Many people know that there is a place called The Nursery in Hengyang City, Hunan Province, which is the location of a famous railway area in the country and has a history of more than 80 years.
So, why is this area called a nursery? Is there anything to do with the railway? Here, as a Hengyang railway person who has collected and sorted out hengyang railway data for many years, I would like to make a few comments.
It must be said that this is naturally related to railways. From 1929 to 1936, the Nationalist government organized the construction of the Zhushao section of the Guangdong-Han Railway running through Hengyang. Due to the need to plant trees on both sides of the railway, a small forest farm for the cultivation of saplings by railway was established in the current nursery park near the current Hengyang Nursery Tree, that is, the nursery.
This nursery really has a basis. Because of the establishment of this forest farm, after liberation, it was also retained as a workshop under the jurisdiction of the Hengyang Railway Engineering Section, responsible for the cultivation, planting and management of railway trees within the scope of the former Hengyang Railway Branch, and its address was at the former site of the library of the former Guangdong-Han Railway Administration, that is, opposite the former Hengyang Railway No. 2 Middle School, next to the nursery park. In the early years, the forest farm was changed to a forestry workshop, and later changed to a comprehensive maintenance workshop, and the current nursery park belongs to this workshop management. And this nursery park should have been built after liberation in the lot or foundation of the nursery of the Guangdong-Han Railway Administration.
It can be said that it is because of this railway nursery that after the Guangdong-Han Railway Administration moved here, some railway units and employee family houses were built, forming a residential area, and the nearby area was called the nursery, and the large camphor tree that grew here was also named the nursery tree.
Later, in terms of administrative divisions, it was determined to be a nursery.
Later, some units and places built nearby were also named "nurseries", such as: "nursery square", "nursery post and telecommunications office", "nursery park", "nursery canteen", "nursery health center" and so on.
In 1955, when Hengyang City established an urban street, it also named the 4.76 square kilometers around this forest farm (that is, the nursery), that is, the railway unit southeast of the railway station and the family area, as the nursery street, which governs more than 10 neighborhood committees with "Li" such as Qingquanli, Dongfangli, Serviceli, and Jiankangli, and is now merged into 8 communities.