<p>The Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden  is a historic house museum at 9 Main Street North in Bethlehem, Connecticut. The main house was built between about 1754 and 1767 by the Rev. Joseph Bellamy, a prominent Congregationalist minister who played an influential role in the First Great Awakening. The property, the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The house and surrounding gardens are owned and operated by Connecticut Landmarks; admission is charged. Another 81 acres of forest and fields adjacent to the museum property are maintained as Bellamy Preserve, the town of Bethlehem&#39;s "Central Park," by the Bethlehem Land Trust.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bellamy-Ferriday House is located just north of the village green in the center of Bethlehem. Its landscaped acreage is screened from the green by mature trees, and is accessed via a drive on Main Street North (Connecticut Route 61). The house consists of a 2-1/2 story main block, oriented facing south, with a two-story ell and modern wing to the north. The main block is roughly square, and is topped by a gabled roof with a central chimney and gabled dormers. Its exterior is finished in wooden clapboards with corner quoin blocks, and there is a projecting two-story entry section in the rightmost bay. It has a Palladian window in the second floor, and a shallow portico supported by four fluted Ionic columns.</p><br>
<p>Reverend Joseph Bellamy was granted 104 acre of land on the north side of what is now Bethlehem village (it was then known as the North Purchase of Woodbury, incorporated as Bethlehem 1787) in 1738, when he became the North Purchase parish&#39;s first settled minister. Through the 1740s and 1750s Bellamy rose in prominence as one of the leading theologians of the First Great Awakening. The traditional history of this house is that its ell was built about 1754 on land Bellamy purchased in 1741 that stood adjacent to his large tract, and is where his family lived while the main block was built. The ell lacks evidence of a chimney adequate for cooking and heating, however, and it is more likely the house was built and occupied around 1760. Later, Henry Ferriday bought the property; his daughter, Carolyn Woolsey Ferriday, owned it until her death in 1990. Under the terms of her will, the house and several surrounding acres were subsequently turned into a small museum by the Antiquarian and Landmarks Society, now known as Connecticut Landmarks.</p><br>
<p>The museum features American and European antiques and a formal parterre garden with a collection of roses, peonies and lilacs. A weeping willow on the property once stood at the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte.</p><br>
<p>The Delaney Hotel, also the North Hoosick Hotel and Hathaway Hotel, is located at the junction of NY 22 and 67 in the hamlet of North Hoosick, New York, United States. It is a large Greek Revival-style building dating to the middle of the 19th century with some later Italianate decoration. Few alterations have been made, and it is a well-preserved example of vernacular interpretations of those styles in a rural building.</p><br>
<p>It was a stagecoach and railroad stop in its peak years. Later owners continued to operate it as a hotel, despite declining business, into the middle of the 20th century. After a period of vacancy and decline, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. In the 1980s it was nearly demolished. Recently a new set of owners has proposed to turn it into a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The hotel sits on a 1.5 acre atop a small rise facing the three-way intersection where NY 67 comes in from Vermont to the east and NY 22 comes in from Hoosick Falls to the south, crossing the Walloomsac River just before reaching the hotel. The bridge gives northbound traffic a good view of the hotel&#39;s south (front) facade as it approaches. The two highways run concurrently to the west of the intersection to eventually turn north into Washington County, where they separate again.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a three-and-a-half-story, eight-by-two-bay clapboard-sided frame structure on a stone foundation topped by a moderately pitched side-gabled roof. Brick chimneys rise at either end. At the front and rear rooflines are eaves supported by decorative brackets.</p><br>
<p>Dominating the front facade is the full-length two-story porch, recessed under the third story. Both stories feature Stick Style diagonal braces. The second story has sawcut balusters. The third story windows have bracketed crowns.</p><br>
<p>A central double wooden door on the first story serves as the main entrance, with a secondary one on the east facade. Both have wooden surrounds. A similar window to those on the front facade is situated in the east gable apex. There is a two-story addition on the rear giving the hotel a rough "T" shape. Two outbuildings in the rear, once the hotels icehouse and chicken coop, are so badly deteriorated as to no longer be contributing to the propertys historic character.</p><br>
<p>The interior has been extensively altered. The first floor is now entirely open, with its original hardwood floor. The bars in the tavern room, including the intricately carved rear one, remains. An original walnut banister is on the stairs to the second floor, where the walls have old posters of vaudeville performers from the late 19th century. The third floor&#39;s ballroom remains.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Benajah Burgess, a local farmer, originally owned the land. When he died in 1831, it was divided between his three sons. Three years later, two of them gave their portions to Nairn, the third.</p><br>
<p>The area was slowly beginning to industrialize, and by 1836 there were factories making flannel and scythes in North Hoosick. Around 1850 Nairn Burgess built the hotel on his property to fill the demand for lodging, as many of the workers at the factory were migrants whose families lived elsewhere. It was also a stagecoach stop. A large barn, since demolished, sheltered horses and buggies.</p><br>
<p>Burgess sold the hotel in 1871. After some very rapid transfers of ownership, it became Daniel Randalls property. He in turn sold it six years later, in 1877. It became known as the Eldred House after its new owner, Perry Eldred. In 1894 it was inherited by his young daughter Frances, who had still not attained the age of 21 when the executors of her fathers estate sold it to Chase Hathaway, a major landowner in early 20th-century Hoosick. The building became known as the Hathaway Hotel.</p><br>
<p>Two years later, Hathaway sold it to Ida Delaney, a former manager. Her family would own it for over half a century. The areas industrial base declined, and in 1930 the hotels ballroom could no longer be used as a venue for traveling vaudeville acts because it lacked a fire escape. The local economy rebounded slightly, along with the hotel, during World War II when the old factories were used for weapons manufacture.</p><br>
<p>After the war things slowed down again. The hotel was now operated by Ida Delaney&#39;s sons-in-law. Another of her daughters, Anna, had married a wealthy judge and spent most of the summer at the hotel with several servants. Her attempts to bail out the hotel financially led to friction with her in-laws. She inherited the hotel when her sister died in 1964, and eventually sold it, leading to a period of many different owners, none of whom could successfully operate the hotel.</p><br>
<p>It began to decline. In 1974 it was used for some scenes in The Catamount Killing, starring Horst Buchholz and Polly Holliday. Most were exteriors, and the few interiors used were dim, perhaps to conceal the building&#39;s decline.</p><br>
<p>It was in such serious disrepair that by the 1980s Stewart&#39;s Shops was considering buying it and demolishing it to build one of their convenience stores on the property. A petition drive led by a local resident, Dianne Bingham, led the company to reconsider and instead build across the intersection. A Long Island architect bought the property instead, intending to renovate it, but did nothing for several years.</p><br>
<p>Several years later, Larry Stevens, who met and married Bingham during the petition drive, decided to buy the hotel. The couple spent weekends repairing it. They repainted it, reinforced the walls, put in a new septic system and gutted the interior with the intent of opening it as a bed and breakfast for tourists visiting the nearby home of Grandma Moses and Bennington Battlefield. During those renovations, they found late 19th-century posters for vaudeville acts on the second floor, and have kept them there.</p><br>
<p>El Totumo Mud Volcano  is an active mud volcano located near sea level in northern Colombia in the municipality of Santa Catalina. A local tourist destination, popular for its alleged healing mud bath, it receives most of its visitors from nearby Cartagena. Along with this, it is the smallest volcano in the country. The mound has a prominence of about 15 m  and it is accessible via a staircase that leads to the crater, which can accommodate about 10 to 15 people at a time; there, tourists bathe in the dense, warm mud and have the option of receiving personal massages from the attendants. The experience is then followed by a bath in a nearby lagoon to remove the mud.</p><br>
<p>According to local lore, the volcano used to spew fire, lava, and ashes, but it was turned into mud by a local priest who believed it was the work of the Devil, and endeavored to banish him by sprinkling holy water into it.</p><br>
<p>Church of St. John the Evangelist is an historic Episcopal church located in the village of Tannersville, part of the town of Hunter in Greene County, New York. It was built in 1885 and is a one-story, one-by-six bay structure. It is built of light frame construction atop partial fieldstone walls on a fieldstone foundation. It features a steeply pitched gable roof with a large square belfry on the ridge. It was designed by noted architect William Halsey Wood .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Prior to the building of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, members of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (also known as the Cowley fathers) held Episcopal services in the Hunter area in local hotels, such as Blythewood, the Laurel House, and the Catskill Mountain House, as well as in the Union Meeting House and a one-room school house on Platt Clove Road.</p><br>
<p>The architect of the church was William Halsey Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hemsley, the parents of Wood&#39;s finance Florence Hemsley and owners of Blythewood, donated the land for the construction of the new church, and also built the road to it, now known as Philadelphia Hill Road. The church opened on the tenth Sunday after Trinity, in early August, 1885, named St. John the Evangelist in honor of the Cowley fathers. Wood and Hemsley wed in the Church on the 19th of November 1889.</p><br>
<p>Wood chose a simple Gothic design for the church, with a "serene and pleasing" vaulted interior and clerestory of wood. While, gifted a substantial oak altar to St. John&#39;s, the new church was not quite finished on its opening Sunday. An article in The Church Standard, dated 19 August 1885 noted, "At that time the windows had yet to be installed, the lathing and plastering were incomplete." Nor did the church yet have its distinctive lotus blossom ceiling paintings.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The new church met not only a spiritual need in the area but also provided a selling point for local hoteliers. The first of many baptisms occurred only days after the church opened, on 16 August 1885. And in the advertisement for Blythewood she posted in the Summer Resorts section of The Churchman, in 1886, Mrs. Hemsley wrote:</p><br>
<p>The ninth season of this elegant resort will begin on June 15th. The house has been entirely rebuilt and refurbished: many improvements made; large, airy bedrooms; more parlors, etc. Steam heat and gas also introduced. The house stands +2000 feet above tide-water and commands a charming view from the piazza of the adjacent mountains and sunset in the Gap. The grounds are well-shaded; fine tennis courts, etc. The abundant table and well-known home-like character of the house have always brought to it the best class of travellers. Good laundry and livery. Railroad station within five minutes&#39; walk. Episcopal church within a quarter of a mile. Telegraph and good mail facilities...</p><br>
<p>Halsey Wood&#39;s brother, Reverend Alonzo Wood, Sr. was among those who celebrated the first Holy Eucharist in 1885, and his family served the church for over seventy five years. He married his brother to Florence, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Hemsley, at St. John the Evangelist on 19 November 1889, the first wedding celebrated there. His three sons, Alonzo Jr. Daniel and Edmund, officiated at the church, as did Reverend Alonzo Stewart. Subsequently, the Rt. Reverend Allen Brown, Bishop of Albany, ministered to the congregation, as did Reverend Leonard J. Sachs, and Reverend John C. Smith.</p><br>
<h2>Local impact</h2><br>
<p>The cool summers of the Catskill mountains attracted wealthy, middle-class vacationers from New York, Philadelphia and other lowland towns and cities. When the railroad reached Tannersville in 1882, the area boomed as a summer resort for the elite.</p><br>
<p>As Field Horne in his history of Greene County noted, “A very different community of summer residents had its start at the same time...Tannersville came to be the center of the private parks, where wealthy and cultured people built substantial cottages in which to spend much of their summer in private surroundings.”</p><br>
<p>The new road up Philadelphia Hill stimulated the building of a small community of summer homes in the 1880s. Although a small farm house and one summer cottage, built in 1884, preceded the opening of the church, four more houses were completed before the end of the decade, including that of Fannie Hay Brand, who later married Reverend Alonzo Wood. While not part of a private community, Philadelphia Hill&#39;s houses share the late Victorian architecture characteristic of Onteora Park Historic District, Elka Park Historic District, Twilight Park Historic District and Santa Cruz Park (the latter two amalgamated into one in 1935), the private resorts established in the town of Hunter between 1882 and 1890.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, is currently undergoing a substantial renovation.</p><br>
<p>The church hosts weddings, christenings, memorials and other services throughout the year by arrangement with the diocese of Albany. Classical instrumental and voice ensembles also use the church for occasional concerts and recordings. All visitors are welcome.</p><br>
<p>The church is located off County Route 16, 1.1 miles from the traffic light in the center of Tannersville, along the road signposted to Elka Park. The church celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2010 with Bishop William Love of Albany the celebrant.</p><br>
<p>Tina Weedon Smith Memorial Hall, located at 805 S. Mathews Avenue in Urbana, Illinois, is an historic building on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Smith Hall is located just off the main quad of campus and is just east of Foellinger Auditorium. The building was constructed in 1917-21 and was designed in the Beaux-Arts style by James M. White and George E. Wright.</p><br>
<p>Smith Hall is known for being the first building on the campus to be completely funded by a private party donation. It was dedicated to Tina Weedon Smith by her husband, Captain Thomas J. Smith. Smith Hall is used for university lectures and music classes, as well as for speakers and performances.</p><br>
<p>In 1996 Smith Memorial Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On August 14, 1913, Captain Thomas J. Smith wrote a letter to Captain Edward Bailey stating that Smith intended to donate about $200,000 to the University of Illinois to build a music building in memory of his wife, Tina Weedon Smith. Captain Smith had been a member of the board of trustees from 1897 to 1903. Smith donated land and money that totaled approximately $480,500 to pay for the building construction.</p><br>
<p>Construction on Smith Memorial Hall began on November 9, 1917 when Captain Thomas J. Smith laid the cornerstone. The building was designed in the Beaux-Arts architecture style by James McLaren White, a professor at the University, and George E. Wright. Final construction on the building was completed in 1920.</p><br>
<p>A 30 percent expansion of the building was in the original plans and was also shown on campus maps until 1930. However, in 1931 the proposed expansion to the building was dropped and the maps never showed the expansion again.</p><br>
<h2>Groundbreaking ceremony</h2><br>
<p>According to the Daily Illini newspaper, the groundbreaking ceremony for Smith Memorial Hall took place on Tuesday October 24, 1916. Captain Thomas J. Smith and President James of the University used a spade to break the ground at the site of construction. The spade, covered in University of Illinois colors, was given to Captain Smith after the ceremony. Captain Smith also gave a speech to the crowd of spectators, faculty, students, trustees, and Glee Club members. During the address, Captain Smith said, "I determined that I would cause to be erected a building to her memory and present the same to the University of Illinois, dedicated to the cause of music for the use of the University musical college for the advancement of the science and art of music, with the hope that it would in a measure bless mankind. From that time I have lived an economical life, to the end that I might be able to contribute to the erection of such a building as would be a credit alike to the memory of the departed loved one and to the University." The speech was followed by a performance by the University Glee Club.</p><br>
<p>Excavation of the land was to be completed within thirty days of the groundbreaking ceremony. The contract was held by Wager & Company of Champaign-Urbana.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Smith Memorial Hall houses many different musical performance and practice rooms, the largest of which is the large performance hall, which seats 650 in the orchestra and 450 in the balcony. The acoustics of the large performance hall are controlled by having a period of reverberation of 1.75 seconds when at full capacity, and having provisions in the design to decrease the period of reverberation when the hall was empty.</p><br>
<p>The Memorial Room of the Smith Memorial Hall is a lavishly decorated drawing room, with crystal chandeliers. It is often used for chamber music performances and student recitals.</p><br>
<h2>Current uses</h2><br>
<p>Smith Memorial Hall is now used for musical practices and recitals. The building&#39;s large lecture rooms are used regularly, and the small rooms throughout the hall are used by university musicians for teaching and practice. The lecture halls are also used for musical recitals and performances. Many recitals are played in the hall every year, including harpsichord recitals, Doctor of Musical Arts recitals, and performances by university music students and jazz bands.</p><br>
<h2>Historic building</h2><br>
<p>The former USA Post Office in Hornell, Steuben County, New York, United States, is located on Seneca Street. It was built in 1916 and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, James A. Wetmore. It is a neo-Georgian, Colonial Revival style structure. It was vacated by the post office in 1965 and served as offices for the Hornell Board of Education and District Administration until 1989. In 1996 it was purchased by Jerome S. O&#39;Connor, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Zachary Smith Post Office</h2><br>
<p>On August 3, 2010, the new Hornell Post Office, now located at 23 Genesee Street, was officially renamed the Zachary Smith Post Office after Lance Corporal Zachary Smith of the United States Marine Corps, who died in action in Operation Enduring Freedom in January 2010. As part of a USA Postal Service policy, Smith&#39;s name was only allowed on a plaque inside the building. and a dedication ceremony took place on January 28, 2013.</p><br>
<p>Suvorov military canals  is a series of four open canals on Saimaa lake in Finland. The four canals of Kutvele, Käyhkää, Kukonharju and Telataipale are located in Puumala, Ruokolahti and Sulkava. They were built between 1791–1798 as part of the South-Eastern Finland fortification system and are the oldest canals in Finland. The canals are named after general Alexander Suvorov who ordered their construction.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>After the Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743) Sweden ceded the Lappeenranta fortress and Olavinlinna castle in Savonlinna to the Russian Empire in the Treaty of Åbo. The treaty divided Saimaa lake in two, with Sweden controlling the strait of Puumala and requiring toll payments from water traffic between Savonlinna and Lappeenranta and denying military traffic altogether. After the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) Russia began to improve the defences in Finland by building the South-Eastern Finland fortification system. The war had also showed the importance of Saimaa water ways and as part of the fortification system it was decided to construct a series of canals to bypass Puumala.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Construction of Kutvele, Käyhkää and Telataipale canals began in fall 1791 under Ivan Laube. Construction of Kukonharju canal began later in 1794. The smaller canals had some 300 men working in their construction while the larger Kukonharju canal had around one thousand men. Kukonharju and Kutvele canals were finished in 1796 and Käyhkää and Telataipale in 1798.</p><br>
<p>The canals are built from stone supported by logs. The canal entrances had prepared blockades from logs and chains as a preparation for a possible enemy attack. Canal entrances also had stone obstacles to prevent anyone who was not familiar with them from navigating safely through them. Canals were from one hundred meters to almost a kilometer in length with each canal being 10 m wide and 1.3 m deep. All canals were open canals with no locks and were simply built across isthmuses. They also had a military guard post, with Kukonharju canal also having a larger garrison.</p><br>
<h2>Military use</h2><br>
<p>Suvorov military canals were used by the Russian Saimaa flotilla that had its bases in Lappeenranta and Savonlinna and in the smaller Kärnäkoski Fortress. The flotilla, along with the military canals and the entire South-Eastern Finland fortification system, lost their importance only a decade later as the result of the Finnish War between 1808–1809 when Sweden ceded the entire Finland to Russia. The Russian Saimaa flotilla was disbanded in 1810 and in 1816 the responsibility for the canals was transferred to civilian authorities and the use of the canals dwindled to local inhabitants.</p><br>
<h2>Present day condition</h2><br>
<p>Kutvele canal was enlarged twice during 20th century and nothing of the original construction remains. In contrast the other three canals spent 200 years almost untouched from early 19th century until 2003, when Finnish National Board of Antiquities began restoration works on them. Now they have been turned into tourist attractions.</p><br>
<h2>The canals</h2><br>
<h3>Kutvele</h3><br>
<p>Kutvele canal is located on the border of Taipalsaari and Ruokolahti. When originally built it was 100 m in length. The canal has been enlarged for shipping and nothing of the original construction remains. A shipping route of 2.4 m deep with a maximum height of 12.5 m passes through the canal.</p><br>
<h3>Käyhkää</h3><br>
<p>Käyhkää canal is located in Ruokolahti and is 350 m in total length with the canal entrances, but length of the actual canal is only 80 m. A bridge was built over the canal already during the time of Suvorov. The modern bridge is not original but is located on the same spot. An original toll post building is preserved until today and is now used as resort. Archeological excavation located remnants of a boat carrying stones from 1790s.</p><br>
<h3>Kukonharju</h3><br>
<p>Kukonharju is the longest of the canals with a length of 800 m. It is located on the border of Ruokolahti and Puumala and was built partly through a rock crest. Kukonharju had the largest garrison of the canals and was used as a border strongpoint.</p><br>
<h3>Telataipale</h3><br>
<p>Telataipale is located in Sulkava and is the northernmost of the canals. Telataipale canal is 300 m in length and it was built through the Salpausselkä ridge.</p><br>
<p>The Wolfsklippen, also called the Wolfsklippe, is a granite mountain in the Harz mountains in Central Germany with an observation platform on the summit. Its height is frequently given as about, but occasionally also as only around.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The mountain lies northeast of the Brocken, the highest elevation in the Harz, about 200 m east of the road way from Drei Annen Hohne to Plessenburg.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Over 100 years ago the Harz Club erected on the summit of the Wolfsklippen one of four iron observation platforms in the Harz that still exist. At that time it had a good view of the Brocken and towards Ilsenburg and Wernigerode. Today this outlook is no longer visible due to the tall spruce trees that block the view.</p><br>
<h2>Name and legend</h2><br>
<p>AT the Wolfsklippen the last wolf in the area is supposed to have been killed, which is where the name of the mountain comes from. According to another legend, the name of the crags comes from the witch hunting period, when a girl accused of witchcraft hid here with a she-wolf.</p><br>
<h2>Walking</h2><br>
<p>The Wolfsklippen is check point no. 24 on the walking trail network known as the Harzer Wandernadel.</p><br>
<p>The Volcano, also known as Lava Fork volcano, is a small cinder cone in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is located approximately 60 km northwest of the small community of Stewart near the head of Lava Fork. With a summit elevation of 1,656 m and a topographic prominence of 311 m, it rises above the surrounding rugged landscape on a remote mountain ridge that represents the northern flank of a glaciated U-shaped valley.</p><br>
<p>Lava Fork volcano is associated with a small group of related volcanoes called the Iskut-Unuk River Cones. This forms part of the much larger Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, which extends from the Alaska–Yukon border to near the port city of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Eruptive activity at The Volcano is relatively young compared to most other volcanoes in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province. Geologic studies have shown that The Volcano and its eruptive products were emplaced in the past 400 years; this is well after the last glacial period, which ended about 10,000 years ago.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Volcano is the southernmost of 10 volcanoes comprising the Iskut-Unuk River Cones volcanic field, as well as the most recent to erupt. Its structure is poorly formed and has been reduced by erosion from alpine glacial ice found at its elevation and latitude. It represents one of the few historically active volcanoes in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, with a base elevation estimated to be 100 m. Like most cinder cones, The Volcano consists of a pile of loose volcanic ash, lapilli-sized tephra and volcanic bombs. These were deposited during periods of lava fountain activity. The vent area contains volcanic bombs up to 0.5 m long and small deposits of sulfur precipitated from volcanic gases.</p><br>
<p>Like other Iskut-Unuk River Cones, The Volcano has its origins in continental rifting—a long rupture in the Earth&#39;s crust where the lithosphere is being pulled apart. This incipient rifting has formed as a result of the Pacific Plate sliding northward along the Queen Charlotte Fault, on its way to the Aleutian Trench. As the continental crust stretches, the near surface rocks fracture along steeply dipping cracks parallel to the rift known as faults. Basaltic magma rises along these fractures to create effusive eruptions. The rift zone has existed for at least 14.9 million years, and has created the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province. Several dormant volcanoes in the province are potentially active, with The Volcano being one of the three having erupted in the last few hundred years. Tseax Cone, which last erupted in the 18th century, is the southernmost volcano in the province, while Prindle Volcano in easternmost-central Alaska, which erupted more than 10,000 years ago, is generally considered the northernmost.</p><br>
<h3>Volcanic history</h3><br>
<p>At least two phases of volcanic activity have been identified at The Volcano. Each event was followed by the eruption of lengthy basaltic lava flows that flowed down steep granitic flanks of the mountain ridge on which The Volcano lies. After this took place, they travelled through the Lava Fork valley for 5 km. At the southern end of one of the lava flows, it spreads into a broad terminal lobe on the flat alluvial plain of the Unuk River.</p><br>
<p>At least one lava flow from The Volcano was notified by a surveyor named Fremont Morse in 1905 during a survey for the International Boundary Commission. In 1906, Morse wrote that the most recently erupted lava flow had "probably occurred within less than fifty years". Since Morses report, tree ring and radiocarbon dating techniques have been used to establish the dates of The Volcanos two volcanic phases. The first is estimated to have occurred about 360 years ago and the latest possibly took place only 150 years ago. This indicates that The Volcano is the youngest known volcanic mountain in Canada and that its volcanic activity is recent compared to many other volcanoes in British Columbia. In several documents, the last eruption of The Volcano is written to have occurred in 1904. However, according to the Smithsonian Institution&#39;s Global Volcanism Program, this eruption is considered uncertain.</p><br>
<p>Although The Volcano is estimated to have last erupted 150 years ago, it is one of the five volcanoes in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province that have recorded seismicity since 1985. Others include Castle Rock (two events), Hoodoo Mountain (eight events), Crow Lagoon (four events) and the Mount Edziza volcanic complex (eight events). Seismic data suggest that these volcanoes still contain active magma chambers, indicating that some Northern Cordilleran volcanoes are probably active, with significant potential hazards. The seismic activity corresponds both with some of Canada&#39;s recently formed volcanoes and with persistent volcanoes that have had major explosive activity throughout their history, such as Hoodoo Mountain and the Mount Edziza volcanic complex.</p><br>
<h2>Human history</h2><br>
<h3>Naming controversy</h3><br>
<p>The name of the peak was suggested by an explorer named Chris Dickinson during the Cambridge Coast Mountains Expedition in 1979. It was adopted on November 24, 1980, and has been its official name since then. However, this name for the peak does not normally show up in any volcanological resources. Instead, it is informally referred to as Lava Fork or Lava Fork volcano due to its close association with the creek of the same name. The reason for this controversy is because The Volcano is generic. In speech it may not be obvious whether The Volcano or the volcano is intended, leading to confusion. Similar named volcanoes in Canada include Volcano Vent in the Tuya volcanic field of northwestern British Columbia and Volcano Mountain in the Fort Selkirk volcanic field of central Yukon. As of 2009, the unofficial terms for The Volcano continue to be used by Natural Resources Canada.</p><br>
<h3>Protection and monitoring</h3><br>
<p>The Volcano, its eruptive products and a large mineral spring are protected in Lava Forks Provincial Park. Founded in 2001 as a Class A provincial park, this highly remote park covers an area of 7,000 hectare. Lying within its boundaries are the Lava Lakes, two lakes dammed by lava flows erupted from The Volcano. Located in asserted traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation, Lava Forks Provincial Park provides a location to study ecological processes associated with primary succession or the establishment of vegetation after a major disturbance. After 150 years of non-eruptive activity, vegetation has grown on the surface of the lava flows, including mosses and lichens. Western Hemlock, Mountain Hemlock and Alpine tundra biogeoclimatic subzones also occur in the area, which form part of the Boundary Ranges Ecosection.</p><br>
<p>Like other Iskut-Unuk River Cones, The Volcano is not monitored closely enough by the Geological Survey of Canada to ascertain how active its magma system is. This is partly because it is located in a remote region and no major eruptions have occurred in Canada in the past few hundred years. As a result, volcano monitoring is less important than dealing with other natural processes, including tsunamis, earthquakes and landslides. However, with the existence of earthquakes, further volcanism is expected and would probably have effects on the surrounding landscape. Because of these concerns, significant support from Canadian university scientists have resulted in the construction of a baseline of knowledge on the state of volcanoes in Canada.</p><br>
<h2>Volcanic hazards</h2><br>
<p>At least seven eruptions have occurred in the Iskut-Unuk River volcanic field in the past 10,000 years. Since around 1600 all eruptions have occurred at The Volcano. Its total eruption volume is estimated to be 2.2 km3. Future eruptions from The Volcano will probably be similar in character to those that have occurred throughout its 360-year eruptive history.</p><br>
<h3>Effects</h3><br>
<p>A small range of effects are expected from future eruptions at The Volcano. Its remote uninhabited location makes volcanic hazards less extreme and is therefore not very hazardous. Ash and rock fragments (tephra) ejected during lava fountain activity are unlikely to be high enough to disrupt regional air traffic. However, they could possibly endanger lower flying aircraft along the northern coastal corridor between Vancouver and Alaska. The closest major air route is about 170 km to the east. Volcanic ash reduces visibility and can cause jet engine failure, as well as damage to other aircraft systems.</p><br>
<p>Lava flows emitted during future volcanic eruptions would likely be basaltic in nature based on the composition of its lavas produced during past volcanic activity. Because of these circumstances, future eruptions may again block the flow of local water courses if the volume of the erupted lavas are significant enough. This would again have disastrous consequences for fish habitats and spawning grounds. However, there are neither records of any impacts on people during this eruption, nor evidence that it was even witnessed by people. A repeat of wildfires in the Lava Fork valley is also a possibility due to the existence of vegetation on and around the erupted lavas.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Patterson Inn, also known as Jenning&#39;s Tavern, is a historic inn and tavern located at Corning in Steuben County, New York. It is a two story, ell shaped frame structure in the Federal style. Built in 1796, it is the oldest frame building in the area and perhaps all of Steuben County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Patterson Inn is a historic house operated as part of the Heritage Village of the Southern Finger Lakes by the Corning Painted Post Historical Society. Visitors can tour the historic tavern room, dining room, kitchen, guest quarters and innkeepers quarters, and view the Societys collection of textile equipment in the Long Room. The Inn grounds also include an 1855 log cabin, an 1878 schoolhouse, a barn with agriculture tools and equipment and a working late 19th-century blacksmith shop.</p><br>
<p>The Society also operates the Painted Post-Erwin Museum, a museum of local history located in a late 19th-century railroad depot in Painted Post, New York.</p><br>
<p>The Iowa Wetland Management District is part of Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge but is very different from other wetland management districts. Under a Memorandum of Understanding with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the State manages many of the waterfowl production areas  in the district. This is a partnership that has been very beneficial to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Together, the State and the Service have been able to develop large complexes of habitat for waterfowl and other wildlife species.</p><br>
<p>Although the Wetland Management District encompasses 35 counties, at this date, there are WPAs in 16 counties. Most acquisitions are intended to increase habitat at existing wetland complexes, so it is unlikely that tracts will be acquired in the entire 35-county area.</p><br>
<p>Most WPAs are small, from 100 to 500 acre, but several have grown considerably. Union Hills WPA in Cerro Gordo County is the largest in Iowa at over 2,000 acre. Spring Run, a large complex of State and Federal lands in Dickinson County, is the second largest WPA. Dugout Creek WPA in Dickinson County and Lower Morse Lake in Wright County are also among the larger restored tracts in the Iowa Wetland Management District.</p><br>
<p>The Stöberhai is a mountain the Harz highlands in Central Germany, immediately south of the Oder Dam and northwest of Wieda. At a height of it is the highest mountain in the South Harz. The origin of the name is uncertain, but it is suggested, that a charcoal burner called Stöber may have had his charcoal store  here.</p><br>
<h2>Hotel</h2><br>
<p>In 1872 the first tavern was built by a publican from Wieda on the mountain top, but it was destroyed thereafter by a fire. In 1889 the Berghotel Stöberhai was built along with an observation tower. During the Second World War it was hit by five bombs in 1943 during an air raid. In the winter of 1943/44 the German Wehrmacht troops seized it for use as a ski training centre and in the following summer it was made available for those blinded in both world wars together with their families.</p><br>
<p>After the war the inter-zone bus company of P. Kühn from Berlin bought the hotel and established a regular shuttle bus service between Berlin and the Stöberhai. At the hotel was a small animal park with native wild animals. In 1980 the now empty hotel was the victim of a major fire and was never rebuilt. Its floor plate and a few old chairs were still around as evidence of the former hotel until the mid-1980s. The area was finally cleared up and a signpost erected in the middle. A small refuge hut was also built on the edge of the summit plateau - with views of Sankt Andreasberg, the Oder valley and the mountains of Achtermann, Wurmberg and Brocken.</p><br>
<h2>Surveillance tower</h2><br>
<p>The Stöberhai gained a degree of fame as a result of the electronic surveillance tower built as a NATO listening post. This signals intelligence facility was used during the Cold War to listen into military radio traffic in East Germany. The facilities installed here were the equivalent of the station operated by the Stasi and Soviet Union on the Brocken.</p><br>
<p>Initially the Bundeswehr built the Wieda outpost (Dienststelle Wieda) in 1957. Six years later the French Armed Forces followed. The installations were continually expanded. With the completion of the 75 m high concrete tower in 1967 the complex was formally transferred to the Luftwaffe&#39;s Communication Sector C (Fernmeldesektor C). The tower, the heart of the complex, had sixteen floors and a floor area of 750 m&sup2; as well as antenna mountings, intelligence-gathering rooms and service rooms, but also offices, accommodation and a mess. The tower was linked to other buildings and an underground nuclear bomb shelter with alternate command post by a tunnel, which prevented observation as well as icing.</p><br>
<p>Although 14 million DM was invested in a never-completed upgrade during the time of German reunification, the military finally pulled out in 1992. On the summit plateau, which has an area of 28 hectare, there is at present, in addition to the tower and ruins, an entrance building, a German accommodation block with its own nuclear bunker in the cellars, several garages and workshops, two French quarters, a French operations building and four French lattice towers for electronic intelligence gathering which still carry eastwards-facing antennas.</p><br>
<p>In the years after its closure the out-of-bounds area grew into a popular (illegal) adventure playground for various leisure sports. It gained a legendary reputation for geocaching. After years of dispute between the district and the Federal Government over the demolition costs of 3.5 million euros the Government had to bear the costs. The tower was brought down in a controlled demolition on 23 September 2005 with 38 kg of explosive (Gelamon 30 U) placed in 380 demolition holes.</p><br>
<p>The massive surveillance tower once made the Stöberhai a very prominent feature with the Harz mountains. All that is left is a relatively puny transmission tower, which is nevertheless visible from Sankt Andreasberg and the surrounding mountains.</p><br>
<p>On 23 September 2006 – exactly a year after the demolition of the concrete tower – Lower Saxony&#39;s Finance Minister, Hartmut Möllring, opened a monument commemorating the tower and electronic warfare in general.</p><br>
<h2>Walks</h2><br>
<p>With the exception of the northern side, which is closed off by the Oder Reservoir, the Stöberhai is easily accessible on all sides by a number of paths. Its main access route is the tarmac road, closed to the public, that runs from Wieda up to the Stöberhai. At one time another metalled road ran from Bad Lauterberg to the summit. The financial means that had actually been set aside for the demolition of the observation tower were enough however to completely destroy this road as well. The old tarmac surface was replaced by a very rough ballast covering that even mountain bikes have difficulty negotiating. Considerably easier for bicycles is the long, slow path along the Steina, a stream that rises on the souther side of the summit. A much steeper trail runs from Weinglastal near the former Stöberhai station up to the summit. The higher access paths are criss-crossed and linked by numerous equally negotiable branching routes.</p><br>
<p>The Stöberhai is checkpoint no. 159 in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network.</p><br>
<p>Boolboonda Tunnel is an abandoned heritage-listed railway tunnel at Tunnel Road, Boolboonda, Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. The tunnel is 192 m in length making it the longest unsupported man-made tunnel in Queensland. Its construction represented an important engineering feat for rail transport in Queensland.</p><br>
<p>It was built from 1881 to 1884 by O&#39;Rourke & McSharry. It is also known as Boolboonda Railway Tunnel and SEQ-6Q 1. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 September 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Boolboonda Railway Tunnel opened 12 November 1883 following a construction period of two years. It was built by Queensland Government Railways as part of the Bundaberg to Mount Perry railway line, constructed to service the Mount Perry copper mines. It took two years to dig and was officially opened on 2 November 1883.The line was deviated in 1960 and tracks removed the following year. The section of the line between Tirroan and Mount Perry closed in 1960 and was removed in 1961.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Copper was discovered in the Mount Perry area in the second half of the nineteenth century. Mining activities led to agitation for a link between the mines of the Mount Perry region and a port. In 1872 proposals of a private railway line were considered, and both Maryborough and Bundaberg vied to secure the line. These plans were never executed however. Rather, it was decided a state-owned line would be constructed. Thornloe Smith, Engineer in charge of Railway Surveys, conducted a survey from North Bundaberg to Mount Perry in 1875. Thornloe&#39;s survey noted the country was rugged, and eventual surveying plans called for a tunnel to pierce part of the Boolboonda Range. The Bundaberg Railway, as it was called, was constructed in two sections. The first section, North Bundaberg to Moolboolaman, was constructed by Overend and Company and opened on 19 July 1881, although timber specials had run for some months previously. The second section, including the tunnel works, was approved in November 1880.</p><br>
<p>The original tenderers for this second contract declined the offer and a second round was called. O&#39;Rourke and McSharry submitted costings of £112,502. Previous to this another series of surveys had been conducted to avoid the expense of constructing a tunnel through the Boolboonda Range, however it was decided to continue with the original plans.</p><br>
<p>Work on the approaches to the tunnel had commenced by the end of 1881, progressing steadily throughout 1882. The Boolboonda Railway Tunnel was driven through the hard granite of the range, and as noted by the Acting Chief Engineer "this tunnel will not require to be lined being excavated through hard granite and that thus a saving of £5,000 will be effected". This was the first time in the colony where it had not been necessary to line a tunnel, due to the nature of the rock it was driven through. The hard granite rock also meant the tunnel did not require additional support, and it is the longest unsupported (railway) tunnel constructed in Queensland. Mechanical means, including boilers and air compressors for drills were used to advance the drilling of the two tunnel headings.</p><br>
<p>The section of line to Boolboonda opened on 12 November 1883. As noted in the Commissioner&#39;s Report for 1882-83, the tunnel being driven from east and west ends was about half complete at this time (a total drive of about 300 feet). The headings of the tunnel broke through at noon on 19 June 1883. The line to Mount Perry was officially opened to rail traffic on 19 May 1884. It included the tunnel and a succession of curves of 100 and 120 metre radius. Although the contract for the second section had expired on 10 February, the delay in completion was attributed to station works at Mount Perry and the difficulty the contractors met with in piercing the tunnel at Boolboonda, this not being completed until 1884. The tunnel when completed measured 584 feet in length (192 metres).</p><br>
<p>At the completion of the line the Mount Perry copper mines closed due to the financial failure of the mines. The copper mines reopened around the turn of the century and with the construction of a smelter, operated until the period of the First World War. The unlined tunnel and the Splitters Creek trestle bridge at Sharon were the two major engineering works undertaken on the Mount Perry line. For the next 50 years the main traffic generated on the Mount Perry line was mainly from dairying, livestock and timber traffic, with sugar traffic from Gin Gin east to the Gibson and Howes mill.</p><br>
<p>The section of line from Tirroan to Mount Perry was closed in 1960 and removed in 1961, due to declining traffic revenues. The final section of the Bundaberg Railway, Bundaberg to Gin Gin, closed in 1992. Since cessation of rail traffic the tunnel has become a habitat for a colony of bats. Built as a low cost, development railway, the only evidence remaining of the Tirroan-Mount Perry line are embankments and the Boolboonda tunnel (now open to road traffic).</p><br>
<p>Today the tunnel is accessible by vehicular traffic. It is maintained by the Bundaberg Regional Council and is now home to a colony of little bent-wing bats.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Boolboonda Railway Tunnel, 192 metres in length, is located on Tunnel Road, approximately 11 kilometres in a north-easterly direction from the town of Mount Perry. Constructed through granite rock, the tunnel is unlined and unsupported. The tunnel is presently used by vehicular traffic.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>Boolboonda Railway Tunnel was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 September 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>The Boolboonda Railway Tunnel is important in demonstrating the pattern of Queensland&#39;s history as evidence of the rail line from Bundaberg to Mount Perry built in the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland&apos;s cultural heritage.</p><br>
<p>The place demonstrates a rare aspect of Queensland&#39;s cultural heritage as an early example of one of the few railway tunnels built in Queensland not requiring lining or support. The tunnel is also made unusual by the absence of portals to the entries of the tunnel.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>The Boolboonda Railway Tunnel is of aesthetic significance as a picturesque element in the landscape.</p><br>
<p>The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.</p><br>
<p>The tunnel is of social significance to the local community.</p><br>
<p>The Hohnekamm or Hohne Kamm is a mountain ridge up to high in the Harz mountains of central Germany. It is located in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, and is well known for its rock towers or tors, the Hohneklippen.</p><br>
<h2>Location and surrounding area</h2><br>
<p>The wooded Hohnekamm lies within the Harz Nature Park in Saxony-Anhalt and within the Harz National Park. It lies around 2 km northeast of Schierke, a village on the Kalte Bode river and runs for about 3 kilometres in a northwest-to-southeast direction. The largest town in the area is Wernigerode, 5 km to the northeast. To the east is Elbingerode. Drei Annen Hohne, 2 km southeast of the mountain, is the start of the Brocken Railway, a narrow gauge line, that runs along the southern slopes of the Hohneklippen westwards towards the Brocken. The Hohnekamm forms the watershed between the Holtemme to the north and the Wormke in the south. The region is part of the Harz National Park.</p><br>
<h2>The tors</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is made of granite, which has formed bizarre tor-like rock formations at several places due to spheroidal weathering, especially the Hohneklippen on the upper slopes. The highest of these rock pinnacles is the high Leistenklippe. West of it is the high Grenzklippe ("Border Tor"), to the southeast the crest continues on towards the Bärenklippe ("Bear Tor", ca. ). The southeastern section of the Hohneklippen is calle the Hohnekopf (ca. ); from here the ski slopes of Drei Annen Hohne stretch</p><br>
<p>eastwards. Lower down, on its southern slopes, is the Trudenstein, another tor with good views.</p><br>
<h2>Brocken Railway</h2><br>
<p>The Brocken Railway runs over the southern slopes of the Hohnekamm and past the neighbouring mountain of Erdbeerkopf. The line, 19.0 kilometres long and opened in 1898, is a narrow gauge railway that runs from the junction at Drei Annen Hohne northwest to the Brocken.</p><br>
<h2>Sport</h2><br>
<p>In winter the area is used for cross-country skiing and tobogganing.</p><br>
<p>The Leistenklippe is checkpoint no. 15 in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking trail network.</p><br>
<h2>Legend</h2><br>
<p>According to legend the rugged tors of the Hohneklippen were once three beautiful young women who were turned to stone here for their pride.</p><br>
<p>Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District is located in northwest Minnesota and includes the counties of Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman, and Polk - an area of approximately 6,000 square miles. The district is divided into three general landscape areas, roughly equal in size. From west to east, these are: the Red River Valley floodplain, the glacial moraine/prairie pothole region, and the hardwood/coniferous forest. The district currently manages over 42,000 acre of public land in 165 waterfowl production areas . Additionally, district staff are responsible for more than 300 wetland and upland easements on private property, totaling more than 11,000 acre.</p><br>
<p>Land acquisition and management efforts are focused in the prairie pothole region of the district, with a goal of providing habitat for nesting waterfowl. District acquisition and restoration efforts, begun in the late 1950s, have preserved and restored remnants of the tallgrass prairie and prairie wetlands. Approximately 3,200 acre of the district&#39;s total acreage are true native prairie remnants.</p><br>
<p>The primary economic base of the area is agriculture, with a strong tourism industry based on area lakes on the west side of the district. Intensive agriculture and drainage over the past 100 years has extensively altered the look and function of the historic landscape. In today&#39;s landscape, row crops dominate.</p><br>
<p>A variety of acquisition efforts, including the Small Wetlands Acquisition Program, which permits the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to purchase lands for waterfowl production using money generated from the sale of "Duck Stamps," have preserved important remnants of the tallgrass prairie and prairie wetland ecosystems.</p><br>
<p>The David Littell House is a historic house in Hanover Township in the southwestern part of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. Built in 1851, the house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Littell House was erected by the local builders Hayward and Cain on land owned by the Littell family for several generations. William Littell was among the areas first settlers, having received a warrant for the tract of land where the house was built after his service in the Revolutionary War. Littell donated some of his grant for the location of the Service Associate Presbyterian Church and Seminary, which joined the United Presbyterian Church of North America at its formation in 1858. After his death, his son David — a leading member of the Service church — inherited the land. Besides agriculture, the property was the location of a tannery, which was in business at the time of the houses construction, and which was profitable enough to make Littell a rich man. The Littell House remained in the Littell family after David&#39;s death, passing successively into the hands of his son, grandson, and great-granddaughter.</p><br>
<p>Because the names of its builders are known, the history of the David Littell House is better known than that of most rural period houses in its vicinity. In 1986, the David Littell House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It received this recognition due to its unique degree of preservation, as it was one of few nineteenth-century houses remaining in Hanover Township and the only one that had survived without major changes. The house was seen as a prime example of local history, as it remained a living example of early nineteenth-century industry and agriculture in the township.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>A Greek Revival house located along Pennsylvania Route 18 near the small community of Mechanicsburg, the Littell House is a typical two-story brick farmhouse of its era. It features a symmetrical house plan with a central hallway and two rooms on each side of the house, each of which has a fireplace and two windows to the front or back of the house. Among its most unusual features is a hallway window on the second story, which includes details built in a way common in houses of the period but quite rare in Western Pennsylvanian farmhouses. The roof was originally flat or slightly sloped; it was replaced by the current gabled roof soon after the house was built. Although the house has been altered in other ways since its construction, these changes have been relatively insignificant — for example, replacing the shingled roof with slates and adding a new front door to protect the interior — and have generally had little or no effect on the house&#39;s historic integrity.</p><br>
<h2>Remainder of property</h2><br>
<p>The Littell property includes four historically significant sites in addition to the house. Littell did not originally build a house at the current location: three previous house sites are located on the same property. Moreover, a group of three pits used for drying hides in the tannery is located near the southeastern corner of the property. Also located on the property are a barn, a garage, an outhouse, and two wooden sheds; as all were built or rebuilt in the twentieth century, they do not contribute to the house&#39;s significance in the way that the previous house sites and the tanning pits do.</p><br>
<p>Easedale Tarn is a tarn in the centre of the English Lake District, about two miles west of the village of Grasmere. It lies in a hollow between Tarn Crag to the north and Blea Rigg to the south, about 910 feet or 280 metres above sea level. The hollow was formed by a small corrie glacier, and is believed to have filled with water around 11,000 years ago when the ice finished melting.</p><br>
<p>Easedale Tarn is one of the larger tarns in the district, about 480 metres long and 300 metres wide. Its outflow is Sourmilk Gill, named after the milky white colour of its waterfalls, which runs east towards Grasmere. The gill displays impressive water scenery when seen from Grasmere, and from the path to the tarn.</p><br>
<p>The tarn is a popular destination for walkers. Many people climb the path from Grasmere which overlooks Sourmilk Gill. The ascent was popular during the Victorian period, and a refreshment hut was even established in the 19th century by Robert Hayton of Grasmere above the outlet of the tarn to service the thirsty visitors. The hut is long gone, and nettles now grow where the ruins used to be.</p><br>
<p>The Bedford Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian Church building at 4 Church Road in Bedford, New Hampshire. The white clapboard structure was built in 1832 for a congregation organized in 1749. Originally in a Federal style, with a relatively plain facade and pedimented gable end, the six-column Ionic portico was added in 1894. It has a three-stage tower: the first stage is square, with clock faces on each side, the second is an open belfry with arched openings, and the third is an octagonal drum with paneled pilasters, which is topped by a gilt cushion and weathervane. The interior of the church still has most of its original box pews, some having been removed in 1885 to make room for an organ and choir.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It is the oldest Presbyterian church building in the state and in the New England Presbytery.</p><br>
<p>The Goffstown Main Street Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic 19th-century center of Goffstown, New Hampshire. Most of the district&#39;s 23 buildings lie on Main Street , in a 0.5 mi running north from the Piscataquog River to North Mast Street . The district also includes properties on Depot Street and Church Street, west of Main Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Goffstown&#39;s first town center, established when the town was first settled in the 1740s, was in what is now Grasmere Village, east of the present center. A bridge was built near the present center in 1766, to facilitate the movement of felled trees used as ship masts by the Royal Navy, and a gristmill was built adjacent to the nearby falls. The railroad arrived at that point in 1850, after which what had been "West Village" became the dominant village. A town hall was built on Main Street in 1869, which burned in 1937 and a replacement built in 1947. The public library was added in 1901, and is separately listed on the National Register. The district includes a variety of houses, many dating to the early 19th century, and a few commercial buildings along Main Street.</p><br>
<p>In addition to municipal buildings, there are two churches and several railroad-related buildings. The Goffstown Congregational Church, also separately listed, is the fourth meetinghouse for a congregation founded in 1768; it is a wood-frame structure built in 1840 and given a Queen Anne restyling in the 1890s. The Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1889, is an L-shaped wood-frame structure facing North Mast and Summer Streets. There are two train depots: a passenger-only station built in 1880, and now on the grounds of the local hardware store, and an earlier freight-and-passenger station, a utilitarian structure built in 1850 and moved onto Depot Street to make way for the second building.</p><br>
<p>There are two unusual objects in the district. One is a popcorn stand, which has been used during the warmer months since the 1930s, and is now operated by the local Lion&#39;s Club. At the northwest corner of High and North Mast Streets is a 19th-century horse watering trough, which is now used as a planter.</p><br>
<p>The Greenfield Meeting House is a historic meeting house on Forest Road in the center of Greenfield, New Hampshire. The two story wood frame building was built 1795-99; it is one of a small number of 18th century meeting houses in New Hampshire. When originally built, it was roughly square, with a gallery instead of full second floor, and porches at the gable ends that sheltered stairs to the gallery level. The bell tower was added in 1825, and the gallery level was filled out in 1848. In 1867 the building underwent major alterations: it was rotated ninety degrees and raised two feet, a vestibule was built, and the belltower placed atop it. These alterations transformed the previously Federal-style building into one that resembles a more typical Greek Revival structure. A clock manufactured by E. Howard & Co. was installed in the tower in 1895.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Hollis Village Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Hollis, New Hampshire. The district is centered on Monument Square, which connects Main Street  to Depot Street and Broad Street. It coverts about 400 acre, and extends along all three of those roads for some distance, and includes properties on Silver Lake Road and Ash Street. Most of the buildings in the district are residential or agricultural in use, and date before the turn of the 20th century; the oldest buildings date to the mid-18th century. The "Always Ready Engine House", which occupies a triangular parcel at the western end of Monument Square, was built in 1859, and is the town&#39;s oldest municipal building.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Peterborough Town House is a historic town hall at 1 Grove Street in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The two-story brick building was designed by Little & Russell and built in 1904. It occupies a prominent position at the corner of Grove and Main Streets in the center of the town. The main facade is divided into five bays, which consist of round-arched openings on the first level. The bays of the tall upper level are divided by pilasters which support a modillioned entablature and gabled pediment with oculus window. The building is topped by a small octagonal tower. In the interior, the lower level is taken up by town offices, while the upper level houses a large, high-ceilinged auditorium with a balcony at the front of the building and a stage at the back.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Signers House and Matthew Thornton Cemetery are a pair of historic properties in Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States. It consists of a house, once owned by Matthew Thornton, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the adjacent cemetery in which he is buried. The house is a two-story Georgian style double house, and is the only surviving house of the period in Merrimack. It was owned by Thornton from 1780 to 1797, when he sold it to his son James. The cemetery, located across the Daniel Webster Highway from the house, is also Merrimacks first cemetery, with the oldest gravestone marked 1742.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is now occupied by the Common Man restaurant.</p><br>
<p>According to surviving archival documents, the area was formerly known as Lutwyches Ferry, and the building currently called the Signers House was in fact built by Matthew Thornton&#39;s son Matthew Jr. on the previous location of a farm purchased by Matthew Thornton in 1780 from William Spooner. The previous owner Spooner had obtained the farm and ferry titles somehow from the town, which had seized the property from Col. Edward Goldstone Lutwyche who had obtained ferry rights in 1767. He was a colonel of the Fifth Provincial regiment and a Loyalist. He refused an order to call out his regiment for the battles of Lexington and Concord, and on the night of April 20, 1775, left Merrimack for Boston within the British lines, leaving ownership to his mother Sarah, who remained. Sarah appealed for and was granted restoration of the ferry rights on October 24, 1775, and held them until her death September 7, 1778, aged 77 years. She is buried in Thornton cemetery.</p><br>
<p>On April 14, 1784, records show Thornton needed to petition for reinstatement of ferry rights which again had been confiscated by the town upon the occasion of Sarah&#39;s death. He was successful and sold the rights in 1797 to his son Matthew Jr.</p><br>
<p>The Levi Woodbury Homestead is a historic house at 1 Main Street in Francestown, New Hampshire. The oldest portion of the house, now part of a wing of the main house, was built in 1787. The house was expanded in stages, reaching its present configuration c. 1832. It has a 2-1/2 story main block with a hip roof, with a 1-1/2 story wing extending to the north. The house is most significant as the only known surviving structure that has a significant association with statesman Levi Woodbury . Woodbury had a long and distinguished career in state and national politics, serving on the New Hampshire Supreme Court, as Governor of New Hampshire, in several positions in the United States Cabinet, and as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Woodbury was born in this house, and operated his law practice out of this house 1813-19. The house remained in the Woodbury family until the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The County Farm Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge in Wilton, New Hampshire. Built in 1885, it carries Old County Farm over Whiting Brook, just south of its northern junction with Burton Highway in a rural section of northwestern Wilton. Old County Farm Road was the main access road to the Hillsborough County Poor Farm, and is now an unmaintained class 6 road. The bridge consists of a single stone arch with a span just under 18 ft. It is lined with cut granite voussoirs which were quarried in Wilton. The arch begins on land 7 ft above the water, and the arch rises to a height of 15&#39;10" above the typical water level. The arch is embedded in a causeway which is 430 ft long.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Amherst Village Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Amherst, New Hampshire. Centered on the towns common, which was established about 1755, Amherst Village is one of the best examples of a late-18th to early-19th century New England village center. It is roughly bounded on the north by Foundry Street and on the south by Amherst Street, although it extends along some roads beyond both. The western boundary is roughly Davis Lane, the eastern is Mack Hill Road, Old Manchester Road, and Court House Road. The district includes the Congregational Church, built c. 1771-74, and is predominantly residential, with a large number of Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival houses. Other notable non-residential buildings include the Farmers Bank, a Federal-style brick building built in 1806, and the Amherst Brick School, a brick Greek Revival structure that now serves as a community center.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel of the Holy Cross is a historic church at 45 Chapel Lane on the campus of Holderness School in Holderness, New Hampshire. The masonry Gothic Revival building was built in 1884 to a design by Charles Coolidge Haight. It was paid for by a gift from Sarah Titus Zabriskie. The building has undergone only modest external changes since its construction, the most notable being the 1957 enlargement of the organ wing on the north side to accommodate an organ the school had acquired from the Castle in the Clouds estate. The chapel&#39;s 19th century stained glass windows  were replaced in the 1930s and 1940s, in part by original windows by the studio of Charles Jay Connick, and in part by windows that had been removed from the All Saints Church , and adapted to their new location by Connick.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Church is a historic church in Holderness, New Hampshire, near the town of Plymouth. The small single story wood frame building was constructed in 1797 by Samuel Livermore, a prominent early settler of Holderness and a New Hampshire statesman. It was built in land owned by Livermore, and remained in the familys ownership until 1854, when Arthur Livermore Jr. deeded it along with the adjoining burying ground to the Trinity Church Yard Cemetery Association for one dollar. The association has owned and maintained it ever since. Holderness School opened with a sermon in Trinity Church on September 11, 1879, and it served as the schools chapel until 1884. The school still holds annual services here.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Littleton Town Building, also known as the Littleton Opera House, is a historic municipal building at 1 Union Street in Littleton, New Hampshire. Built on a steep embankment overlooking the Ammonoosuc River in 1894-5, the wood frame structure presents five stories to its rear  and three on the front. Its most prominent feature is the six-sided tower rising above its northwest corner. When built the structure housed all manner of municipal services, including fire, police, library, and town offices. The east end of the building is taken up by the opera house, a multi-galleried auditorium with a seating capacity of 750. The building was designed by Howard & Austin of Brockton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Asbury United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist Church building on NH 63 in Chesterfield, New Hampshire. It has been termed the "mother church of Methodism in New Hampshire". It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, rectangular in shape, with a gable roof, and a tower rising from its front  facade. The main facade is divided into three bays by four pilasters, with entrances on the two outer bays and a window in the center. An uncovered porch extends across the facade, with a latticework railing and a broad centered stair. The tower is a two-stage square structure, the lower stage with corner pilasters, and the upper  with paired pilasters matching those on the facade.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1844 by contractor Oscar C. Coolidge.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Martin Marmon House is a historic house near the village of Zanesfield in Jefferson Township, Logan County, Ohio, United States. Built by pioneer settler Martin Marmon around the year 1820, it is one of the best remaining examples of Quaker architecture in the area.</p><br>
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<p>A Quaker from North Carolina, Martin Marmon moved to west-central Ohio from Kentucky in 1805 with his two brothers and their families; On this land he built the brick house in which he lived for the rest of his life.</p><br>
<p>The Martin Marmon House was the residence of a leading individual of the day. After Logan County was organized from Champaign County in 1818, Marmon occupied many civic offices in the new county: treasurer of Jefferson Township for twenty-five years, treasurer of Logan County for four years, and county sheriff for five years. The Marmon brothers were also religious pioneers: they founded the Goshen Meeting of Friends in 1807, which as Goshen Friends Church remains the oldest church in what is now Logan County.</p><br>
<p>After Martin&#39;s death, his farm was sold to David Springate, an Englishman from Kent, who settled there in 1864. At that time, the farm included 153 acre of land. and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is one of four houses in Logan County that is on the Register.</p><br>
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<p>Besides its association with the settlement of the Marmon Valley, the Marmon House is significant as a rare example of extant Quaker architecture; it has been assessed as being the best-preserved Quaker house in its part of Ohio. It is typical of a Quaker-style period house, with its stone foundation, its brick 2½-story construction, its window arrangement, and the location of its chimneys. While four other brick houses were built in the vicinity at the same time, none of them retain the integrity of the Quaker architecture of the Marmon House: the Robert Marmon House has been remodelled, two others have been destroyed, and the fourth features a different style of architecture. Some changes have been made to the house: a summer kitchen of uncertain date is attached to the eastern end of the house, the ground floor has been plumbed, and the original roof has been replaced by a tin roof. Also located on the property is a shed and an early spring house. The shed retains enough historic integrity to qualify as a contributing property, but the spring house has been modified significantly. The house sits in an obscure location: although it is only a short distance away from USA Route 33, a limited-access highway, and just 100 ft from County Road 153, it lies at the bottom of a hill in the middle of thick woods.</p><br>
<p>The Second Rindge Meetinghouse, Horsesheds and Cemetery is a historic meeting house and cemetery on Old US 202  and Rindge Common in Rindge, New Hampshire. The wood frame clapboard building was built in 1796, replacing the town&#39;s first meeting house, which stood on approximately the same site. The building is relatively distinctive in New England as one of few such meeting houses where both civic and religious functions are still accommodated. In 1820 an arrangement was made in which the property is owned by the town, and space is leased to the church congregation.</p><br>
<p>The towns first cemetery, established in 1764, lies to the north of the meetinghouse. It is the resting place of many of Rindges early settlers, and of its American Revolutionary War veterans. Behind the meetinghouse stand a row of horse sheds, the only one of the two rows of them which originally served the meetinghouse.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Third Fitzwilliam Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on the village green in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. It presently serves as Fitzwilliam Town Hall. The two story white clapboard structure was built in 1817, replacing the second meetinghouse, which stood on the same site and was destroyed by fire. It is a rectangular structure with a projecting Greek Revival temple front with four columns and a triangular pediment. A four-stage tower rises above the front facade, with a clock  in the first stage, and a Paul Revere bell hangs in the second stage belfry, an open section with round arches on all four sides. The building was converted to entirely secular uses in 1858, at which time the gallery level was converted into a full second story.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and was included in the Fitzwilliam Common Historic District in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Troy Village Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic village center of Troy, New Hampshire, United States. The district is centered along New Hampshire Route 12, north to Marlborough Road and south to the junction with South Main Street. To the east of NH 12 it includes School Street, Mill Street, and Monadnock Street as far as Mill Street, and most of the abutting streets. On the west side it includes Russell, Water, and Prospect streets, and South Main Street nearly to Longmeadow Drive. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The village is dominated by residential construction, which mainly consists of 1-1/2 and 2-1/2 story wood frame houses built between about 1850 and the early decades of the 20th century. The village grew where it is because of the ready access to water power, provided by several streams which merge to form the South Branch of the Ashuelot River. Troy was incorporated out of parts of Marlborough and Fitzwilliam in 1815. The heart of the town is its common, created when the town was incorporated. Its economic activity was focused on the mill complexes that developed on Mill Street and Monadnock Street. These initially produced wood products, but in the second half of the 19th century, the greatest period of Troy&#39;s growth, textile processing became increasingly important. Business benefited from the arrival of the railroad in the late 1840s, which also brought tourists to the area.</p><br>
<p>The United Church of Christ in Keene  is a historic Congregational church at 23 Central Square in Keene, New Hampshire, United States. The oldest portion of this church is its timber frame, a 50 by structure that was built in 1786 as the town&#39;s fourth meeting house. In 1828 the meeting house was rotated and moved, nearly to its present location, and the Greek Revival temple front with Doric columns was added, as was the tower and steeple. These alterations were supposedly inspired by the recent  construction of the Third Fitzwilliam Meetinghouse. In 1859-60 the church was again moved, this time a short distance to make room for an enlarged sanctuary, as designed by the Worcester firm of Boyden & Ball. The building exterior has been little altered since; the steeple was recreated from photographs after the original was toppled by the New England Hurricane of 1938. In 1924 a two-story brick parish house was built next to the church.</p><br>
<p>The church and parish house were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Ashuelot Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge over the Ashuelot River on Bolton Road, just south of its intersection with NH 119 in Ashuelot, New Hampshire, an unincorporated village of Winchester. It is a Town lattice truss bridge, built in 1864-65, consisting of two spans with a total length of 178 ft. The total width of the bridge is 29 ft, and has a central roadway and sidewalks  on each side. The bridge rests on stone abutments and a central pier. The abutments have been reinforced with concrete since the bridge was built, and the central pier has been protected by a metal breakwater. The bridge passes 117" over the water. One unusual feature of this bridge is that its sides are not fully sheathed, the usual means by which the truss elements are protected from the elements. Instead, the bridge roof is extended to provide long eaves, and the sides are sheathed to the height of the walkway handrails.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Bay Meeting House and Vestry, now the Second Baptist Church, is a historic church complex on Upper Bay and Steele Roads in Sanbornton, New Hampshire. Built in 1836 for a Free Will Baptist congregation headed by Moses Cheney, the church is a good example of transitional Federal and Gothic Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
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<p>The Bay Meeting House is located in a rural area in northeastern Sanbornton, at the junction of Upper Bay and Steele Roads. The property is on high land overlooking Lake Winnisquam to the east, which was historically known as Sanbornton Bay, the origin of the church&#39;s name. The church is a two-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof topped by a two-stage square tower. The first stage is plain, with a projecting cornice topped by a low railing and Gothic spires at the corners. The second stage is an open belfry (now lacking a bell), with paneled square posts joined by segmental arched moulding. It is also topped at the corners by a narrower set of Gothic spires. The main facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances flanking a central window, and windows above each of these elements. Windows on the sides are topped by Gothic fans. The vestry is a relatively modest rectangular structure, built in 1841 with enlargements in the early 20th century and again in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The first Free Will Baptist meetinghouse was built on this site about 1808, for a congregation under the leadership of Rev. Moses Cheney. That organization was disbanded about 1816, when the Second Baptist Society was organized. A separate organization, the Second Baptist Church, was founded in 1822. The present church was built in 1836, and remained in ownership by the Society until it was transferred to the Church in 1955. Its exterior, a blend of Federal massing with Gothic features, has remained nearly unaltered since its construction. The vestry, built in 1841 and enlarged in the early 20th century, is a vernacular structure that is typical of its period.</p><br>
<p>The Centre Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church on Province Road  in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Built in 1826-27, it is one of the region&#39;s best examples of a late Federal-period church. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
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<p>The Centre Congregational Church is located in the village center of Gilmanton, on the north side of Province Road just west of its junction with New Hampshire Route 140. It is a two-story wood frame structure with a gable roof. Its main block is rectangular, with an unusually deep entrance pavilion topped by a full pediment and two-stage square belltower. The main entrance is a large double door flanked by paired columns, supporting an entablature and projecting cornice. It is flanked by a pair of large arched windows, and there is a recessed molded panel with a decorative swag above the doorway. The belltower&#39;s first stage is a simple square clapboarded section, and the second stage uses corner pilasters and arched louvers. The interior retains original flooring and woodwork, as well as kerosene light fixtures (although these are no longer used). Alterations include the removal of some of the original pews to make way for an organ.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1826-27 for a local Congregationalist congregation, created by some sort of religious division with the First Congregational Church. The building avoided the fate of similar surviving period churches, the updating of its interior during the Victorian period, because the town&#39;s population declined during that time.</p><br>
<p>Dana Meeting House  is a historic meeting house on Dana Hill Road in New Hampton, New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house was built in 1800 by a Free Will Baptist congregation after the majority of the townspeople voted that the town&#39;s tax-subsidized New Hampton Town House would be used by the Congregationalists. The Baptist congregation originally met in homes until its meeting house was completed, and the early congregation was opposed to a paid ministry. Originally, services were conducted in rotation by three men: Simeon Dana, a physician, Josiah Magoon, a Revolutionary War veteran, and Thomas Perkins, a legislator. The best known was Dr. Dana who regularly conducted Sunday worship services from 1803 to 1853 and became the namesake of the church. Notable early preachers included Benjamin Randall and John Colby.</p><br>
<p>Church services were held on Sundays throughout the year until 1860, when regular Free Will Baptist services were discontinued. Various summer services were held in the meeting house after the 1860s. Rev. Adoniram Judson Gordon, a prominent minister who was a native of New Hampton, often preached at the meeting house during the summers. Gordon went on to found Gordon College. The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and contains box pews and a few unboxed pews.</p><br>
<p>The Dana Church was founded Jan. 6, 1800 at the home of Capt. Peter Hanaford. Josiah Magoon was chosen as one of three messengers to the Quarterly Meeting at Canterbury. In April 1802, Brother Magoon (Josiah, Sr.) was one of three men appointed to “take oversight in building the meetinghouse.” The building was first used in Dec. 1802, during the ordination of the first elders and deacons, including the Elder Josiah and Deacon James Huckins.</p><br>
<p>Josiah’s son, Stephen, was the cabinetmaker who made the pews and finished the interior of the church. Elder Magoon was an itinerant preacher in Maine, Vermont, and mostly in New Hampshire. Among his descendants were several noted ministers, educators, architect, politicians, and lawyers. He did not preach much after his 80th birthday. Stephen Sleeper Magoon’s house is across the street from the Dana Meeting house. Stephen was a farmer, country merchant, and held various offices in New Hampton.</p><br>
<p>On March 9, 1801, the first town meeting was held in this meeting house. The names of many of the founding families are still on plaques on each of the pews in the meeting house, of where they were to sit.</p><br>
<p>The Evangelical Baptist Church  is a historic church building on Veterans Square in Laconia, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1836 and extensively restyled in 1871, it is a fine 19th-century building, illustrating adaptive alterations made over time to reflect changing uses and tastes. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The building now houses a restaurant.</p><br>
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<p>The former Evangelical Baptist Church building stands on the east side of Veterans Square in central Laconia, adjacent to the current Congregational church, and across from the former train station. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A square tower projects slightly from the front facade, rising to an octagonal spire. The building corners have paneled pilasters, which rise to an entablature and modillioned cornice. Ground floor windows are small rectangular sash, while the upper floor windows are tall with rounded arches, and embedded pairs of round-arch windows within.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1836 for a Congregationalist congregation, replacing an older church which had burned. Originally built with Greek Revival features, it underwent major exterior alterations in 1871, adding a second floor (by raising the building and building a new lower level), and a taller tower. The church was extensively damaged in 1902, when a fire in the city center set off gunpowder at a nearby hardware store. The damaged building was purchased by a Baptist congregation, and moved to its present location in 1903. The upper stages of the tower were toppled in the New England Hurricane of 1938, resulting in the construction of a new steeple and the installation of a new bell. The Evangelical Baptist Church was the last congregation to occupy the building before moving to the former Our Lady of the Lakes campus in Lakeport in 2013. The building is now The Holy Grail Restaurant and Pub.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church of Gilmanton, also known as the Lower Gilmanton Church, is a historic church building on Province Road , slightly north of Stage Road, in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Built in 1842, the church is one of Belknap Countys finest Greek Revival churches, and is accompanied by the countys most intact 19th-century horsesheds. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The First Baptist Church of Gilmanton is located in a rural setting on the east side of Province Road, several hundred feet north of its junction with Stage Road. The rectangular building presents a two-story main (southwestern) facade, although its main hall occupies the building&#39;s full height. Although the main body of the building is clapboarded, the gable end of the main facade is flushboarded. The building has wide corner pilasters, and an elaborate cornice with mouldings, frieze, and architrave on three sides. A two-stage bell tower rises above the main facade. On the property stand a series of horsesheds, a long single-story frame structure built partially on a stone foundation; these date to the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>Gilmantons first Baptist congregation was organized in 1773, with its first meetinghouse built on the Lower Gilmanton militia training field the following year. It was moved (sometime before 1788) onto the parcel where this building stands. That building was replaced by the present one in 1842, due to its poor condition. It has undergone only relatively modest alterations, including the introduction of electricity in the 1940s, and the louvering of the belfry, after a bell was installed in it (some sixty years after the buildings construction).</p><br>
<p>Belknap County has twelve surviving churches that were built during the Greek Revival period of the mid-19th century. Most of these have been altered, sometimes substantially. This church is one of the finest of these survivors, and is accompanied by a horseshed row of unparalleled quality in the county.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church  is a historic church building at 20 Church Street in Alton, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1853-54, it is one of Belknap County&#39;s finest Greek Revival churches. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Alton Community Church is located in Altons main village, on the south side of Church Street west of Main Street. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The main entry projects slightly, allowing for the presence of paneled columns, which support the church tower. These columns are matched by pilasters at the buildings corners. The tower&#39;s first stage is paneled, while the second has an open belfry with square posts at the corners and balustrades in between. The belfry is topped by a cornice and four-sided spire. The interior of the main auditorium has been repeatedly altered since its original construction, with gallery spaces converted to storage. The basement level has been adapted to house classrooms, necessitating the addition of a stairwell in the vestibule area. Significant exterior alterations include the removal of a parapet around the tower spire, the addition of a stained glass window in the rear gable, and the construction of an adjoining vestry.</p><br>
<p>The church was built for a congregation established in 1827, that is now known as the Community Church of Alton. It was built in 1853-54, and is one of twelve surviving Greek Revival buildings in the county. Of those, it has one of the more high-style exteriors.</p><br>
<p>The First Free Will Baptist Church in Meredith is a historic church building at 61 Winona Road in Meredith, New Hampshire, United States. Built about 1802 and remodeled in 1848, it is a good example of a mid-19th century vernacular Greek Revival rural church. It as now a museum called the Pottle Meeting House, managed by the local historical society. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The First Free Will Baptist Church in Meredith is located in a rural setting of central Meredith, on the east side of Winona Road about.6 mi north of its junction with New Hampshire Route 104. It is a single-story rectangular wood-frame structure, with a small ell attached to its northern end, and a shed-roof privy attached to the ell. Greek Revival elements include wide cornerboards, and an entablature that extends under the gable returns. The main facade is plain except for two symmetrically placed entrances, and each side has three sash windows. The interior is mainly taken up by the auditorium, with a pair of shallow vestibules flanking the choir loft at the rear.</p><br>
<p>The Free Will Baptist congregation in Merediths Oak Hill section first met in 1800. Within two years it had grown to 134 people, including some from adjacent towns. Since the congregations early records have not survived, the exact construction date of this building is unknown. Its existence is suggested in a lease of the land dated 1802. Its present appearance appears to be almost entirely due to later alterations, primarily those in 1848 giving the main block its present Greek Revival appearance. The ell, which originally served as a vestry, was added in either 1890 or 1909. The building served as a church until 1946, and was purchased by the newly formed Meredith Historical Society in 1950, which adapted it for use as a museum. Exhibits include early tools and farming artifacts.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The First Freewill Baptist Church is a historic Free Will Baptist church building on Drew Hill Road north of Gilman&#39;s Corner Road in East Alton, New Hampshire. Built in 1826, and essentially unaltered since about 1847, it is a well-preserved example of a rural mid-19th century church. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
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<p>The First Freewill Baptist Church is located in what is now a rural setting at the geographic center of Alton, on the east side of Drew Hill Road near its junction with Gilman&#39;s Corner Road. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and stone foundation. Its Greek Revival features include corner pilasters and an entablature, features which are repeated on the first stage of the bell tower, which houses the original period bell. The interior retains many original features, including gas light fixtures and wall sconces. Walls are finished at the lower level with wainscoting, which terminates in a simple chair rail. A simple pulpit is set against the rear wall. The bulk of the main chamber is taken up by bench pews, from which the doors were removed c. 1847.</p><br>
<p>The church was in consistent use until 1860, after which many congregants moved to the Baptist church in the present town center. This area became less important after the 1885 arrival of the railroad at Alton Bay, bypassing the old center. A community organization was formed to maintain the building in 1920. It is one of the only buildings to survive from the original town center.</p><br>
<p>The New Hampton Community Church, formerly known as New Hampton Village Free Will Baptist Church, is a historic church on Main Street in New Hampton, New Hampshire. It is currently associated with the American Baptist denomination. Built about 1854, it is a prominent local example of Greek Revival architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The New Hampton Community Church stands in the village center of New Hampton, on the south side of Main Street near its junction with Shingle Camp Hill Road. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It is an elaborately styled example of Greek Revival architecture, with paneled pilasters at the corners rising to a full entablature, and a fully pedimented gable fronted by a projecting gabled entry pavilion. The pavilion also has paneled pilasters, entablature, and pedimented gable, with the entry recessed in a flushboarded opening with two Doric columns set in antis. The roof is topped by a three-stage square tower, each stage finished with wide cornerboards. The first stage is plain, projecting behind the entry pavilion but partially in front of the main block, the second stage houses a clock, and the third has an open belfry. Each stage is capped by a cornice, and there is a weathervane at the very top.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1854 by a congregation formed by the union of two Free Will Baptist congregations, and its interior styling was updated in the late 19th century. A clock was added to the tower in the 1960s, and the kitchen ell dates to c. 1970. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Second Free Baptist Church is a historic church building on Main Street, south of Church Street in Alton, New Hampshire, United States. It is a wood-frame structure, built in 1853-54, and is the oldest extant Italianate church in Belknap County, with a little-altered exterior. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>Alton&#39;s Second Free Baptist Church is located in the center of its main village, on the west side of Main Street just south of Church Street. It is a wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, flushboarded front facade, and clapboarded sides and rear. A square tower projects slightly at the center of the front facade, rising to a square pyramidal spire with a finial at the top. It has the main entrance at its base, set under a peaked and bracketed cornice. Most of the tower is taken up by a tall second stage, which has a tall three-part window topped by a similar peak, and finished with a cornice studded with paired brackets. The tower is flanked on the front facade by windows with peaked tops. The front gable and side eaves are studded with paired brackets.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1853-54 for a Free Will Baptist congregation organized in Alton in 1831. In 1838 this congregation joined with local Congregationalists to build a union church for use by both groups. In 1853 the Congregationalists decided to build their own church, and the Free Will Baptists soon followed suit. Although its interior has seen some alteration to later Victorian styles, the building&#39;s exterior has seen few alterations since its construction.</p><br>
<p>The Smith Meeting House is a historic church at the junction of Meeting House and Governor Roads in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Built about 1840, it is a well-preserved example of a vernacular 19th-century church building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Smith Meeting House is located in a rural setting near the geographic center of Gilmanton, just south of the junction of Meeting House and Governor Roads. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and granite foundation. Its main facade has a pair of symmetrically placed entrances, with three windows above. The central window is a stained glass window with a floral motif including a cross and crown. The interior has two small vestibules at the rear, one of which includes a narrow stair up to a choir gallery. The main chamber is relatively unadorned, with pine floors and wainscoting, and is illuminated by electric fixtures, although original kerosene sconces and chandeliers are still present.</p><br>
<p>The church was built about 1840, and was named for Gilmantons first minister, Isaac Smith. He preached at the towns first meeting house, which was also located on this site. The present structure is said to contain structural members used in the construction of the original building. Rarely used for civic functions, its religious use declined in the late 19th century, and its maintenance was taken over in 1898 by the Old Smith Meeting House Improvement Society.</p><br>
<p>United Baptist Church of Lakeport  is a historic church at 23 Park Street in the village of Lakeport in Laconia, New Hampshire, United States. It was built in 1891 by the Lake Village Free Will Baptist congregation. It is Victorian Romanesque in design, and the interior sanctuary is Federal in design. It seats 400 and includes the fellowship and Sunday School classes on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was founded in 1774 on Parade Road as Laconia&#39;s First Church. It has changed many times during the years. The United Baptist Church is a 1934 merger of the Union Avenue Baptist Church that was Calvinist (Predestination) and the Park Street Baptist Church that was Free Will in theology. The Union Avenue Baptist Church was torn down, and the Park Street Church became home to the present congregation. A separate parish house (offices) is next door on Park Street. It was painted white, but several years ago it was repainted in the original 1800s colors. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches of Vermont/New Hampshire and the American Baptist Churches USA (originally the Northern Baptist Convention).</p><br>
<p>The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Congregational Church  is a historic church building at 921 Main Street in Berlin, New Hampshire. Built in 1882, it was the community&#39;s first church building, and is a prominent local example of Stick/Eastlake Victorian architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>Berlin&#39;s Congregational Church stands north of its downtown area, on the west side of Main Street at its southern junction with Maple Street. It is a basically rectangular single-story wood-frame structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof. Its exterior is clad in a combination of wooden clapboards, shingles, and applied Stick-style woodwork. A gabled projection extends to the left side near the rear, and a multi-stage rectangular tower rises from the left front corner. The tower has narrow windows (arched in the Gothic style on the second level), with an open belfry topped by a pyramidal roof with flared eave. The belfry openings have arched woodwork and low balustrades. A shed-roof shelter extends across the front of the main facade between the tower and a projecting gabled secondary entrance; the main entrance is in the base of the tower under a bracketed hood.</p><br>
<p>Berlins Congregationalist congregation first organized in 1836, when a Sunday School was established, and the first settled minister was hired the following year. The congregation first met in private spaces (typically homes or barns), until 1852, when the owners of the H. Winslow store made their upstairs hall available for services. The present church, the communitys first dedicated church building, was built in 1882 on land donated by the Berlin Mills Company.</p><br>
<p>The Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church  is a historic Eastern Orthodox Church building on Petrograd Street in Berlin, New Hampshire. The church is known locally as "The Russian Church" because it was built in 1915 by immigrants from the Russian Empire who were mostly from the provinces of Grodno, Volyn, and Minsk in modern-day Belarus and Ukraine. The church closed in 1963 but reopened in 1974 for the funeral of a Russian immigrant from modern-day Belarus, named Eugenia  Tupick. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and is part of the Orthodox Church in America .</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church was designed by John Bergesen, an architect from New York City. The church was built with six onion domes, which was common in Russian architecture of that period. The dimensions of the church are 36 by, which does not include the main entrance, and a height of approximately 100 ft. The inside of the church is divided into three parts: the vestibule, the nave, and the sanctuary. Its icons were some of the last ones to leave Russia before Czar Nicholas II was overthrown.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1915, Reverend Arcady Piotrowsky came to Berlin from Cleveland, Ohio to establish an Orthodox church for the approximately 500 Russians that inhabited Berlin at that time. At first the church services were held in another church, but then moved to an old garage owned by the city. A site at the base of Mt. Forest was chosen for a new church building to be built, and on May 1, 1915, construction of the church began. On October 1, of that same year, the church was complete.</p><br>
<h2>Reliquaries</h2><br>
<p>Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church houses two reliquary icons, one of Saint Herman of Alaska and one of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. The relic of Saint Herman of Alaska was given to the church by Metropolitan Theodosius during a parish visit. In the icon of Saint Nicholas, the saint is pictured holding the city of Berlin in his hand. The relic of Saint Nicholas was found in the altar in late summer of 2003, originally transferred from Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church in Richmond, Maine, and placed into the icon by Bishop Nikon December 6, 2003.</p><br>
