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Beehives became so popular in Denver, Milwaukee and New York that those cities - which previously had banned beekeeping, in part, because of folks were afraid of the stinging insect - lifted their restrictions.

From Washington Times • Mar. 26, 2018

Beehives are the new ant farms, it seems.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2011

Photographed by Henry Troth facing 394 Beehives under the Trees.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

Beehives in the well-stocked gardens were filled with honey, and the straw-thatched barns had their doors thrown wide open, as though waiting to receive the harvest.

From Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5. by Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes)

Beehives is a good, straightforward sort of a name, sir, and it serves my turn.”

From We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty