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Chilmark was named for Chilmark in the English county of Wiltshire, the ancestral home of the family of Governor Thomas Mayhew of Tisbury, Wiltshire, England.
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On March 5, 1982, John Belushi died of a drug overdose in Los Angeles, California, and was buried four days later in Abel's Hill Cemetery in Chilmark.
Chilmark was first settled in 1660 by James Allen, William Peabody and Lt. Josiah Standish ( son of Captain Myles Standish ) in the southern portion of Tisbury.
In 1854, Chilmark had a deaf population of one in every 25 people, while the national average was one deaf person in 5728.
On the television show The X-Files, Fox Mulder was raised in Chilmark.
It was in Chilmark that his younger sister Samantha's alien abduction happened on November 27, 1973.
Gosnold was officially incorporated in 1864, having formerly belonged to the town of Chilmark.
Many of the older buildings in the town are of the local greensand, while others built from the grey Chilmark limestone, much of which was salvaged from the demolished Shaftesbury Abbey, and have thatched roofs.
In the town of Chilmark, which had the highest concentration of deaf people on the island, the average was 1 in 25 ; in a section of Chilmark called Squibnocket, as much as a quarter of the population of 60 was deaf.
By the 18th century there was a distinct Chilmark Sign Language, which was later ( 19th century ) influenced by French Sign Language, forming Martha's Vineyard Sign Language ( 19th and 20th centuries ).
It was used by the Royal Air Force for hauling explosives and ammunition at RAF Chilmark, Wiltshire.
In 2005, and then again in 2009, David was cited by the Chilmark Conservation Commission for paving over protected wetland areas on her estate on Martha's Vineyard.
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His grave remains a popular site for visitors to Chilmark and they often leave tokens in memory of the late comedian.
On August 23, 2009, President Barack Obama arrived in Chilmark with his family for a week's vacation at a rental property known as Blue Heron Farm.
Chilmark and English
* Chilmark, Wiltshire, a village in the English county of Wiltshire
Chilmark and Wiltshire
Its winter hibernation sites include Banwell Caves and Compton Martin Ochre Mine in the Mendip Hills, Chilmark Quarries in Wiltshire, and Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines near Bath.
Chilmark and home
He died on April 28, 1951 at his summer home on Chilmark, Martha's Vinyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts and is buried in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Chilmark and family
In August 2009, 2010 and 2011, President Barack Obama and his family vacationed in Chilmark, renting the Blue Heron Farm.
Chilmark and Thomas
At the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, there is a 1920 painting by artist Thomas Hart Benton called " People of Chilmark ".
Thomas Hart Benton ( painter ) | Thomas Hart Benton, People of Chilmark ( Figure Composition ), 1920, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
* Thomas Hart Benton-People of Chilmark ( figure composition )
Chilmark and Tisbury
The Chilmark school serves only grades pre-K to 5, so students in grades 6-8 must attend another middle school — usually the West Tisbury school.
Chilmark is bordered by Vineyard Sound to the northwest, West Tisbury to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south and Aquinnah to the southwest.
Chilmark has a series of small ponds along the Atlantic side of the town, and it shares Tisbury Great Pond to the east and Menemsha Pond and Squibnocket Pond to the southwest, along the Aquinnah town line.
Along with Chilmark and Aquinnah, West Tisbury forms " Up-Island " Martha's Vineyard.
West Tisbury is bordered by Vineyard Sound to the northwest, Tisbury to the northeast, Edgartown to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and Chilmark to the west, and includes the regions known as Lambert's Cove and Makonikey.
As settlers of the Martha's Vineyard communities of Tisbury and Chilmark migrated from the Kentish Weald, Nora Groce speculates that OKSL may be the origin of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, which is in turn one of the precursors of American Sign Language ( ASL ).
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In 1974, Steven Spielberg filmed the movie Jaws on Martha's Vineyard most notably in the fishing village of Menemsha and the town of Chilmark.
* Chilmark, including the fishing village of Menemsha.
Chilmark is also rural and features the island's hilliest terrain.
Some stones which make up the cathedral came from Old Sarum, others from the Chilmark Quarries from where they were most likely moved to the cathedral building site by ox-cart.
Sections demanding worked stone used Lincolnshire limestone ( Barnack stone ) from Verulamium, later worked stones include Totternhoe freestone from Bedfordshire, Purbeck marble, and different limestones ( Ancaster, Chilmark, Clipsham, etc.
Chilmark is a town located on Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.
Chilmark ranks 192nd of the 351 communities in the Commonwealth in terms of land area.
) Chilmark also has the highest point on Martha's Vineyard, at Peaked Hill.
Statistically, Chilmark ranks 324th in terms of population, and 311th by population density.
On the national level, Chilmark is a part of Massachusetts's 10th congressional district, and is currently represented by Bill Keating.
On the state level, Chilmark is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket district, which includes all of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth.
Chilmark is governed on the local level by the open town meeting form of government, and is led by a board of selectmen.
Chilmark is served by Chilmark Elementary School, which serves approximately fifty students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.
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