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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.
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.
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.
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.

Rockingham and working
Unlike most of his predecessors, Batycki brought with him extensive marketing and PR knowledge of motorsports, having been a vice president at the North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, NC and a vice president at Richard Childress Racing for a number of years, working with the late Dale Earnhardt for the last years of the seven-time champion's career.

Rockingham and on
Earnhardt's team was re-christened as the No. 29 team, with the same sponsor but with a new look ( a reversed color scheme-white with black numerals and a black stripe on the bottom ) for the following races at Rockingham and Las Vegas.
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.
Park won the very next NASCAR Winston Cup race: The Dura Lube 400 at North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, NC held on February 26, 2001.
Rockingham supporters protested the elections to the territorial governor, on the grounds the laborers from Dubuque were not Scott County residents.
Rockingham assumed the Premiership " on the distinct understanding that measures were to be changed as well as men ; and that the measures for which the new ministry required the royal consent were the measures which they, while in opposition, had advocated.
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.
It was created on December 3, 1832 and was named for George Rockingham Gilmer.
Rockingham is a small mining village along Dark Shade Creek on State Route 160.
The village is located on the site of the old Rockingham Iron Furnace, erected in 1841.
Concord was chartered on September 15, 1780 to Reuben Jones and others from Rockingham, Vermont.
Located on Rockingham Street, the Miller-Kite House was the headquarters of General Stonewall Jackson at the start of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign during the Civil War.
It is located on the northeast portion of Rockingham County, Virginia.
Cumberland's final years were lived out during the first years of the reign of his nephew, George III, who acceded to the throne on the death of William's father on 25 October 1760: Cumberland became a very influential advisor to the King and was instrumental in establishing the First Rockingham Ministry.
But Rockingham, after finally acknowledging the independence of the former Thirteen Colonies, died unexpectedly on 1 July.
Arms of Watson, Earl of Rockingham: Argent, on a chevron azure between three martlets sable as many crescents or.
Grenville was replaced as Prime Minister on July 10, 1765, by Lord Rockingham, the first lord of the treasury.
When Parliament reconvened on January 14, 1766, the Rockingham ministry formally proposed repeal.
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 and Blue
The town has a team in the Rockingham County Baseball League called the Elkton Blue Sox.
Governor Alexander Spotswood's legendary Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition of 1716 crossed the Blue Ridge at Swift Run Gap and reached the river at Elkton, VA. Settlers did not immediately follow, but someone who heard the reports and later became the first permanent settler in the Valley was Adam Miller ( Mueller ), who in 1727 staked out claims on the south fork of the Shenandoah River, near the line that now divides Rockingham County from Page County.

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