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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Orchard (redirect from Hort-yard)
walled, or so curiously inclosed as Gardens. . . “Orchards, or Hort-yards Ort-yards, are inclosed pieces of Ground planted chiefly with Standards Fruit-Trees

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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

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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

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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

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State House Yard
ground; Seat; Shrubbery; Square; View/Vista; Walk; Wall; Yard Other Resources: LOC; The State House Yard in Philadelphia was dedicated as a public green in the

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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

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Samuel Vaughan
garden, Lawn, Mall, Mound, Seat, Shrubbery, Square, View/Vista, Walk, Wall, Yard Other resources: Library of Congress Name Authority File; Export as RDF Samuel

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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

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Timothy Dwight
their court-yards.” Dwight, Timothy, 1799, describing New Lebanon, NY (1821–22: 3:149) “Their church, a plain, but neat building, had a court-yard belonging

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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

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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

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Bower
“Rosamund’s bower was near where is now a little grove, about two hundred yards from the palace. The well is near where the bower was.” Cutler, Manasseh

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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

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Noah Webster
ortegard; that is, wort-yard, a yard for herbs. The Germans call it baumgarten, tree-garden, and the Dutch boomgaard, tree-yard. See Yard.] “An inclosure for

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Obelisk
51—53) “PLAN OF THE ANCIENT CHUNKY-YARD. “The subjoined plan. . . will illustrate the form and character of these yards. [Fig. 7] “A, the great area, surrounded

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