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Perth's metropolitan area is formally divided into a number of local government areas, which themselves consist of a large number of suburbs, extending from Two Rocks in the north to Rockingham in the south, and east inland to The Lakes.
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 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.
The county is named for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a British statesman ( 1730 – 1782 ).
Rockingham County is the birthplace of Thomas Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln ’ s father.
Rockingham County is the third largest county in Virginia.
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.
Rockingham County is also home to a large section of the Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive, with an entrance point at Swift Run Gap.
Rockingham County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina.
Rockingham County is a member of the regional Piedmont Triad Council of Governments.
Rockingham County NC Shiloh Airport is a public-use airport owned by Rockingham County.
Its county seat is Rockingham.
Richmond County is well known for its history in racing, with the advent of the Rockingham Speedway which opened in 1965.
The County is also host to Rockingham Dragway, an International Hot Rod Association-sanctioned drag strip, which hosts over 90 drag racing events per year.
Rockingham is working on developing a 10-mile " Blue Trail " for paddling and canoeing along Hitchcock Creek and a four-mile stretch of the Pee Dee River, with camping allowed at the final portage point-Diggs Tract.
The county is divided into three townships: Rockingham, Hamlet and Ellerbe.
Rockingham County is a county located in the U. S. state of New Hampshire.
The area that today is Rockingham County was first settled by Europeans moving north from the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts as early as 1623.

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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.
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.
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.

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Two Civil War battles took place in Rockingham County, one at Cross Keys, just southeast of Harrisonburg, and another at Port Republic, along the South Fork of the Shenandoah River just north of Grottoes.
During another match between the two sides at Rockingham Road on Shrove Tuesday, eggs and flour were thrown over the wall at the Rushden fans.
He had another 28th at Rockingham the following year, as well as running the # 07 for Moy Racing at Loudon, where his engine expired early in the race.

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