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Abbotsford, WI -- U.S. city in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 1956
Housing Units (2000): 870
Land area (2000): 3.051198 sq. miles (7.902566 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.051198 sq. miles (7.902566 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00100
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 44.946716 N, 90.318333 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54405
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Abbotsford (electoral district)

Abbotsford is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.

Abbotsford

Abbotsford may refer to a place in:

Australia
  • Abbotsford, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia
  • Abbotsford, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia
Canada
  • Abbotsford, British Columbia, a city in Canada
    • Abbotsford (electoral district), an electoral district surrounding the Canadian city
New Zealand
  • Abbotsford, New Zealand, a suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand
South Africa
  • Abbotsford, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa
United Kingdom
  • Abbotsford, West Sussex, a village in West Sussex
  • Abbotsford House, home of Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott, near Melrose, Scotland
United States of America
  • Abbotsford, Wisconsin
  • Abbotsford (Boston, Massachusetts)
Abbotsford (Boston, Massachusetts)

Abbotsford, now the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, is a historic house at 300 Walnut Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The museum is dedicated to black visual arts heritage worldwide, and presents historical and contemporary exhibitions in many media, including painting, sculpture, graphics, photography and decorative arts. The museum is operated by the National Center of Afro-American Artists.

Usage examples of "abbotsford".

He'll be changing the plans and adding rooms-- whole wings--to his dream castle at Abbotsford until the day he dies, I'm sure.

You will, of course, take the stage to Carlisle, then on to Selkirk, where you will find no difficulty in hiring a chaise for the glorious ride to Abbotsford, where all the Scotts will be waiting to greet you with open arms and shared dreams and good talk and more food than anyone needs, to be washed down with more wine and brandy than any man should consume.

Having what passed as breakfast in the low, peeling public room of the tavern downstairs, Anne and John's soaring mood seemed to perk up Willy's own flagging spirit, so that he felt oddly pleased with himself as he made arrangements for a chaise and horse to take them the remaining two or three miles to Abbotsford, where Walter Scott was undoubtedly making preparations this very minute to give them his typical rousing welcome.

Willy himself laughed now, remembering one dinner taken at Abbotsford while the Scotts still lived in a small cottage on the grounds.

All the way from Abbotsford, I believed whatever was up ahead would be--clear and good.

He was trying, too, to find the exact right words to convince her that somehow at Abbotsford they had both begun to be free of all that had been holding them away from one another so that neither had dared to take the happiness that life, through her father, was trying to offer them.

I think I must have begun to want that at Abbotsford, maybe even during the walk I took with Walter Scott our first day there.

CHAPTER 69 Their welcome at Abbotsford in the late morning was exactly as Willy had expected.

John felt rested and yet was somehow still soaring with the curious, high anticipation they'd both sensed, not only during the last few days at Abbotsford butall the way back to London.

A somewhat similar instance is that of the uproar of moving heavy objects, heard by Scott in Abbotsford on the night preceding and the night of the death of his furnisher, Mr.

Jamieson later quarrelled bitterly with Sir Walter, as letters at Abbotsford prove.

I was supposed to take them out to Abbotsford, but everything's closed for the holidays.

It was as if Burns knew the child before him was destined to outsell him, knew the runt would get a knighthood, build Abbotsford and cosy up to the King.