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Bowling Green

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Bowling Green

City and administrative headquarters of Warren County, west-central Kentucky, on the Barren River, 105 km/65 mi northeast of Nashville, Tennessee; population (2000) 49,000. An important market for tobacco, tomatoes, corn, and livestock, it also has meatpacking, clothing, car parts and assembly, and other industries. Western Kentucky University (1906) is here.

Settled in 1780, it was by the mid-1800s a rail and river transportation centre. It was the Confederate state capital until 1862, when Union forces took control.

Bowling Green

City and administrative headquarters of Wood County, northwest Ohio, 32 km/20 mi southwest of Toledo; population (1990) 28,200. It is a trading centre for the surrounding dairy, livestock, and vegetable farming area, and there are meat packing and light manufacturing industries. It is the seat of Bowling Green State University (1910).

Settled in 1832, the city experienced brief but rapid industrial growth after a gusher oil well was struck in 1886.



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He (the Count), however, could not conscientiously refuse to admit the ingenuity, magnificence, and superiority of the Fountain at the Bowling Green, as described by the Doctor.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Then came the public-house, freshly painted in green and white, with tea-gardens and a bowling green, spurning its old neighbour with the horse-trough where the waggons stopped; then, fields; and then, some houses, one by one, of goodly size with lawns, some even with a lodge where dwelt a porter and his wife.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
When they had circumvented the laurel hedge, they came out on a sort of terrace of turf, which fell by one green step to an oblong lawn like a bowling green.
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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