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The New Market Historic District is a historic district in New Market, Alabama. The town was founded in the 1820s as a trade center along the road between Huntsville and Winchester, Tennessee . The town incorporated in 1837, and had grown to around 500 residents by the 1850s.
On January 30, 1966, the coldest temperature ever to be recorded in Alabama was registered in New Market, at −27 °F (−33 °C). Four sites in New Market are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the New Market Historic District, New Market Presbyterian Church, New Market United Methodist Church, and the Whitman-Cobb House. [4]
Fothergill hid the copy in the inn's toilet to avoid theft. Harold Acton also visited the inn and namechecked Fothergill in his memoirs, Memoirs of an Aesthete. Fothergill praised Acton's novel, Humdrum, saying that it "might have been written by the young Wilde." Fothergill's book, My Three Inns recommends Acton's autobiography at the end. [3]
John Fothergill (1730–1782) was a merchant from Birmingham, England.. Fothergill was the manufacturer Matthew Boulton's business partner [1] between 1762 and 1782. Fothergill's expertise was mainly in trading - he had served an apprenticeship in Königsberg, spoke French and German, and had travelled widely in Europe as an agent for other manufacturers.
Fothergill was born in Southampton, England and brought up in Darlington. [1] He came from a family who had a doctor in the family in the previous six generations. [4] His ancestor was the eminent Quaker physician and naturalist John Fothergill and his own branch of the family came from the elder brother of John Fothergill.
John Fothergill may refer to: John Fothergill (physician) (1712–1780), English physician and botanist John Fothergill (merchant) (1730–1782), English merchant
John Fothergill FRS (8 March 1712 – 26 December 1780) was an English physician, plant collector, philanthropist and Quaker. His medical writings were influential, and he built up a sizeable botanic garden in what is now West Ham Park in London.
Fothergill is a surname, thought to have come from the meaning 'Further river' and may refer to the following: Alastair Fothergill , English TV producer Allodin Fothergill (born 1987), Jamaican athlete