<p>Stantons Mill is a historic grist mill complex located at Grantsville, Garrett County, Maryland, consisting of five interrelated buildings and structures. The Stantons Mill building dates from about 1859. It is two stories and constructed of heavy timber frame with a gable roof; an addition was constructed in 1900. The complex includes a stone-faced, mid-19th-century timber crib dam and raceway, natural earthen tailrace, and a small, single-span stone arch bridge, dating to 1817, constructed as part of the National Road. Also on the property is a frame storage building, constructed about 1900.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The mill is still operational and is located next to the Casselman River Bridge State Park.</p><br>
<p>George Washington’s Gristmill was part of the original Mount Vernon plantation, constructed during the lifetime of the United States&#39; first president. The original structure was destroyed about 1850. The Commonwealth of Virginia and the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association have reconstructed the gristmill and the adjacent distillery. The reconstructed buildings are located at their original site three miles  west of Mount Vernon proper near Woodlawn Plantation in Alexandria, Virginia. Because the reconstructed buildings embody the distinctive characteristics of late eighteenth century methods of production and are of importance to the history of Virginia, the site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places despite the fact that the buildings are not original.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>George Washington inherited Mount Vernon in 1754. In 1771 he erected a large stone gristmill on the plantation to replace a mill his father had built in the 1730s. The new mill was located three miles (5 km) west of Mount Vernon on Dogue Run Creek. It was used to produce flour and cornmeal for the plantation as well as high-quality flour for export to the West Indies, England, and continental Europe. Washington also built a house for the miller and a cooperage to supply barrels for the mill, and later, the distillery operation. The mill was powered by a large water wheel. To ensure a steady power supply, water was diverted from Piney Branch into Dogue Run Creek above the mill&#39;s headrace. The additional waterflow significantly increased the mill’s production capacity. In 1791 Washington automated his mill using technology developed and patented by Oliver Evans of Delaware. Evans was personally acquainted with the mill and had repaired some of its works.</p><br>
<p>Once the gristmill was well established, Washington’s farm manager, James Anderson, suggested building a whiskey distillery adjacent to the mill. When it was completed in 1797, the distillery was the largest in America. By 1799 it had become one of Washington’s most successful enterprises, producing 11,000 gallons of whiskey per year. A variety of whiskeys were produced at the site along with brandy and vinegar. The most common whiskey recipe used 60% rye, 35% corn, and 5% malted barley. Smaller amounts of rye whiskey were distilled up to four times and were more expensive. Some whiskey was also flavored with cinnamon. When rye was scarce the distillery used wheat. Apple, peach and persimmon brandies were also produced. The whiskey was marketed in Alexandria, Virginia, or shipped directly from Mount Vernon’s dock on the Potomac River. The distillery process produced a significant waste stream, which was fed to 150 cattle and 30 hogs that were kept at the site.</p><br>
<p>After Washington&#39;s death in December 1799, the gristmill and distillery passed to his nephew, Lawrence Lewis. In 1808 he rented the site to Alexandria merchant James Douglass. The last known reference to the distillery business is an 1808 whiskey advertisement. The distillery building burned in 1814; this is documented by a small insurance payment made to Lewis that year. In 1848 Lewis’ grandson sold the gristmill property along with Woodlawn Plantation. That is the last record of the original buildings. Local oral history suggests that the mill was quite run-down by 1848, and it was razed around 1850.</p><br>
<h2>Reconstruction</h2><br>
<p>In 1997 Virginia conveyed the property to The Mount Vernon Ladies Association which owns and operates the Mount Vernon estate. From 1997 to 2002 the main structures underwent major renovation, including rebuilding the internal millworkings, renovation of the millers house, restoration of the millraces, and construction of new brick pathways throughout the site. Because the property embodies the distinctive characteristics of late eighteenth-century production methods, the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. In 1999 archaeologists began to investigate the distillery site; after five years of study the distillery reconstruction began. It was completed and opened to the public in 2007. This $2.1 million project was funded by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States and the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>George Washington’s Gristmill is located on 6.65 acre approximately three miles west of the Mount Vernon estate. It is situated on an eastward sloping lot, bounded by Dogue Run Creek to the south, pasture land belonging to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to the west, the park’s paved parking lot and a housing subdivision to the north, and a wooded lot to the east. The property is bisected by Virginia Route 235. All the site&#39;s historic elements (except one archeological site) are located on the east side of the highway. This includes the gristmill, distillery, miller’s house and several archeological sites. The west side of the property contains one archaeological site and three non-contributing structures.</p><br>
<h2>Gristmill</h2><br>
<p>The internal millworkings and structural members installed during the 1933 reconstruction were taken from an 1818 gristmill located near Front Royal, Virginia. Some of the structural members from Front Royal mill are still in the building; however, most of the millworkings were replaced between 1997 and 2002. The interior has exposed masonry walls with heavy timber framing. The flooring throughout the building is random-width pine. A masonry fireplace is in the southwest corner of the first floor. The grinding platform is accessed from the second floor. The third level is one large room with rolling screens and other processing equipment. A staircase in the western half of the structure runs from the first floor to attic. The mill’s two grinding stones are powered by a pitch-back water wheel. The mill machinery is enclosed in a hurst frame, built from heavy oak and pine beams. Its frame is built directly on the mill’s foundation, and is not connected to the walls. This protects the structure from the machinery’s potentially damaging vibrations. The hurst frame occupies the eastern half of the first two levels.</p><br>
<h2>Miller’s house</h2><br>
<p>The miller’s house was built at the same time as the gristmill; the reconstructed house was sited on its original site. The design for the building is based on archaeological evidence and a mid-nineteenth-century drawing. Its wood-frame structure rests on a stone foundation. It is clad with beaded weatherboard. In 1970 a -story addition doubled the size of the building. The interior of the original section is laid out in a hall-parlor configuration with two major rooms and a small bathroom. This area is used as a gift shop. The new section of the house includes a kitchen, pantry, and additional retail space for the gift ship.</p><br>
<h2>Distillery</h2><br>
<p>The distillery was reconstructed in 2007. To ensure an authentic reconstruction the wood was finished by hand and the construction used hand-made nails and hardware. There were some compromises necessary to comply with modern building codes and safety requirements. For example, the original structure’s 30 by 75 foot (9 m by 23 m) footprint was extended by 15 ft in order to house an elevator and modern staircase for public use.</p><br>
<p>The distillery has two floors with five large copper stills, mash tubs and a boiler that demonstrate the eighteenth-century distilling process. The building includes a storage cellar for whiskey barrels, an office, and two bedrooms where the site manager and his assistant would have lived. The building’s floors are made of three different materials. A stone floor is used in the mashing area to reduce vibrations that can disturb the fermentation process. Around the boilers and under the staircase is a brick floor, and an elevated wooden floor around the stills. Wooden planks are used for flooring in the rest of the building.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The gristmill, distillery, and gift shop are open to the public from April through October. They are located approximately three miles west of Mount Vernon’s main gate on Virginia Route 235. Tickets to tour the gristmill and distillery are available at Mount Vernon and the gristmill’s gift shop. The tickets can be combined admission to Mount Vernon or purchased separately. Public transportation is available between Mount Vernon and the gristmill.</p><br>
<p>Mountain Lake Park Historic District is a national historic district in Mountain Lake Park, Garrett County, Maryland. It consists of a group of 145 buildings lying within the town, which was launched in the 1880s as a summer resort and important as a center of the Chautauqua movement in Maryland. The district still includes many of the houses built by summer residents of town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, built in various interpretations of the "Country Gothic" or Rural Queen Anne styles. Also within the district are several of the educational and recreational buildings constructed by the Mountain Lake Park Association, the Methodist-led group which owned and managed the town for many years after its founding in 1881.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Devils Kitchen Picnic Shelter in Colorado National Monument was designed by Harvey H. Cornell, Jerome C. Miller and Kenneth M. Saunders of the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Design in 1940. It was built by workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Public Works Administration in 1941, in the National Park Service Rustic style. The shelter features three sandstone fireplaces, as well as toilets and service facilities.</p><br>
<p>Construction was carried out by craftsmen, known as LEM&#39;s (Local Experienced Men), with suitable skills, reputedly stonemasons of Italian descent. Much of the material came from Rim Rock Drive construction. The picnic shelter was built by the men of CCC camp NM-2-C.</p><br>
<p>The shelter is unusual due to its large size and diversified function.</p><br>
<p>Agios Alexandros  is a settlement in the northeastern part of the Aegean island of Lemnos, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Moudros and the community of Kontopouli. The population was 0 at the 2011 census. It is located north of the Alyki Lagoon, 4 km southwest of Panagia and 5 km northeast of Kontopouli.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>Archaeological sites</h2><br>
<p>Agios Alexandros was the most important of a series of villages that existed before in the extended region of Kontopouli, most of which are currently uninhabited. The former Monastery of Chloe was mentioned in a patriarchal document of 1320. The name survived in the nearby promontory of Chloi, west of Agios Alexandros, opposite the ancient city Hephaistia. Here was the ancient sanctuary of the Kaveiron, which was excavated during the 1960s. Possibly, the Christian monastery of Chloe was founded at the site of the ancient sanctuary, which was common in Byzantine times.</p><br>
<p>In a nearby sea cave prehistoric remains have been found. The cave is commonly called the Cave of Philoctetes although the location is not compatible with the ancient literary sources.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village probably took its name from Saint Alexander, the patron saint of Lemnos according to manuscripts of the 15th century. The name of the saint survived as the name of the settlement, even though there is no church of Saint Alexander in the village. The main church of the settlement is dedicated to Saint Pachomius.</p><br>
<p>By the mid-19th century, the area north of Kontopouli was uninhabited. In 1858, the German traveller Conze In 1858 the German traveler Conze found cultivation in major parts of the plain between Cape Plaka and Kontopouli but no settlement. There were only isolated huts, which locals called estates. When the estates passed into Christian ownership, settlements started to develop around them. One of them was Agios Alexandros, first marked on the 1904 map of Fredrich.</p><br>
<p>It had 34 inhabitants in 1951, 87 in 1961. Between 1959 and 1973 a small public school was operated in the settlement. The school also served pupils from nearby agricultural settlement: Dimosia, Agios Georgios Amniou, Neftina, Saravari and Geranos. It had 32 pupils in 1961. The rise of cotton production in the area brought prosperity to the area, but the decline of cotton production in the 1970s led to mass emigration. It had only one inhabitant in 1981. Presently most inhabitants only spend the summer months in the village.</p><br>
<p>The Serpents Trail in Colorado National Monument, also known as the Trail of the Serpents and the Serpentine Trail, was built by the visionary John Otto, who began the campaign to establish the national monument. The trail was, in fact, a road from Grand Junction, Colorado through No Thoroughfare Canyon to the rimrock near Cold Shivers Point, with an elevation gain of nearly 1100 feet over 2.5 miles. From Cold Shivers Point the road proceeded at a gentler grade for four miles to Glade Park. Otto began his survey in 1911 with the help of civil engineer J.F. Sleeper. Otto&#39;s grand plan was to link Grand Junction to Moab, Utah by a scenic road to be part of a transcontinental road system. Construction began in 1912 and continued sporadically to 1921, when Mesa County took the project over. Engineer J.B. Clabaugh completed the project in 1924.</p><br>
<p>The construction of the Rim Rock Drive destroyed portions of the Serpents Trail. A 1.6 mile portion has been preserved as a hiking trail. During the 1930s the Park Service considered upgrading the trail to a higher standard of road, but dropped the project. Only the relatively gentle upper section of the trail was incorporated into Rim Rock Drive in 1939-40.</p><br>
<p>The Saddlehorn Utility Area Historic District in Colorado National Monument comprises a complex of park service buildings, designed by the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Designs in the National Park Service Rustic style. The primary designer was National Park Service architect Kenneth M. Saunders, who employed the local red sandstone in the buildings, which included shops, fuel shed, repair and storage buildings. The buildings were constructed in 1941 by Public Works Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps labor.</p><br>
<p>The utility area is located at the intersection of Rim Rock Drive and the Saddle horn Loop, named after a distinctive nearby rock formation. It is separated from the caretakers house by a low hill. Construction was carried out by craftsmen, known as LEMs (Local Experienced Men), with suitable skills, reputedly stonemasons of Italian descent. Much of the material came from Rim Rock Drive construction.</p><br>
<p>The three Saddlehorn National Register properties were nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as a multiple property submission on the basis of their related design and history. The utility area was built by CCC camp NM-2-C.</p><br>
<p>The Darling House Museum is a historic house museum at 1907 Litchfield Turnpike in Woodbridge, Connecticut, and is owned and operated by the Amity & Woodbridge Historical Society. The house is open by appointment and during special events.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1770s, Thomas Darling hired Abiel Gray of West Hartford, Connecticut to build a new home in Amity Parish, outside of New Haven. Gray took two years (1772–1774) to finish the project. The house has a gambrel roof, is built on a central hall plan and has some unusual features. Paneling and woodwork in the hallway and front rooms are richly detailed under 9-foot, 3-inch ceilings. The influence of 18th-century New York is suggested by the imported tiles of Biblical scenes over one fireplace.</p><br>
<p>Much of the furniture and many items in the home were owned by the Darling family, which owned the house and surrounding land until 1973, when the property was sold to the town of Woodbridge and the Amity & Woodbridge Historical Society began caring for the structure. The property includes a large 18th-century barn, a 19th-century horse barn, a carriage shed, a chicken coop, a pig house, and a 19th-century privy.</p><br>
<p>The town maintains several fields near the house, and some easy walking trails skirt the base of West Rock.</p><br>
<p>The Society has a large collection of farm implements on display in the horse barn. Quilts, linens, and period clothing are also displayed in the house.</p><br>
<p>Makemie Memorial Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located in Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was established by immigrants from England, Scotland, and Ulster. Makemie Memorial is generally regarded as being the first church in America to issue a call to a pastor, although others say that the call was actually issued through an Anglican, William Stevens, and that Rev. Francis Makemie (1658 – 1708) actually first preached near Stevens&#39; home parish, Coventry Parish further south in Rehoboth and established Rehobeth Presbyterian Church before this community.</p><br>
<p>The original church building was a log structure located within a block of the Pocomoke River, which in 1683 was the main means of travel in the area given the vast wet-lands in Worcester County. The second structure was a frame building built on the current property on West Market Street, but it was built close to the center of the grave yard on the top of the little rise. That building burned and was replaced by a brick structure on the same spot. That building served for a number of years until it too was damaged by fire. In 1883, for the 200th anniversary of the organization of the church, it was resolved to build a Makemie Memorial Church in honor of Reverend Makemie.</p><br>
<p>The present building designed by noted Philadelphia architect Isaac Pursell. It was started in 1887 and dedicated on June 29, 1890. Two other churches with similar names were established around the same time in Accomac, Virginia near where Rev. Makemie spent his final years and died.</p><br>
<p>It is a Gothic Revival structure, built of red brick with red sandstone trim. There are five beautiful memorial windows in the sanctuary and the vaulted ceiling is supported by hand-hewn, exposed wooded arches. It has two unequal tall towers. Maryland Senator Ephraim King Wilson II (1821 - 1891) is buried in the adjacent graveyard, as are former Governor John Walter Smith (1845-1925) and his wife.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery is an historic Episcopal church and cemetery located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland USA</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Christ Church is the parish church of Great Choptank Parish, founded in 1692 as one of the List of original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland.</p><br>
<p>The church structure, designed by noted Baltimore architect Charles E. Cassell and built between 1883 and 1884, is a large Gothic Revival stone structure of green serpentinite stone on a cruciform plan. The adjoining cemetery is enclosed on three sides by a brick wall, and burials therein date from 1674 to the present. Church parishioners included five governors of Maryland, a state Attorney General, an Ambassador to the Netherlands, local judges and lawyers and several USA Congressmen, where most are buried.</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<h3>Maryland governors</h3><br>
<p>John Henry (1797–98)</p><br>
<p>Charles Goldsborough (1819)</p><br>
<p>Henry Lloyd (1885–88)</p><br>
<p>Phillips Lee Goldsborough (1912–16)</p><br>
<p>Emerson C. Harrington (1916–20).</p><br>
<h3>Other</h3><br>
<p>Robert Goldsborough-delegate to the Continental Congress.</p><br>
<p>William A. Sulivane-State Boundary Commissioner for Dorchester County (appointed 1865). Grandson of James Sulivane.</p><br>
<p>Congressman Daniel Maynadier Henry</p><br>
<p>The Grace Episcopal Church Complex is a historic Episcopal church located at Taylors Island, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The complex consists of three frame structures: a schoolhouse, chapel of ease, and Grace Episcopal Church. The chapel of ease dates from the first quarter of the 19th century and is a 20 foot by 30 foot frame structure in the Carpenter Gothic style. The school building was moved to its present site by the Grace Foundation in 1955, and was the first school house in Dorchester County and was built and used on Taylors Island. Grace Episcopal Church is a frame structure built in the late 19th century in the Victorian Gothic style.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>St. Bartholomew&#39;s Episcopal Church, also known as Green Hill Church, is a historic Episcopal church located near Quantico in Wicomico County, Maryland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Stepney Parish, as it was originally named, was one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland. It was built originally to serve the needs of Green Hill Town, a port of entry created as part of an Act of Provincial Assembly in 1706. However, the town never succeeded, although nearby Salisbury, Maryland, founded three decades later, for much of the 19th century became Maryland&#39;s second busiest port, known for its export of seafood as well as agricultural products. This original Stepney parish church was renamed after the apostle St. Bartholomew in the mid-19th century as chapels were built nearby.</p><br>
<p>The current Stepney parish church is St. Marys Tyaskin, Maryland, about the same mid-19th century age and style and distance from this historic church as St. Philips Episcopal Church in Quantico (deriving from a Native American word for "place of dancing"). Since Stepney parish extended up the Wicomico river watershed up the Delmarva Peninsula into what became Sussex County, Delaware, Stepney Parish helped found several other parishes, most of which began as chapels of ease. These included Spring Hill Church on Route 50 (built in 1776 and which arson recently burned down) in nearby Hebron, St. Peters in Salisbury (founded 1758, burned down in 1860 and rebuilt), as well as Old Christ Church (Laurel, Delaware) (built in 1772, in wood but the same style as this building) and St. Lukes Protestant Episcopal Church (Seaford, Delaware) (built in 1843, incorporating St. Mary&#39;s congregation founded in 1704 but disestablished in the American Revolution).</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The single-story, Flemish bond gable-front brick church was built in 1733, as is shown in the restored brickwork on the end facing the water. The interior is spare, with box pews and several memorial plaques to long-serving rectors, as well as William Murray Stone who became Episcopal Bishop of Maryland. Adjacent to the church are several marked burials with 18th and 19th century stones, as well as agricultural fields and a golf course.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The church no longer holds regular services. It is opened at least once a year in August for a St. Bartholomew&#39;s Day worship service held by several local Episcopal churches.</p><br>
<p>The Mangrove Creek, a perennial river that is part of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment, is located in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Course and features</h2><br>
<p>The Mangrove Creek rises about 5 km southwest of Mount McQuiod below the Hunter Range, and flows generally south, joined by six minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Hawkesbury River between Spencer and Wendoree Park. The river descends 323 m over its 50 km course.</p><br>
<p>Although called a creek, the watercourse is designated as a river, and its headwaters are impounded by the Mangrove Creek Dam, which forms a major part of the water supply to the Central Coast. Below the dam, the creek flows in a southerly direction through the settlements of Upper Mangrove, Mangrove Creek, Greengrove and Lower Mangrove, before joining the Hawkesbury River.</p><br>
<p>Rosedale Park is a historic district located in Detroit, Michigan. It is roughly bounded by Fenkell, Outer Drive, Grand River Avenue, Southfield Freeway, Glastonbury Avenue, Lyndon Street and Westwood Drive.</p><br>
<p>The district contains primarily brick houses, and was largely developed from the late 1920s through the 1940s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land on which Rosedale Park sits was originally deeded in 1835 to Otis C. Freeman and George Bellamy as two 80-acre (32 ha) parcels. Over time, these parcels were subdivided until in 1916 the Rosedale Park Land Development Company purchased and platted a large portion of what was to become the Rosedale Park Historic District. This development company platted other projects in addition to Rosedale Park, most notably the North Rosedale Park neighborhood directly across Grand River Avenue. The company considered the location amenable to development because of its proximity to Grand River Avenue, a direct link to downtown Detroit, and the contemporaneous construction of Outer Drive.</p><br>
<p>Interest in the new subdivision was immediate, and in 1917, the Rosedale Park Land Development Company platted an addition to the original area. However, the actual construction in the neighborhood was slow—from 1917 until the end of World War I, only 15 houses had been constructed. However, construction soon blossomed, and in 1921 a third addition was platted. The city of Detroit annexed the subdivision in 1926, bringing water and sewer to the neighborhood and making the area more attractive.</p><br>
<p>Compared with other contemporary neighborhoods, such as Palmer Woods and the Grosse Pointes, Rosedale Park has more modest house and lot sizes reflecting the solidly middle- and upper-middle class status of the original homeowners. Many of these original homeowners were professionals, such as doctors and dentists, and accountants, or had white-collar jobs in the booming automobile industry.</p><br>
<p>With the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, building in the area slowed, but in 1934, as the FHA made credit more available, construction again resumed, and another growth spurt in the neighborhood occurred in the late 1930s and early 1940s. By the 1950s, there was a house on nearly every lot in the neighborhood. In the later part of the century, as the population in Detroit declined, Rosedale Park has remained a desirable neighborhood due to its high grade housing stock, charming setting and active neighborhood association.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Rosedale Park Historic District is residential in character. Primary streets run north-south, and major stone piers mark the primary entrances into the neighborhood. Traffic islands are placed in the center of many of the streets. Oak and maple trees, some planted in the 1910s and 1920s, line the streets.</p><br>
<p>Private architects were only rarely engaged in Rosedale Park construction. Instead, buyers gained inspiration from mass-produced pattern books and house plans, or worked with construction companies to choose plans from their standard offerings. Between 1917 and 1955, houses were built in a multitude of styles, including English Tudor Revival, Arts and Crafts, Bungalow, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial, American Foursquare, Prairie, French Renaissance, Ranch, Garrison Colonial, Cape Cod and International style. However, an English country esthetic seems to have been encouraged (although not mandated) by the developers, and this seems to have influenced the renaming of many of the subdivision&#39;s streets, such as Glastonbury and Warwick, to names reflective of Merry Old England. Later houses built in the less prosperous late 1930s and early 1940s are less elaborate Colonial and Ranch styles, but even these tend to have Tudor Revival elements.</p><br>
<h2>Education</h2><br>
<p>Residents are zoned to Detroit Public Schools,</p><br>
<p>For elementary school most areas are zoned to Gompers K-8 School in Brightmoor while some are zoned to Cooke Elementary School. All residents are zoned to Gompers K-8 for middle school and Frank Cody High School for high school.</p><br>
<p>The current Gompers Elementary-Middle School, serving Grades PreK-8, opened in 2011. The two story, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified facility replaced the Gompers, Harding, and Vetal schools and was built on the Harding site for $21.4 million. It has an elementary wing and a middle school wing. The central administration suite, gymnasium, and multi-purpose room are between the two wings.</p><br>
<p>Previously Vetal K-8 served portions of Rosedale Park for elementary school, and Vetal and Murphy served portions of Rosedale Park for middle school. At one time residents of Rosedale Park were zoned to Redford High School.</p><br>
<p>Acinipo was a city about 20 kilometers from Ronda, near Seville, Southern Spain, believed to have been founded by retired soldiers from the Roman legions more than 2,000 years ago. The remaining ruins include a Roman theater still in use today. It is known locally as Ronda la Vieja, Arunda or Old Ronda; though it has a separate origin and history from Ronda.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Some historians assert that Acinipo was created after the battle of Munda (45 BC), fought between the armies of Julius Caesar and the army of Pompeys two sons, Gnaeus and Sextus. To Caesar, Munda was supposed to be a mop-up action after Pompeys main forces were defeated in Greece. But Munda was no mop-up exercise. Tens of thousands of Romans were killed on both sides; there was no decisive victory for Caesars armies; and one of Pompeys sons, Sextus, fled to fight another day as a famous rebel pirate against Caesar&#39;s successor, Augustus.</p><br>
<p>Some Spanish historians state that Munda is the Roman name for Ronda, where the battle of Munda may have been fought. According to Pliny, the battle of Munda was fought in Osuna, about 50 km north of Ronda in the province of Seville. But there is general agreement that Acinipo was created for retired veterans of Caesars legions, while Arunda (Ronda) would be a separate Roman outpost, perhaps created before the Munda conflict for the veterans of Pompeys legions.</p><br>
<p>The Hornbek House, also known as the Adaline Hornbek Homestead, in Florissant, Colorado was built in 1878 for Adaline Hornbek, who established a ranch in the area to the west of Pike&#39;s Peak in the 1870s. The log house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an example of an early homestead. It is an excellent example of homestead-era log construction, with unusual Greek Revival window trim on one wing. The property includes a number of outbuildings which were relocated to the site. The property was sold to the National Park Service in 1973 and is included in Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.</p><br>
<p>Adaline Hornbek was an early homesteader who established a substantial ranch in an area that had seen only subsistence farming.</p><br>
<p>Gruta do Natal , also known as Galeria Negra or Gruta do Cavalo, is a cave system in municipality of Praia da Vitória, on the island of Terceira in Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The caves formation is unclear. Its genesis can be explained by the ancient lava fields that developed from fissural vents, that flowed through the valley between the larger volcanic peaks.</p><br>
<p>Initially known as the Galeria Negra (Black Gallery), was baptised as the Gruta do Cavalo following the first exploratory investigation, when the explorers discovered the remains of a horse, which may have fallen at the entrance of the cave. Later, after 25 December 1969, with the assistance of the eastern patriarch, D. José Vieira Alvernaz, islanders began referring the cave as the Gruta do Natal. It was on this date that they opened the cave to the public, with a simple access-way and rudimentary lighting. Traditionally, a Christmas mass is held at the site, but there have also been baptisms and at least one marriage on the site.</p><br>
<p>The sites was the destination of various acts of vandalism, and today its access has bee conditional.</p><br>
<p>The mountaineering group, Os Montanheiros, constructed a rustic house (typical of the hay-loft/barns) to support activities during the site&#39;s exploration. The simple structure was also the centre of vandal attacks and criminal activities over its history, resulting in its degradation. In 1989, the mountaineering group began a project to promote tourist activities at Gruta do Natal, with the construction of a new building, which was integrated into the surrounding landscape. This building was sued to shelter an electric generator, to provide permanent lighting within the cave; protect the site from vandalism; and provide an interpretative centre for visitors to the site. The building includes wash-rooms, generator room, and an access-way and staircase to the Cave. Inaugurated on 1 December 1998, the anniversary date of the mountaineering association, it was public open on 1 June 1999.</p><br>
<p>The interior circuit was developed so that visitors would not follow the same trajectory coming and going along the route, while providing information about the histo-cultural traditions of this cave, in addition to the scientific and geological history. It is a pedagogic meeting-point used by professors and teachers to present the history of the formative forces that occur in the archipelago of the Azores. The site is open to the public from June to September, everyday, throughout the afternoons, with special openings coordinated through the Montanheiros organization by appointment.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Gruta do Natal is located near the Picos Gordos, within the Reserva Florestal Natural da Serra de Santa Bárbara e Mistérios Negros (Santa Bárbara and Mistérios Negros Natural Forest Reserve), an humanized area encircled by pasture-lands and forest of Azorean juniper. With a privileged position, the site is located near a roadway and popular lake-front picnic area of Lagoa do Negro. The roadway is also an access-way for tourist routes; it is being one of the few caves in the Azores that is visibly identifiable, visible from major thoroughfares and publicly signalled. Of all the cave systems in the Azores, Gruta do Natal provides the best conditions for tourist exploration, along with the Algar do Carvão system.</p><br>
<p>It is a lava tube of 697 m length, with easy access, high ceiling and floor with slight slope. The interior of the cave includes geological structures such as different examples of lava, estalcites and lateral protuberances.</p><br>
<p>The Spearhead Range is a short subrange of the Garibaldi Ranges of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, adjacent to the resort town of Whistler, British Columbia and ending at its northwestern apex in Blackcomb Mountain, one of two mountains forming the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort. Other notable summits are The Spearhead, Mount Trorey, and Tremor, Shatter, Shudder, Quiver and other similarly named peaks and glaciers. The range was named by Don and Phyllis Munday as the ranges peaks resembled spearheads rising from the alpine fog. To the north of the range is Lone Goat Pass, formed by Wedge Creek and Lone Goat Creek, which is fed by the Spearhead Glacier, the largest glacier in the range. The valley of Fitzsimmons Creek is on the ranges south side, and is the location of the Whistler Sliding Centre, which was built for the 2010 Winter Olympics.</p><br>
<p>The Spearhead Range&#39;s counterpart on the south side of Fitzsimmons Creek is the Fitzsimmons Range, which runs east from Whistler Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Spring Hill Church, also known as Old Spring Hill and St. Pauls Episcopal Church, was a historic Episcopal church located at Hebron, Wicomico County, Maryland. It was located eight miles north on the Wicomico River from Green Hill Church, which it strongly resembled. The white frame structure, two bays wide and four deep and set on a Flemish bond brick foundation, was constructed as St. Pauls Episcopal Church in 1773. The interior featured a barrel-vault ceiling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Fire destroyed the historic wooden church on July 22, 2014, months after it celebrated its 240th anniversary. Nearly 100 firefighters from numerous fire departments, including Wicomico County as well as Sussex County, Delaware responded to the fire, which investigators said quickly escalated to three alarms.</p><br>
<p>Ko Island or Kojima is an uninhabited island in the Sea of Japan, 23 km southwest of the mainland portion of the town of Matsumae town and is the southernmost point in Hokkaidō. It is under the administration of the town of Matsumae in Matsumae District, Oshima Subprefecture in Hokkaidō, Japan. To distinguish Ko Island from other islands with the same name, it is sometimes known as Oshima Ko Island or Matsumae Ko Island.</p><br>
<p>Ko Island has an area of 1.54 km&sup2;. It is an andesitic stratovolcano. The peak consists of non-alkali mafic rocks, dating from the Early Pleistocene overtop of non-alkali felsic rocks from the Late Miocene-Pliocene.</p><br>
<p>Several smaller islets surround Ko Island, including Daihiyakushima, Shohiyakushima, Tenjinshima, and Sazaeshima.</p><br>
<p>To provide refuge for fishing vessels, a small harbor has been put in place.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Ko Island has been designated a natural monument. It is a breeding ground for common guillemot, Japanese cormorant, and black-tailed gull.</p><br>
<p>15 km to the west of Ko Island is the Ko Island Bank, where migratory fish tend to gather. In the adjacent seas there is also tuna and squid. In previous times it was referred to as the Sea of Treasure. For this reason it is a major fishing area for fishermen out of Matsumae, especially because of the decline in the Arabesque greenling over the last 24 to 25 years.</p><br>
<p>The predominant vegetation on the island is grasses, but there are stands of Acer pictum subsp. mono in the caldera.</p><br>
<p>St. Thomas Church is a historic Episcopal church in Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland.</p><br>
<p>It was authorized in 1742 by the then Province of Maryland to provide a Chapel of Ease for early inhabitants of the Garrison Forest.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was authorized in 1742 by the Province of Maryland to provide a "Chapel of Ease" for early inhabitants of the Garrison Forest. Rev. Thomas Craddock was appointed first minister on January 14, 1745.</p><br>
<p>On April 13, 1782, The Rev. John Andrews returned to Maryland from York, Pennsylvania to become rector of the church, known at the time as St. Thomas Church in Garrison Forest, a position he held until 1784. Early members included, Christopher Gist, John Eager Howard (for whom the nearby Howard County is named), Sequoyah, and his mother, Wut-teh.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The original building, built in 1743 of salmon red brick, was a 56 x 36 foot (17 x 11m) rectangle. Eight windows with round arch tops lighted the building, four on each of the long walls. These retain much of their original 1743 glass. There were also three similar windows on the short liturgical west wall and a small window near the peak of the roof. (The building sits on an angle, so that liturgical west is actually southwest.) The entrance was in the liturgical south wall. It had a wide, brick paved, center aisle and white box pews, both of which remain.Photo on</p><br>
<p>In the late 19th century, the door in the south wall was removed and an entrance created by removing the center window from the west wall. In 1891 transepts and a small, barrel shaped, chancel were added, changing the simple rectangle into a cruciform. There are lancet windows in the east end, one created by John LaFarge depicting the Ascension. A Tiffany window was added later. The transepts have rose windows in yellow, brown, green and colourless glass.</p><br>
<p>In 1970, a major restoration of the church was accomplished. This included the addition of a narthex to the liturgical west, providing access both to the church and to a new basement.</p><br>
<h2>Historical Credentials</h2><br>
<p>A roadside plaque was erected 1936 by Maryland State Roads Commission. Inscription reads "A frontier parish church authorized by Act of Assembly 1742 as “a Chapel of Ease for the Forest Inhabitants” of Saint Paul’s Parish (Baltimore). Reverend Thomas Craddock inducted as first minister January 14, 1745."</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 24, 1979, reference number 79001117.</p><br>
<h2>Graveyard</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery contains the graves of many of the area&#39;s prominent people. Many date back to the 18th century, although most of the older markers are unreadable. Samuel Owings, who is buried there, was a successful miller for whom Owings Mills was named. Rev. Sam Shoemaker, born in the parish and who helped found Alcoholics Anonymous, is also buried in the graveyard.</p><br>
<p>St. James Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Monkton, Baltimore County, Maryland, US.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1713, Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, gave 10,000 acres to his (fourth) wife Margaret, which ultimately became the My Ladys Manor historic district (in 1978). Settlement intensified later in the 18th century, with the development of the Monkton grist mill along the Gunpowder River. A chapel of ease was constructed, and, clergy from St. Johns Parish in Joppatown visited periodically.</p><br>
<p>Marylands legislature recognized St. James as a separate parish from St. Johns (also called Copley Parish) in 1770. In 1773, Baltimore and Harford Counties split, with the Gunpowder River becoming the dividing line. Thus, both counties received parts of My Ladys Manor, with the port of Joppatowne securely in Harford County and thriving until silting of the Gunpowder River and development of larger ocean-going vessels made Baltimore the regions major port. The My Ladys Manor land was owned by descendants of scandal-plagued Thomas Brerewood, whose son had married (secretly) the daughter of the fourth Lord Baltimore, who had inherited it in 1731 and soon after emigrated to Maryland with her husband, who developed the land grant. Marylands legislature confiscated the My Lady&#39;s Manor property during the American Revolutionary War and stored gunpowder in the church building (which remained standing). In 1782 the new state of Maryland sold the adjoining lands to tenant farmers, many of whose families still remain in the area. By 1795, the parish had approximately 1600 baptized members.</p><br>
<p>Monkton Road had been a major north-south route for Native Americans, as well as through the Revolutionary War. However, construction of a road between Baltimore and York, Pennsylvania in 1803, and westward migration inhibited development in this specific area, which remained rural. Still, the nearby town of Monkton became a station on the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad, which later merged into the Northern Central Railway and became a division of the Pennsylvania Railroad until the line was abandoned and ultimately converted into a bicycle and walking path, the Northern Central Railroad Trail.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Construction of a 60x30 foot brick chapel, a Maryland vernacular interpretation of Georgian ecclesiastical architecture, was initially finished in 1755. Extensions were added in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, with the most recent renovation (of the interior, including box pews) completed in 2005. The bell tower dates from 1884. A cemetery surrounds the church, enclosed by a stone wall.</p><br>
<p>A school was constructed adjacent to the church in 1821, but its buildings physically dismantled in 1884 and the bricks reused in the new bell tower. The parish hall was built in 1904 and expanded in 1950, and the St. James Academy refounded in 1957, with a major refurbishment in 1994-1999. That 89 acre property includes playing fields and a parking lot on the side furthest from Monkton Road.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Zane Grey Museum in Lackawaxen Township, Pennsylvania, United States, is a former residence of the author Zane Grey and is now maintained as a museum and operated by the National Park Service . It is located on the upper Delaware River and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It contains many photographs, artworks, books, furnishings, and other objects of interest associated with Grey and his family.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in two sections, both from designs by Grey. The first was in 1905 by Zane Grey&#39;s brother, Romer Carl "Reddy" Grey; the second seven years later by a neighbor, to serve as a writing studio and library after the success of Riders of the Purple Sage. Grey and his wife moved to California so he could work on screenplays in 1918, but Lackawaxen and the house remained one of his favorite places for the rest of his life. It was added to the Register in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is along Scenic Drive, a short road along the Delaware River north of Roeblings Delaware Aqueduct, an early suspension bridge which still carries vehicle and foot traffic across the river between Pennsylvania and New York. Along the riverfront to the north, it is 300 ft to the Delawares confluence with the Lackawaxen River, the largest tributary of the Upper Delaware in Pennsylvania, resulting in slightly choppier water in front of the house. The grassy, maintained ground slopes gently from Pennsylvania Route 590 to the west toward the river, giving the house&#39;s east (front) a view across to undeveloped woods on the New York side in Minisink Ford.</p><br>
<p>In front of the house, the slope exposes the northern corner more than the southern one. There is a small unpaved parking lot, sign for the museum and state historical marker as well. The house is to the north of a cluster of other buildings in the neighborhood, most notably the former D&H Canal Co. Office, now a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>The two-story clapboard-sided frame structure rises from an exposed bluestone foundation. It is three bays long by six wide, in an L-shaped plan. The older, east-west–oriented block of the house has a square hipped roof with two large pedimented dormer windows with dentilled lintels on the east and south sides, with a smaller jerkin-roofed dormer complementing the eastern one. The newer wing designed by Grey and built by his brother has a rectangular hipped roof of gentler pitch with three small jerkined dormers. Both roofs are surfaced with diamond-shaped shingles of white asbestos cement and pierced by a single brick chimney per wing.</p><br>
<p>A single wraparound porch with flat roof, balustrade and bracketed columns runs the length of the south and east elevations, combining two previously separate porches, one of which had lost its original roof in the floods of 1955. White wooden posts mark the house&#39;s corners, and the second-story windows have awnings.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the floor plans reflect the two sections&#39; separate construction. The earlier one has a square plan, the later one a rectangular. Many original finishes and decorations remain. Opposite the original front door at the southeast corner is a brick fireplace trimmed with unglazed terra cotta, including egg-and-dart molding. A T-plan staircase has its original decorative balustrade and newel posts.</p><br>
<p>The northeast door is the main entrance to the newer wing. It opens onto a living space that runs the length and half the wodth of the addition. Opposite the door is its fireplace, likewise of brick and topped with a beveled mirror to a height of 7 ft. Behind it the library includes many original trim, particularly a 2 ft deep painted frieze depicting kachina dolls, reflecting Greys interests in the Southwest. These rooms, and Greys upstairs studio, house most of the museum exhibits and visitor interest today.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A native of Zanesville, Ohio, Grey had established a dental practice in New York City in 1896 but soon grew dissatisfied with the field. He dabbled in semi-professional baseball and wrote his first stories and novels. They were not successful, but by 1905 he had decided to leave dentistry for writing. They had begun the process of building the first part of the house, the southern wing, after seeing the site on a fishing trip that year, and later they moved their families into it.</p><br>
<p>Grey continued to write westerns, and took two extended research trips to the Southwest over the next several years. He worked, at the time, in a bungalow near the house that is no longer extant. These resulted in Heritage of the Desert in 1911 and Riders of the Purple Sage the following year, his bestselling novel. With the proceeds from the latter work, he designed the study wing. It was built by a neighbor, Gottlieb Kuhn, in 1912.</p><br>
<p>He continued writing novels there for six more years until the nascent film industry beckoned. He and his wife moved to Altadena, California, where they eventually purchased an estate as he became even more commercially successful as a film producer as well. He remained in California until his 1939 death, but retained the Lackawaxen house for visits east. Both he and his wife are buried in Union Cemetery, not far from the house.</p><br>
<p>In 1945, Grey&#39;s widow sold the house to a friend, who operated it as an inn for 25 years. During that time, in 1955, the building suffered some serious flood damage, tearing off the roof of the first front porch. In 1973, they converted it into the museum, which they sold to the Park Service in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Floods in the summer of 2006 left 6 to 8 ft of water in the basement. The Park Service was able to get the collection to safety, but it was necessary to thoroughly dehumidify the space before reopening the museum.</p><br>
<p>The Nicholson River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It takes its name from the Nicholson Plains, named in 1879 by Alexander Forrest after Sir Charles Nicholson, the central figure in the circle of Australian colonists in London, and a promoter of the Forrest brothers explorations. In 1870 Nicholson had presented a paper entitled On Forrests Expedition into the Interior of Western Australia, Goyder&#39;s Survey of the Neighbourhood of Port Darwin, and on the Recent Progress of Australian Discovery to a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society of London.</p><br>
<p>The river rises just north of Koolerong Bore then flows south-west through Nicholson and through Marella Gorge then turning north and discharging into the Ord River on the eastern edge of Purnululu National Park near Doughboy Hill.</p><br>
<p>There are eleven tributaries of the Nicholson including; Bamboo Creek, Bull Creek, Clean Skin Creek, Red Bank Creek, Tyson Creek and Wire Creek.</p><br>
<p>Pemberton Hall is a historic home located at Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, three-bay, Flemish bond brick house with a gambrel roof. The construction date of "1741" is scratched in a brick above the side door. One of Isaac Handys , builder of Pemberton Hall, five sons was George Handy , a charter member of the Society of the Cincinnati. During the American Civil War, the Hall was the home of Allison Parsons, a Southern sympathizer, who insisted on firing a cannon upon the receipt of news of each Confederate victory. In 1868, the Governor of Maryland, Elihu E. Jackson , purchased Pemberton Hall with James Cannon at a trustees sale. Seth Taylor owned Pemberton Hall from 1931 to 1963, at which time the Pemberton Hall Foundation took it over and restored the house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Valle Germanasca is a valley in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, north-western Italy run by the Germanasca stream, a right affluent of the Chisone.</p><br>
<p>The valley is a renowned summer tourist resort, its main attraction being its natural landscape. The main resort is Ghigo, a frazione of the comune of Prali. Also visited are the Talc mines of the valley, which are of its main resources and are still active.</p><br>
<p>Valle Germanasca is one the Piedmontese valleys in which the majority of the population belongs to the Waldensian Evangelical Church.</p><br>
<h2>Notable summits</h2><br>
<p>Among the summits which surround the valley (all belonging to the Cottian Alps) there are:</p><br>
<p>Gran Queyron - 3.060 m</p><br>
<p>Bric Ghinivert - 3.037 m</p><br>
<p>Monte Barifreddo - 3.028 m</p><br>
<p>Bric Rosso (or Monte Politri) - 3.026 m</p><br>
<p>Cima Frappier - 3.003 m</p><br>
<p>Bric Bucie - 2.998 m</p><br>
<p>Punta Vergia - 2.990 m</p><br>
<p>Bric di Mezzogiorno - 2.986 m</p><br>
<p>Monte Gran Mioul - 2.974 m</p><br>
<p>Fea Nera - 2.946 m</p><br>
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<p>The Midtown Woodward Historic District is a historic district located along Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. Structures in the district are located between 2951 and 3424 Woodward Avenue, and include structures on the corner of Charlotte Street  and Peterboro Street . The district was admitted to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>The district spans two blocks along Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit. Significant structures in the district include a number of architect-designed buildings. Some of these are:</p><br>
<h3>Addison Hotel</h3><br>
<p>The Addison Hotel, currently known as the Addison Apartments, is located at 14 Charlotte. The structure, designed by Albert Kahn, was built in 1905 and originally featured 50 luxury apartments. The structure is currently being restored to feature 40 apartments.</p><br>
<h3>Fine Arts Theatre</h3><br>
<p>The Fine Arts Theatre is located at 2952 Woodward. The theatre, with 582 seats, was designed by C. Howard Crane. It opened in 1914 as the Addison, and closed in 1980.</p><br>
<h3>Crystal Ballroom</h3><br>
<p>The Crystal Ballroom is located at 3100 Woodward; the building is currently known as the Crystal Lofts and the current ground-floor tenant is Zacarro&#39;s Market. The ballroom was built in 1919. The facade of the original building was altered (likely in 1936 when Woodward Avenue was widened) to add the Art Deco elements apparent on the front.</p><br>
<h3>Kahn Print Shop</h3><br>
<p>Albert Kahn designed this structure at 3408-3414 Woodward Avenue in 1912; it was built in 1919 as a print shop. After sitting vacant for decades, it has been redeveloped into retail space.</p><br>
<h3>Bonstelle Theatre</h3><br>
<p>Wayne State Universitys Bonstelle Theatre is located at 3424 Woodward at the north end of the district; it was origally the Temple Beth El. At the turn of the 20th century, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin of Detroits Temple Beth El led the push for the construction of a new temple building. He hired architect Albert Kahn, a member of the congregation, to design the building. Groundbreaking began on November 25, 1901, with the ceremonial cornerstone laid on April 23, 1902. The first services were held in the chapel on January 24, 1903, and the formal dedication was held on September 18–19 of the same year.</p><br>
<p>The Moraine Park Museum and Amphitheater, also known as the Moraine Park Lodge and the Moraine Park Visitor Center, are located in Moraine Park, a glaciated meadow between two moraines in Rocky Mountain National Park.</p><br>
<p>The two structures were built to serve visitors to the park, and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum was built in 1923 by Imogene Green MacPherson as the center of her private tourist development, and was then known as the Moraine Park Lodge. The National Park Service purchased the property in 1931 and demolished the surrounding cabins in following years. The amphitheater was designed and built in 1935, with the design by the NPS Branch of Plans and Designs and the construction by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The lodge was reworked in 1934-35. Both structures adhere to the National Park Service Rustic design ethic of the time, with stone and log construction.</p><br>
<p>Imogene Green MacPherson first homesteaded the site in Moraine Park in 1903, naming the land "Hillcrest". In 1905, newly married, she expanded with a lodge, dining hall, stable and some cabins for guests. Paying guest began to arrive in 1910. Mrs. MacPherson continued to operate the resort after the death of her husband in 1919, and was involved in the campaign for the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park. After her death in 1928, her family continued to run the lodge until its purchase by the Park Service.</p><br>
<p>The amphitheater is built about one hundred feet from the lodge, with seating interspersed with trees. A projection booth and screen once existed, but were removed. An elaborate arrangement of stone gutters and culverts provides drainage.</p><br>
<p>The Moraine Park Lodge adjoins the William Allen White Cabins historic district.</p><br>
<p>The museum features interactive natural history exhibits, with themes including geologic processes, glaciation, weather and climate, ecosystems, and human impact. The park offers environmental education programs based on similar themes. The lodge building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 8, 1976. The listing was expanded to include the amphitheater on June 15, 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Moraine Park meadows</h2><br>
<p>The valley of Moraine Park was formed when an ancient glacial lake silted up and drained, forming a flat meadow. The soil is too moist to support most trees but supports grasses, willows, and aspens. The Big Thompson River flows through this valley after coming down glacier-carved Forest Canyon. This habitat area is characterized by ponderosa pine, aspen, and douglas-fir forests, as well as a few large and small meadows. Moraine Park is also a popular place to watch elk, because many elk congregate here for the fall rut.</p><br>
<p>Table Rock is a mountain pillar located just south-east of downtown Boise, Idaho, United States in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains; an illuminated 60-foot cross at its summit  has been the subject of a lawsuit involving the separation of church and state . The legality of the land sale to the Jaycees is disputed, as the land board meeting minutes, which discuss the sale, indicate that the sale was structured specifically to sell the land to the Jaycees for the purpose of insulating the cross from legal attack. The sale included language that allowed the Land Board to reject any offers, with the stated intent of rejecting offers other than from the Jaycees. A prominent local landmark, it is a popular spot for day hiking from the Old Idaho State Penitentiary which offers easy access to panoramic views of the Treasure Valley and the Owyhee Mountains as well as the Boise Foothills themselves. Shortly after midnight on June 30, 2016 illegal fireworks usage on Table Rock initiated a 2,500 acre wildfire.</p><br>
<h2>Prehistory</h2><br>
<p>Table Rock was sacred to the Northern Shoshone, who used the high plateau, numerous caves, and nearby hot springs as a ceremonial meeting place. Artifacts have been found in the course of the construction of nearby subdivisions, including obsidian bi-face knives of varying sizes; the site and its surroundings were also used as burial grounds.</p><br>
<p>To this date, no public attributions of any archeological or cultural importance have been made to the site, despite its well-known prehistorical importance. Bafflingly, public attention continues to center on the presence of religious iconography on the butte, as opposed to preserving any knowledge of actual historical or anthropological importance.</p><br>
<h2>The Cross</h2><br>
<p>The cross that stands on top of Table Rock has had a volatile 60 plus year history.</p><br>
<p>The controversy began in 1956 when the Junior Chamber of Commerce, or Jaycees, built the cross on what was then Department of Correction land. At the time the Department of Correction owned a 109-acre tract that included the bluff of Table Rock.</p><br>
<p>On June 10, 1970, the Jaycees submitted a request to the Board of Correction for the purchase a 44-foot-by-70-foot parcel of land that would surround the land around the cross.</p><br>
<p>On June 25, 1971, the Correction Board deemed the desired land surplus and turned it over to the Idaho Department of Lands. Idaho Board of Land Commissioners records reveal that because the requested land was on the very edge of Table Rock’s ledge, the Board of Correction did not feel it would negatively impact the surrounding state owned land.</p><br>
<p>Sale of the land was the responsibility of the Land Board. In November 1971, an auction was held for the sale of the land with the appraised price of $100.00. The sale of the land was advertised in The Idaho Statesman weekly for a period of six weeks. The Jaycees and a man named Paul Kimball signed up as bidders, though Kimball did not place a bid.</p><br>
<p>The land was sold to the Jaycees for $100.00. From then on the cross has been considered to be on private property.</p><br>
<p>On December 16, 1994, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) penned a letter to the Land Board asserting the sale of the parcel of land was both unconstitutional and a violation of state law. The letter stated the Land Board had taken the liberty of refusing bids other than the Jaycee’s. It also accused the Land Board of restricting media coverage, which they claimed had left the general public in the dark. In March 1995 Land Board members voted and rejected the ACLU’s request to void the sale.</p><br>
<p>Controversy escalated in November 1999 when (self-described) atheist human rights activist Rob Sherman gave a speech at BSU claiming the Jaycees were a “bunch of criminals” and threatened action to bring the cross down. The dispute resulted in over 10,000 people participating in a march from the Boise Depot to the Statehouse to save the Table Rock cross.</p><br>
<p>References: The Idaho Statesman, November 28, 1999. "Cross Parcel Sold Surplus" by Tim Jackson, and The Idaho Statesman, December 5, 1999. "Outside Treat Spurs Thousands to Stand Up for Table Rock Cross" by Dan Popkey.</p><br>
<p>The Shadow Mountain Lookout, also known as the Shadow Mountain Patrol Cabin, was built in Rocky Mountain National Park in 1932, to the design of the National Park Service San Francisco Landscape Architecture Division. It was regarded as one of the best National Park Service Rustic buildings in the national park system. It is now the only fire lookout surviving in Rocky Mountain National Park. Three other lookouts, now gone, were located at Twin Sisters Peak, the north fork of the Thompson River and near Long&#39;s Peak. The lookout was built by Civilian Conservation Corps labor.</p><br>
<p>Situated at an elevation of 9923 feet, the lookout is a three-story structure, with the first two stories in stone masonry, appearing to grow from a rock outcropping. The frame third story is topped by a pyramidal roof. The structure is near the summit of Shadow Mountain, looking over Grand Lake. The first floor has been used for visitor contact, while the second floor has been used as employee accommodation, usually for a married couple who would keep watch and deal with the public. The last summer season for use was 1978.</p><br>
<p>Berijam Lake is a reservoir near Kodaikanal town in Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu, South India. It is at the old site of "Fort Hamilton", in the upper Palani hills.</p><br>
<p>The lake, created by a dam with sluice outlets, is part of a micro&ndash;watershed development project. Periyakulam town, 18.7 km to the SE, gets its public drinking water from the lake. The lake’s water quality is excellent.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Berijam is located at the end of Pillar Rocks Road (old SR-18), 21 km southwest of Kodaikanal Lake. There were two roads from Berijam, the Kodaikanal–Munnar Road to Munnar town, about 40 km west and another going to Kavunji village, 9 km north.</p><br>
<p>The old roads are now overgrown with vegetation and used as walking trails by local villagers and trekkers. Encounters with wild animals including bison, elephants and leopards sometimes occur on these trails.</p><br>
<p>The Tamil Nadu Forest Department has restricted entry into the Berijam Lake area to between 9.30 a.m. and 3 p.m. for the general public. Entry permits are issued at the Forestry Department Office in Kodaikanal. Only a limited number of visitors are allowed in the park each day.</p><br>
<p>There is a forest check&ndash;post which prohibits unauthorized entry through the road leading to Berijam Lake.</p><br>
<p>Beyond km marker 13 on the Berijam road there is an observation tower from where one may have a fine view of Berijam Lake and the surrounding forest.</p><br>
<p>Berijam has a Forest Department Camp including an Eco-Education Center for visitors. Nature areas to be visited here include: swamp ecosystem, nature trail, bridge, medicinal demonstration garden, museum, nature walk, grassland and shola.()</p><br>
<p>Site visits are organized for authorized researchers. Trekkers can get permission to stay overnight. There is a forest rest house with limited accommodations which serves as an overnight base camp for Forestry Department staff, researchers and trekkers.</p><br>
<p>Visitors must bring their own provisions.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There was originally a swamp here known as the Berijam swamp.</p><br>
<p>The previous existence here of a large lake, evidence of which was visible nearby, was first recorded in 1864 by Colonel Douglas Hamilton of the 21st Regiment of the Madras Native Infantry. No written record or even local legend regarding the existence of this ancient lake survives. However, judging from visible traces of its shoreline which still remained in 1906, it must have been nearly 5 mi long, up to 3,960 ft wide and up to 70 ft deep. It was apparently formed by the side of a hill slipping down into a valley which slopes northwards, and damming up the stream which ran to the Amaravati River at the bottom of it. This stream apparently eventually cut its way through the huge natural embankment so formed, and thus emptied the lake this landslide/dam had once created. The dam was about 600 ft long and the breach in it was about 300 ft across and 90 ft deep.</p><br>
<p>In 1864, Colonel Hamilton submitted a report stating that the Berijam Lake area was the best site in the Palani Hills for a military cantonment or Sanatorium. A military outpost later built here, Fort Hamilton, was named for him.</p><br>
<p>There was in fact no fort at the place, only a small hut.</p><br>
<p>Berijam lake was artificially created in 1867, when Sir Vere Levigne, Collector of Madurai, donated part of his personal retirement funds for building the dam.</p><br>
<p>Subsequently, the dam and reservoir were enlarged and a pipeline was built to supply drinking water to the Periyakulam Municipality. The scheme was completed in 1912 at a cost equivalent to US $138,500.</p><br>
<p>Berijam has a 100-year-old 2-story brick building, partly damaged and blackened over the years, with a bright yellow painted name reading "Britisher&#39;s Transit Camp". This is one of several transit camps built every 15 km for the soldiers to rest along the 230 km British "Escape Route" from Kodaikanal via Top Station and Munnar to Kochi, built during World War II. While most of the transit camps are now either dilapidated or demolished, the one at Berijam still stands.</p><br>
<p>Berijam Lake has been studied palynologically revealing a 20,000 years story by pollen particles deposited in lake sediments. The time span between 20,000-17,000 years before present (B.P.) experienced cold and dry climatic conditions. After this period arid oxidizing environmental conditions prevailed for a period of 2500 years. The time span between 14,500–7;000 years B.P. witnessed a climatic amelioration phase leading to a warm and humid climate. From about 7,000 years B.P. to present the area has had a cool and humid climate.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrology</h2><br>
<p>The Upper Palani Hills catchment basin drains into the Lake.</p><br>
<p>Rainfall is the chief source of water into the lake. Average annual rainfall in the hill area is 1,500 mm. The mean day temperature in the coolest months is below 17 &deg;C in the higher areas.</p><br>
<p>The lake is formed below the Palani hill ranges at the origin of the Varahanadhi (Varaha River) which is used for purposes of water supply and irrigation.</p><br>
<p>As a part of the World Bank funded Water Resources Consolidation Project (WRCP) of Tamil Nadu, sedimentation condition was assessed for a large number of reservoirs including Berijam reservoir.</p><br>
<p>This indicated that the 1.91 hm3 gross storage capacity of the reservoir in 1911 decreased to 1.804 hm3 in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The percentage reduction of storage due to siltation is 23%, over a period of 76 years.</p><br>
<p>Berijam Lake had stable land conditions, thus erosion was less and the lake received less sediment but more organic matter in the proportion of (5.5&ndash;41.8%).</p><br>
<p>The rate of sedimentation is indirectly proportional to the influx of organic matter.</p><br>
<p>On the basis of chemical parameters and nutrient load studies, the Berijam lake has been categorized as oligotrophic with a tendency to eutrophication over time due to plankton growth in the lake.</p><br>
<p>This conclusion is supported by oxygen deficits in the bottom due to the chemocline condition of the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>Berijam is rich in flora and fauna (some are pictured in the gallery) and has a few original eco&ndash;initiatives to its credit, namely, South India&#39;s first field&ndash;oriented eco-education centre set up by the Forest Department, an exclusive medicinal plants demonstration garden spread over 1.0 hectare and a model swamp observation area created to educate the public. A rare species of free floating insectivorous bladderwort plant called utricularia australis is said to be found here.</p><br>
<p>The catchment of the Berijam Lake in the Palani hills falls under the once extensive shola grassland ecosystem, also called the "cloud forest".</p><br>
<p>These grasslands constitute a complex and highly diverse plant community which in turn supports a wide range of fauna from insects to large mammals.</p><br>
<p>With the sholas they constitute one of the world’s rarest, most biodiverse and spectacular of landscapes.</p><br>
<p>Where the grassland has been destroyed by industrial timber plantations, streams and marshes have dried out.</p><br>
<p>Data on germination and cultivation of c. 250 shola species and long term biographies of c. 70 shola tree species in the area have been published.</p><br>
<p>Development and cultivation of medicinal plants like Digitalis, Pyrethrum, belladona, Dioscorea sp. and Mentha is an active programme launched by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University through the 40 hectare research centre of the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) near Berijam.</p><br>
<p>Commercial marketing of high yielding varieties of these plants is now being actively pursued.</p><br>
<p>Psilocybin mushrooms which produce hallucinogenic effects when consumed, and other species of mushrooms grow around Berijam.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>"Let us also Live"</p><br>
<p>The Upper Palni Shola forest reserve surrounding Berijam lake has a rich faunal population comprising the following.</p><br>
<p>Resident birds include crested serpent eagles, pariah kites, pale-rumped swallows and the edible-nest swiftlets.</p><br>
<p>Migratory birds wintering here include the common rosefinch, the blue chat, several leaf-warblers and Blyth&#39;s reed-warbler.</p><br>
<p>Threatened mammals including bison, Nilgiri langur, Malabar giant squirrels and Indian elephants are seen here as well as Indian crested porcupines, wild boar, barking deer, sambar deer and mouse deer.</p><br>
<p>In February 2010, tigers were sighted in Kodaikanal forests during a six-day carnivore survey. A tigress and her cub were spotted playing in the wild. Forest Department officials are studying survey data to estimate the local tiger population based on indirect evidence like pug marks, scats and scratches.</p><br>
<p>Of the two wildlife corridors proposed for movement of Indian elephants in the Palani Hills Reserve Forest, the Berijam corridor connects to Top Station in Kerala.</p><br>
<p>It is also being studied if a link corridor through the Kukkal area, could be established to the second corridor from Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park through Amaravathy and Kudhiraiyar to the Palar Dam, then up the valley almost to Ganesh Nagar, below village.</p><br>
<p>In 1886 there were carp in the lake.</p><br>
<p>In 1914 there was a scheme to introduce trout into Berijam reservoir.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation</h2><br>
<p>The catchment basin of the lake, historically dominated by extensive shola grass lands, drains into marshes at the head of the lake. However, most of the catchment area was afforested, during the 1960s, with eucalyptus, wattle and pine. The main Berijam marsh has shrunk, as evidenced in March 2007, by walking across the marsh without getting one’s feet wet. This is attributed to less water discharging into the lake. Shrinking of the lake has also been noticed with the boating dock getting shifted to deeper waters on the opposite side of the creek.</p><br>
<p>The creek waters adjoining the marsh have been gradually invaded by marshland vegetation of water lilies, torpedo grass and native sedges with shoots in water and roots at the nodes.</p><br>
<p>The water lilies were planted there "reportedly" for ornamental purposes by the Forest Department. These marshland invasives are accelerating the siltation process and may eventually result in necessity of raising the height of the dam to compensate for loss of storage due to siltation.</p><br>
<p>A crisis in the water regime of the Palani plateau has been observed at Berijam Lake. The lake’s marshlands have been reported to dry out after the monsoon and marsh vegetation is seen encroaching into the deeper part of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Studies by the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore, undertaken in 2006 in many areas of the Palani hills including Berijam, indicate that the population of the grey-breasted laughingthrush, a near threatened endemic bird species of the Western Ghats, has been affected by the degradation of its habitat. Remedial measures have been suggested.</p><br>
<p>Otter poaching in the Palani hills to the point of extermination has been reported.</p><br>
<p>Common and small-clawed otters are trapped by tribals from the Haryana state of India, who are in Palani hills with the sole aim of collecting otter oil which is in demand in northern India.</p><br>
<p>Mercury pollution was reported in Kodaikanal which affected lakes in the area.</p><br>
<p>The causes, originating from a Hindustan Lever thermometer factory nearby, were reported to be dispersal of elemental mercury to the atmosphere from improper storage and dispersal from surface effluents from the factory. Apart from tests conducted on Kodaikanal lake, moss samples collected from trees surrounding the Berijam Lake, located 20 km from the factory were also tested. These showed mercury level in the range of 0.2 µg/kg.</p><br>
<p>In 1902, important bauxite deposits were discovered in the hills north and south of Berijam Lake which The Geological Survey of India investigated during 1964&ndash;65.</p><br>
<p>The following measures have been suggested or are under implementation by various agencies.</p><br>
<p>Plastics, smoking and consuming alcohol are prohibited at the lake area.</p><br>
<p>Promote Shola grass land afforestation in the catchment area of the lake, particularly towards Mannavanur where its absence is noticed. This remedial measure could be ecologically and biologically beneficial to restore the lake’s water source.</p><br>
<p>Grassland rehabilitation could be achieved, with NGO and community participation.</p><br>
<p>The Vatakanal Conservation Trust, a non-governmental organization in association with the Tamil Nadu Forest Department has initiated efforts to restore the shola system.</p><br>
<p>A pilot project was undertaken to protect the Pambar shola, adjacent to Kodaikanal.</p><br>
<p>Kurinji saplings associated with Shola grasslands and other native grasslands species have been successfully nurtured.</p><br>
<p>Excellent flowering of krunji flowers on the cliffs near Berijam Lake have been noted during August and September.</p><br>
<p>Noting the effect on the breeding of the grey–breasted laughingthrush, the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History has recommended:</p><br>
<p>Expansion of plantations and restoration of grasslands and shola forests in the Palani hills should be halted</p><br>
<p>The larger shola forests of Kukkal and Mathikettan (Berijam) to be declared as bird sanctuaries with better protection for the proposed Palani Hills Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park.</p><br>
<p>Set up a GIS database with thematic details, including information on flora and fauna, to help monitor the globally near threatened species.</p><br>
<p>Initiate a nature education programme to highlight importance of natural vegetation in Habitat conservation of biodiversity and watershed management of Palani Hills.</p><br>
<h2>External sources</h2><br>
<p>Loon Lake,  could mean the following :</p><br>
<h2>Community</h2><br>
<p>Loon Lake a community in the Halifax Regional Municipality.</p><br>
<p>East Loon Lake Village a community in the Halifax Regional Municipality at 45&deg;15&prime;33.97&Prime;N latitude, 62&deg;41&prime;44.52&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<h2>Lakes</h2><br>
<h3>Cape Breton Regional Municipality</h3><br>
<p>Loon Lake near the community of Broughton at 46&deg;4&prime;47&Prime;N latitude, 59&deg;58&prime;11&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Loon Lake near the community of Rear Boisdale at 46&deg;2&prime;10&Prime;N latitude, 60&deg;30&prime;8&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<h3>Digby County</h3><br>
<p>Loon Lake in Clare District at 44&deg;12&prime;14&Prime;N latitude, 65&deg;57&prime;54&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Loon Lake in Clare District at 44&deg;17&prime;39&Prime;N latitude, 65&deg;57&prime;10&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<h3>Guysborough County</h3><br>
<p>Loon Lake near the community of Indian Harbour at 45&deg;11&prime;39&Prime;N latitude, 61&deg;50&prime;7&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Loon Lake near the community of Goldboro at 45&deg;17&prime;13&Prime;N latitude, 61&deg;33&prime;30&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<h3>Halifax Regional Municipality</h3><br>
<p>Loon Lake (Westphal) in the community of Westphal44&deg;42&prime;3&Prime;N latitude, 63&deg;30&prime;13&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Loon Lake near the community of Murchyville at 44&deg;57&prime;40&Prime;N latitude, 63&deg;4&prime;45&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Loon Lake near the community of Moose River Gold Mines at 45&deg;0&prime;22&Prime;N latitude, 62&deg;52&prime;27&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Loon Lake near the community of Meaghers Grant at 44&deg;51&prime;42&Prime;N latitude, 63&deg;14&prime;17&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Loon Lake near the community of Goffs at 44&deg;47&prime;46&Prime;N latitude, 63&deg;26&prime;30&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Loon Lake near the community of Hatchet Lake at 44&deg;32&prime;8&Prime;N latitude, 63&deg;42&prime;32&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>East Loon Lake near the community of Loon Lake at 45&deg;16&prime;16&Prime;N latitude, 62&deg;42&prime;43&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>West Loon Lake near the community of Loon Lake at 45&deg;15&prime;57&Prime;N latitude, 62&deg;43&prime;32&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>South Loon Lake near the community of Loon Lake at 45&deg;15&prime;38&Prime;N latitude, 62&deg;43&prime;0&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<h3>Kings County</h3><br>
<p>Loon Lake at 44&deg;53&prime;52&Prime;N latitude, 64&deg;39&prime;59&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<h3>Lunenburg County</h3><br>
<p>Loon Lake near New Ross at</p><br>
<h3>Region of Queens Municipality</h3><br>
<p>*Loon Lake at {{coord|44|19|13|N|65|11|21|W|name=Loon Lake|region:CA-NS_type:waterbody_scale:100000}} in Kejimkujik National Park</p><br>
<h2>Other</h2><br>
<p>*Loon Lake Channel at {{coord|44|55|0|N|64|39|57|W|name=Loon Lake Channel|region:CA-NS_type:waterbody_scale:100000}} in Kings County</p><br>
<p>*Loon Lake Falls at {{coord|44|19|0|N|65|10|57|W|name=Loon Lake Falls|region:CA-NS_type:waterbody_scale:100000}} in Kejimkujik National Park</p><br>
<p>*Loon Lake Stream a river in Digby County at {{coord|44|19|0|N|65|30|57|W|name=Loon Lake Stream|region:CA-NS_type:river_scale:100000}}</p><br>
<p>Union Station is a historic railway station located at Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It was constructed in 1913–14, near the junction where the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad intersected with the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railroad in the center of Salisbury. Both railroads became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It has a -story, Flemish bond brick main block covered by a medium-pitched hip roof sheathed in slate, with single-story wings. It was converted from a passenger station into a freight facility around 1958, and since 1986, used for other commercial purposes. The building has characteristics of the Colonial Revival style and was the most elaborate passenger facility to survive on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.</p><br>
<p>Union Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Drysdale River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The river rises in the Caroline Ranges, flows in a northerly direction and discharges into Napier Broome Bay near Kalumburu. The river contains several permanent pools some of which have several examples of Indigenous Australian art known as Bradshaw paintings that can be found along the cliff faces.</p><br>
<p>Notable waterfalls on the river are the Eagle Falls - which are regularly visited by Kimberley coastal cruise ships, Solea Falls north of the Johnston Creek fork and Bango Falls on the tributary Bango Creek.</p><br>
<p>There are 19 tributaries of the Drysdale including; Gibb River, Woodhouse River, Barton River, Tadarida Creek, Wax Creek, Curlew Creek, King David Creek, Ubach Creek and Damper Creek.</p><br>
<p>15% of the river&#39;s catchment area lies within Drysdale River National Park.</p><br>
<p>The river was named after the Director of a Victorian Squatting Company T.A. Drysdale by explorer Charles Burrowes in 1886.</p><br>
<p>The traditional owners of the area that the river flows through are the Ngarinjin, Miwa and Wilawila peoples.</p><br>
<p>The Housatonic River Railroad Bridge is a historic bridge carrying Metro-North Railroad&#39;s New Haven Line trackage across the lower Housatonic River in the USA state of Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, and in its listing was described as also being referred to as Devon Bridge. It is also referred to as the Devon Railroad Bridge by the state Department of Environmental Protection.</p><br>
<p>It is a "Scherzer Rolling Lift Bascule"-type bascule bridge. It has a steel superstructure and block stone piers. The moveable span is a Warren through truss span. The Connecticut River Railroad Bridge is another bridge of this type in Connecticut which is also NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<p>It is one of eight moveable bridges on the Amtrak route through Connecticut surveyed in one multiple property study in 1986. The eight bridges from west to east are: Mianus River Railroad Bridge at Cos Cob, built in 1904; Norwalk River Railroad Bridge at Norwalk, 1896; Saugatuck River Railroad Bridge at Westport, 1905; Pequonnock River Railroad Bridge at Bridgeport, 1902; Housatonic River Railroad Bridge, at Devon, 1906; Connecticut River Railroad Bridge, Old Saybrook-Old Lyme, 1907; Niantic River Bridge, East Lyme-Waterford, 1907; and Thames River Bridge (Amtrak), Groton, built in 1919.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is also used by Amtrak for its Northeast Corridor services.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The current bridge is the fourth railroad span in the same location, originally known as Naugatuck Junction. The original bridge was the first railroad bridge over the Housatonic river, built by the New York and New Haven Railroad, and was a single-track wooden Covered Howe Truss, 1,293 feet in length and a draw of 134 feet, built in 1848. It held the distinction of being the longest covered bridge ever built in the state of Connecticut. The second bridge was a double-track cast iron Whipple truss, 1,091 feet in length and a draw of 206 feet, built in 1872 by the Keystone Bridge Company for the New York and New Haven Railroad. The third bridge was a double-track wrought iron Pratt truss, 1,091 feet in length and a draw of 206 feet, built in 1884 by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The current bridge, a four-track steel with Warren through truss spans, Scherzer Bascule bridge, 1,072 feet in length and a draw of 110 feet, was completed in 1906 by the American Bridge Company for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.</p><br>
<p>Repairs were planned for six months starting April 25, 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Mar-Va Theater is a historic theater located in Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland. It was constructed in 1927 and is a two-story, three-bay building of brick laid in stretcher bond. The interior reflects an extensive Art Deco style redecoration carried out in 1937 including narrow silver columns on either side of the stage and embellishments on the side walls. It is currently operated as a performing arts center.</p><br>
<p>One of the few remaining links to Pocomoke&#39;s past is the Mar-Va Theater. Its name is representative of its location, since the theater is located in Maryland, only a short distance from the Virginia state line. With originally 720 seats, the Mar-Va is the largest theater south of Wilmington, Delaware, which has never been altered. Once used as a vaudeville theater complete with stage facilities, dressing rooms and orchestra pits, the Mar-Va was played by many famous performers, which included some old-time cowboys such as Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, Hop-a-Long Cassidy and Smiley Burnett. Linda Lavin of the television show "Alice," David Ogden Stiers, a musician and actor well known for his role in M*A*S*H, and Scars on 45 have recently visited/performed.</p><br>
<p>Mr. & Mrs. Frank Barlett of Berlin, MD built the Mar-Va Theater in 1927. Made from the finest materials, it has been estimated that it would probably cost around $250,000 by present economic standards.</p><br>
<p>The Mar-Va Theater is one of the few theaters on the shore to boast of a draw drape. The sidewalls have the original gold embossed paneling and the projectors, which were added around 1943, are of the carbon arc variety. The balcony was once used for segregation purposes. It had its own entrance, concession area, box office and bathroom. The seats in the balcony were considered the best in the theater.</p><br>
<p>The theater opened on December 1, 1927 with John & Lester Fox managing the theater while J. Dawson Clarke played the piano for the old silent movies. In 1949, after the death of John Fox, J. Dawson Clarke and Orville Mason bought the theater and in 1967, the ownership went to Dawson and his wife, Hattie.</p><br>
<p>When the theater originally opened, ticket prices were 10 cents. At the time of its closing in 1993, a ticket cost $3.50. Soda pop, sold in the soda parlor next door, once cost 10 cents and popcorn was always sold for 10 cents a bag.</p><br>
<p>Currently, the theater shows movies on the first and third weekends on the month and has live performances on a regular basis. Admission for movies is $5 per person and the annual Christmas plays admission is $15 per person. 2011s performance was "It&#39;s a Wonderful Life."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Pocomoke City Historic District is a national historic district in Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland. The historic district includes the central business district  and surrounding residential area of Pocomoke City. The CBD is defined by an important collection of late-19th century and early-20th century commercial and public architecture. It includes a significant array of Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Beaux-Arts influenced structures. The majority of the housing dates from 1870 to 1940. It is an example of a type of prosperous river town that characterized the region during the period, which retains an exceptional collection of 19th and 20th century building forms.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Volcanic Complex of Topo  is a complex of scoria cones and volcanic structures, located near the village Topo in the southeastern part of the island of São Jorge, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The base of the Topo complex originated in numerous shield volcanoes, erupting from primordial fissural faults that ran along a northwest to southeast and east-southeast to west-northwest alignment. These structures are only observed in the curvature of the higher turf cones, as far as 700 m above sea level. These activities initiated around 600,000 years ago. The island of São Jorge had its initial formation from the rising of magma along these fractures through the earth&#39;s crust, resulting in effusive volcanism from the area east of Ribeira Seca until Topo (from which it got its name).</p><br>
<p>Owing to age, continuous effusive eruptions occurred simultaneously with the eruption on the island of Faial, along the Volcanic Complex of Ribeirinha. Volcanism in this zone continued, with some interruptions over the next 500,000 years approximately. But, continuous erosion, from coastal action, humidity and rainfall, wind and thermal amplitudes, resulted in an interior relief forming a more gently appearing landscape, in comparison to the western areas of Ribeira Seca.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The volcanic complex occupies the eastern part of the island and consists of basalt lavas, hawaiite and mugearite (aa) lavas, from explosive pyroclastic rocks and cinder cones originating from Strombolian eruptions.</p><br>
<p>Its features around the complex includes the Pico do Brejo do Cordeiro and several others.</p><br>
<p>Castle Hall  is a historic home, formerly part of a larger farm of the same name. The home itself is on a 5.739 acre parcel that was subdivided from the farm in the late 20th century. The surrounding farm, still used for agricultural purposes, is located in Goldsboro, Caroline County, Maryland, and covers 676 acres. The main structure is a three-part "telescope" house, so called because it was built in stages, with each successive addition being smaller than the previous one. The original -story portion is the largest of the three parts and stands at the northeast end. The smallest of the three parts is constructed of both wood framing and brick, unlike the rest of the structure which is almost entirely brick. It was built by Thomas Hardcastle in 1781.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Landmark Inn State Historic Site is a historic inn in Castroville, Texas, United States. It serves the general public as both a state historic site and a fully functioning bed & breakfast with seven overnight rooms.</p><br>
<p>Cesar Monod, a Swiss immigrant, arrived in Indianola, Texas in the 1830s and settled in Castroville, Texas above a busy crossing at the Medina River in 1849. There he constructed a one-story limestone building that he used as a residence and a general store. In 1850, he added a second lot that included a small house built by Alsatian immigrant Michel Simon in 1847.</p><br>
<p>John Vance purchased Monods property in 1853 and added an ell wing to the general store to better serve travelers on the Old San Antonio Road that passed through Castroville on the way west to Eagle Pass, El Paso, and points beyond. In 1859, Vance added a personal residence, which was the largest in Castroville at the time, and converted Simons small house into a wash house for use in both bathing and clothes washing. As the town grew and traffic on the road increased after the Civil War, Vance added a second story to the store building in 1874 to provide rooms for overnight guests.</p><br>
<p>In 1854, Vance sold the riverfront portion of his property to George L. Haass and Laurent Quintle, who built a dam on the river and constructed a water powered grist mill to process grain and gin cotton for local farmers. Joseph Courand, an immigrant to Texas from Alsace, bought the mill in 1876 and made substantial improvements to it before his death three years later. When Joseph Courand, Jr., took over from his father, the mill was processing lumber, cotton, wheat, and over a million bushels of corn per year starting in the 1880s. The mill was the industrial center of Castroville until the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Courand bought the Vance property in 1899 and converted the 1859 Vance residence into a warehouse. The Vance Hotel was rented from time to time but was otherwise not maintained as it had been in the past. Courand and his family moved to San Antonio in 1903 but continued to manage the property and a separate general store on the town square in Castroville.</p><br>
<p>As milling business declined in the early 1920s, Courand posted the entire property for sale. Jordan T. Lawler bought the it 1925 and converted the mill to a hydroelectric plant to provide Castroville with electricity for the first time. He and his sister, Ruth C. Lawler, made the first floor of the old Vance Hotel their home and rented rooms upstairs and in the old Vance House. The historic hotel was officially re-opened as the Landmark Inn on July 4, 1942. Ruth Lawler had the property designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1965 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>State Historic Site</h2><br>
<p>In 1974, the property was donated to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), which conducted extensive archaeological investigations and made significant repairs and improvements before opening the property to the public as a state historic site on October 25, 1981. TPWD also had the property designated as a Texas State Antiquities Landmark in 1983. On January 1, 2008, the site was transferred from TPWD to the Texas Historical Commission, which completed a two-year renovation and historic preservation project in December 2015. Tours, programs, and special events are offered regularly for visitors to the site. A new museum exhibit is in development and is planned to be installed in October 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Bed and Breakfast</h2><br>
<p>In addition to serving as a state historic site, the Landmark Inn is also a fully functioning bed and breakfast with seven rooms that are available for overnight stays. The guest rooms are furnished with antiques and historical reproductions that are sympathetic to the either the mid-1800s, late-1800s, or early twentieth century, depending on the room. While the rooms have furnishings that reinforce the historical interpretation of the site, they also have modern conveniences, such as electricity, indoor plumbing, and climate control systems. Televisions and radios are not provided but free Wifi is available.</p><br>
<p>Simpson Creek Covered Bridge is located in Bridgeport, West Virginia, crossing Simpson Creek off Meadowbrook Road near the entrance to the Meadowbrook Mall. The 14.25 ft, 75 ft multiple-kingpost truss bridge was built in 1881 by Asa Hugill. The current location of the bridge is not the original location. It was washed out by a flood in July 1889 and later relocated to its current location a half-mile upstream from its original spot. The Simpson Creek and Fletcher Covered Bridges, are the only two remaining covered bridges in Harrison County, are examples of this truss design.</p><br>
<h2>Upgrades</h2><br>
<p>In fall of 2001, the West Virginia Division of Highways used nearly $400,000 to renovate the Simpson Creek Covered Bridge. The improvements include a new timber deck, wooden exterior siding and a fresh coat of paint.</p><br>
<p>Potter Hall is a historic home located at Williston, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is an early-19th-century, Federal-influenced house facing the Choptank River. The house was constructed in three sections: a tall -story Flemish bond brick structure built about 1808 adjoining a lower -story, two-bay-wide central section built about 1750, also of Flemish bond brick, then a frame single-story kitchen wing added in 1930. Each of the three sections has a gable roof. Potter Hall was originally settled by Zabdiel Potter, who in the mid-18th century built a wharf and the small brick house. He developed Potter’s Landing into a key early port for the shipping of tobacco to Baltimore.</p><br>
<p>Potter Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Neck Meetinghouse and Yard, also known as the Quaker Meetinghouse & Graveyard, is a historic Quaker meetinghouse located at West Denton, Caroline County, Maryland. It is a one-story rectangular frame building with a pitched gable roof measuring 30 feet, 8 inches long and 20 feet, 5 inches deep. In the graveyard are six marked burials with stones dating from the 1850s to 1890, with some more recent interments. It is the only extant Friends meeting house in Caroline County, and one of only a few still standing on the Eastern Shore. The meeting house was utilized from September 26, 1802, when the first meeting was held in the building, until it was abandoned in 1890 for lack of funds and participants.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Denton Armory is a historic armory located at Denton, Caroline County, Maryland.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story brick structure with a full basement, completed in 1938. Its basic structure was designed in the PWA Moderne style, with numerous historicist Gothic Revival architectural elements.</p><br>
<p>It is important for its association with the reorganization and expansion of the USA National Guard system in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>It currently houses the General James F. Fretterd Community Center of Caroline County, used for county-sponsored services including the county Recreation and Parks Department staff headquarters, and is also available by reservation for community events.</p><br>
<h3>Landmark</h3><br>
<p>The Denton Armory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Denton Historic District is a national historic district in Denton, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is located on the flat land along the south bank of the Choptank River. The west end of the district focuses on the courthouse square, which was laid out in the 1790s, with its late 19th century courthouse building and square faced on all sides by noteworthy residences and commercial structures. The historic commercial district extends east of the square along Market Street. It comprises a notable collection of two-story brick storefronts and one-story concrete block commercial structures, with frame residences representing late-19th / early-20th century forms interspersed among them.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Williston Mill Historic District is a national historic district in Denton, Caroline County, Maryland. It consists of two historic structures—a grist mill and a millers house—which share the acreage with the mill stream and race that empties into Mill Creek, a tributary of the Choptank River. The Williston millers house is a two-story, four-bay single-pile frame dwelling, built originally between 1840 and 1850 with later 19th century expansions. The mill building dates from around 1830-1840, with the two-story section built around 1895. It is one of two grist mills that remain standing in Caroline County.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>An early morning fire on June 26, 2014 destroyed most of the grist mill.</p><br>
<p>Fortune Island is a resort island in Batangas province in the Philippines. The 27 hectare island lies about 14 km off the coast of Nasugbu in Batangas.</p><br>
<h2>Ownership and development</h2><br>
<p>Fortune Island is once a private island owned by Laurentina Pestano. It was turned over to the government and the island was now owned by José Antonio Leviste, a former governor of Batangas. Leviste opened the Fortune Island Resort Club on the island in 1995. The beach resort was built along a 20 m stretch of pristine white sand. Several rest houses facing the water. The resort features a salt water swimming pool, clubhouse, cabana, basketball court, helipad, desalinator for freshwater consumption, and a small serpentarium, a reptile zoo for snakes. The beach also has an acropolis with Grecian pillars and statues on the edge of the island overlooking the sea. There is also a museum dedicated to the San Diego, a Spanish warship that sank off the island (see below).</p><br>
<p>This island has since been parceled out into seven lots reportedly titled in the names of three companies: Fortune Resort Club, Inc., Meridian Pacific Hotel Corp., and Batangas Bay Development, Inc. Leviste holds either majority stocks or has interests in these companies.</p><br>
<p>Some government officials believe that Leviste’s ownership of Fortune Island underwent “scheming procedures” to acquire both judicial and administrative titles. These officials believe that these titles should never have been granted for two reasons, firstly, the island is classified as a marine reserve under Proclamation 1801, issued in 1978 by President Ferdinand Marcos and, secondly, Section 16 of Presidential Decree 705 (the Revised Forestry Code), which provides that "areas less than 250 hectares which are far from, or are not contiguous with, any certified alienable and disposable land" are "areas needed for forest purposes and may not, therefore, be classified as alienable and disposable land." Some government officials further contend that subdividing Fortune Island into lots was a "ploy" to skirt environmental and other pertinent laws.</p><br>
<h2>Shipwrecks</h2><br>
<p>It was near this island (approximately 900 m northwest of the island) that the galleon San Diego was sunk on December 14, 1600 by the Dutch warship Mauritius under the command of Admiral Oliver Van Noort. The shipwreck was discovered in 1992 by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio.</p><br>
<p>This island has also been the site of modern shipwrecks. On December 13, 1995, the MV Kimelody Cristy, a passenger ferry owned and operated by Moreta Shipping Lines Incorporated, caught fire and sank off Fortune Island as it was on its way to Mindoro, leaving 17 people dead and 16 people missing. On September 18, 1998, the MV Princess of the Orient, a passenger ferry owned by Sulpicio Lines, sailed during a typhoon on its way to Cebu City from Manila and sank off Fortune Island, resulting in the deaths of 70 people.</p><br>
<p>Artemisia  is a mountain village in the municipality of Kalamata, Messenia, Greece. As of 2011, it had a population of 136 for the village and 142 for the municipal district, which includes the small village Agios Ioannis Theologos. It is situated at 860 m above sea level. Many of its residents live there only during the summer months.</p><br>
<p>It is located in the west part of the Taygetos mountains on the GR-82 (Pylos - Kalamata - Sparta) between Kalamata and Sparta. It is 1.5 km southwest of Alagonia and 13 km northeast of Kalamata.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Until 1927, the village was named Tsernitsa. From 1835 until 1912, it was part of the municipality of Alagonia. In 1912 it became an independent community, which joined the municipality of Kalamata in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Decatur Waterworks was a facility that obtained drinking water for the city of Decatur, Georgia, from the local Peachtree Creek and Burnt Fork Creek. Completed in 1907 and abandoned since the 1940s, the Waterworks have fallen into disrepair and are covered with graffiti. The Decatur Waterworks are in Mason Mill Park, near the city of Decatur.</p><br>
<h2>Historical designation</h2><br>
<p>On March 15, 2006, the Decatur Waterworks was added to the National Register of Historic Places, due to its former industrial significance as a water works, its political importance as Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, and its use as a public park.</p><br>
<h2>History of the Decatur Water Works</h2><br>
<p>Near Decatur Georgia, before the Civil War, in the 1850s, Ezekiel Mason built a flour mill on the bank of Burnt Fork Creek near where it flows into the south fork of Peachtree Creek. This is the mill from which Mason Mill Road and Mason Mill Park derive their names. After the deaths of Mr. Mason and his wife in the late 19th century the land was transferred to J. A. Mason, relationship unknown. The provenance of the property becomes unclear at that point as the DeKalb Historical Society notes show that the J. A. Mason sold the property to the City of Decatur, but Decatur City Council Minutes refer to the property as the "Tallery property", and an option was exercised with C. H. Talley for the purchase of land in October 1906. In any case, records show that a waterworks construction project was completed on the property by December 1907.</p><br>
<p>By 1939, the Decatur Water Works consisted of two aeration and solid removal tanks, two storage tanks, an office building and two dams, one dam on South Peachtree Creek and one on Burnt Fork Creek. The remains of all of these structures can still be seen today and are often referred as ‘the old Decatur Water Works’.</p><br>
<p>The Decatur Water Works supplied water to the city until the 1940s. Its use as a public park began in the 1930s when a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project built a number of recreational amenities on the site. These amenities included granite benches, cooking grills, tables and a stone bridge over Burnt Fork Creek. These things also can be seen today. The stone bridge is part of the new trail that has been recently constructed in the park. The WPA also built a stacked stone fountain that remains and can be seen very near the stone bridge.</p><br>
<p>By 1941 it was apparent the 1.8 e6USgal of water per day produced by the water works was no longer enough to satisfy the growing needs of Decatur. The property was leased to DeKalb County, which operated the water works and sold the water to Decatur. DeKalb used revenue from the facility to fund a county-wide treatment plant in the Dunwoody area that uses water from the Chattahoochee River. Initially called the Laurel Plant, it is now called the Scott Candler Plant after the county commissioner who led the development process.</p><br>
<p>During World War II the Decatur Water Works was used as the exclusive water supply for the Naval Air Station that is now Peachtree DeKalb Airport and an Army Hospital in the area. The property was declared off limits for civilian use and was not used for any recreational purpose or as a civilian water supply during the war. At the end of the war the water works land was returned to the City of Decatur and continued to be operated and maintained by the county as a backup for the new water system. The park area was not maintained and was not used by the public.</p><br>
<p>For a time the office building at the water works was used for storage by the county. In 1951 a bond issue to finance development of the land was voted down. The water works fell into disuse and disrepair. By the mid-1960s the lakes had begun to fill with silt and there were complaints of flooding from local residents who lived in the adjacent neighborhoods that were built in the 1950s and 1960s. In about 1965 the dams were dynamited and the reservoirs drained.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>In 1988 the county worked with local resident groups to make a development plan for Mason Mill Park that included the water works land, but the plan was never funded. In 2006 the Decatur Water Works was declared a historic site. A second plan was developed in 2008 and, with partial funding from the PATH Foundation, is being implemented.</p><br>
<p>LaGrange, also known as La Grange Plantation or Meredith House, is a historic home located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1760. The house is a -story Flemish bond brick house and is one of the few remaining Georgian houses in the town. Sun porches and a frame wing were added to the main house in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Three outbuildings remain, including a late 19th-century dairy, an 18th-century smokehouse, and a 20th-century garage.</p><br>
<p>LaGrange was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>La Grange Plantation</h2><br>
<p>The Dorchester County Historical Society owns the La Grange Plantation and operates it as an open museum of local history. The different buildings include the 1760 period furnished Meredith House, exhibits on local history, agriculture, domestic life, antique transportation vehicles, and tools used by a woodworker, wheelwright and blacksmith.</p><br>
