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Cabbagetown
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Cabbage Town
English
Etymology
From en cabbage town.
Toronto From the 19th-century, when mid-century immigrants from Ireland and the Balkans started growing cabbages in their front yards.
Atlanta From the post-Reconstruction Era, when late-19th-century Appalachian newcomers of Scots-Irish descent moved in, and started growing cabbages in their front yards.
Proper noun
en neighbourhood c/Toronto p/Ontario c/Canada, filled with semi-detached Victorian houses.
en 2014 Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven Picador (2022) 11 Jeevan lived in Cabbagetown, north and east of the theatre.
en neighborhood c/Atlanta s/Georgia c/USA, rebuilt after the American Civil War. A National Register of Historic Places (NRHP-)listed district.
en Cabbage Town.
Related terms
en Cowtown Hogtown