Eckford
Encyclopedia
Place Names
- Eckford Township, MichiganEckford Township, MichiganEckford Township is a civil township of Calhoun County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is part of the Battle Creek Metropolitan Statistical Area...
, USA - Eckford, Scottish BordersEckford, Scottish BordersEckford is a village on the A698 and the B6401, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, close to the place where the Kale Water joins the River Teviot...
, RoxburghshireRoxburghshireRoxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh is a registration county of Scotland. It borders Dumfries to the west, Selkirk to the north-west, and Berwick to the north. To the south-east it borders Cumbria and Northumberland in England.It was named after the Royal Burgh of Roxburgh...
, Scotland
Sports
- Eckford of BrooklynEckford of BrooklynEckford of Brooklyn, or simply Eckford, was an American baseball club from 1855 to 1872. When the pioneering Union Grounds opened for baseball in 1862, the Eckfords must have been the most important tenant, for they played more games than any other club that year and won the "national"...
, an American baseball club from 1855 to 1872 in Brooklyn, New York
People
- Elizabeth EckfordElizabeth EckfordElizabeth Eckford was one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The integration came as a result of Brown v...
(born 1941), one of the Little Rock Nine students - Henry Eckford (shipbuilder)Henry Eckford (shipbuilder)Henry Eckford was a Scottish-born shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer, and entrepreneur who worked for the United States Navy and the navy of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century.-Early life:...
(1775–1832), a Scottish-born naval architect and shipbuilder of the early 19th century in the United States and Ottoman Empire - Henry Eckford (plant breeder)Henry Eckford (plant breeder)Henry Eckford was the most famous breeder of sweet peas, transforming the plant from a minor horticultural subject into the queen of annuals. Liberty Hyde Bailey called him "the prince of specialists". In 1888 He moved to the town of Wem in Shropshire...
(1823–1905), a British plant breeder
Ships
- USNS Henry Eckford (T-AO-192), an oiler of the United States Navy launched in 1989 but never completed and now in reserve