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The Bowling Green area was described as " Wall Street's back yard " with poor people, high infant mortality rates, and the " worst housing conditions in the city.
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Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner with another 4, 000 men blocking the railroad route to Tennessee at Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Gen. Beauregard arrived at Johnston's headquarters at Bowling Green on February 4, 1862 and was given overall command of Polk's force at the western end of Johnston's line at Columbus, Kentucky.
Johnston knew he could be trapped at Bowling Green if Fort Donelson fell, so he moved his force to Nashville, the capital of Tennessee and an increasingly important Confederate industrial center, beginning on February 11, 1862.
His passive defensive performance while positioning himself in a forward position at Bowling Green, spreading his forces too thinly, not concentrating his forces in the face of Union advances, and appointing or relying upon inadequate or incompetent subordinates subjected him to criticism at the time and by later historians.
* Caplin, Elliot, Al Capp Remembered ( 1994 ) Bowling Green State University ISBN 0-87972-630-X
The world's oldest surviving bowling green is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299.
Crown Green Bowling utilises the entire green.
Broadway runs the length of Manhattan Island, from Bowling Green at the south, to Inwood at the northern tip of the island.
A view up Broadway from Bowling Green, with the Chrysler Building visible in the background
The section of lower Broadway from its origin at Bowling Green to City Hall Park is the historical location for the city's ticker-tape parades, and is sometimes called the " Canyon of Heroes " during such events.
* The IRT Lexington Avenue Line runs under Broadway from Bowling Green to Fulton Street ( trains ).
The traditional route of the parade is northward from Bowling Green to City Hall Park.
* Alexander Hamilton US Custom House ( at the southern foot of Broadway, facing Bowling Green Fence and Park )
* Bowling Green Fence and Park ( at the southern foot of Broadway, between 25 and 26 Broadway )
* Bowling Green Building, later the White Star Line Building ( 11 Broadway )
It was part of the Lowry Bill which also created a sister school in Bowling Green, Ohio – now known as Bowling Green State University.
* Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy
Bowling Green University Popular Press, ISBN 0-87972-217-7.
* " A Pictorial History of the American Carnival ," by Joe McKennon ( Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio.
Bowling Green, US: Bowling Green State University Popular Press.
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The sum of $ 5, 300 was also raised by citizens in the area to entice the commissioners to move the seat of government from Bowling Green to Brazil.
Category: Bowling Green metropolitan area
Category: Bowling Green metropolitan area
Category: Bowling Green metropolitan area
In 2003, Bowling Green with its surrounding communities was designated as a " metropolitan area ".
The first Europeans credited with having settled the area now known as Bowling Green were Robert Moore, his brother George and General Elijah Covington.
Despite rapid urbanization of the Bowling Green area in the 1830s, agriculture remained an important part of local life.
In 2002, the city undertook a feasibility study on ways to revitalize downtown Bowling Green area.
It also proposed a new building for the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce, construction of a Riverwalk Park where downtown borders the Barren River, creation of a new public park called Circus Square, and installation of a new retail area, the Fountain Square Market.
In March 2009, the Bowling Green metropolitan area was recognized by Site Selection Magazine as a top economic development community in the United States for communities with populations between 50, 000 and 200, 000 people.
Category: Bowling Green metropolitan area
Category: Bowling Green metropolitan area
Category: Bowling Green metropolitan area
Category: Bowling Green metropolitan area
US 54 links Bowling Green with Illinois to the east and Jefferson City and the Lake of the Ozarks to the south and west, while US 61 connects the city with Hannibal to the north and the St. Louis area to the south.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Bowling Green has a total area of, of which are land, and or 0. 29 % is water.
The area known locally as East Main Street featuring some old tenement buildings and the Burnside Bowling Club.
Since 2010, however, the area has seen an influx of new businesses and now boasts a bar ( in the old Chicago Rock Cafe ), burger cafe, Fishy Biz fish and chip cafe ( in the former KFC branch ) and 10 pin bowling alley ( 1st Bowl have taken over from Lakeside Bowling ).
The G81 postcode is the most widely used in the area, but the Bowling and Old Kilpatrick areas of the town use G60.
Previously there was a public street along the south edge of the park, also called " Bowling Green ", but since this area was needed for a modern entrance to the subway station, the road was eliminated and paved over with cobblestones.
The area contains many old and historic building and sites, including Castle Garden, originally the fort Castle Clinton, Bowling Green, the old United States Customs House, now the National Museum of the American Indian, Federal Hall, where George Washington was inaugurated as the first U. S. President, Fraunces Tavern, New York City Hall, the New York Stock Exchange, renovated original mercantile buildings of the South Street Seaport ( and a modern tourist building ), the Brooklyn Bridge, South Ferry, embarkation point for the Staten Island Ferry and ferries to Liberty Island and Ellis Island, and Trinity Church.
He retired to the Greater Manchester area, and became a Golf Club steward at Whalley Range Bowling Club, Albert Road, Withington, Lancashire.
Attractions and businesses in the Entertainment Centre include a Tenpin Bowling ( also includes Lazer, and American pool and arcade area ), Cineworld Cinema, Bella Italia, Frankie & Benny's American Italian restaurant, Virgin Active Health club, Nando's, Chiquito, Pizza Hut.
Located on the Main Road there is the only ice rink in the greater area of Hobart, as well as a Village Cinemas complex at Glenorchy Central and an AMF Bowling Center at Moonah.
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