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Old Town Hatfield: HATFIELD is a town in southeastern England, in Hertfordshire, 18 miles (28 km) northwest of London. Under the 1946 Towns Act, a New Town, based on the old town Hatfield town, was begun in 1948 to relieve housing problems in the Greater London area. The center of the old town Hatfield town was redeveloped as a residential and shopping district. Industry in the area consists of aircraft companies and plants making cardboard boxes.
In the old town Hatfield town is Hatfield House, erected by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, between 1607 and 1611. It contains part of the old town Hatfield palace of the bishops of Ely, which houses historical papers and portraits. Population: (1968 est.) 44,180.
HATFIELD-McCOY FEUD, a savage interfamily conflict occurring mainly in the 1880's in the mountainous West Virginia-Kentucky border area. Participants were the Hatfields of Logan county, W. Va., and the McCoys of Pike county, Ky., both large, closely knit clans.
Interfamily hostility dated back to Civil War days, and diverse incidents have been held responsible for the brutality that erupted in 1882. That year, on the Kentucky side of the border, a quarrel was precipitated by Johnse Hatfield's attempt to elope with Rosanna McCoy, and Elli-son Hatfield was shot. Three McCoy brothers were arrested and were being taken to jail when a posse of armed Hatfields, led by clan chieftain "Devil Anse" Hatfield, abducted the three McCoys to West Virginia. When Ellison died, the McCoys were murdered. |
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