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Elm Park, purchased in 1854 and laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, was not only the first public park in the city ( after the 8-acre ( 32, 000 m² ) City Common from 1669 ) but also one of the first public parks in the U. S. Both the City Common and Elm Park are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The majority of the larger trees are Huntingdon Elms planted in the 1920s, but nearer the entrance to the Skate Park there is a fine example of a hybrid of the Siberian Elm Ulmus pumila.
Pinner contains a large number of homes built in the 1930s Art Deco style, the most grand of which is the Grade II listed Elm Park Court at the junction of West End Lane and Elm Park Road.
It is held by some that, in the 1997 General Election, the incumbent Member of Parliament Michael Portillo lost his seat in part due to the proposal to build a McDonald's restaurant in Green Lanes on the site of the former Century House Conservative club, behind residences in Elm Park Road.
There is also some industry to the south between Rainham and the River Thames such as Rainham steel headquarters, on the boundary or Elm Park.
In the 1930s the District Line was electrified and extended to Upminster with new stations at Elm Park and Upminster Bridge.
Part of the sprawling residential area are the later developments of Ardleigh Green, Chase Cross, Collier Row, Elm Park, Harold Hill, Rainham.
Havering elects 54 councillors from the 18 wards of Brooklands, Cranham, Elm Park, Emerson Park, Gidea Park, Gooshays, Hacton, Harold Wood, Havering Park, Heaton, Hylands, Mawneys, Pettits, Rainham and Wennington, Romford Town, St Andrews, South Hornchurch, Squirrels Heath and Upminster.
Elm Street, Park Street, and one block of Prospect Street surround a small town park named Talcott Park.
Downtown from Elm Park
Groveland's downtown is framed by the gazebo in Elm Park.
Elm Park is a recent addition to Groveland.
Elm Park
Elm Park was the first planned housing development in the area.
Thirty years later, thanks to the perseverance of Groveland residents and town officials, the town received the first of several state grants to restore Elm Park.
Elm and purchased
* Benjamin Chair Factory, at Elm Grove, purchased c. 1856 from the Rice Brothers who cast steel plows there, and operated until 1942, by successive generations George, Andrew and Samuel Benjamin, produced thousands of variants of hardwood chairs, the seats of which were caned in local homes by housewives of millworkers.
He purchased a new home at the corner of Elm and Sixth streets.
During the 1920s, the Buckleys purchased properties called Great Elm in Sharon, Connecticut, and Kamchatka in Camden, South Carolina, for homes when they lived in the United States.
Elm and laid
Mr H Finch laid out a handful of roads directly behind the Crown Inn, ( including Yew, Ash, and Elm Groves ) in 1880.
In the spring of 1855 a party of pro-slavery men from Fort Scott formed a town company and laid out a town on the high land east of the Neosho River, south of the mouth of Elm Creek.
However, there are two conflicting stories regarding how Head of Elm became Saint Jo, both of which involve Joe Howell, who originally laid out the town.
He laid out along the main street which was the pre-existing Nine Mile Road, new cross streets named in alphabetical order after plants, beginning from the west: Ash, Beech, Cedar, Daisy, Elm, Fern, Grove, Holly, Ivy, Juniper, Kalmia, Linden, Maple, Oak, Pine, Quince, Rose, and Spruce.
The avenue is named for James Hillhouse ( 1743 – 1832 ) ( and his son James Abraham Hillhouse, 1789 – 1841 ), innovator in land use in New Haven, who began the program of tree planting that gave New Haven its nickname, The Elm City, and who laid out the Trumbull Plan for Yale College and the Grove Street Cemetery.
Eggs are laid singly, usually on the girdle scars near the terminal buds of Elm trees.
Elm and out
* 1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
* May 22 – The first major wagon train headed for the American Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
On May 16, 1842, the second organized wagon train set out from Elm Grove, Missouri, with more than 100 pioneers.
Kennard Land company mapped out the streets as: Spruce, Ash, Cedar, Hickory, Chestnut, Walnut, Willow, Beech, Poplar, Elm and Linden.
Tague later testified that the first shot he recalled hearing occurred after the Presidential limousine had already completed the 120-degree slow turn from Houston Street onto Elm Street and then straightened out.
It looks out over a vale formed by several small streams, in particular the Buckland Brook, which leads southwards towards Frome ( and other villages such as Great Elm and Mells ).
The 10303 zip code, which includes Mariners ' Harbor, Elm Park, Arlington, and parts of Graniteville has the highest percentage of Puerto Ricans out of any zip code on Staten Island, at 18. 3 %.
This means that enigmatic British elms such as ... English Elm have turned out to be single clones of field elm.
Although the group was still obligated to Jive Records, for the next few years the band eked out its tenure by occasionally only releasing singles, including “ Anyway I Gotta Swing It ” for the A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child movie soundtrack.
Between 1949 and 1961, 1A was truncated to end at US 1 via Elm Street south of Dedham center, probably to keep traffic out of Dedham center.
Local Upper Peninsula historian Fred Rydholm summarized the routing planned in 1925 as extending "... in a northwesterly direction, across the Dead River, over the Panorama Hills, then west past the Elm Creek swamp, along the south side of Burnt Mountain, across the Cedar Creek, the Cliff Stream and out past Cliff Lake to Skanee and L ' Anse ".
It was exactly the same room used in A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) when Johnny Depp's character Glen is sucked into his bed and his blood is regurgitated back out onto the ceiling.
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This was, at least partially, a reference to a scene in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street where the character Nancy Thompson ( portrayed by Heather Langenkamp ), watches the original Evil Dead on a television set in her room.
The slasher films A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween and Child's Play all saw sequels in the 1990s, most of which met with varied amounts of success at the box office, but all were panned by fans and critics, with the exception of Wes Craven's New Nightmare ( 1994 ) and the hugely successful Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ).
For this reason the city was named by classical geographers Dar al -‘ Elm, the House of Knowledge.
Oak Wilt, caused by the fungus Ceratocystis fagacearum ( a fungus closely related to Dutch Elm Disease ), is also a lethal disease of some oaks, particularly the red oaks ( the white oaks can be infected but generally live longer ).
In Ohio County, the extreme eastern end of Elm Grove and the towns of Triadelphia, Valley Grove, and West Liberty are part of the second district, currently represented by Delegates Tim Ennis and Roy Givens, both from Brooke County.
Owing to its geographical isolation and effective quarantine enforcement, Australia has so far remained unaffected by Dutch Elm Disease, as have the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia in western Canada.
Elm phloem necrosis ( elm yellows ) is a disease of elm trees that is spread by leafhoppers or by root grafts.
Elm is also prized by bowyers ; of the ancient bows found in Europe, a large portion of them are elm.
The mucilaginous inner bark of the Slippery Elm Ulmus rubra has long been used as a demulcent, and is still produced commercially for this purpose in the United States with approval for sale as a nutritional supplement by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration.
Weakened by Dutch Elm Disease, the tree died in 1964 from storm damage.
* The Great Elm on Boston Common, supposed to have been in existence before the settlement of Boston, at the time of its destruction by the storm of the 15th of February 1876 measured.
With a girth of 6. 86 m and a height of 40 m, the elm on Great Saling Green, Great Saling, near Braintree, Essex, identified by R. H. Richens ( 1983 ) as an Ulmus × hollandica hybrid, was reputed to be the largest elm in England, before succumbing to Dutch Elm Disease in the 1980s.
* List of Elm species and varieties by scientific name
American Elm is wholly insensitive to daylight length ( photoperiod ), and will continue to grow well into autumn until injured by frost.
The large Massachusetts Champion Elm stands on Summer Street in the Berkshire County town of Lanesborough, Massachusetts has been kept alive by antifungal treatments.
* List of Elm species and varieties by scientific name
* Saving the American Elm, by Bruce Carley
In July 2000, she was awarded a Doctor of Letters ( D. Litt ) by Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, where she actively supported their Drama School at the Gateway Theatre on Elm Row.
Later, " Elm Grove House " in Church Road was turned into an asylum by Susan Wood.
State Theater on Elm Avenue, damaged by 1983 earthquake.
* Quinebaug Mill-Quebec Square Historic District — Roughly bounded by Quinebaug River, Quebec Square, Elm and South Main Streets ( added 1985 ).
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