<p>Polydroso  is a small village in the municipal unit of Paramythia in Thesprotia, Greece. Its population in 2011 was 73. It is situated on a forested mountainside above the left bank of the river Thyamis, at about 450 m elevation. It is 10 km southwest of Voutsaras, 24 km northeast of Igoumenitsa and 31 km west of Ioannina. The Greek National Road 6  passes east of the village.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Archaeological remains in the surrounding area date as far back as the 4th century BC. The present settlement was founded around 1790, and it is documented since 1827. Many of the present residents descend from people who arrived here from the village Sotira in Dropull i Sipërm (Ano Deropoli), Albania around 1800.</p><br>
<p>Mega Dereio  is a village in the central part of the Evros regional unit in Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Orfeas within the municipality of Soufli. Together with 6 other villages, it forms the community of Mikro Dereio. It is situated near the upper course of the river Erythropotamos, in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains. In 2011 its population was 528. The Greek National Road 53  passes through the village.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks in the 14th century. It was known as Büyük Dervent in Turkish, and Голям Дервент Golyam Dervent in Bulgarian. According to Anastas Razboynikov, in 1830 the village numbered 700 Bulgarian and 50 Turk houses, in 1878 400 Bulgarian and 80 Turks houses and in 1912 420 Bulgarian and 80 Turk houses. According to professor Lyubomir Miletich, the 1912 population had around 300 Bulgarian families and 100 Turk families.</p><br>
<p>In August 1913 the village was attacked by Turkish troops and irregulars and despite the resistance of the local Bulgarians the bigger part of Golyam Dervent was burned. Many of the villagers were killed, many women were raped. Some residents found shelter in Doganhisar, Dedeagatch or Bulgaria.</p><br>
<p>After a brief period of Bulgarian rule between 1913 and 1919, it became part of Greece. As a result its Bulgarian and Turkish population was exchanged with Greek refugees, mainly from today&#39;s Turkey. 300 Bulgarians moved northward into Burgas, Mokren (4 families), Zagortsi (4 families), Veselie, Mamarčevo, Sokolentsi (2 families) and other villages in Bulgaria. The name of the village was translated into Greek and became Mega Dereio.</p><br>
<p>Tikehau  or Porutu-kai is a coral atoll in the Palliser Islands group, part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. It is included in the commune of Rangiroa.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Tikehau is located 340 km northeast of Tahiti in the Tuamotu Islands. The nearest atoll, Rangiroa, lies only 12 km to the east. Mataiva, the westernmost atoll of the same group, is located 35 km to the west.</p><br>
<p>The atoll&#39;s oval-shaped lagoon is 27 km long and 19 km wide with a lagoon area of about 461 km&sup2;. The atoll is made up of two major islands and numerous islets. The northeastern quarter of the atoll is a single, mostly uninhabited island. The whole atoll is surrounded by an almost continuous coral reef. There is a single pass deep and wide enough for navigation in and out of the lagoon: Tuheiava Pass is located on the western shore. The islands and islets are covered with coconut palms. The main village is called Tuherahera.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first recorded European to arrive to Tikehau was the Russian mariner Otto von Kotzebue. He called this atoll Krusenstern Island, after Russian explorer Adam Johann von Krusenstern. The Wilkes Expedition passed by this atoll on 9 September 1839.</p><br>
<p>On a visit in 1987, Jacques Cousteaus research group made a study of Tikehaus lagoon and discovered that it contains a greater variety of fish species than any other place in French Polynesia.</p><br>
<p>Today, Tikehau is a tourist destination, popular for its pink sand beaches and its exceptional underwater fauna.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Tikehau Airport, located on the southern tip of the atoll, was inaugurated in 1977. There are daily flights to and from Tahiti and other atolls of the Tuamotus.</p><br>
<h2>Additional photographs and maps</h2><br>
<p>The King George Islands  is a subgroup of the Tuamotus Archipelago group in French Polynesia.</p><br>
<p>The King George Islands include four atolls and one island:</p><br>
<p>* Ahe</p><br>
<p>* Manihi</p><br>
<p>* Takapoto</p><br>
<p>* Takaroa</p><br>
<p>* Tikei Island</p><br>
<p>Tikei is the easternmost island and Ahe Atoll is the westernmost of the subgroup. The distance between them is 200 km. Unlike the atolls of the Palliser group that form a spindle from the northwest to the southeast, the King George Islands follow a mirror image pattern of grouping from southwest to the northeast.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The name "King George Islands" was given to this group by British explorer John Byron, who reached Manihi, Takaroa and Takapoto in June 1765. In the 1880s, the Tuamotus were claimed by France, and in 1946 the indigenous Polynesians were granted the French citizenship.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Administratively there are two communes in the King George Islands:</p><br>
<p>* The commune of Manihi consists of the atolls of Manihi and Ahe.</p><br>
<p>* The commune of Takaroa consists of the atolls of Takaroa and Takapoto, as well as Tikei Island.</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church, also known as Christ Church on Capitol Square, is an Episcopal church at 120 East Edenton Street in Raleigh, North Carolina. Built in 1848-53 to a design by Richard Upjohn, it is one of the first Gothic Revival churches in the American South. The church was built for a parish established in 1821; its minister is the Rev. James P. Adams. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church is located within Raleigh&#39;s Capitol Area Historic District, just east of the North Carolina State Capitol at the southeast corner of East Edenton and South Wilmington Streets. It is a generally cruciform structure, built predominantly out of rough-cut stone that is varied in color, with dressed stone at the corners and openings. It has a red tile roof that is topped by cruciform finials at the gable ends. The walls are buttressed at the corners, and separating the bays on the long axis. A covered arcade extends north from the west end of the church, joining it to an otherwise-freestanding tower. The tower has three stages, with buttressed corners, and a lancet-louvered belfry in the upper level. It is crowned by a spire and a distinctive bronze weather vane.</p><br>
<p>The Christ Church parish was organized in 1821, and its first church was a wood frame structure built in 1829. The present church was designed by Richard Upjohn in 1846, and was consecrated in 1854. At the suggestion of the churchs Bishop Levi Silliman Ives, Upjohn based his design on St. Marys in Burlington, New Jersey, which he had recently completed. The churchs parish house with chapel, added in 1913-1914, was designed by Upjohns grandson Hobart.</p><br>
<p>The Ravenscroft School, a private K-12 school in Raleigh, was started by members of the church and named after the Episcopal Bishop of the area at that time, John Stark Ravenscroft, who was also the rector of the church.</p><br>
<p>Olivia Raney served as organist until her death in 1896.</p><br>
<p>The Cupola House is a historic house museum at 408 South Broad Street in Edenton, North Carolina. Built in 1756–1758 , it is the second oldest building in Edenton, and the only known surviving example in the American South of a "jutt," or overhanging second floor. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cupola House is a two-story gable-roofed house with external brick end chimneys. It is now covered with weatherboards; recent research suggests it may originally have been covered with rusticated siding, similar to the siding still in place on the cupola. Mount Vernon and the Redwood Library have similar siding. The roof is covered with wooden shingles. Two main rooms flank a central passage, which was an uncommon layout in colonial North Carolina but was not rare in other colonies. The unique aspect of the house is its combination of a cupola with an overhanging upper story. The cupola is octagon-shaped and covered in wood that has been cut to imitate stonework.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the house features elaborate finishing which denotes the "social hierarchy" of the rooms. The stair brackets of the staircase in the central hallway feature carved floral decorations and moldings, while the doors leading to the two main rooms are surmounted by pediments. The house includes ornate mantels and woodwork on first and second floors. The cupola is reached from the attic by a "barrel stair," a spiral stair framed within vertical wood sheathing that looks like a large barrel.</p><br>
<p>The house lot was originally more spacious, extending to Edenton Bay. The property was owned by a succession of merchants, including Richard Sanderson, a shipowner. Francis Corbin, the Earl of Granville’s land agent, bought the lot in 1756 and built the current residence.</p><br>
<p>The Cupola House is one of several sites of historic Edenton. Other historic sites open for tour include the James Iredell House, Roanoke River Light, Barker House, Chowan County Courthouse and St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>Mount Pelion East is a mountain located in the Central Highlands region of Tasmania, Australia. The mountain is situated within the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park.</p><br>
<p>With an elevation of 1,461 m above sea level, the mountain is the 25 highest mountain in Tasmania, slightly higher than the better known Frenchmans Cap at 1,446 m. Unlike Mount Pelion West, Pelion East is not a massive mountain, more pinnacle-like, the spire shape having been caused by harsh glacial erosion many thousands of years ago.</p><br>
<h2>Location and access</h2><br>
<p>The mountain summit is at grid reference 225655 UTM Zone 55S and high resolution topographical information is available on Tasmap Cathedral 1:25000. To the west is Mount Pelion West, due north is Lake Ayr, due east is Curate Bluff in the Cathedral Mountain range, and due south is Mount Massif. The mountain is made up of dolerite and the lower slopes are covered in low scrub, including scoparia. This mountain is approximately midway between Pelion Hut and Kia Ora Hut on the Overland Track which passes within 1,000 m of the summit.</p><br>
<p>Mount Pelion East may be accessed via the Overland Track from Cradle Mountain during the main walking season from November to April when a booking and fee system applies. During this walking period the track is restricted to limited numbers and north-south traffic only is permitted. In the off-season, walking is also allowed from the south at Lake St Clair. Another access route is the combined Arm River and Innes Tracks which passes Lake Ayr and joins the Overland Track at Pelion Plains. A wider overview of the area and access points is available on the Tasmap Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair map and notes publication.</p><br>
<p>This mountain can be climbed from the Overland Track which passes by very closely at Pelion Gap, at an elevation of 1,126 m.</p><br>
<p>Bethabara Historic District encompasses the surviving buildings and archaeological remains of a small Moravian community, that was first settled in 1753. Located in present-day Forsyth County, North Carolina, it is now a public park of the city of Winston-Salem. It was designated National Historic Landmark in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bethabara (from the Hebrew, meaning "House of Passage" and pronounced beth-ab-bra, the name of the traditional site of the Baptism of Jesus Christ) was a village located in what is now Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was the site where eleven men from the Moravian Church first settled in 1753 in an abandoned cabin in the 100,000 acre tract of land the church had purchased from Lord Granville and dubbed Wachovia.</p><br>
<p>Its early settlers were noted for advanced agricultural practices, especially their medicine Garden, which produced over fifty kinds of herbs.</p><br>
<p>Although later parties of Moravians joined the first eleven, including women and children, Bethabara was never meant to be a permanent settlement. It was intended to house the Moravians until a more suitable location for their central village could be found. In 1771, that place was completed: Salem. Many of the settlers moved to Salem, and Bethabara became an outlying farm to supply the residents of Salem and other Moravian villages with food.</p><br>
<p>In 1788, a slave, Johann Samuel, was named superintendent of the farm; he was freed in 1801, though he continued to rent the land from the church. However, the village of Bethabara, as it existed, was no longer needed, and it fell into disuse. The original buildings collapsed, and their foundations were filled in to make more farm land. Only the church and a few other buildings continued in regular use.</p><br>
<h2>Historic Bethabara Park</h2><br>
<p>Today, what remains of the village, including the excavated foundations of the original buildings, the restored Gemeinhaus (the Bethabara Moravian Church), and the reconstructed palisade and colonial gardens, is part of Historic Bethabara Park. The 183 acre park and wildlife preserve is located in Winston-Salem and is operated by the City of Winston-Salem Recreation & Parks Department as an open-air museum. The site also features 20 mi of nature trails.</p><br>
<p>There are frequent festivals and reenactments on the weekends, such as the Independence Weekend Celebration held the weekend prior to or during Independence Day.</p><br>
<p>The Bethabara site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1999. The Gemeinhaus was separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Church of Saint Mary&#39;s is a 1909 Beaux-Arts Catholic church, located at 8433 239th Street East, New Trier in the USA state of Minnesota. The bright red building sits high on a hill overlooking the town, which was settled by German immigrants from Trier. The immigrants began arriving in 1854, and in 1857, they built a log church. In 1864, they built a larger stone church on a hill above the town.</p><br>
<p>In 1909 the congregation decided to build a new, larger church. George J. Ries of St. Paul, who also designed the Church of St. Agnes, used a Beaux-Arts style for the new church. It is built of red brick and can be seen from miles, being perched on a hilltop. The cornerstone from the old church is installed in the vestibule, and a five-foot tall statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary from 1862 is located in a shrine above the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its association with the German immigrants who almost exclusively populated southeastern Dakota County beginning in 1854.</p><br>
<p>Founded as the first Moravian settlement in Wachovia on November 17, 1753, Bethabara served until 1766 as the center of Moravian work in the South. The old historic church was built in 1788.Designed by Moravian administrator Friedrich Wilhelm von Marschall, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Bethabara Moravian Church facility was built in 1788 in what is now Winston-Salem, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The church is located at 2147 Bethabara Road.</p><br>
<p>The congregation is still active. We are at the corner of Bethabara Rd. and Indiana Ave. 2100 Bethabara Rd. Service is at 11 AM on Sunday. Welcome.</p><br>
<p>In May we celebrate with Bethabara Park the Celtic Festival. In 2017 the date will be May 13th. Park at 2100 Bethabara Road and walk or ride the shuttle. Our church will be open with restrooms available. Bake sale, Frozen chicken pies and a yard sale will be held. Proceeds will help our church including our clothing and food pantry ministries. Our church will also have a BBQ tent located near the Bunter house in the Historic park.</p><br>
<p>The Rudolph Latto House is a historic house in Hastings, Minnesota, United States, built 1880–1881. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for local significance in architecture for its transitional Italianate/Eastlake design. It was built in white Chaska brick.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Rudolph Latto was a German immigrant who arrived in Hastings in 1856 and rose from poverty to wealth as a brewer, banker, hotelier, and grocer, affording him the means to build his grand home. Upon its completion in 1881 it also served as a gathering place for Germans in the area. When Latto and his wife died without issue, they donated the building to the city for use as a hospital. It served as such 1914–1949, then was used as a nursing home from 1949 to 1985. With the building by then in need of major restoration, the Hastings government approved its sale to a private party. The new owners completed a restoration and reopened the house in 1989 as a bed and breakfast inn. The same owners had previously converted the nearby Thompson-Fasbender House into a bed and breakfast. After an ownership change, the Latto House is now The Historic Inn on Ramsey Street.</p><br>
<p>Hayes Plantation, also known as Hayes Farm, is a historic plantation near Edenton, North Carolina that belonged to Samuel Johnston , who served as Governor of North Carolina from 1787 to 1789. Johnston became one of the states first two United States Senators, serving from 1789 until 1793, and served later as a judge until retiring in 1803. Samuel Johnston died in 1816 at "the Hermitage," his home near Williamston in Martin County, N.C. The residence known as Hayes was completed by his son, James Cathcart Johnston, a year after Samuels death. There are numerous other structures on the property, some predating the Hayes house itself, including the Hayes Gatehouse, which James Johnston lived in prior to the construction of the Hayes house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James Cathcart Johnston was known as a bachelor. Recent research published in 2013 reveals that although Johnston never married, he was the father of four daughters by his manumitted mistress, Edith "Edy" Wood, of nearby Hertford, N.C. Two of his girls died at the age of eight and nine in 1836, and his eldest daughter, Mary Virginia Wood Forten (daughter-in-law of wealthy African American abolitionist, James Forten), died in Philadelphia of tuberculosis in 1840, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, the future diarist, poet, and equal rights activist Charlotte Forten Grimke. Johnstons youngest daughter, Annie Wood (1831–1879), was just six years older than her niece Charlotte, and the two girls were raised by Edy Wood until Edys death in 1846. The girls continued to be raised with the Forten-Purvis clan while Annie Wood was adopted by Amy Matilda Cassey, daughter of African American Episcopal priest, Peter Williams, Jr. and wife of wealthy African American financier and benefactor, Joseph Cassey. In 1850, after Joseph Casseys death, Amy Matilda Cassey married antislavery orator, Charles Lenox Remond, and moved from Philadelphia to his home in Salem, Massachusetts, taking Annie Wood with her. While in Salem, Annie Wood married her childhood sweetheart, John G. Webb, grandson of Vice President Aaron Burr and brother of Frank J. Webb, author of the second African American novel, The Garies and Their Friends. James Cathcart Johnston paid for Annie Woods education, made generous payments to her as she grew up, and promised her an "independence."</p><br>
<p>James C. Johnston died at the end of the Civil War and left Hayes to his "friend and advisor" Edward Wood of Greenfield Plantation. Edward Wood had several children with his wife Caroline Gilliam- Wood. However, Wood also fathered a daughter with a slave. His biracial daughter, Mariah was raised in the Wood home and was reared by her aunt Sarah Wood-Walker (house servant). Mr. Wood and his family moved to Hayes and members of the Wood family live there today. It is a working farm with numerous crops, including cotton, tobacco, peanuts and various grains. The modern day Wood family has hosted many functions and gatherings at the home including the North Carolina Supreme Court, the North Carolina House of Representatives, Governors Terry Sanford, James B. Hunt Jr., Pat McCrory and numerous other dignitaries.</p><br>
<p>The main house, considered by architectural scholars to be "one of the South&#39;s most accomplished examples of a five-part palladian villa," was designed by English-born architect, William Nichols, Sr., famous for his early Neoclassical-style buildings in the American South and for designing statehouses for three Southern states. Construction of the house began in 1814, but was not completed until 1817. The central block of the house is connected to its dependencies by curved hyphens. A broad belvedere crowns the roof of the central block. The plantation house is privately owned, but was designated a National Historic Landmark on November 7, 1973 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 26, 1974.</p><br>
<p>Hayes is located east of Edenton, overlooking Edenton Bay to the south and Queen Annes Creek to the north.</p><br>
<p>Just outside the home is a small graveyard called Johnstons cemetery. Many notable figures were buried here, including Penelope Barker, leader of the Edenton Tea Party; James Iredell, an associate justice to the USA Supreme Court; Samuel Johnston, Governor of North Carolina; James Iredell, Jr., Governor of North Carolina; and James Wilson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Wilsons remains were moved in 1906 to Christ Church Philadelphia by the state of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, John G. Zehmer published a book on the plantation called Hayes: The Plantation, Its People, and Their Papers. The book consists of many historic documents, photos, and memories from various members of the Wood family and those who know it best.</p><br>
<p>The National Park Service Southwest Regional Office, also known as National Park Service Region III Headquarters Building, is located at 1100 Old Santa Fe Train in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The office provides support services for Park Service properties throughout the intermountain region of the American Southwest. The building, designed by NPS architect Cecil J. Doty, it is a traditional adobe building, built the 1930s by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps. It is the largest adobe office building in the nation, and a masterpiece of Spanish Pueblo Revival architecture. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987. It is open to the public during normal business hours; tours are not normally given.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>In the early 1930s, the United States National Park Service was reorganized in anticipation of an increase in the number of parks the service would have to manage. A need for a centralized office for the southwest region was identified at that time, resulting in the design and construction of this building in the 1930s. It was designed in 1937by Park Service architect Cecil Doty, who chose the Spanish Pueblo Revival. It was built by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps with funding from the Works Progress Administration. They formed the bricks for the walls on site, and also constructed some of the furnishings, which were also designed by Doty. The building is at 24,000 ft&sup2; the largest known adobe office building, emulating in its style and layout the forms of traditional adobe architecture common to the region.</p><br>
<p>The office is located in a somewhat rural setting southeast of downtown Santa Fe, on the south side of Old Santa Fe Trail at its junction with Camino del Montel Sol, and just north of Santa Fe&#39;s major museum district. It is organized in the form of a traditional mission compound, with a central patio. The main wing on the east side of the patio is two stories in height, and is where the main entrance and lobby space are located. The walls, built out of adobe and finished in cement stucco, vary in thickness between 4.9 ft and 3 ft. The main lobby space has flagstone floors, while more functional areas of the building have carpeted concrete floors.</p><br>
<p>Edmondson Hall was built in 1856 just outside Meadowview, this brick, Greek Revival house has withstood time very well. William Campbell Edmondson, an early pioneer and merchant, built the house, and the original parcel included 383 acre in the fertile valley. On June 11, 1998 the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Early years</h2><br>
<p>In the early years of the house, the bedrooms were probably fully occupied by children. William and Susan Edmondson were the parents of five children. William remarried after Susan&#39;s death to Sarah Edmondson and they both had three children. In addition to the family living here, the Edmondsons in 1860 owned 14 slaves, seven of whom were children under the age of 12. Two slave cabins were located on the property as well.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house was a large and fine house for its time and place. A late example of the Greek Revival style, the main decorative focus on the exterior of the house is the two-tiered entry porch. The interior has a center hall plan with 4 rooms on each floor, each with a fireplace, and two rooms in the rear ell. The house still retains most of its original features, including the paint graining on fireplace surrounds, doors and trim.</p><br>
<p>Items listed in a deed of Homestead filed by Edmondson in 1881 indicate the quality of furnishings in the home. The parlor was carpeted with a Brussels carpet, and contained a set of sofas, a Steiff piano, gilt looking glass, six cushioned chairs and two parlor rocking chairs. Upstairs, two of the bedrooms were described as the Ladies room and the Gentlemens room and were outfitted with beds, washstands, wardrobes, bureaus and carpets.</p><br>
<h2>Owners</h2><br>
<p>After William&#39;s death in 1883, Mrs. Edmondson remained in the home until about 1894. The house was sold in 1895 and owned by Dr. William T. Delaney until 1911. Later owners were H. M. Brooks (1911–1918), Walter Gregory (1918–1951), W. A. and Mary G. Megginson (1951–1991), and now privately owned by Robert M and DeVonne Salyer (1991–present).</p><br>
<h2>Ghosts</h2><br>
<p>The Salyer family has devoted much time and labor to restoring the house to its grandeur. People who have studied supernatural phenomena claim to feel the presence of spirits when they enter the house. However, the family maintains they have never felt threatened by any of the spirits who also call the house their home.</p><br>
<p>There are local stories about finding infant bones in the attic, of seeing a ghostly woman rocking in a rocking chair in a bedroom, and people being chased from the yard by a mysterious rider on horseback. One visitor felt someone grab her in an empty room and an interior decorator helping with the house felt someone pull her hair in a front upstairs bedroom, when nobody was nearby.</p><br>
<p>One elder member of the Salyer family, nicknamed GMA, claimed to have seen identical twin girls, about 21 years old, who stayed in her room all night. The beautiful girls had long blonde hair, and one stood at the foot of her bed while the other stood at her bedroom door. The strangest thing is that the family found out later that the twins had lived in the house. GMA said "she wished they hadn&#39;t whispered so much all night because it had kept her awake".</p><br>
<p>The Yakima Park Stockade Group, also known as North and South Blockhouses, Museum, and Stockade at Sunrise, is a building complex consisting of four log buildings at the Sunrise Visitors Center area in the northeast part of Mount Rainier National Park. The complex is architecturally significant as a particularly fine example of rustic frontier log architecture. The first of the blockhouses and the stockade were built in 1930, while the second blockhouse followed in 1943. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987. It is in turn part of the Mount Rainier National Historic Landmark District, which encompasses the entire park and which recognizes the park&#39;s inventory of Park Service-designed rustic architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Design and construction</h2><br>
<p>The stockade complex was designed by architect A. Paul Brown and landscape architect Ernest A. Davidson of the National Park Service. The design concept originated with Davidson, who was inspired by early structures erected by settlers against the possibility of Indian raids. Stone came from a rockslide about a mile away, and the white pine for framing and siding came from the area of the White River, about twelve miles from Yakima Park. Davidson had mixed feelings about the development, commenting that the location was less attractive than it had been before it was developed, but was still far superior to other developed areas of the park that had grown with no plan or regulation.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The south blockhouse was built first, in 1930. While it appears to be constructed of logs, it is a wood-frame structure with log siding. The square two-story building has a battered stone foundation wall extending to sill level, which is overhung by the second floor. The south blockhouse housed administrative and interpretation services for the Yakima Park area. The south blockhouse initially contained two administrative offices on the first floor, as well as a kitchen, dining room and living room for staff. The upper level included six bedrooms and two bathrooms. The Stockade is a vertical log fence built in the 1930s that hid a mess hall, since demolished, and which now conceals a split-face concrete block water treatment building built in 1985. Work on the visitor center and the north blockhouse began in 1939, and was completed in 1943, delayed by funding problems. The north blockhouse resembles the south blockhouse, with greater attention to stonework. The north blockhouse houses seasonal park employees. The visitor center is set between and behind the blockhouses, with a view of Mount Rainier through large south-facing windows. The building was previously known as the "campers&#39; shelter" and the Museum. The visitor center is built of logs, with an overhanging second story, but with less of an overhang than the blockhouses. All of the structures have hipped roofs clad with cedar shingles.</p><br>
<p>Vrysochori  is one of the Zagori villages , in the Ioannina regional unit, Greece. Vrysochori is in the Tymfi municipal unit, and is about 75 km  from Ioannina.</p><br>
<h2>Location and climate</h2><br>
<p>The elevation of Vrysochori is 1157 m (3799 ft) above sea-level. Vrysochori is surrounded by conifer forests and rivers at the foothills of Gamila of the Tymphis mountain range, and borders the Vikos–Aoös National Park. Vrysochori is the 3rd largest village of Zagori Villages in terms of land size. The village is located in between the second and the fifth highest peaks of Greece, just 5 km away from the Aoos River.</p><br>
<p>It is the only area of Greece where snowbanks stand throughout every season of the year. The forest area which belongs to the village is the 2nd biggest in Zagori (after Laista&#39;s one) and local forest maps are required for trekkers not to be lost in them, as wild pigs and bears are indigenous to the area. Because of the many rivers which cross these mountains and the village, the village has its own source of water, which the central Zagori now also uses.</p><br>
<p>The secondary mountain route O3 (connecting to the main E3) passes through the village.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Vrysochori was founded in 1295. It was called Liasintsa (or Lesinitsa), until 1927, when it was renamed to Vrysochorion. The church of St. Charalambos in the village square dates back to 1814. The town suffered severe damage in both World War II and the Greek Civil War, and lost a large portion of its population during the 1940s as a result. The Germans burnt much of the settlement in 1943.</p><br>
<p>Prior to World War II Vrysochorians used to migrate to Thessaly, Thrace and Macedonia. Outside Greece, they migrated to the USA</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>In the early 20th century, its population was more than 1600. The residents of the area speak a Latin dialect which is spoken in various areas of the Balkan peninsula (Vlach dialect).</p><br>
<h2>Local main events — Panigyri</h2><br>
<p>1. 26–28 July, every year, there is a three (3) day continuous local traditional feast(during the feast days of Saints Pandelis and Paraskevi), one of the very few that has remained untouched by time in Greece. In the morning, villagers attend church services at the chapel of Saint Paraskevi, situated on the outskirts of the village. Following the liturgy and artoplasia (blessing of bread), elders from the village dance in the church yard. Then community members visit each other&#39;s homes, where they are treated to tsipouro (traditional alcoholic drink) and loukoumia (sweets). The first two nights there is dancing in the main square (plateia) until morning and the third morning the feast moves to "Magoula", near the forest in the area "Balta" (beside the eternal ice and snowbanks)on the Timfi Sierra Mountain range. Families roast lambs on open spits and picnic under the shade of the trees. Everyone shares food and dancing until the afternoon. Everyone is invited to join in the feasting, especially visitors who do not have permanent stay in the village and those who have come back from far and wide. As is tradition, they are treated with care and given the time to lead the dancing.</p><br>
<p>2. There is a new feast which takes place on the first Saturday after the 15th of August, called "To panigyri tis pitas" ("pie feast"). The women of the village bake homemade pites ("pies")and bring them at night to the plateia for all to share. This feast celebrates the talents of the women in the village who maintain the skills and tradition of opening handmade phillo dough and filling it with cheeses, spinach, eggs, and/or zucchini, before carefully baking it until golden brown in wood ovens (although modern ovens are also used). In the evening, villagers and visitors gather in the plateia, where traditional Epirotika music and dancing entertains those young and old. The pites ("pies) are shared among all participants by the women who created them. This new tradition began in the early 1990s and has been a great success. It is the only "pie feast" in Zagori, and every year it attracts more and more participants.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Euterpe Bouki-Dukakis, mother of Michael Dukakis, American Democratic politician, former Governor of Massachusetts, and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Nikolas Ioannis Kassavetes, father of American actor/director John Cassavetes and grandfather of actor/director Nick Cassavetes.</p><br>
<p>Christos Athanasiadis, a businessman who offered his inheritance to the village</p><br>
<h2>Local Club</h2><br>
<p>Morfotikos and Oreivatikos syllogos Vrysohoriou (Educational & Mountaineering club of Vrysohori) issues a newspaper four times a year which is the main way of communication among people who have their origin coming from Vrysohori and they are spread all around the world. Also, it organises the feasts and brings back every summer for reunions all Vrysochorites and helps the local authorities maintain the forests and the village.</p><br>
<p>The Longmire Buildings in Mount Rainier National Park comprise the park&#39;s former administrative headquarters, and are among the most prominent examples of the National Park Service Rustic style in the national park system. They comprise the Longmire Community Building of 1927, the Administration Building of 1928, and the Longmire Service Station of 1929. Together, these structures were designated National Historic Landmarks on May 28, 1987. The administration and community buildings were designed by National Park Service staff under the direction of Thomas Chalmers Vint.</p><br>
<h2>Administration Building</h2><br>
<p>The Longmire Administration Building is the largest and most architecturally significant of the three structures. The two-story building features heavy boulder rubble construction to the sill line of its second floor windows, with log-frame construction above. The building is entered through a front porch constructed of unusually heavy peeled logs. As the parks administrative headquarters it housed the offices of the park superintendent and engineering support activities. After the construction of a new headquarters just outside the parks boundaries under the Mission 66 program, the Administration Building became a visitor contact point and maintenance headquarters.</p><br>
<p>Behind the entry porch, a pair of doors give access to a reception room furnished with a stone fireplace. A conference room and offices are housed on the upper level, with the basement contains mechanical equipment and a jail cell. The exterior corners of the building are buttressed with stone pilasters at the corners. Log planks sheathe the upper level above the sill, giving the appearance of log construction.</p><br>
<h2>Community Building</h2><br>
<p>The Community Building was the first to be built and set the tone for the area. The T-Shaped frame building houses a large community room measuring about 60 ft by 30 ft, with a subsidiary wing housing toilets and staff quarters. A deep porch occupies one bay in front of the community room. Exterior walls are finished with log-slab veneer. The community room&#39;s interior features exposed scissor-truss log roof framing, with a large stone fireplace at one end. The masonry of the fireplace is distinctive, with roughly squared stone in the lower portion giving way to round glacial boulders. The other end of the room houses a small stage in a bay projecting from the end of the building. Original furnishings include light fixtures and log tables resembling those at the Paradise Inn. The living quarters were renovated in 1964 and retain little of their historic fabric. The interiors of the housing wing were excluded from the National Historic Landmark nomination. The lower level is used as a kitchen, with two apartments on the upper level.</p><br>
<h2>Service Station</h2><br>
<p>The 1929 Service Station provided gasoline and basic services to park visitors. The front half of the building is a drive-through covered bay with supports on the gas island, with an office in the other half behind, the whole crowned by a steeply-pitched attic. Stone-faced concrete extends from grade level to sill level. The frame wall above is clad with log slab siding, while the roof is clad with cedar shingles. A small apartment is housed in the attic, accessible by an exterior stairway.</p><br>
<p>The Longmire Buildings form a part of the Longmire Historic District, which is itself within the Mount Rainier National Park National Historic Landmark District, comprising the entire park.</p><br>
<p>The Administration Building and Service Station are close together near the road, while the Community Building is across the Nisqually River. The construction of all three was supervised by Ernest A. Davidson, a Park Service landscape architect assigned to Mount Rainier. Vint chose to feature the Community Building and the Administration Building in his 1938 Park and Recreation Structures publications, an influential series of three volumes devoted to rustic park structures that influenced state and national park design through the 1930s. The Service Station stands as an almost unique example of rustic architecture for that building type.</p><br>
<p>Chibuene is a Mozambiquean archaeological site, located five kilometres south of the coastal city of Vilanculos South Beach. The site was occupied during two distinct phases. The earlier phase of occupation dates to the late first millennium AD. The second phase dates from around 1450 and is contemporaneous with the Great Zimbabwe civilization in the African interior. During both phases of its development Chibuene was a trading settlement. Trade goods obtained from the site include glass beads, painted blue and white ceramics, and glass bottle fragments. The later phase of settlement has yielded remains of ancient structures as well as evidence of metallurgy. Crucibles have been found that were presumably used to melt gold obtained from trade with the Great Zimbabwe civilization. There is evidence that Chibuene traded extensively with the inland settlement of Manyikeni. Mozambique has jointly inscribed these two properties on their tentative version of the World Heritage List.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The archaeological site was occupied from approximately AD 600 to AD 1700 continuously and into the present, intermittently. This site participated in the Indian Ocean trade network and is currently the most southern located site on the eastern African coast. Archaeological samples at the site revealed that Chibuene&#39;s occupation contained two major periods of occupation. The objects presented in the lower deposits contained glazed and unglazed pottery, glass, iron fragments, and beads made of shell and glass. The upper layers contained a distinguishable change in ceramic typology. In addition, two types of imported glazed pottery have been recovered from the site. The main subsistence pattern of the inhabitants of the site appeared to derive from the coast which included fish, marine mammals, and reptiles. Additionally, contemporary farmers in the region produce maize, sorghum, manioc, beans, and peanuts.</p><br>
<p>The lower layers of occupation contained the presence of early Matola pottery typically associated with early farming communities in the region. In addition to glass beads which revealed the locations importance as an entry point for glass which later found its way into the interior by the end of the first millennium AD. The site likely contributed to glass beads presented in sites within Shashe River and Limpopo River regions, the Zimbabwe Plateau, and Botswana to about AD 1000. The considerable amount of glass and shell recovered in the lower occupation deposits suggested the site trading extensively within the Indian Ocean trade network in the late first millennium AD.</p><br>
<p>Manyikeni, a Zimbabwean traditional style of stone walled settlement 10 km west of Chibuene, possibly gained control of the site after AD 1200. This is attested by the increased similarity of later occupation deposits containing pottery similar in character to Manyikeni. In addition, this is corroborated by the presence of marine shell and imports from Indian ocean trade in the context of Manyikeni deposits suggesting the coast and hinterlands were connected through trade networks. Chibuene acted as the way point for entry of materials and resources from the eastern coast and the trade network it provided.</p><br>
<h2>Subsistence economy</h2><br>
<p>The current estimate for the development of the site is estimated to be around 400 AD as a farming community on the southern coast of Mozambique. Contemporary annual and seasonal rainfall reveals very high variability in the region with most of the rainfall arriving in December and February, averaging 832 mm/per year. The summer rainfall season experiences decadal cycles of wet and dry phases. The high variability of rainfall appears to have remained consistent throughout the last 1600 years. Pollen evidence from the surrounding lakes of Nhaucati and Xiroche suggests a lengthy period of drought between 1400 and 1700, peaking in 1700. This drought accompanied a dramatic change in vegetation cover from forest savanna mosaic to forest savanna woodland. Furthermore, the surrounding area contains relatively nutrient poor dunal sand, susceptible to erosion.</p><br>
<p>Agriculture was introduced to the region around 400 AD to the present. Poor soil and the unreliability of rainfall reduced the viability of agriculture as a reliable subsistence pattern. Throughout the course of the occupation of Chibuene, the inhabitants practiced a broad subsistence economy with the utilization of domestic animals, marine fauna, and wild plant life to augment agricultural production. The faunal remains of shark and turtle were notable features of the site. Shark fishing and turtle hunting are subsistence strategies more associated with East African, or Swahili coast, sites beginning in the first millennium, revealing a closer affinity of Chibuene to sites further north than the southern interior.</p><br>
<p>The oldest layers of the site contained a high volume of shellfish. In addition domesticated animals such as cattle, sheep, goats, and chickens are represented at the site which attests to an association with southern African sites. Despite the availability of domesticated animals, it appeared that shellfish consisted of the bulk of the protein utilized by the inhabitants of Chibuene.</p><br>
<p>The introduction of domesticated chicken illustrates the site’s importance for trade between the Indian Ocean and the southern interior as a possible route of entry for the black-feathered variety of chicken resembling those of India. Thus, the inhabitants of the site made extensive use of their location along the southern Mozambican coast. The poor soil composition and inadequate rainfall only allowed variable agricultural output, causing the inhabitants to procure other means of sustenance. Chibuene inhabitants made use of domesticated animals from southern Africa and successful shark and turtle hunting practices from neighbors from the north in order to adequately exploit the resources of the particular region they inhabited with easy access to the coast and variable land for pasturage in addition to invaluable trade resources procured from the Indian Ocean trade network.</p><br>
<h2>Adaptive strategies and agriculture</h2><br>
<p>In the initial years of occupation between 400 and 700 AD clearing of land for agriculture remained relatively small. The years following saw a degree of agricultural intensification between 600 and 1000 AD, but there is no evidence for clearing on a massive scale. Trade played an important role in this period for procuring valuable commodities such as glass and additional food stuffs. Faunal assemblages revealed much more of an emphasis on cattle herding in these early years, although not on a large-scale due to the low availability of pastoral lands. Cattle were possibly traded with the interior to procure extra grain stuffs in times of need. In these years, the landscape was covered in riverine forests and savannah.</p><br>
<p>The inhabitants of the site practiced agriculture since the early first millennium AD, but a notable increased occurred in roughly 1200 AD. This appeared to be accompanied by a decrease in foreign trade goods from the Indian Ocean trade network, particularly glass and ceramics from this network. For much of the period between 700-1000 AD, Chibuene was an important site that linked trade with the southern African interior and the trade networks on the coast. At the end of the first millennium trade networks on the Indian Ocean shifted north, causing a marked decline in the site’s significance in this network. This marked a transition period of the site from a significant Indian Ocean trade site to an agricultural and herding economy for the inhabitants. Chibuene remained an important location for trade on a regional level, but the site declined in population with the inhabitants scattering further into the interior. Anneli Ekblom suggests that the site may have been abandoned at this time and reoccupied two hundred years later. Evidences for this derives from the stark discontinuity of previous ceramic styles associated with southern African agriculturalists and the movement toward styles associated with Manyikeni.</p><br>
<p>Despite the potential abandonment of Chibuene, the surrounding region saw a dramatic shift to increased agricultural subsistence. At the same time of this shift, it is evident that the site began to become under the influence of Manyikeni, a Zimbabwean stone complex 50 km northwest of the site. Chibuene appeared to have become a tributary and redeveloped under the influence of Manyikeni. The increased use of agriculture likely served as an adaptive strategy to make up for the decreased availability of trade in the region. Furthermore, the climactic composition of the region largely remained the same as the previous occupation with sparse and unreliable rainfall, combined with low nutrient soil, further suggesting a relationship. Domesticated animals such as cattle, sheep, and goats remain in the faunal assemblages, suggesting their continued use as a buffer during periods of lower agricultural production. In addition, marine fauna remained an important part of the diets of individuals occupying the site.</p><br>
<p>The region surrounding Chibuene through the course of its occupation was a site of dramatic transformations of vegetation cover and climactic shifts. Pollen diagrams deriving from the surrounding lakes of Nhaucati and Xiroche revealed extensive landscape transformations from riverine forests to mostly savannah in the present day. As a result, the individual inhabitants employed a variety of adaptive strategies in order to procure adequate resources for survival. These included agriculture, keeping of domesticated animals, collecting of wild plant food stuff, and making use of their position close to the coast by exploiting marine flora and fauna. The site illustrated nearly 1600 years of such strategies.</p><br>
<h2>Regional and coastal trade</h2><br>
<p>The high concentration of beads in the early occupation levels of the Chibuene site suggest that the site was an important point of entry for trade goods arriving in the interior from 700-1000 AD. Many sites further north have been dated to have participated in trans-oceanic trade in the early first millennium AD, but sites such as Chibuene further south appear to have conducted extensive trade much earlier in the eighth century AD, evidenced from imported glass. Chibuene was the most southern trading port to have participated in the Indian Ocean Trade network. The glass deposits at the site match those of sites in the interior extending 1500 km. In this time frame, Chibuene was a very important gateway linking the coast to the interior, but sometime at the end of the first millennium its role dramatically decreased in the Indian Ocean trade network. Contemporaneously, sites further north, particularly Unguja Ukuu on Zanzibar and Tumbe on Pemba Island experienced a similar decline and trade and period of abandonment.</p><br>
<p>Ceramics</p><br>
<p>The earliest ceramics in the lowest levels of occupation contained a distinct pottery style, most associated with early agriculturalists in southern Africa. Much of the first phase of occupation is dominated by locally produced ceramics, mentioned above, Islamic glazed ware, and Ziwa tradition ceramics. This bowls were characteristic of ceramics found in Period Ia in Kilwa Kisiwani located to the north in Tanzania. It remains unknown as to whether these were imported from Kilwa or produced locally. These ceramic types were only found in the lower levels of occupation.</p><br>
<p>The unglazed ware at the site contained motifs ranging from triangles, oblique and horizontal lines, cross hatching, zigzags, and herringbone, typically across the rim, neck, or shoulder of the vessels. These appear to be produced through fine and gross incisions and shell impressions or punctuations. Ceramic evidence in the archaeological assemblage reveals that the site had a degree of contact with sites to the north and south in addition to Indian Ocean traders along the coast.</p><br>
<p>In the later occupation levels, ceramic levels begin to take on a new character. The assemblages begin resemble ceramic deposits located in Manyikeni at roughly 1200 AD. Ceramic samples taken from the earliest occupation levels at Manyikeni reveal dissimilarity with ceramics of the earliest levels at Chibuene. The most distinct Manyikeni ceramics are ovaloid vessels with shell impressed motifs and independent restricted vessels with graphite decoration which are absent from the assemblages within Chibuene in the first phase of occupation between 600-1000 AD. The discontinuity of imported glazed ceramics and introduction of Manyikeni styles is suggestive of the site becoming under the influence of Manyikeni. The ceramics in this period appear to be completely dominated by shell stamping in a similar manner to Manyikeni.</p><br>
<p>Glass and shell beads</p><br>
<p>The first occupation phase of Chibuene contained a multitude of glass beads, glass fragments, and shell beads. Glass beads classified as Zhizo beads have been found at sites further south and in limited numbers in sites further north. These same beads appear less frequently in the later occupation levels in the second millennium. Furthermore, glass beads appear most frequently in the early occupation sites and show a dramatic decrease in the later occupation levels. These reveal the significance of Chibuene as an important point of entry for glass and glass beads to sites located in the interior of southern Africa and to a lesser degree regions north of the site. Written sources in from the fifteenth century revealed that ivory, animal skins and slaves were traded for glass beads.</p><br>
<p>In archaeological surveys performed between 1995 and 2001 from the lower levels of occupation (600-1000 AD), 2800 beads were collected from the site with the vast majority being of the Zhizo tradition and the discovery of a new typology, named the Chibuene series. The Zhizo beads were made of plant-ash glass which suggests a Near Eastern origin, as only sites west of the Euphrates utilized plant-ash glass at this time, but the beads were manufactured with South Asian technology, making the place of manufacture difficult to ascertain.</p><br>
<p>The Chibuene series is distinct from other glass beads in the area in morphology and chemistry. The beads are tubular in shape with ends that have been rounded through reheating and suggested to be older than Zhizo beads at the site. These only match beads located at Nqoma in western Botswana, contemporaneously. The glass used to manufacture the beads appear to have a Near East origin.</p><br>
<p>Archaeological evidence reveals that Chibuene played an important role in trade in the region, despite the decline of Indian Ocean trade at the end of the first millennium. The site remained important for local trade between the north and south in addition to linking the coast with the interior at Manyikeni in which marine resources have been evidenced in the archaeological record at the site.</p><br>
<h2>Sources and external links</h2><br>
<p>The Hinton Rowan Helper House is a historic house on United States Route 64 outside Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina. Built on land that once belonged to Daniel Boone, it was the childhood and early adult home of Hinton Rowan Helper  whose The Impending Crisis of the South  was an influential antislavery work that inflamed tensions in 1860. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hinton Rowan Helper House is located west of Mocksville, set back from the north side of United States Route 64, a short way east of Bear Creek, on a 1.5 acre parcel of land that was once part of the Boone Tract, granted to Squire Boone and later owned by Daniel Boone. The location is marked by a state historic marker. It is a 1 1/2-story structure, with a central log structure at the core, and later frame additions to the side and rear. Its exterior is finished in clapboard siding. The gabled roof extends over the front porch, which is supported by posts, and there is a historic shed roof extension to the rear, with a modern kitchen ell added. The front parlor of the house shows exposed log construction, and some doorway thresholds are original split logs.</p><br>
<p>It was here that author Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) spent the first twenty years of his life, living in an area where he experienced directly the impact of slavery, not just on the slaves, but also on the white lower classes. In 1857 he published The Impending Crisis of the South, a reasoned polemic arguing that slavery was economically bad for most Southern whites, because it concentrated power and money in the slaveowning plantation elites and suppressed wages and drives to industrialize the region. The work was met with fury in the South, where it was banned, and was used by the Republican Party as campaign material in the 1860 United States election.</p><br>
<p>The Market House is an unusual combination town hall and town market building in the heart of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. Built in 1832, has an arcaded open ground level, and a meeting hall above, a form believed to be unique in the United States, but with precedents in England. It served both functions until the early 20th century, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973. It now houses a museum on the upper level.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Market House is located in the rotary at the center of the junction of Green, Person, Gillespie, and Hay Streets, in downtown Fayetteville. It is a two story brick building, with an open arcaded ground floor and a large meeting space on the second floor. It has a hip roof, above which rises a tower that houses a belfry and clock, and is topped by a dome and weathervane. The arches that form the arcade are symmetrical arrangements of round and lancet-pointed arches, framed in stone. Portions of the arcade extend beyond the second floor block, creating single-story sections that are topped by balustrades.</p><br>
<p>The Market House was built in 1832, on the site of the building that had housed the state legislature 1788-1793; it was one of many buildings destroyed by a devastating 1831 fire. The ground floor was used as a market space until 1907, and the upper level as town hall until 1906. Faced with the prospect of demolition, a private organization was formed to take over maintenance of the property. The Market House Museum is located on the second floor and features rotating monthly, special-emphasis Market House exhibits.</p><br>
<p>The building is believed to be a unique example of an English form, and its design may have been based in part on similar English halls found in South Shields, Stockton-on-Tees, and Abingdon-on-Thames. Buildings with similar function include Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, which originally had an arcaded ground floor until the 1806 expansion, and the City Market in Charleston, South Carolina, which retains its arcaded ground floor; both of these buildings are also National Historic Landmarks.</p><br>
<p>Market place 1904.jpgMarketplace in South Shields</p><br>
<p>County Hall Abingdon Geograph-3071725-by-Des-Blenkinsopp.jpg1680 County Hall, Abingdon-on-Thames</p><br>
<p>Market-hall-charleston-sc1.jpgCity Market (Charleston, South Carolina)</p><br>
<p>View of Faneuil-Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, March 1789.jpg1743 Faneuil Hall, as seen in 1789</p><br>
<p>Union Tavern is a historic tavern and workshop on Broad Street in Milton, North Carolina. It is a rare example of a well-preserved early 19th-century Federal period tavern, and is further notable as the workshop of Thomas Day , a free person of color who was one of North Carolina&#39;s leading cabinetmakers. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975. It is located in the Milton Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Union Tavern is located in the center of the rural community of Milton, on the south side of Broad Street (North Carolina Highway 57), between Palmers Alley and Lers Alley. It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, set close to the road, with a gabled roof. Its front facade is six bays wide, with three entrances, each set in a round-arch opening with a fanlight above. Windows are rectangular sash, with stone sills and brick lintels. An enclosed single-story porch extends across the left (east) side, and there is a single-story ell to the rear. The interior of the building has retained some of its original features, despite repeated alteration of the rooms for different uses.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Day was born in Virginia in 1801, a free person of color. By 1818 he had begun to work as a cabinetmaker, and in 1823 he moved to Milton, where he purchased and adapted this building as his studio and workshop. His skill as a craftsman was widely regarded: he catered to North Carolinas wealthiest residents, and was by mid-century operating the states largest workshop. He was notable for training white apprentices, other free blacks, and the slaves of nearby slaveholders, and for his own ownership of slaves. When he married a free woman from Virginia, the state legislature exempted her from the state&#39;s ban on the entry of free blacks after he threatened to move. He is also said to have done the woodwork in the local church, on condition that he be permitted to sit in the area normally reserved to whites.</p><br>
<p>The Nash-Hooper House, also known as the William Hooper House, is a historic house at 118 West Tryon Street in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Built in 1772 by American Revolutionary War general Francis Nash, it was home from 1782-90 to William Hooper, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. It is the only known home of Hooper&#39;s to survive, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District; it is a private residence, and is not normally open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Nash-Hooper House is located in central Hillsborough, on the north side of West Tryon Street, a residential street just on the edge of the central business district. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a high stone foundation. A single-story ell extends to the rear, and a single-story porch, probably of 19th-century origin, extends across the front. The interior retains a number of original finishes, including wide pine floors and fireplace mantels in some rooms.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1772 by Francis Nash, a politician and general of the Continental Army, who died in the 1777 Battle of Germantown, during the American Revolutionary War. After Nashs death, it was purchased in 1782 by William Hooper, one of North Carolinas signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence, who made it his home until his death in 1790. Hooper was originally buried on the grounds, in the east side garden; his ashes were moved to Guilford Courthouse in 1894. Other prominent residents of the house include William Alexander Graham, a Governor of North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Salem Tavern is a historic museum property at 800 South Main Street in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was a tavern in the 18th-century town of Salem, which is now part of Winston-Salem. It is part of Old Salem Museums & Gardens and open as an Old Salem tour building to visitors. Built in 1784 and enlarged in 1815, it was the first entirely brick building in what is now Old Salem, and is one of the oldest surviving brick tavern buildings in the United States. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Salem Tavern is located on the west side of South Main Street, between Blum and East Walnut Streets. It consists of two separate buildings, one brick and one wood frame. Both are 2-1/2 stories in height, and have gabled roofs. The brick building is set on a raised foundation, with a single-story shed-roof porch extending across the front, supported by square posts and accessed from the sidewalk by side-facing stairs. The front portion of the building houses public rooms on the ground floor, and sleeping quarters for guests above, with the kitchen and landlord&#39;s quarters in an ell to the rear. The adjacent wood frame building housed additional sleeping quarters.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Constructed on the foundations of an earlier 1771 Tavern which burnt to the ground in 1784, the Salem Tavern was quickly rebuilt, because it formed an important function in the Moravian Church community which was a trade town. Constructed by mason Johann Gottlob Krause using bricks already on hand for another building, the Tavern reopened quickly. The Tavern complex was later expanded by the construction of a wooden building to the north in 1815, then a building connected the two was constructed in 1832. A two story porch was run across the three buildings in 1838, but has since been removed. The Tavern was the lodgings for George Washington for two nights during his Southern Tour in 1791.</p><br>
<p>The Tavern and adjacent 1815 building have been restored to their original appearances.</p><br>
<p>The Old North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, also known as the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, is an office building at 114-116 West Parrish Street in downtown Durham, North Carolina. It formerly served as the headquarters for the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the nation&#39;s largest companies founded and owned by African-Americans. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company building is located in downtown Durham, on the northside of West Parrish Street in the area known as Black Wall Street. It is a six story brick building, three bays wide, with a flat roof. The ground floor bays are sheltered by a marquee that extends over the sidewalk, with plate glass windows in the outer bays and the main entrance recessed in the center bay. Above the marquee there are blind arches that form an arcade between the first and second floors. Pilasters rise between and outside the first floor bays to a stone course in which the words "Merchants and Farmers Bank" are incised. The five floors above have paired sash windows in each bay; the bays of the upper two floors are articulated by paneled pilasters. There are two balustraded concrete balconies projecting from the center bays of the third and fifth floors.</p><br>
<p>The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company was founded in 1898 by a group of seven African-American men, of whom two, John Merrick and Dr. Aaron Moore, survived in the business after one year. Moores nephew, Charles Clinton Spaulding, took charge of the business in 1900, and it thereafter grew rapidly, becoming by 1910 the nations largest firm owned by African-Americans. The company had this building constructed in 1921 as its second headquarters. At that time, it was the second-tallest building in Durham, and described by Durham&#39;s Morning Herald as an "architectural gem".</p><br>
<p>The Single Brothers&#39; House was built to house the Single Brethren, the unmarried men, of the Moravian Congregation of Salem, now Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is part of Old Salem Museums & Gardens and open as an Old Salem tour building to visitors. It is located at 600 South Main Street, at Academy Street, on the southwest corner.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first portion designed by Friedrich Wilhelm von Marschall, secular leader of the Moravian colony, was constructed of traditional Germanic half-timber framing, exposed brick noggin, a clay tile roof, and had a pent eave. It was completed in 1769. A later brick addition, was added in 1786, by master mason Johann Gottlob Krause to the south end. The building housed craftsmen and their apprentices, as well as provide individual trades shops. The building had kitchen and dining room, administrative offices, and a Saal (worship/meeting area). Additional buildings were constructed on the large property that provided additional space for the activities such as the (reconstructed) 1771 Workshop building behind. There were also a brewery, slaughterhouse, distillery, and tannery on the parcel, as well as extensive gardens that have been partially restored. The Single Brothers House was closed in 1823, with the oldest part used as apartments and the brick addition as a Boys School. The school only stayed in the building for 6 years, after which the building was primarily residential and eventually became known as the "Widow&#39;s House" since there were mainly single women and widows of the congregation living in it. The Single Sisters later took control of the property and eventually it was leased as part of the museum and restored in 1964.</p><br>
<p>The building belongs to the Moravian Church Southern Province and is currently part of the tour for Old Salem Museums & Gardens. During the Advent season, it also hosts the Candle Tea, a fundraiser for local non-profit agencies run by the Women&#39;s Fellowship of Home Moravian Church.</p><br>
<p>It was declared an individual National Historic Landmark in 1970, and is part of the Old Salem National Historic Landmark District designated in 1966.</p><br>
<p>The Capitol Area Historic District is a national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina. The district encompasses 25 contributing buildings and was developed after 1792. The district includes notable examples of Classical Revival and Late Gothic Revival style architecture. Located in the district are the following separately listed buildings:</p><br>
<p>Agriculture Building, at 2 W. Edenton St.</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church, at 120 E. Edenton St.</p><br>
<p>Richard B. Haywood House, at 127 E. Edenton St.,</p><br>
<p>Haywood Hall, at 211 New Bern Pl.,</p><br>
<p>North Carolina State Capitol,</p><br>
<p>Raleigh Water Tower, 115 W. Morgan St.</p><br>
<p>State Bank of North Carolina, at 123 New Bern Pl.,</p><br>
<p>White-Holman House, New Bern Ave.</p><br>
<p>Other notable buildings include the First Baptist Church (1859), All Saints Chapel (1873), Church of the Good Shepherd (1914), Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (1922), Supreme Court and State Library Building (1888), Ruffin Building (1913), Revenue Building (1927), Education Building (1938, 1947), Justice Building (1939-1940), Highway Building (1950), Dr. Andrew Watson Goodwin House, and Montgomery House (1906).</p><br>
<p>It is also one of six Historic Overlay Districts in Raleigh. It was listed in 1978 on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Barrier Volcano is an active shield volcano located in the north of Kenya. It is last known to have erupted in 1921.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Barrier Volcano was given its name because it forms a barrier about 20 km long across the Kenyan Rift Valley.</p><br>
<p>It has a width of 15 km and separates Lake Turkana to the north and the Suguta Valley and the small Lake Logipi to the south. The volcanic complex consists of four distinct volcanoes. From west to east these are Kalolenyang, Kakorinya, Likaiu West and Likaiu East. The foundation rocks are mainly basalt. About 90% of the volume is trachyte.</p><br>
<p>Kakorinya is the youngest of the group and forms the center of the complex, with a well-preserved circular crater that has not been breached.</p><br>
<p>The 3.8 km wide summit caldera of Kakorinya was formed about 92,000 years ago.</p><br>
<p>Much of the floor of the caldera is filled with trachytic and phonolitic lava domes and flows that recently erupted within the caldera and along its ring fracture. There are scoria cones and lava flows from the early Holocene on the north and south flanks of the volcano complex. In the 19th and 20th centuries there have been explosive eruptions and lava flows from Teleki on the northern side and from Andrew&#39;s cone on the south side of Kakorinya. The last known eruption was in 1921.</p><br>
<p>The Wells Theatre is a performing arts venue located in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. It has housed the Virginia Stage Company since 1979. The Wells Theatre is owned and operated by the City of Norfolk and is part of The Seven Venues.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The theatre opened on August 26, 1913 with a production of The Merry Countess, a Schubert musical. In 1916 Jake Wells installed a movie screen and projector, although theatrical bookings continued to occupy most of the theatre’s schedule. Many of America’s leading performers appeared at the Wells, among them John Drew, Maude Adams, Otis Skinner, John Philip Sousa, Billie Burke, Fred and Adele Astaire and Will Rogers. Throughout the Great Depression, the Wells continued to stage vaudeville shows and movies. Burlesque was added to the theatre’s repertoire around the beginning of World War II, which provided a steady source of income by attracting thousands of sailors stationed in Norfolk. Throughout the 1940s and 50s the theatre continued to operate as a movie house also. In the 1960s the Wells shared in the general decline of downtown Norfolk by converting to an X-rated movie house and occasionally staged live burlesque shows. The backstage area became the Jamaican Room, one of Norfolk’s infamous gin mills and brothels.</p><br>
<p>The poured-in-place, steel-reinforced concrete structure was technologically advanced for the period. The New Wells ornate decoration made the theatre the flagship of Wells Amusement Enterprises, and continues today as a well-preserved example of Beaux-Arts neoclassicism. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The theatre originally had 1,650 seats with 12 boxes and three balconies. The top balcony served as a segregated balcony "For Negro Audiences Only," and with had its own entrance and box office. A system of stairs made inside access easy, allowing waiters from Wong Pings Chinese Restaurant to serve theatre patrons on the second floor roof garden before and after performances. The downstairs Trustees Lobby facing Tazewell Street housed Doumars Cones and BBQs first location in Norfolk.</p><br>
<p>The brothers would eventually operate 42 theatres in nine states. In Norfolk, Wells operated The Granby, Academy, Colonial, Norva Theatre, Strand, New Wells and the American Theatre. Otto managed their entire theatrical enterprise from Norfolk with multiple ticker-tape machines that allowed him to calculate each theatre&#39;s box office earnings.</p><br>
<p>The Andalién River is a river in the province of Concepción, in the Bío Bío Region of Chile. It drains the western side of Chile&#39;s Cordillera de la Costa and has a total length of 42 km. It is one of the two rivers that bracket the city of Concepción.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The Andalién River is formed by the union of the Poñén from the north and the Curapalihue from the south in the commune of Florida. It then flows southwest and west, and eventually northwest into the city of Concepción, Chile. After the city of Concepción, it flows north through the former villages (now neighbourhoods) of Andalién and El Rosal, and then the communes of Talcahuano, and Penco. There, on its alluvial plain northeast of Concepción, it forms distributaries, and small lakes, such as the Laguna Negra, before entering the Bay of Concepción.</p><br>
<p>The Tussey Mountain Ski Area is located in Boalsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, near State College and Penn State University and is the gateway to the Rothrock State Forest. Tussey Mountain is an all seasons recreation area that includes an Amphitheater for concerts and festivals, a Lodge for weddings and parties, and a Fun Centre that offers go-karts, mini-golf, batting cages, a skate park, driving range and a par 3 golf course. Discounted rates are offered for students of Penn State University. In the Winter season, Tussey Mountain has 9 trails, with the longest one being about 3/4 of a mile. The top elevation at Tussey Mountain is 1,819 ft, and there are 38 acre skiable at the Tussey Mountain Ski Area.</p><br>
<h2>Trails</h2><br>
<p>There are 13 ski trails in total at Tussey Mountain. Little Bear is the beginner slope and is served by its own chair lift. A larger chair lift services Deer Run, Grizzly, Upper Utah, Lower Utah, Lower Tuscarora, Doc White, Upper Tuscarora and Shamokin. Winters Way trail is typically used to set up the TMP Terrain Park. Chicken Ridge and Tower 3 Chute are short offshoots of other trails. Lions Way, along with Shamokin and the Grizzly Glades, are open only when enough natural snowfall exists - all other trails have snowmaking capabilities. A T-bar lift also services Tuscarora and Shamokin on occasion.</p><br>
<p>There is also a snowtubing area with up to 5 tubing lanes and one lift.</p><br>
<p>The Tennessee State Library and Archives , established in 1854, currently operates as a unit of the Tennessee Department of State. According to the Tennessee Blue Book, the Library and Archives "collects and preserves books and records of historical, documentary and reference value, and encourages and promotes library development throughout the state." This mandate can be found in Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 10, Chapters 1-8.</p><br>
<p>Although most states operate their libraries and archives as separate agencies, Tennessee is one of a handful of states whose library and archives are administered jointly.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The state librarys original home (after a short stint in the Davidson County courthouse) was in the capitol building, while the archives were formerly housed in the basement of the states War Memorial Building.</p><br>
<p>The current Library and Archives Building, designed by H. Clinton Parrent, Jr. and opened in 1953, sits across the street from the Tennessee State Capitol in downtown Nashville. Built as a memorial to all veterans of World War II, the Library and Archives building was constructed at a cost of $2,300,000.</p><br>
<p>Tennessee&#39;s General Assembly joined the Department of Archives and History with the State Library in 1919 to create the State Library and Archives.</p><br>
<h2>Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (LBPH)</h2><br>
<p>In 1970, a new division of TSLA, the Tennessee Library for the Blind & Physically Handicapped (LBPH) was established. This divisions collections consist of public library type books and magazines in audio, braille and large print formats, as well as players for the audio books. The LBPHs collections are loaned to Tennesseans who have physical disabilities which prevent them from using standard print. The materials are delivered to the individual patrons home address utilizing the USA Postal Services "Free Matter" mailing privilege.</p><br>
<p>Disabilities which make a Tennessee resident eligible to use the service are: blindness; visual disability; manual dexterity problems, which prevent holding a book and/or turning pages; and reading disabilities.</p><br>
<p>The Tennessee LBPH is a cooperating library with the National Library Service for the Blind & Physically Handicapped/Library of Congress.</p><br>
<h2>Holdings and collection highlights</h2><br>
<p>The Tennessee State Library and Archives currently holds nearly 700,000 print volumes, over a million photographic images, thousands of vertical files, microfilm reels, and legislative audiocassettes. Archives and manuscripts collections are housed in nearly 40,000 ft of storage. The Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped holds approximately 240,000 items.</p><br>
<p>TSLA holds the most comprehensive collection of Tennessee newspapers, which dates to 1791.</p><br>
<h2>Future planning</h2><br>
<p>Plans are currently underway for the Library and Archives to relocate to a new building adjacent to Nashville&#39;s Bicentennial Mall State Park. The new building, to be designed by Tuck-Hinton Architects, will be one of several cultural institutions flanking the Bicentennial Mall, including the Tennessee State Museum and the Museum of African-American History and Culture.</p><br>
<h2>Tennessee State Librarians and Archivists, 1854 to present</h2><br>
<p>W.B.A. Ramsey, ex officio librarian (1854–1855)</p><br>
<p>F.N.W. Burton, ex officio librarian (1855–1856)</p><br>
<p>R.J. Meigs, State Librarian (1856–1861)</p><br>
<p>John E. Hatcher, State Librarian (1861)</p><br>
<p>Augustin Gattinger, State Librarian (1864–1869)</p><br>
<p>W.H. Wharton, State Librarian (1869–1871)</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Paralee Haskell, State Librarian (1871–1879)</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Robert Hatton, State Librarian (1879–1887)</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Sue P. Lowe, State Librarian (1887–1891)</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Linnie Williams, State Librarian (1891–1895)</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Irene Ingram, State Librarian (1895–1897)</p><br>
<p>Miss Pauline Jones, State Librarian (1897–1899)</p><br>
<p>Miss Jennie E. Lauderdale, State Librarian (1899–1901)</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Lulu B. Epperson, State Librarian (1901–1903)</p><br>
<p>Miss Mary Skeffington, State Librarian (1903–1919)</p><br>
<p>John Trotwood Moore, State Librarian and Archivist (1919–1929)</p><br>
<p>Mary Brown Daniel Moore, State Librarian and Archivist (1929–1949)</p><br>
<p>Daniel M. Robison, State Librarian (1949–1961)</p><br>
<p>William T. Alderson, Jr., State Librarian (1961–1964)</p><br>
<p>Sam B. Smith, State Librarian and Archivist (1964–1969)</p><br>
<p>Wilmon H. Droze, State Librarian and Archivist (1969–1972)</p><br>
<p>Katheryn Culbertson, State Librarian and Archivist (1972–1982)</p><br>
<p>Olivia K. Young, State Librarian and Archivist (1982–1985)</p><br>
<p>Robert B. Croneberger, State Librarian and Archivist (1985–1986)</p><br>
<p>Edwin S. Gleaves, State Librarian and Archivist (1987–2005)</p><br>
<p>Jeanne Sugg, State Librarian and Archivist (2005–2010)</p><br>
<p>Charles Sherrill, State Librarian and Archivist (2010-current)</p><br>
<p>Peekamoose Mountain is a mountain located in Ulster County, New York.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is part of the Catskill Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Peekamoose Mountain is flanked to the north by Table Mountain. The name Peekamoose is possibly a corruption of an Algonquin word meaning broken off smooth, cf. Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Peekamoose Mountain stands within the watershed of Rondout Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River, which drains into New York Bay.</p><br>
<p>The east and southeast slopes of Peekamoose Mtn. drain into Rondout Creek.</p><br>
<p>The southwest end of Peekamoose drains into Buttermilk Falls Brook, thence into Rondout Creek.</p><br>
<p>The west side of Peekamoose drains into Bear Hole Brook, thence into Rondout Creek.</p><br>
<p>Peekamoose Mountain is within the Slide Mountain Wilderness of New York&#39;s Catskill State Park.</p><br>
<p>The Long Path, a 350 mi long-distance hiking trail from New York City to Albany, crosses the summits of Peekamoose and Table.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Pisgah is a peak located in northeastern Pennsylvania&#39;s</p><br>
<p>Glaciated Low Plateau region, also known as the Endless Mountains. The mountain peak lies next to a state park named after the mountain, Mt. Pisgah State Park. There is a hiking trail to the summit that has a view of the surrounding countryside, 1,000 ft feet below. Stephen Foster lake is also located at the base of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Pisgah is named for the biblical mountain in Jordan from which Moses first saw the promised land. During the late 19th century, this mountain was a favorite summer resort for those from eastern cities, even as far away as Chicago. Visitors were able to stay on a mountaintop hotel, which featured a 100-foot observation tower. The views from the tower looked over the bucolic Pennsylvania landscape.</p><br>
<p>Today none of those amenities on the summit exist but the views from the top are still sublime and attract hikers and nature lovers.</p><br>
<p>The summit today offers mainly a westerly view. Visible from the viewing platform is Armenia Mountain and further to the west, approximately 17 miles, are the mountains north of Mansfield in Tioga County. About 8 miles away, to the west and southwest, are mountains in the easternmost portion of the Tioga State Forest.</p><br>
<p>Table Mountain is located in Ulster County, New York.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is part of the Catskill Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Table Mountain is flanked to the south by Peekamoose Mountain, and to the northeast by Lone Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The east end of Table Mountain drains into Rondout Creek, thence into the Hudson River, and into New York Bay.</p><br>
<p>The south side of Table Mtn. drains into Bear Hole Brook, thence into Rondout Creek.</p><br>
<p>The west end of Table Mtn. drains into Tray Mill Brook, thence into the East Branch of the Neversink River, the Delaware River, and into Delaware Bay.</p><br>
<p>The north side of Table Mtn. drains into Donovan Brook, thence into the East Branch of the Neversink.</p><br>
<p>Table Mountain is within the Slide Mountain Wilderness of New York&#39;s Catskill State Park.</p><br>
<p>The Long Path, a 350 mi long-distance hiking trail from New York City to Albany, crosses the summits of Peekamoose and Table.</p><br>
<p>St. James Church, Santee, also known as St. James Episcopal Church, Santee, is a historic church located in a remote portion of Francis Marion National Forest in Charleston County, South Carolina. Built in 1768, it is a remarkably sophisticated expression of fashionable Georgian architecture in a remote area, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 for its architectural significance. It is located on the west side of the Old Georgetown Road, several miles north of South Carolina Highway 46 and McClellanville.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>In 1706 the Province of Carolina formally established the Church of England, which divided what is now South Carolina into six parishes. This parish church was built in 1768. It is rectangular single-story masonry structure, built out of brick and covered by a slate hip roof. The front and rear facades both have a gabled temple-front projection, supported by four round brick columns. The rear projection has had the spaces between the columns bricked up, creating what now serves as the church vestry. The building&#39;s windows are round-arched with keystones, with a three-part Palladian window in the eastern wall. The interior retains original woodwork and hardware, including box pews, pulpit, and trim. The pulpit originally stood at the northern end of the long axis, but was apparently moved to the eastern wall sometime in the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The church is one of a handful of surviving 18th-century country churches in South Carolina. It is unusual in this group because its styling is particularly sophisticated, reflecting architectural trends in Charleston at the time of its construction. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970.</p><br>
<p>St. James Church, Goose Creek, also known as the Goose Creek Church, is an Episcopal church at 100 Vestry Lane in Goose Creek, South Carolina. Built in the 1710s, it is one of South Carolinas oldest surviving buildings, and one of a small number of surviving early Georgian chapels in the nation. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>St. James Church is located on a wooded lot on the west side of Snake Road, between the Goose Creek Primary School and Goose Creek Road. It is a single story masonry structure, built out of stuccoed brick and covered with a clipped-gable slate roof. The building corners are quoined, and there is a line of simple brickwork at the eave. There are entrances at the centers of three sides, with flanking round-arch windows. The main entrance is on the west side, with flanking pilasters rising to a decorative frieze and gabled pediment. The interior has three aisles separating rows of 18th-century box pews. The east end of the building has the pulpit, with an original reading stand and sounding board. The wall behind the pulpit carries rich baroque decoration, whose central feature is the seal of George I of Great Britain.</p><br>
<p>The Province of Carolina formally established the Church of England in 1706, dividing South Carolina into six parishes. The Saint James parish church was built 1713-19 by English settlers from Barbados, and is one of the oldest Episcopal churches in the United States. The building has seen some modest alterations, and its walls were strengthened with iron tie rods in 1844. The church was damaged by an earthquake in 1886, which collapsed the west gable end.</p><br>
<p>The original churchyard is now surrounded by a brick wall. Buried in the churchyard is Ralph Izard, a former USA senator from South Carolina who served as president pro tempore of the Senate in 1794.</p><br>
<p>The Duke of Gloucester Islands  is a subgroup of the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. They are located southeast of Tahiti and south of the main Tuamotu atoll cluster and are rather isolated.</p><br>
<h2>Atolls</h2><br>
<p>The Duke of Gloucester Islands include four atolls of relatively small size:</p><br>
<p>Anuanuraro</p><br>
<p>Anuanurunga</p><br>
<p>Hereheretue</p><br>
<p>Nukutepipi</p><br>
<p>Hereheretue (19&deg;52&prime;S latitude, 144&deg;58&prime;W longitude) is located to the northwest of the group of the other three atolls, which are located at 20&deg;36&prime;S latitude, 143&deg;20&prime;W longitude and are uninhabited. Hereheretue is the only permanently inhabited island of the Duke of Gloucester Islands, with 57 inhabitants in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>First sighting recorded by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernández de Quirós on 4 February 1606. They were named Cuatro Coronas ("Four Crowns" in Spanish). Gaspar González de Leza, pilot of Fernández de Quiros, charted them as Cuatro Anegadas ("Flooded Four").</p><br>
<p>They were renamed Duke of Gloucester Islands by the British explorer Philip Carteret, who visited them in 1767, in honour of Prince William, Duke of Gloucester.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Administratively the four atolls of the Duke of Gloucester Islands belong to the commune of Hereheretue, which is associated with the Hao commune.</p><br>
<p>Mount Silverheels is a high and prominent mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,829 ft thirteener is located in Pike National Forest, 7.9 km northeast  of the Town of Alma in Park County, Colorado, United States.</p><br>
<p>Mount Silverheels is just east of two fourteeners: Mount Bross and Mount Lincoln.</p><br>
<h2>Legend of Silverheels</h2><br>
<p>The mountain was named for Silverheels, a dance hall girl in the nearby mining camp of Buckskin Joe, now a ghost town. She was nicknamed "Silverheels" because of the silver shoes she wore while dancing. She wore a blue or white mask so as to conceal her face, and her actual name is unknown. Well-compensated by the trappers and prospectors who watched her dance, Silverheels was personally generous, having used her own money to bring in doctors during a smallpox epidemic in Buckskin Joe. After the disease waned, Silverheels left Buckskin Joe and was never heard from again. In the words of Frank H. Mayer, a United States marshal in Park County: "The best we could do was to name the mountain after her."</p><br>
<p>The smallpox epidemic struck in 1861. Most miners remained behind to protect their claims, but the women and children largely fled to Denver. Silverheels stayed behind to nurse her friends and neighbors. She too contracted the disease but survived, having taken refuge in her cabin located at the base of Mount Silverheels. Once the epidemic was over, the surviving miners raised $5,000 in appreciation of her efforts in fighting the epidemic. However, Silverheels had left her cabin. According to legend, she had remained in isolation because the smallpox had scarred her face. The money was returned to the miners, and she was instead honored by the naming of the mountain. Several years later when Buckskin Joe was desolate from the decine of the gold rush, someone claimed to have seen a black-veiled woman placing flowers on the graves of those who died in the smallpox epidemic. Some since claim to have seen a black veiled woman wandering around the Buckskin Joe Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>San Jose Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church located at 7423 San Jose Boulevard, in the San Jose section of Jacksonville, Florida in the United States. It was built in 1925 as the San Jose Estates Administration Building. On April 10, 1985. it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the San Jose Administration Building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The San Jose Estates Administration Building was built in 1925 by the developers of San Jose Estates. After the real estate boom collapsed, Alfred I. duPont acquired the property. Upon his death in 1935, the property passed to his widow, Jesse Ball duPont. In 1941 Mrs. duPont agreed to let it be used for Episcopal worship services and it became known as Grace Chapel. The cadets from the Bolles Military Academy located across the street used it as their chapel also and attended Sunday worship services as a body. In 1949 Mrs. duPont gave the property to the Episcopal Diocese of Florida for the founding of a new congregation, and in 1951, Grace Chapel (as it was first known) became an Episcopal Parish, with The Reverend Grover Alison as its founding priest. Alison was also serving as the priest at Church Of Our Savior in Mandarin at the same time. In 1952 he left Mandarin and moved to San Jose. In 1971, Grace Chapel Parish became San Jose Episcopal Church as the term "Chapel" no longer accurately described the broad mission of the church.</p><br>
<p>The Day School began as a mission of the church with a kindergarten program and was established to provide excellent academics in a Christian environment. This tradition continues today and the school has expanded and grown to now serve students in grades Pre-K 3 through sixth grade.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>San Jose Episcopal Church is still a functioning parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Florida. Its current rector is the Rev. Stephen Courtney Britt. Lori Gilbert Menger is head of the Day School.</p><br>
<p>Lake Harding, also known as Bartlett&#39;s Ferry Lake, is a 5,850 acre reservoir on the Chattahoochee River.</p><br>
<p>The lake is formed by Bartlett&#39;s Ferry Dam, and the lake is located in Harris County, Georgia with some portions of the lake going into Alabama. Lake Harding is a deep lake with a depth of over 100 ft at the dam itself.</p><br>
<p>The lake was originally built by the Columbus Power Company in 1926 to generate hydroelectric power. The dam and lake were bought by Georgia Power in 1930. Lake Harding has become a popular recreational area with local residents, many of whom have built lake homes along the well-developed shoreline. A major tributary of the lake is Halawakee Creek.</p><br>
<p>Lake Harding features several islands. One of the most notable is Huston&#39;s Island which contains the ruins of an old lake house.</p><br>
<p>Lake Harding is also the practice site of the Auburn University Club Rowing Team. The team can frequently be seen practicing early morning on weekdays.</p><br>
<p>The Cray House is a two-room house in Stevensville, Maryland. Built around 1809, it is a rare surviving example of post-and-plank construction, and of a build of small house which once dominated the local landscape. For these reasons it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was constructed in two stages, with the earliest portion dating to around 1809. The land upon which it stands was once called Stevens Adventure, after Francis Stevens, to whom title was granted in 1694. The first section to be built, using an unusual sort of post-and-plank method, was a three-bay, -story house. Later, a frame addition was made to the south end, also containing three bays. At this time the original roof was replaced by a gambrel roof, which ran the entire length of the house. The resulting structure is quite similar to a house style that was once relatively common during the late 18th and early 19th century in Queen Annes County, Maryland.</p><br>
<p>The house was auctioned publicly in 1914; its namesake, widow Nora Cray, later lived there with her nine children. In 1975 her heirs donated the house, and its lot, to the Kent Island Heritage Society, which group have restored and furnished it and opened it to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The earlier section of house remains fairly ordered; a central door on each facade is flanked by six-over-six-pane windows. The north gable end is a blank wall, and the chimney is "paneled", with its brickwork exposed up to the second floor. In these respects, the house is not unique, as several similar houses can still be found countywide. The modest size of the original house, too, is very much in keeping with other houses of its age from the surrounding area; such buildings were common in Tidewater Maryland well into the nineteenth century. Less common is the post-and-plank construction of the earliest portion of the house, unusual in Tidewater Maryland, and examples such as this, where the planks run from corner to corner, were virtually unknown before this example was found.</p><br>
<p>The house has a hall-parlor plan that had only one heated room per floor. Despite its small size, however, it was kitted out with full interior trim; elements include beaded board partition and baseboards, a two-piece chair rail, refined trim and a mantel on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the main dwelling, a smokehouse stands on the property, at the rear of the lot. This structure is not original to the site, but was moved to the house as a rare example of a once-common feature of houses in the region. It is currently operated as a gift shop in conjunction with the house-museum.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>When first discovered, the Cray House was thought to be a unique survival of an unusual type of post-and-plank construction. Subsequent investigations have shown that a number of these buildings remain, scattered throughout Tidewater Maryland. Unfortunately, almost all of these buildings are in threatened condition. The majority of the known examples are either small farm buildings or have been adapted as kitchen wings for larger houses. The Cray House, along with two similar buildings in southern Maryland, remain the only examples of such a structure that have remained relatively intact as dwellings.</p><br>
<p>The Cray House is one of a number of historic structures in Stevensville; many are grouped within the Stevensville Historic District, but the Cray House was listed separately. It is, however, located in the middle of the historic area, on Cockey Lane; behind it is the Stevensville Train Depot, while just down the street are the Old Post Office building and the Stevensville Bank.</p><br>
<p>The Minneapolis Saint Paul Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company Depot or Orchard Gardens Railway Station, located at County Road 5 and 155th Street in Burnsville in the USA state of Minnesota was built in 1910 on the Dan Patch Line, later known as the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway. Connecting Northfield and Minneapolis, the line carried agricultural produce from rural Dakota County to urban markets. When Orchard Gardens in Burnsville was platted in 1910, this small depot was added for the area&#39;s passengers. Orchard Gardens farmers grew onions, apples, and flowers, and produced eggs and milk until the Great Slump caused locals to find employment in Minneapolis. Then the station attracted more commuters than farmers.</p><br>
<p>The Canal de Marans à la Rochelle, also called Canal de Marans, Canal de Rompsay or Canal de La Rochelle depending on the location, is a French canal in the Charente-Maritime department connecting the city of La Rochelle with the town of Marans. It also connects the river of the Sèvre Niortaise to the harbour at La Rochelle. The canal goes through the communes of Dompierre-sur-Mer, Andilly and Sainte-Soulle. It is 24.6 km long, with 4 locks, and has a total denivellation of 1.7 m. It has a width of 5.2 m.</p><br>
<p>The canal was built in the 19th century in order to foster trade between the two cities. It was part of a great project of a North-South canal connecting the river Loire to the Adour. The project was ordered by imperial decision of Napoleon I on July 17, 1805, with the objective of connecting Niort with La Rochelle. It was started in 1806, but only open in 1875, and only reached La Rochelle in 1888. It was built with the forced labour of prisoners. When it was completed however, the advent of the train (with the establishment of a track between Nantes and La Rochelle) meant that the canal fell into disuse. Navigation on the canal was totally stopped after the Second World War. It is today not navigable. Today the canal allows for picturesque walks between the two cities. It is renowned for its flora and fauna.</p><br>
<p>The waters of the canal discharge into the Maubec reservoir at La Rochelle, just before the tidal bassin, and its waters contribute to scour the harbour and navigable channels.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>The Emil J. Oberhoffer House overlooks Orchard Lake in Lakeville, Minnesota. Emil Oberhoffer was the first conductor and founder of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. The home was designed by Paul Haugen who worked for Purcell and Elmslie, an architectural firm known for its renditions of Prairie School architecture. Later the home belonged to the parents of golfer Patty Berg.</p><br>
<p>Architect Paul Haugen began his architectural career as an apprentice in Fargo, North Dakota. After moving to Minneapolis, he was influenced by the Prairie School style of architecture and ornamentation. This home was designed while he was on his own for a brief period of time around 1913. During that time he designed several residences and a school in Burnsville.</p><br>
<p>Lake Sapanca  is a fresh water lake in Turkey, between the Gulf of İzmit and the Adapazarı Meadow. The lake has a catchment area of 251 km², surface area is 45 km², a length 16 km east-west / 5 km north-south, and a maximum depth of 52 m.</p><br>
<p>Lake Sapanca, Turkey</p><br>
<p>Sapanca Lake is located on a tectonic hole, which is situated between Izmit Bay and Adapazari Meadow and runs parallel to Iznik Lake.</p><br>
<p>The catchment area of Lake Sapanca - about 251 km - is surrounded by mountains in the south and small hills in the north. Water is taken from the Lake for domestic and industrial needs.</p><br>
<p>The region around Sapanca has become a destination for day trips and weekend vacations.</p><br>
<h2>List of fish in the Lake Sapanca</h2><br>
<p>Anguillidae</p><br>
<p>European eel, Anguilla anguilla (Liiaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Atherinidae</p><br>
<p>Big-scale sand smelt, Atherina boyeri (Risso, 1810)</p><br>
<p>Clupeidae</p><br>
<p>Black Sea shad, Alosa maeotica (Grimm, 1901)</p><br>
<p>Clupeonella abrau muhlisi (Neu, 1934)</p><br>
<p>Cobitidae</p><br>
<p>Cobitis vardarensis (Karaman, 1928)</p><br>
<p>Angora loach, Nemacheilus angorae (Steindachner, 1897)</p><br>
<p>Cyprinidae</p><br>
<p>Common bream, Abramis brama (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Italian bleak, Alburnus albidus (Costa, 1938)</p><br>
<p>Common bleak, Alburnus alburnus (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Spirlin, Alburnoides bipunctatus (Bloch, 1782)</p><br>
<p>Asp, Aspius aspius (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Silver bream, Blicca bjoerkna (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Crucian carp, Carassius carassius (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Prussian carp, Carassius gibelio (Bloch, 1782)</p><br>
<p>Danube bleak, Chalcalburnus chalcoides (Guldenstad, 1772)</p><br>
<p>Chondrostoma angorense (Elvira, 1987)</p><br>
<p>Common carp, Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Black Sea chub, Petroleuciscus borysthenicus (Kessler, 1859)</p><br>
<p>European bitterling, Rhodeus amarus (Bloch, 1782)</p><br>
<p>Common roach, Rutilus rutilus (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Common rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>European chub, Squalius cephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Tench, Tinca tinca (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Vimba bream, Vimba vimba (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Esocidae</p><br>
<p>Northern pike, Esox lucius (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Gobiidae</p><br>
<p>Caucasian dwarf goby, Knipowitschia caucasica (Berg, 1916)</p><br>
<p>Racer goby, Babka gymnotrachelus (Kessler, 1857)</p><br>
<p>Round goby, Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas, 1814)</p><br>
<p>Monkey goby, Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas, 1814)</p><br>
<p>Syrman goby, Ponticola syrman (Nordmann, 1840)</p><br>
<p>Marine tubenose goby, Proterorhinus marmoratus (Pallas, 1814)</p><br>
<p>Centrarchidae</p><br>
<p>Pumpkinseed, Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Percidae</p><br>
<p>European perch, Perca fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Petromyzontidae</p><br>
<p>European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Salmonidae</p><br>
<p>Rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792)</p><br>
<p>Black Sea salmon, Salmo trutta labrax (Pallas, 1811)</p><br>
<p>Salmo cettii, Salmo trutta macrostigma (Dumeril, 1858)</p><br>
<p>Siluridae</p><br>
<p>Wels catfish, Silurus glanis (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><br>
<p>Syngnathidae</p><br>
<p>Black-striped pipefish, Syngnathus abaster (Risso, 1827)</p><br>
<p>Narrow-snouted pipefish, Syngnathus tenuirostris (Rathke, 1837)</p><br>
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<p>The George W. Wentworth House is a large Queen Anne style home, that was built in 1887 in West Saint Paul in the USA state of Minnesota. Wentworth was an emigre from England who traded in horses; he was also involved in local politics, working to organize the city of South Saint Paul. In the late 1880s, a dispute arose between the farmers in the western portion of the city, whom Wentworth represented, and the people living around the stockyards in the eastern portion of the city. West Saint Paul disjoined from South Saint Paul in 1889 and Wentworth remained politically active in the new city. After his death in 1908, the house remained vacant for many years before being renovated by subsequent owners. The hard work of current owner Daniel W. Owned since 1987-current day.</p><br>
<p>Candle Lake is a body of water in central Saskatchewan, approximately a fifty-minute drive northeast of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It is also the name of a resort village along the Eastern shore of the lake, and of Candle Lake Provincial Park which encompasses much of the surrounding area. Candle Lake is a popular tourist destination in Western Canada and is located in the boreal forest biome. In addition to natural sand beaches, the lake contains a number of sport fish species including northern pike, walleye, yellow perch, burbot, lake whitefish, white sucker, longnose sucker and shorthead redhorse. The lake takes its name from a Cree legend about flickering lights appearing near the north end of the lake, which have supposedly been seen right up to contemporary times. Some theorize that the lights are caused by a gas emitted from decaying driftwood, rather than having a paranormal origin.</p><br>
<p>The level in Candle lake is regulated by a four-bay 3.1 m concrete dam, constructed in 1978-1979 and operated by the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority. The dam discharges into the Torch River.</p><br>
<p>The Grandin Road Commercial Historic District, also referred to as the Grandin Village, is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places located in the Raleigh Court neighborhood of the independent city of Roanoke, Virginia, USA Centered at the intersection of Memorial Avenue and Grandin Road , Grandin Village has become one of the more eclectic areas of Roanoke, with an array of independently owned retail and dining establishments. The district has been noted as one of Roanoke&#39;s best examples of a mixed-use urban village, and has been used as a local model for future mixed-use developments within the community.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Grandin Village traces its origin to 1906 with the establishment of the Virginia Heights Land Corporation. This land corporation was responsible for the initial development of Virginia Heights after the opening of the Memorial Bridge, which serves as a connection into downtown Roanoke.</p><br>
<p>Development at the T intersection at Grandin and Memorial began with the construction of the original Virginia Heights Elementary School in 1907. By 1911, the Roanoke Street Railway Company completed a streetcar line between Raleigh Court/Virginia Heights and downtown. With this streetcar extension, development of the commercial establishments of the present-day Grandin Village accelerated.</p><br>
<p>In 1919, Virginia Heights was annexed into the city of Roanoke. The majority of the structures in the district were constructed between 1917 and 1945. During this period, the Grandin Village emerged as a major retail and service area serving the residents of southwest Roanoke.</p><br>
<p>On July 31, 1948, streetcar service to the area was abandoned, which also marked the end of streetcar transit altogether in the city of Roanoke. Much of the post-1950s development within the district was designed to accommodate the automobile. After a period of decline in the mid-20th century, the district has since rebounded and has become a local retail and dining destination.</p><br>
<h2>Grandin Theatre</h2><br>
<p>The centerpiece of the Grandin Village is the Grandin Theatre, which opened in 1932. Designed by Eubank & Caldwell, its eclectic design features elements of various revival styles, and opened as Roanoke&#39;s first suburban movie house. The theatre operated continuously through November 11, 2001, when it closed its doors due to its deteriorating condition. After its closure, the Grandin Theatre Foundation raised enough money to renovate and reopen the theatre on October 20, 2002. The Grandin survives as the lone historic movie theatre in the Roanoke Valley.</p><br>
<p>Coker Experimental Farms, also known as Coker Pedigreed Seed Company, is a National Historic Landmark agricultural site at 1257 South Fourth Street in Hartsville, South Carolina, USA. Now a museum property, the property was where David R. Coker performed critical breeding experiments to improve strains of cotton and other crops grown throughout the American South. Coker was a major force in the development of agricultural extension services in the South in the early decades of the 20th century. What remains of his farm was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Coker family once owned thousands of acres of agricultural lands in the area around Hartsville, South Carolina. At their main station south of the city, David R. Coker began to apply techniques in plant hybridization discovered by Gregor Mendel in the 1860s and only brought to wider notice around the turn of the 20th century. His first experiments involved attempts to breed cotton with a longer staple, and to improve resistance to disease and pests. Coker eventually broadened his work to other crops, and was a major force in improving the education of farmers in the American South through the use of agricultural extension services. By 1963, more than half the cotton grown in the South was derived from Coker seeds, as were larger percentages of oat and tobacco crops.</p><br>
<p>Of the original Coker farm holdings, some 220 acre of the area used by Coker in his breeding experiments was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1964 for its significance in revolutionizing the field of agriculture in the South. This area was roughly bounded on the south by United States Route 15, the east by Swift Creek Road, the north by the Seaboard Air Line tracks, and the west by a line paralleling west of South Carolina Highway 151, and included farm outbuildings dating to the 1930s in the west side of Highway 151. By the 1990s, the outbuildings had been demolished, and the land on the west side of Highway 151 developed commercially, and the landmark designation was reduced to 145 acre, solely to the east of Highway 151. Since then, portions of the land on the east side have also been developed. A further-reduced parcel of farmland remains, on which a barn-shaped museum has been built to interpret the property and its importance.</p><br>
<p>The Dubose Heyward House is a historic house at 76 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Now a wing of a larger house, this modest two-story structure was the home from 1919 to 1924 of author Dubose Heyward , author of Porgy, one of the first works to portray Southern African-Americans in a positive light. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Heyward House is located in the Charleston Historic District, on the east side of Church Street south of Tradd Street. It is a two-story structure, with a tile roof and stuccoed exterior. It is now attached as a wing to the house immediately to its left, a three-story building. The house is not architecturally distinguished, and has principally been modified since the period of Heyward&#39;s residence by the removal of intervening walls with the adjacent house to create enlarged dining and bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>Dubose Heyward was born in 1885 into an aristocratic Charleston family, which fell upon hard times, leading him to engage in a number of low-wage jobs early in life. He was a significant early figure in the renaissance of Southern literature in the 1910s, helping found the Poetry Society of South Carolina in 1920. In 1925 he moved to North Carolina, where he wrote Porgy, his most significant claim to fame. It was unique at the time in present a southern African-American in a well-rounded and human light, and not as either a comic foil or propaganda piece. Porgy was the inspiration for George Gershwins popular folk opera Porgy and Bess, cementing the characters place in American culture. Heyward lived in this house between about 1919 and 1924.</p><br>
