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Goodspeed station, located off Route 82 in Haddam, houses an antique shop and is not affiliated with the railroad. Across the tracks from the station is the Goodspeed Yard Office. This building was the original Chester passenger station, located on Dock Road in Chester, but sold off and removed in 1874 when it was found that the railroad grade ...
Goodspeed Musicals is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of musical theater and the creation of new works, located in East Haddam, Connecticut. Its landmark Goodspeed Opera House is a distinctive feature of the view from the Connecticut River and is the birthplace of some of the world's most famous musicals ...
Goodspeed Airport is situated 1 mile southeast of the central business district, and contains two runways. The longest runway , 16/34, is water measuring 4,500 x 1,000 ft (1372 x 305 m). A second runway, 14/32, paved with asphalt, measures 2,120 x 50 ft (646 x 15 m).
In the 1870s, the Flemington Railroad & Transportation Company constructed a railroad through the area connecting Lambertville and Flemington with a station (originally named Barber Station, renamed to Bowne Station) at the settlement. [4] This railroad became part of the Belvidere Delaware Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad in later years.
Michael P. Price (born August 5, 1938) is the longest serving artistic director of a professional theatre in the United States. [1] As the Executive Director of Goodspeed Musicals from 1968 to 2014, he produced more than 235 musicals, including 75 world premiers and transferred 19 productions to Broadway, including the world premieres of Shenandoah, [2] Man of La Mancha [3] and Annie. [2]
In 1887, Goodspeed's History of Tennessee described McDonald's Station as a "small village on the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad." [ 7 ] Many mineral springs are located in the McDonald area, and the community had many popular resorts from the 1880s to the 1930s.
John W. Goodspeed was born in 1859 and his younger brother Theron was born five years later in 1864. In the early 1890s, the two men moved from Ypsilanti, Michigan to Grand Rapids and opened a shoe store. The business thrived, and soon the brothers constructed their own building in the heart of the central business district.
She drew first blood with a vengeance on 10 April by capturing four blockade-running schooners in a single day: Southern Independence, Victoria, Charlotte, and Cuba.The first three had attempted to slip to sea laden with cotton and naval stores while the latter had tried to run into Mobile, Alabama, with supplies badly needed by the South.