the area, or for Richard Brodhead, a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names' (University Press of Kentucky, 1984), p. 36. Geography Brodhead is l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brodhead, Wisconsin
Brodhead is a city in Green County, Wisconsin, Green and Rock County, Wisconsin, Rock counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 3,274 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. In February 2000, the city annexed a portion of land from the Spring Valley (town), Wisconsin, Town of Spring Valley in Rock County, Wisconsin, Rock County. History Just south of town is a historic marker for the Half-Way Tree, a bur oak supposedly identified by Native Americans as the halfway point on a foot trail between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River. The railroad track that runs east and west through town features a small museum with a train and army tank on display, adjacent to the park and bandstand pavilion. The museum curator said that the railroad was being wooed by two different towns and decided to split the difference and created Brodhead. A nearby raceway was dredged off of a branch of the Sugar River that diverted a long canal to a hydroelectric generator that s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brodhead Creek
Brodhead Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Delaware River in the Poconos of eastern Pennsylvania in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ''Keystone Canoeing'', Seneca Press, 2004. It is formed by the union of the Middle and Leavitt branches in Barrett Township in Monroe County. The native name was "Analomink." The present name was given for Daniel Brodhead, a prominent early settler. It receives McMichael Creek as it flows south and east into the Delaware River. The stream flows south, separating the boroughs of Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg. It covers a basin of 294 sq mi and its maximum discharge was 68,800 cubic feet per second, in 1955. Brodhead Creek joins the Delaware River at the head of the Delaware Water Gap. From 1888 to 1944, a coal gasification plant operated at the confluence of Brodhead and McMichael Creeks in Stroudsburg. The operations prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a Parish (administrative division), parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. The word and concept of a hamlet has roots in the Anglo-Norman settlement of England, where the old French ' came to apply to small human settlements. Etymology The word comes from Anglo-Norman language, Anglo-Norman ', corresponding to Old French ', the diminutive of Old French ' meaning a little village. This, in turn, is a diminutive of Old French ', possibly borrowed from (West Germanic languages, West Germanic) Franconian languages. Compare with modern French ', Dutch language, Dutch ', Frisian languages, Frisian ', German ', Old English ' and Modern English ''home''. By country Afghanistan In Afghanistan, the counterpart of the hamlet is the Qila, qala (Dari language, Dari: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olive, New York
Olive is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in Ulster County, New York, Ulster County, New York (state), New York, United States. The town is west of Kingston, New York, Kingston, New York (state), New York and is inside the Catskill Park. The population was 4.226 at the 2020 census. History The town was settled ''circa'' 1740. The town of Olive was established in 1823 from parts of the towns of Hurley (town), New York, Hurley, Marbletown, New York, Marbletown, and Shandaken, New York, Shandaken. A limited edition 1973 commemorative plate, shown below, includes this text on the back: The town of Olive, Ulster County, New York, was taken from Shandaken, Marbletown, and Hurley and erected by law on April 15, 1823. At that time a name was suggested for the new town by quoting the following verse from the Bible: 'and Noah sent out a Dove from the Ark and when the waters subsided she returned with an Olive leaf in her mouth.' 'Let us call it the Town of Olive.' The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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