Bowling Green
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A bowling green
is a lawn used for playing the game of bowls.
Bowling Green may also refer to:
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Canada
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Bowling green
A bowling green is a finely-laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of lawn for playing the game of lawn bowls.Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep on them...
is a lawn used for playing the game of bowls.
Bowling Green may also refer to:
Places
United States- Bowling Green, FloridaBowling Green, FloridaBowling Green is a city in Hardee County, Florida, United States. The population was 2,892 at the 2000 census. According to the U.S Census estimates of 2005, the city had a population of 2,928...
- Bowling Green, IndianaBowling Green, IndianaBowling Green is an unincorporated town in Washington Township, Clay County, Indiana. It is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area....
- Bowling Green, KentuckyBowling Green, KentuckyBowling Green is the third-most populous city in the state of Kentucky after Louisville and Lexington, with a population of 58,067 as of the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Warren County and the principal city of the Bowling Green, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area with an estimated 2009...
, the largest city in the United States named Bowling Green - Bowling Green, MarylandBowling Green, MarylandThe communities of Roberts Place, Bowling Green & Potomac Park are located along McMullen Highway between Cumberland to the north, Cresaptown to the south, the Potomac River to the east and Haystack Mountain to the west. For many years, the community was mostly farmland but was later divided into...
- Bowling Green, MissouriBowling Green, MissouriBowling Green is a city in Pike County, Missouri, United States. The population was 3,260 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pike County.Ameren's Peno Creek Power Plant, a combustion turbine generator power plant, is located in Bowling Green....
- Bowling Green (New York City)Bowling Green (New York City)Bowling Green is a small public park in Lower Manhattan at the foot of Broadway next to the site of the original Dutch fort of New Amsterdam. Built in 1733, originally including a bowling green, it is the oldest public park in New York City and is surrounded by its original 18th century fence. At...
, a public park in New York City- Bowling Green (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)Bowling Green (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)Bowling Green is a station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at Broadway and Battery Place , in the Financial District of Manhattan...
, a subway station in New York City
- Bowling Green (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
- Bowling Green, OhioBowling Green, OhioBowling Green is the county seat of Wood County in the U.S. state of Ohio. At the time of the 2010 census, the population of Bowling Green was 30,028. It is part of the Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bowling Green is the home of Bowling Green State University...
- Bowling Green State UniversityBowling Green State UniversityBowling Green State University, often referred to as Bowling Green or BGSU, is a public, coeducational research university located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. The institution was granted a charter in 1910 by the State of Ohio as part of the Lowry Bill, which also established Kent State...
, Ohio
- Bowling Green State University
- Bowling Green, South Carolina
- Bowling Green, VirginiaBowling Green, VirginiaBowling Green is an incorporated town in Caroline County, Virginia, United States. The population was 936 at the 2000 census.The county seat of Caroline County since 1803, Bowling Green is best known as the "cradle of American horse racing", the home of the second oldest Masonic Lodge, and the...
, the seat of Caroline County
Germany
- Bowling Green in WiesbadenWiesbadenWiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...
Canada
- Bowling Green, Amaranth, OntarioAmaranth, OntarioAmaranth is a township in Ontario, Canada with a 2006 Population of 3,845. It is named after the plant which grows abundantly within its borders. It is bordered by Mono to the east and East Luther to the west....
- Bowling Green, Chatham-Kent, Ontario
United Kingdom
- Bowling Green, Shropshire
- Bowling Green, West Midlands
Other
- Bowling Green, justice of the peace in Illinois for whom Abraham LincolnAbraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
worked in preparation for his law career.