Chestnut wood.

Chestnut is of the same family as oak, and likewise its wood contains many tannins.

Chestnut was the most popular wood since its logs could be used to build cabins and rail fences to protect crops from wild animals.

Although he used a variety of Chestnut models in his films, including the " Pal ", his favourite boat was a red " Fort " Chestnut Prospector, a 16 foot canvas covered wood canoe that he claimed was the most versatile design ever manufactured, in spite of the popularity of more durable and modern construction techniques and materials.

Cadillac is also known as Chestnut Town, USA.

The Cadillac Chestnut Harvest Festival is held every year, on the second Saturday of October.

The lowest point is sea level, while the highest point is in Chestnut Hill, at approximately above sea level ( near the intersection of Germantown Avenue and Bethlehem Pike ).

* Chestnut flour is popular in Corsica, the Périgord and Lunigiana for breads, cakes and pastas.

Chestnut oak sometimes grow on rocks This species is a predominant ridge-top tree in eastern North American hardwood forests.

Chestnut oak trees are generally not the best timber trees because they are usually branched low and not very straight, but when they grow in better conditions, they are valuable for timber, which is marketed as ' mixed white oak '.

Morris L. Chestnut ( born January 1, 1969 ) is an American film and television actor.

In Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Chestnut is Seagal's reluctant partner.

Chestnut is married to Pam Byse ( 1995 ), they have a son and a daughter.

Chestnut is a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles and the USC Trojans.

Morris Chestnut is also an avid poker player and has sponsorship arrangement with online poker room Full Tilt Poker.

Chestnut ( Castanea ), some species called chinkapin or chinquapin, is a genus of eight or nine species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the beech family Fagaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

The name Castanea is probably derived from the old name for the Sweet Chestnut, either in Latin or in Ancient Greek.

This is because it and its associates ( the American Chestnut Cooperators ' Foundation and many others from education, research and industry sectors contributing to the program ) are at the last stages of developing a variety that is as close as possible to the lost American chestnut, while having incorporated the blight-resistant gene of the Asiatic species.

Chestnut is hardy to zone 5, which is 22 ° C ( 12 ° F ) lower in average minimal temperature than London in zone 9.

* Chestnut mosaic virus is probably transmitted by the oak aphid Myzocallis castanicola.

Chestnut timber is decorative.

" This famous reference is much remarked upon by those involved in projects to return the American chestnut to the wild, although Longfellow's chestnut is well documented to have been Aesculus hippocastanum ( the European Horse Chestnut ).

The blight-resistant Chinese Chestnut is now the most commonly planted chestnut species in the U. S. It can be distinguished from the American chestnut by its hairy twig tips which are in contrast to the hairless twigs of the American chestnut.

A natural mimic and impersonator, Morris first appeared on television as The Hot Chestnut Man, a short slot in which he was shown sitting roasting the chestnuts, he would tell a humorous yarn in a West Country accent, often ending with a moral.

Chestnut tannin has a naturally low pH value, relatively low salts content and a high acids content.

And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.

Chestnut was the first African American ever to lie in honor in the Capitol.

Chestnut was born in Cerritos, California where he graduated from Richard Gahr High School in 1986.

Boundary records compiled in the reign of John already showed the famous Tortworth Chestnut in South Gloucestershire, as a landmark ; and it was also known by the same name of " Great Chestnut of Tortworth " in the days of Stephen.

During British colonial rule in the mid-1700s to 1947, the Sweet Chestnut ( Castanea sativa ) was widely introduced in the temperate parts of the Indian Subcontinent, mainly in the lower-to-middle Himalayas.

The American Chestnut Foundation was also only recently told about the tree's existence.

The resulting fruit-producing hybrid was named the Dunstan Chestnut.

Clyde Chestnut Barrow ( March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934 ) was born in Ellis County, Texas, near Telico, a town just south of Dallas.

During elementary school, he was driven by chauffeur to William Penn Charter School, and in high school joined the Engineer's Club of Philadelphia and spent afternoons at the electronics laboratory of television inventor Philo Farnsworth in Chestnut Hill.

To put its damage in perspective, the number of chestnuts killed by the Chestnut Blight was around 3. 5 billion chestnut trees while there are 3. 5 billion ash trees in Ohio alone.

For example, " Flesh " was changed to " Peach ", since not all people have the same hued complexion, and " Indian Red " was changed to " Chestnut " out of concern that the name might be thought to be the color of Native American's skin.

The site of the fort was around present-day Broadway and Chestnut streets, near Second Avenue.

He was president of the Mamou Town Site Company which opened an office on the corner of Seventh and Chestnut.

.. the Methodist Church was built on the corner of Antietam and Chestnut Streets in 1840?

A portion of Dudley Road was named Chestnut Avenue around that time.

During the American Revolutionary War, Galloway was the site of the Battle of Chestnut Neck, in what is now a part of Port Republic.

South Orange was called the Chestnut Hills for a time.

Some of the early settlers to the area were the Collins family of Chestnut Ridge Farm, for whom Chestnut Ridge Middle School is named after ; the Turner family, for whom Turnersville was named ; the Hurff family, for whom the census designation Hurffville and Hurffville Elementary School are named ; the Heritage family, whose family began the Heritage's Dairy Farm Stores, and for whom the community Heritage Valley is named ; the Morgan family, who were the first residents of the Olde Stone House, a landmark for residents of the Township ; and the Bell Family, who arrived in 1899, turning the 139-year-old grist mill into General Mills, and for whom Bells Lake Park and Bells Elementary School are named.

The First Presbyterian Church, located on the corner of West 5th Avenue and Chestnut Street, was the first church in the world to be lit by electricity.

Chestnut Ridge was incorporated in 1986.

Prior to 1986, Chestnut Ridge was an unincorporated area within the town of Ramapo often referred to as " South Spring Valley " ( its fire district ), as many postal addresses carried the Spring Valley designation.