Comments on: City Orchards http://www.locohistory.org/blog/albemarle/2007/03/09/city-orchards/ One faces the future with one's past — Pearl S. Buck Fri, 18 May 2012 15:57:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Steve T. http://www.locohistory.org/blog/albemarle/2007/03/09/city-orchards/#comment-1266 Steve T. Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:43:21 +0000 http://www.locohistory.org/blog/2007/03/09/city-orchards/#comment-1266 Orangedale Ave = orange groves in C'ville? Don't think so. Orange Dale was an early 19th-century, ca. 500-acre property in this area owned by James Dinsmore, one of the University's principal builders. (Look at the Green Peyton map). I expect, though don't know, that the significance of the name lies in Dinsmore's Northern Ireland, Protestant origins. Steve Orangedale Ave = orange groves in C’ville? Don’t think so. Orange Dale was an early 19th-century, ca. 500-acre property in this area owned by James Dinsmore, one of the University’s principal builders. (Look at the Green Peyton map). I expect, though don’t know, that the significance of the name lies in Dinsmore’s Northern Ireland, Protestant origins.
Steve

]]> By: Lynn Rainville http://www.locohistory.org/blog/albemarle/2007/03/09/city-orchards/#comment-22 Lynn Rainville Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:24:52 +0000 http://www.locohistory.org/blog/2007/03/09/city-orchards/#comment-22 Bill - That is fascinating. I've never seen an "arbitrary" designation on a Sanborn street name before. Thanks for the contribution! --Lynn Bill - That is fascinating. I’ve never seen an “arbitrary” designation on a Sanborn street name before. Thanks for the contribution! –Lynn

]]> By: bill emory http://www.locohistory.org/blog/albemarle/2007/03/09/city-orchards/#comment-21 bill emory Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:22:30 +0000 http://www.locohistory.org/blog/2007/03/09/city-orchards/#comment-21 Lynn- addtionally it seems that Sanborn favored arbitrary fruit names when a street was just a dog-trot, not possessed of a formal name. Check out the url below. In this case they assigned the name Lemon to Steephill Street, a "paper street" that exists to this day in the Woolen Mills village. Orange street was just up the road... http://www.historicwoolenmills.org/notes/lemon_street.html Lynn- addtionally it seems that Sanborn favored arbitrary fruit names when a street was just a dog-trot, not possessed of a formal name.

Check out the url below. In this case they assigned the name Lemon to Steephill Street, a “paper street” that exists to this day in the Woolen Mills village. Orange street was just up the road…

http://www.historicwoolenmills.org/notes/lemon_street.html

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