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Housing Units (2000): 626
Land area (2000): 1.187608 sq. miles (3.075890 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.187608 sq. miles (3.075890 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02188
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.315629 N, 93.583829 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 65604
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ash Grove
Wikipedia
Ash Grove may refer to:
- The Ash Grove, a Welsh folk song.
- Ash Grove (music club) in Los Angeles, California, United States
- Ash Grove (plantation) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States
- Ash Grove Cement Company in Overland Park, Kansas, United States
- Ash Grove, Indiana, United States
- Ash Grove, Kansas, United States
- Ash Grove, Missouri, United States
- Ash Grove Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States
- Ash Grove Township, Shelby County, Illinois, United States
- Ash Grove, Wrexham, Wales
The Ash Grove was a folk music club located at 8162 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, founded in 1958 by Ed Pearl and named after the Welsh folk song, " The Ash Grove."
In its short fifteen years, the Ash Grove forever altered the music scene in Los Angeles and helped many artists find a West Coast audience. Bob Dylan recalled that, "I'd seen posters of folk shows at the Ash Grove and used to dream about playing there...."
The club was a locus of interaction between older folk and blues legends, such as Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Earl Hooker and Muddy Waters, and young artists that produced the 'Sixties music revolution. Among those Pearl brought to the Ash Grove were Doc Watson, Pete Seeger, June Carter, Johnny Cash, Jose Feliciano, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Johnny Otis, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Ian and Sylvia, Kathy and Carol, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, New Lost City Ramblers, The Weavers, The Greenbriar Boys, Lightnin' Hopkins, Luke "Long Gone" Miles, Barbara Dane, Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Rising Sons, Mance Lipscomb, Guy and Candie Carawan, John Jacob Niles, Bukka White, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Shines, John Fahey, Willie Dixon, Lonnie Mack and Kris Kristofferson.
The Limeliters performed at the Ash Grove on July 29, 1960. Their performance was recorded and became the LP "Tonight: In Person - The Limeliters." The group consisted of Lou Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev and Glen Yarbrough; quoting from the back cover of the album, "You leave the Ash Grove convinced your friends were right. This group IS great." Lee Shito, The Billboard
Ash Grove is an 18th-century plantation house in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. In 1790, Bryan Fairfax built Ash Grove on Leesburg Pike, 2 miles west of Tysons Corner, Virginia for his son, Thomas Fairfax.
Ash Grove is said to have been named for an older Fairfax family house in England. In his later years, Thomas Fairfax bought Vaucluse Plantation, near Alexandria, Virginia, and bestowed Ash Grove upon his second son, Henry. He married Caroline Herbert of Maryland, and they had several children, and operated a boarding school for young ladies.
Following Captain Henry Fairfax's death during the Mexican–American War, at Saltillo, Mexico, on August 14, 1847, the property was purchased by James Sherman on June 20, 1851.
Descendants on occasion relate some interesting family lore of American Civil War events when the neighborhood was a "no man's land."
James Sherman died in Spring 1865, and left the property to his son, Franklin Sherman (February 11, 1843 - April 9, 1915), Lieutenant in the 10th Michigan Cavalry. He returned after the Civil War to farm, was Sheriff, member of the Board of Supervisors, and School Board. (A Fairfax County Elementary School is named for him.) The property passed to Wells Alvord Sherman, and then Wilson C Sherman.
The house was purchased from the Sherman family in 1997, and dedicated as a Fairfax County, Virginia, park.
Usage examples of "ash grove".
We sat our horses in a yellow dawn on the crest of one of the hills overlooking Penmachno and saw what I had foreseen in the embers: warriors lying dead upon a hillside thick with spears like an ash grove.
Fallow pointed to the distant ash grove, set in a vale between three low-lying hills.
Without a further thought on the matter I put on my housecoat and slippers and struck out toward the ash grove.
The red flame in the ash grove waved erratically once or twice, then went out.
Watching from the shelter of an ash grove, Flagg witnessed a curious sight.
From an ash grove by the lake she could hear the haunting, sweet cry of the cuckoo.
And as I drew near the homestead I saw a light in the little ash grove that was behind the garth.
When Sligyn sat down in the relative privacy of the ash grove, he realized that he ached all over, and that his wind was going fast.
Later that day they halted in a quiet place, an ash grove, far from the clearing where the battle had taken place.
A small puff of greyish smoke drifted out of the ash grove as if someone had tossed a dirty cauliflower out of it in slow-motion.