In 1977, Hopewell made the national news when a tanker hit the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge.

In 1983, Hopewell made the national news when it was discovered that Evelyn Rust Wells, an elderly woman, had been held captive in her home in the City Point section.

In 1956, Hopewell Road was connected to Adamo Drive, which made access to Tampa easier, thus turning Brandon into a bedroom community.

Having visited the ruins of Persepolis, he made his way to Basra and sailed for India on November 6, 1665, in the ship " Hopewell ," arriving at the port of Surat on January 10, 1666.

Having arranged his financial affairs he made his will late in the fall of 1628 and left in the Little Hopewell for the Amazon.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, formerly known as Mound City Group National Monument, is a United States national historical park with earthworks and burial mounds from the Hopewell culture, indigenous peoples who flourished from about 200 BC to AD 500.

R. B. Bennett was born on July 3, 1870, when his mother, Henrietta Stiles, was visiting at her parents ' home in Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick, Canada.

The current Hopewell District of Dan Beard Council, formed during the 2006 redistricting process when Middletown and Lemon Township ( including Monroe Ohio ) were recombined, very closely resembling the lines of the old Mound Builders Area Council territory.

The town was originally known as Hopewell, Virginia when it was chartered in 1789.

Hopewell Township dates back to February 20, 1700, when the area was still part of Burlington County.

* In the Stephen King movie The Langoliers ( 1995 ) when passenger Nick Hopewell confronts an irate businessman, Craig Toomey, on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston.

Martin also became controversial in some quarters are the Treaty of Hopewell in 1785, when Martin, Andrew Pickens and Benjamin Hawkins, acting as government agents, concluded treaties with the Cherokees and the Choctaws.

In March 2010, SpectraWatt, Inc. began production at its manufacturing plant in Hopewell Junction, NY, which was expected to produce 120 MW of solar cells per year when it reached full production in 2011.

Hopewell Holdings Limited's headquarters are in the building and its Chief executive officer, Gordon Wu, has his office on the top floor.

Hopewell Center stands on the slope of a hill so steep that the building has its back entrance on the 17th floor towards Kennedy Road.

View of Wanchai from Hopewell Centre on November 2006

Bennett retired to Britain in 1938, and, on June 12, 1941, became the first and only former Canadian Prime Minister to be elevated to the peerage as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada.

At its greatest extent, the Hopewell Exchange System connected cultures and societies to the peoples on the Canadian shores of Lake Ontario.

The area on which the modern city stands was once home to Native Americans of the Hopewell culture, who migrated into the area sometime before the first millennium.

* Hopewell, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a town on Saint Vincent island in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

The Hopewell Rocks at low tide, on the New Brunswick shore

In 1950, Scogin's opened their famous variety store on Hopewell Road, and in 1953, Brandon got its first physician, Dr. V. R. Hunter.

The Hopewell Museum, located at 800 Pleasant Street, is free and open to the public on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons.

Hopewell Township was first formed as a precinct on January 19, 1748, and was incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial group of 104 townships by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

Portions of the township have been taken to form Columbia Township ( March 12, 1844, returned to Hopewell Township on March 11, 1845 ), Cohansey Township ( March 6, 1848 ) and Shiloh borough ( April 9, 1929 ).

Shiloh was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 9, 1929, from portions of Hopewell Township and Stow Creek Township, based on the results of a referendum held on ( May 16, 1929 ).

Columbia Township was formed on March 12, 1844, from portions of both Hopewell Township and Stow Creek Township, and dissolved on March 11, 1845.

Hopewell Township was incorporated by Royal charter on March 1, 1755, and incorporated by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

He was the only child of Pollard Hopewell and his wife, Catherine Hebb, who were married on December 19, 1785.

Synan, along with his twin brother Vernon, was born on December 1, 1934 in Hopewell, Virginia to Joseph Alexander and Minnis ( Purdue ) Synan.

# Hopewell Centre ( starting from December 2004 ) lights / laser

Hopewell Township became part of Mercer County at its creation on February 22, 1838.

Portions of the township were taken to form Marion Township ( February 22, 1838, reverted back to Hopewell Township on February 14, 1839 ), Pennington ( January 31, 1890 ) and Hopewell Borough ( April 14, 1891 ), with additional portions of the township transferred to both Pennington and Hopewell Borough in 1915.

* Hopewell, Virginia, USA, ( population 22, 354 ) twinned since 1994.

John Gano ( Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey on July 22, 1727-August 10, 1804 ) was a Baptist minister and Revolutionary War chaplain who allegedly baptized his friend, General George Washington.

Virginia Overland's largest long-term contracts included the yellow school bus systems for Petersburg City Public Schools from 1981-1989, Hopewell City Public Schools from 1984-1996, and Virginia Commonwealth University's campus transit services from 1989-2004.

" The van and bus service on the south shore ran between the dock at Jordan's Point and various schools and places of employment, including many businesses in Prince George County, Hopewell and notably Fort Lee, a large base of the U. S. Army located nearby.

The van and bus service on the south shore ran between the dock at Jordan's Point and various schools and places of employment, including many businesses in Prince George County, Hopewell and notably Fort Lee, a large base of the U. S. Army located nearby.

The van and bus service on the south shore ran between the docks and various schools and places of employment, including many businesses in Hopewell and notably Fort Lee.

Although still an important industrial city, Hopewell has struggled with transitions through loss of jobs, changes in residential housing patterns, and the costs of environmental clean-up.

The Hopewell Township School District serves public school students in Kindergarten through eighth grade.

While there are no interstates that pass through, there are several nearby, such as Interstate 78 in Franklin Township and Interstate 95 in Hopewell Township.

Route 29 passes through the southwestern part of Hopewell alongside the Delaware and Raritan Canal.

Students in public school for kindergarten through twelfth grade attend the Hopewell Valley Regional School District, a comprehensive regional public school district serving students from Hopewell Borough, Hopewell Township and Pennington Borough.

Public school students in grades K through 12 attend the Hopewell Valley Regional School District, a comprehensive regional public school district serving students from Hopewell Borough, Hopewell Township and Pennington Borough.

His parents, frantic over his disappearance, tracked him through the police to Hopewell.

In Canandaigua, NY 5 originally entered the city on West Avenue and followed South Main Street and Lakeshore Drive through the city limits before rejoining its current routing in Hopewell.

It flows through Petersburg, its head of navigation, through the Tri-cities area, then joins the James River from the west at City Point in Hopewell.

Hopewell Valley is a group of communities in Mercer County, New Jersey loosely affiliated through municipal service sharing agreements, all of which send their students to the Hopewell Valley Regional School District.

Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox was sent with three brigades to the north, through Hopewell Gap, to outflank the Federal position and attack its rear.

The railroad ran from Somerset Junction on the Belvidere Delaware Rail Road via Pennington and Hopewell to Millstone, with a connection to the Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad for a through route to New Brunswick.

It then runs beneath the bluff at Hopewell before becoming 4th Street, the main north – south artery through Chillicothe.

Another alternate still under consideration is to merely upgrade the roads through Hopewell and Sparland to a divided four lane highway.

SR 10 is a major suburban highway through Chesterfield County between the Southside of Richmond and Hopewell.

Between Hopewell and Smithfield, which is served by SR 10 Business, the state highway passes through rural Prince George, Surry, and Isle of Wight counties, an area that features many of the preserved James River plantations.

The state highway crosses over CSX's Hopewell Subdivision while passing through an industrial area.

The state highway heads southeast through the community of Rivermont before crossing the Appomattox River on the Charles Hardaway Marks Bridges into the city of Hopewell.