McDowell County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census,the population was 19,111. Its county seat is Welch. McDowell County is the southernmost county in the state. It was created in 1858 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for Virginia Governor James McDowell. It became a part of West Virginia in 1863,when several Union-affiliated counties seceded from the state of Virginia during the American Civil War. McDowell County is located in the Cumberland Mountains,part of the Appalachia region.
Fountain Hills is a town in Maricopa County,Arizona,United States. Known for its impressive fountain,once the tallest in the world,it borders the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation,Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community,and Scottsdale. The population was 23,820 as of the 2020 census. Between the 1990 and 2000 censuses it was the eighth-fastest-growing place among cities and towns in Arizona. The median value of an owner-occupied housing during the period 2016-2020 was estimated at $402,100.
Colrain is a town in Franklin County,Massachusetts,United States. The population was 1,606 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield,Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Marion is a city in and the county seat of McDowell County,North Carolina,United States. Founded in 1844,the city was named in honor of Brigadier General Francis Marion,the American Revolutionary War Hero whose talent in guerrilla warfare earned him the name "Swamp Fox". Marion's Main Street Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The population was 7,717 at the 2020 Census.
Welch is a city located in McDowell County in the State of West Virginia,United States. The population was 3,590 at the 2020 census,however the 2021 census estimate put the population at 1,914,due to the McDowell Prison complex in the northeast splitting from the city of Welch as part of unincorporated McDowell County. Incorporated as a city in 1893,it is the county seat of McDowell County.
Malcolm McDowell is a British actor,producer,and television presenter. He is best known for portraying Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange. He was born in the Horsforth suburb of Leeds and raised in Liverpool. He later trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before embarking on an acting career that has spanned over 50 years.
John Henry McDowell,FBA is a South African philosopher,formerly a fellow of University College,Oxford,and now university professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written on metaphysics,epistemology,ancient philosophy,and meta-ethics,McDowell's most influential work has been in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. McDowell was one of three recipients of the 2010 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award,and is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts &Sciences and the British Academy.
Irvin McDowell was a career American army officer. He is best known for his defeat in the First Battle of Bull Run,the first large-scale battle of the American Civil War. In 1862,he was given command of the I Corps of the Army of the Potomac. He fought unsuccessfully against Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's troops during the Valley Campaign of 1862,and was blamed for contributing to the defeat of United States troops at the Second Battle of Bull Run in August.
MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough,New Hampshire,United States,founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife,pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020,it was known as the MacDowell Colony but the Board of Directors shortened the name to remove "terminology with oppressive overtones".
The Battle of Blackburn's Ford took place on July 18,1861,in the Confederate state of Virginia,as part of the Manassas campaign of the American Civil War. Union general Irvin McDowell's Army of Northeastern Virginia was marching south towards the Confederate capital of Richmond,and encountered the Confederate Army of the Potomac under the command of P. G. T. Beauregard. McDowell sent troops from Daniel Tyler's division to probe the Confederate defenses along Bull Run Creek to locate the Confederate left flank. At Blackburn's Ford,the Union troops attempted to cross but Confederate fire broke up the attack. The repulse at Blackburn's Ford led McDowell to seek to attack the Confederates at a different point along their line,leading to the First Battle of Bull Run three days later.
Shmuel Winograd was an Israeli-American computer scientist,noted for his contributions to computational complexity. He has proved several major results regarding the computational aspects of arithmetic;his contributions include the Coppersmith–Winograd algorithm and an algorithm for the fast Fourier transform.
Graeme McDowellMBE is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland. He has a total of eleven tournament victories on the European Tour,and four on the PGA Tour,including one major championship,the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. In 2022,he joined LIV Golf.
Ronald Dean McDowell Sr. is an American country music artist,songwriter,and actor. He is best known for his 1977 song "The King Is Gone",a tribute to Elvis Presley,who had recently died. From that single onward,McDowell charted more than thirty Top 40 hits on the Billboard country music charts,though he never experienced further pop success after "The King is Gone." Two of his singles –"Older Women" and "You're Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation" —reached Number One on the country charts,while eleven more reached Top Ten. He has also released more than twenty studio albums,and has been signed to Curb Records since 1986.
Michael McEachern McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter described by author Stephen King as "the finest writer of paperback originals in America today". His best-known work is the screenplay for the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice.
Michael Christopher McDowell is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series,driving the No. 34 Ford Mustang for Front Row Motorsports. He has also raced in open-wheel and sports cars.
Waltons was an Australian department store chain,founded by John Walton (1904–1998).
John Alfred McDowell Adair was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1907 to 1917.
River's End is a 1930 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Charles Bickford and Evalyn Knapp. Bickford plays two roles,a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) sergeant and the man he is after. The film is the second of three adaptations of the bestselling novel The River's End by James Oliver Curwood,the others being released in 1920 and 1940.
The 1978 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 7,1978. Former Massachusetts Port Authority executive director Edward J. King was elected to a four-year term,from January 4,1979,until January 6,1983. King won the Democratic nomination by defeating incumbent Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis in the Democratic primary.
Jonathan Christopher McDowell is an astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is a staff member at the Chandra X-ray Center. McDowell is the author and editor of Jonathan's Space Report,an e-mail-distributed newsletter documenting satellite launches.
