* Near Jamestown, Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale starts a settlement called " Bermuda City " which later becomes part of Hopewell, Virginia.

City Point, the oldest part of Hopewell, was established in 1613 by Sir Thomas Dale.

This is all due in part to the cancellation of the Somerset Freeway that was supposed to go from Hopewell in Mercer County up to Franklin in Somerset County.

Hopewell Township is in the 2nd Congressional district and is part of New Jersey's 1st state legislative district.

The Shiloh School was closed after the end of the 2006-07 school year, and all students from Shiloh are being sent to the Hopewell Crest School as part of a sending / receiving relationship.

The school was closed after the end of the 2006-07 school year, and all students sent to the Hopewell Crest School as part of a sending / receiving relationship with the Hopewell Township School District.

When the region was first settled by European colonists around 1699, it was part of Hopewell Township, and continued under that name until the City of Trenton was established in 1719.

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

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

Hopewell Township is in the 12th Congressional district and is part of New Jersey's 15th state legislative district.

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

* Hopewell Junction – A hamlet in the northwest part of the town.

The Town of Hopewell is in the north central part of the county, east of the City of Canandaigua.

Settled beginning in 1789, the town of Hopewell, New York, was originally part of a tract of land first called " District of Easton " and then " Lincoln " and was part of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of 1788.

Independence Township was originally a part of Hopewell Township for the first almost seventy-five years from the formation of Hopewell in 1781.

James Wilson Marshall, of English descent, was born to Philip Marshall and Sarah Wilson ( married 1808 ) in Hopewell Township, New Jersey ( then part of

Some place his birth as early as 1706 in Stonington, Connecticut ; others insist that he was born in 1713, and after his parents had moved to Hopewell Township, New Jersey in what was then Hunterdon County ( now part of Mercer County ).

Jim Fisher, a former FBI agent and professor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, has written two books on the subject, The Lindbergh Case ( 1987 ) and The Ghosts of Hopewell ( 1999 ) to address, at least in part, what he calls a " revision movement ".

Jim Fisher, a former FBI agent and professor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, has written two books on the subject, The Lindbergh Case ( 1987 ) and The Ghosts of Hopewell ( 1999 ) to address, at least in part, what he calls a " revision movement " regarding the case.

The history of the Norfolk and Western Railway began with the City Point Railroad, a nine-mile ( 14 km ) short line railroad formed in 1838 to extend from City Point, a port on the tidal James River ( now part of the independent City of Hopewell, Virginia ) to Petersburg, Virginia, which was located on the fall line of the shallower Appomattox River.

A portrait of John W. Eppes hangs in the dining room of Weston Manor house in Hopewell, Virginia.

* Hopewell, the plantation of Andrew Pickens ( congressman ) in northwest South Carolina

** Treaty of Hopewell, three treaties between the United States and Native Americans, signed at the South Carolina plantation

Settled near the region's early iron mines, Elverson is close to Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, an example of a 19th century " iron plantation ".

Appomattox Manor is a former plantation in Hopewell, Virginia, USA.

Still, Richard Bennett was in 1941, six years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by King George VI as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada.

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.

His earliest American ancestor was John Rockwell ( 1588 – 1662 ), from Somerset, England, who immigrated to America probably in 1635 aboard the ship Hopewell and became one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut.

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.

The Hopewell civilization began to decline after the 8th century and was replaced by other groups.

City Point was an unincorporated town in Prince George County until the City of Hopewell annexed the Town of City Point in 1923.

Unlike most cities in Virginia, Hopewell was never incorporated as a town, but it was incorporated as an independent city in 1916.

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.

For about 80 years, the Hopewell News was a Monday-Friday afternoon paper.

The incorporated town of City Point, then in Prince George County, was annexed by the independent city of Hopewell in 1923.

I-95 was planned to run along the Somerset Freeway from its proposed southern end in Hopewell Twp, Mercer County to Franklin Township at I-287 in the 1960s.

On October 8, 1835, the first church in Harrisonville was organized in the county two miles southwest of town known as Hopewell or New Hope Baptist.

In 1942 Petersburg Girl Scout Council was formed and in 1944, Hopewell Girl Scout Council.

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

Brandon began spreading out into the bordering communities of Limona, Seffner, and Valrico ; Hopewell Road became four lanes wide and was designated State Road 60.

The Hopewell Presbyterian Church building dates from 1888, although the congregation was formed in 1818 and formally organized in 1828.

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

The Rockford area was first visited and inhabited by Native American cultures, such as the Hopewell, Mascouten, and Ottawa peoples.