Rockingham supporters protested the elections to the territorial governor, on the grounds the laborers from Dubuque were not Scott County residents.

Fluger claimed to have been a Yankee native of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and was a former militia colonel.

No historical evidence exists to justify this, as no Fluger surname can be found in the New Hampshire U. S. census records or the Rockingham County military muster rolls.

Moreover, NCDOT is planning to finish four laning US 1 in Richmond County past NC 177 with a Rockingham bypass to the east.

Essex County is adjacent to Rockingham County, New Hampshire to the north, the Atlantic Ocean ( specifically the Gulf of Maine and Massachusetts Bay ) to the east, Suffolk County to the south, and Middlesex County to the west.

* Rockingham County, Virginia-west

* Rockingham County, Virginia ( east )

Pendleton County was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 from parts of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham Counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton, a distinguished Virginia statesman and jurist.

* Rockingham County, Virginia ( south )

* Rockingham County, Virginia-southwest

View of Rockingham County from Massanutten Mountain ( looking west )

Rockingham County is a county located in the U. S. state of Virginia.

Rockingham County is included in the Harrisonburg, Virginia, Metropolitan Statistical Area and is home of the Rockingham County Baseball League.

Settlement of the county began in 1727, when Adam Miller ( Mueller ) staked out a claim on the south fork of the Shenandoah River, near the line that now divides Rockingham County from Page County.

Rockingham County was established in 1778 from Augusta County.

Harrisonburg was incorporated as a city in 1916 and separated from Rockingham County ( all cities in Virginia are independent cities ), but it remains the county seat.

The same year, immediately to the north of Rockingham County, Dunmore County, named for Virginia's last Royal Governor, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, an unpopular figure, was renamed.

Two turkey statues, one at either end of Route 11, indicate the county is the " Turkey Capital " of Virginia ; Rockingham County leads Virginia in poultry production.

The Rockingham County Courthouse in Harrisonburg, Virginia, at the intersection of US 11 and US 33

The southern section, in northern Rockingham County, has a length of from Interstate 81 ( I-81 ) and U. S. Route 11 ( US 11 ) at Mauzy through Broadway to the West Virginia state line into Mathias.

< li > The Rockingham Educational Foundation provides a Teacher Supply Depot for classroom teachers.

< li > Over 37 % of Rockingham County teachers have master ’ s degrees.

Rockingham did this without parental consent and Cumberland wrote to Rockingham's father, saying that his " zeal on this occasion shows the same principles fix't that you yourself have given such strong proofs of ".

Rockingham wrote to Augustus Keppel on 3 November 1779, saying that he believed the war against American could not be won, that the government was corrupt but not unpopular, and that the longer this continued the greater the danger to the liberties and the constitution of Britain: " Perhaps a total change of men and measures, & system in the Government: of this country might have effect on the councils of some foreign countries ... who might think that it was no longer a Court system to combat, but that the whole nation wd ; united & make the utmost efforts ".

So successful has the reintroduction been that 30 chicks have been transported from Rockingham Forest, for release in Cumbria.

Brunswick, Cabarrus, Chatham, Guilford, Forsyth, Onslow and Rockingham counties have adopted resolutions in support of the campaign.

Her sister Mary was married to Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, and Murray's connection with the Marquess was to have a significant impact on his future career.

Becoming prominent among the Whigs, Dowdeswell was made Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1765 under the Marquess of Rockingham, and his short tenure of this position appears to have been a successful one, he being in Lecky's words a good financier, but nothing more.

Each department of the UK government directly involved in these support activities would have its staff allocated to " Rockingham " duties.

The closest train to Halifax, the overnight passenger train from Saint John, NB is believed to have halted at Rockingham Station, located on the shore of the basin, approximately from the downtown terminal.

Powerhouse style stores, now " Large Format Stores " have recently opened in Chadstone Shopping Centre and Bendigo in Victoria, Innaloo, Perth central business district, Marion, South Australia and Rockingham in Western Australia, Hobart in Tasmania, and Stockland Rockhampton in Queensland, under new " Dick Smith-Talk to the Techxperts " branding.

Burton began 2004 by finishing 17th at the Daytona 500 and then earned the team's first top-10 finish the next week with a 9th place finish at Rockingham.

From 1858 until the spring of 1861 he held the office of clerk and master of the court of equity of Rockingham County.

Earnhardt sealed the deal at Rockingham by winning the race over Rick Mast.

Fans began honoring Earnhardt by holding three fingers aloft on the third lap of every NASCAR Cup race, and the television coverage of NASCAR on Fox and NASCAR on NBC went silent for each third lap from Rockingham to the following year's race there in honor of Earnhardt For the first three weeks after Earnhardt's death, on-track incidents brought out the caution flag on lap three.

After the failure of Lord North's ministry ( 1770 – 1782 ) in March 1782 due to Britain's defeat in the American Revolutionary War and the ensuing vote of no confidence by Parliament, the Marquess of Rockingham reasserted the Prime Minister's control over the Cabinet.

In July 1766 Rockingham was dismissed, and Pitt was entrusted by the King with the task of forming a government entirely of his own selection.

The North administration left power in March 1782 following the American Revolution, and a coalition of the Rockingham Whigs and the former Chathamites, now led by the Earl of Shelburne, took its place.

The first winner was an unnamed filly owned by the event's organiser, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham.

Lord Rockingham died only three months after coming to power ; he was succeeded by another Whig, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne.

It was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 from parts of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham Counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton ( 1721 – 1803 ), a distinguished Virginia statesman and jurist.

Rockingham is bi-sected by another geographic formation, Massanutten Mountain stretching from just east of Harrisonburg, VA to a few miles southwest of Front Royal, VA in Warren County, VA. Massanutten Mountain splits the central Shenandoah Valley as the German River and the North Fork of the Shenandoah River flow on its western side and the South Fork flows on the eastern.

Rockingham County NC Shiloh Airport is a public-use airport owned by Rockingham County.

The area that today is Rockingham County was first settled by Europeans moving north from the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts as early as 1623.

It was formed by removing towns from northern Hillsborough and Rockingham counties.

The British government also made overtures to the Dutch to come to a speedy conclusion of hostilities, especially after the Cabinet of Lord North had been replaced by that of Rockingham and Fox in March, 1782.

The town and surrounding countryside was populated heavily by settlers from eastern Stokes and neighboring western Rockingham counties in North Carolina, who arrived largely between 1815 and 1833.

The irregularly-shaped town is bordered by Haverhill to the northeast, North Andover to the east, Lawrence and Andover to the south, Dracut ( Middlesex County ) to the west, Pelham, New Hampshire ( Hillsborough County ) to the northwest, and Salem, New Hampshire ( Rockingham County ) to the north.

Fremont is crossed by the Rockingham Recreation Trail ( a rail trail ) and NH Route 107.

Hamlet was the largest city in Richmond County at one time, but it has been surpassed by neighboring Rockingham.

Although under Virginia law, incorporated towns may operate their own schools, Elkton area schools are operated by Rockingham County Public Schools, a Virginia public school division.

An existing Jacobean house was entirely rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham ( 1693 – 1750 ), and then reduced to the status of a mere wing by the immense scale of the new great addition made by his son the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established at Wentworth Woodhouse an important Whig powerhouse.

Wentworth Woodhouse was inherited by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, briefly Prime Minister in 1765-66 and again in 1782.

It was commissioned in 1783 by the Earl Fitzwilliam as a memorial to the late first Marquess of Rockingham ; it was designed by John Carr, whose first design, for an obelisk, was rejected, in favour of an adaptation of the Roman Cenotaph of the Julii at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, near Arles.