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Caswell -- U.S. County in North Carolina
Population (2000): 23501
Housing Units (2000): 9601
Land area (2000): 424.665863 sq. miles (1099.879489 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.759745 sq. miles (9.737694 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 428.425608 sq. miles (1109.617183 sq. km)
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 36.406412 N, 79.320014 W
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Caswell

Caswell may refer to:

Caswell (surname)

Caswell is the surname of:

  • Alexis Caswell (1799-1877), American mathematician, scientist and educator
  • Allan Caswell (born 1952), Australian songwriter
  • Bill Caswell, retired country music singer, songwriter and musician
  • Brian Caswell (born 1954), Australian author
  • Brian Caswell (footballer) (born 1956), English former footballer
  • Bruce Caswell (born 1949), American politician
  • Burr Caswell (1807–1896), American frontiersman
  • Eddie Caswell, Welsh rugby player in the 1920s and coach in the 1930s and 1940s
  • Edward C. Caswell (1879–1963), American illustrator
  • Emil George Henry Caswell (1854-?), Anglican clergyman
  • Gay Caswell (born 1948), Canadian writer and former politician
  • G. N. Caswell (1818 cricketer)
  • Hollis Caswell (1901-1988), American educator
  • John Caswell (1654 or 1655-1712), English mathematician and Oxford professor of astronomy
  • Lucien B. Caswell (1827-1919), American politician
  • Luke Caswell, better known as Cazwell, a gay American rapper
  • Oliver A. Caswell, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1872
  • Peter Caswell (born 1957), English former football goalkeeper
  • Richard Caswell (1729-1789), first and fifth governor of North Carolina
  • Robert Caswell (1946-2006), Australian screenwriter
  • Samuel Bradford Caswell (1828–1898), American mining engineer, judge and Los Angeles government official
  • William E. Caswell (1947-2011), American physicist

Usage examples of "caswell".

Now Caswell proved to have a considerably stronger will than either Pleever or Halliwell.

The following day, both uniformed air-force officers and plainclothes government men visited the Caswell house among others.

The fact was that she had rather liked deForest Caswell, although she had only met her friend's husband a few times.

But to seaward the mist was thinner and more fragile above the blinding water, and as he took a telescope from Midshipman Caswell he asked, 'Can the lookout make her out yet?

The gunroom messman had overheard Midshipman Piper telling Caswell what Seton had confided to him about his sister.

Dalby was dead, and he had promoted Caswell to acting lieutenant to fill the gap in his officers.

As an acting lieutenant Caswell was apparently well able to forget that only four days ago he had been doing Piper's work and taking all the kicks, justified or otherwise.

He saw young Caswell waving his hat like a madman and pointing at the last signal.

Cliques formed, as they had at McIlroy, but at Caswell some of the cliques were perilously close in structure and function to street gangs.

On her eighteenth birthday, four years ago, she learned that her father had established a trust fund, consisting of the assets liquidated upon his death, and that the trust could not be touched by the state to pay for her care at McIlroy Home and Caswell Hall.

Upon completing high school, she had gone straight from Caswell Hall to Los Angeles, intent upon breaking into show business as a stand-up comic.

Danny insisted she use her maiden name because he knew that through all the bad years in McIlroy Home and Caswell Hall, she had endured in part because she wanted to grow up and make something of herself as a testament to her father and perhaps, as well, to the mother she had never known.

Can you believe that the same girl who spent almost ten years in holes like McIlroy and Caswell could end up living here without first having to be reincarnated as a princess?

They're thugs, they're scum, I learned all about their type a long time ago at Caswell Hall, and I know the only thing you can do with people like them is stand up to them, fight back, because they only respect toughness.

Richard Caswell seized his arm to prevent him, and he swung round, pushing Caswell off balance.