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Grassy took its name in the 1870s from the local Grassy School; the school was so named for the condition of its grassy schoolyard. [2] A post office operated under the name Arthur from 1886 to 1907. [3] Grassy Memorial Chapel, which lies near the center of the community, was established in 1894 as the New Salem Presbyterian Church.
It is eight miles west of Marble Hill on Route 34. [2] Grassy is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. [3] Located just outside Grassy are three campgrounds along the Castor River: Arrowhead Campgrounds, [4] Castor River Park, [5] and Twin Bridges Park.
During Palmer's life, the mansion hosted many events such as Palmer's Harvard class reunions, business and governmental meetings, and races for the nearby Myopia Hunt Club, of which Palmer was a member. Between 1997 and 2007, the building was restored by the Forsythe-Fandetti family as part of the state's historic curatorship program.
Grassy Hill Natural Area Preserve is a 1,440-acre (5.8 km 2) Natural Area Preserve located in Franklin County, Virginia, just to the west of the town of Rocky Mount. The site is composed of rocky slopes with various hardwood species and patches of Virginia pine. Shallow basic soils, typified by heavy clay, are found among bedrock outcrops rich ...
Mount Batulao is home to Caleruega, a major retreat center and popular wedding location that sits on 8 hectares (20 acres) of hilly landscape adjacent to the former Evercrest Golf Club. It was established by the Dominican Order in 1994 as the venue for seminars and retreats of the Dominican institutions in the Philippines. [ 29 ]
They include farmhouses and related agricultural outbuildings related to the Greer family, early settlers of Grassy Creek. The oldest building is the Aquilla Greer House (c. 1812 – 1817). Located in the district is the Grassy Creek Methodist Church (1904). [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]
An example in the Country Club District in the late 1960s was 30-year-old, second-generation white Country Club resident William G. Carolan, who was born at the Frankford Hospital in Philadelphia. His great-grandfather was born outside of Kells, Ireland and came to Willow Grove during the Great Hunger.
2829 Bronson Road, which served during 1901-15 as clubhouse of Greenfield Hill Country Club, but which also is associated with agriculture shows, including one showing 52 oxen in 1906, that illustrated agricultural basis of the area; 55 Meetinghouse Lane; 3105 Bronson Road, the Bronson Windmill, separate listed on the National Register