<p>The Queen Charlotte Mountains are a mountain range comprising all mountains and small mountain ranges of Haida Gwaii , British Columbia, Canada. It is the northernmost subrange of the Insular Mountains. They are subdivided into the Queen Charlotte Ranges, which comprise a small part of southwestern Graham Island and most of Moresby Island, and the Skidegate Plateau, which runs NW-SE on central Graham Island and includes the northeastern tip of Moresby Island. To the plateau&#39;s northeast is the Queen Charlotte Lowland, which is part of the Hecate Depression and includes the Argonaut Plain.</p><br>
<p>Mount Moresby is the highest mountain associated with the Queen Charlotte Mountains, at 1,164 m.</p><br>
<h2>Sub-ranges</h2><br>
<p>Cameron Range: On the western side of Graham Island</p><br>
<p>Crease Range: On north-central Graham Island</p><br>
<p>McKay Range: On the south coast of Graham Island</p><br>
<p>San Christoval Range: On the western side of Moresby Island</p><br>
<p>Ripshin Farm, also known as the Sherwood Anderson Farm is a historic farm property at the junction of Routes 603 and 732 near Troutdale, Virginia. It was developed as a summer home and later year-round home by writer Sherwood Anderson , and is where he wrote most of his later works. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Ripshin Farm is located in a rural setting in Virginia&#39;s southwestern hills, east of the village of Troutdale. It is set on a rise overlooking the confluence of Ripshin and Lauren Creeks, and is accessed by a long drive on the east side of Route 603 north of its junction with Route 732. The property consists of 76 acre, much of which is wooded, but with views cleared to the west. It includes the main house, two small guest cottages, and a log cabin in which Anderson did his writing. The main house is 1-1/2 stories in height, with a central section of fieldstone flanked by log wings.</p><br>
<p>The property was a small farm when Sherwood Anderson purchased it in 1925. He at first lived in a log cabin on the site, while the house was under construction. It would serve as his home and principal writing location until his death in 1941. Anderson was one of the first writers of his time to create candid depictions of the sometimes gritty aspects of life, and for his frankly self-revealing works. He was acknowledged as a major influence on a generation of writers, including William Faulkner, Stephen Vincent Benet, and Eudora Welty. It is here that his most popular work, Dark Laughter, was completed in 1925.</p><br>
<p>The Magistrates Courts is a court building on Dale Street, Liverpool. It is a Grade II listed building designed by John Grey Weightman built between 1857-1859. Until the 1970s buildings in Great Crosshall Street were used for juvenile court hearings until a new purpose-built complex was opened accessible from Hatton Garden. There are also courtrooms in Victoria Street which are mostly used for hearing road traffic cases. They are operated by Her Majestys Courts Service.</p><br>
<p>In 2007 it was announced that the Dale Street building will close to be replaced by a new purpose built set of courts. Approval for the project was given, with a budget of £35m, for a new complex to be built in the city centre, comprising 14 adult courtrooms, with a projected completion date of 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Fayetteville Street Historic District in Raleigh, North Carolina is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The District includes the 100-400 blocks of Fayetteville Street, the 00-100 blocks of the south side of West Hargett Street, the 00 block of the north side of West Martin Street, and the 100-400 blocks of South Salisbury Street.</p><br>
<p>The District, composed mostly of commercial establishments, is home to eleven buildings listed on the NRHP. They include:</p><br>
<p>Masonic Temple Building, 133 Fayetteville St.</p><br>
<p>Briggs Hardware Building, 220 Fayetteville St.</p><br>
<p>Lumsden-Boone Building, 226 Fayetteville St.</p><br>
<p>Mahler Building, 228 Fayetteville St.</p><br>
<p>Carolina Trust Building, 230 Fayetteville St.</p><br>
<p>Federal Building, 314 Fayetteville St.</p><br>
<p>Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, 400 Fayetteville St.</p><br>
<p>Raleigh Bank and Trust Company Building, 5 W. Hargett St.</p><br>
<p>Odd Fellows Building, 19 W. Hargett St.</p><br>
<p>McLellan’s Five and Dime Annex, 14 W. Martin St.</p><br>
<p>Capital Club Building, 16 W. Martin St.</p><br>
<p>Seal Island in the Great Southern region of Western Australia  is approximately 8.5 km south-east of Albany and approximately 3 km offshore from Frenchman Bay in King George Sound. It has a total area of 2.8 hectare. The island is designated as a nature reserve .</p><br>
<p>The island is composed entirely of granite and is only accessible at the western end.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>George Vancouver named Seal Island in 1791 along with Breaksea Island, Michaelmas Island and other features around King George Sound.</p><br>
<p>Matthew Flinders landed on Seal Island during the voyage of the Investigator in 1801, searching for items that were reportedly left by Vancouver and leaving behind a bottle containing a parchment with details of their own arrival and departure.</p><br>
<p>HMAS Perth was scuttled behind Seal Island in 2001, and is now one of Western Australia&#39;s premier dive sites.</p><br>
<p>The Pittsylvania County Courthouse is located at 1 North Main Street in downtown Chatham, Virginia, USA. Built in 1853, this Greek Revival building was Pittsylvania County&#39;s third courthouse. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987, because it was the scene of events leading to Ex parte Virginia, a United States Supreme Court case extending the Equal Protection Clause to state actions such as jury selection.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Pittsylvania County Courthouse is located on the east side of US Business Route 29, at the northeast corner of Bank Street. The original portion of the building, built in 1853, faces west, with a modern addition extending to the east along Bank Street. It is a two story brick building, with a combination of Classical and Italianate styling, designed by L.A. Shumaker. It has a pedimented Greek Revival portico, supported by four fluted Doric columns, and is topped by a tall cupola housing a bell and clock.</p><br>
<p>Both the county, formed in 1767, and the town of Chatham were named for William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, then the de facto leader of the British government. The present court house replaced a structure built in 1783, one block west of where the old offices of the clerk still stands. The court was removed to this locality from Callands in 1777.</p><br>
<p>In 1878, Judge J.D. Coles, a district judge, was arrested and for violating the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by excluding African Americans from the jury selection process for grand juries and trial juries. Coles filed for release from custody, on the grounds that his rights as an individual and as an officer of the state had been violated. In Ex parte Virginia, the United States Supreme Court ruled against Coles, indicating that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provided redress against the operation of state laws and the actions of state officials. It was one of a small number of victories for advocates of civil rights in the period.</p><br>
<p>Saratoga, also known as the General Daniel Morgan House, is a historic plantation house near Boyce, Virginia. It was built in 1779 by Daniel Morgan, a general in the Continental Army best known for his victory over the British at the Battle of Cowpens in 1781. He named his estate after the American victory in the 1777 Battles of Saratoga, in which he also participated. The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973. Privately owned, it is located about.5 miles south of Boyce on the west side of County Route 723, and is not open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Saratoga is an estate of more than 250 acre directly south of the town of Boyce in Virginia&#39;s Shenandoah Valley. The main house is a large 2-1/2 story limestone structure with a gabled roof and end chimneys. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a broad gabled portico. Above the entrance is a round-arch window; the other windows are standard sash. A wood-frame addition extends to the left side.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1779 by Daniel Morgan, who had retired that year from the Continental Army due to illness. Morgan was recalled to service as a brigadier general, and led troops in the decisive victory over the British at the 1781 Battle of Cowpens. The house is one of the largest and best-preserved plantation houses of the period in the Shenandoah Valley. After his death, Morgan&#39;s daughter sold the house to the Burwell family, who have owned it since. The house was also occupied at times by John Esten Cooke and his brother Philip Pendleton Cooke, both noted writers.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>Saratoga, Main House & Outbuildings, Roseville Run, Boyce vicinity (Clarke County, Virginia).jpgOutbuildings</p><br>
<p>Carter Hall was the Millwood, Virginia, USA estate of Lt. Col. Nathaniel Burwell . It is located in the upper Shenandoah Valley, off Virginia Route 255 northeast of Millwood. The estate includes a grand plantation house, a great lawn, and terraced gardens, and has panoramic views in all directions. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Nathaniel Burwell inherited a 5,800 acre estate from his father Carter Burwell, of Carter&#39;s Grove, James City County, and had a mansion built during 1792–1800.</p><br>
<p>George Burwell (1799–1873) inherited the estate in 1814 and added the large portico, which is "by tradition" ascribed to a design of William Thornton, architect of the United States Capitol.</p><br>
<p>It served as headquarters for Stonewall Jackson during part of the American Civil War, and was raided and sacked by Union troops during the war. and later established headquarters at Carter Hall during Fall of 1862. Jackson "declined George Burwell&#39;s invitation to stay in the house, camping instead with his men on the grounds. During his stay General Jackson permitted his surgeon, Dr. William McGuire, to perform a cataract operation on George Burwell on the portico."</p><br>
<p>It was also a home for Burwell&#39;s cousin Edmund Randolph, who had been United States Attorney General and later Secretary of State under George Washington, and was invited to pass his retirement with Colonel Burwell.</p><br>
<p>Carter Hall has a five-bay central block built of local limestone, originally with a central hall flanked by rooms extending the full depth of the house (single-pile plan). The flanking two-bay wings have pediment gable ends and the outermost, single-story wings are of a single bay, formerly with pediment ends.</p><br>
<p>The house was remodeled in 1930 for its new owner Gerard Lambert "under the direction of the fashionable New York architect, H.T. Lindeberg," and a four-level terraced garden designed by landscape architect Wade Muldoon was added in 1948. The stucco was removed from the exterior to expose the stone. In the house the central hall and east room were combined into a single space and the original wainscoting was replaced with richly-detailed neo-Georgian details based on woodwork at Shirley Plantation, Virginia. The dining room is the only room to retain significant portions of its original fittings.</p><br>
<p>Carter Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>It is now a conference center owned by Project Hope.</p><br>
<p>Edwin Hawley Hewitt  was a prominent local architect in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He designed this house, at the corner of Franklin Avenue and Stevens Avenue, in 1906. The house is within the Stevens Square neighborhood. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Education</h2><br>
<p>Hewitt studied at the University of Minnesota, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He returned to Minnesota in 1904, and in 1911, he partnered with architect Edwin Brown. Hewitt&#39;s house is architecturally significant within Minneapolis and testifies to the impact of his career.</p><br>
<h2>Memorial Commission</h2><br>
<p>Since 1919, the Soldiers Memorial Commission had been planning a memorial to all of the communitys soldiers. A suitable location was sought and it was intended to be placed on Victory Memorial Drive. The memorial was budgeted at $100,000 and several fundraising plans were looked at. Mr. E.H. Hewitt of Hewitt & Brown Architects submitted a proposal and sketch for the monument. The Great Depression put a damper on the plans. The money collected was invested and had aided in maintenance of the bronze stars and crosses. The memorial was put on hold, to be looked at after World War II. It is not known what happened to the plans. http://www.victoryneighborhood.org/history.php</p><br>
<p>Waskesiu Lake is a lake located roughly in the centre of Prince Albert National Park. The lakes name, meaning "red deer," or elk, in the Cree language, is also the name of the resort town northwest of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, on its eastern shore. Waskesiu Lake is by far the most developed lake in the park, and features a variety of recreational facilities along all sides of its shoreline, including two public camp grounds: Red Deer and Beaver Glen. The lake has one island off its western shore known as King Island  after park founder William Lyon Mackenzie King.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Waskesiu experiences a borderline humid continental/subarctic climate (Köppen Dfb/Dfc). The highest temperature ever recorded in Waskesiu was 36.5 &deg;C on 5 June 1988. The coldest temperature ever recorded was -48.3 &deg;C on 21 January 1935.</p><br>
<p>The Rio Grande Ranch Headquarters Historic District  is a historic one-story residence located 3 miles east of Okay in Wagoner County, Oklahoma. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places September 9, 1992. The site&#39;s Period of Significance is 1910 to 1935, and it qualified for listing under NRHP criteria A and C.</p><br>
<p>The historic district consists of 40 acres of ranch land with 15 resources, 13 rated as "Contributing" and 2 as noncontributing.</p><br>
<p>The ranch house was built in the Prairie School architectural style out of sandstone which was mined at a local quarry. The complete site consists of the original residence, a smoke house and the spring house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>An Act of Congress in May,1908, allowed the sale of Cherokee lands to non-Cherokees. Previously, non-Cherokees were only allowed to lease such land. In August, 1908, Dr. Charles E. Daily bought 50 acres in the newly-created Wagoner County, Oklahoma. The land would become the headquarters of the Rio Grande Ranch. Daily continued to buy land, and owned 285 acres by the end of the year. In 1910, Dr. Daily bought enough shorthorn cattle from his father&#39;s ranch in Indiana to establish his own herd. The herd proved successful in its new home. However, the elder Daily died in 1915, and his son felt he needed to sell his Oklahoma ranch and return to Indiana.</p><br>
<p>Frank A. Gillespie, a Tulsa oilman, bought the ranch in November, 1915. Born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, he had come to Tulsa in 1904, where he was said to be highly successful. His hobby was raising purebred shorthorn cattle. He already owned several other large ranches in the state. Gillespie immediately began the Rio Grande&#39;s land holdings and its herd.In 1916, he built a 16,000 ft&sup2; concrete barn as a place to show his cattle. In 1917 he bought an unspecified amount of Grand River bottom land to add to the ranch. Gillespie sold the ranch to Clinton R. Strong on February 11, 1918.</p><br>
<p>Although Strong continued to raise shorthorns, he apparently did nothing else to improve the ranch. One year after buying it, he traded it for ownership of some railroad stock. By 1920, the ranch was owned by James W. Maney, an Oklahoma City railroad contractor. Money&#39;s son, Robert, actually moved into the Rock House in 1920-1921 and managed the ranch with the help of three ranch hands. James actually started a couple of sidelines for the property: a producing oil well and a gravel production business on the Grand River. But it was still cattle raising that brought in the big profits. In 1920, the ranch held a sale of registered shorthorns in Tulsa and grossed an average of $395 per head, which was considered a good price at the time.</p><br>
<p>James Maney sold the ranch to Yeoman Life Insurance Company in 1935, ending the ranch&#39;s significance as a source of purebred shorthorn cattle.</p><br>
<h2>Description of buildings</h2><br>
<h3>"Rock Manor" Ranch house</h3><br>
<p>The 3,500 ft&sup2, one-story main residence was one of the first structures built in 1909 - 1910. Its walls were covered with Atoka sandstone, which was quarried on the ranch. Hence, the house was always known as "Rock Manor" or "Rock House." The architecture is Prairie Style, and has the darker stone laid at the bottom of the elevation, becoming lighter as the exterior walls reach the roofline. The hipped roof is low-pitched and covered with asphalt shingles, interrupted by two front-facing dormers. Each dormer has white clapboard walls and two windows, with three small glass panes over one larger pane. The wide eave overhang is enclosed with a wooden fascia and a tongue-in-groove wooden soffit. There are three brick chimneys penetrating through the roof. One chimney is on the center ridge and connects to the living room fireplace. The other two are on the roof slopes, serving four wood stoves (kitchen, dining room and two bedrooms).</p><br>
<p>A porch spans the front facade (south elevation) and wraps around about one-third of the elevation. It is raised with a concrete floor and steps. The steps are flanked by short sandstone wing walls that are capped with concrete and decorated with concrete horse heads. Slightly tapered sandstone columns with concrete capitals support the porch roof, whose ceiling is made of tongue-in-groove wood painted white. Four-inch diameter metal pipes connecting the columns, serve as the porch rail.</p><br>
<p>The double-hung windows are made of wood and are of different sizes. The NRHP application said that they were probably made on-site to fit specific window openings, which were not all of uniform size. The main entrance door is oversized and has a single pane of glass, with an overhead transom. Other exterior doors are wooden, paneled type, single doors with a transom. The transoms were adjustable to facilitate natural cooling during the summer.</p><br>
<p>Inside the house, the most notable feature is a large rock fireplace in the living room, faced with quarried sandstone and having a simple wooden mantle. The concrete floor in the living room probably prevented serious damage to the house whenever sparks may have flown out of the fireplace. All other rooms in the house have wood floors. Ceilings in all the rooms are 12 feet high, and most rooms are decorated with picture molding. All interior doors have transoms (again to promote air circulation), and have solid brass hardware. There are two wooden built-in cabinets: a gun cabinet in the sitting room and a china cabinet in the dining room. Ceilings and interior walls are covered with plaster over wood lath. The inside of exterior walls was covered directly with plaster.</p><br>
<h3>Secondary buildings</h3><br>
<p>Three secondary buildings share the 1.1 acre yard of the Rock House: the spring house and the root cellar are southwest of the main house, and the smokehouse is northeast. A rock wall encloses the yard. The three secondary buildings each have Atoka sandstone walls, 2 feet thick, and sloped concrete roofs, 4 in thick.</p><br>
<p>The smoke house is 13 feet by 17 feet and was built to store fresh meat, as well as to smoke meat and fish.</p><br>
<p>The root cellar 14 feet by 24 feet was intended to store fruits and vegetables in a cool environment during the hot summer. It was also used as the storm cellar, when tornados were in the area.</p><br>
<p>The spring cellar 14 feet by 26 feet provided drinking water from a cold spring, as well as providing a place to store perishables like eggs and milk.</p><br>
<h2>Other resources</h2><br>
<h3>Cistern-Well/Windmill</h3><br>
<p>The original cistern-well was hand dug, rock-lined and provided all the water needed for household use, except for drinking water. Runoff from rain flowed into the cistern, supplemented by well water, which the windmill pumped into an overhead tank. The windmill also enough power to provide sufficient water pressure for the kitchen and baths. The overhead tank no longer exists, but the cistern-well now irrigation supplies water for the yard and the surrounding land.</p><br>
<h3>Septic system</h3><br>
<p>A septic system was installed when the Rock House was originally built. it was still operating satisfactorily when the NRHP application was written.</p><br>
<h3>Concrete barn</h3><br>
<p>The concrete barn is a 14,000 ft&sup2; rectangular structure with twin concrete silos at the north end. Stalls were originally made of metal pipe. The original overhead feeding system is intact. The roof is front-gabled and covered with brown, composition shingles. A hayloft is centered on the roof ridge and has a hipped roof with a cupola and open eaves. The barn has 26 double-hung, 6/6 windows. The original wood frame windows have been replaced with aluminum sashes, which have been painted to simulate the original appearance. Drive-in doors are on the north, east and west sides of the barn, while cattle doors are on the south side. There are shed roofs along the outside east and west walls, supported by square wooden posts. The sheds were to provide shade and shelter from the weather.</p><br>
<p>The Moore Square Historic District is a registered historic district located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the district is centered on Moore Square, one of two surviving four-acre  parks from Raleighs original 1792 plan. The park is named after Alfred Moore, a North Carolina judge who became an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. Originally a residential neighborhood, Moore Square developed into a primary commercial hub in the city throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The district includes East Hargett Street, once known as Raleighs "Black Main Street", because it once contained the largest number of businesses owned by African-Americans in the city. City Market, Marbles Kids Museum/IMAX theatre, Pope House Museum, Artspace, and the Long View Center are located in the Moore Square district. Events that take place in Moore Square include the Raleigh Arts Festival, Artsplosure, Movies in the Park, the Street Painting Festival, and the Moore Square Farmer’s Market The approximate district boundaries include Person, Morgan, Wilmington, and Davie Streets.</p><br>
<p>In addition to its national listing, Moore Square is one of six local historic overlay districts (HOD) in Raleigh.</p><br>
<p>The West Raleigh Historic District in Raleigh, North Carolina is a national historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. Located 1.5 miles  west-northwest of the State Capitol, the district encompasses approximately 332 acre. Neighborhoods in the district include: Bedford Heights, Bagwell, Blue Moon Ridge, College Crest , Fairmont, Forest Hills, Harris-Chamberlain, and Wilmont. Most homes in these neighborhoods are one-story and were constructed between the 1930s to 1950s. While the district is mostly residential, churches and commercial buildings are common along Hillsborough Street.</p><br>
<p>Enterprise Street, Chamberlain Street, and Rosemont Avenue form the eastern boundaries of the district. Mayview Road, Rosedale Avenue, Ruffin Street, and Furches Street form the northern boundary while Faircloth Street is the district&#39;s western boundary. Hillsborough Street forms the southern boundary, except from Dixie Trail to Henderson Street where the boundary moves southward to include the Stanhope neighborhood. Most of the district residents include faculty and students from North Carolina State University.</p><br>
<p>Gissar Range  is a mountain range in Central Asia, in the western part of the Pamir-Alay system, stretching over 200 km in the general east-west direction across the territory of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Gissar Range lies south of the Zeravshan Range, extending north of Dushanbe through Tajikistan&#39;s Gissar District of the Districts of Republican Subordination and reaching Uzbekistan at the north tip of Surkhandarya Province. The highest point in the Gissar Range at 4,643 m is located in Uzbekistan on the border with Tajikistan, just north-west of Dushanbe. Formerly known as Peak of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party, the Khazret Sultan is also the highest point in all Uzbekistan. The Gissar Range is composed of crystalline rocks, schist, and sandstone, punctured by granite intrusions.</p><br>
<p>Hissar (Gissar) Valley, which encompasses the Shirkent National Park is a 3,000 hectare reserve, which is expected to be expanded to some 30,000 hectare in the coming years, has an unusually high concentration of sites of historical and scientific interest.</p><br>
<p>The Raleigh and Gaston / Seaboard Coast Line Building is an historic building in Raleigh, North Carolina, that was once home to the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad and subsequently the Raleigh office of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. The three story brick building is one of Raleigh&#39;s earliest surviving office buildings and served as a railroad office for more than 100 years.</p><br>
<p>The first train to arrive in Raleigh came in 1840, five years after the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad was chartered. The railroad was sold under foreclosure and taken over by the State of North Carolina in 1845. Private stockholders were later able to acquire a controlling interest from the state, in 1867. The building was commissioned while the railroad was under state control and construction of two stories was started in 1861. A third and final story had been added by 1891. The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad and several associated railroads formed the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in 1893, and later merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in 1967.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1971, at its original location of 325 Halifax Street. At that time, the building was still in use for its original purpose as a railroad company office. The state of North Carolina purchased the land in 1977 and moved the building to its present location at 413 North Salisbury Street, re-designating it as a Raleigh Historic Landmark in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Peekskill Downtown Historic District is a historic district located in the downtown section of Peekskill in the USA state of New York. It includes the 40 acre along Main, Division, South, Park, Bank, Brown, First and Esther streets, and Central and Union avenues, near where those streets intersect. There are 150 buildings and one object counted among its contributing resources.</p><br>
<p>Peekskill, originally a settlement along the shore of the Hudson River where farmers from inland Westchester County brought produce for transshipment to markets in New York City and elsewhere, began to grow inland in the early 19th century due to the intersection of two major roads that roughly corresponds to today&#39;s Central and Division streets. The Albany Post Road, followed later by US 9 until its relocation to the Croton Expressway closer to the river, and the Danbury Turnpike, still followed by US 202 (and, in the western part of the city and district, US 6 and NY 35). Two houses in the district, in a typical Hudson Valley vernacular style, remain from this era.</p><br>
<p>Industrialization began changing downtown after 1830, with brick buildings supporting that use replacing older wooden ones along Magregeres Creek. Many of the districts churches were built by the mid-19th century. Fashionable houses, later known as "Doctor&#39;s Row", were built on Main Street. In the 1880s the Moorish Revival tower was built on a structure in the center of town that has remained a landmark for passing travelers ever since. Other late Victorian styles made their mark as well.</p><br>
<p>In the 20th century, some more buildings were added in more modern contemporary styles, and the increasing use of the automobile affected downtown as well. The decline of retail shopping in the district led to urban renewal efforts in the 1960s and 70s. While some historic buildings were razed, the major urban renewal projects coincided with the eastern boundary of the downtown core, sparing most of it. The district was recognized and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 as a rare example of intact 19th-century Hudson Valley downtown architecture.</p><br>
<p>Cañón del Pato  is on the Rio Santa  at the north end of the Callejón de Huaylas  in north-central Peru. The mostly rocky canyon walls are too steep and arid for cultivation, and in only a few places are the slopes of the imposingly rugged canyon suitable even for grazing domestic animals. The canyon was formed by the river where the north end of the Cordillera Negra range  converges with the Cordillera Blanca mountain range . These two Andean ridges run generally parallel for nearly 140 km from south of the city of Huaraz northward to the Cañón; the Cordillera Blanca continues northward for another hundred kilometers or more. The Callejón de Huaylas is the valley between the two cordilleras averaging about 16 km  in width but in places as much as 25 km in width.</p><br>
<p>The main south-north highway through the Callejón de Huaylas existed as a narrow dirt track prior to construction of the highway through the Cañón. Construction of the highway&#39;s northward extension began in 1952 at the town of Caraz, about 30 km south of the Cañón. The highway penetrates and traverses the Cordillera Negra. Eventually it descends westward and continues to the Pacific Ocean port city of Chimbote and northward to the city of Trujillo, providing motor vehicle access to the Pacific coast from the Callejón. A typical highway journey from Caraz to the Cañón is about 4hrs round trip. The highway from Caraz to Trujillo covers a distance of 184 km. From Caraz the highway is in the Callejón valley until it crosses a concrete bridge to the west side of the river. Here the highway leaves the valley floor, veers northwest onto the eastern face of the Cordillera Negra, and eventually pierces through to the western face of the mountain. The highway along this entire route is unpaved and has 35 one-lane tunnels before it emerges onto the western face of the Cordillera Negra high above the town of Huallanca. The river from this same bridge goes generally northward through the Cañón itself and eventually its water powers the turbines of the hydro electricity plant at Huallanca.</p><br>
<p>At approximately the same latitude as that of highway tunnel 18 the nearby (eastward) rivers natural banks are as close as 6m apart; the crests of the two cordilleras loom above, at places as high as 6000m above sea level. A short distance north (downstream) of this constriction in the Cañón is a diversion dam that deflects measured amounts of the rivers water into a man-made tunnel. From the diversion dam to the Huallanca powerplant the tunnel is about 11 km long. It descends in altitude from the diversion dam to a place about 103m directly above this hydroelectric facility. Diameter of the tunnel was established to accommodate small dump-trucks that removed rock and debris during construction. At the tunnel&#39;s north end the water plunges down into one or both turbines a hundred meters below. The powerplant is entirely within a huge manmade cavity a hundred meters inside the rock of the mountain on the east edge of Huallanca. From Huallanca the river flows westward and furnishes water for irrigation of large banana plantations in the arid coastal plain; just north of Chimbote the river empties into the Pacific Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The earthquake of 1970 caused so much damage to the railroad bed, that this railway connecting Huallanca and Chimbote was abandoned and has not been in use since.</p><br>
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<p>The Franklin and Amelia Walton House is a Prairie School style bungalow built in 1916 in Centerville, Utah, United States. The home remains in almost original condition, including original kitchen cabinets, push button light switches, original woodwork, casement windows and hardware. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997</p><br>
<p>and is currently in use as a private residence.</p><br>
<p>Franklin Walton was born November 6, 1881 and died April 24, 1955. He served a mission for the LDS Church in England and worked his entire life for Porter-Walton Walton nursery, eventually retiring as Vice President.</p><br>
<p>Amelia (Porter) Walton was born January 25, 1883 and died March 8, 1973. She worked as a teacher, was active in civic affairs, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, and in the LDS Church.</p><br>
<p>Jackson County Courthouse is a two-story brick building designed by architect W.W. Thomas and built in 1879 in Jefferson, Georgia. Its Classical Revival clock tower was added in 1906. It was one of the first post-Civil War county courthouses built in Georgia. It is unusual for surviving little-altered since construction. In 2004, a new courthouse was built in Jefferson.</p><br>
<p>It was renovated in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Its courtroom has a "Cathedral quilt" pressed metal coved ceiling and egg and dart cornices.</p><br>
<p>Its architect, William Winstead Thomas (1848-1904), was president of an insurance company but also designed buildings, including the White Hall estate house outside Atlanta and at least two other courthouses.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Lee Plaza  is a vacant 15-story high-rise apartment building located at 2240 West Grand Boulevard, about one mile west of New Center along West Grand Boulevard, an area in Detroit, Michigan. It is a registered historic site by the state of Michigan and was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 1981. Designed by Charles Noble and constructed in 1929, it rises to 15 floors and is an excellent example of Art Deco architecture of the 1920s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lee Plaza Hotel was built in 1928 for Ralph T. Lee, a Detroit developer. Noted residential architect Charles Noble designed the building. It was constructed to be an upscale apartment with hotel services. Decorated with sculpture and tile outside, the structure rivaled the Book-Cadillac and Statler Hotels for architectural notice in Detroit during the 1920s. The building opened in 1929, but Lee quickly sold it to the Detroit Investment Co. Like many companies, the Detroit Investment Co. had financial issues at the beginning of the Great Depression, and the Lee Plaza went through a series of owners, some of whom Ralph T. Lee had an interest in. By 1935 both Ralph Lee and the Lee Plaza were bankrupt.</p><br>
<p>The ownership of the building was tied up in court until 1943. However, in that time luxury apartment living had fallen out of favor, residents left, and the hotel started renting rooms to transient guests. In 1968, the city of Detroit turned the building into a senior citizens&#39; complex. However, in the 1980s, the Lee began losing residents, and the building was finally closed in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Since that time, the Lee Plaza has been stripped of many of its architectural elements. The city has looked for a redeveloper, and in 2015, developer Craig Sasser, announced a $200 million redevelopment of Lee Plaza and the surrounding area. However, in October 2016, Harold Ince, interim executive director of the Detroit Housing Commission announced that the planned redevelopment appears dead after Sasser failed to purchase the property.The city of Detroit purchased the building and has plans for renovations.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lee Plaza Hotel is a 15-story, "I" plan, steel and reinforced concrete structure, faced with orange glazed brick, with a steeply pitched roof originally covered in red tile (later replaced with copper, which has been since stripped). The first story of the building is forms a terra cotta clad base with molded Palladian windows, from which prominent brick piers rise to the roof, forming strong vertical lines. Decorative details are inset in the form of terra cotta belt courses, spandrel plaques, corbelled friezes and window surrounds.</p><br>
<p>The interior contains 220 one to four room apartments. The first floor has a main lobby with a coffered ceiling, east and west lounges, two wood-panelled dining rooms, and a ballroom. The main hallway was dubbed "Peacock Alley," a barrel-vaulted space with coffered ceiling covered in a rich color scheme of blues, golds and greens. The basement originally contained a beauty parlor, a game room, a children&#39;s playroom, and a meat market and grocer.</p><br>
<p>The Doły Jasielsko-Sanockie, Regio Pedemontana"Thus the region adjoining the Carpathians and extending to a line Tarnów&ndash;Rzeszów&ndash;Jarosław, the hithero almost uninhabited regio pedemontana was settled by German-speaking Silesians and soon abounded in large Waldhufendorfer with Frankish hides and in towns whose German names were in many case identical with place-names in Silesia  bezeichner ". Katharine Bechtloff. Julius Krämer. Hilfskomitee der Galiziendeutschen. Heimat Galizien. 1965.</p><br>
<p>Sanoker Flachland (Jasielsko&ndash;Sanockie Valleys, Jasło and Sanok Valleys, the Jasło-Sanok Basin or Jasielsko-Sanockie Pits) is a mountain range stretching between the Wisłoka and San Rivers in the West Carpathian Plateau and Central Beskidian Piedmont in Poland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The mountains reach up to 250–500 meters above sea level. The range is situated in the southern part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. It is the lowest mountain range of the Polish Carpathians.</p><br>
<p>They can be divided into: Gorlickie Depression, Jasielskie Plateau, Jasielsko – Krośnieńska Valley and Bukowskie Plateau. They stretch along a 100 km long and 18 km wide strip of land between Low Beskids in the south and heights of plateau in the north.</p><br>
<p>From the tourist point of view the region of Doły (Pits) is limited from the west by the valley of Ropa River, from the east by the Wisłok and San rivers, from the south by the Low Beskids line and from the north by a Dynowskie Plateau enclosed by the route of the national road No 28 ( from Zator to the national border in Medyka) on the section between Gorlice - Grybów - Biecz - Jasło - Krosno - Rymanów - Sanok.</p><br>
<p>The highest summit on the side is Dział (678 m. high, above the sea level) in the Tabor and Czarny Potok rivers. In general mountains of the Doły are low with gentle slopes and long ridges with a flattened tops and domed summits, and only in some places are characterized by sharp downcasts. The height of summits varies from 350 to 650 m. above the sea level.</p><br>
<h2>Settlement</h2><br>
<p>Important cities of this region include Biecz, Gorlice, Jasło, Krosno, Lesko, Brzozów, Jaćmierz, Rymanów, Brzozów, and Sanok.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Historical names for the region include Doły Sanockie (Sanockie Pits) and Podole Sanockie (Sanockie Podolia); it stretches between powiat Krosno, powiat Sanok and Brzozów in Galicia.Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego, tom III, 1876, Karpaty, page 870</p><br>
<p>In 1854 the first oil field in the world started producing oil in village of Bóbrka near Krosno.</p><br>
<h2>Division</h2><br>
<p>Since there exist many variants of divisions of the mountain ranges and names for the Doły (Pits), several divisions are given in the following:</p><br>
<p>Obniżenie Gorlickie</p><br>
<p>Kotlina Jasielsko-Krośnieńską</p><br>
<p>Pogórze Jasielskie</p><br>
<p>Pogórze Bukowskie</p><br>
<h2>Hiking trails</h2><br>
<p>European walking route E8</p><br>
<p>Iwonicz-Zdrój – Rymanów-Zdrój - Puławy – Tokarnia (778 m) – Przybyszów – Kamień (717 m) – Komańcza (Główny Szlak Beskidzki)</p><br>
<p>Pasmo Bukowicy - Kanasiówka (823 m) – Wisłok Wielki – Tokarnia (778 m), 1 km – Wola Piotrowa</p><br>
<h2>Ethnic groups</h2><br>
<p>Poles</p><br>
<p>Bukowica Range  part of the Pogórze Bukowskie and Low Beskids in southern Poland. The Bukowica created by the long mountain massif, situated in the eastern part of the Beskid Niski between the valleys of the Wisłok and Osławica rivers. The Bukowica Range separating the west Low Beskids from the east Pogórze Bukowskie.</p><br>
<p>It consists of a larger ridge of Bukowica with summits as Skibce (776 m. above the sea level ) in the north-west and Tokarnia (777 m. above the sea level ) in the south-east and the smaller range of Kamien Peak (718 m. above the sea level ). Bukowica is rather a monotonous mountainous bank and is heavily except Tokarnia covered with forest it has a panoramic view in all directions.</p><br>
<p>The southern part is a steep rocky wall, while the other side consist of less steep rocky fields.</p><br>
<p>The Bukowica Range separating the west Low Beskids from the east Pogórze Bukowskie.</p><br>
<h2>Division</h2><br>
<p>Tokarnia Peak (778 m. high, above the sea level),</p><br>
<p>Zrubań Peak (778 m.),</p><br>
<p>Kamień Peak (717 m.),</p><br>
<p>Kiczera Peak (640 m.)</p><br>
<h2>Hiking trails</h2><br>
<p>European walking route E8</p><br>
<p>Iwonicz-Zdrój – Rymanów-Zdrój - Puławy – Tokarnia (778 m) – Przybyszów – Kamień (717 m) – Komańcza (Główny Szlak Beskidzki)</p><br>
<p>Pasmo Bukowicy - Kanasiówka (823 m) – Wisłok Wielki – Tokarnia (778 m), 1 km – Wola Piotrowa - Komańcza - Cisna - Tarnica - Wołosate.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The Park was situated around the site of an Iron Age hill fort, the remains of which can still be seen in the vicinity of the building of Old Park House (now belonging to the Bush Hill Golf Club). These constitute the largest present-day hill fort remains in the old county of Middlesex.</p><br>
<p>The Domesday Book (1086) records the Manor of Enfield as being held by Geoffrey de Mandeville and mentions there is a park there. The word park in this sense refers to a preserve for game, and the park was reserved for this use until the 18th century. As the manor of Enfield had been held in Anglo-Saxon times by Asgar, Master of the Stud to Edward the Confessor, it is very possible that the area was already a game-park before the Norman Conquest. John Norden&#39;s map of Middlesex (c. 1593) clearly shows the fenced-in Old Park, with Salmons Brook flowing through it.</p><br>
<h2>Royal property</h2><br>
<p>In the mediaeval era the Park was recorded in documents as Parcus Intrinsicus (Latin, the Inner Park) to distinguish it from the much larger, and unenclosed, Enfield Chase. The name Old Park seems to have been applied from the 15th century. Around this time, the Park, together with the Manor of Enfield, became royal property as part of the Duchy of Lancaster.</p><br>
<p>Queen Elizabeth I frequently visited Enfield for hunting and stayed sometimes at the Manor House, known as Enfield Palace, which stood at the edge of the Park, and sometimes at Enfield House (Elsyng Palace). In 1596, Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth recorded that "The Queen came to dinner at Enfield House and had toils set up in the park to shoot the bucks after dinner".</p><br>
<p>In the early 17th century the course of the New River was laid through part of the Park. In April 1620 a review of the Park&#39;s stock gave a total of 207 fallow deer, of which 73 were "Deare of Anteleir" (i.e. antlered males).</p><br>
<p>During the Commonwealth period, the Park was sequestered by Oliver Cromwells Protectorate, and a detailed survey was prepared. This assessed the area of the Park as 553 acre, and its value as £311/10/- (i.e. £311.50 in present-day notation). It also mentions the Parks stock of coneys (rabbits), and "50 sorts of several deer". The Park was given initially to Parliamentary soldiers in lieu of their overdue wages, but was then granted to George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle.</p><br>
<h2>Enclosure and after</h2><br>
<p>The advent of the railway to the area (both Grange Park station and Enfield Chase station are situated within the original boundaries of the Old Park) meant that the land became valuable for domestic housing, and between 1910 and 1936 most of the present suburb of Grange Park was constructed.</p><br>
<p>The Park is still remembered in several road names, notably Old Park Ridings, Old Park Road and Old Park Avenue. Enfield Town Park is however the only public remnant of the open space that was once Enfield Old Park.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Haigh, Douglas, Old Park in the Manor of Enfield, London 1977.</p><br>
<p>Pevsner, Nikolaus and Bridget Cherry The Buildings of England: London 4:North, London 1998</p><br>
<p>Victoria Country History: Middlesex, vol.5, London 1976 (also )</p><br>
<p>Weinreb, Ben, The London Encyclopaedia. London, 1983</p><br>
<p>Chickahominy Reservoir is located on USA Highway 20 100 mi east of Bend, Oregon, and 32 mi west of Burns, Oregon, in the United States. It was built as an irrigation reservoir, but is now managed by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife as a recreational fishery. The reservoir is very long and is narrow at points, almost pinched at the center.</p><br>
<p>A dam on Chickahominy Creek in Harney County, Oregon, formed the reservoir. After leaving the reservoir, the creek then flows into Silver Creek, north of Riley. Chickahominy Reservoir was named for the creek that bears the same name, and the origin is uncertain. Speculation exists that members of the USA Cavalry, who were fighting in the Bannock War near Silver Creek, named the creek in 1878. In fact, Reuben F. Bernard, a cavalry commander, had fought in several campaigns along the Chickahominy River in Virginia during the American Civil War in 1862.</p><br>
<p>The lake sits in the wide open and is exposed to harsh wind, and is surrounded by miles of sagebrush and few trees.</p><br>
<p>If planning to fish this lake, it is best in the morning and evening. The limit is five fish, motors are allowed, and boaters are speed limit-controlled. The lake is open year round. Although not a huge reservoir, Chickahominy is large enough to stock trout. Annually, it is stocked with rainbow trout fingerlings, and conditions allow for rapid growth. The reservoir provides an ideal habitat for growing huge trout, which feast year-round on minnows, leeches, and aquatic insects. The reservoir is usually frozen by mid-December.</p><br>
<p>A paved boat ramp is located near the dam.</p><br>
<p>The Prineville Reservoir is located in the high desert hills of Central Oregon, Oregon, United States. The reservoir is on the Crooked River located 14 mi southeast of Prineville, OR, and 29 mi east of Bend, Oregon. This reservoir is a popular retreat for most of Central Oregon. It is located near the geographic center of Oregon, and Prineville Reservoir State Park is managed by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.</p><br>
<p>Prineville Reservoir was created by damming, via the Arthur R. Bowman Dam, the Crooked River upstream from Prineville, Oregon. The reservoir is part of the USA Bureau of Reclamation&#39;s Crooked River Project, flooding a juniper and sagebrush filled canyon, and was finished in 1961. The dam and reservoir are owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, and operated under contract by Ochoco Irrigation District. Prineville Reservoir covers 18 mi of the Crooked River and is primarily an irrigation storage water body, with secondary objectives of Crooked River flood control and public recreation. Prineville Reservoir has a maximum depth of 130 ft and storage of just over 150,000 acre.ft of water.</p><br>
<p>The northeast end of Prineville Reservoir is a designated wildlife management area; these 3,800 acre of both land and water provide a refuge for wildlife.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>Fishing can be quite good with rainbow & cutthroat trout, small & largemouth bass, catfish, crappie, and crayfish. The trout fishing experience is year-round, with ice fishing in winter.</p><br>
<h2>Boating</h2><br>
<p>There is no speed limit on the lake and so boating of all kinds is very popular. Water skiing, wakeboarding and tubing are some of the most common sports and about half of the boats on the lake are there for this purpose. There is a marina with a boat ramp.</p><br>
<h2>Camping</h2><br>
<p>There are two state parks that allow camping, Prineville Reservoir State Park, and Jasper Point State Park. Both have facilities and offer RV hookups. There is also a privately owned resort that rents cabins, offers campsites (with hookups), maintains a boat ramp and marina, and also owns a general store and restaurant.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Prineville Reservoir is a popular place to see waterfowl, shorebirds, and birds of prey in one setting. Spring and fall migrations bring common loon, while in summer blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, spotted sandpiper, American avocet, and black-necked stilt. Also seen is the bald eagle, golden eagle, osprey, prairie falcon, and red-tailed hawk. Juniper woodlands harbor black-throated gray warbler, pinyon jay, and ash-throated flycatcher. Willow shrubbery may hold orange-crowned warbler and gray catbird.</p><br>
<p>Non-avian wildlife in the area include bats, black bear, coyotes, red fox, gray fox, bobcat, lynx, mountain lion, mule deer, elk, black tailed deer, pronghorn, badger, striped skunk, spotted skunk, porcupine, rockchuck, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, snakes, and other assorted small mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.</p><br>
<p>Jackson County Courthouse is an historic courthouse building located at Sylva, Jackson County, North Carolina. It was designed by Smith & Carrier and built in 1913, when Sylva took over the county seat designation from Webster.</p><br>
<h2>The building</h2><br>
<p>The Jackson County Courthouse is situated on a hill at the end of main street, and there are 107 steps leading up to its front portico from the fountain and plaza at street level. It is a two-story, Classical Revival style brick buildings with a three-stage cupola. It was built after C. J. Harris pushed the county to vote for the removal of the county seat from Webster (where it had been since 1851) to Sylva, and the measure passed and the seat was relocated. Harris then as part of the agreement built a courthouse with the sum of money not exceeding $30,000. The building was patterned after the Madison County Courthouse in Marshall, North Carolina. The 1913 Courthouse served as the county&#39;s courthouse from 1914 until the present Justice Center was built in 1994 on Grindstaff Cove Road east of town near US 74. It had been previously renovated in 1950 with the mezzanine third floor was painted white and four windows were added to the front and back of the third floor. It was renovated again in 1969, when the red bricks were painted white, a clock added to the dome, the pine trees along the steps that hid the building from the street and lined the steps were also removed.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, the Courthouse site was selected for the location of the new Jackson County Public Library. The old Jail from 1963 was demolished at this time, and the original jail from 1913 was demolished in 2009, when the new library started being constructed.</p><br>
<p>The Jackson County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>The jails</h2><br>
<p>The original jail was small, about the size of a house. It served as the main county jail until a big red brick structure was built between it and the courthouse in 1963. They were both two floors tall and connected by a one floor tall office wing on the 1963 building. The jails were abandoned in favor of a new facility around 2000. Both jails were recently demolished in preparation for the construction of the new Library on their sites.</p><br>
<h2>New Jackson County Public Library</h2><br>
<p>Construction started in 2009 on a 20,000 sq. ft. two-story addition to house the library, which is being built onto the back of the historic courthouse, and will incorporate elements of the old building into it, and will connect with the back of the courthouse via large glass roofed atrium. The new building will replace a small, sad, one story structure with a meager floorspace of 6,000SQ FT that was built in 1970 on Main Street. The Courthouse is also being restored to house the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Arts Council, and Historical Society. It will have an Auditorium in the former courtroom and it will also become the showplace of the county, and has had new windows and doors installed as part of the restoration. The iconic dome and clocktower of the building was removed for the third time since its construction for renovation work (it was removed in 2010 and replaced in 2011, and it was previously removed in 1969 and 1994), and the entire complex was scheduled to open in May 2011, with a grand opening in June. The construction is mostly complete, but finishing work needs to be done on both the interior and exterior as of February 5, 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Jackson County Courthouse, located at Main Street and Broadway in Altus, is the county courthouse serving Jackson County, Oklahoma. Construction began on the courthouse in 1910, two years after Altus became the permanent county seat of Jackson County, and was completed in 1911. Architecture firm C.E. Hair and Company designed the building in the Classical Revival style; it was the first county courthouse the firm planned in Oklahoma. The three-story courthouse is built from limestone with a granite foundation. A two-story portico supported by four columns surrounds the main entrance. While a metal dome originally topped the building, it was removed in 1938 due to irreparable corrosion.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse is part of a public square which also contains the county jail and several other structures. The jail was constructed in 1924-25 to replace a jail in the courthouse basement. Due to a series of additions and renovations in the 1960s, it no longer retains its historic appearance. The courthouse grounds also include a United Daughters of the Confederacy memorial, a well, and a statue of a cowboy.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. In 2008, the boundaries of its listing expanded to include the courthouse square; however, only the Confederate memorial is considered a contributing structure to the listing.</p><br>
<p>The Jackson County Courthouse is a former county courthouse in Jacksonville, Oregon, United States, built in 1883. The courthouse is a contributing property of the Jacksonville Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . It was formerly the Jacksonville Museum owned by Jackson County and operated by the Southern Oregon Historical Society , which also managed several other historic properties in Jacksonville. The museum in the courthouse closed in 2006 because of lack of funding. Ownership of the historic courthouse was transferred to the City of Jacksonville in 2012. The SOHS still operates Hanley Farm in Central Point and a research library in Medford.</p><br>
<p>The current Jackson County Courthouse, also listed on the NRHP, is in Medford, where the county seat was moved in 1926.</p><br>
<p>The Hartford Club is a private club at 46 Prospect Street in Hartford, Connecticut, and founded in 1873.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hartford Club began as a union of local men&#39;s clubs amalgamated due to financial woes. It began admitting women members in the 1970s. Its present clubhouse, located at 46 Prospect Street, was designed in 1901 by Robert D. Andrews of Andrews, Jacques and Rantoul and was completed in 1903. It opened on January 1, 1908.</p><br>
<p>The club provides dining rooms, private banquet and meeting rooms, concierge services for members, and members&#39; activities.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The clubhouse is located in downtown Hartford, on the east side of Prospect Street, across from the Travelers Tower and one block south of the Old State House. It is a three story Georgian Revival building, slightly larger in size than domestic mansions of the period that were built in a similar style. It has a broad five-bay facade, with slightly projecting end bays. The ground-floor end windows are three-part Palladian style windows with narrow sidelights, and the center entrance has a series of elaborate projecting elements supported by Corinthian columns. Second-floor windows are set in openings with half-round tops set in recessed panels; the outer windows have the arched section filled with moulded decorative panels.</p><br>
<p>The clubhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Notable members</h2><br>
<p>Oliver Butterworth</p><br>
<p>Louis R. Cheney</p><br>
<p>Wilbur L. Cross</p><br>
<p>Dominick Dunne</p><br>
<p>Katharine Hepburn</p><br>
<p>George Keller</p><br>
<p>Senator Joseph Lieberman</p><br>
<p>John Pierpont Morgan</p><br>
<p>Igor Sikorsky</p><br>
<p>Wallace Stevens</p><br>
<p>Mark Twain</p><br>
<p>Mistaken Island is an island located approximately 5 km south-east of Albany, Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>Located in King George Sound the island is located approximately 120 m from Vancouver peninsula.</p><br>
<p>In 1971, the island was declared as a class 1A Nature Reserve with a total area of 12 hectare.</p><br>
<p>The area adjacent to the island is used to cultivate mussels on long lines on licenses issued by the Department of fisheries and leases issued by the Albany Port Authority.</p><br>
<h2>Little penguin colony</h2><br>
<p>The island received its name for the fact little penguin burrows were mistaken for rabbit holes and the island has also been historically referred to as Rabbit Island. In 1936 and 1938, the penguins of Mistaken Island became victims of a deliberately lit fires. Following the latter event, some were discovered with their feet "burned off". As of 2011, the penguin colony on Mistaken Island is the subject of scientific study.</p><br>
<p>The Gen. William Mitchell House, also known as Boxwood or the Gen. Billy Mitchell House was the country estate and home of General Billy Mitchell  during the last ten years of his life, from 1926 through 1936. Mitchell was an American general who is regarded as the father of the USA Air Force. He is regarded as one of the most famous and most controversial figures in American airpower history. It is located about.5 mile south of Middleburg on Virginia Route 626, straddling the county lines of Fauquier and Loudoun Counties. Part of the estate is now home to Boxwood Estate Winery.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Boxwood is 120 acre located south of the Loudoun County town of Middleburg, extending along the northwest side of VA 626 roughly from the city line to the highway&#39;s junction with Virginia Route 705. The centerpiece of the estate is a cluster of buildings that are set well back from the road. The main building is the farmhouse, which has at its core an 1826 farmstead. Now L-shaped in plan, it is 2-1/2 stories in height, with stone walls and wooden trim. The original farmhouse portion has a bellcast roof that curves down to shelter a porch.</p><br>
<p>The original farmhouse was built in 1826 by William Swart, and passed through several hands before its purchase in 1925 by Elizabeth Mitchell, the wife of General Billy Mitchell. The Mitchells added an ell to the southwest in 1925 and also built an outbuilding that served them as a library. It was their home until Mitchell died in 1936, and has not received major alterations since then. Mitchell, a horse enthusiast, kept horses and wrote extensively during his years there, expounding on his theories regarding the military use of air power.</p><br>
<p>Mitchell had a major role in the development of American military air power during World War I, and sought to broaden the Air Service (then part of the United States Army). His views were often poorly received and controversial, and he was eventually court-martialed in 1925, and resigned from the Army the following year. His views were to some degree vindicated when the United States Air Force was established in 1947, on an equal footing with the Army and Navy.</p><br>
<p>Meliti  is a village in the Florina regional unit, Greece, 15 km northeast of the city of Florina. It is part of the municipal unit Meliti.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The name of the village is "Voshterani", "Voštarani" (Воштарани, Вощарани) or "Ovčarani" (Овчарани) in both Macedonian and Bulgarian. The village was called Türbeli during the Ottoman Empire. In 1926, it was renamed to "Meliti" in Greek.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village was first mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1481, where it was listed under the name Voštarani and described as having one hundred and ninety-eight households. During the Ottoman period, the village had a mixed Bulgarian and Turkish population. In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Vushtarani (Вуштарани) as mainly Bulgarian village. A Bulgarian school stood in the village at the beginning of 20th century.</p><br>
<p>After the Balkan Wars, Greece annexed the village. In World War I, Bulgaria occupied it, but with Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine it was returned to Greece. After the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), the Turkish population left the village and 182 refugees (40 families) from Pontus and East Thrace were settled there. After the defeat of Greece by Nazi Germany in April 1941, a local government was established and villagers were actively involved in the pro-Bulgarian organization "Ohrana." In 1946, 20 activists from "Ohrana", were sentenced to prison by a court in Florina.</p><br>
<p>During the Greek Civil War, about 200 villagers joined the Communist-led Democratic Army of Greece. After the Greek Civil War, 66 Macedonian and 12 Pontic families left the village.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, a group of roughly 30 villagers from Meliti joined in protest with fellow ethnic Macedonians from Lofoi and Kella to protest the presence of the Greek military conducting training exercises in the vicinity of these villages.</p><br>
<h2>Culture</h2><br>
<p>Meliti holds an annual festival in honour of the Prophet Elijah. Held every year on 19–20 July, it is known as "Ilinden" in the local dialect, and is considered by some ethnic Macedonians living in the village to be a celebration in honour of the Ilinden Uprising. The festival has attracted performers from the neighbouring Republic of Macedonia such as Vaska Ilieva, Suzana Spasovska, Elena Velevska, Synthesis and the Tanec folklore ensemble. An estimated 3,000–5,000 people attend the event every year.</p><br>
<p>The festival however has not gone without criticism from the Greek authorities and local Greek media. In the past, as was common with all festivals involving songs in the Macedonian language, there were suppressive measures enforced by local authorities. In 1988 the local police interrupted the festival to by switching off all power to the sound system, a reaction to the singing of Macedonian language songs. The police later justified these actions claiming that the mayor of the village had been warned not to use the local Macedonian names of songs, but to instead use the Greek version. Two years later the police employed similar tactics in response to a folkloric group singing in the Macedonian language.</p><br>
<p>The village is home to both ethnic Macedonian and Pontic Greek folkloric groups, with the ethnic Macedonian group "KUD Ovčarani" notably performing at the 40th "Macedonian Border Festival" at the border village of Trnovo, Republic of Macedonia.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Recently the village has been described as the "epicenter of Macedonian ethnic activism in Greece". A 1993 EU funded survey revealed that the village is inhabited by a mixed population of Macedonian Slavic speakers and the descendants of Greek refugees, including Pontians, from Asia Minor.</p><br>
<p>According to the 2011 census, the population of Meliti was 1,432 people.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>Florina Power Station, a lignite-fired power station.</p><br>
<p>Mount Disappointment is an 800 m mountain, located on the southern end of the Great Dividing Range, 9.5 km north of Whittlesea, 60 km north of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. It was named by explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell in 1824, and the mountain is now a popular hiking spot.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Aboriginal Australians are known to have lived in the Mount Disappointment area. Stone weapons have been found near the junction of Drag Hill and Sunday Creeks.</p><br>
<p>After making the arduous climb to the summit, British explorers Hume and Hovell hoped to view the distant Port Phillip Bay. Unfortunately, the mountain&#39;s many trees prevented this, resulting in their immense disappointment. In addition, Hume suffered a painful injury to his groin nearby which caused him much distress and necessitated a five-day rest for their party. Consequently, they recorded their feelings in the name they chose for the mountain.</p><br>
<p>In 1870, Australian settlers began mining for gold at Mount Disappointment. In 1880 The Australian Seasoned Timber Company commenced timber cutting and sawmilling operations there and with an influx of workers, townships were soon created at Clonbinane, Reedy Creek and Strath Creek. The company operated two mills, named Comet Mill and Planet Mill, located in the heart of the forest. A network of tramways carried logs to the mills for cutting. These tramways included a notorious section ironically called "The Bump" - a steep incline that required a winch to haul the solid hardwood logs. By the 1890s, the Comet sawmill was processing 800 Mountain Ash logs a month.</p><br>
<p>In 1883&ndash;1885, the catchments to the east of Mount Disappointment were captured by Toorourrong Reservoir and associated aqueducts. They are protected as part of Kinglake National Park.</p><br>
<p>The Australian Seasoned Timber Company&#39;s finishing and seasoning works were located in the township of Wandong, north of Melbourne on the edge of the Mount Disappointment forest. This seasoning plant treated messmate timber, used principally for furniture making. The Wandong seasoning works were established by a different company in 1889 and were one of the earliest attempts to season hardwood in Australia.</p><br>
<p>At its peak, the timber industry in the area employed 420 men. Sawmilling ceased in 1939 but timber from the Mount Disappointment area is still being logged today, with improvements to forest management ensuring long-term sustainability of the industry.</p><br>
<p>On 5 August 1942, a Bristol Beaufighter IC crashed into the mountain, three hundred yards north of the peak, killing two men from 30 Squadron RAAF.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Stately Mountain Ash dominates the mountain and thrive in granite soils where the rainfall is high. Mountain Grey Gums grow in drier pockets. Red Stringybarks, Narrow-leafed Peppermints, Long-leaved box and Candlebark can be found growing along some waterways.</p><br>
<p>There is an abundance of bird life and habitat for deer, wombats and wallabies.</p><br>
<h2>Mount Disappointment State Forest</h2><br>
<p>Mount Disappointment is one of Melbourne&#39;s most accessible forest areas, with many recreation activities available including the 40 km -long Mount Disappointment Forest Drive, various walking tracks, picnic area and camping sites. The forest is managed by the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment.</p><br>
<p>The Walton County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located in DeFuniak Springs, Florida. It is a contributing property in the DeFuniak Springs Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1992.</p><br>
<p>A new addition to the courthouse was opened in October 2007 and the original courthouse is being renovated.</p><br>
<h2>Confederate monument</h2><br>
<p>The Confederate monument was erected in 1871 on the old courthouse grounds in Valley Church, then moved to a new courthouse site in Euchee Anna and finally moved to DeFuniak Springs when this courthouse was built. It was erected in memory of the county&#39;s war dead and was reportedly the first such monument built. A Confederate battle flag was erected next to the monument on the Walton County courthouse lawn in April 1964 according to the DeFuniak Herald/Beach Breeze newspaper. On July 28, 2015, the Walton County Board of County Commissioners despite protests from local citizens.</p><br>
<p>The Cushing Hotel is a historic hotel in Afton, Minnesota, United States, established in 1867 to cater to railroad workers, lumbermen, and travelers. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 for having local significance in the theme of commerce. It was nominated for exemplifying the commercial lodging common to mid-19th-century river towns. It remains in business as the Afton House Inn.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The original section of the Cushing Hotel is a simple two-story wood-frame building. It measures 24 by and is topped with a hip roof. The building was constructed of locally-milled white pine and sheathed in clapboard. Decoration is very minimal, primarily consisting of thin lintels over some doors and windows.</p><br>
<p>The building has been expanded and altered over the years. Early on a two-story wing was added to the rear to create additional rooms. Around 1907 a screened porch was added across the front façade. Later the south façade gained a brick chimney and a gabled entrance vestibule. Additions were made to the north and rear to expand the bar and restaurant. Extensive work in the 1980s removed the screened porch and restored much of the historical appearance of the original wing.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village of Afton, formally organized in 1858, was situated on two main travel routes in early Minnesota: the St. Croix River and the Point Douglas to Superior Military Road. The town&#39;s first hotel was built in 1856 but it was completely destroyed by a fire in 1861. Six years later Charles C. Cushing built this hotel on the same site. He died in 1876 but his wife kept the business in operation, bolstered by a growing number of leisure travelers.</p><br>
<p>There is a gap in the building&#39;s history leading up to the turn of the 20th century, but in 1907 it was acquired by Mary Pennington and operated exclusively as a restaurant. "Mother Mary", as she was known, managed it until her death in 1946. In 1960 Mssrs. Smith and Myers bought the building and added the Catfish Saloon. In 1967, on its hundredth anniversary, new owner Hugh Andersen remodeled the hotel, adding a dining room and a screened rear porch. Gordon and Kathy Jarvis purchased the hotel in 1976 and began more remodeling, with work supervised by a local woodcarver. They had the hotel listed on the National Register in 1985.</p><br>
<p>New Kent High School is a historic school in New Kent, Virginia. The school, along with the nearby George W. Watkins Elementary School, is associated with the landmark Supreme Court case Green v. County School Board of New Kent County , in which the court defined what the standards of Brown v. Board of Education were in the desegregation cases. This decision ended the era of Massive Resistance and ushered in the era of integration.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before desegregation, George Watkins was the county&#39;s African American-only high school, while New Kent School was the high school for whites. The name for the former was in honor of Dr. George W. Watkins, who served as the pastor of the Second Liberty Baptist Church from 1928 to 1971. During this time, he encouraged church members to take leadership roles in the community, such as on the local school board, planning commission, board of supervisors, and other civic and religious organizations. The most notable of those who followed this advice was Dr. Calvin C. Green, who led the push for desegregation in Green v. County School Board.</p><br>
<p>In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine, but it was not specific on remedies that educational systems had to take to remove discrimination. The 1955 "Brown II" ruling on relief called only for desegregation at "all deliberate speed", which many interpreted to allow active resistance. Many school systems made changes which allowed them to avoid the most blatant appearance of discrimination, but which achieved only token amounts of integration. Notably, the 1955 Briggs appeals court decision was one that held that the constitution "does not require integration. It merely forbids discrimination.", and this was used to avoid taking active steps towards integration.</p><br>
<p>In reaction to the Brown v. Board decision, the New Kent County School System implemented a choice system in 1967, through which students were given a choice to either attend New Kent High School or George Watkins High School. The plan resulted in some African Americans attending New Kent but no whites attending Watkins. In Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, the Supreme Court ruled that the choice plan was unconstitutional. Watkins was soon converted into a middle school and an integrated New Kent High School became the county school for grades 9-12.</p><br>
<p>The pair of schools was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The campus is now used as the New Kent campus of Rappahannock Community College. The New Kent County school district has since built a new high school south of the former school. The George W. Watkins High School has undergone significant renovations to function as George W. Watkins Elementary School.</p><br>
<p>The Peyton Randolph House, also known as the Randolph-Peachy House, is a historic house museum at Nicholson and North England Streets in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Its oldest portion dating to about 1715, it is one of the museum&#39;s oldest surviving buildings. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1973 as the home of Peyton Randolph , first President of the Continental Congress.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Randolph House is located in near the center of Colonial Williamsburg, at the northeast corner of Nicholson and North England Streets. It is a two story wood frame structure, appearing as a seven-bay main block with a single-story ell to the east. The main block is capped by a roof that is hipped at the western end and gabled at the eastern. The main entrance is set in the center bay, sheltered by a gabled hood. Windows are arranged slightly out of symmetry, a product of the building&#39;s construction history. The building interior retains original 18th century woodwork, and a marble fireplace mantel in its central section.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house is the western half of the main block, which was built about 1715 by William Robertson. It was purchased by Sir John Randolph in 1724, who also purchased a lot to the east, where he built a second house. In 1782 Randolphs son Peyton joined the two structures together by building the middle section. The eastern section did not have internal access to the rest of the house, and may have been used by the younger Randolph as an office. The western section of the house originally had a fully hipped roof, and the area between it and the middle sections gable was used as a water collection area, housing a cistern that is still found in the building&#39;s attic.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, the home was owned by the Peachy Family, and was used as a hospital for Union and Confederate troops wounded during the Battle of Williamsburg on May 5, 1862.</p><br>
<p>The building was restored by Colonial Williamsburg 1938-40. The original east wing, in poor condition, was torn down and a reconstruction built. That area was determined to contain at least two Native American Indian burial sites and pottery. These graves were disturbed during the construction of the tunnel for the Colonial National Parkway in 1941.</p><br>
<p>In 1970 the house was declared a National Historic Landmark, for its well-preserved early 18th-century architecture, and for its association with prominent Randolph family.</p><br>
<p>Tuckahoe, also known as Tuckahoe Plantation, is located on Route 650 near Manakin, Virginia overlapping both Goochland and Henrico counties, six miles from the town of the same name. Built in the first half of the 18th century, it is a well-preserved example of a colonial plantation house, and is particularly distinctive as a colonial prodigy house. Thomas Jefferson is also recorded as having spent some of his childhood here. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1969.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction of the home began by Thomas Randolph around 1714. William Randolph, Thomas&#39; son, built a two-story, four room home in 1733 around the existing structure. This wing features pine and black walnut paneling with exquisite carvings and moldings. William then added a center hall and south wing, creating a unique "H"-shaped, which were completed by 1740. William and his wife, Maria Judith Page, had three children, two daughters, and a son, but his wife died in 1744.</p><br>
<p>William Randolph&#39;s cousin Jane married Peter Jefferson, and they were close friends. Before William Randolph died in 1745, he added a codicil to his will asking that Peter Jefferson come to Tuckahoe Plantation and care for his three orphaned children until his son Thomas Mann Randolph came of age. The Jeffersons moved from Shadwell in Charlottesville to Tuckahoe Plantation with their three daughters and two-year-old son Thomas. While at Tuckahoe, Jane Randolph Jefferson gave birth to three more children of whom the two sons (both named Peter) died in infancy. The Jeffersons and Randolph orphans lived together in the "H" shape home until 1752. During the seven years of the Jefferson residency, young Thomas was tutored in a one-room schoolhouse with his sisters and Randolph cousins. Peter Jefferson directed the activities of the plantation and its seven overseers, "retaining a connection to the estate" even after he returned to his own plantation of Shadwell.</p><br>
<p>In 1792, Thomas Mann Randolph III was born (not to be confused with his half-brother, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. who was born in 1768). To the dismay of Randolph Jr., Randolph III (also called "the imposter") inherited Tuckahoe and kept the plantation until 1820. Since then, it has continued to be privately owned. The house is currently occupied by owner/manager Addison B. Thompson and his wife Susan. The grounds are open for self-guided tours. The house is open for private tours by appointment and may also be rented for private events.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>The two-story wood structure sits in its original spot, the only Randolph home to not be relocated. The structure forms an "H," with wings mirroring each other and connected by a central corridor. The entrances to the house are reached by flights of stairs and two porches. The stoop is covered by a projected pediment supported by simple wooden posts and is framed by a wooden railing. To either side of the entrance is a pair of windows as well as a central window over the entrance, each with dark shutters. Each two-sashed window contains 9 panes of glass. The gabled roof rests on a simple cornice line with dentil moldings. A large brick chimney rises from either side of the home.</p><br>
<p>The grounds around the house include outbuildings: the schoolhouse where Thomas Jefferson was educated, a kitchen house, three slave quarters, smokehouse, storehouse, stable, and the cemeteries of the Randolph, Wight, and current Ball/Thompson families.</p><br>
<p>Kang Guru is a mountain in the Manang region of Gandaki Zone. It the highest peak of the Larkya sub-range of the Nepalese Himalayas. The Larkya range lies northwest of Mansiri Himal  and northeast of the Annapurnas.</p><br>
<h2>2005 accident</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is most notable for one of the worst avalanche caused mountaineering accidents in the Nepalese Himalaya. On October 20, 2005, a powder-snow avalanche, induced by several hours of heavy snowfall, plowed into a French expedition&#39;s base camp, sweeping all seven members of the French team as well as 11 Nepalese staff down a steep avalanche gorge, killing them all. The avalanche occurred in the late afternoon just after tea time when all those killed were inside their tents. Several porters who were outside their tents at the time managed to survive. They made their way to the nearest village where they came across a French-Israeli expedition planning to climb Ratna Chuli, a nearby mountain. The team immediately informed the French embassy in Kathmandu and aborted their climb due to poor snow conditions. Only one body was recovered in initial attempts and later in mid-November, avalanche search specialists from France only found two more bodies (a French climber and a Nepalese porter) before calling off the search until the following year.</p><br>
<p>In July 2006, the rescue team, including five surviving members of the French expedition, returned to the accident site and recovered the remaining bodies. The snow had all melted away and been replaced by lush green meadows. French forensic experts identified the French climbers using dental records. The bodies of the Nepalis were returned to their families while the deceased French climbers were flown back to France. Compensation has been provided by the French embassy to the families of the Nepali climbers. Nine of the killed Nepalis were from the village of Larpak in the Gorkha District.</p><br>
<p>The death toll from this accident surpassed the previous record number of climbers killed by an avalanche in Nepal. In April 1972 an avalanche on Manaslu killed ten Nepalese, four Korean climbers and one Japanese cameraman when it slammed into their tents at 3:15 am.</p><br>
<p>Old City Hall, known formerly as City Hall, is the former city hall of Richmond, Virginia that was designed by Elijah E. Myers. It served as City Hall from its completion in 1894 through the 1970s. The building occupies its own city block in downtown Richmond, bounded by 10th and 11th Streets to the west and east, and Capitol Street and East Broad Street to the south. The building is executed in a meticulous Gothic Revival style, and was designated a National Historic Landmark for its architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>While the overall composition of the building is generally symmetrical, the 195 ft clock tower on the left side of the principal facade gives an impression of asymmetry. The four main levels are executed in gray granite. The interior centers around a large skylit atrium surrounded by four levels of cloister-like arcades, linked by a grand staircase. The building housed city offices and courts. Granite was locally obtained from quarries along the James River near Petersburg, and was shaped by workers under the direction of subcontractor James Netherwood. Iron work was by Asa Snyder.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Old City Hall occupies a site that previously accommodated three notable buildings, all demolished for the new structure. The first City Hall, designed by Robert Mills and Maximilian Godefroy and completed in 1818 was demolished because it was considered structurally deficient. Also demolished were the Edmund Randolph House, a circa 1800 octagonal-ended house, and the 1853 First Presbyterian Church, which was moved off the site in 1873. A design competition was held in 1883, and ground was broken for the new structure in 1886, with costs rising from a projected $300,000 to $1,318,349.19. Myers was a well-respected architect who had designed the state capitols of Colorado, Idaho, Michigan and Texas. Cost overruns were attributed to the massive and ornamented nature of the design. By 1915, with the popularity of the Beaux-Arts style, proposals were made to demolish City Hall to create a mall aligned with the northern side of the Virginia State Capitol. Renewed demolition threats surfaced in the 1970s, but the building was restored in the early 1980s and is used for offices.</p><br>
<p>The Old City Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1969 and was designated a USA National Historic Landmark in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Wadhams Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee was a chain of filling and service stations that operated in the early 20th century and was based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The companys refinery was in Indiana. The company was headed by Harger W. Dodge, who assumed leadership from his father-in-law in 1916. Dodge saw the potential in offering a convenient way for automobile owners to fill their cars with gasoline. He built off-street filling stations with underground tanks for the gasoline and electric pumps to dispense it. Wadham&#39;s was purchased by Vacuum Oil Company in 1930. Vacuum Oil was then acquired by Socony, which later became Mobil.</p><br>
<h2>Pagoda service stations</h2><br>
<p>Early gas stations were small, ugly or utilitarian buildings that attracted little notice and even complaints from neighbors. Dodge hired Milwaukee architect Alexander C. Eschweiler to design eye-catching stations. Inspired by Japanese culture, which was popular at the turn of the century, he created Wadham&#39;s signature pagoda. As well as a prime example of Japonism, the design was one of the earlier examples of architecture forging a brand identity.</p><br>
<p>Each building was unique, having a different roofline and floor plan. The pagoda-style roofs were made of stamped-metal tiles. Atop the gabled red roofs many stations had cupolas - often multi-tiered - with lanterns hanging from the corners. The walls were black with yellow trim around the copious glass. They most often featured large plate glass windows on the front, and multi-pane windows covering the sides. Wadham&#39;s built over 100 of these distinctive pagodas between 1917 and 1930.</p><br>
<p>Few of these stations remain. One, built in 1927, was in use as a gas station until 1978. Restored in 2000, it is on the National Register of Historic Places and is maintained as a museum display by the city of West Allis. Another, built in 1926, is part of the Washington Avenue Historic District in Cedarburg and is in use as a jewelry store.</p><br>
<p>Drachenhöhle or Drachenhöhle Mixnitz  is a 542 m long cave with a 20 m wide and 12 m high entrance near Mixnitz, Styria, Austria, south-east of Bruck an der Mur located at an elevation of 950 m above sea level. Cave bear of the species  and other bone fossils that people found during the Middle Ages were deemed to be the bones of dragons, a belief that culminated in the saga of the "Dragon slayer of Mixnitz". The cave is one of the largest caves in the Alps where bears occupied an area that stretched over a length of way over 500 m, by an average width of up to 40 m and a height of 10 to 15 m.</p><br>
<p>Due to of a shortage of fertilizers during and after World War I the 8 to 10 m high sediments inside the cave were intensively mined between 1918 and 1923 of which around 2,500 tons of phosphoric acid were extracted. During the fertilizer mining, several geologists and paleontologists were present, who only documented the most valuable discoveries. Nonetheless, a rich cache of cave bear, Eurasian cave lion (Panthera leo spelaea), Gray wolf (Canis lupus), Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) and Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota) fossils, remains of open hearths and Paleolithic stone tools of the Aurignacian culture dated to 65,000 to 31,000 BCE were unearthed. Dated to between 65,000 and 31,000 BCE, these rank among the oldest traces of human presence in Austria.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>Records of archaeological work were published in a monograph in 1931, that was re-edited by Othenio Abel and G. Kyrie. Excavations took place at two locations inside the cave. The around 150,000 years old sediment&#39;s strata were divided into several layers, that among those named "Prehistoric layer" and "Paleolithic fireplace" also yielded a "Neanderthal layer".</p><br>
<p>To this day the bones of more than 30.000 cave bear fossils were excavated. The site was protected in 1928 and declared a natural monument in 1949.</p><br>
<p>The Feltville Historic District, located in the Watchung Reservation in Berkeley Heights, Union County, New Jersey, United States, is a historic area which contains several buildings dating to the 18th century. It is known locally as "Deserted Village."</p><br>
<p>The district includes eight houses, a church, a carriage house, and a general house. Over the years the "deserted village of Feltville" was a mill town, a farming community, and a summer resort. Only three families remain as permanent residents, while the remainder of the site is open to visitors who wish to learn of its history or to simply enjoy the forested surroundings. In 1980 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first settler of this area was Peter Willcox, an Englishman who moved here from Long Island about 1736. The area then was a frontier. He built a sawmill, but it was demolished as more people came to the area.</p><br>
<p>David Felt, a businessman in Boston, Massachusetts, decided to move to New York City in 1825. By 1844, the production of his mill could not grow fast enough to meet the demands of the merchants he supplied, so Felt began to look for land in New Jersey on which to build a second factory. Eventually he bought land from the descendants of Peter Willcox, and in two years, he had built a mill on Blue Brook, two dams for the mill, and a town for the workers in the mill. He named this new town “Feltville”. Within the little town, Felt gained the nickname of "King David", for he required the residents to attend services in the churchhouse and their children to attend classes in a one-room schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>By 1850, about 175 people lived in Feltville, often four families in each of the larger houses and two in each of the smaller. Also in that year, a nondenominational "Union Church" with a resident pastor was active. After fifteen years, "King David" Felt sold the property, and after several successor businesses failed, the place became known as "the deserted village". In 1882, it was bought by Warren Ackerman, who transformed it to a summer resort called Glenside Park. Interest soon dwindled as more people chose to summer on the shore of New Jersey instead. After the place was again deserted, the Union Country Park Commission bought it and included it in the Watchung Reservation, renting the houses to families. The houses were stabilized recently. In September 2011 Masker&#39;s Barn, the carriage house built by Warren Ackerman, was restored. The hall served as a cafeteria and lecture hall from 1966 to 1984.</p><br>
<p>Since many of the main structures are no longer standing, an ongoing preservation effort aims to show visitors how the inhabitants of Feltville-Glenside Park once lived. The main missing buildings are the mill, the Felt Mansion, the dormitories, and the school. The foundation of the mill is still visible next to Blue Brook, which runs farther downhill of the buildings that still stand.</p><br>
<h2>Tourist attractions</h2><br>
<p>County staff also provides activities on certain weekends where they have children’s games, a demonstration of apple cider pressing, and a display of archaeological artifacts.</p><br>
<p>During the month of October, two weeks before Halloween, there are haunted hayrides for families. They ride through this town, explaining the noted people throughout this town’s history and of course adding special effects.</p><br>
<p>This is open to the public daily and there is a visitor center where brochures are given.</p><br>
<h3>The Murals de la Selva</h3><br>
<p>In 1916, the Deserted Village fell into decline upon the closure of Glenside Park. A local civil engineer and travel enthusiast named Edward J. Grassmann purchased a number of properties to serve as a club. Grassmann was a lifelong Elizabeth resident who made his fortune in land surveying and kaolin processing; the trust that bears his name is still in existence today.</p><br>
<p>Grassmann decorated two of his structures at the Deserted Village to demonstrate his fondness for the Southwest and Latin America. He called one the “Mexican Cottage” and the other he christened as the “Indian Cottage."</p><br>
<p>It was Grassmann who apparently persuaded celebrated Nicaraguan/Mexican artist Roberto de la Selva to paint themed murals throughout the first floor interior of the Mexican Cottage. In the late 1920s, during his first trip to the United States, de la Selva spent months in rural Union County painting the murals, which depict native Mexicans at work, play and worship, including statues of both ancient gods and the Virgin Mary. As the only murals de la Selva, who was primarily a sculptor, is known to have painted, these murals are significant to both the history of Feltville and the international art world.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the murals&#39; site in the Deserted Village was named by Preservation New Jersey as one of the 10 Most Endangered Historic Sites in New Jersey.</p><br>
<h2>Rumors of ghosts</h2><br>
<p>An apocryphal story circulates online that tells of three ghosts living in the house furthest down the path. The story claims the rumors originated in 1912, when three young sisters all went camping deep in the woods, but did not return. Locals were only able to find their bonnets, and the fears of the people caused almost half of the residents to move away. Those that remained never let their children go deep in the woods again without supervision.</p><br>
<p>The Confederate Monument in Glasgow, Kentucky, built in 1905 by the Kentucky Womens Monumental Association and former Confederate soldier John A. Murray, commemorates those who gave their lives in service for the Confederate States of America. It is located on the side of Glasgows courthouse. The Confederate soldier, made of bronze, is at parade rest, and features details such as a bedroll, canteen, kepi hat, and rifle. It stands on a limestone pedestal.</p><br>
<p>Glasgow saw much action in 1862. John Hunt Morgan twice raided through the city. The most notable was Christmas Eve, when some of Morgans men under Captain Thomas Quirk sought to celebrate the holiday at a tavern in Glasgow, which the Union 2nd Michigan Cavalry also did, leading to a skirmish. Two Union and Three Confederate soldiers were killed, and the Union cavalry retreated to Cave City, leaving Glasgow in Morgans hands. Braxton Bragg went through the town on his way to capturing Kentucky&#39;s capital of Frankfort and the Battle of Perryville.</p><br>
<p>The President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, gave a Medal of Honor to one enlisted man in every company that gave the Confederacy a "signal victory". With seven such men, Barren County, whose county seat is Glasgow, had more such medalists than any other county in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Four of these came from the Battle of Stone&#39;s River, and three were from the Battle of Chickamauga; both battles were fought in Tennessee, not Kentucky. It was remembering this valor of his fellow Confederate soldiers who hailed from Barren County that Nelson County native John A. Murray had the Confederate Monument in Glasgow built, with the help of a ladies association.</p><br>
<p>On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. Twenty three of these monuments, including Glasgows, had cast soldiers as part of the memorial, and Glasgows is one of ten such soldier monuments in Kentucky that is on a courthouse lawn.</p><br>
<p>The James Semple House is a historic house on Francis Street in Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia. Built about 1770, it is a prominent early example of Classical Revival residential architecture, whose design has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The James Semple House stands in historic Colonial Williamsburg, a short way south of the Capitol on the south side of East Francis Street. It is a wood frame structure, with a central two-story section flanked by single-story wings set at a recess. The central block is covered by a front-facing gabled roof with full pediment, while the wings have side-facing gables. The central block is three bays wide, with a center entrance topped by a transom window and sheltered by a gabled portico. The portico is supported by Doric columns, and has a dentillated pediment and eaves.</p><br>
<p>The exact date of construction of this house is uncertain, but was probably around 1770. Early owners of the house were the Harrison family, and Benjamin Harrison V sold it sometime before 1769 to Dr. William Pasteur. Surviving documentation suggests that a house may have been standing on the lot when Pasteur acquired it, but it is also possible that Pasteur had the house built after purchasing the land. Its designer is also uncertain, and has been ascribed by some authorities to Thomas Jefferson on the basis of its similarity to other known Jefferson designs. The house was acquired in 1801 by Dr. James Semple. Future USA president John Tyler, a relative of the Semples, resided here while attending school. After passing through several other owners, it was purchased by Colonial Williamsburg in 1928.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its landmark designation in 1970, it was used by Colonial Williamsburg as executive housing.</p><br>
<p>The Petersburg Breakthrough Battlefield is a historic district in Dinwiddie County, near Petersburg, Virginia. It was the location of the Third Battle of Petersburg, in which the Union Army broke through Confederate Army lines protecting Petersburg and Richmond on April 2, 1865, during the American Civil War. The success of the breakthrough led to abandonment of Richmond by General Robert E. Lee, a general retreat, and surrender at Appomattox Court House one week later. Portions of the area were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, and a different portion  was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006. Much of the battlefield area is part of Pamplin Historical Park, a private park that interprets the battle.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Petersburg Breakthrough Battlefield is located just southwest of Petersburg. It is a large area, roughly bounded on the northwest by United States Route 1, to the north by the Rohoic Woods Apartment complex on Virginia State Route 670, the east by Hofheimer Way and Church Road (Virginia State Route 672), and on the south by Arthur Swamp, an area that drains south into the Nottoway River. The battlefield area is located on private land just west of the Fort Fisher and Fort Welch area of Petersburg National Battlefield, a USA National Park Service-administered area. Much of this area is part of Pamplin Historical Park, a private park which interprets the battle.</p><br>
<p>The preserved portions of the battlefield include nearly 1,700 ft of Confederate earthworks, which are among the best-preserved known. Archaeological evidence of the Confederate camps, located at the back of those works, is also present, as are a series of rifle pits dug by the Confederates. Some of theses were taken over by Union forces in the action. Also included in the defenses are two dams (of an unknown number that would have been built) for the diversion of water in and around the defenses. On the east side of Arthur Swamp the Confederates built a large redan on one of the area&#39;s natural high points.</p><br>
<p>The battlefield area also now includes recreations of Confederate log cabins, built as part of their winter quarters, and the facilities of Pamplin Historical Park. The park area includes the Hart House, built 1859-61, which has been restored to its appearance of that time, and the c. 1812 Tudor Hall, a Federal period house that stood just outside the area where the battle took place.</p><br>
<p>The battlefield is the subject of two separate, overlapping designations. In 2003 "Petersburg Breakthrough Battlefield Historic District at Pamplin Historical Park" was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, encompasses about 422 acre, including all of Pamplin Historical Park and three adjacent residential properties. In 2006 an area of just over 647 acre was designated a National Historic Landmark. The latter designation includes larger areas of properties adjacent to Pamplin Park, and excludes portions of the park (such as Tudor Hall) that did not directly bear on the battle.</p><br>
<p>Ross Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</p><br>
<p>the island is situated 3 km east from downtown Port Blair.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early History</h3><br>
<p>After Archibald Blair&#39;s survey of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 1788, a settlement was established at present day Port Blair (then called Port Cornwallis). In 1792 it was shifted to the Northern harbour (present day Diglipur) which was also christened Port Cornwallis (the former became Old Harbour). But, that settlement was abandoned in 1796 because of the high mortality rate. Between 1789-92, Blair established a hospital and a sanatorium at Ross Island.</p><br>
<h3>Penal Settlement Period</h3><br>
<p>Six decades later, the 1857 Revolt forced the British to turn to Andaman again. Ever since Dr. James Pattison Walker arrived in Port Blair aboard the East India Company’s steam frigate ‘Semiramis’ on 10 March 1858, this island remained under British occupation. Ross Island remained the Administrative Headquarters for the islands for 85 years before an earthquake rocked it in 1941. The remnants of an opulent past can be seen in the ruins of the bazaar, bakery, stores, water treatment plant, church, tennis court, printing press, secretariat, hospital, cemetery, swimming pool, the Chief Commissioner’s residence with its huge gardens and state grand ballrooms, the Government House, the old Andamanese Home&#39;, Troop Barracks, all in dilapidated condition, reminiscent of the old British regime.</p><br>
<p>In November 1857, the Government decided to establish a penal settlement in Andaman and send "hard-core elements" among those who took on the British. There were two reasons: One, to keep them away from other prisoners and the other, to send out a message that a similar treatment would be meted out to anyone who challenged the British authority.</p><br>
<p>In January 1858, the British took possession of three islands in and around Port Blair and Captain H. Man, Executive Engineer, hoisted the Union Jack. In March, J.P. Walker, an experienced jail superintendent, arrived in Port Blair with four European officials, an Indian overseer, two doctors, 50 naval guards and 773 freedom fighters. Gauri Shankar Pandey, who belonged to a family that had suffered atrocities during the Japanese occupation of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, has documented that it was water scarcity that drove Walker out of Port Blair to Ross Island.</p><br>
<p>Named after the marine surveyor Captain Daniel Ross, the island soon became the base. Initially, crude barracks of bamboo and grass were put up for the prisoners while the rest of the party stayed on board the ships that had brought them. Later, the prisoners built houses, offices, barracks and other structures at the penal colony after which they were promptly sent to Viper Island, where the first jail was constructed. The bungalow, meant for the Chief of the Penal Settlement, was constructed at the northern summit of the Island. Called Government House, the large-gabled home had Italian tiled flooring on the ground level. Now, some remains of the flooring are there, of course in a decrepit condition.</p><br>
<p>In 1872, the post of Superintendent was elevated to the level of Chief Commissioner and Sir Donald Martin Stewart, who was at Ross Island for one year, was made the first Chief Commissioner. Stewart held the post from July 1872 to June 1875.</p><br>
<p>After Stewart, Ross Island saw 24 chief commissioners. But, it was during the tenure of Sir Charles Francis Waterfall that the Island&#39;s position as the seat of power collapsed.</p><br>
<p>Waterfall, who became the Chief Commissioner in 1938, was captured by the Japanese in March 1942 when the latter invaded the Andaman and Nicobar Islands during World War II. He was held as a prisoner of war and his deputy, Major Bird, was beheaded by the Japanese at the clock tower in Aberdeen, Port Blair.</p><br>
<h3>1941 Earthquake</h3><br>
<p>About nine months before the Japanese take-over of the entire set of islands, Ross Island experienced an earthquake, which caused many people to leave the Island.</p><br>
<p>Except for a brief time when the Japanese occupied, the abandonment of Ross Island as a result of the quake continued. The headquarters were then shifted to Port Blair.</p><br>
<h3>Japanese Period</h3><br>
<p>From 1942 to 1945, the island was occupied by the Japanese. The Government House became the residence of the Japanese admiral also for three years (from March 1942 to October 1945). It was during this period that Subhas Chandra Bose, who took the help of Japanese in his fight against the British, stayed at the Island for a day in December 1943. Netaji also hoisted the national tricolor at the top of the Government House. The Japanese too left their imprint on the island which stand in the form of bunkers used as watch points to safeguard the Island from any foreign invasion.</p><br>
<h3>Recapture</h3><br>
<p>The allies reoccupied the island in 1945 and later abandoned it.</p><br>
<h3>Indian naval post</h3><br>
<p>In April 1979, the island was handed over to the Navy, which set up a small post, INS Jarawa, named after one of the indigenous tribes of the Andaman group of islands.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the Port Blair Islands and lies in the entrance of Port Blair.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Politically, Ross Island is part of Port Blair Taluk.</p><br>
<h2>Lighthouse</h2><br>
<p>There is a pathway up to the northern end of the Island, where the new concrete 10 m high circular lighthouse Tower was constructed in 1977, on an offshoot rock about 50 m away from the shore line. The tower is approachable during the low tide.</p><br>
<p>It was at this lighthouse that photo voltaic panels were introduced for the first time in India, to charge the batteries for the operation of light.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Ross Island has thick forests. To any onlooker it may give the impression that it has no "life" — in the sense that there is no human habitation.</p><br>
<p>Spotted Deers and peacocks are mostly found in the island and the island is full of palm and coconut trees.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Ross Island is an island where no civilian settlement is allowed by the authorities.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Central of Georgia Railroad: Savannah Shops and Terminal Facilities is a 33.2 acre National Historic Landmark District in Savannah, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>The Georgia State Railroad Museum (formerly called the "Roundhouse Railroad Museum") of the Central of Georgia Railway (CG) in Savannah, Georgia. The complex is considered the most complete antebellum railroad complex in the United States. The museum, located at 655 Louisville Road, is part of a historic district included in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The historic railroad structures at the Georgia State Railroad Museum site include a partial roundhouse with operating turntable, partial machine shop, Tender Frame Shop, Blacksmith Shop, Boiler House, Storehouse & Print Shop, Lumber and Planning Sheds, Coach and Paint Shops, and a partial Carpentry Shop which now houses Savannah Children&#39;s Museum. Many of these structures are open for visitors to explore.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Historic Railroad Shops complex is among the finest remaining examples of Victorian railroad architecture and design and is the most intact antebellum railroad repair complex in the country. It was designated a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service. On-site displays include antique shaft driven machinery, locomotives and railroad stock, model train layouts, an operating turntable, and the oldest portable steam engine in the United States. The Historic Railroad Shops offers a valuable educational experience for students and has also become a popular local tourist attraction.</p><br>
<p>The complex has been maintained as the Georgia State Railroad Museum and a general industry museum by the Coastal Heritage Society with the assistance of the City of Savannah.</p><br>
<h2>Site history</h2><br>
<p>The Central of Georgia Railway started as the Central Rail Road and Canal Company in 1833, and built a passenger station, freight terminal and some shops in the Louisville Road area of Savannah around 1836. However, none of those structures remain today. By the mid-1840s the railway had expanded to 190 mi of track, and the CG began construction of new shops in 1851. The first completed building was the carpenters&#39; shop in 1853, followed by the original roundhouse, machine shop, tender frame shop, blacksmith shop and several other buildings in 1855. Additional buildings were constructed at the complex into the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The roundhouse, turntable and other structures were rebuilt in the late 1920s after a major fire in 1923, as well as to accommodate larger locomotives and rolling stock.</p><br>
<h2>Transition to museum</h2><br>
<p>The Southern Railway purchased the CG in 1963 and closed the Savannah shops. Subsequently the railway transferred the complex to the City of Savannah. The Coastal Heritage Society, a non-profit organization, opened the museum on the site in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Museum facilities</h2><br>
<p>Museum attractions include:</p><br>
<p>Massive roundhouse with an operating turntable (length 85 ft)</p><br>
<p>Numerous historic railroad buildings</p><br>
<p>Historic machinery and stationary steam engines</p><br>
<p>Steam and diesel</p><br>
<p>Office cars and cabooses.</p><br>
<p>Daily tours and activities, sometimes including a short site tour by rail.</p><br>
<p>Central of Georgia Railway Company Shop Property is the former administration building of the Central of Georgia Railway. The site complex includes several notable structures, including a freight house, a cotton yard with brick gates which it shares with the Central of Georgia Depot and Trainshed, and a brick viaduct leading to a junction with the line along Louisville Road west of Boundary Street and the Savannah and Ogeechee Canal. The tracks were also located next to "The Gray Building," a Greek Revival structure built in 1856, which the C&G moved their headquarters to. This building became known as "The Red Building."</p><br>
<p>The Central Railroad was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1963, leading to the decline of all CG buildings in Savannah.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1970. The CG Depot and Trainshed were added to the NRHP and then declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, and the Central of Georgia Railroad: Savannah Shops and Terminal Facilities were split off from the station onto its own registry in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Today it is known as Eichberg Hall a branch of the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art. The Gray Building was the original museum, which was named Kiah Hall in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Low Beskids or Lower Beskids , are one of the Beskids mountain ranges in the Outer Eastern Carpathians in southeastern Poland and northeastern Slovakia. Is a hilly region in Prešov Region, Sanok County and Jasło County, between Busov, Ondavská vrchovina, Laborecká vrchovina, Beskydské predhorie in Slovakia, Beskid Sądecki, Pogórze Bukowskie and Bieszczady near the river Wisłoka, Wisłok and Osława in Poland.</p><br>
<p>The mountain has two separate summits, one of 1,002 (Busov) and one of 997 metres (Lackowa).</p><br>
<p>The Low Beskids separating the East from the Western Carpathians.</p><br>
<p>Original flora and fauna was preserved because of the area&#39;s remoteness. The mountain range is covered with beech forests. The area is protected by Magurski National Park and Jaśliski Park Krajobrazowy.</p><br>
<p>Animals living in this reserve are, amongst others, black storks, deers and wolves.</p><br>
<h2>Division</h2><br>
<p>Since there exist many variants of divisions of the mountain ranges and names for the Beskids, several divisions are given in the following:</p><br>
<p>Busov (Slovakia),</p><br>
<p>Ondavská vrchovina (Slovakia),</p><br>
<p>Laborecká vrchovina Slovakia),</p><br>
<p>Beskydské predhorie (Slovakia),</p><br>
<p>Góry Grybowskie - near rivers Kamienica and Biała (Poland),</p><br>
<p>Góry Hańczowskie - near rivers Biała, Ropa and Zdynia (Poland),</p><br>
<p>Beskid Gorlicki - near river Biała, villages: Radocyna, Bartne, Wołowiec,</p><br>
<p>Pasmo Magurskie - mountains ranges Magura Wątkowska and Małastowskie,</p><br>
<p>Beskid Dukielski - between rivers Wisłoka and Tabor (Poland),</p><br>
<p>Gniazdo Jawornika - between rivers Jasiołki i Wisłoka (Poland),</p><br>
<p>Pasmo Bukowicy and Kamieni Peak - between rivers Wisłok and Osławica,</p><br>
<p>Pasmo graniczne - near river Bełcza (Poland),</p><br>
<p>Wzgórza Rymanowskie - near river Tabor (Poland),</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Poland</h3><br>
<p>The region then became a site of contention between Poland, Kievan Rus and Hungary starting in at least the 9th century.</p><br>
<p>The population was primarily Slavic but with contentions over nationality. Germans and town dwelling Lemkos were Polonized and the countryside remained primarily Lemko/Ukrainian.</p><br>
<p>Up until 1947, the majority of the population was Lemko (Rusin). The Lemkos are sometimes considered the westernmost of the Ukraininans. They were forcibly removed in a Polinization plan agreed between the Soviet Union and the Polish communist government. Many were killed or forcibly sent to Soviet Ukraine. Those not sent to Ukraine were dispersed among towns and villages in the new western Polish territory taken from Germany.</p><br>
<h3>Slovakia</h3><br>
<p>The Lower Beskids on the territory of present-day Slovakia has attracted settlers since the Stone Age. The Slavic forefathers of the Slovaks gradually moved to the basin of Humenné and Bardejov during the great migration of peoples, starting in the 5th century. An intensive and organized settlement of this area started as late as in the middle of the 13th century, after the Mongol raids. However, the first written reference to the town dates back to the 1240s, when monks from Bardejov complained to the King Béla IV about a violation of the town’s borders by Prešov.</p><br>
<h2>Rural landscape pictures</h2><br>
<h2>Towns and villages</h2><br>
<p>Important towns and villages of this region include:</p><br>
<p>Bardejov</p><br>
<p>Humenné</p><br>
<p>Svidník</p><br>
<p>Medzilaborce</p><br>
<p>Stropkov</p><br>
<p>Giraltovce</p><br>
<p>Bukowsko</p><br>
<p>Grybów</p><br>
<p>Gorlice</p><br>
<p>Iwonicz Zdrój</p><br>
<p>Rymanów-Zdrój</p><br>
<h2>Ethnic groups</h2><br>
<p>Carpathian Germans</p><br>
<p>Slovaks</p><br>
<p>Poles</p><br>
<p>Polish Uplanders</p><br>
<p>Rusyns</p><br>
<p>Lemkos</p><br>
<h2>Hiking trails</h2><br>
<p>European walking route E8</p><br>
<p>Somár - sedlo Baba - Dolná Rakova - Končini - Brezová pod Bradlom - Polianka - Myjava - Veľká Javorina - Nové Mesto nad Váhom - Machnáč - Trenčín - Košecké Rovné - Fačkovské sedlo - Kunešov - Kraľová studňa - Donovaly - Chopok - Čertovica - Telgárt - Skalisko - Štós-kúpele - Skalisko - Chata Lajoška - Košice - Malý Šariš - Prešov - Miháľov - Kurimka - Dukla - Iwonicz-Zdrój – Rymanów-Zdrój - Puławy – Tokarnia (778 m) – Kamień (717 m) – Komańcza - Cisna - Ustrzyki Górne -Tarnica - Wołosate.</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>Prof. Jerzy Kondracki. Geografia fizyczna Polski Warszawa: Państ. Wydaw. Naukowe, 1988.</p><br>
<p>Prof. Jadwiga Warszyńska. Karpaty Polskie: przyroda, człowiek i jego działalność; Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Kraków, 1995.</p><br>
