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Woodruff (other)
Woodruff may refer to: People *Woodruff (surname) *Woodruff (given name) Places In the United States: Buildings * Woodruff Hall, Athens, Georgia * Charles Woodruff House (other), several places * Woodruff-Riter-Stewart Home, Salt Lake City, Utah Communities * Woodruff, Arizona * Woodruff, Idaho * Woodruff, Indiana * Woodruff, Kansas * St. Charles, Kentucky, formerly known as Woodruff * Woodruff, Missouri * Woodruff, South Carolina * Woodruff, Utah *Woodruff, West Virginia * Woodruff, Wisconsin, a town * Woodruff (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Woodruff Place, Indianapolis, Indiana Engineering * Woodruff key, a type of key used on machinery Counties * Woodruff County, Arkansas Parks and preserves * Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge, Florida * Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta, Georgia Schools * Woodruff High School (Peoria, Illinois) * Woodruff High School (Woodruff, South Carolina) Streams * Woodruff Creek, in San Mateo County, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodruff (surname)
Woodruff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Abraham O. Woodruff (1872–1904), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and son of Wilford Woodruff * Blake Woodruff (born 1995), actor * Bille Woodruff, video and film director * Bob Woodruff, an American journalist * Bob Woodruff (American football) former University of Florida and Baylor University head football coach * Bob Woodruff (singer), American country musician * Bobby Woodruff (born 1940), former professional footballer * Brandon Woodruff, American baseball pitcher * Carle Augustus Woodruff (1841–1913), U.S. Army brigadier general and Medal of Honor recipient * C. E. Woodruff, American reverend, educator, and college football coach * Chris Woodruff (born 1973), American tennis player * Christian B. Woodruff (1828-1871), New york politician * D. P. Woodruff, British physicist * Dwayne Woodruff (born 1957), American football player * Elvira Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodruff (community), Wisconsin
Woodruff is a census-designated place in the Town of Woodruff in Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States. __TOC__ Description Woodruff is located at the junction of U.S. Route 51, Wisconsin Highway 70, and Wisconsin Highway 47 northwest of Rhinelander. Woodruff has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ser ... with ZIP code 54568. As of the 2010 census, its population is 966. Woodruff has a hospital, the Howard Young Medical Center. See also * List of census-designated places in Wisconsin References External links Census-designated places in Oneida County, Wisconsin Census-designated places in Wisconsin {{OneidaCountyWI-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asperula
''Asperula'', commonly known as woodruff, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains 194 species and has a wide distribution area from Europe, northern Africa, temperate and subtropical Asia to Australasia. Species * '' Asperula abbreviata'' (Halacsy) Rech.f. * '' Asperula abchasica'' V.I.Krecz. * '' Asperula accrescens'' Klokov * '' Asperula acuminata'' I.Thomps. * '' Asperula affinis'' Boiss. & A.Huet * '' Asperula albiflora'' Popov * '' Asperula ambleia'' Airy Shaw - Stiff woodruff * '' Asperula apuana'' (Fiori) Arrigoni * '' Asperula arcadiensis'' Sims * '' Asperula aristata'' L.f. * '' Asperula arvensis'' L. - Blue woodruff * '' Asperula assamica'' Meisn. * '' Asperula asterocephala'' Bornm. * '' Asperula asthenes'' Airy Shaw - Trailing Woodruff * '' Asperula azerbaidjanica'' Mam * '' Asperula badachschenica'' Pachom. * '' Asperula baenitzii'' Heldr. ex Boiss. * '' Asperula balchanica'' Bobrov * '' Asperula baldaccii'' (Halacsy) Ehrend. * '' Asper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galium Odoratum
''Galium odoratum'', the sweet woodruff or sweetscented bedstraw, is a flowering perennial plant in the family Rubiaceae, native to much of Europe from Spain and Ireland to Russia, as well as Western Siberia, Turkey, Iran, the Caucasus, China and Japan. It is also sparingly naturalized in scattered locations in the United States and Canada. It is widely cultivated for its flowers and its sweet-smelling foliage. A herbaceous plant, it grows to long, often lying flat on the ground or supported by other plants. It owes its sweet smell to the odoriferous agent coumarin, and is sometimes used as a flavouring agent due to its chemical content. Description The leaves are simple, lanceolate, glabrous, long, and borne in whorls of 6–9. The small (4–7 mm diameter) flowers are produced in cymes, each white with four petals joined together at the base. The fruits are 2–4 mm diameter, produced singly, and each is covered in tiny hooked bristles which help disperse them b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodruff Creek
Woodruff Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary to La Honda Creek, which in turn is tributary to San Gregorio Creek. 09-20-07 References See also *List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area
These watercourses (rivers, creeks, sloughs, etc.) in the San Francisco Bay Area are grouped according to the bodies of water they flow into. Tributaries are listed under the watercourses they feed, sorted by the elevation of the confluence so tha ...
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Woodruff High School (Woodruff, South Carolina)
Woodruff High School is a public secondary school in Woodruff, South Carolina, United States, and is the only high school in Spartanburg County School District 4. History The original Woodruff High School was built in 1908 on East Georgia Street. The next high school was built in 1925 in downtown Woodruff. It is a Collegiate Gothic building designed by Frank H. Cunningham and Joseph G. Cunningham. The building cost $50,000 at the time, and is nearly ; the building includes a 600-seat auditorium. This building was the high school until 1953; it then became a junior high school until the 1960s, and an elementary school after that. The City of Woodruff bought the school and converted it into the city hall and police station in 1978. The building was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodruff High School (Peoria, Illinois)
Woodruff Career and Technical Center is a public vocational school located in Peoria, Illinois. Until 2010, it was a standard comprehensive high school known as E. N. Woodruff High School, and was more commonly known as Woodruff High School or simply Woodruff. The original high school opened in 1937 and was closed for one school year (2010–2011), reopening as a specialized high school with its current name. History Woodruff opened in 1937 replacing Kingman High School. (Kingman had formerly been named Averyville High School, prior to Peoria's annexation of Averyville in 1927.National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section 7 Page 8; accessed 15 January 2010) The school was named after Edward Nelson Woodruff, who served as mayor of Peoria off and on from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodruff Park
Woodruff Park, named for Robert W. Woodruff, is located in the heart of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The park's are north of Edgewood Ave, between Peachtree Street NE and Park Place NE. The park includes a fountain, a performance pavilion, and several monuments. History The original between Peachtree Street, Edgewood Avenue, Pryor St. (now Park Place) and the Candler Building were purchased anonymously by Mr. Woodruff then donated to the city in 1971 and the first incarnation of the park, Central City Park, opened in 1973. It was later revealed that Robert W. Woodruff had donated the funds for the park and it was renamed in his honor in 1985. In 1995, during the lead-up to the Centennial Olympic Games, the International Peace Fountain was constructed in the park. Woodruff Park has been the site of many demonstrations and rallies. Phoenix statue A bronze sculpture, Atlanta from the Ashes (The Phoenix), depicts a woman releasing a phoenix, a symbol of Atlanta's rise from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge
The Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge is part of the United States National Wildlife Refuge System, located in north central Florida, twenty-five miles west of Daytona Beach, off U.S. Highway 17 in DeLeon Springs. Description The refuge was opened in 1964 in order for both migrating and wintering birds to have habitats. In 1982, the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center reported that the refuge included 18,400 acres of water. The refuge currently has over 30,000 acres of water, which includes marshes and swamps. Activities for visitors include boating, hiking, and wildlife viewing. Bodies of water are managed so that only desired plants grow. Law enforcement officials are present in order to protect the animals and plants. Touring by boat is the only way to explore a large part of the refuge. The Lake Woodruff Wilderness Area is part of the refuge, and consists of or 4.9% of the Refuge's total area. Alligators, bald eagles, and limpkins are among the wildlife that can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodruff County, Arkansas
Woodruff County is located in the Arkansas Delta in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The county is named for William E. Woodruff, founder of the state's first newspaper, the Arkansas Gazette. Created as Arkansas's 54th county in 1862, Woodruff County is home to one incorporated town and four incorporated cities, including Augusta, the county seat. The county is also the site of numerous unincorporated communities and ghost towns. Occupying only , Woodruff County is the 13th smallest county in Arkansas. As of the 2010 Census, the county's population is 7,260 people in 3,531 households. Based on population, the county is the second-smallest county of the 75 in Arkansas. Located in the Arkansas Delta, the county is largely flat with fertile soils. Historically covered in forest, bayous and swamps, the area was cleared for agriculture by early settlers. It is drained by the Cache River and the White River. Along the Cache River, the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) runs no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodruff Key
In mechanical engineering, a key is a machine element used to connect a rotating machine element to a shaft. The key prevents relative rotation between the two parts and may enable torque transmission. For a key to function, the shaft and rotating machine element must have a keyway and a keyseat, which is a slot and pocket in which the key fits. The whole system is called a keyed joint. A keyed joint may allow relative axial movement between the parts. Commonly keyed components include gears, pulleys, couplings, and washers. Types There are five main types of keys: ''sunk'', ''saddle'', ''tangent'', ''round'', and ''spline''. Sunk key Types of sunk keys: ''rectangular'', ''square'', ''parallel sunk'', ''gib-head'', ''feather'', and ''Woodruff''. Parallel keys ''Parallel keys'' are the most widely used. They have a square or rectangular cross-section. Square keys are used for smaller shafts and rectangular faced keys are used for shaft diameters over or when the wall thickness o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodruff Place, Indianapolis
Woodruff Place is a neighborhood in Indianapolis located about a mile east of Downtown Indianapolis. It was established in the 1870s by developer James O. Woodruff as an early suburb of Indianapolis. Woodruff Place's boundaries are: 10th Street on the north, Woodruff Place West Drive on the west, Michigan Street on the south, and Woodruff Place East Drive on the east. This community was an independent municipality and maintained autonomy, even as the City of Indianapolis grew and expanded around the neighborhood, enclosing the community well within the city limits. Woodruff Place was incorporated in 1876 and remained an independent town until 1962 when it became one of the final municipalities to be annexed by the City of Indianapolis prior to the merger of city and county governments in 1969. Woodruff Place is bounded on the west by the campus of Arsenal Technical High School, which opened in 1912 on the former site of the Indianapolis Arsenal, and which still uses several hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
