June Holiday Homework -- Street Names and Their Origin by https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26 en-us 2016-06-27 11:17:04 UTC 2017-05-17 09:11:58 UTC hello@padlet.com Q1)What is the chosen street name?Orchard Road lowdexter2003 https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115501718 2016-06-27 11:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115501718 lowdexter2003 https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115502099 2016-06-27 11:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115502099 lowdexter2003 https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115502124 2016-06-27 11:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115502124 lowdexter2003 https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115502151 2016-06-27 11:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115502151 Q3)What is the significance behind the naming of Orchard Road? lowdexter2003 https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115502243 Orchard Road got its name from the nutmeg, pepper and fruit orchards or the plantations that the road once led to. Such plantations were common in the area in the 19th century.Other sources attribute to the name to Mr. Orchard, a gardener and the owner of plantations which were located at the corner of present-day Scotts Road and Orchard Road.]]> 2016-06-27 11:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115502243 Orchard Road,one of the icons of Singapore,is one of the best streets in Asia.With its amazing decoration along the street,not to mention the wide variety of shops located in the shopping centres,it is definitely a major tourist attraction.With over 5000 shops,it is filled with plenty of shops,restaurants and a lot more fun stuff,it is just paradise for everyone! lowdexter2003 https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115503447 2016-06-27 11:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115503447 lowdexter2003 https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115503818 2016-06-27 12:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115503818 Q2)What is the origin of Orchard Road? lowdexter2003 https://padlet.com/lowdexter2003/dexter_low_ting_fong__1a_26/wish/115504517 Orchard Road was already cut in the 1830s, though the new road was not named in George Coleman's 1836 Map of Singapore. In the 1830s the Orchard Road area was the scene of gambier and pepper plantations. Later, nutmeg plantations and fruit orchards predominated, hence its name.
By 1846, the spread of houses had reached up to Tank Road. There were none on the left side and only three or four houses went past Tank Road on the right side of Orchard Road.
One major sight during this period was a Dr Jun(Mr Orchard) tending his garden, which helped endorse the road's name. He had a garden and plantation at the corner of what is now Scotts Road and Orchard Road.
Towards the later part of the 1840s, graveyards began to appear along the road. By 1846, the Chinese had a large graveyard around what is now the Meritus Mandarin Hotel and Ngee Ann City while the Sumatrans from Bencoolen had their burial ground where the current Hotel Grand Central stands. Later a Jewish cemetery was established; it was located where Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station is now and was demolished in 1984.
In the 1860s, Orchard Road had a great number of private houses and bungalows on hills looking down through the valley where the road passed through. Early in the 1890s,King Chulalongkorn, the then King Of Siam, acquired "Hurricane House" in the vicinity of Orchard Road through Tan Kim Sing, the Thai Consul in Singapore. Two further pieces of adjoining property were added later and these subsequently became the site of the Royal Thai Embassy at 370 Orchard Road.
In the early 20th century, it was noted that Orchard Road "present[ed] the appearance of a well-shaded avenue to English mansion[s]," comparable in its "quiet but effective beauty to Devonshire lanes."

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