Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The first settlers established farms in the Kersbrook area in the early 1831s due to its relatively gentle slopes. John Bowden, manager of the South Australian Company's dairy farm at Hackney, bought the 32-hectare (79-acre) section 6146, Hundred of Para Wirra, and named it Kersbrook after the Cornish farm where he was born. [3]
A park district is a form of local special-purpose district for providing public parks and recreation in or near its geographic boundaries. Some park districts also own or maintain related cultural facilities such as monuments, zoos, sports venues, music venues, or museums. Park districts are prevalent in the United States.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
In 1903, the Alaska Central Railroad began a rail project north from Seward. The company encountered the most significant geographic obstacles to construction between 47 and 53 miles (85 km) north of Seward, a section known as the "Loop District", where the line would need to cross a high-point in the Kenai Mountains and avoid the paths of two glaciers.
The Delmar Loop–Parkview Gardens Historic District is a historic district in University City, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri. It is roughly bounded by Kingsland Ave., North Dr., Delmar Blvd., and Eastgate. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The listing included 289 contributing buildings. [1]
A Loop Trolley car in the Loop, on Delmar Blvd passing the Tivoli Theatre. The Loop Trolley is a 2.2-mile fixed-track heritage trolley line in the Loop, [6] that links the area with MetroLink and Forest Park attractions, a project that received a $24.9 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration. [7]
Kersbrook Cross is a hamlet in the parish of Linkinhorne (where the population for the 2011 census was included) in Cornwall, England. It is on the B3257 road from Plusha to Callington . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The Chicago Park District oversees more than 600 parks with over 8,800 acres (3,600 ha) of municipal parkland including their field houses, as well as 27 beaches, 78 pools, 11 museums, two world-class botanical conservatories, 16 historic lagoons and 10 bird and wildlife gardens that are found within the city limits. [3]