The row of trees along the river front was known as Poplar Avenue.

Houses for essential staff, such as managers who needed to be on call, were provided on Poplar Avenue.

In 1851 a small chapel dedicated to St. Joseph was completed on Poplar Avenue.

He lived at 140-46 Poplar Avenue near Kissena Park in Queens with his wife and three children.

Poplar Avenue is a major thoroughfare through Shelby County and has much commercial development along its route.

Poplar Avenue provides the central east-west thoroughfare of the area, and there are many thriving businesses on and around it.

Some industry, notably Pepsi and Carrier, still dots the areas located south of Poplar Avenue.

In 1981, the main location was moved from downtown to its present location on Poplar Avenue.

Affluent white neighborhoods followed Poplar Avenue from the center farther and father east into the suburbs.

The college eventually moved to Poplar Avenue in 1953, and closed in 1972.