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• Yard
  treatment of yards varied, as indicated by descriptions of southern paved yards and by William Bartram's account (1791) of Native American swept yards in Cuscowilla
  70 KB (9,898 words) - 18:52, August 12, 2021
• Fence
  provided examples of fashionable designs to be installed in front of suburban yards. Elaborate iron-work fences were particularly popular as enclosures for urban
  105 KB (14,451 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
• Cemetery/Burying ground/Burial ground
  who are interred in them, remained; this location of burial-grounds [or yards located behind a church that was set in a public square] seems to have been
  71 KB (10,152 words) - 10:36, April 6, 2021
• Gate/Gateway
  enabled and marked the transition from one area to another, such as between yards devoted to different activities, between a work space and a more ornamental
  49 KB (6,655 words) - 15:28, August 13, 2021
• William Bartram
  51–53) “PLAN OF THE ANCIENT CHUNKY-YARD. “The subjoined plan. . . will illustrate the form and character of these yards. “A, the great area, surrounded by
  42 KB (5,973 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021
• Pavilion
  Williamsburg Foundation) “. . . netted lawn for Pavillions or [M]usqito Netts—10 Yards each ps at 10d per Yd.” Carroll, Charles (of Annapolis), 1777, describing
  33 KB (4,449 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
• Quarter
  encouraged. The quarter for the enslaved laborers sometimes included gardens and yards where residents could grow produce for their own use or bartering. In written
  27 KB (3,739 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
• Plot/Plat
  used as a bleaching area for cloth recalls the utilitarian associations of yards (view text). Grass plats were not always attached to houses. Large stretches
  54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
• Lake
  Muscogulge and Cherokee Indians (1791; repr., 1928: 101–2, 407) “At about fifty yards distance from the landing place, stands a magnificent Indian mount. . . But
  21 KB (2,936 words) - 13:56, March 16, 2021
• Wall
  n.p.) “the river is backed up by a wall of four feet high, and about 300 yards in length, and above this wall there is as you may suppose the most enchanting
  72 KB (10,638 words) - 16:02, April 1, 2021
• Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane
  private yards, one hundred and seventeen feet wide, and extending two hundred feet from the return wings which form one of their sides. These yards are enclosed
  33 KB (4,371 words) - 21:34, August 25, 2021
• Canal
  of Edmund Quincy, Boston, MA (quoted in Pearson 1980: 6) “. . . about Ten Yards from the House is a Beautiful Cannal, which is Supplyd by a Brook which is
  32 KB (4,191 words) - 10:41, April 6, 2021
• Shrubbery
  its numerous varieties, as shrubs. After an extent of several yards, or hundreds of yards, have been occupied with these two genera, a third and fourth
  81 KB (11,408 words) - 14:15, March 31, 2021
• Walk
  fine statue, symbol of Winter, & age,—& a spacious Conservatory about 200 yards to the West of the Mansion.” Anonymous, January 2, 1808, describing in the
  146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
• Grove
  which was a Chinese temple.” Anonymous, April 17, 1829, “Neglected Grave Yards” (New England Farmer 7: 307) “I wish to call your attention to the subject
  80 KB (11,541 words) - 13:25, April 12, 2021
• Avenue
  Wash-House; these Rows are something wider than the House, & are about 300 yards Long, at the Eastermost end of which is the great Road. . . These Rows of
  89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
• Promenade
  private yards, one hundred and seventeen feet wide, and extending two hundred feet from the return wings which form one of their sides. These yards are enclosed
  21 KB (2,637 words) - 16:57, March 8, 2021
• Prospect
  the soil equal in fertility to any in the world. The river is about eighty yards wide, always confined with in its lofty banks, and rolling down its waters
  57 KB (7,849 words) - 15:06, August 13, 2021
• Temple
  near Philadelphia, PA (1798: 9, 24–25) “At the distance of three hundred yards from his house, on the top of a rock whose sides were steep, rugged, and
  44 KB (5,866 words) - 14:29, April 1, 2021
• Summerhouse
  Wieland, near Philadelphia, PA (1798: 9) “At the distance of three hundred yards from his house, on the top of a rock whose sides were steep, rugged, and
  54 KB (7,141 words) - 13:18, April 12, 2021

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