Which river lies next to the town where Sidney Adams was born in 1904?
Northampton Northampton is the county town of Northamptonshire in the East Midlands of England. It lies on the River Nene, about 67 mi north-west of London and 50 mi south-east of Birmingham. One of the largest towns in the UK, Northampton had a population of 212,100 in the 2011 census.
Sam Adams (explorer) Sam Adams (1828–1915), who periodically referred to himself as "Captain", was an early explorer of the American west. His survey of the Colorado River was conducted simultaneously to John Wesley Powell's more extensive survey. He struggled for over ten years to impose his view of the Colorado River - that it was a mineral paradise shot through with veins of gold and silver - but ultimately failed. In 1878, Senator Francis Cockrell rejected a resolution that would have compensated Adams for his spontaneous work.