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Lincoln Oval Village
Oval Park (also known as Lincoln Oval Village or simply The Oval) is a neighborhood in Visalia, California. History Oval Park is Visalia's oldest neighborhood. The first high school in Visalia was located on what is now the Lincoln Oval Park. Webster Grammar School was located in the West Village on Northwest Third Avenue near Pearl Street. It opened in 1917. In 1950, the building was declared unsafe as a school and was later converted into a maintenance shop and storage building. In 1961, fire damaged the structure beyond repair. The Visalia Police Department Substation now sits on the site. Boundaries According to the Oval Park Historical Society (OPHS) There are no official boundaries for Visalia's Oval Park neighborhood. It is documented that the western part of Oval Park was separated from its eastern section by the construction of highway 63. Also, Murray Avenue cut off a large southern section of the neighborhood on its most southern part. History proves, however, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:Category:Neighborhoods In Visalia, California
Geography of Visalia, California Visalia Visalia ( ) is a city in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley of California. The population was 141,384 as per the 2020 census. Visalia is the fifth-largest city in the San Joaquin Valley, the 42nd most populous in California, and 192nd in ... Neighborhoods in Tulare County, California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Village, Visalia
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב maarav 'west' from עֶרֶב erev 'evening'. Navigation To go west using a compass for navigation (in a place where magnetic north is the same dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George McCann Memorial School
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Fresno
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno is a particular church of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in the western region (XI) of the United States, in the State of California. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Geographically, the diocese consists of of the Southern San Joaquin Valley of California, a portion of the Sierra Nevada and some eastern valleys. The diocese consists of all of the Counties of Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, and Tulare. The total population of the diocesan region is about 2.4 million inhabitants, of whom 1,074,944 are registered Catholic as of 2012. For administrative purposes the diocese is sub-divided into five deaneries: Fresno City, Fresno (rural), Tulare/Kings, Kern/Inyo, and Merced/Mariposa. History The see was created in 1967 by splitting the Diocese of Monterey-Fresno into two sees. Historically the area of the current diocese belonged to the Dioceses of Guadalajara, Durango, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redwood High School (Visalia)
Redwood High School (usually abbreviated as RHS) is a secondary school in Visalia, California, United States. The public high school serves students from the north west section of the city. The school serves grades 9 through 12. It is one of four traditional, comprehensive high schools administered by the Visalia Unified School District. Its current enrollment numbers about 2740 students. The school is located at 1001 West Main St Visalia, California 93291. Green Acres Middle School and Ridgeview Middle School feeds into Redwood. Three private schools in the city, Visalia Christian Academy, St. Paul's, and George McCann Catholic School also supply students to Redwood. Lore In 1910, Visalia Union High School was constructed in the style of Mission Revival architecture. The name of the school was eventually changed to Visalia ''Union'' High School. In 1952, this school served as a junior high school for two years when a new high school, Mt. Whitney, was opened a few blo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visalia Unified School District
The Visalia Unified School District is a school district in Tulare County, California. The school district covers an area of 214 miles, and includes 26 elementary schools, a newcomer language assessment center, five middle schools, four comprehensive high schools, a continuation high school, an adult school, a charter alternative academy, a charter independent study school, a K-8 charter home school, and a school that serves orthopedic handicapped students. The VUSD area has a population base of over 135,000 people, over 32,000 of which are served by the school district. VUSD has long-standing investment in Career Technical Education, with over 4,000 students involved in the programs through the four comprehensive high schools as well as Sequoia High School, Visalia Technical Early College and Visalia Charter Independent Study. VUSD offers Career Technical Education pathways in 13 of the 15 industry sectors recognized by the State of California. VUSD offers the following Linked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an Independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the executive branch of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government responsible for providing mail, postal service in the U.S., including its insular areas and Compact of Free Association, associated states. It is one of the few government agencies Postal Clause, explicitly authorized by the U.S. Constitution. The USPS, as of 2021, has 516,636 career employees and 136,531 non-career employees. The USPS traces its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, when Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first United States Postmaster General, postmaster general; he also served a similar position for the colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The United States Post Office Department, Post Office Department was created in 1792 with the passage of the Postal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Post Office
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the U.S., including its insular areas and associated states. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the U.S. Constitution. The USPS, as of 2021, has 516,636 career employees and 136,531 non-career employees. The USPS traces its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, when Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general; he also served a similar position for the colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Post Office Department was created in 1792 with the passage of the Postal Service Act. It was elevated to a cabinet-level department in 1872, and was transformed by the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 into the U.S. Postal Service as an independent agency. Since the early 1980s, man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Village, Visalia
East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east is the direction where the Sun rises: ''east'' comes from Middle English ''est'', from Old English ''ēast'', which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic *''aus-to-'' or *''austra-'' "east, toward the sunrise", from Proto-Indo-European *aus- "to shine," or "dawn", cognate with Old High German ''*ōstar'' "to the east", Latin ''aurora'' 'dawn', and Greek ''ēōs'' 'dawn, east'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin oriens 'east, sunrise' from orior 'to rise, to originate', Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine United States Minor Outlying Islands, Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in Compact of Free Association, free association with three Oceania, Pacific Island Sovereign state, sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Palau, Republic of Palau. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders Canada–United States border, with Canada to its north and Mexico–United States border, with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visalia Heights
Visalia Heights is a third of the Oval Park district of Visalia, California. It is most notable for its impressive well-kept Victorian era residences, although these are small in number. Geography Visalia Heights is bordered by the Oval Park on the north, the East Village on the north-east, Santa Fe Street on the east, Downtown Visalia on the south, Highland Park on the west, and the West Village on the north-west. Its boundaries are roughly the Oval Park on the north, NE First Avenue on the north-east, Santa Fe Avenue on the east, Murray Avenue on the south, and West Street on the west. No major thoroughfares run through the district. The Neighborhood Visalia Heights is the oldest district in Visalia. It was originally connected to the downtown. Like the Oval Park proper, it is known for its odd intersections with the diagonal streets of the East Village and West Village. The district contains several notable examples of Victorian architecture, particularly of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Avenue
Goshen Avenue , also known as Murray Avenue, is one of the principal east–west arterial roads in Visalia, California, United States. It was named after the community of Goshen. The name has a biblical origin and generally has come to mean "land of plenty." Overview Running from Lovers Lane in East Visalia to Highway 99 in the district of Goshen, Goshen Avenue is developed throughout most of its span, connecting neighborhoods in West Visalia and East Visalia to Downtown Visalia. Goshen Avenue follows a railroad spur line that connects Goshen to Visalia. The avenue is four lanes in width from Giddings Street to Road 76, and the portion between Demaree Road and Road 76 has a raised center median with Valley Oak trees planted in the median. Transportation Route 6 of the Visalia Transit runs along Goshen Avenue from the Visalia Transit Center in Downtown Visalia to Highway 99 and Goshen. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
