Cottage Hill

Cottage Hill, Indiana

Cottage Hill is a location in Posey Township, Clay County, Indiana. It is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area. The settlement was home to the Van Buren, Indiana post office for a brief period in the 1830s. The site hosted Cunningham's Tavern in the first half of the 19th century, when the National Road carried much of the traffic between Terre Haute and Indianapolis. The tavern was reportedly a stopping point for the likes of Henry Clay, Martin Van Buren, and Abraham Lincoln. The location also hosted a training racetrack for horses. The Cottage Hill Cemetery, opened 1876, was a stop on the Brazil, Indiana street railway in the 1890s, and some successor lines.

Cottage Hills, Illinois

Cottage Hills is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Illinois, United States. In 2018, the Cottage Hills ZIP Code area served a population of 3,604. Cottage Hills is west of Bethalto, north of Rosewood Heights, east of East Alton, and is a part of the Greater St. Louis. Cottage Hills has a post office with ZIP Code 62018. Between 1915 and 1980 a railway under the name of St. Louis Division Old Line used to pass through the community. Similar to most communities in Madison County, Cottage Hills is a bedroom community.

Cottage

A cottage during England's feudal period was the holding by a cottager of a small house with enough garden to feed a family and in return for the cottage, the cottager had to provide some form of service to the manorial lord. However, in time cottage just became the general term for a small house. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cosy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location and not necessarily in England. The cottage orné, often quite large and grand residences built by the nobility, dates back to a movement of "rustic" stylised cottages of the late 18th and early 19th century during the Romantic movement.

Hill

A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct summit, and is usually applied to peaks which are above elevation compared to the relative landmass, though not as prominent as mountains. Hills fall under the category of slope landforms.

cottage

Noun

1. A small house.
2. A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.

Verb

1. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
2. To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.

hill

Noun

1. An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
2. A sloping part of a landscape, especially one with a road, trail, etc.

Verb

1. To form into a heap or mound.
2. To heap or draw earth around plants.