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The first suburb to be built in Akasia is The Orchards. The Orchards was established as a residential township in 1904 and an old Dutch-Reformed church was in the center of the neighborhood. As the city of Pretoria grew in light of industrial expansion in the 1960s more houses were constructed in the northern semi-rural holdings today known as ...
The Orchards is a suburb of Akasia in Gauteng, South Africa. It is situated to the north west of the Pretoria CBD and borders Rosslyn on its north western corner.
The Messina Orchard is a historic orchard, located in San Jose, California, US. The 4.96 acres (2.01 ha) tract of land has two residences associated with the Messina family. The 4.96 acres (2.01 ha) tract of land has two residences associated with the Messina family.
An orchard is an intentional plantation of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production. Orchards comprise fruit- or nut-producing trees that are generally grown for commercial production. Orchards are also sometimes a feature of large gardens, where they serve an aesthetic as well as a productive purpose. [1]
In 2003, Anthony Orchard and Bruce Maslin filed a proposal to conserve the name Acacia with a different type, in order to retain the Australasian group of species in the genus Acacia. [19] Following a controversial decision to choose a new type for Acacia in 2005, the Australian component of Acacia s.l. now retains the name Acacia.
The Town of Baltimore, on the west side of the Jones Falls, was founded on August 8, 1729, when the Governor of Maryland signed an act allowing "the building of a Town on the North side of the Patapsco River." Surveyors began laying out the town on January 12, 1730. By 1752 the town had just 27 homes, including a church and two taverns. [37]
Orchard with Cypresses (Verger avec cyprès in French) [1] is an 1888 painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. [2] The work was in the collection of artworks of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and was sold at auction on 10 November 2022 by Christie's New York branch [1] for $117.2 million dollars, the highest amount paid for a work by van Gogh.
A 1768 newspaper advertisement for the property mentions a "Negro House," which was constructed to house over 20 slaves, including a blacksmith, a shoemaker, and a mason. [ 33 ] [ 35 ] A 1780 newspaper notice includes a description to aid in re-capturing "Jack," a slave who had escaped ; this notice can be found at the Morristown National ...