<p>Melakwa Lake is a lake in King County, Washington. The name Melakwa comes from a Chinook term for "mosquito". It is located along the Pratt River just below the river&#39;s true source.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>It is off of I-90 and can be accessed from the Denny Creek trail head. It is accessible via a moderate, all-day hike from Denny Creek to Melakwa Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Characteristics</h2><br>
<p>The lake is located in a narrow valley, with Chair Peak to the east and Kaleetan Peak to the west, and is usually accessible by late June. It is known for its clear water and beautiful blue-green color. A short scramble up the talus slope on the north end of the lake leads to Melakwa Pass, where views of Gem Lake, Glacier Peak, and the North Cascades are visible on clear days.</p><br>
<p>Rock Island is a wooded island off the tip of Wisconsin&#39;s Door Peninsula at the mouth of Green Bay, in Door County, Wisconsin. The 974.87 acre  uninhabited island is almost entirely owned by the Wisconsin DNR, which maintains Rock Island State Park. It is the northernmost part of the town of Washington.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Rock Island was originally settled by Native Americans. European explorers and missionaries used it as one of several stops along the Grand Traverse route between upper Michigan and Wisconsin. The island was home to the first permanent European settlement on the Door peninsula, a small fishing village on the eastern shore. The settlers later relocated to nearby Washington Island, leaving the original village abandoned. On the North shore of the island you can still find the grave markers of some of the original villagers.</p><br>
<p>The island became a navigational landmark in 1836 following the construction of the Potawatomi Lighthouse on the northern tip.</p><br>
<p>In 1910 wealthy inventor Chester Thordarson purchased 775 acre of the island. 30 acre on the southwest side of the island were cleared in 1920 and Thordarson began construction of a summer estate. His large boathouse, which is decorated in with characters from the Norse Runic alphabet, is open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The Wisconsin DNR purchased the island and buildings from Thordarson&#39;s heirs in 1965. Today the only other landholder on the island is the US Coast Guard, which maintains an automated navigation light near the old lighthouse.</p><br>
<h2>Lighthouse</h2><br>
<p>The Rock Island Lighthouse was one of several the government had constructed at the time, and the woodworking around the door frames and windows are from these plans. The main structure is two stories, four including the basement and lantern room. The main two floors have walls of foot-thick limestone, while the lantern room is surrounded only by wood. The lighthouse also includes a summer kitchen, which the lighthouse keepers would use during the warmer months. This room is currently used as a gift shop and makeshift kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The lighthouse has been restored to its original condition by the Friends of Rock Island State Park including obtaining a replica of the Fresnel lens used in the original light. In the summer, volunteer docents give tours, staying for a week at a time. There is no running water or electricity in the lighthouse, but one room is heated.</p><br>
<h2>Carvings</h2><br>
<p>On Rock Island, there are carvings made by workers helping build the Thordarson buildings that can still be seen today.</p><br>
<h2>Plant life</h2><br>
<p>Rock Island has flowers such as Trillium, Jack in the Pulpit, and Lady&#39;s Slipper in abundance, as well as other plants, such as Cow Parsnip, Indian paintbrush, and poison ivy. The non-native Icelandic Thyme was planted on the island by Thordarson.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Rock Island can be reached via a passenger ferry named the Karfi from Washington Island. No vehicles, including bicycles, are permitted on the island.</p><br>
<p>The Sidmouth Rock is a rock islet or small island, located in the Southern Ocean, off the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is situated approximately 28 km south-east of South East Cape and is contained within the Southwest National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site. An erosional remnant of the Tasmanian mainland with a diameter of 90 m, the island is estimated to have separated from the Tasmanian mainland at least 15,000 years ago.</p><br>
<h2>Location and features</h2><br>
<p>The Sidmouth Rock is located approximately 2 km east of Eddystone, another islet located off the South East Cape.</p><br>
<p>The islet is frequently wave-washed and supports no land-dwelling life.</p><br>
<h3>Important Bird Area</h3><br>
<p>Together with the nearby Eddystone and Pedra Branca islets, Sidmouth Rock constitutes the 2 hectare Pedra Branca Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports over 1% of the world populations of shy albatrosses and Australasian gannets.</p><br>
<p>Lefkotopos  is a village in the municipal unit of Achinos, Serres regional unit, Central Macedonia, Greece. It has 311 inhabitants . In Lefkotopos is situated the KEP  of the municipal unit of Achinos.</p><br>
<p>The village was founded in 1922, by Pontic Greeks, also by Greek inhabitants of North-East Anatolia ("Pontus"), an area whose population has been Greek since the early Greek history, and who were expelled from their homes in 1922, by the Turks.</p><br>
<p>The inhabitants of the village are mostly farmers who grow tobacco, olives, vegetables, fig tree fruits, organic products (almonds, nuts) and herbs.</p><br>
<p>The club of the former inhabitants of the village, who now live in Thessaloniki, organize on 28 August of every year (this is the day before the holy day of Saint Ioannis Prodromos, to whom the newly built village church is devoted).</p><br>
<p>The distance of the village from the sea (Amphipolis / Egnatia Odos is approximately 35 km, from Serres 40 km, from Kavala 55 km and from Thessaloniki 90 km.</p><br>
<p>The Bantry Bay is a bay located in the Garigal National Park in Middle Harbour within Sydney Harbour, in New South Wales, Australia. A spectacular view is found at the end of the Bluff Track. The track starts at the end of Grattan Crescent Frenchs Forest. There is a steep but beautiful walk down to a wharf on the bay. It was named after Bantry Bay in Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>Aboriginal occupation of the area is evident through the abundance of middens along the foreshore.</p><br>
<p>The Warringah Shire Council minutes of 4 January 1907 reveal how unpopular was the government&#39;s proposal to take over Bantry Bay, which was a very popular recreation area for many residents of Sydney, and had been visited regularly by day trippers since the 1840s, but by 1910 work on the construction of the new explosives magazines at Bantry Bay had commenced.</p><br>
<p>Bantry Bay was used to store military explosives. The storage complex consisted of nine explosives magazines which replaced old hulks that had been used to store explosives in nearby Powder Hulk Bay on Sydney Harbour. In 1915 the works were handed over to the state Explosives Department, which regulated the explosives industry in NSW. In 1973 operations at Bantry Bay were discontinued and the facility was closed.</p><br>
<p>The estuary is known to be a habitat for bull sharks, and two fatal shark attacks occurred in the bay in 1942.</p><br>
<p>The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service currently maintains the site and in 2003 announced it would invest 350,000 in restoring the aging roofing. As of 2006 the site remained closed to the public due to old explosive contamination at the site. However, there are good views of the site from the eastern side of Bantry Bay, which can be accessed from the Timbergetter&#39;s track, which starts at Seaforth Oval. Walking tracks also go around the west side of the magazines, providing access from the nearby residential area of Killarney Heights.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the creation of Garigal National Park, the area had been preserved for some time as a reserve of 250 hectare, which was listed on the Register of the National Estate.</p><br>
<p>Lake Beloye or White Lake , is a lake in the northwestern part of Vologda Oblast in Russia. Administratively, the lake is divided between Belozersky District  and Vashkinsky District  of Vologda Oblast. The town of Belozersk, is located on its coast. In terms of area, Lake Beloye is the second natural lake of Vologda Oblast , and the third lake also behind the Rybinsk Reservoir. It is one of the ten biggest natural lakes in Europe.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The basin of the lake includes parts of Belozersky, Vashkinsky, Babayevsky, and Vytegorsky Districts of Vologda Oblast, as well as minor areas in Kargopolsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast. Most of the basin lies north of the lake, in the Andoma Hills, and includes smaller lakes, many of them being of glacial origin. These lakes include Lake Kovzhskoye, Lake Kemskoye, Lake Kushtozero, Lake Sholskoye, Lake Druzhinnoye, and, south of Lake Beloye, Lake Lozskoye.</p><br>
<p>The lake has an approximately round shape with a diameter of 46 km. Its area is 1,130 km&sup2, and the area of its basin is 14,000 km&sup2;. Lake Vozhe drains into the Sheksna River, which is a tributary of the Rybinsk Reservoir of the Volga River. The Sheksna flows out of the eastern corner of the lake. The main tributaries of Lake Beloye are the Kovzha, the Kema, and the Megra.</p><br>
<p>The lake and the Belozersky Canal around it are a part of the Volga–Baltic Waterway. The Belozersky Canal was constructed to connect the Sheksna and the Kovzha Rivers in order to bypass Lake Beloye, where sometimes strong wind occur. The canal follows the southern and the western coasts of the lake.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to the Primary Chronicle, Sineus, a brother of Rurik, became the prince of Beloozero in 862. If this would be correct, Belozersk would be one of the oldest towns in Russia. However, most likely Sineus never existed, and the earliest archaeological data in or around Belozersk belong to the 10th century. In the 10th-13th centuries the area was controlled by the Novgorod Republic, then in the 13th century it was part of the Principality of Beloozero, and in the 14th century it entered the Grand Duchy of Moscow. The Mariinsk Canal system was constructed in the early 19th century, and after the reconstruction in the 20th century it became the Volga–Baltic Waterway.</p><br>
<p>Presanella is a mountain in the Adamello-Presanella range of the Italian Alps of northern Italy. Presanella has an elevation of 3,558 meters and is located in the Adamello Brenta National Park within the Trentino province of Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing history</h2><br>
<p>Presanella may have first been climbed by surveyors in 1854. Eduard Pechmanns 1865 has Presanellas height with two digits precision (1878.26 Viennese Klaster or 3,562.1 m), which in this list indicated that a measurement was taken from the summit during the trigonometric survey, which for Presanella was done in 1854. This possible ascent is otherwise unrecorded.</p><br>
<p>In 1862, the Viennese jurist :de:Anton von Ruthner and the guides Kuenz from Martell and Delpero from Vermiglio ascended the 3043 m Passo di Cercen to the West of Presanella. They attempted the western summit (Cima di Vermiglio, 3458 m), then considered the highest by the people from Vermiglio, but failed to reach the summit, partly because Delpero did not have glacier experience. Only three weeks later, on 17 September 1864, the Austrian explorer Julius Payer and his guide Girolamo Botteri stood on the summit, finding there to their surprise and disappointment a cairn built by Freshfield&#39;s party. Payer, Botteri and a second guide (either one Bertoldi or Giovanni Caturani, who gave up before the summit) had approached the mountain from the opposite side, starting in the Rocchetta valley, and climbing the Southeast ridge in a storm.</p><br>
<p>The first people to ascend Presanella over the steep North side were Johann “Kederbacher” Grill and Bonifacio Nicolussi guiding Bruno Wagner and Edward Kratky. On 4 August 1881, over a period of 13 hours, they climbed over the Presanella glacier to the Bocca di Presanella and ascended the Northeast ridge. The first ascent over the 550 m North face was by the Aostan climbers Emilio Brocherel, Ugo Croux and P. Arici in 1906.</p><br>
<p>Mafadi  is a peak on the border of South Africa and Lesotho. At a height of 3,450 m, it is the highest mountain in South Africa, but is lower than Thabana Ntlenyana, the highest peak in Lesotho which is, at 3,482 m, the highest point in Southern Africa. Mafadi lies at S 29 12 08.4 E 29 21 25.5 in the WGS84 format.</p><br>
<h2>Ascent</h2><br>
<p>Ascents of Mafadi, attempted from the South African side, are normally made from the Njesuthi campsite. The route involves about an eight-kilometre hike to Marble Baths. This is followed by continuing up the river and with a combination of short paths and boulder hopping. This all ends at the bottom of the ridge, which leads to the Molar, with a campsite. The subsequent path up the ridge to the top of the mountains is known as Leslies Pass. The path follows the ridge until below a rocky band where it traverses to southern side. The way continues up a short scree section, followed by more hiking up quite a steep gradient, until the final 20 metres are made up a grassy slope. From here, the top of Leslies Pass (at S 29 09 12.7 E 29 20 38.0), the top of the mountains are followed to Mafadi.</p><br>
<p>A route referred to as the Corner-Leslies Loop is becoming a popular way of reaching Mafadi. It entails hiking to Centenary Hut in Injisuthi Nature Reserve on day 1, ascending Corner Pass and climbing Mafadi on day 2, descending Leslie&#39;s Pass on day 3 and reaching the car park on day 4.</p><br>
<h2>Disputed name</h2><br>
<p>The name of Mafadi (which literally means the Mother of Fadi) is currently under dispute, its original Sotho name Ntheledi (which means "Makes me slip", referring to the nearby stream) being considered by some to be more relevant and correct.</p><br>
<p>Valentown is the name of an abandoned shopping center located in Victor, New York. The structure was built in 1879 by Levi Valentine and is operated today as a museum. It is included on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The three-story structure was built in 1879 by Levi Valentine as the central commercial and community building of a new town to be created by Valentine and named "Valentown". Valentines motive was a forthcoming railroad line that was to travel past the building. However, Mr. Valentines forward-thinking plan yielded an unfortunate result when the railroad company went bankrupt and did not complete the line. With no demand for a commercial center in the location, Valentown quickly failed as an enterprise and was abandoned.</p><br>
<p>In 1940, local historian J. Sheldon Fisher purchased the property and opened Valentown as a museum. The property is owned and operated today by the Victor Historical Society as a local history museum, with artifacts of 19th century life of the Victor and Rochester, New York area.</p><br>
<p>Majority of the inside of the building remains in the same condition and setup as it was when it was originally built. It contains a general store, meeting room, bakery, harness shop, cobbler&#39;s shop, music school, railroad/troller/telegraph office, ticket office, grand ballroom, and multiple display cases filled with early flags and military apparel. It also contains Civil War artifacts, costumes & hats galore, farm implements and household utensils, candle making molds, spinning wheels, railroad & trolley memorabilia, blacksmith tools, paintings, old maps, and much more. It also contains a wagon from the 1700s which was used in the American Revolutionary War</p><br>
<p>Fisher remained the owner of Valentown until 1998, when the Victor Historical Society, a non-profit organization, bought the museum, its collection, and approximately 14 acres. The organization also bought the Ichabod Town Homestead built in 1835, the early 1800s schoolhouse, and additional buildings.</p><br>
<p>Gowbarrow Fell  is a low fell in the English Lake District. It is an outlier of the Eastern Fells, standing to the north of Ullswater, bounded on one side by Aira Beck with its waterfall Aira Force, a popular attraction for visitors to the area.</p><br>
<p>In previous centuries the fell was part of a medieval hunting-park, Gowbarrow Park, which belonged to the lords of Greystoke. The fell, along with 750 acres of the park, were bought by the National Trust in 1906.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>The fell is a wedge-shaped piece of high ground, about 2 km by 1.5 km in extent. The highest parts are on a short ridge which extends from Norman Crag in the north-west corner (above Thorneythwaite Farm), over Airy Crag, the actual summit (481 m), several other knolls, Green Hill (437 m) and down to Yew Crag in the south-east corner.</p><br>
<p>A north-east trending ridge parallel to Ullswater continues the high ground over the subsidiary tops of Great Meldrum (437 m), Little Meldrum (404 m) and Watermillock Fell (424 m, unnamed on Ordnance Survey maps) to connect with Little Mell Fell at a col called The Hause (c. 380 m). To the north west another low col (c. 280 m) near Baldhowend Farm connects Gowbarrow Fell to the easterly trending ridge from Great Dodd via High Brow and Cockley Moor.</p><br>
<p>Gowbarrow Fell is bounded by Aira Beck on the west which separates it from Watermillock Common and the foothills of Hart Side. This flows down from the rolling fells of the Dodds, through the village of Dockray, and then turns south into Ullswater. The beck drops 140 m between Dockray and the lake over a number of waterfalls, including High Force and Aira Force. Aira Force is one of the most photogenic sites in the Lake District. The falls and the main body of the fell are owned by the National Trust. The site has easy access from the A592 road and a series of paths with two stone bridges at the head and foot of the falls make it a popular place with visitors.</p><br>
<p>To the north the fell is bounded by a basin of low land, drained by tributaries of the Thackthwaite Beck, through the gap between Great and Little Mell Fells, and then via the Dacre Beck into the River Eamont.</p><br>
<p>To the south the fell is bounded by Ullswater. The southern slopes of the fell are wooded, providing a picturesque backdrop for views over Ullswater. Above this is a fringe of rock, the main feature being Yew Crag at the south-eastern corner of the fell. The woodlands and crags continue eastwards beneath Great and Little Meldrums. The rocky spur of Gate Crags and Birk Crag juts out from Little Meldrum toward the lake. To the east the fell is bounded by lower land which drains directly into Ullswater.</p><br>
<h2>Summit</h2><br>
<p>The top of the fell is a broad plateau with a number of small rocky knolls rising above areas of heather and bog.</p><br>
<p>The summit is the rocky Airy Crag, on which an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar has been built. This now bears a National Trust plaque, reflecting the ownership of the land. Views from here include the two Mell Fells, Blencathra and the Northern Fells, and the northern parts of the Helvellyn range including the Dodds. This summit is set back to the north of the fell, about 1.6 km from the shore of Ullswater, limiting views of the lake though the fells beyond it and up the Patterdale valley can be seen.</p><br>
<p>Better views of the lake may be had from Green Hill (437 m), the southern summit.</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>Gowbarrow Park is owned by the National Trust and is Open Access land. Quite a number of paths lead up and around the fell, and access to the fell may be gained from a number of places around its perimeter. As a result, quite a variety of routes is possible on the fell.</p><br>
<p>The main National Trust pay-and-display car park on the A592 road (at its junction with the A5091) has facilities and is popular with visitors heading for Aira Force. Two other (free to NT members) car parks along the A5091 road also give access to the waterfall and the fell. From the village of Dockray a public footpath begins opposite the Royal Hotel and gives the shortest route to the summit (1 mile). Another footpath begins at Ulcat Row to the north of the fell.</p><br>
<p>A track from The Hause, where some car parking is possible, gives access from the east via Great Meldrum. Another approach from the east is the Kirkstile footpath, from the minor road above Watermillock church. This path runs below Little and Great Meldrum, through the conifer plantation in Swinburn&#39;s Park, and then contours along the steep eastern and southern slopes of the fell, giving delightful views over Ullswater on its way to Aira Force.</p><br>
<p>It is also possible to approach from the south, from a very tiny layby on the A592 road, and up Yew Crag.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The rocks of Gowbarrow Fell were formed during the Ordovician period, roughly 460 million years ago. Two major groups of Ordovician rocks are represented on and around the fell: the Skiddaw Group and the Borrowdale Volcanic Group.</p><br>
<p>On the lower ground around the southern and eastern edges of the fell, faulting has exposed an inlier of mudstones from the Skiddaw Group.</p><br>
<p>The higher ground of the fell is composed of flows of andesite lava, belonging to the Birker Fell Andesite Formation, a part of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group. These rocks are part of a thick succession of lava sheets found around the western and northern sides of the Lake District. They were formed by eruptions of mobile lava from shallow-sided volcanoes. They are a little younger than the Skiddaw mudstones, which they overlie.</p><br>
<p>The oldest of the volcanic rocks, at the base of the Birker Fell formation, occur uniquely on Little Meldrum and to the south of it, along the western edge of Birk Crag. These belong to the Little Meldrum Tuff Member, and were formed as volcanic ash, some with droplets of lava among it, was thrown out of volcanoes during explosive eruptions of viscous and highly gaseous magma. The result is tuff and lapilli-tuff, with volcanic pyroclasts from the Skiddaw Group.</p><br>
<h2>Names</h2><br>
<p>Gowbarrow Fell: Fell seems to have been a later addition to the fells name, which was recorded as Golbery (about 1250) and Golebergh (1294). This probably means windy hill from Old Norse gol, a gust of wind, a breeze, and Old Norse berg, a rocky hill&#39;.</p><br>
<p>Fell is a local dialect word with several meanings, from either Old Norse fell, hill, mountain, or Old Norse fjall, mountainous country. Fell is very common in Lake District place-names, some of which are ancient, but many are much more modern.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Gowbarrow Fell stands within Gowbarrow Park, a medieval hunting park and part of the lands of Greystoke Manor.</p><br>
<p>Greystoke was granted to Forne, son of Sigulph, by king Henry I (reigned 1100 to 1135), according to a testament dated 1212. It is not clear whether this was a new grant, or a reconfirmation of Fornes existing holding of lands held by his father Sigulph in pre-Norman times. Fornes daughter Edith was one of Henry I&#39;s mistresses, and his son Ivo built the first stone tower at Greystoke Castle in 1129.</p><br>
<p>In a source of 1418 Matterdale was referred to as a forest, that is a hunting ground.</p><br>
<p>The Howard family succeeded to the estate of Greystoke in 1571. The land appears to have remained a hunting ground, for in the late seventeenth century a visitor remarked that it contained more deer than trees. William Hutchinson recorded in 1794 that the Park covered about 2000 acres and was stocked with six or seven hundred head of fallow deer Crosthwaite&#39;s map of 1783 shows the boundaries of the park extended from Gowbarrow Hall to Glencoyne Bay. The high stone wall surrounding this land is still in good repair.</p><br>
<p>A century later, Charles Howard, the 11th Duke of Norfolk, built Lyulphs Tower as a hunting lodge not far from Aira Force, on the site of a former Pele Tower. Its name is probably a form of Sigulph (other variants include Ulf, Lulf, Lyulph, Ligulf), the ancestral owner of the land, from whom the lake, Ullswater, may also be named.</p><br>
<p>William Wordsworth walked through the park at Gowbarrow with his sister Dorothy on 15 April 1802. She was struck by the daffodils growing on the west side of Gowbarrow, beside the shore in Glencoyne Bay, and in her Grasmere Journal she wrote: When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side... I never saw daffodils so beautiful... Her words inspired William to write his poem, I wandered lonely as a cloud (often known as Daffodils) two years later. William also wrote three poems inspired by Aira Force, including The Somnambulist.</p><br>
<p>The Howard family landscaped Gowbarrow Park during the nineteenth century, planting over half a million trees, building bridges and creating paths around Aira Force. In 1846 they planted an arboretum below the waterfall.</p><br>
<p>Then in 1906 the National Trust acquired 750 acres of the Park to safeguard it from proposed house building.</p><br>
<p>The fell is grazed by sheep rather than deer today, but evidence of former deer hunting remains in the substantial stone wall surrounding the fell, as well as old shooting boxes and stalkers&#39; huts.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Gershom Craft House , also known as Pomona Farm, is a historical house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, across the Delaware River about 2 miles from Trenton, New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>The house is as excellent an example of Federal style architecture as is found in Bucks County, combining the vernacular with Federalist ideals of proportion and decoration. The four main rooms of the house are each approximately 18 ft square by nine feet high. Ninety percent of the woodwork and hardware in the house are original.</p><br>
<p>Its original owner and builder, Trenton businessman Gershom Craft, built the house and surrounding 84 acre farm as a summer home. Craft planted over 100 different species of fruits on the farm and named it after the Roman goddess of fruit trees, Pomona. Craft was influential in business and politics at the local level, owning a Federalist newspaper and being involved in the Trenton Water Works and Trenton Banking Company.</p><br>
<p>The farm was subdivided in 1911 and annexed to the Borough of Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It is one of only two houses in Morrisville on the National Register, the other being Summerseat, host to General George Washington during the days leading up to the Battle of Trenton. The Gershom Craft House now sits on a heavily landscaped.75 acre lot. Also included on the property are a smokehouse, carriage house, and wood frame shop.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places of the United States in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Cosmeston Lakes Country Park is a public country park in Britain, owned and managed by. It is situated between Penarth and Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, 7.3 miles  from Cardiff. On 1 May 2013 the country park was designated a Local Nature Reserve LNR. Parts are Sites of Special Scientific Interest. The park, visitor centre and cafe are open all year round.</p><br>
<h2>General</h2><br>
<p>The main feature at this country park are the two large lakes divided by a bridge on the main footpath mile road.</p><br>
<p>The country park has a variety of habitats covering over 100 hectares of land and water, with some areas designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (S.S.S.I) protecting the rare and diverse plant and animal species.</p><br>
<p>Within the country park Cosmeston Medieval Village can be found. The reconstruction of this 14th-century village, discovered during the landscaping of the park, has been described as the best of its kind in Britain.</p><br>
<h2>Park history</h2><br>
<p>The park is located on land that was once the enclosed fields of croft farms. The farming would have been poor because of the combination of underlying limestone with being kept permanently wet by many natural springs.</p><br>
<p>Opened in the 1880s the site was a commercial limestone quarry operation owned by the British Portland Cement Manufacturers and later Blue Circle. The quarries here provided limestone for the large cement works that stood until 1970 on the site of the present Cosmeston housing estate opposite the country park. The peak year of production was 1962, when 175,000 tons of cement were manufactured. The famous ‘Dragon’ brand of cement was used to produce many of the early paving slabs laid in Penarth. The works finally shut in November 1969. Blue Circle stated it was not possible to upgrade the old plant to increase production any further, nor extend the existing quarries, which were closed in June 1970. The only factory building left standing today is the Harvester restaurant. Once quarrying ceased two of the excavated sites were used for landfill and the remaining two naturally flooded creating the lakes that are seen today. More information is available on the history of the Portland Cement Company at.</p><br>
<p>The park was subsequently developed through funding from the Countryside Commission and opened in 1978. A circular path was created around the lake, with boardwalks constructed over the wetland areas. It was during the laying of the paths, thinning of dense undergrowth and general landscaping that the remains of the former village were found, excavated and developed into a visitor attraction.</p><br>
<p>The park shares its eastern boundary with the historic Glamorganshire Golf Club.</p><br>
<h2>Facilities</h2><br>
<p>Facilities at the park include extensive carparking, coach parking, picnic benches, adventure play area, facilities for cleaning boats after being on the water, bbq areas for hire plus an information centre with cafe and ice cream kiosk. The lake is populated by a wide range of water fowl, including swans, mallards, grebes and coots etc. The Eastern half of the lake is open for hire to non motorised water sports clubs affiliated with the Vale of Glamorgan Council.</p><br>
<p>The Ranger Service</p><br>
<p>Cosmeston Lakes Country Park offers an environmental education programme to primary schools and other groups all year round. The education programme is run by the Ranger Service and offers children a chance to take part and appreciate their natural surroundings while learning about the environment.</p><br>
<p>Bobotov Kuk  is a peak in northern Montenegro. At 2,523 m, it is the highest peak in the Durmitor mountain range and had been thought to be the highest point in Montenegro. New surveys have shown there are three higher peaks on the border with Albania. Most Montenegrin mountains are visible from Bobotov Kuk, among them Lovćen , Kopaonik and Tara , Maglić .</p><br>
<p>The first recorded ascent of Bobotov Kuk was in 1883 by an Austrian cartographer, Oscar Baumann. The first organized mountaineering group from Zagreb came to Durmitor in 1926. In 1931 two Austrians completed the first winter ascent from Bezimeni Vrh.</p><br>
<h2>Peak and surroundings</h2><br>
<p>The northern and eastern sides of the compact summit pyramid, which is around 200m high, rise above steep scree slopes that descend into a large rocky basin, Valoviti Do, at around 2000 to 2100m. This basin is strewn with huge boulders and partially covered with snow the whole summer. The western side of Bobotov Kuk is most impressive. Together with Bezimeni Vrh and Djevojka peaks, Bobotov Kuk (which is between them) form A large mountain wall and a type of natural amphitheatre. This wall is around 400m high and almost 2 km wide. Below this well are immense scree slopes, equally high, that descend steeply towards the bottom of the Skrka valley, which contains both Veliko Skrcko Jezero (1686m) and Malo Skrcko Jezero (1711m) lakes. This is reputed to be the most beautiful part of the Durmitor Mountain Range. On the south side, Bobotov Kuk drops steeply towards the basin of Zeleni Vir (2028m) lake. Zeleni Vir is found at the bottom of an amphitheater, about which a wall made up of the peaks Bobotov Kuk, Lucin Vrh, Minin Bogaz (2387m) stretch. South of the lake is Zupci (2309m), a string of cliffs that resemble the teeth of some dangerous dinosaur. The lower 300m of this side of Bobotov Kuk is mix of steep rocky terrain with lots of grass and scree. Above it is the summit pyramid.</p><br>
<h2>Short history</h2><br>
<p>Due to its isolated position, wild surroundings and volatile history of the continued struggle for Montenegrin liberation, Durmitor and its highest peak were not discovered (either scientifically or touristically) until the mid-1800s. The first scientist was Amie Boue who wrote about the geology of Durmitor in his book ‘Geological Excursion in Turkish Europe’ in 1840. In 1883 Bobotov Kuk was first climbed by Dr. O.Baumann. Those were years of more intensified scientific research of the Durmitor region. In 1895 German geographer Kurt Hussert wrote the first book about the physical geography of Durmitor. At the end of the 19th century, Serbian botanist Josip Pancic discovered many endemic and rare floral species in the region. Extraordinary karst phenomena on Durmitor were first described by Serbian scientist Jovan Cvijic, who later became known for his "Das Karstphanomen" dissertation from 1893. The volatile early history of the 20th century prevented further research. The first organized mountaineering group visited Durmitor in 1926. They were members of Sljeme club from Zagreb, Croatia. In the same year the first ascents of the eastern face of Bobotov Kuk were achieved. In 193, two Austrians, Bauer and Obersteiner, climbed the first winter ascent via NW ridge of Bezimeni Vrh and some other peaks. In 1933 a group of Slovenian climbers first ascended the highest faces of the Durmitor range, those of Bezimeni Vrh and Bobotov Kuk above Skrka valley. A team of Slovenians also ascended the first winter climbs on the faces of highest peaks of Durmitor in 1940. Only after the II World War did Durmitor become a well known destination for tourists, hikers, climbers and skiers.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing Bobotuv Kuk</h2><br>
<p>The point of departure is from Zabljak, a resort town with all the amenities for a comfortable stay. Zabljak can be easily reached by a direct bus from the capital, Podgorica. From Zabljak itself the route to the peak is well marked with clear signposts and trail markings. It is approximately a 10-hour round trip as long as a moderate pace is maintained. The outward walk consists of approximately 4 – 5 hours hiking until the last ascent where it is a scramble to just below the peak. From there, climbers are directed to a slightly perilous path that winds its way up to the summit. Climbers should be aware that this is a strenuous hike, appropriate only for fit hikers. A thoroughly detailed and easy to follow description of the route and other treks in Montenegro can be found in the book by.</p><br>
<p>Áhkká , also known in its "Swedified" form Akka, is a massif in the southwestern corner of Stora Sjöfallet National Park in northern Sweden.</p><br>
<p>The massif has twelve individual peaks and ten glaciers, of which Stortoppen is the highest at 2,015 m. This peak is the eighth-highest in Sweden. Most notable is that the mountain has a vertical drop of 1,563 m, from the top of the highest summit down to the lake Akkajaure in the valley below, which is located at 453 m. This is the highest vertical drop found in Sweden. Since the lake below the mountain is regulated by a hydroelectric power station, its surface can drop down to 423 m, which makes the mountain&#39;s vertical drop rise to a maximum of 1,593 m (5,226 ft). Due to the large level differences and the fact that the massif is well held together and rather isolated, it has an impressive appearance, earning it the nickname Queen of Lapland. In the Sámi tradition it is a holy mountain, and some hikers regard it with a sense of awe and mystique.</p><br>
<p>The historical Winchester Lookout, located in the North Cascades in the USA state of Washington, provides views of the Northern Picket Range, Mount Baker, Mount Shuksan, Mount Larrabee, and Canadian peaks. The steep snowfields usually require an ice-axe well into July. The Twin Lakes road may not be passable to the trailhead which will add 2 mi to the hike. Volunteers from the Mount Baker Club maintain the lookout with 2 work parties per year.</p><br>
<p>The lookout is open to the public for day or overnight use on a first-come first-served basis. Fires are not permitted at all.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Winchester Mountain was named in the early 1900s by prospector Jack Post for the rifle he was carrying. This L-4 cab fire lookout was built in 1935 and staffed until 1966. The lookout was slated for demolition when in 1982 the Mount Baker Club, led by Gary Haufle, worked out a deal with the Forest Service to restore the lookout. The Forest Service provided the materials and the club provided all of the labor.</p><br>
<h3>National Register</h3><br>
<p>The lookout was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1987, and is also on the National Historic Lookout Register.</p><br>
<p>Winchester Mountain Lookout (added 1987 - Structure - #87001188)</p><br>
<h2>Visiting</h2><br>
<p>The lookout is generally inaccessible from early October until mid summer due to snow. If you plan to spend the night in the lookout be aware that it may be occupied when you arrive. There are areas outside the lookout to pitch a tent, or sleep under the stars with no tent. There are 2 bunks in the lookout for overnighters. Propane may be available, provided by the club, but all visitors should arrive prepared with the essentials. A snowfield that lasts late into the summer is behind the lookout and provides a water source. Boil all water.</p><br>
<h3>The Trail</h3><br>
<p>The trailhead for trail #685 to the top of Winchester Mountain is located between the two Twin Lakes. The steep trail, with a 1,300 ft elevation gain, starts in beautiful tall treed forest with fantastic wildflower filled clearings and climbs high into the rough windswept and delicate alpine. There are two very narrow sections of trail with long drops that require sure footing are not for the faint of heart. The trail is 2.1 mi one-way and rated "more difficult" by the USA Forest Service.</p><br>
<p>The lookout is located within the Mount Baker Wilderness area. Wilderness area regulations restrict group size to no more than 12 persons.</p><br>
<h3>The Road</h3><br>
<p>The trail head is accessed by the Twin Lakes Road (Forest Service #3065 in the North Fork Nooksack area) off of the Mt Baker Highway. The first 4.5 mi to the Tomyhoi Lake/Yellow Aster Butte trailhead is well maintained. The remaining 2 mi of road is not maintained and can only be driven at about 5 - by 4x4 vehicles with high clearance. The unmaintained portion of road is often washed out in the early part of the season and is only fixed up by the miners at the Lone Jack Mine, provided they decide to operate the mine that year based on the price of gold.</p><br>
<p>Neal and Dixon’s Warehouse in Mullins, Marion County, South Carolina, was built circa 1926 for J.S. Neal, C.O. Dixon, and J.H. Dixon, Sr. The virtually unaltered warehouse is a typical example of traditional tobacco warehouse construction. It is also important in the history of tobacco marketing in the area. At the time of its construction Neal and Dixon’s Warehouse was said to be one of the largest and most modern warehouses in South Carolina. In the 1926 season, the warehouse employed over 800 people.</p><br>
<p>The -story, common bond brick building has a metal-covered gable roof, with a number of skylights. There are stepped parapets on the front and rear elevations. The front windows are six-over-six with concrete lintels and sills. There are eight arched loading bays on the side elevations. Arched drive-throughs are located on the front and rear. The front drive-through was enlarged.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on August 3, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Villa Zorayda  is a house at 83 King Street in St. Augustine, Florida. Built in 1883 by the eccentric Boston millionaire Franklin W. Smith as his winter home, it was inspired by the 12th-century Moorish Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. Smith named it "Villa Zorayda", after one of the princesses in Washington Irvings Tales of the Alhambra. The building and part of Franklin Smith&#39;s art and antique collection were sold to Abraham Mussallem, a rug and antiquities merchant originally from Syria, in 1913. On September 23, 1993, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. The Villa Zorayda Museum is still owned by the Mussallem family and contains the original art and antique collection assembled by Franklin Smith and Abraham Mussallem.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Franklin W. Smith was an amateur architect Smith&#39;s concrete mix, which used crushed coquina shells as an aggregate, and his method of pouring it in successive levels, was adopted by Henry Morrison Flagler, a Standard Oil partner and Florida developer, for his nearby hotels and churches on an even grander scale. Villa Zorayda could also be considered the first example of fantasy architecture in Florida.</p><br>
<p>Smith was an early member of the Republican Party, and danced with his wife at Abraham Lincoln&#39;s inaugural ball in 1861. He was also a founder of the Boston YMCA, and was involved in many reform efforts and schemes for public improvement in the course of his long life. He is buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One block east of Villa Zorayda is the largest building Smith constructed in St. Augustine, the Casa Monica Hotel (later purchased by Henry Flagler and renamed the Cordova Hotel).</p><br>
<p>In addition to its intended purpose as a private residence, the Villa Zorayda has been used as a restaurant, a nightclub and gambling casino, and a hotel. The building underwent renovations beginning in 2003 and reopened to the public in 2008. Audio tours are available in English, Spanish, and French. Audio tours provide an extensive overview of the history of the building, the importance of the building to St. Augustine, Florida, and the entire antique and art collection inside. The museum is open daily</p><br>
<h2>The Collection</h2><br>
<p>The Villa Zorayda Museum contains intricate interior details, including most notably work in cast plaster with ground alabaster matching that of the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. These alabaster and plaster reliefs are referred to as traceries or arabesques and are replicas of walls in the Alhambra Palace. The saying, "There is no conqueror but God", the same phrase reproduced in the tracery of the Alhambra, is inscribed in Arabic script above the front entrance. The architecture of the building is accompanied by fine detail including hand painted wood panels and tiles, intricately designed fire places and doorways, and geometric shaped windows and stained glass. The collection also includes hand-pierced brass lamps from Damascus and other parts of the Middle East, Oriental rugs, sculptures, carved furniture, decorative tiles, and Egyptian artifacts.</p><br>
<p>Whitehall is a historic home located at Aiken, South Carolina. It was constructed about 1928 for Robert R. McCormick, one of the owners of the Chicago Tribune. The house was designed by Willis Irvin of Augusta, who won a Gold Medal for Domestic Work at the 1929 Southern Architectural Exhibition with its design. The one-story, brick, U-shaped house was built on the foundation of an earlier, two-story house that had been destroyed by a fire. It is believed that some of the ornate interior woodwork came from the home of John C. Calhoun’s daughter. Whitehall gets its name form the old Whitehall estate on the ruins of which this house was constructed. Whitehall is a Georgian Revival residence. Each of the three sections has a gabled roof. The two projecting wings are pedimented and have a boxed cornice with block modillions, round vents and Doric pilasters at the corners. The central section features a pedimented Doric portico sheltering a central entrance with a semicircular fanlight and sidelights. A Doric entablature extends across the central section. Fenestration is regular six over six with dentiled architraves. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 27, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The residential area now surrounding this house was once part of the estate of Robert R. McCormick.</p><br>
<p>The Mountain Lake Estates Historic District is a USA historic district , located north of Lake Wales, Florida, off the US 27A Scenic Highway.</p><br>
<p>Mountain Lake Estates was first developed in the 1920s as an exclusive residential area created "to attract the nations business elite". The developers hired Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to design the community. Such wealthy and widely known people as Edward W. Bok (long-time editor of Ladies Home Journal and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author), August Heckscher (benefactor of the Heckscher Museum of Art), and Irving T. Bush (of Bush Terminal, Bush Tower, and Bush House fame) subsequently became early "snowbirds" and established winter homes in or near Mountain Lake Estates.</p><br>
<p>The district contains 65 historic buildings, including two previously listed on the National Register: El Retiro Estate (today renamed "Pinewood" and part of the landmark Bok Tower Gardens) and Mountain Lake Colony House. Noted architect Wallace Neff, known for his celebrity clients&#39; mansions in southern California (see for example Pickfair), designed one home within Mountain Lakes Estates, one of his few commissions outside California.</p><br>
<p>Mission Revival, Colonial Revival, and other "revival" styles of architecture are most common. House lots within the historic district can be sizable; as an example, Irving T. Bush&#39;s estate covered five acres (about 2 hectares).</p><br>
<p>Tel Maresha  is the tell  of the biblical Iron Age city of Maresha, and of the subsequent, post-586 BCE Idumean city known by its Hellenised name Marisa, Arabised as Marissa . The tell is situated in Israel&#39;s Shephelah region, i.e. in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains. It was first excavated in 1898-1900 by the British archaeologists Bliss and Macalister on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund and again after 1989 by Israeli archaeologist Amos Kloner on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The majority of the artifacts of the British excavation are to be found today in the Istanbul Archaeology Museums.</p><br>
<p>This site is now protected as part of Bet Guvrin-Maresha National Park and recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Iron Age to Hellenistic Period</h3><br>
<p>Maresha was one of the cities of Judah during the time of the First Temple and is mentioned among the conquests of the ancient Israelites in the Book of Joshua and later in the Books of Chronicles as one of King Rehoboams fortifications. According to the Madaba Map, Maresha was the place "whence came Micah the Prophet." In the 6th century BCE, as result of Zedekiahs rebellion against the Babylonian kingdom and its king Nebuchadnezzar II, the latter occupied the Judean kingdom and sent many of its inhabitants into exile. This marked the end of Maresha as a Judahite city.</p><br>
<p>Following these events, Edomites who had lived east and south of the Dead Sea migrated to the area. Hence, from the Persian rule and throughout the Hellenistic kingdoms&#39; rule in the region (6th – 1st century BCE), Maresha was part of the area known as Idumea, a Hellenised form of Edom.</p><br>
<p>Maresha emerged as a major Idumean city and with the conquest of the region by Alexander the Great the city was settled by retired Greek soldiers as was then custom. Thus Maresha developed as a Hellenistic city encompassing a multitude of Greek and oriental cultures including Sidonians and Nabataeans. With the advent of Hellenisation, the settlement pattern changed, as most everywhere in the region, and the city expanded far beyond the constraints of the fortified, raised tell or mound of Iron Age Maresha.</p><br>
<h3>Decline and fall</h3><br>
<p>The city began its decline during the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire (2nd century BCE) when the city was used as base to combat the rebels.</p><br>
<p>Following the rebellion and its success, it is believed that John Hyrcanus conquered the city in 112 BCE, forcibly converting its inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>In 63 BCE, as part of the arrangements made by Pompey in the region, Maresha, along with all of Edom, was separated from the Jewish kingdom and returned to Idumea. In 47 BCE Julius Caesar then annexed the city to Judea.</p><br>
<p>Maresha was finally destroyed in 40 BCE by the Parthians as part of the power struggle between Antigonus of the Hasmoneans who had sought their aid and Herod, who was a son of the converted Antipater the Idumaean and was being supported by the Romans.</p><br>
<h3>After Maresha: Beth Gabra/Eleutheropolis</h3><br>
<p>After the demise of Maresha, the neighbouring Idumean/Jewish town of Beth Gabra or Beit Guvrin succeeded it as the main settlement in the area. Shaken by two successive and disastrous Jewish revolts against Roman rule in the 1st and 2nd centuries, the town recovered its importance only at the beginning of the 3rd century when it was re-established as a Roman city under the new name of Eleutheropolis. By the time of Eusebius of Caesarea (d. 340 CE), Maresha itself was already a deserted place: he mentions the city in his Onomasticon, saying that it was at a distance of "two milestones from Eleutheropolis".</p><br>
<h3>Modern era</h3><br>
<p>The Palestinian Arab village Bayt Jibrin, standing on the site of ancient Eleutheropolis, was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In 1949 Kibbutz Beit Guvrin was established on part of Bayt Jibrin&#39;s lands. Most of the archaeologically important areas of ancient Maresha and Beit Guvrin/Eleutheropolis are now part of the Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>Less than 10 percent of the caves on Tel Maresha have been excavated. Located some 1,300 feet above sea level, the ground is chalky and soft, lending itself to the digging of caves which were used as quarries, burial grounds, animal shelters, workshops and spaces for raising doves and pigeons. Many of the caves are linked by an underground maze of passageways.</p><br>
<h2>Tel Maresha and national park</h2><br>
<p>Today Maresha is part of the Israeli national park of Beit Guvrin. Many of the ancient citys olive presses, columbaria and water cisterns can still be seen. Furthermore, Archaeological Seminars, under the license of the Israel Antiquities Authority, conduct excavations of Mareshas many quarried systems and invite visitors to participate.</p><br>
<p>The Stetson University Campus Historic District in DeLand, Florida was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 1991. The district is bounded by Michigan Avenue, North Florida Avenue, West University Avenue and a line South from North Hayden Avenue. It contains 10 historic buildings and one historic structure.</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth Hall is Stetson Universitys signature building, a stately building of patterned brick rising three stories, with a four-story central brick pavilion topped by a snowy white cupola. In the early days the tower contained a water tank, which supplied the campus with water until city water became available. In 1915 the Eloise bell chimes replaced the water tank, but they were moved in 1934. The first major building on campus built by Stetsons early benefactor, Philadelphia hat manufacturer John B. Stetson, it is named for his wife, Elizabeth. The south wing contains a 786-seat chapel, with a magnificent German-made Beckerath 2,700-pipe manual organ surrounded by stained glass windows. The chapel is dedicated to Stetsons son Ben, who died at the age of 6. Elizabeth Hall was the first campus building to be wired for electricity during construction. Total construction cost for the 1892 central portion and two 1897 wings was $125,000 - more than the combined cost of all other Florida higher education buildings to that date. The chapel remains Stetsons main concert hall, and is often used by lecturers as well. Those appearing on its stage have included: William Jennings Bryan, Basil Rathbone, Robert Frost, Jimmy Carter, Andres Segovia, Ralph Nader, Desmond Tutu, Julian Bond, and Buckminster Fuller. Stetson&#39;s School of Music also stages about 100 concerts on its stage each year, and brings a variety of visiting musicians as well, adding greatly to the cultural offerings of the community. Elizabeth Hall was renovated in 1991 and 2001, and is in excellent condition..</p><br>
<p>Saint Mark&#39;s Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, at 1625 Locust St, Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an Episcopal church in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. It is part of the Diocese of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was founded in the mid-19th Century as part of the Tractarian Oxford Movement revival in the Anglican Church. The building was built by John Notman in the Gothic Revival style between 1847 and 1849, based on an original design by English architect Richard Cromwell Carpenter. The tower was designed by Notman, and completed in 1865 by George Hewitt. The Main entrance with polychromed figurers depicting "Christ in Majesty" are part of the portal designed by Milton Bennett Medary of the Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary firm in 1923. The Lady Chapel was designed by Cope and Stewardson in the late decorated Gothic style. It was built in 1900; the ceiling is the first known example in the US of a stone vault. Both construction of the chapel and its furnishings were donated by Rodman Wanamaker in memory of his late wife. Because of its architectural quality and significance, the building has been designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL).</p><br>
<p>The church contains several ornaments by Charles Eamer Kempe; the Lady Chapel was originally decorated entirely according to Kempes designs. When it was later redecorated, the altar was moved to the head of the north aisle to become the St. Johns Altar. The polychromed figures were moved throughout the church, while the original stained glass remains in place. The church also has several Kempe frontals, representing a significant proportion of the surviving embroideries from that firm, some of which are still in occasional use. The Lady Chapel now contains a world-renowned silver altar with nearly 150 individually sculpted saints and scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary. It is humorously said of this altar that it is "The only place where one can worship both God and Mammon at the same time."</p><br>
<p>The tower is one of about fifty in North America hung for change ringing, with a ring of eight bells. The bells were cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London. The heavy four bells were cast in 1876 and the light four were cast in 1878. The bells were restored for change-ringing in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ, op. 948 (built 1936-1937) at the front of the church was designed and voiced by G. Donald Harrison. It is an early example of Harrisons American Classic style. The church also contains a String Organ given by Rodman Wanamaker and installed by the Wanamaker Organ Shop. The Screen Organ, which resides in a handsomely carved case situated between the Choir and Lady Chapel, dates from the 1902 Austin organ, which was voiced by British organbuilder Carleton Michell. In 2004 the Organ Historical Society rescinded its 1982 historical organ citation after the organ was expanded with digital voices and a new console built by Cornel Zimmer Organ Builders. In 2017-2018, the digital and all of the Zimmer pipe additions (except for the Trompette-en-chamade) in the rear gallery will be removed and replaced with vintage Aeolian-Skinner pipework, chiefly from the 1956 organ of St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York. The current organist and choirmaster is Robert McCormick; notable former organists and choirmasters at Saint Marks include Wesley A. Day, Donald Nally, Scott Dettra, Diane Meredith Belcher, and Matthew Glandorf.</p><br>
<p>In the summer of 2008, the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania voted to allow Saint Marks to adopt the Church of St. James the Less as a mission of St. Marks. A middle school was opened on the property in September 2011.</p><br>
<p>The church maintains a daily Mass schedule, as well as running a food cupboard and soup kitchen. The Reverend Sean E. Mullen is the 14th Rector of the parish.</p><br>
<p>The Park Avenue Historic District is a USA historic district  located in Tallahassee, Florida. The district runs along Park Avenue and Call Street. It contains 27 historic buildings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Park avenue once marked the northern boundary of Tallahassee. Outside of this boundary ran a 200 ft dirt clearing designed to protect the city from Indian attacks. During the 19th century, the district was valuued as a premier location in the city. Residences, businesses, government buildings, and churches were built along the street. The dirt clearings that had previously served as a barrier were converted into parks beginning in the 1880s. They were named in the late 1930s.</p><br>
<h3>Notable buildings</h3><br>
<p>The oldest home in the district is The Columns, built by William "Money" Williams in 1830. Today it serves as the headquarters of the James Madison Institute. The Murphy House, c. 1838, now houses antique stores. The William V. Knott House, c. 1843, houses an admission free house museum. Both houses may have been built by a free Black contractor named George Proctor.</p><br>
<p>Other notable buildings include First Presbyterian Church, the oldest remaining church building in Tallahassee, the David S. Walker Library, and the LeMoyne Art Foundation.</p><br>
<h3>Old City Cemetery</h3><br>
<p>The Old City Cemetery sits at the western end of the district at the corner of Park Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard. It is the oldest public burying ground in Tallahassee. The cemetery was racially segregated until 1937 when African Americans were completely barred from the cemetery. A special section was also set aside for the Jewish community due to a religious requirement for specially consecrated ground.</p><br>
<p>The El Cid Historic District is a USA historic district  located in West Palm Beach, Florida. The district is bounded by Flamingo Drive, South Flagler Drive, Dyer Road and South Dixie Highway. It contains 281 historic buildings.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Lainhart became the first permanent resident of the western shore of Lake Worth in 1875, building a cabin in what is now the El Cid neighborhood near present-day Barcelona Road with help from his cousin, William Lainhart. For thousands of years, the Everglades had isolated the area from the rest of Florida. There is no evidence of permanent settlement in the area by the indigenous Jeaga, Tequesta or the Seminole Indian Tribes.</p><br>
<p>In 1876, Lainhart homesteaded land that includes the entire historic district north of Belvedere Road. Soon afterward, Elizabeth Wilder (Moore) settled on the Lake just to the south of Lainhart. In 1883, she officially homesteaded land that includes the entire historic district south of Belvedere Road. The road, of course, was built decades later. Arriving pioneers purchased pieces of the Lainhart and Wilder homesteads and, by 1910, had divided the two properties into 22 parcels.</p><br>
<p>Lainhart started the first commercial pineapple operation in the area, and pineapples soon dominated local agriculture. By the turn of the century, George Matham’s Florida Pineapple Company covered most of the historic district north of Sunset Road with pineapple fields. Competition from Cuba and disease, however, ruined the pineapple business early in the new century.</p><br>
<p>In 1894, Henry Flagler’s railroad arrived and the Town of West Palm Beach incorporated. The Town’s population doubled in the 1900s and quadrupled during the next decade, when a few houses were built in the historic district. The El Cid Neighborhood was primarily a product of the 1920s Land Boom, when the Town’s population doubled again.</p><br>
<p>During the 1920s, Pittsburgh socialite Jay Phipps, the son of Andrew Carnegie’s partner in USA Steel, assembled the old pineapple fields and other property to develop the historic district. Between 1923 and 1926, independent builders sold expensive Mediterranean Revival and Mission-style homes on most of the available lots.Phipps named this development of predominately Spanish-style homes El Cid after the celebrated Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar (1040-1099), who led Castilians and Iberian Moors to conquer Valencia in 1094. Moors called him “Cid” an Arabic term meaning “lord.”</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood’s proximity to downtown and the western shore of Lake Worth attracted affluent business, political and social leaders who dominated the community’s development in the 1920s and 1930s. The early collapse of the banks in Florida, followed by the Depression, limited further development. After World War II, there was a burst of infill housing construction. Unfortunately, the movement to suburbia in the 1960s diminished the area’s prosperity. But the downturn did not last long.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in the 1980s and continuing until today, El Cid has experienced a rebirth with the renovation and restoration of many of the District’s historic homes. Once again, the neighborhood attracts professionals and business owners proud to call El Cid home. The Community is committed to maintaining its historic authenticity. The El Cid Historic District is listed on the local, State, and National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Flamingo Park Historic Residential District is a USA historic district  located in West Palm Beach, Florida. The district is bounded by Park Place, Parker Avenue, Belvedere Road, and Florida Avenue. It contains 458 historic buildings.</p><br>
<p>It is served by the Howard Park Community Center, which provides services for the neighborhood as well as activities for other West Palm Beach residents. Flamingo Park is located conveniently close to downtown Clematis and City Place.</p><br>
<p>Flamingo Park&#39;s tree-lined streets are kept up by City of West Palm Beach employees and a neighborhood resident association, which recognizes a house every month for its visual improvement. The neighborhood strives to keep up its historic roots.</p><br>
<p>The Lägern  is a wooded mountain of the Jura Mountains, stretching from Baden to Dielsdorf, about 15 km north-west of Zurich. The culminating point is located 1 km west of Hochwacht within the canton of Zurich, the border with the canton of Aargau running on a slightly lower summit named Burghorn .</p><br>
<p>The Lägern lies in the easternmost part of the Jura Mountains, east of the river Aare. It is the highest summit of the range lying between the Rhine, Aare and Limmat. Its location east of the Aare makes it topographically connected to the Appenzell Alps, by the chain of hills running north of Lake Zurich.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is entirely traversed by a trail following the crest from Baden to Dielsdorf. From Dielsdorf a road also leads to Hochwacht, where a radar is operated by Skyguide (municipality of Boppelsen).</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Neahkahnie Mountain is a mountain, or headland, on the Oregon Coast, north of Manzanita in Oswald West State Park overlooking USA Route 101. The peak is part of the Northern Oregon Coast Range, which is part of the Oregon Coast Range. It is best known for stories of Spanish treasure said to be buried either at the foot of the mountain, or on its slopes.</p><br>
<p>In earlier times, Native Americans would set fires to clear the mountain slopes so deer and elk would have tender vegetation to eat in the spring. Pioneers afterwards did the same so their cattle and sheep would have grass to graze on. Since at least 1990, however, this practice was discontinued and the slopes are heavily forested in many places.</p><br>
<p>The name comes from the Tillamook language, although according to Lewis A. McArthur, an Oregonian geographic historian, the meaning of the word is controversial. Neah-Kah-Nie (other spellings, although obsolescent include "Ne-a-karney" and Ne-kah-ni) is translated as "the place of the god", whose name has been transcribed as Acarna.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A legend, dating back to the mid-1800s and the first Hudsons Bay Co. employees to arrive in the area, claims the mountain conceals a lost treasure, hidden by Spanish sailors in the late 16th century. There are various versions of the legend, but the most common ones involve a group of sailors carrying a chest up the hillside, then digging a hole and lowering the treasure inside. As the story goes, one of the sailors then plunges his sword into one of the men with them, apparently an African slave, and his body was then thrown in on top of the treasure; the idea being, Native Americans would not disturb a mans grave, so keeping the treasure under a dead man would prevent the Native Americans—who, in most versions of the story were watching the activity closely from nearby—from digging it up.</p><br>
<p>The "lost treasure," subject of the 2006 movie Tillamook Treasure, has been searched for by hundreds of people over the years, some resorting to earth-moving equipment and others digging by hand. During the 1930s, two treasure hunters died when their excavation caved in on them.</p><br>
<p>Digging for treasure is prohibited on the portions of the mountain that are in the control of the Oregon Parks Service and is also prohibited on the beach, also part of the Oregon State parks. Some artifacts of possibly Spanish origin have been found on the mountain; notably, in the 1870s, a collection of stones with arrows marked on them and one with the letters D E W on it found by treasure hunter Pat Smith. Beeswax has been recovered from the beach along the southwest slopes of the mountain for years; as early as 1814 chunks were dug from the beach sands and taken for trade to a fur trader at Astoria. One slab, described as "closely resembling polished stone", has a cross with a circle at its center deeply carved on its surface. But no treasure or evidence of treasure is known to have been found.</p><br>
<p>Spanish ships might have come to the area by the 16th century. Ships using the Manila galleon trade route usually made landfall on the southern California coast, but it is possible some made landfall as far north as Oregon. The 1543 voyage of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo reached California and, under Bartolomé Ferrelo, might have reached the Oregon coast.</p><br>
<p>The 1774 voyage of Juan Pérez was the first European voyage to have unquestionably reached the Oregon coast.</p><br>
<p>However, a Spanish ship may wrecked near the base of Mount Neahkahnie. Spanish archives list 33 ships as lost during the period of the Manila galleon. Five possible galleons from this list have been suggested as possible shipwrecks: the San Juanillo, lost in 1578; the San Juan, lost in 1586; the San Antonio, last heard from in 1603; the San Francisco Xavier, which sailed in 1705 and is known to carry beeswax; and the San Jose, which sailed from San Blas 16 June 1769.</p><br>
<p>Another theory for the inscribed stones was proposed in 1971 by M. Wayne Jensen Jr., Director of the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum and Don Vlies, commercial fishermen, suggested the stones were traces of a plane table survey made by Sir Francis Drake in 1579 as a Symbolic Sovereign Act for England to this part of Western North America, and would identify New Albion with Short Sand Beach north of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Glaramara is a fell in the English Lake District in Cumbria. It is a substantial fell that is part of a long ridge that stretches for over six kilometres from Stonethwaite in Borrowdale up to the important mountain pass of Esk Hause. The summit of Glaramara at 783 m  is the central point of this ridge, which separates the valleys of Langstrath and Grains Gill. However, the ridge has two additional fells, numerous subsidiary tops and several small tarns making its traverse an appealing and challenging walk.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The fell’s unusual and pleasant-sounding name, previously only applied to the summit rocks, has now been accepted as the name for the whole fell. Like many fells of the district the name comes from a series of Old Norse words which in this case is translated as “Hill with the mountain hut by a chasm”.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>Glaramara’s most striking feature is Combe Gill on its northern slopes, a classic example of a hanging valley that was formed by glacial erosion during the last ice age. The gill is full of crags and according to Alfred Wainwright contains the only natural cave in the Lake District, these are the Dove Nest Caves, a rock slip from Dove Nest Crags has partly covered the cave which has three entrances. On its east and west flanks the fell falls away steeply with rocky slopes and scree to the valleys. To the south the ridge continues from the summit of Glaramara for two kilometres over various tops (some of which are Hewitts or Nuttalls) with little loss of height to the adjoining fell of Allan Crags before descending to Esk Hause.</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>The direct ascent of the fell is usually started from the Borrowdale road midway between Rosthwaite and Seatoller. From here it is possible to ascend on either of the ridges to the east or west of Combe Gill, the east ridge being the best because it allows for the climbing of Rosthwaite Fell and its subsidiary summit of Dovenest Top (632 metres). On this route two other tops of Glaramara, Combe Door Top (676 metres) and Combe Head (735 metres), are passed over. Both of these are Nuttalls. Combe Head gives fine views down into Combe Gill and from here it is short climb to the twin summits of Glaramara.</p><br>
<h2>Summits</h2><br>
<p>The view from the top of the fell is very good. Glaramara’s position in the centre of the Lake District and its relative isolation from other fells by deep valleys gives a good all-round panorama with the view north down Borrowdale towards Skiddaw being especially fine. Most walkers will continue south along the ridge towards the next main fell of Allen Crags taking in three more subsidiary tops on the way. The first of these is Looking Steads (775 metres) which has Nuttall status, the second is Glaramara South Top / Red Beck Top / Lincomb Head (721 metres) which is a Hewitt and also a Nuttall (called Red Beck Top on the list) and finally High House Tarn Top (684 metres) which is also a Nuttall.</p><br>
<h2>Fell race</h2><br>
<p>The fell is the scene of the annual Glaramara Fell Race which has taken place in April in the past but the 2006 event was switched to July. This is an eight-kilometre (five-mile) race from near Seatoller to Glaramara’s summit with 640 metres (2100 feet) of ascent. The winner of the race usually takes around 47 minutes to complete the course.</p><br>
<p>The Abbott Tract Historic District is a USA historic district in St. Augustine, Florida. It is bounded by Matanzas Bay, Pine, San Marco, and Shenandoah Avenues. On July 21, 1983, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. It contains 124 historic buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Abbott Tract is a section of historic St. Augustine that dates to 1860 when Lucy Abbott, a young woman in her 20s, arrived in St. Augustine. She began purchasing land north of the Castillo de San Marcos, and by the 1870s, the astute businesswoman owned a large tract of land north of the city. She built nine structures in the area which still stand — the first house dates from 1861 and the last several from between 1885 and 1894. The Abbott Tract saw rapid development until 1904 when 126 houses lined the streets. The area’s development was primarily conceived, designed and developed for residential use.</p><br>
<p>Source: UF students develop strategies to protect St. Augustine neighborhood, University of Florida News</p><br>
<p>Roy Eugene Graham</p><br>
<p>The St. Lucie Village Historic District is a historic district located in St. Lucie Village, Florida. The district runs from 2505 through 3305 North Indian River Drive. Out of the 50 structures lining the Indian River Drive, 35 are of historical interest with the contributing structures ranging from Frame Vernacular to Late Victorian architecture. On December 1, 1989 the historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural and historical significance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The residential neighborhood exists as a remnant of the surrounding communities of Fort Capron which was built in accordance with the 3rd Seminole War during the 1850s. A stone monument currently occupies the site of Fort Capron at 3015 North Indian River Drive. The east to west thoroughfare was to have been the entrance to a bridge that would span the Indian River, however while under construction the bridge was destroyed by the Hurricane of 1928. The thoroughfare was named Chamberlin Boulevard after Mrs. Hattie Chamberlin of Kansas City, Missouri who planted a row of Washingtonia palms in the street&#39;s median during the Florida land boom of the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The Naples Historic District is a USA historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, located in Naples, Florida. The 500 acre district is bounded by Ninth Avenue S, 3rd Street, Thirteenth Avenue S, and the Gulf of Mexico. It contains 65 historic houses, two historic commercial buildings, and 26 non-contributing buildings. The historic development was from 1887 to 1937.</p><br>
<p>The oldest buildings are "simple, frame vernacular cottages which exhibit small hints of Queen Anne and Stick style influences" such as The Haldeman House, on the beach at Twelfth Avenue South.</p><br>
<p>The contributing building addresses are:</p><br>
<p>Broad Avenue South #s: 38, 50, 53, 75, 88, 91, 107, 110, 131, 151, 165, 180, 187, 207, 239, 245</p><br>
<p>Tenth Avenue South #s: 32, 112, 132, 144, 149, 163, 215, 255, 263, 264, 273, 290</p><br>
<p>Gulf Shore Boulevard #s: 926, 1037, 1111, 1120, 1144</p><br>
<p>Second Street South #s: 1180, 1188</p><br>
<p>Third Street South #s: 1148, 1177</p><br>
<p>Eleventh Avenue South #s: 12, 15, 44, 88, 111, 123, 157, 175, 205, 210, 223, 230, 231, 244, 255, 256, 269, 272, 281, 287</p><br>
<p>Ninth Avenue South #s: 40, 62</p><br>
<p>Twelfth Avenue South #s: 50, 71, 95, 111, 137</p><br>
<p>Thirteenth Avenue South #s: 40, 55, 76.</p><br>
<p>The Boca Chita Key Historic District is a USA historic district within the Biscayne National Park in Miami-Dade County, Homestead, Florida. Located on the northwest section of Boca Chita Key, delimited by Biscayne Bay in the north and west and a half ruined stone wall on its southern side, it contains three historic buildings and the Boca Chita Lighthouse. On 1 August 1997, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural, historical and recreational values.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Boca Chita Key Historic District covers an area of 110 acre It is bounded on the southern and western border by the Biscayne Bay and the remnant of a stone wall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mark C. Honeywell, a wealthy industrialist and his wife who owned the island off their house in the Miami beach, built the structures as part of his development plan after he bought the island in 1937, and built up the structures between 1937 and 1940. however, the building built between 1937 and 1939 do not exist now. The Honeywells built it as their holiday resort. They built many structures which included a chapel, a lighthouse, a pavilion for holding picnic, a generator room, and also a garage. An arch bridge was also built across an existing canal. The August Geiger Firm were the architects and builders of the structures, which were built in modern architectural style with use of limestone, concrete and asphalt. The retreat was a popular venue for holding parties when Honeywells and their guests crossed over to the island from the Miami beach in luxury vessels. On such occasions, a canon located near the lighthouse on the harbour was fired as a welcome gesture to the guests.</p><br>
<p>After his wifes death, Honewells interest in the island waned. He got married again to Eugenia Hubbard and then sold the island to Florence Emerman in 1942.</p><br>
<p>The structures were built with Miami oolite limestone, and even in the existing structures the external faces have a quarry finish, typical of the area.</p><br>
<h2>Historic structures</h2><br>
<p>Some of the historic structures are the lighthouse, the chapel and the open air picnic pavilion. Also notable are the stone wall and the cannon.</p><br>
<h3>Lighthouse</h3><br>
<p>The island&#39;s 65-foot lighthouse was built by Mark C. Honeywell in the 1930s. The dome of the lighthouse was also under repairs since July 2013 (damaged panels) and was expected to be ready by end of August 2013. The repairs to the lighthouse involved up-gradation with Hurricane-proof glass for the dome, apart from repairs and providing new vents for ventilation. Painting of the entire structure was also on the anvil.</p><br>
<p>As the lighthouse is not functional it can be visited (during September to May and some days during the summer months) only when the park staff or volunteers are available there. The top deck of the lighthouse provides scenic views of the bay, ocean, Miami, Key Biscayne, and the sky line of the Miami Beach.</p><br>
<h3>The chapel</h3><br>
<p>The chapel is concrete structure of 12 by size built with uncoursed stone. It has a concave shaped roof with a steep slope The roof covering is made of asphalt shingles. Entrance doors are provided on the walls on northern and eastern sides. The southern door is flanked by a low level wall which is curved. Two identical openings are provided on the walls.</p><br>
<h3>Picnic Pavilion</h3><br>
<p>The picnic pavilion is an open-air structure which is located across the lighthouse. It is founded on a concrete raft as base which measures 15 by. Above the concrete rafts ten square piers are raised along the longer length of the pavilion. The cornice and frieze are supported by the piers and above this is the roof in a hip shape covered with asphalt shingles.</p><br>
<h3>Cannon</h3><br>
<p>A cannon is also one of the historic objects. IT is located on the northeastern part of the key near the lighthouse. The gun&#39;s trunnions are fitted on either side of the cannon over the base which is an inclined with indentures. The cannon is rusted.</p><br>
<h3>Stone wall</h3><br>
<p>The stone wall was built with limestone on reinforced cement concrete foundation. The Honeywells built it to enclose the structures that were originally built in the Boca Chita area. The wall was built in several stretches. The first stretch was for 400 ft from the Biscayne Bay to the south of the picnic. It then turned for a length of 35 ft in curved alignment from t where it was extended to the west for further 309 ft. The next orientation of the wall was to then turned north for a length 155 ft and ending close to the engine house. Initially the wall had seven gate at different locations of which there only three are extant; two gates, each of 19 ft width, have high gate posts. The third gate 4 ft in width has an arched opening. Hurricane Andrew destroyed the eastern two-thirds part of this wall, stone gate house and gate posts. The remaining one third of the wall has the arched opening.</p><br>
<p>The Sourland Mountain Preserve is located on Sourland Mountain, in the Sourlands region of New Jersey. It is within Hillsborough Township and Montgomery Township of Somerset County.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The park covers 3,025 acre. The name "Sourland" may derive from the soil, described as "sorrel-land" or reddish brown land. Seen in the park are red fox, gray fox, deer, even a coyote. Birds include tanagers, wrens, and chickadees.</p><br>
<p>For anyone who hikes and lives in central Jersey, Sourland provides quick access to a hiking experience that can rival some of the trails in the Ridge and Valley section and the Highlands section of northern New Jersey. Several biology courses at Hillsborough High School take field trips to the preserve to encourage students to visit and appreciate it.</p><br>
<h3>Trails</h3><br>
<p>The main feature of the preserve is the 5 mi Ridge Trail, suitable for hiking and off-road biking. There are two shorter routes and "connector" trails. The trails have been well blazed by the Somerset County Park Commission. The Park Commission supplies with trail maps, in the map box just off the parking lot. A complete circuit of the Ridge Trail for an experienced hiker can take about two and one-half hours.</p><br>
<p>While located in a suburban section of central New Jersey, Sourland Mountain is a heavily wooded and rocky place. The Ridge Trail can be quite difficult and technical in spots. At the top of the ridge, there are some very large and beautiful exposed boulders. Roaring Brook passes through the southern edge of the preserve. While not officially a part of the preserve, hikers often visit the brook to see one of the finest boulder fields in New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>Opened in 2007, a new extension to the Ridge Trail takes hikers to Roaring Brook and one of the finer boulder fields of the Northeast. The trail&#39;s extension is the result of work by the Somerset County Park Commission, with support from the 3M Company.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, a newly blazed trail system runs north from Roaring Brook before turning east and back into the preserve. The blazes for this trail system are red squares. The trail connects back to the Ridge Trail. Another trail, with red circular blazes, goes north and ends at the natural gas line route. These trails are excellent for hiking, and are laid out for off-road biking, with many twists and turns taking advantage of the topography. It is a short hike or ride down the gas line to get back to the original Ridge Trail.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Geologically, Sourland Mountain is composed of sedimentary and igneous rocks of Late Triassic and Early Jurassic age, and are part of the Newark basin rift lake system. The main ridge in Sourland Mountain is intrusive diabase (a type of igneous rock) associated with the same igneous event that produced the Palisades Sill (the cliffs along the west side of the Hudson River across from New York City), and The Watchung Mountains in Northern New Jersey. The sedimentary rocks are Late Triassic in age and are part of the lower Passaic Formation of the Newark Basin sedimentary sequence.</p><br>
<p>Kathleen Island is a steeply cliffed island that lies within Port Davey, an oceanic inlet, located in the south west region of Tasmania, Australia. The island has an area of approximately 11.35 hectare and is contained with the Southwest National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site and the Port Davey/Bathurst Harbour Marine Nature Reserve.</p><br>
<h2>Features and location</h2><br>
<p>Part of the Breaksea Islands Group, Kathleen Island has an elevation of approximately 72 m above sea level. The island is almost split by a deep gulch.</p><br>
<p>Kathleen island is part of the Port Davey Islands Important Bird Area, so identified by BirdLife International because of its importance for breeding seabirds. Most of the island is covered by thick scrub and rainforest. Recorded breeding seabird species are the little penguin (1-200 pairs) and short-tailed shearwater (67,000 pairs). Burrowing seabirds have caused erosion in places. The metallic skink is present.</p><br>
<p>The River Alport flows for 9 km in the Dark Peak of the Peak District in Derbyshire, England. Its source is on Bleaklow, from which it flows south through the Grains in the Water swamp, then over gritstone to Alport Bridge on the A57 Snake Pass route from Sheffield to Manchester, where it joins the River Ashop, which flows into the Ladybower Reservoir about 2.5 mi down the valley.</p><br>
<p>The course of the river includes three small waterfalls. At its southern end lie the remains of a tunnel constructed to carry water to a planned but unbuilt cotton mill. A weir was built on the river in about 1922 and a short watercourse added to feed the water into the Ashop weir located upstream of the confluence. The water was then culverted along the valley to the Ashop Siphon near Hagg Farm, where it then crossed over the River Ashop in a 6 ft steel pipe 273 yd long, passed through a 1,065 yd tunnel under the hill and then via another open watercourse of 761 yd to discharge into the Derwent Reservoir a few yards north of the dam wall. The outlet is visible from the viewing area.</p><br>
<p>The valley of the Alport contains some farmland, but the banks of the valley are mostly coniferous plantations and heath. The coniferous plantations are being converted to semi-natural deciduous woodland. The small hamlet of Alport lies on the west bank near the southern end of the river. On the eastern bank lies the Alport Castles landslide.</p><br>
<p>The Atuel River is a river located mainly in the south of the Argentine province of Mendoza, with its last part in La Pampa. It is a tributary of the Desaguadero River.</p><br>
<p>The Atuel is the longest river in Mendoza. It is born in the Andes range, at 3,250 m above mean sea level, from the glacial Atuel Lake. It has a mean flow of 31.8 m3/s, and its drainage basin covers 13,000 km&sup2;. Its volume increases from November to March (around the summer).</p><br>
<h2>Canyon</h2><br>
<p>As it approaches the city of San Rafael, Mendoza, from the southwest, the Atuel is turned into a reservoir with an area of 96 km&sup2; by the El Nihuil Dam. Immediately after El Nihuil, the river becomes entrenched along a canyon and forms rapids. The canyon is about 60 km long, and during its course the river falls from 1250 to 700 m above sea level. This level difference is taken advantage of by four hydroelectric power stations (Nihuil I, II, III and IV). Most of the Atuel&#39;s flow at this point has been redirected through a system of tunnels inside the mountains, connecting the chain of reservoirs.</p><br>
<p>The Atuel Canyon area is a major tourist attraction, featuring hotels, camping sites, country clubs and other lodging facilities. The rapids are employed for rafting and canoeing; they are classified between class II (novice) and IV (advanced) in the International Scale of River Difficulty.</p><br>
<p>The canyon ends at Rincón del Atuel. From there on the river flows along a plain, becoming wider and meandering until reaching the Desaguadero River.</p><br>
<p>The Mary Nohl Art Environment  is a residence in the Milwaukee suburb of Fox Point, Wisconsin. The property, which is filled with folk art created by artist Mary Nohl , is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>After the death of her parents, a sizable inheritance left Mary Nohl the chance to create artworks. She used concrete and found objects such as driftwood, wire and glass to build sculptures. In addition, the exterior and interior are colorfully decorated. Hundreds of works have been cataloged.</p><br>
<p>Following Nohl&#39;s death, the embellished home and sculpture garden were given to the Kohler Foundation for preservation. In 2012, it was transferred to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. After a fruitless, decade-long struggle with the residents of Fox Point to allow limited access by the public, the foundation decided to move the house and its art to a site in Sheboygan County. The house was to be dismantled, starting in the summer of 2014, and rebuilt, at a cost of between one and two million dollars, but the plan was recently canceled. As of April 2015, the house will remain in Fox Point and is expected to be restored.</p><br>
<p>In addition to her home and artwork, her estate of over $11 million was left to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, which administers the Mary Nohl Foundation to provide arts education for children, and the Mary Nohl Fellowship artists&#39; scholarships among other activities. A biography, Mary Nohl - Inside & Outside, written and designed by Barbara Manger and Janine Smith, respectively, was published in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Loch Striven;  is a Sea Loch extending off the Firth of Clyde, and forms part of the Cowal peninsula coast, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.</p><br>
<p>Loch Striven extends off of the Firth of Clyde just North of the Isle of Bute, where it forms a narrow inlet about 8 mi long extending North into the Cowal Peninsula.</p><br>
<h2>Laid up ships</h2><br>
<p>During times of recession in shipping, the Sea Loch has been used as a sheltered anchorage for laid-up vessels such as large oil tankers.The Danish shipping company Maersk used the Sea Loch for cold layup of some of its vessels namely the b- class vessels in its fleet.</p><br>
<h2>World War II</h2><br>
<p>The upper reaches of the Sea Loch, because of their secluded location, and their topographical similarity to Norwegian fiords, were used extensively for midget submarine (X-craft) training during World War II. The training programme was directed from HMS Varbel in Port Bannatyne to the South in the luxury Kyles Hydro Hotel, overlooking the Port, which was requisitioned by the Admiralty to serve as the HQ for midget submarine operations, including the top secret and audacious attack on the Tirpitz. Ardtaraig House, located at the head of Loch Striven, and similarly requisitioned by the Admiralty, became a secondary naval base for the 12th Submarine Flotilla midget submarines and became known as HMS Varbel II.</p><br>
<p>The Quelccaya Ice Cap is the largest glaciated area in the tropics. Located in the Cordillera Oriental section of the Andes mountains of Peru, the ice cap is at an average altitude of 5,470 m and spans an area of 44 km&sup2;. As with the majority of the Earth&#39;s glaciers, the Quelccaya Ice cap has retreated significantly since it was first studied. Since 1978 the icecap has lost approximately 20% of its area, and the rate of retreat is increasing.</p><br>
<p>Comparing pictures taken in 1963 and 1978, an annual retreat rate of 4.7 m was estimated. In the first few years of the 21st century, the annual retreat was measured to be as much as 205 m, more than 40 times as fast. The major outlet glacier from the Quelccaya Ice Cap, the Qori Kalis Glacier, has also retreated significantly since 1963.</p><br>
<h2>Ice core study</h2><br>
<p>Lonnie Thompson and his research team have drilled ice cores from Quelccaya that date back almost 2,000 years and have used them to study changes in atmospheric conditions over this period. In these samples, the oxygen isotope ratio, oxygen-18 to oxygen-16, has risen abruptly in the last 50 years, an indicator of regional warming. As the ice cap is retreating, it is exposing almost perfectly preserved, unfossilized plant specimens that have been dated to 5,200 years before present, indicating that it has been more than 50 centuries since the ice cap was smaller than it is today.</p><br>
<p>Ice cores taken from Upper Fremont Glacier in the USA state of Wyoming show an oxygen isotope profile similar to that of the Quelccaya ice cores at the end of the Little Ice Age, a period of cooler global temperatures between the years 1550 and 1850. The sudden alterations in the oxygen isotope ratio found in ice core samples from these two glaciers, which are at great distance from each other, provide evidence of a sudden global climate change in the mid-latitude regions of the planet at this time.</p><br>
<p>Nagarjunakonda  is a historical Buddhist town, now an island located near Nagarjuna Sagar in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is 160 km west side of another important historic site Amaravathi. It is one of India&#39;s richest Buddhist sites, known in the ancient times as Sri Parvata. It now lies almost entirely under the Nagarjunasagar Dam. It is named after Nagarjuna, a southern Indian master of Mahayana Buddhism who lived in the 2nd century AD, who is believed to have been responsible for the Buddhist activity in the area. The site was once the location of many Buddhist universities and monasteries, attracting students from as far as China, Gandhara, Bengal and Sri Lanka. The Buddhist archaeological sites there were submerged, and had to later be dug up and transferred to higher land on the hill, which had become an island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The settlement of Nagarjunakonda (also Nāgārjunikoṇḍa) was the capital of the Ikshvaku dynasty (225 AD - 325 AD), the successors of the Satavahanas in the eastern Deccan. It is believed that Sadvaha authorised the first monastic construction there during his reign.</p><br>
<p>During the early centuries AD, the site housed more than 30 Buddhist viharas; excavations have yielded art works and inscriptions of great significance for the scholarly study of the history of this early period. Nagarjuna was the exponent of the philosophy of sunyata (void). At the time, Buddhism often spread to Sri Lanka and Burma after using the area and the bustling Bay of Bengal ports of the Andhra to re-stock for the impending journey. Archaeological inscriptions at the site show that Sri Virapurusadatta, the second ruler of the dynasty was a Buddhist, as were his son Ehuvula and their descendants. The inscriptions also show state-sponsorship of construction of temples and monasteries, through the funding of the queen of Ikshvaku. Camtisiri in particular, is recorded as having funded the building of the main stupa for ten consecutive years. The support also spread beyond the noble classes, many non-royal names being inscribed in the relics. At its peak, there were more than thirty monasteries and it was the largest Buddhist centre in South India. Inscriptions showed that there were monasteries belonging to the Bahuśrutīya and Aparamahavinaseliya sub-schools of the Mahāsāṃghika, the Mahisasaka, and the Mahaviharavasin, from Sri Lanka. The architecture of the area reflects that of these traditions. There were other monasteries for Buddhist scholars originating from the Tamil kingdoms, Orissa, Kalinga, Gandhara, Bengal, Ceylon (the Culadhammagiri) and China. There is also a footprint at the site of the Mahaviharavasin monastery, which is believed to be a reproduction of that of Gautama Buddha.</p><br>
<p>The region declined after the death of Rudrapurusa, the last Ikshvaku king.</p><br>
<h3>Archaeological research</h3><br>
<p>The first discoveries were made in 1926 by French archaeologist Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuil (1885-1945). The excavations were continuous until 1931. They unearthed the ruins of stupas and chaityas in 1927 at what was once an immense centre for Buddhist learning in ancient India. This was expanded in 1954 to include the whole valley, unearthing more than 100 further relics dating from the stone age to the 16th century.</p><br>
<p>The great stupa at Nagarjunakonda belongs to the class of uncased stupas, its brickwork being plastered over and the stupa decorated by a large garland-ornament. The original stupa was renovated by the Ikshvaku princess Chamtisiri in the 3rd century AD, when ayaka-pillars of stone were erected. The outer railing, if any, was of wood, its uprights erected over a brick plinth. The stupa, 32.3 m in diameter, rose to a height of 18 m with a 4 m wide circumambulatory. The medhi stood 1.5 m and the ayaka-platforms were rectangular offsets measuring 6.7 by 1.5 m.</p><br>
<p>An archaeological catastrophe struck in 1960, when an irrigation dam was constructed across the nearby Krishna River, submerging the original site under the waters of a reservoir. In advance of the flooding, several monuments were dug up and relocated to the top of Nagarjuna&#39;s Hill, where a museum was built in 1966. Other monuments were relocated to the mainland, east of the flooded area. Dedicated archaeologists managed to recover almost all of the relics.</p><br>
<h2>Nagarjunasagar Dam</h2><br>
<p>The Nagarjunasagar Dam is the tallest masonry dam in the world. The excavated remains of the Buddhist civilisation were reconstructed and preserved at a museum on the island situated in the midst of the man-made Nagarjunasagar Lake. The site has a 14th-century fort, medieval temples and a museum constructed like a Buddhist vihara. The museum houses a collection of relics of Buddhist culture and art. These include a small tooth and an ear-ring believed to be that of Gautama Buddha. The main stupa of Nagarjunakonda named Mahachaitya is believed to contain the sacred relics of the Buddha. A partly ruined monolithic statue of the Buddha is the main attraction at the museum. It also houses historic finds in the form of tools from Paleolithic and Neolithic times, as well as friezes, coins and jewellery.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Located in Guntur district it is not accessible on the State Highway. The nearest train station is at Macherla, 29 km away. It is connected by a ferry to the mainland.</p><br>
<p>The area is also known for panoramic views of the valley from a viewing area near the dam, and is also the site of natural waterfalls, Ethipothala Falls which cascade down 22 m into a blue lagoon that is also a breeding centre for crocodiles. The nearby Srisailam wildlife sanctuary, a Project Tiger reserve and refuge for diverse reptiles, birds and animals. Srisailam, which sits on the shore of Krishna in the Nallamala Hills is a site of immense historical and religious significance, including a Shiva temple that is one of the 12 sacred Jyotirlingas.</p><br>
<p>The MacFarlane Homestead Historic District is a USA historic district  located in Coral Gables, Florida. The district is bounded by Jefferson Street, Frow Avenue, Brooker Street and Grand Avenue. It contains 32 historic buildings.</p><br>
<p>The district is named after Flora McFarlane (the “Mac" in the official district name is apparently an error), the area&#39;s first solo female homesteader and its first schoolteacher. McFarlane, born in New Jersey to British parents, settled 160 acres in the area beginning on March 16, 1891. Her home site, located where present-day Douglas Road and Day Avenue meet, no longer exists.</p><br>
<p>In 1925, Flora McFarlane sold the 20 acres that today constitute the historic district to Coral Gables founder George Merrick’s company, which turned it into a city subdivision. Many Bahamian immigrant laborers, particularly Afro-Bahamians, subsequently built homes there.</p><br>
<p>The Lake Eola Heights Historic District is a USA historic district  located in the eastern part of Downtown Orlando, Florida. The district is roughly bounded by Hillcrest Street, North Hyer Avenue, Ridgewood Street and North Magnolia Avenue. It contains 487 historic buildings.</p><br>
<p>Citrus grower Jacob Summerlin, Orlandos first city council president, purchased 200 acres in the area during the late 19th century. The Great Freeze of 1894-95 brought Summerlins citrus farm to an end, and the property was subdivided for housing. Architectural styles include Farmhouse, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Mediterranean Revival, Mission Revival, Art Deco, and Minimal Traditional</p><br>
<p>In 1989 the City of Orlando designated the neighborhood a local historic district in response to a petition by the Lake Eola Heights Historic Neighborhood Association. Three years later the neighborhood was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Lake Sinclair is a man-made lake in central Georgia near Milledgeville. It is operated by Georgia Power.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Located in the central region of Georgia, on the Oconee River, Lake Sinclair stretches through the counties of Baldwin, Hancock, and Putnam. Lake Sinclair was created in 1953. With approximately 417 mi of scenic shoreline, winding coves and inlets as well as several vast stretches of open water, Lake Sinclair offers recreational boating pleasure. The lake is made up of a 15,330 acre area of water and provides both electricity and recreation. Milledgeville, Georgia, is the largest city on Lake Sinclair, though most of the lake is located in Putnam County.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Lake Sinclair is largely used by lake residents and people who live and house their boats, watercraft and RVs on the lake. There is easy access to the water with two public boat ramps provided by Georgia Power. There are also marinas and boat storage areas located on the lake. Other areas of access to the lake includes Oconee Springs Park. Lake Sinclair is the site of several fishing tournaments—both local and national—and attracts fishermen of various skill levels and interest. Visitors find fall and winter fishing at Lake Sinclair a special treat due to the mild climate and activity. There is also a popular fishing area below the dam near Milledgeville. Several recreation areas, such as Oconee Springs Park and Rocky Creek Park, provide day-use facilities that include picnic tables, grills, boat ramp and a small beach. There is camping and even cabin rentals provided at Oconee Springs Park, but not Rocky Creek Park.</p><br>
<h2>Hydroelectric generating station</h2><br>
<p>Lake Sinclair was created in 1953 when the waters of the Oconee river were dammed to create a 45,000 kW hydroelectric generating station. Development of this lake as a recreational area began through a planned cooperative program. Participants included the Oconee Area Planning and Development Commission, the USA Forest Service, The Georgia Game and Fish Commission, Georgia Power Company and several independent businesses.</p><br>
<h2>Tributaries</h2><br>
<p>Lake Sinclair is fed by several creeks and rivers, including Beaver Dam, Crooked, Rooty, Sandy Run, Shoulder Bone, Potato, Island, Rocky, Nancy Branch, Reedy Branch, and Little River. The lake covers 15,330 acre and has 417 mi of shoreline with a maximum depth of 86 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Sinclair Dam</h2><br>
<p>The Sinclair dam is approximately 100 ft high and 2,800 ft long.</p><br>
<p>The Kenwood Historic District  is a USA historic district located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The district was designated on August 4, 2003 and is located immediately west of downtown, bounded by 9th Avenue North, 1st Avenue North, 19th Street North  and 34th Street North. It contains 2,238 historic buildings, and Grand Central adjoins the district at its southern boundary.</p><br>
<p>The Kenwood Historic District is a 375-acre residential area best known for its historic bungalows. It consists mostly of one-story and two-story single family homes constructed between 1912 and 1945. Historic outbuildings, such as garages and garage apartments, are also common in the neighborhood. There are a variety of residential architectural styles represented in the district, including Frame and Masonry Vernacular, Craftsman Bungalow, Minimal Traditional, Tudor Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Colonial Revival, Ranch, Prairie, American Foursquare, Dutch Colonial Revival, Mission, and International. However, while many styles are evident, bungalows constitute more than 50 percent of the homes. Not all of these homes were built in their current locations: many of these Craftsman/bungalow style homes were relocated to the area in the 1930s from other neighborhoods in the city, helping to cement Historic Kenwood&#39;s bungalow identity. St. Petersburg High School (1926), listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in the heart of Historic Kenwood along 5th Avenue North. Six churches, including two brand new churches: and The Foundry, as well as numerous commercial buildings can be found within the district.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the large number of historic buildings remaining in the neighborhood, many of the historic landscape and streetscape elements remain. The majority of the avenues, which run in an east-west direction in the district, continue to be made of brick. Hexagonal pavers can still be found comprising many of the sidewalks. The high granite curbs are also still evident along many of the streets, which are lined with large majestic oak trees, as well as jacaranda, palms, and pine trees. Historic Kenwood is located on a plateau about 50 feet above sea level, making it much higher than other neighborhoods in the city.</p><br>
<p>Another notable feature of Historic Kenwood is Seminole Park. This historic park is rectangular in shape and is bounded by 3rd Avenue North, Burlington Avenue North, 30th Street North, and 29th Street North. The park was donated by Charles R. Hall, one of the City&#39;s first developers and an initial developer of Historic Kenwood. The park features many types of trees, grassy areas, sidewalks, playground equipment, and a modern pavilion in the center constructed in the Craftsman style that blends in with the surrounding historic architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Historic Kenwood developed as a working and middle-class neighborhood in the early twentieth century. The neighborhood was one of the earliest to be developed outside of downtown. It was first platted in 1912, and developed rapidly during the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s, during which time St. Petersburg became a favorite vacation destination. While a few houses were constructed in the 1910s, development reached its peak in the 1920s, due in large part to its location just west of downtown, which could be easily accessed by automobile or streetcar. The streetcar system was once ran down Central Avenue and was quite popular until finally being phased out by 1947.</p><br>
<h3>Decline and Revitalization</h3><br>
<p>As was the case with many inner city areas, the neighborhood fell into neglect beginning in the 1950s. Interstate 275 was built in the 1970s, forming Historic Kenwoods eastern boundary. USA 19 (34th Street), the western boundary, became more commercial during this time. The traditional "mom and pop" businesses on the southern boundary along Central Avenue declined. Beginning in the early 1990s, urban pioneers began a neighborhood revival in both Historic Kenwood and the Grand Central District which continues today. The LGBT community in particular played a significant role in the revitalization of the neighborhood. Many LGBT investors and homeowners have transformed the tree-lined streets into a stable, well-landscaped neighborhood with a strong civic voice. The district remains home to many gay residents and gay friendly businesses. The annual St. Pete Pride celebration, the largest in the state, also takes place within the district. Many restorations to these historic homes and businesses have been made since the 1990s. Some of these restoration efforts include the removal of non-historic vinyl and aluminum siding, as well as the reopening of many front porches that were once enclosed. Today, events such as monthly porch parties, the annual BungalowFest, Founders Day, and St. Pete Pride attract many to the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The Roser Park Historic District is a USA historic district  located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The district is bounded by 5th and 9th Streets S, and 6th and 11th Avenues S. It contains 146 historic buildings.</p><br>
<p>Roser Park was developed in the early years of the 20th century by wealthy developer Charles Roser. Like downtown St. Petersburg, the Historic Roser Park neighborhood is experiencing a renaissance. It has historic character, hilly tree-lined drives and friendly community spirit, and also features close proximity to commercial centers, municipal facilities, hospitals, colleges, arts and entertainment, sporting arenas, boating, beaches and recreation, and regional and international airports.</p><br>
<p>The 270-acre district is bounded by 4th Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street (9th St. S.). to the east and west, and by Booker Creek and Ingleside Avenue (11th Avenue South) to the north and south. The first residential subdivision to be established outside of the downtown St. Petersburg business district, Roser Park was an early "streetcar suburb" conveniently located along the downtown trolley line, and is listed on the National Register for its significance in community planning and development, architecture, and landscape architecture. Located in the Midtown Redevelopment Area, Roser Park also encompasses historic Greenwood Cemetery and one of St Petersburg&#39;s most storied creeks.</p><br>
<p>Lake Oconee is a reservoir in central Georgia, United States, on the Oconee River near Greensboro and Eatonton. It was created in 1979 when Georgia Power completed the construction of the Wallace Dam on the Oconee River.</p><br>
<p>Lake Oconee runs through Georgia&#39;s Morgan, Greene, and Putnam counties and is separated from its sister lake, Sinclair, by Wallace Dam.</p><br>
<p>Oconee is the name of an ancient Creek town.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrology</h2><br>
<p>Lake Oconee serves as a reservoir for Georgia Power Company&#39;s Wallace Hydroelectric Plant. The lake has 374 miles of shoreline with a surface area of 19,971 acres. It is formed by the Oconee River and Apalachee River (Georgia)</p><br>
<h2>Housing</h2><br>
<p>Lake Oconee is home to a number of golf communities, including Reynolds Plantation, Cuscawilla, and Harbor Club.</p><br>
<p>The Seminole Heights Residential District, known also as the Seminole Heights Historic District, is a USA and Local Historic District located in Tampa, Florida. The district is roughly bounded by Hanna Avenue to the north, Cherokee Avenue and I-275 to the east, Florida Avenue to the west, and Osborne Avenue to the south.</p><br>
<h2>National District</h2><br>
<p>Seminole Heights Residential District was designated a USA Historic District upon its inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 1993. The district encompasses 1,700 acre, and includes 325 buildings identified as contributing structures based on their historical and architectural significance to the district. Most of the buildings are private homes, but despite the "Residential" moniker, the district also includes public and community structures such as Seminole Heights United Methodist Church and Hillsborough High School. The later two are examples of Gothic Revival style, one of the architectural styles for which the district is recognized. Another style, which is represented in the neighborhood&#39;s numerous bungalows, is American Craftsman. All the contributing buildings in Seminole Heights Historic District date from the early 20th century, and the district is noted for historical significance from the period of 1912 - 1928.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is a part of the city&#39;s Old Seminole Heights neighborhood, one of three distinct neighborhoods within the greater Seminole Heights section of Tampa. Old Seminole Heights is home to two nationally recognized historic districts, of which Seminole Heights Residential District was the first. Hampton Terrace Historic District received its designation in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Local District</h2><br>
<p>In addition to its status at the national level, Seminole Heights Historic District was declared a Local Historic District by the City of Tampa Architectural Review Commission on March 16, 1995. It is one of four Local Historic Districts within the city, and the only one in Seminole Heights. Local district boundaries cover the same area defined by the national district, between Hanna and Osborne Avenues, and Florida and Cherokee Avenues/I-275. Unlike the rough pattern followed by the national district, the local boundaries are absolute, thus including a slightly larger area and approximately 26 additional historic buildings. The Local District adds a second area east of I-275 which is bounded north to south by Henry and Hillsborough Avenues, and by the properties on both sides of Miami Avenue in the east to Taliaferro Avenue in the west. Approximately 28 historic structures are included in this smaller addition.</p><br>
<p>The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is a historic house designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Located at 951 Chicago Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois, the house has been restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust to its appearance in 1909, the last year Frank Lloyd Wright lived there with his family. Frank Lloyd Wright purchased the property and built the home in 1889 with a $5,000 loan from his employer Louis Sullivan.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original 1889 structure was quite small. The home was extensively remodeled in 1895, when among other changes the kitchen was enlarged and converted to a dining room, the upstairs nursery was expanded and converted for use as Catherines dayroom, and the Childrens Playroom and a new kitchen were added to the back of the house. After 1909, the Studio was converted into a residence for his wife and the younger children. Later on, the Home and Studio became an apartment building. In the 1960s it fell into disrepair as the owners began to neglect the property due to financial problems. The longtime roofing company entrusted by Frank Lloyd Wright, Oak Park-based Tuscher Roofing, took control of the property. In 1974, the structure was handed over to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the 13-year restoration began.</p><br>
<p>The Home and Studio was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, and has received the American Institute of Architects&#39; National Honor Award. It is owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and has been restored, maintained, and operated as a museum by. Every May, the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust hosts a housewalk of the home and studio and various private homes.</p><br>
<p>Frank Lloyd Wright&#39;s Home and Studio is located in one of three historic districts of Oak Park, Illinois. It is specifically found in the Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District, which includes 27 Wright-designed structures as well as other historical and architecturally significant buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Home and Studio Museum Shop is currently located in the East end of the building, and carries most of the extensive Frank Lloyd Wright, Prairie and Arts & Crafts related products available at.</p><br>
<h2>Sculptures</h2><br>
<p>Most of the sculptures on the exterior of the Home and studio were designed by Wright&#39;s friend and collaborator, Richard Bock. These include the two boulder figures flanking the entrance of the studio, which features a man crouching and breaking free from the ground beneath him. Bock also designed the stork capitals on the exterior loggia of the studio. The capitals signifies the tree of life, the book of knowledge, an architectural scroll, and two storks full of wisdom and fertility.</p><br>
<p>Wright&#39;s home included many sculptures on the interior which added to and contrasted with the anti-Victorian decor. These objects include a frieze from the Pergamon Altar and several sizes of Winged Victory of Samothrace as well as a bust of Beethoven.</p><br>
<p>Old Town Historic District was the second historic district in Huntsville, Alabama. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 18, 1978. Roughly bounded by Dement and Lincoln Sts., and Randolph and Walker Avenues, it features homes in a variety of styles including Victorian, Federal, Greek Revival, Queen Anne, American Craftsman, and even Prairie School with homes dating from the late 1820s through the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Old Town Historic District had its beginnings in 1973, when local architect Harvie Jones suggested to home owners Charles E. and Frances J. Rice that they create another district to include the 19th century homes that remained outside of the Twickenham Historic District. The Rices accordingly began obtaining the necessary petitions and documents to gain first local, then state and finally national recognition for the Old Town Historic District. They were supported in their efforts by then Huntsville mayor Joe W. Davis, Madison County Commissioner Tilman Hill, and Alabama U. S. Senator John Sparkman. The Rices were later honored by the Alabama Historical Commission for their contributions to historic preservation, and in 2009 a small park in Old Town was named after them.</p><br>
<p>Between the Hills is a small valley in northwest Loudoun County, Virginia, distinct from, but associated with, the greater Loudoun Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Between the Hills valley encompasses the area of Loudoun that lies west of Short Hill Mountain and east of the Blue Ridge Mountain. The area includes the communities of Neersville and Loudoun Heights.</p><br>
<p>Between the Hills can be divided into two sections; the upper and lower valley. The upper valley encompasses the area north of the Hillsboro Gap in the Short Hill, while the lower valley encompasses the area south of the gap. The valley ranges from 2.5 mi wide at its largest, just south of the Hillsboro gap to 1.4 mi wide at its smallest, east of Purcell Knob in the upper valley and is approximately 11 mi long.</p><br>
<p>The main waterways of Between the Hills are the North Fork of Catoctin Creek, which drains the lower valley before flowing through the Hillsboro gap into the Catoctin Valley, and Piney Run, which drains the upper valley and flows north through the valley directly into the Potomac River.</p><br>
<p>Across the Potomac River, the valley continues as Pleasant Valley in Maryland.</p><br>
<h3>Transportation</h3><br>
<p>State Route 671, Harpers Ferry Road, is the main road in the valley, running north-south through the upper valley from its southern terminus at Virginia State Route 9, Charles Town Pike, west of Hillsboro, to its northern terminus at USA Route 340, south of the Sandy Hook bridge over the Potomac River and east of Harpers Ferry. State Route 719, Stony Point-Woodgrove road runs north-south through the lower valley from Hillsboro to Woodgrove. The Charlestown pike bisects the valley, running southeast-northwest from the Hillsboro Gap to Keyes Gap in the Blue Ridge.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Between the Hills Valley was formed by action along the Short Hill fault during the early Paleozoic era, which resulted in separation of the underlying rocks of the Blue Ridge and Short Hill mountains, which were deposited during the Catoctin Formation of the late Proterozoic period and uplifted during the Grenville Orogeny. Reactivation of the fault during the Alleghenian Orogeny caused further separation of underlying rock deposited during the middle and late Paleozoic era.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, a Between the Hills resident, John Mobberly, gained notoriety as a Confederate guerrilla. During the last two years of the war, he successfully disputed control of the area through his daring exploits, until his assassination outside of Neersville in April 1865. In late November-early December 1864 much of the Between the Hills valley was put to the torch by Union cavalry during The Burning Raid, including Potts Mill, the ruins of which can be seen from off Stony Point Road. Confederate partisan John Mosby and his Rangers suffered their first defeat in the valley and along the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge in the Battle of Loudoun Heights, fought on January 1, 1864.</p><br>
