Ferguson
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Places
In Canada:- Ferguson Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)Ferguson Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)Ferguson Avenue, is a Lower City collector road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Is a two-way street throughout that starts off at the base of the Mountain on Foster Street. It's interrupted 3-blocks north at Corktown Park where Canadian Pacific Railway lines passes through it...
In the United States:
- Ferguson, ArkansasFerguson, ArkansasFerguson is an unincorporated community in Phillips County, Arkansas, United States. At 6:30 PM on April 26, 2011, a tornado – part of the April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak – hit Ferguson and travelled along Arkansas Highway 44 toward Coahoma, Mississippi. The tornado was rated EF-0 with winds at...
- Ferguson, IowaFerguson, IowaFerguson is a city in Marshall County, Iowa, United States. The population was 126 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Ferguson is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
- Ferguson, KentuckyFerguson, KentuckyFerguson is a city in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States, just south of downtown Somerset.-Post Office:The city has always been Ferguson, but the post office was first named Luretha for the postmaster George Wynn's daughter. There was already a post office named Ferguson so they couldn't use...
- Ferguson, MissouriFerguson, MissouriFerguson is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 21,203 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Ferguson is located at ....
, a suburb of St. Louis
Companies and products
- Ferguson EnterprisesFerguson EnterprisesFerguson Enterprises Inc., headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, is largest plumbing wholesaler in North America and a major distributor of HVAC/R equipment, waterworks and fire protection products, and industrial pipes, valves and fittings.-History:...
, a provider of plumbing, HVAC and safety equipment - Ferguson CompanyFerguson CompanyIn about 1934, in company with David Brown, Harry Ferguson formed the Ferguson-Brown Company and the two men produced the Model A Ferguson-Brown tractor with a Ferguson-designed hydraulic hitch...
(also known as the Ferguson-Brown Company), a manufacturer of tractors from 1934 to 1953 - Ferguson Radio Corporation, an electronics company purchased by THORN Electrical Industries in 1936
- Ferguson Research Ltd.Ferguson Research Ltd.Harry Ferguson Research Limited was a British company founded by Harry Ferguson who was mostly known as "the father of the modern farm tractor"...
, a manufacturer of racing cars and 4WD transmission systems - Ferguson rifleFerguson rifleThe Ferguson rifle was one of the first breech loading rifles to be widely tested by the British military. Other breech loaders were experimented with in various commands, including earlier versions of the Ordnance rifle by Patrick Ferguson when he was in the "Fever Islands" . It was often...
, a rifle produced in the late 1770s and used in the American Revolutionary War - Ferguson ShipbuildersFerguson ShipbuildersFerguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The...
, a shipbuilding company based in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde - Ferguson TE20Ferguson TE20The Ferguson Model TE20 was a British agricultural tractor. It was Harry Ferguson's most successful design, commonly known as the Little Grey Fergie. It was manufactured from 1946 to 1956...
(also known as the "little grey Fergie"), a British tractor designed by Harry Ferguson - Massey-Ferguson, a manufacturer of tractors from 1953 to the present, formed by the merger of Ferguson Company and Massey-Harris Company
Other uses
- Plessy v. FergusonPlessy v. FergusonPlessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 , is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in private businesses , under the doctrine of "separate but equal".The decision was handed...
, 1896 U.S. Supreme Court Case regarding racial segregation - Ferguson meteorite of 1889, landed in North Carolina, USA (see meteorite fallsMeteorite fallsMeteorite falls, also called observed falls, are those meteorites that were witnessed by people or automated devices as they moved through the atmosphere or hit the Earth, and were subsequently collected. All other meteorites are called "finds"...
) - Ferguson Center for the Arts, performing arts center at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia, USA
- Ferguson River (disambiguation)