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Redwood Acres Raceway 0.625-mile dirt oval Eureka, California: 1956–1957 Remains active; now a .375-mile paved oval. [19] Reading Fairgrounds Speedway: 0.500-mile dirt oval Reading, Pennsylvania: 1958–1959 Closed after 1979. Was formerly the site of the Fairgrounds Square Mall, which has now also been torn down. Savannah Speedway 0.500-mile ...
Acre: 4,047 m 2: An area of land one chain (four rods) wide by one furlong in length. As the traditional furlong could vary in length from country to country, so did the acre. In England an acre was 4,840 square yards (4,050 m 2), in Scotland 6,150 square yards (5,140 m 2) and in Ireland 7,840 square yards (6,560 m 2). It is a Saxon unit ...
The subdivision was subdivided into 600 500-foot (150 m) by 160-foot (49 m) (1.84 acre) lots and sold. The town was incorporated in 1887 under the leadership of prohibitionists who wished to control the arrival of an unwelcome saloon. The newly formed government's first order of business was to pass a tippler's law, prohibiting the sale of alcohol.
The Eden Landing Ecological Reserve is located at the Hayward shoreline, and includes 600 acres (240 ha) of salt ponds set to be converted to tidal wetlands. [117] Hayward is also home to the oldest Japanese garden in California designed along traditional lines. The 3.5-acre (1.4 ha) Japanese Gardens was dedicated in 1980. [118]
The area is the home of the Tongva, Luiseño, and Juaneño tribal nations, who were there "as early as 4,000 years ago." [8] The Tongva defined their world as Tovaangar, a nation which "extended from Palos Verdes to San Bernardino, from Saddleback Mountain to the San Fernando Valley" and included the entire territory of present-day Yorba Linda.
Springfield was founded in 1847 around the Orange and Alexandria Railroad's Daingerfield Station; this is today the Backlick Road Virginia Railway Express station, located off Backlick Road. The area was named for "Springfield Farm", owned by Henry Daingerfield, an Alexandria businessman who sat on the railroad's board of directors.
Acre (Portuguese: ⓘ) is a state located in the west of the North Region of Brazil and the Amazonia Legal.Located in the westernmost part of the country, at a two-hour time difference from Brasília, Acre is bordered clockwise by the Brazilian states of Amazonas and Rondônia to the north and east, along with an international border with the Bolivian department of Pando to the southeast, and ...
[145] [146] Covering 40 acres (16 ha) and containing 1,000 animals of 200 different species, the zoo is the largest regional attraction, regularly drawing over 500,000 visitors annually. [ 147 ] [ 148 ] The Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory gardens cover 24,500-square-foot (2,280 m 2 ), displaying over 1,200 plants of 502 different ...