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Shorewood Forest is located 6 miles (10 km) west of Valparaiso, the county seat. U.S. Route 30 , the Lincoln Highway , forms the northern boundary of the CDP. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.8 km 2 ), of which 1.9 square miles (4.9 km 2 ) is land and 0.35 square miles (0.9 km 2 ...
The area of Sherwood Forest had a subdivision of large estates with small ranches and one to a couple of acres of land with tall trees; the main thoroughfare, Parthenia Street, was lined with cedar trees and the subdivision was named Sherwood Forest by realtors.It had the residences of multiple local celebrities like character actor Walter Brennan, Lloyd Bridges, Jim Davis, Richard Pryor who ...
Although the bridge is named after former Louisiana governors Huey P. Long and Oscar K. Allen, it is known locally in the Baton Rouge Area as "the old bridge". [3] It was the only bridge across the Mississippi in Baton Rouge from its opening until April 1968, when the Horace Wilkinson Bridge ("the new bridge") carrying Interstate 10 opened.
The Episcopal School of Baton Rouge is a private, college-preparatory, coeducational day school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Founded in 1965, it has approximately 900 students residing in East Baton Rouge Parish and surrounding areas, [1] and has a student/teacher ratio of 10:1. [2] The school serves students in grades PreK-3 through 12.
The RM of Sherwood No. 159 incorporated as a rural municipality on December 11, 1911. [2] The RM was named after the Sherwood School District No. 460, which itself was named after Sherwood, Ontario, where some of the early settlers to the area originated from. [5]
The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (SRY) was a British Yeomanry regiment. In 1967 it was amalgamated with other units to form the Royal Yeomanry (RY), a light cavalry regiment of the Army Reserve . Originally raised as the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1794, the regiment was used on several occasions in the 19th century to maintain law and order.
Lake Sherwood, originally Potrero Lake, is the oldest man-made lake in California.It was built in 1904 and is approximately 165 acres (0.67 km 2).It was changed to Lake Sherwood when the surrounding areas, used for the filming of "Robin Hood" starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., in 1921, became known as "Sherwood Forest" and "Maid Marian Park."
Woodlawn's original campus was on Tiger Bend Road in Baton Rouge. The original school house and its accompanying buildings were unknowingly constructed on top of the Baton Rouge fault line and as a result the buildings were continuously moving. Cracks in the school were investigated in 1975 and estimates of 5 millimeters (0.20 in) per year. [13]