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Vashon may refer to:
Places
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Vashon Island, an island in Puget Sound.
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Vashon Municipal Airport
Vashon Municipal Airport is a municipal airport on Vashon Island in King County, Washington, United States. The airport is one of the few public airports in Washington State with only a grass runway.
Facilities and aircraft
Vashon Municipal Air ...
on Vashon Island.
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Vashon High School
Vashon High School is a high school of the St. Louis Public Schools in St. Louis, Missouri. When it opened in 1927, it was the second high school for black students in St. Louis.
History
Designed by Rockwell M. Milligan, the school opened on Sep ...
, a high school in St. Louis, Missouri
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Vashon, Washington, the community on Vashon Island.
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Vashon-Maury Island Community Council, representatives of Vashon and Maury Islands to the King County Council, Washington.
People
Given name
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Vashone Adams
Vashone LaRay Adams (born September 12, 1973) is a former American football safety in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, New Orleans Saints, Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football ...
(born 1973), American football player
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Vashon Eagleson
Vashon Eagleson was an American football coach. He served as the second head football coach at the North Carolina College for Negroes—now known as North Carolina Central University—in Durham, North Carolina and he held that position for four ...
, American football coach
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Vashon Neufville (born 1999), English footballer
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Vashon James Wheeler (1898–1944), British airman during World War II
Surname
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George Boyer Vashon
George Boyer Vashon (July 25, 1824 – October 5, 1878) was an African American scholar, poet, lawyer, and abolitionist.
Biography
George Boyer Vashon was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the third child and only son of an abolitionist, John Be ...
(1824–1878), American scholar, poet and abolitionist
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James Vashon (1742–1827), British naval officer and namesake of
Vashon Island
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Mary Frances Vashon
Mary Frances Vashon (1818 – September 1854) also known as Mary Frances Colder, and by her pen name Fanny Homewood, was an African-American journalist and an abolitionist in the 19th century. She is one of the earliest African-American female jo ...
(1818–1854), American journalist and abolitionist
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Susan Paul Vashon (1838–1912), American educator, abolitionist, and clubwoman
Other
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Vashon, a commercial vessel acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II
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Vashon Glaciation
The Vashon Glaciation, Vashon Stadial or Vashon Stade is a local term for the most recent period of very cold climate in which during its peak, glaciers covered the entire Salish Sea as well as present day Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia and other surro ...
during the
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fina ...
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Vashon (steamboat 1905)
''Vashon'' was a wooden steamboat built in 1905 at Dockton, Washington on Vashon Island. The vessel was active on Puget Sound in the early decades of the 1900s. ''Vashon'' should not be confused with the sternwheeler ''Vashon'' which also ran o ...
See also
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Vashan (disambiguation), various places in Iran and Tajikistan
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