Buttonwood


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Buttonwood or Buttonwoods may refer to:

  • "Buttonwood", a finance column in The Economist
  • Buttonwood Agreement, 1792 effort to organize securities trading that created the predecessor of the New York Stock Exchange

Plants

  • Conocarpus, a genus of flowering plants native to tropical regions of the world
  • Platanus, a genus of tree species native to the Northern Hemisphere
  • Glochidion, a genus of flowering plants distributed from Madagascar to the Pacific Islands

Places

  • Buttonwood, Pennsylvania, a village along Pennsylvania Route 284
  • Buttonwood Corners, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
  • Buttonwood Covered Bridge, a covered bridge in the US state of Pennsylvania

Institutions

  • Buttonwood Park Historic District, a historic district in New Bedford, Massachusetts
  • Buttonwood Park Zoo, a zoo in New Bedford, Massachusetts
  • Buttonwoods Beach Historic District, a historic district in Warwick, Rhode Island
  • Buttonwoods Museum, a museum in Haverhill, Massachusetts
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