<p>The Blackledge River Railroad Bridge is a Warren truss bridge that was built on the site of a c. 1870 railroad bridge. The original bridge was completed and opened by August 3, 1877. Likely built by the Colchester Railway Company, the bridge was part of the 3.59 mi of track from Colchester, Connecticut, to Turnerville . The line was leased to the Boston & New York Air Line Railroad and reported improvement in 1879 and a new 110 ft iron bridge by 1881. The line was leased to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1882. After dominating the region, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad petitioned for changes to the Air Line and the approval came on July 7, 1911.</p><br>
<p>The historic Blackledge River Railroad Bridge was constructed c. 1912 as an improved version of the previous bridge. The new 108 ft bridge integrated the previous abutments into the design and was elevated a further 5 ft above the Blackledge River. The railroad bridge was abandoned in the 1960s and sold to the Connecticut Department of Transportation. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 31, 1986. The bridge is now located in Airline State Park. By 2007, a wooden pedestrian bridge was built atop the railroad bridge and crosses over the Blackledge River.</p><br>
<h2>Previous bridges</h2><br>
<p>According to the National Register of Historic Places nomination, the first bridge was constructed in the early 1870s by the New York and Boston Air Line Railroad. The details on this bridge are largely unknown, but contradictory evidence exists placing the construction of the bridge between 1876 and 1877. According to Marshall, the Air Line Railroad was completed in 1873 and the Colchester branch was completed in 1877.</p><br>
<p>Organized in 1876, the Colchester line was completed by the Colchester Railway Company. The line operated 3.59 miles of track from Colchester, Connecticut, to Turnerville (now known as Amston, Connecticut) and it opened on August 3, 1877. The line was leased on April 3, 1878 to the Boston & New York Air Line Railroad company for 999 years. The Air Line reported to the Railroad Commissioners in 1899 that a bridge over Blackledge River was completed. The New York, New Haven and Hartford dominated the region by 1905, having acquiring over three dozen railroads. The approval for the changes came on July 7, 1911.</p><br>
<h2>Second Bridge</h2><br>
<p>The Blackledge River Railroad Bridge was rebuilt to increase the flood clearance and the load-bearing capacity of the bridge, but its abutments were integrated into the new bridge. Completed c. 1912, the replacement Blackledge River Railroad Bridge is a riveted steel, double-intersection Warren deck truss. The original granite stone abutments which supported the previous bridge was reported to be five feet lower, were integrated with the brownstone abutments of the rebuilt bridge. The bottom chord of the span is 32 ft above the Blackledge River. The truss is 108 ft long and about 18 ft deep. The top and bottom chords are typical box girders with diagonal members and the deck is open. At some point, the bridge was altered with the addition of a sewer pipe.</p><br>
<h2>Fate</h2><br>
<p>The line continued to serve local passenger and freight trains for decades, but flooding in August 1955 destroyed the critical bridge work in Putnam and lead to its closure in the 1960s. Several years after its abandonment the railroad was sold to Connecticut&#39;s Department of Transportation. By 1983, the abandoned railroad bridge had its span sealed off and its tracks lifted. The bridge is in the Salmon River State Forest and is a part of the Air Line State Park Trail. Constructed prior to 2007, the new wooden bridge decks the railroad bridge. The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection was assisted by the Coast Guard Academy and the 192nd Engineering Battalion of the Connecticut National Guard.</p><br>
<p>The National Register of Historic Places nomination lists the Blackledge River Railroad Bridge under both criteria A and C. Criterion A requires the property must make a contribution to the major pattern of American history, and criterion C concerns the distinctive characteristics of the building by its architecture and construction. The basis for its criterion A, is that it was part of a major improvement to the engineering and lines under the operation of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The bridge was listed under criterion C as "a representative example of the typical medium-length railroad bridge of the early 20th century." The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 31, 1986.</p><br>
<p>Ulupō Heiau on the eastern edge of Kawai Nui Marsh in Kailua, Hawaii, is an ancient site associated in legend with the menehune, but later with high chiefs of Oahu, such as Kakuhihewa in the 15th century and Kualii in the late 17th century. It may have reached the peak of its importance in 1750, before being abandoned after Oahu was conquered in the 1780s. The site became a territorial park in 1954, was partially restored in the early 1960s, marked with a bronze plaque by the State Commission on Historical Sites in 1962, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The massive stone platform of the heiau measures 140 by 180 ft, with outer walls up to 30 ft high, its size and scale indicating both its cultural importance and the chiefly power of its patrons. Many of the stones may have been transported from as far as Kualoa, more than 10 mi away. Although it probably began as an agricultural heiau (mapele) with springs feeding crops of taro, banana, sweet potato, and sugarcane along the fringes of the 400 acre Kawai Nui pond full of mullet and other fish. However, the great warrior chief Kualii may have converted it to a heiau luakini, with an altar, an oracle tower (anuu), thatched hale, and wooden images (kii).</p><br>
<p>Kailua, with its ample supplies of pond fish, irrigated fields, and canoe landings, was a center of political power for Koolaupoko, which often vied with Waialua for control of Oahu. After defeating the forces of Oahu high chief Kahahana in the 1780s, Maui chief Kahekili lived in Kailua, as did Kamehameha I after conquering Oahu in 1795. In later years, Queen Kalama, consort of Kamehameha III, inherited most of the land in Kailua after the death of her husband in 1854, most of it acquired in 1917 by Harold Kainalu Long Castle for his Kaneohe Ranch. The acquisition of land for Kaneohe Ranch brought about changes to the area due to the grazing and ranching of livestock.</p><br>
<p>The Leffingwell Inn  is a historic inn at 348 Washington Street in the Norwichtown section of Norwich, Connecticut. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, built in stages in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its oldest part, the northeastern corner, dates to 1675. Over the next century it was altered and expanded several times, reaching its present configuration, which is a roughly square structure with two main facades and long sloping roof lines along the other two facades, as if two saltbox houses had been joined at a corner. The building is locally historically important as a meeting point during the American Revolutionary War. It is now a museum property.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>Little Yellow Mountain is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country and wholly in the Pisgah National Forest. Its elevation reaches 5,504 ft, it is on the border between Avery and Mitchell counties. The mountain generates feeder streams for the North Toe River.</p><br>
<p>Though named Little Yellow Mountain, it is actually 64 ft taller than nearby Big Yellow Mountain.</p><br>
<p>On December 3, 2009, the Nature Conservancy announced the acquisition of 466 acre at the summit of Little Yellow Mountain. The future goal is to transfer the land to the North Carolina State Parks System, becoming part of the Yellow Mountain State Natural Area.</p><br>
<h2>Macon County</h2><br>
<p>There is also a Little Yellow Mountain in Macon County, North Carolina with an elevation of 4,249 ft.</p><br>
<p>The IXL Historical Museum is a historic office building, residence, and museum complex in Hermansville, Michigan, United States. The main building was constructed as the headquarters for the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company before it became a museum. The museum was organized in 1982, and the main building, also known as the Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company Office, was deignated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Origins</h3><br>
<p>The building was the original office and headquarters for the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company, a company founded by German-born cabinetmaker Charles J. L. Meyer. In the mid 19th century, Meyer had established a factory in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin making wooden sashes, doors, and blinds. In 1878, to acquire pine for his factory, Meyer began buying land in Menominee County, Michigan. In 1881-1882, Meyer moved company operations out of Fond du Lac into Michigan, and built the company&#39;s headquarters at the current site in Hermansville. Meyer continued purchasing land, and eventually the company owned nearly 100,000 acre spread out over eight counties.</p><br>
<p>However, the company had overextended itself, and in 1890 the tightening credit market and reduction in sales forced Meyer to sell some of the companys assets. The firms flooring was called "IXL," Every piece of flooring was stamped with the letters "IXL" inside a circle.</p><br>
<p>Unfortunately, the introduction of hardwood flooring was not an immediate success, and the company began falling apart. At the same time, Meyer suffered a brain hemorrhage from a riding accident which left him confused and unable to cope with running the company. Meyer&#39;s son-in-law, Dr. George Washington Earle, took over operation of the company.</p><br>
<h3>George Washington Earle</h3><br>
<p>George Washington Earle was born in Truxton, New York in 1849. In 1851, his family moved to Huntley, Illinois, and when he was only ten years old Gerge left home on his own. He hired out on a Wisconsin farm owned by Dr. Rollin S. Wooster in 1860, and in 1863 moved with Wooster to Iowa. Earle attended school, and eventually acquired enough education that he became a schoolteacher. However, he was unsatisfied, and in 1868 returned to New York and began doing piecework in a sash and door factory, continuing until he had saved enough money to attend medical college.</p><br>
<p>In 1872, Earle gradualted from Buffalo Medical College, receiving his diploma from Millard Fillmore. He moved to Tully, New York, and began a medical practice, which over the next 17 years he built into a large and prosperous business. In 1886, Earle took a months-long trip to Europe, where he met Emma Meyer, Charles Meyers daughter. They were married in 1888, and in 1889 Earle decided to retire from the rigors of practicing medicine, and moved with his wife to Michigan. Earle invested a considerable amount of his savings in his father-in-laws business, and was made a vice-president of Wisconsin Land & Lumber only months before the 1890 financial crash. With the other directors unable or unwilling to steer the company, the crash and Meyers incapacitation forced Earle to take over the companys operations.</p><br>
<h3>Earle's Tenure</h3><br>
<p>Earle renegotiated with the companys creditors, raised new loans, and cut expenses to keep the company afloat. Wisconsin Land & Lumber developed a tongue in groove process which led to the company being the United States largest hardwood floor producer at one time. The IXL logo became an industry benchmark, with architects specifying "IXL or equivalent" in contracts.</p><br>
<p>With the increase in demand for hardwood flooring, the company prospered. The last of the companys debt was finally retired in 1910. When timbered land became too expensive to purchase, Earle began buying logs from small jobbers. Earle remained at the helm of the company until his death in 1923, when control passed to his two sons, G. Harold and Stewart Prescott Earle. The site in Hermansville remained the firms headquarters until the death of the last of Meyer&#39;s grandsons in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The main building contains artifacts from the 19th century with minimal changes from the 20th or 21st century. The structure is a two-story, wood-framed building with a T-shaped plan. The exterior is sheathed with clapboard siding, which is divided by horizontal and vertical stickwork aligned with the windows on the front and sides, as well as diagonal stickwork on the gables. Open triangular brackets support the eaves. Entrance doors on the front and side are accessed through small gabled porches. The rear of the building is sheathed with simple clapboard siding, with minimal ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>The building holds documents from the company which the public can view. Other items in the building include crank telephones, oak desks, dictaphones, inkwells, and adding machines. The paymaster&#39;s office is located near an entrance; workers were paid in company scrip which they could use to purchase items from the company store. The second story of the building was a residence.</p><br>
<p>The company built the town and the worker&#39;s houses until it sold them off after World War II.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The Locus 7 Site is an archaeological site in Washington Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located north of Fayette City, the site lies on a bluff over Downers Run about 2,000 ft from the Monongahela River. It is believed to be the location of a former Monongahela village, but its date is uncertain; the village may have existed at any time between 900 and 1600. Its location on a bluff is unusual for Monongahela village sites, but this may have contributed to its preservation; most riverside Monongahela sites in the valley of the Monongahela River have been destroyed by development.</p><br>
<p>Small-scale archaeological investigation at the site has revealed a wide range of pottery at the site, along with a significant amount of mussel shells; it is believed that a more extensive excavation would yield evidence of small round houses and a stockade. Such a large amount of potential findings has been theorized because of the limited disturbance that the site has seen: unlike most Monongahela sites in the region, it has been damaged only by surface cultivation by local farmers who used only horse-powered equipment.</p><br>
<p>Locus 7&#39;s archaeological significance was recognized in 1980 when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Vibrandsøy or Vibrandsøya is an island in Haugesund municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The island lies west of the densely built-up island of Hasseløy and northwest of the island of Risøy in the town of Haugesund. The island is now used as a recreational area. The island was part of the Torvastad municipality until 1965, and is the only part of the former municipality which was not incorporated into Karmøy. As such, the island is the newest part of the Haugesund municipality.</p><br>
<p>The 300 daa property called "Vibrandsøy" includes the smaller neighbouring islands of Gardsøya and Varøy in the north, and Trollholmen to the south-west. These islands are connected together by short bridges and fillings, but the islands have no land connection with the mainland.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The Old Norse form of the name must have been Vébrandsøy. The first element is then the genitive form of the male name Vébrandr and the last element is øy which means island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Farming on Vibrandsøy is believed to have commenced already in the Middle Ages, but the Black Death left the island unpopulated until at least 1567. The island and its farm was sold by the church to the private person Isak Davidsson in 1652. The island became part of the Torvastad municipality in 1837. In 1872, the brothers John and Ole Andreas Knutsen purchased the island at auction. The island remained in the family&#39;s hands until ship-owner Ole Andreas Knudsen died in 1993.</p><br>
<p>In 1875, the island had a population of 58. The shipping workshop Møllerodden was established in 1958, and upheld the island&#39;s activity for 30 years. Farming continued on the island until 1974.</p><br>
<h3>2009 sale and public ownership</h3><br>
<p>After some legal disputes concerning the estate, the Haugaland District Court ruled in 2008 that the property be sold. Several politicians, including Haugesund&#39;s mayor opined that the municipality and Norwegian government should purchase Vibrandsøy. There were concerns that the municipality, which administers zoning regulations, would zone large areas of the island for recreational purposes, thereby reducing its value, and possibly thwarting the sale.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, the beneficiaries to the Vibrandsøy estate accepted the municipality&#39;s bid for the property. The municipality pledged to renovate the deteriorated buildings on the island. The Norwegian government, through the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment, gave a total of to support the purchase.</p><br>
<p>There were also earlier attempts to sell the area to the municipality. During the 1980s, the mayor attempted to purchase the island for NOK 10 million, but it was not accepted. An offer to sell the island for the same price in 1991 was rejected due to the municipality&#39;s weak economy at the time.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and population</h2><br>
<p>In the 2001 census, Statistics Norway bundled Vibrandsøy together with its nearby islands as circuit 0402 Vibrandsøy, with a population of 4. The 2009 population estimate set the island&#39;s population to 1.</p><br>
<p>The buildings are concentrated in the southernmost part of Vibrandsøy. Among the buildings are the industrial building "Møllerodden", and a number of seaside houses along the shoreline. North of the islands is Sørhaugøy, where the Tonjer lighthouse is situated.</p><br>
<p>Chagan Lake is a lake in Jilin, China. The name "Chagan" is from Mongolian , meaning "white lac". The lake is often referred to as Sacred Pond  or Holy Water Lake by local people. The lake is known for traditional winter fishing that dates back to prehistoric times.</p><br>
<h2>Chagan Naoer Winter Fishing Tradition</h2><br>
<p>Chagan Lake is the only place that saves the oldest Mongolia fishing method. It is listed as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage of the People&#39;s Republic of China.</p><br>
<p>The annual Winter Fishing Festival is held to remember the old winter fishing tradition. Fishermen first drill many holes through the thick ice and then place net under the ice. The Lake set a Guinness World Record of a single net that yielded 104,500 kg fish in 2005, and broke its own record with168,500 kg of fish in 2008.</p><br>
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<p>The Brick Store, at 21 Lisbon Road in Bath, New Hampshire, claims to be the oldest continuously operating general store in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The initial construction date of this brick two-story structure is uncertain, and was claimed to be 1804 by a 1937 reference work. Its predominantly Federal styling supports a date in this timeframe. It is known through other documentation to have been standing in 1814, and was damaged by fire in 1824. Repairs at that time probably included the addition of Greek Revival elements to the building&#39;s exterior. Although numerous Federal-style brick buildings were built in Bath, this is the only commercial one to survive.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Located on the Ammonoosuc River, the store is one of the most well-known landmarks of northern New Hampshire. Not only does it sell groceries, gas, and beer, at one time it was a place where customers could drop off UPS packages and dry-cleaning, and pick up mail. The store is a regular stop on the presidential campaign trail</p><br>
<p>Due to a combination of a poor economy generally, and the loss of local customers to major chain stores, the store suffered financially in the early 2000s.</p><br>
<p>The Boon Brick Store is a historic building in Salem, Oregon, United States. It was built as a general store by John D. Boon who became the first Oregon State Treasurer. It also once served as Oregons first State Treasury. It is now a brewpub owned by the McMenamins chain known as Boons Treasury. Before being bought by McMenamins, it was known as Karr&#39;s Tavern.</p><br>
<p>The two-story Italianate-style brick structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. John D. Boon House at Mission Mill Museum was formerly located next to the store.</p><br>
<p>A local legend states that as a teenager, President Herbert Hoover carved his initials into the outside of the building during his three-year stay with relatives in Salem. At the time the building was Lincoln Wade&#39;s grocery store.</p><br>
<p>38 Bridge Street is a commercial property in Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade listed building. The building was constructed in 1897 and was designed by the local architects Douglas and Fordham. It is the only new building designed by Douglas to incorporate a section of the Chester Rows.</p><br>
<p>The building is in three storeys and is constructed in yellow sandstone and brick with stone dressings. The top storey is timber-framed. A modern shop front has been inserted into the lowest storey. The middle storey, which incorporates a section of the Rows, has a timber balustrade, behind which is the walkway, and then another shop front. The top storey is jettied. On the face overlooking Bridge Street are two six-light oriel windows under a gable, and a smaller three-light casement window to the right. On the south side, overlooking Pierpoint Lane, are small windows in both the middle and the upper storeys. Douglas&#39; biographer Edward Hubbard considers it is one of his "most heavily decorated half-timber works".</p><br>
<p>As of 2012 row level of the building is occupied by designer womenswear brand The Editeur, and the street level by Italian restaurant chain Carluccio&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>The Aynesworth–Wright House is a historic Austin, Texas, house, built in 1852 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is now located at Pioneer Farms, 10621 Pioneer Farms Drive.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Texas Historical Commission plaque reads: Isaiah Hezekiah Aynesworth (b. 1797) a Baptist preacher and cabinet maker, constructed this Greek revival residence about 1852. Originally located at 4507 East Avenue, it was a two-room house with an enclosed dog-run hallway. Additional rooms were later attached to the back porch. Dr. Joseph Wright (1798-1898) purchased the property from Aynesworth in 1855. A physician and surveyor, Wright practiced medicine in a log building near his home. The house was moved to this location and restored by Franklin Savings Association.</p><br>
<p>Pointe Helbronner  is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the Graian Alps on the watershed between France and Italy.</p><br>
<p>The peak, which used to be a mere geodetic reference point, was named after Paul Helbronner, a French polytechnicien, alpinist and geodesist who pioneered cartography of the French Alps.</p><br>
<p>Pointe Helbronner is served on the Italian side by the Skyway Monte Bianco (Funivie Monte Bianco), a cable car from La Palud, a village 2.5 km north of the town of Courmayeur in the Aosta Valley. Pointe Helbronner is also served by the Vallee Blanche Aerial Tramway, which crosses from the peak to the nearby peak of Aiguille du Midi in France&mdash;a peak-to-peak distance of 5 km. This, in turn, gives access to the French Téléphérique de lAiguille du Midi, the cable car connecting Aiguille du Midi to the French village of Chamonix, Courmayeurs sister "city".</p><br>
<p>The Funivie Monte Bianco station platform on Pointe Helbronner offers a remarkable view over the Aosta Valley and the Piedmont region. The French-Italian border splits this platform.</p><br>
<p>Pointe Helbronner is the starting point of a ski run via the Glacier du Géant and the Mer de Glace to Montenvers and Chamonix. The mountain is the starting point of various routes to other mountains on the Mont Blanc massif, with many mountaineers staying at the nearby Refuge Torino.</p><br>
<p>Forteviot Bronze Age tomb is a Bronze Age burial chamber discovered in 2009 at Forteviot near Perth, Scotland. The Bronze Age tomb is one of a number of archaeological digs at the site that Co-directors of the excavation, Dr. Gordon Noble of the University of Aberdeen, and professor Stephen Driscoll and Dr Kenneth Brophy, both of the University of Glasgow, are currently conducting.</p><br>
<p>The excavation at Forteviot is part of a long-term collaborative study by the Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot (SERF) project &ndash; funded by Historic Scotland and the Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust &ndash; to study the archaeology of the former Pictish royal centre in the Strathearn region of what later became Central Scotland.</p><br>
<h2>Discovery and finds in Burial Chamber</h2><br>
<p>A high status four ton slab, forty centimetres thick and measuring two metres by two metres, was unearthed by archaeologists excavating at the site of a major Pictish Royal centre. Using a giant crane to remove the slab, known as a capstone, a burial chamber was revealed containing what little remained of a Bronze Age body and grave goods. The underside of the capstone had been engraved with a spiral and axe shape. The cist, built using large sandstone slabs in a rectangular shape, had several axes and other weapon engravings where the head of the deceased would have been positioned. Such carvings in that part of Scotland are very rare although there are similar carvings at Kilmartin Glen, in Argyll. Thought to be of high social standing, the body had been laid on a bed of white quartz pebbles and an interwoven lattice of birch bark. Amongst the grave goods were a dozen personal possessions which included a leather bag, wooden objects and a bronze dagger with a ribbed gold band around the hilt. The discovery of plant matter among the remains were later found to be flowers, possibly meadowsweet, and is the first evidence that Bronze Age people placed flowers with their dead.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological Site</h2><br>
<p>The head of Historic Scotland archaeology programmes and grants said of the find:</p><br>
<p>The same location is also believed to have been the site of a palace, around 3000 years later, where a King of the Picts and first King of Scotland, Kenneth MacAlpin, died and was buried in AD 858, and whose dynasty continued to produce kings of a united Scotland.</p><br>
<p>Among other excavations and finds were an early historic cemetery, which would have been associated with the Royal centre at Forteviot, and a Neolithic Henge constructed from timber dating back to 2600BC which project director Dr Kenneth Brophy said "would dwarf Stonehenge" in size. A major prehistoric monument was also uncovered, revealing the entrance avenue of a massive timber enclosure dating to the late Neolithic period (around 5000 years ago). Also excavated was a nearby hill fort, and there was a survey at an early Christian chapel.</p><br>
<p>Paradox Valley is a basin located in Montrose County in the USA state of Colorado. The dry, sparsely populated valley is named after the apparently paradoxical course of the Dolores River—instead of flowing down the length of the valley, the river cuts across the middle. The valley is the site of a Bureau of Reclamation salinity-control project which has caused thousands of earthquakes, and is the proposed location of a new uranium mill which would be the first built in the United States in over 25 years.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and climate</h2><br>
<p>Paradox Valley trends northwest-southeast and measures about 3 to 5 mi wide and 25 mi long. It lies along the extreme western edge of Colorado, about 50 mi south of the city of Grand Junction. The La Sal Range of Utah rises in the northwest. State Highway 90 follows Paradox Valley on its way from Naturita to the Utah state line, crossing the historic Dolores River Bridge near the small unincorporated town of Bedrock. The town of Paradox lies a few miles north of the highway. Elevations on the valley floor range from about 5,000 ft at the Dolores River to nearly 6,000 ft at the southeast end. Steep parallel sandstone and shale walls bound the valley to the northeast and southwest.</p><br>
<p>The valley was named in 1875 by geologist and surveyor Albert Charles Peale, after he noted that the Dolores River had a "desire to perform strange and unexpected things" in the area. Instead of flowing down the valley, the river emerges from a narrow gap in one wall, cuts perpendicularly across the middle, and exits through another gap. As a consequence of this unusual geography, the valley cannot be easily irrigated by the Dolores River, but springs and streams fed by snowmelt from the La Sal Range support farming in the northwestern third</p><br>
<p>Near the center of the valley, the town of Bedrock experiences average highs ranging from 45 &deg;F in December to 96 &deg;F in July. Average lows range from 13 &deg;F in December to 54 &deg;F in July. An average of 11 in of precipitation, including 9 in of snow, fall annually at Bedrock.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The apparent paradox of Paradox Valley can be explained by salt tectonics. The valley is a collapsed anticline, a type of geological fold. About 300 million years ago, during the middle Pennsylvanian period, high pressures on lands to the northeast caused underlying salt deposits to flow towards where the valley is today. The salt encountered a buried fault-block ridge and was deflected upwards, penetrating the overlying rock strata and forming a salt dome. The salt may not have actually been exposed on the surface, but groundwater entering the top of the dome dissolved the underlying salt beds, allowing the center to collapse, forming what is today Paradox Valley. This process took place over about 150 million years, a long enough time for the Dolores River to downcut into the land and maintain its ancient course. The same process also created the Moab Valley (Spanish Valley) to the west, itself cut crosswise in a similar fashion by the Colorado River.</p><br>
<p>The Paradox Formation, a geological formation containing salt, gypsum, anhydrite, shale, sandstone, and limestone, is named after exposures found in Paradox Valley. The Paradox Basin, a geologic province throughout which the Paradox Formation is found, also bears the name of the valley.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Paradox Valley was within the historical domain of the Ute tribe. Squatters began grazing cattle in the valley as early as 1877, in violation of the treaty. By 1881, the Utes had been forced out of the area, and in 1882 the United States Congress officially opened the land to settlement. The valley and the surrounding plateau would soon become an important source of radioactive materials, including radium and uranium. In 1913, the New York Times identified carnotite mines near Paradox Valley as the source of "the greatest radium ore deposits in the world". Production of radium ceased in 1922 when richer deposits were found in the Belgian Congo, but production of uranium and vanadium continued throughout most of the century.</p><br>
<h2>Paradox Valley Unit</h2><br>
<p>Near-surface salt beds up to 14,000 ft thick still underlie Paradox Valley. The Dolores River, a tributary of the Colorado River, naturally picks up about 100,000 As of 2009, the PVU removes about 113,000 tons of salt annually from Paradox Valley.</p><br>
<p>The injection well of the Paradox Valley Unit has induced thousands of earthquakes, including at least 4,000 prior to the year 2001. Most were below the threshold of human detection, but at least 15 have been over 2.5 in magnitude, the largest being a 4.3 magnitude quake on May 27, 2000. The PVU suspended operations for 28 days following this quake, but later resumed injections at a lower rate. Further earthquakes have been linked with the operation, including a 3.9 magnitude quake in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Piñon Ridge Mill</h2><br>
<p>In 2009 Energy Fuels Resources Corporation, a subsidiary of Toronto-based Energy Fuels Incorporated, proposed the construction of a uranium mill in the southeast end of Paradox Valley. Called the Piñon Ridge Mill, it would be capable of processing 500 tons of uranium ore per day.</p><br>
<p>The Forster Hotel, built in 1870 and expanded in 1913, is a property on the National Register of Historic Places in Mendon, Utah. It was listed on the National Register in 2008 for its historical and architectural qualities.</p><br>
<p>It is 40x19 ft in plan, with its stone section&#39;s walls 16 in thick, built of random rubble masonry, and with ashlar quoins at the corners.</p><br>
<p>Relating to its history, the 2008 NRHP nomination states that "the building is associated with the early settlement of Mendon and was built by Ralph Forster, one of the first permanent settlers in the Cache Valley. Ralph Forster and his wife, Margaret McCulloch, made the stone house their home, hut also used it as one of two early hotels in the settlements, which is its primary significance. Ralph and Margaret&#39;s children expanded the hotel in 1913. For over forty-five years, the Forster Hotel served the community providing accommodations for railroad workers, traveling salesmen, theatrical companies, and weekend visitors to the Mendon horse races. Although it has been a single-family residence since the 1940s, the house is still known as the Forster Hotel by current Mendon residents. It is a local landmark and one of the largest extant historic buildings in the community."</p><br>
<p>Relating to its architecture, the 2008 NRHP nomination states the building is significant "as a unique example of an early Mendon traditional stone house expanded using the bungalow-craftsman style into a substantial full-service hotel. Both the original stone building and the expansion, as built by Logan contractors Wesley and Nelson, display a high degree of craftsmanship. Although somewhat modified on the rear elevation in 2002, the Forster Hotel retains much of its historic integrity and is a contributing resource in Mendon, Utah."</p><br>
<p>Peak Mountain is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country, near the town of Seven Devils. It is wholly in the Pisgah National Forest. Its elevation reaches 4,921 ft.</p><br>
<p>The headwaters of the Elk River begins from the Northwestern slopes of the mountain; along the Southwestern slopes, it shares with Sugar Mountain and Flattop Mountain as the headwaters of the Linville River; along the Southeastern slopes, it shares with Grandfather Mountain as the headwaters of the Watauga River.</p><br>
<h2>Attractions</h2><br>
<p>Hanging Rock Golf and Country Club is open late Spring to early Fall. In the Winter, the Ski Hawknest is open, which offers skiing, snowboarding, and tubing. Both are located along northern ridge of the mountain, in the town of Seven Devils. Though no official trails go up Peak Mountain, Grandfather Mountain&#39;s hiking trail, Profile Trail, starts nearby on NC Hwy 105 (permit required).</p><br>
<p>The Morton Memorial Library is an historic structure along Kelly Street in the hamlet of Rhinecliff, New York, just east of the Hudson River. The building, constructed in 1905, occupies most of its small village lot less than 1 acre in size. It is situated on a slight knoll facing west. The library is a one story brick civic building designed in the Colonial Revival style. Throughout its interior, restrained oak wordwork is preserved in a variety of features including wainscoting, trim around windows and doors, and mantelpieces. It is considered an historically significant example of public architecture in Rhinecliff. In the early nineteenth century, it served as a center for education and culture within the area. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 9, 1987.</p><br>
<p>Gwynns Falls is a 24.9 mi stream located in Baltimore County and Baltimore City, Maryland. Its headwaters are located in Reisterstown in Baltimore County, and the stream flows southeast, entering the city of Baltimore and emptying into the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River. The Patapsco drains into the Chesapeake Bay. The watershed area of Gwynns Falls covers 66 square miles, with 133 mi of streams.</p><br>
<p>The stream was named for Richard Gwinn, who opened a trading post along it in 1669. Gwynns Falls does not actually have a waterfall, but its rough, rocky nature caused John Smith to comment on how the stream tumbled over "felles". This confusing local practice of using "falls" in the name of rocky streams was also applied to Baltimore&#39;s Jones Falls and Gunpowder Falls, which do not have waterfalls.</p><br>
<p>During periods of high water conditions the stream can be whitewater kayaked, with the most challenging section running from the dam in Dickeyville to the Washington Street bridge crossing. This section is entirely within the city limits of Baltimore. An unusual feature of the run is a point where a city water pipe main crosses about a foot above the water level; kayaking normally requires a portage around the pipe crossing.</p><br>
<p>Grays Lake is a 80 acre kettle lake located in the Village of Grayslake in Lake County, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>Local regulations</h2><br>
<p>Motorized watercraft are generally not allowed on the lake. Largemouth bass must be 15 inches long or longer to keep while northern pike must be 24 inches long or longer to keep. 2 line limit</p><br>
<h2>Statistics</h2><br>
<p>Grays Lake contains approximately 112 million gallons of water covering approximately 80 acre. Water depth is approximately 18 ft at its deepest point and averages 4 feet deep. The lake is nearly 0.3 mi wide and 0.53 mi long with about 2 mi of lake shore.</p><br>
<h2>Watershed</h2><br>
<p>Grays Lake lies at the top of and drains into the Mill Creek, watershed. The Mill Creek watershed lies in the Des Plaines River watershed, which lies in the Illinois River watershed, which lies in the Mississippi River watershed, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico and eventually into the Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Fish</p><br>
<p>Largemouth bass, crappie, northern pike, yellow perch, sunfish, carp and catfish.</p><br>
<p>Mammals</p><br>
<p>Fox, coyote, gray squirrel, chipmunk, raccoon, bat</p><br>
<p>Amphibians</p><br>
<p>Frog</p><br>
<p>Birds</p><br>
<p>Turkey vulture, American robin, American goldfinch, blue heron, mallard duck, swan, dark-eyed junco, red-tailed hawk</p><br>
<p>Reptiles</p><br>
<p>Common snapping turtle</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>Pickerel rush</p><br>
<h2>Jones Island</h2><br>
<p>At the west end of the lake is a peninsula called Jones Island. This area, previously a marsh, was filled in to improve recreational opportunities.</p><br>
<p>The Rutherford County Courthouse in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is a Classical Revival building from 1859. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is one of six remaining Tennessee courthouses dating to before the Civil War.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>In 1813 a courthouse, jail and other buildings were built on the site occupied by the current building. The courthouse served as the seat of the state legislature until 1822 when the structure burned down.</p><br>
<h2>Civil War</h2><br>
<p>A new, larger, courthouse was built in 1859 at a cost of $50,000. The original cupola was designed to reflect the Tennessee State Capitol building in Nashville. In 1860 a new bell and clock tower was constructed. During the Civil War the Courthouse was occupied by both Confederate and Union troops. Confederate troops, under the command of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, occupied the area from July 1862 until the end of the Battle of Stones River in early 1863. The Courthouse then served as a headquarters for the Union army until the end of the war.</p><br>
<h2>Modern history</h2><br>
<p>The Courthouse narrowly escaped destruction when a tornado hit Murfreesboro in 1913 which caused minor damage to the clock tower.</p><br>
<p>In the spring of 1923, a man known as the "Human Fly" announced that he would climb to the top of the Courthouse for a small fee. His ascent was successful but as he began to climb down he lost his footing and fell to his death. During WWII, to announce the first statewide blackout the Courthouse bell was rung at 9:00 PM on June 9, 1942 and the Courthouse became the site of an air raid alarm. The square surrounding the Courthouse was used for military training exercises.</p><br>
<p>During the early 1960s wings were added on either side of the original 1859 building to accommodate the need for additional space. Although, there have been no major constructions on the site since then the interior was renovated in 1998 to its original 19th century appearance.</p><br>
<p>There is a popular local legend which states there are a series of tunnels, possibly for escape or transferring funds to nearby banks, running from the Courthouse to various locations. No such tunnels have been discovered, although small (and limited) subterranean structures do exist such as drainage pipes.</p><br>
<p>The historic courthouse no longer hosts the county&#39;s various courts, which are now located in the Rutherford County Judicial Building on the courthouse square.</p><br>
<h2>Courthouse grounds</h2><br>
<p>In 1901, the Sons of Confederate Veterans along with the Ladies Memorial Association erected a monument to the Confederacy on the Courthouse lawn.</p><br>
<p>On the west side of the Courthouse, in 1912, a tablet was erected by the Col. Hardy Murfree Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to commemorate Murfreesboro’s status as former state capitol. Another monument was erected, this time on the southwest lawn, in 1949 to further memorialize the city&#39;s status as former state capitol.</p><br>
<p>Additional monuments around the Courthouse include, a monument to Revolutionary War Gen. Griffith Rutherford, a monument dedicated to Rutherford County law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty since 1946, two plaques in memory to the memory of Forrest’s Raid on Murfreesboro (July 13, 1862), a memorial to Veterans of Foreign Wars, a plaque in honor of those who served the Confederacy from Rutherford County, and a monument erected in 2011 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #33 dedicated to those from Rutherford County who served in the Army of Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Runde Environmental Centre  is a research station at the Norwegian island of Runde. The centre has four main activities: a marine station, a house and hub for small spin-off businesses, an information centre, and a conference/overnight centre with 34 hotel-standard rooms in 8 apartment suites. The island of Runde is located in the municipality of Herøy in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is about 15 km north of Fosnavåg.</p><br>
<h2>Research Activity</h2><br>
<p>The marine station is the dominant activity at the Centre. The research activity will be funded by independent project funding, governmental grants, and by contributions from visiting scientists and institutes. The scientific plan (long term monitoring) calls for work to be done in the fields of meteorology, oceanography, marine pollution, seabird monitoring, marine biology, rocky shore monitoring, and renewable energy, as well as for a survey of plankton, fish, sea mammals, and terrestrial flora.</p><br>
<h2>Tourist Information</h2><br>
<p>The tourist information centre for the island is located in the Environmental Centre.</p><br>
<p>Fukue Island is the largest and southernmost of the Gotō Islands in Japan. It is part of the city of Gotō in Nagasaki Prefecture. Gotō-Fukue Airport is on this island.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Fukue has a generally warm and very wet climate (Köppen Cfa) with hot and oppressively humid summers and cool, wet winters with practically no snowfall owing to the island’s southerly latitude. Despite this, during the winter months cold water transported south from the Sea of Okhotsk by the eastern side of the Siberian High makes for very gloomy weather with scarcely any more sunshine than the “San‘in” coast from Hagi to Wakkanai. Like the rest of Kyūshū, Fukue and the other Gotō Islands are prone to typhoons during summer and autumn which can give daily rainfalls as high as 432.5 mm on 10 September 2005 and 433.5 mm on 7 July 1987. The wettest month on record was July 1987 with 872 mm and the driest was November 1971 with 3.5 mm.</p><br>
<p>The Ishpeming Municipal Building is a public building located at 100 East Division Street in Ishpeming, Michigan. It is also known as Ishpeming City Hall. The building was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1980 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The City Hall in Ishpeming was built during the boom iron-mining years, constructed from 1889 to 1891 using a design by Milwaukee architect Demetrius F. Charlton. The structure originally housed the jail, a library, and a madhall&#39;s office in addition to city government offices. It is still used by the city of Ishpeming.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Ishpeming City Hall is a two-story, rectangular structure built of Portage Entry sandstone and brick on a concrete-and-rubble foundation. The main facade has a rounded entry arch, decorative sandstone sills and lintels above and below the windows, and a decorative beltcourse between the floors. The roof consists of two intersecting gables. A square tower topped with a pyramidal roof sits at the corner of the structure and a one-story addition housing the jail has a hipped roof.</p><br>
<p>The Square Schoolhouse is a historic schoolhouse at the junction of New Hampshire Route 156 and Ledge Hill Road in Nottingham, New Hampshire. Built about 1850, it is one of the best-preserved mid-19th century schoolhouses in southern New Hampshire. It served as a school until 1920, and is now a local museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is named not for its shape, but for its location in Nottingham Square.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Square Schoolhouse stands southwest of the center of Nottingham in a rural setting, on the north side of Ledge Farm Road just southeast of its junction with New Hampshire Route 156. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and modest Greek Revival styling. Its front (gabled) facade is three bays wide, with windows topped by peaked lintels, and a center entrance framed by pilasters and a gabled pediment. The entrance opens into a vestibule area with a central staircase and cloakrooms on the sides, where many original period coathooks remain. The balance of each floor is occupied by a single classroom; that on the upper floor has a selection of student seating types dating from various periods of the school&#39;s use.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1850 as the first schoolhouse in the town, not long after the state circulated guidelines for the construction of such buildings. The schoolhouse is now owned by the Else Cilley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.</p><br>
<p>The second floor of the schoolhouse is operated as the Square Schoolhouse Museum by the Nottingham Historical Society. The museum is open by appointment.</p><br>
<p>The Rockingham Hotel is a historic former hotel and contemporary condominium at 401 State Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1885, it is a prominent early example of Colonial Revival architecture, built in part in homage to Woodbury Langdon, whose 1785 home occupied the site. Langdon&#39;s home and the hotel both played host to leading figures of their day, and the hotel was one of the finest in northern New England. The hotel, now converted to condominiums, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Rockingham Hotel stands in downtown Portsmouth, on the north side of State Street between Middle and Fleet Streets. It is a five-story brick building, built in a conscious imitation of the 1785 home of Woodbury Langdon, a prominent merchant and politician which previously occupied the site. Its facade presents as two five-bay structures set side-by-side, each with a central entrance sheltered by a projecting rectangular portico. Two-story oriel window bays project above the entrances on the third and fourth floors. Stringcourses of brownstone trim separate the first and second floors, and the fourth and fifth floors. The building facade incorporates lions, terra cotta sculptures of the Four Seasons of Man, and busts of Langdon and Frank Jones, who built the hotel in 1885.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Coburn converted the Langdon house into a hotel which opened November 1, 1833. Frank Jones, a Portsmouth mayor, congressman, and prominent local brewer bought it in 1870, tore it down, and built a Second Empire hotel building on the site. After a fire in 1884, Jones built the present structure. Through these constructions, the dining room of Woodbury Langdon, a high-quality rendition of domestic Georgian design, was retained. It now houses a restaurant.</p><br>
<p>A hotel until 1973, the premises, either as the home of Langdon or one of the two hotel structures, hosted presidents George Washington, Franklin Pierce, James K. Polk, Theodore Roosevelt, Chester A. Arthur, William H. Taft and John F. Kennedy.</p><br>
<p>Benham Falls are rapids of the Deschutes River located between Sunriver and Bend, Oregon, United States. With a pitch of 22.5°, they are rated Class 5 for watercraft, and are the largest falls on the upper Deschutes.</p><br>
<p>The falls were created by the eruption of nearby Lava Butte approximately 6,000 years ago, as the lava flow dammed the Deschutes, forming a lake known as Lake Benham. The river eventually flowed over the dam, draining the lake and thus forming Benham Falls. Around 1885, J. R. Benham attempted and failed to file a land claim near the falls, though they were later named for him.</p><br>
<p>Today, there are forest roads connecting Benham Falls to Lava Butte, Lava River Cave, and Sunriver Resort. A footbridge connects the forest road to an easy-to-navigate trail near the river and falls. The shady area has lots of wildlife and flowers. Because of this, the area also has mosquitoes. Additionally, the United States Forest Service has established a few lookouts over the gorge for viewers. Hikers and mountain bikers who continue on this trail pass Dillon Falls and Lava Island Falls, and eventually, the city of Bend. Benham Falls is relatively easier to see compared to the falls downstream, because it is not surrounded by lava flow from Lava Butte, but surrounded by forest. Because of its location, it is also much more popular.</p><br>
<p>Benham Falls is also in the Deschutes National Forest and the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. Benham Falls Recreation Site and Benham Falls West Recreation Site are located nearby.</p><br>
<p>Hauhungatahi is an eroded volcano at the southern end of the Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand, located about 11 km WNW of Mount Ruapehu. Although relatively little-known, at 1,521 m Hauhungatahi is one of the highest volcanoes in New Zealand, exceeded in elevation by only Ruapehu, Taranaki/Egmont , and the Tongariro massif . The volcano is constructed atop an upfaulted block of Mesozoic marine sediments. The age of the erupted andesite lava is about 900,000 years, making Hauhungatahi more than three times as old as the neighboring Ruapehu.</p><br>
<p>The volcano is located in the western part of Tongariro National Park. The terrain surrounding Hauhungatahi and covering an area of 8,498 hectare has been managed as a Wilderness Area since 1966, one of two such officially-designated areas within the park.</p><br>
<p>The standard ascent route on Hauhungatahi is a tramp from the west side starting near Erua, following remnants of an old track in places, and bush-bashing through several overgrown and boggy areas to reach the bush line near 1,200 m on the summit plateau. Slightly easier travel continues eastward to the true summit, which provides panoramic views of neighboring peaks throughout the park including Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro.</p><br>
<p>The New Hampshire Bank Building is a historic commercial building at 22-26 Market Square, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built in 1803 and much altered since, it is one of the nation&#39;s oldest purpose-built bank buildings, and was until 1977 the oldest building used continuously to house banking operations. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The New Hampshire Bank Building is prominently sited in downtown Portsmouth&#39;s Market Square, on the east side of the square, one building south of Daniel Street. Due to its extensive history of alteration, the building now has two different facades, one next to the other. When built, it was a two-story brick structure, with a five-bay front facade, of which the center three bays were recessed. The recessed area was covered by a roof, which sheltered entrances into the projecting outer bays. In 1869 the building was partitioned into two ground-floor spaces, with front-facing entrances to those, and a third center entrance providing access to the upper floor. In 1903 the building was widened, and the left side restyled in the Classical Revival. The right side was renovated in 1904, giving that half a granite Beaux Arts facade. In the 30 ft lobby hangs a giant stained glass dome depicting the New Hampshire State Seal.</p><br>
<p>The building was erected in 1803 for the New Hampshire Bank after a house which was serving as its office burned in the great fire of 1802. New Hampshire Bank, chartered in 1792, was the first bank in the state. The building&#39;s ground floor spaces were occupied by a succession of banking interests, including two different banks beginning with the 1869 partition. Among those occupying offices on the second floor were New Hampshire Governor Levi Woodbury, his pupil, later President, Franklin Pierce, and New Hampshire Attorney General Jeremiah Mason. All three were USA senators from New Hampshire for one or more terms.</p><br>
<p>The building was occupied by banks until 1977, when it was sold to a real estate agent, who adapted one side for his agency, and leased the other to a mortgage broker. The building now houses non-banking commercial businesses.</p><br>
<p>Babington House is a Grade II* listed manor house, located in the village of Babington, between Radstock and Frome, in the county of Somerset, England.</p><br>
<p>Converted to a private members club and hotel by Nick Jones, it is currently owned by Soho House Ltd. Since 1999 it has hosted many celebrity weddings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village of Babington dates from medieval times. Its name derives from the Babington family, who were once associated with the village, but it appears to have been for the most part demolished to make way for the house around 1705.</p><br>
<p>The manor was sold by Thomas and Mary Mankham to Joan Elcode, a widow, in a deed dated Easter 1572. The estate then contained 7 messuages, one cottage, 10 tofts, 1 water mill, 10 gardens, 14 orchards, 300 acres (121 hectares) of land, 120 acre of meadow, 160 acre of pasture, 20 acre of wood, 120 acre of furze and 4s annual rent and 1 lb of pepper.</p><br>
<p>The estate passed through several hands until it was forfeit to the Crown in 1593. By the late 17th century, the manor belonged to Thomas Pacey who left it to his sister, Margaret. She was married to a Bristol alderman, William Crabb, and subsequently passed the manor on to their eldest daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Henry Mompesson of Corston, Wiltshire (1633–1715) who was Sheriff of Somerset in 1698.</p><br>
<p>The current house was built around 1705 for Henry Mompesson, probably on the foundations of an earlier building which would have been owned by the Babington family. It has since been extensively altered and extended, including in 1790, possibly by John Pinch the elder, for Captain Charles Knatchbull, who had inherited it via Mrs Elizabeth Long the Mompessons&#39; niece.</p><br>
<p>Babington was inhabited by successive members of the Knatchbull family, until the house and immediate grounds were sold following the death in 1951 of Mrs Knatchbull. Better known under her maiden name as the pianist and composer Dora Bright, she was the widow of Wyndham Knatchbull (1829–1900), a captain of the 3rd Dragoon Guards. In April 1939, BBC Radio broadcast a concert of her playing from Babington House.</p><br>
<p>Close to Babington House is the Grade I listed Church of St Margaret, The Grounds of Babington House are listed Grade II in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.</p><br>
<h2>Hotel and private members club</h2><br>
<p>In 1998, Nick Jones who had founded the Soho House club in Soho, London bought the property. He converted it to a hotel, club and wedding venue for the London members of Soho House club, as well as new Somerset members. The property is also part-owned by actor Neil Morrissey.</p><br>
<p>In that year, Nick Jones was cautioned by police after eleven Polish illegal immigrants were found working at the hotel.</p><br>
<p>Wedding ceremonies are performed in St Margaret&#39;s Church or in the orangery. Weddings for non-members are allowed.</p><br>
<h3>Notable weddings held at Babington House</h3><br>
<p>Fat Boy Slim and Zoë Ball, August 1999</p><br>
<p>Nick Jones and Kirsty Young, 30 September 1999</p><br>
<p>Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal and Liz Jones, 2002</p><br>
<p>John Thomson and Samantha Sharp (reception only), May 2005</p><br>
<p>Natasha Kaplinsky and Justin Bower, 21 August 2005</p><br>
<p>Lucy Benjamin and Richard Taggart, 30 March 2006</p><br>
<p>Angela Griffin and Jason Milligan, 31 July 2006</p><br>
<p>Clive Standen and wife Francesca, 2007</p><br>
<p>Richard Bacon and Rebecca McFarlane (reception only), 17 January 2008</p><br>
<p>Danny Goffey and Pearl Lowe, 4 December 2008</p><br>
<p>Amanda Holden and Chris Hughes, 10 December 2008</p><br>
<p>Jenni Falconer and James Midgley, 3 June 2010</p><br>
<p>Damien Duff and wife Elaine (reception only), 17 June 2010</p><br>
<p>Amanda Lamb and Sean McGuinness, June 2012</p><br>
<p>Sam Taylor-Wood and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 21 June 2012</p><br>
<p>James Corden and Julia Carey, 15 September 2012</p><br>
<p>Katherine Kingsley and Dominic Tighe, 25 June 2013</p><br>
<p>Professor Green and Millie Mackintosh, 10 September 2013</p><br>
<p>Lucie Cave and Ben Lunt, 4 September 2014</p><br>
<p>Eddie Redmayne and Hannah Bagshawe, 15 December 2014</p><br>
<p>Jim Chapman and Tanya Burr, 3 September 2015</p><br>
<p>Michael Arden and Andy Mientus, 18 August 2016</p><br>
<p>Chris Hayden and Mairead Nash, the drummer and manager of Florence and the Machine, 22 September 2016</p><br>
<h2>Grounds</h2><br>
<p>To the north of the House are lawns planted with 19th-century specimen deciduous and coniferous trees and ornamental shrubberies. From here there are views north and northeast across the park beyond the former northwest drive towards the grounds of Ammerdown House, Kilmersdon.</p><br>
<p>Within the grounds are a chain of five informal pools situated in a shallow valley about 70 m west of the House. The pools are surrounded by mixed specimen trees and shrubberies. A walk on the western side of the pools leads to a kitchen garden southwest of the House.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house of mainly Georgian architecture has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. The 18th-century stable block and coach house have now been made into three separate dwellings. The grounds also contain a listed ice house and two sets of gates, which are Grade II listed.</p><br>
<p>Fort Halleck was a military outpost that existed in the 1860s along the Overland Trail and stage route in what was then the Territory of Idaho, now the USA state of Wyoming. The fort was established in 1862 to protect emigrant travelers and stages transporting mail between Kansas and Salt Lake City, Utah and named for Major General Henry Wager Halleck, commander of the Department of the Missouri and later General-in-chief of the Union armies.</p><br>
<p>The fort was located on the northeast side of Elk Mountain at an altitude of about 7800 feet. At the time the area around the fort was well watered and well stocked with game. The fort was reasonably large with stables for 200 horses, company quarters, office quarters, and a hospital and surgeons on staff.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Overland Trail was established in 1860 following the same general path as the Cherokee Trail which was in use in the late 1840s by miners heading to California. In 1861 the government moved the official mail route to the Overland Trail from the Oregon Trail due to threat of Indian attack and the mail contract was assigned to Ben Holladay who established a stage line and stage stations along the Overland Trail. Pressure by white immigrants and shifting buffalo herds forced the Indian tribes to the Laramie Plains where they came into conflict with travelers on the Overland. Soldiers from the Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry stationed in Camp Collins in Colorado were dispatched north to build Fort Halleck to protect the trail from Camp Collins to the Green River stage station in the west.</p><br>
<p>The trail was at its busiest in 1864 and 1865. During this time troops were often used as escorts and drivers for the stages. At times in 1864 and 1865 ongoing attacks caused the mail to accumulate at stations in Colorado and at Fort Halleck until it could be transported to Green River via government wagons.</p><br>
<p>The fort was abandoned in 1866 after Fort Sanders was built near the present day city of Laramie. Three years later the Transcontinental railroad was completed (mostly along the same route as the Overland Trail from Laramie to Salt Lake City) and travel on the trail declined to nearly nothing.</p><br>
<p>The outlaw L.H. Musgrove was charged in 1863 with murder at Fort Halleck and taken to Denver, Colorado, where he was lynched in 1868 by a vigilante committee.</p><br>
<p>Today the site is located on private land. Only a single building (thought to be the blacksmith shop) remains standing. A marker is located on the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The New Durham Town Hall is located at Main Street and Ridge Road in the center of New Durham, New Hampshire. Built in 1908, it is the town&#39;s second town hall, and an architecturally distinctive design of Dover architect Alvah T. Ramsdell. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>New Durham&#39;s town hall is prominently located in its village center, at the northwest corner of Main Street and Ridge Road. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. It is a stylistically distinctive combination of Colonial Revival and Italianate design, with an elaborately decorated hood sheltering the recessed entry. The northeast corner of the building is taken up by a 55 ft tower, which has corner pilasters rising to the third stage, and a hipped roof topped by a weathervane. The interior houses town offices on the ground floor, and an auditorium and meeting space on the upper level.</p><br>
<p>The town hall was built in 1908, replacing in function the towns original 1770 meetinghouse, which still stands in the rural New Durham Corner area to the south. The new location of the towns civic heart was occasioned by changes in the town&#39;s economic focus due to the construction of new roads, and arrival in the 1850s of the railroad. In addition to serving its civic function, the upstairs hall is also a social center, housing meetings and events of community groups. Alvah Ramsdell, the architect, was prominent in the region, designing a number of similar town halls, as well as schools and commercial buildings.</p><br>
<p>The North Stonington Village Historic District is a 105 acre historic district in the town of North Stonington, Connecticut. The district includes part of the historic village of North Stonington. It is "an irregularly shaped district centered on the confluence of Assekonk Brook and the Shunock River" which were historic sources of waterpower for this 19th-century village.</p><br>
<p>Contributing properties having photos included in the 1981 NRHP application are:</p><br>
<p>a stone bridge over the Shunok River (photo 1 in the NRHP application attachments)</p><br>
<p>lower dam of the Shunok River (photo 2)</p><br>
<p>the William Sisson House, at 69 Main Street (photo 3)</p><br>
<p>the Luther Avery / Steven Maine House, at 1 Wyassup Road (photo 4)</p><br>
<p>the William Avery House, at 35 Main Street (photo 5)</p><br>
<p>the Noah Grant, Jr., House, a house with a broken pediment at 17 Main Street (photo 6)</p><br>
<p>the Rev. Joseph Ayer House, 94 Main Street (photo 7)</p><br>
<p>the Wheeler Store Old Town Hall (photo 8)</p><br>
<p>the North Stonington Post Office, 60 Main Street (photo 9)</p><br>
<p>the Holmes Block, 2 Wyassup Road (photos 10 and 11)</p><br>
<p>the William M. Wheeler House, at 77 Main Street (photo 12)</p><br>
<p>the Third Baptist Church, at 29 Main Street (photo 13)</p><br>
<p>the North Stonington Congregational Church, at 79 Main Street (photo 14)</p><br>
<p>a schoolhouse, at 9 Wyassup Road (photo 15)</p><br>
<p>13 Rocky Hollow Road, a Gothic- and Italianate-style house (photo 16)</p><br>
<p>Dudley Stewart House, 32 Main Street, a house with a peak ornament (photo 17)</p><br>
<p>carriage house to the Andrew Baldwin House at 63 Main Street (photo 18)</p><br>
<p>the Park Hotel, at 6 Wyassup Road (photo 19)</p><br>
<p>the Wheeler School and Library, with a hipped roof, 101 Main Street (photo 20)</p><br>
<p>the North Stonington Grange, 21 Wyassup (photo 21)</p><br>
<p>the Town Garage and Gas Station (photo 22)</p><br>
<p>Blacksmith Shop, at 25 Main Street (photo 23)</p><br>
<p>remains of canal off Babcock Road, (photo 24)</p><br>
<p>historic photo, c.1900, of saw mill (photo 25)</p><br>
<p>machinery of lower dam, 1981 (photo 26)</p><br>
<p>The stone bridge over the Shunok River was damaged in flooding on March 29, 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Putnam House is a historic building in the Harmar neighborhood of Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places. The house overlooks the Muskingum River.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1805 for David Putnam, grandson of General Israel Putnam and nephew of General Rufus Putnam. In 1807 it co-housed the first banking corporation in the Northwest Territory and Ohio.</p><br>
<p>David Putnam lived here for 51 years, until he died in 1856. The house remained in the Putnam family until 1933. 1981 saw the restoration of the house by the Putnam House Partners.</p><br>
<p>Marietta&#39;s leading abolitionist, David Putnam, Jr. was born in this house in 1808. David Putnam, Jr. used another nearby house as his "station house" on the Underground Railroad, that house was torn down in 1953.</p><br>
<p>The Rufus Putnam House, also known as Campus Martius or Campus Martius Museum State Memorial, is a historic building in Marietta, Ohio. It was built as part of the Campus Martius fortification by General Rufus Putnam, during the early settlement of Ohio by the Ohio Company of Associates.</p><br>
<p>The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places individually, and it is also a contributing property of the Marietta Historic District. The building is the only surviving part of the Campus Martius fortification and has been enclosed inside the Campus Martius Museum building.</p><br>
<p>The house has been called “the most outstanding architectural combination of New England tradition and frontier necessity preserved in Ohio today.”</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction began soon after Putnam arrived in 1788 using a building method known as post-and-plank or corner post construction. Each wall of the building was built prefabricated. Four-inch-thick by foot-wide hewn oak timbers were mortised and tenoned, and fastened with wooden dowels into a diagonal braced frame. Random-width four-inch-thick planks were fitted to complete the wall lying on the ground. Each plank was numbered with Roman numerals, then removed so the frame could be raised, and then re-assembled. Eight by eight-inch oak floor joists with neither foundation nor basement were used, and tulip poplar floor boards were laid, but not fastened until seasoned.</p><br>
<p>The building was completed late in 1790. The green planks used in original construction shrank, and it was necessary to wedge lath into the cracks, until clapboard was applied later. With the end of the Northwest Indian War, the Campus Martius fortification was no longer necessary, and Putnam bought the adjacent blockhouse, and used the lumber to add a four-room addition to the original four-room house in 1795.</p><br>
<p>Putnam’s wife died in 1820; he stayed in the house till he died in 1824. After Putnam’s daughter Elizabeth died in 1831, the house was sold to the Nye family, who occupied it for many years, followed by tenants late in the 19th century. The Marietta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution leased the building starting in 1905. In 1917, the state bought the Campus Martius site, and placed it under the control of the Ohio Historical Society. Few Putnam pieces remain to decorate the interior, so other pioneer families donated items about 1927, including the Meigs, Fearing, Devol, Blennerhassett, Mason, Hildreth, and Sprague. The building, which now has a basement, was enclosed in the south wing of the museum later.</p><br>
<p>A 1903 history says the building was commonly called The Old Block-House.</p><br>
<p>An earlier home of General Putnam&#39;s, the General Rufus Putnam House in Rutland, Massachusetts, is also listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Ohio Company Land Office is one of the original buildings of the city of Marietta, Ohio, United States. The Office is listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places and as a contributing property to the Marietta Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Land Office was built after Ohio Company of Associates landed at Marietta in 1788. The Office was built at approximately 39&deg;25&prime;16.75&Prime;N latitude, 81&deg;27&prime;47.25&Prime;W longitude. In 1791 the building was moved away from the Muskingum River so it could be protected by the guns of Campus Martius. From this location, Ohio Company surveyors plotted the companys entire purchase in southeastern Ohio, more than 900,000 acre in total, under the direction of Rufus Putnam as the companys chief. url= The building is a simple log structure with a gabled roof, pierced by a single chimney; one window is set into the side, and the front has space for just one window and the main entrance. Its location on a slope permits the slight exposure of the foundation on one side. Smaller elements include shutters for the windows and a pair of steps that provide access to the main entrance. As the oldest extant building anywhere in Ohio, the land office had become the focus of significant attention by the opening years of the twentieth century, with organizations such as Marietta&#39;s historical society devoting extensive effort to ensure its preservation.</p><br>
<p>The building is now part of the Campus Martius Museum complex.</p><br>
<p>Specimen Ridge, el. 8,379 ft is an approximately 8.5 mi ridge along the south rim of the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park. The ridge separates the Lamar Valley from Mirror Plateau. The ridge is oriented northwest to southeast from the Tower Junction area to Amethyst Mountain. The ridge is known for its abundance of amethyst, opal and petrified wood. It was referred to as Specimen Mountain by local miners and was probably named by prospectors well before 1870. The south side of the ridge is traversed by the 18.8 mi Specimen Ridge Trail between Tower Junction and Soda Butte Creek. The trail passes through the Petrified Forest and over the summit of Amethyst Mountain el. 9,614 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Specimen Ridge consists of a geological formation known as the Lamar River Formation. Within the Specimen Mountain area, it consists predominantly of an undetermined thickness of conglomerate that is interbedded with lesser proportions of tuffaceous sandstone and siltstone. Volcanic breccia is absent. The conglomerates consist of a mixture of mudflow deposits (lahars) that are complexly interlayered with braided and meandering stream deposits. The lahar (mudflow) deposits consist of normally massive and structureless, matrix-supported conglomerates that contain subangular, poorly sorted gravel that range in size from 1 cm to 2 m in diameter. The majority of the sediments consist of well-bedded, clast-supported fluvial conglomerates that consist of grain-supported, subrounded, and moderately well-sorted gravel that typically ranges in size from 1 cm to 30 cm. The vast majority of petrified wood occurs within the conglomerates. The fossil leaves, needles, pollen, and cones are largely found within tuffaceous sandstones and siltstones that were deposited either along the banks of either braided or meandering rivers, within their abandoned channels, or in shallow lakes of very limited extent. At Specimen Ridge, these sediments consist of volcanic material eroded from and accumulated downslope of an adjacent Eocene stratovolcano, known the Washburn Volcano, in an intermountaine basin. The Lamar River Formation is part of the Washburn Group.</p><br>
<p>The Lamar River Formation is part of the Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup. It is a thick accumulation of volcanic rocks that were either erupted from or eroded from the slopes of two belts of Eocene stratovolcanoes. These rocks accumulated within an intermountain basin between these belts. Before they were destroyed by erosion, these volcanoes are estimated to have had peaks that rose about 8,000 ft to 10,000 ft above adjacent intermountain valleys. Depending on location, the Lamar River Formation unconformably overlies either older lavas, conglomerates, tuffs, volcanic breccias of the Sepulcher Formation; Mississippian limestones and dolomites; or Precambrian gneiss. Based on radiometric dates and plant fossils from it, the Lamar River Formation is considered to be of Middle Eocene age.</p><br>
<h2>Yellowstone Petrified Forest</h2><br>
<p>Within the Specimen Ridge, exposures of the Lamar River Formation is well known for the fossils of upright standing, petrified tree trunks and multiple beds containing buried petrified forests and petrified wood concentrations. The concentrations of silicified wood, upright standing, petrified tree trunks, and associated buried petrified forests of Specimen Ridge and adjacent Amethyst Mountain are collectively known as Yellowstone Petrified Forest. They have been known to science and studied for over 130 years.</p><br>
<p>Within Specimen Ridge, the Yellowstone Petrified Forest consists of a mixture of fossilized, in place (in situ) buried forests and beds of transported logs and stumps. The rare beds that contain buried forests were buried in place (in situ) by volcanic lahars and braided streams. The concentrations of fossilized upright stumps, flat-lying logs, and logs lying at various angles were transported from the higher slopes of adjacent volcanoes and buried by either volcanic lahars or braided and meandering streams. Notably, the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, and other Quaternary and Holocene eruptions of other Cascade Range volcanoes have created virtually identical beds containing either the buried upright standing trunks of forests, transported logs and upright stumps, or a combination of both. These beds consist of a mixture of lahars and stream deposits. Prehistoric logs and upright trunks that are buried in Late Pleistocene lahar and stream deposits of Mount St. Helens were found to be the initial stages of being naturally petrified by silica.</p><br>
<p>In regard to these fossil forests and other fossils, collecting of fossils in Yellowstone National Park is illegal. In addition, visitors should stay on marked and maintained trails.</p><br>
<p>Dillon Falls are rapids in the USA state of Oregon near Bend in the Deschutes National Forest. With a pitch of 76.5°, the falls are a significant obstacle to whitewater running and are rated Class 5.</p><br>
<p>Unlike nearby Benham Falls, Dillon Falls are not widely documented because they are hard to see. Trails provide a somewhat better view of the falls. The falls were named after Leander Dillon, a nearby homesteader. He died in 1907.</p><br>
<p>Dillon Falls starts off as a dramatic 15 ft drop, then become a steep and violent class-5 rapids with a hazardously positioned tree in the center before ending as class 2 and 3. Experienced rafters can run the falls before taking out at Lava Island Falls downstream.</p><br>
<p>The Falls have an additional danger— the area of the Deschutes River above is very calm, wide and open. The Falls are around a bend in the River and to the unknowlegeable, when one sees the warning signs in such a calm stream, there might be the temptation to ignore them. The slot of lava flows the falls cut through tend to limit the amount of sound that travels that direction, too, so the falls are not easily heard from the area of calm water.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Kirk Building, first known as the Kirkland Investment Company Building, is a historic building in Kirkland, Washington located at the corner of Market Street and Seventh Avenue, Kirklands historic commercial core. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1889 by the citys founder and namesake Peter Kirk, who constructed the building as the centerpiece of his planned steel producing city. Following the panic of 1893, the building remained occupied but fell into disrepair by the 1960s. The building was rescued from demolition in the early 1960s by a syndicate led by William Radcliffe who purchased and restored the Peter Kirk Building into the Kirkland Arts Center which it remains to this day. Today it is one of Kirkland&#39;s most historic and symbolic structures.</p><br>
<p>The building is notable for its corner turret and Victorian and Romanesque designs which remain intact. It is constructed of locally pressed red brick with plaster, rusticated stone and tin trimmings. It is the oldest commercial building on the Eastside of Lake Washington.</p><br>
<h2>Present and original appearance</h2><br>
<p>The Peter Kirk Building is generally late Victorian in character and the exterior, in spite of many owners and periods of neglect, appears the same as it did in the late 19th century. There have been some interior changes such as a stairway being moved and the addition of a fire escape in the rear and also the addition of a mezzanine. The land on which it sits is sloping. The building is basically square, measuring 59 × 55. The roof is flat with a continuous parapet on the north and west faces (approximately 3 feet high). There is an isolated pediment rising above the roof line on the west face. There is a decorated entablature with dentils and stylized brackets; the entablature is metal. The building material is brick in stretcher bond pattern. It is two stories with no basement. Second story windows are tall semicircular with radiating voussoirs and continuous sills; they are all double hung sash, The western face on street level has store front windows, full length topped by 48 section "lights". The north face main level windows are squat segmented with radiating voussoirs and a surround with trim. The entrance is semi-circular w/radiating voussoirs and a surround with trim., The recessed doors are double with windows. There is a two section fan transom above the doors. The main entrance is topped on the second level by a turret with a candle snuffer roof. The turret has four double hung windows topped by leaded stained glass lights. There is a metal finial atop the turret roof.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ground was broken for the building in 1889 at the southeast corner of Market and Picadilly Street (now Seventh Avenue) in what was then Kirklands main intersection and intended business district. The bricks were made at Kirks own brick works located where Peter Kirk Park is now out of locally dug clay. After several delays in construction the building was completed in March 1890 at a cost of $8,000. Kirk located his offices for the Kirkland Investment Company on the upper floor; his own office in the corner turret. The first floor was initially occupied by Guptil and Evans, a dry goods business and The Elder Drug store. Following the demise of Kirks plans for the town as a steel producing mecca, the business center shifted away from the Kirk Building towards the waterfront. The upper floor was vacated when the Kirkland Investment Company was sold to Seattle Developers Burke & Farrar, who played a major role in revitalizing Kirkland as a suburban community in the early 1910s. The second floor was later converted to apartments while the ground floor continued to host businesses including a butcher shop, a grocery store and a furniture store. One of these was the Eastside Furniture Company, owned by Kirklands youngest mayor, Al Leland, in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>After years of neglect, the building was threatened with demolition in the late 1950s because the landlord couldnt afford to make the needed repairs. William Radcliffe, a local teacher, purchased space in the buildings then vacant upper story in 1958 for an art studio. In 1961, he and a group of local investors, known as the Peter Kirk Syndicate, purchased the building to clean it up and perform needed repairs. Their intention was to "preserve the building as an historic structure and use the building for the cultural enrichment of the community." The members of the syndicate donated their shares of the building to form the Creative Arts League which moved into the building where it offered various art classes as well as operating a small theater.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Kirk Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and after receiving the federal tax credits, the building was given a full restoration in 1977.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, the Peter Kirk Building was nominated to compete for part of a $1 million grant from American Express as part of their Partners In Preservation Seattle-Puget Sound Initiative.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Lodge Building, also known as the Campbell Building and first known as the French & Church Building, is an historic building located at 702 Market Street at the corner of Seventh Avenue in the historic commercial core of Kirkland, Washington. It was built in 1890-91 by Kirkland businessman and postmaster Edwin M. Church with pioneer Harry D. French as part of the land boom following Peter Kirks proposal of building a huge steel mill on the east side of Lake Washington. In 1922, The building was purchased by Kirkland Lodge No. 150 of the Free and Accepted Masons, which still occupies the buildings upper level.</p><br>
<p>The building is notable for its sturdy brick construction and Victorian elements including a wooden cornice and window caps. It remains basically unchanged except for new aluminum frame windows installed by the lodge in the 1960s to replace the original wood double hung ones. On August 3, 1982, it was added the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Present and past appearance</h2><br>
<p>This is a two story rectangular brick building with a flat roof. The building measures</p><br>
<p>54 x 79 with the southwest corner cut at a 45° angle to create a corner entrance. The</p><br>
<p>exterior brick is laid in the common bond pattern.</p><br>
<p>The wall design on the street level of the west facade is alternate brick piers and 8" round,</p><br>
<p>cast iron columns one story in height. The window and door treatments are typical storefront</p><br>
<p>with large wood sash windows with transoms and doorways without decoration. There is frieze and cornice molding above the window transoms at the second floor level terminating at the northwest and southeast corners in a decorative bracket and triangular ornament. The second floor of the west facade is given a pier effect by the use of vertical sections of raised brick at regular intervals between the tall rectangular windows. Original double hung windows have been replaced with Aluminium frame windows. Above these windows is a plaster entablature head topped by scrolls flanking a triangular ornament.</p><br>
<p>There is a continuous decorated metal parapet with dentils, brackets and wide paneled</p><br>
<p>frieze crowning the building, terminating at the northwest and southeast corners in a decorative bracket similar to those mentioned previously. Below the frieze are several rows of</p><br>
<p>brick corbelling. The decorative parapet and frieze form a smooth curve around the angled corner of the building. Just below the frieze at this point was a plaster conch shell decoration which has been missing for several years, most likely due to deterioration. The corner has recessed nine foot wooden double doors at the street level, now sheathed in brushed copper.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>The Builders</h3><br>
<p>Edwin Church was born in New York and spent his early years all over the midwest, serving in the 1st Iowa Cavalry during the American Civil War. After living in Kansas for several years, he and his family traveled west by train to San Francisco where they boarded the steamer Pacific. This steamer would sink off of Cape Flattery on its next voyage, killing all but one aboard. Church arrived in Seattle in May 1875 where he briefly lived near Auburn. His family finally settled on a large plot of land in Houghton on the eastern shore of Lake Washington by the end of 1876. During this time Church worked as a bricklayer and a mason while his family tended to crops. He eventually sold most of the property to other settlers, excluding the plot for his house, which he rebuilt in 1880 and expanded in 1886.</p><br>
<p>Harry French, whose father, S. Foster French had brought them to the area from Maine in August 1872, was one of the earliest settlers in what would become Kirkland.</p><br>
<h3>The Building</h3><br>
<p>In the spring of 1889, Church purchased the Kirkland grocery store of J.J. Tompkins and became a businessman. Soon afterwords, he became Kirklands postmaster in June 1890. With the arrival and big plans of Peter Kirk in late 1890, Church joined forces with Harry D. French, son of one of Kirklands earliest pioneers, to construct a $12,000 brick building at the intersection of Market Street and Picadilly (now Seventh Avenue) to accommodate their businesses as well as the post office. The buildings walls were reported to be thick enough to support an eventual third floor. In later years, E.A. Brooks operated the grocery store in the building and lived upstairs with his family. In the 1920s a Mr. Evans operated a variety store in the southern half of the building for a time while the other storefront was used as a band practice space. In the later 20s the ground floor was used for automotive storage. The corner store was later used as a cabinet shop</p><br>
<h3>The Masons</h3><br>
<p>In 1922, Kirkland Lodge No. 150 of the Free and Accepted Masons of Washington purchased the building for their meeting space, moving from an older wooden building a block away. The Masons remodeled the space by replacing the roof and removing most of the partition walls on the second floor. They rented out their meeting space for use by several other Masonic lodges. When a garage building was built to the north of the Masonic Lodge Building, they used its north wall as a bulkhead, weakening it and necessitating the construction of a retaining wall. Under direction of the Lodge, the basement, rendered useless by time and dampness, was filled with 15,000 yards of pea gravel and capped with a layer of cement that replaced the original floor in 1954. The then vacant store rooms have been occupied ever since.</p><br>
<p>The Jewel Box  is a greenhouse located in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri. It now serves as a public horticultural facility and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect William C. E. Becker and built in 1936 by the Robert Paulus Construction Company. It consists of five stepped, composition-covered wood roofs with clerestories, rather than a regular glass roof, in order to prevent damage from frequent hailstorms.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1913, Nelson Cunliff became Commissioner of Parks and Recreation for St. Louis City. Due to high levels of smoke and soot within the city, he began a survey to determine which plants could survive the conditions. He later asked John Moritz, who was in charge of the city&#39;s greenhouses, to set up a display greenhouse to showcase various plants which could survive. It is said that someone called the displays "like a jewel box", hence the name. In 1933, Bernard Dickmann became Mayor of St. Louis and decided to build a new facility. The building cost $125,000 and William C. E. Becker, then Chief Engineer of Bridges and Buildings for the city, was assigned to design the building. Construction began on December 12, 1935 and the facility opened on November 14, 1936.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, a $3.5 million year-long renovation of the building was completed.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The Jewel Box consists of 16,664 ft&sup2; of plate glass in over 4,000 panes, set in wood and wrought iron supports. Most of the glass is framed by copper with a verdigris patina. The Jewel Box is supported by eight fixed arches, which carry the structures weight. There are also triangular trusses between every other arch. The ceiling is composed of wood planking. The Jewel Boxs entrance is a vestibule made of limestone. Inside the greenhouse, there is a concrete-floored balcony located across the south end. A reflecting pool lies in front of the Jewel Box&#39;s entrance.</p><br>
<p>The Joshua Sears Building is a historic building in Kirkland, Washington located at the northwest corner of Market Street and Seventh Avenue, Kirklands historic commercial core. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1891 by Boston philanthropist and capitalist, Joshua Sears, who was heavily invested in Peter Kirks Great Western Iron and Steel Company and who planned to open a bank in town. As a result of the Panic of 1893, the steel mill and the bank never opened but the Sears building survives today as a reminder of what might have been in Kirkland. On August 3, 1982, it was added the National Register of Historic Places. In December 2015 the building was purchased by local attorney Simeon Osborn and his wife Monica Hart, who stated they plan to keep the current business and residential tenants.</p><br>
<h2>Original and present appearance</h2><br>
<p>A single detached structure, the building is an irregular polygon in plan, measuring 10 x 81 x 52 x 42 x 61&#39;. It is two full stories with a full basement. The main entrance is on the southeast corner with a second major entrance centered on the east facade. The building is Italianate in style and is constructed of red brick in the stretcher bond pattern. The foundation is also brick. The roof is flat and covered with tar and gravel.</p><br>
<p>There is a continuous pressed metal cornice around the east and south roof lines. The cornice contains brackets, dentils, and a decorated frieze. There are belt courses of cast ornamental concrete over raised brick occurring at four levels: on the first floor under the window sills a wide band above the first floor windows; on the second floor as a continuous band window sill and just below the metal frieze of the cornice. This cast concrete is used throughout the exterior to imitate stone.</p><br>
<p>There are several types of window treatment. These are on the west facade: segmental with radiating voussoirs of plain brick and cast concrete lug sills; south facade: first floor, plain double hung windows; above these are a second row of small windows approximately 2½ x 4, semi-circular with cast concrete surrounds and pressed metal decorative keystones; second floor, standard double hung with shaped concrete lintels with raised keystones and continuous cast concrete sills; east facade: first floor, large fixed windows with transoms above and continuous sills and headers of cast concrete; second floor, the same as the south facade; the north facade has no windows.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance, which was for the bank, is on the southeast corner. The door is recessed and approached by three granite stairs. Originally, there were paneled double doors but they have been replaced by a standard plain single door. The door architrave consists of brick pilasters with cast concrete bases and pressed metal Ionic capitals and a segmental pediment also of pressed metal. The second story window surround continues the classic effect with a triangular pediment supported by brackets over two double hung windows, since replaced by a fixed, four pane window imitating the original. Above this pediment is a rectangular cast concrete cartouche bearing the name "SEARS". The second entrance is centered on the east facade and bears many of the same features: pressed metal pediments, etc.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Sears Building was built in 1891 by Boston millionaire, philanthropist and Kirkland investor Joshua Montgomery Sears as part of the speculative land boom following Peter Kirks proposal of building a steel producing mecca that would rival Pittsburgh on the east side of Lake Washington. The building cost $18,000 to build, at the time the most expensive being built in Kirkland outside of the steel mill itself. The bricks were pressed from local clay at Peter Kirks own brick works on what is now Peter Kirk Park. The building originally intended to house a bank at the corner. Sears outfitted the entire interior and even hired a partial staff but with the arrival of the Panic of 1893, the doors, like the steel mill, never opened. In the years after the bust, the building, like many others in the area remained mostly vacant. The corner space was eventually occupied by a printing company and later a grocery store. An electric supply store occupied one of the smaller storefronts for over twenty years. At one point the building&#39;s upper floors, originally intended for office space, were divided into seven apartments. On August 3, 1982, it was added the National Register of Historic Places. As of 2005 the building housed a religious bookstore and a real estate office. In 2015 the building was purchased by Local attorney Sim Osborn and his wife Monica Hart, the couple bought the building with plans to preserve its historic features and aesthetics for future generations.</p><br>
<p>The Lobb House is a private single-family house located at 203 West Onota Street in Munising, Michigan. It is also known as the Lobb-Madigan House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Edward and Elizabeth Lobb owned the prosperous Princeton Mine in Marquette County and the Anna River Brick Company, founded in 1887. The Lobbs were the leading family of Munising in the late 19th century due to the prosperity and importance of their business interests. Edward Lobb died c. 1892, leaving the family&#39;s fortunes in the capable hands of Elizabeth. She continued operating the brickyard along with her son Nathaniel, and in 1905-1906 built this house designed by Sault Ste. Marie architect Edward DeMar.</p><br>
<p>The house was sold by the Lobb family in 1945 to John and Francis Madigan, and in 1973 the Madigans sold it to the Alger County Historical Society for use as a museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lobb House is a two-and-one-half-story structure, 42 feet by 28 feet, sided with clapboard. The roof is hipped, with hipped dormers, and the exposed eaves extend well beyond the exterior walls. A veranda with Ionic columns graces two sides of the house. The interior uses a large amount of oak woodwork.</p><br>
<p>Shoshone Lake is a backcountry lake with the area of 8,050 acre elevated at 7,795 ft in the southwest section of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, US. It lies at the headwaters of the Lewis River a tributary of the Snake River. The USA Fish and Wildlife Service believes that Shoshone Lake is the largest backcountry lake in the lower 48 states that cannot be reached by a road.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Shoshone Lake has had many names since it was first viewed by fur trappers in the early 19th century. Jim Bridger may have visited the lake in 1833, but certainly visited it in 1846. Trapper Osborne Russell visited the lake in 1839. During this period the lake was called Snake Lake. A map created by Father Pierre-Jean De Smet in 1851 showed the lake as DeSmets Lake. Walter DeLacy, the Montana map maker named the lake DeLacys Lake when he passed through the area in 1863.</p><br>
<p>During the Cook–Folsom–Peterson Expedition, the party camped at the north end of the lake on September 29, 1869 but did not refer to it by name in their journals. They did however incorrectly believe at the time that Shoshone Lake was the source of the Firehole and Madison Rivers. The belief that Shoshone Lake was the headwater lake for the Madison drainage continued during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition in 1871. They viewed the lake to the south as they crossed the Continental Divide on September 17, 1870. Cornelius Hedges, a member of the Washburn expedition named the lake Washburn Lake to honor the expedition leader Henry D. Washburn, but that name was short-lived</p><br>
<p>A. C. Peale of the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871 visited Shoshone Lake in August 1871 but referred to it as Madison Lake.</p><br>
<p>During the Hayden Geologic Survey of 1872, Frank Bradley, a member of the survey confirmed the lake was in the Snake River drainage and named the lake Shoshone Lake based on the Indian name of the Snake River.</p><br>
<h2>Shoshone Geyser Basin</h2><br>
<p>Located at the southwest end of the lake, The Shoshone Geyser Basin contains one of the highest concentrations of geysers in the world - more than 80 in an area 1,600 ft by 800 ft. Hot springs and mudpots dot the landscape between the geyser basin and the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Angling Shoshone Lake</h2><br>
<p>Prior to 1890, Shoshone Lake was barren of fish as Lewis Falls on the Lewis River was a barrier to upstream migration. In 1890, fisheries personnel planted Lake and Brown trout and created a popular fishery, especially for large Brown trout in the fall. The lake also contains the Utah chub which was probably inadvertently introduced by bait anglers in the 1950s. Brook Trout were planted in several tributary streams and are occasionally found in the lake. Angling is restricted to fly fishing or artificial lures. Boating on Shoshone Lake is restricted to hand-powered craft only, which means Float tubes, Kayaks or Canoes</p><br>
<p>. The lake is accessible by water via Lewis Lake and the Lewis River channel. Several trails provide access to the western, northern and eastern shoreline of the lake. The Shoshone Lake trail connects the Upper Geyser Basin and the Lewis River channel while passing through the Shoshone Geyser Basin at the southwest end of the lake. The DeLacy Creek trail provides access to the northern and eastern shoreline via the Grand Loop Road near Craig Pass. The Dogshead trail and Lewis River Channel trail provide access from the south entrance road near Lewis Lake. There are 20 backcountry campsites on Shoshone Lake.</p><br>
<p>Mayo Mansion is a historic mansion located at 405 Third Street in Paintsville, Kentucky. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 3, 1974 as John C.C. Mayo Mansion and Office. The mansion is currently occupied by Our Lady the Mountains School.</p><br>
<p>Mayo Mansion was built for American entrepreneur John C. C. Mayo. Herman Geisky served as the chief architect during construction.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1905, Mayo began develop plans to construct a new estate in Paintsville. Mayo had originally intended to build a mansion with approximately twenty rooms. But, after visiting several other mansions in Central Kentucky, he decided to build a much larger home. After hiring architect Herman Geisky and over one-hundred Italian stonemasons from Cincinnati, construction began in 1905.</p><br>
<p>Due to Paintsvilles undeveloped state at the time, there were many challenges during construction. Before the foundation could be built, the land had to drained and filled. Paintsville had not yet constructed a public water system so a private system was developed on the estate that pumped water from a well into a cistern. Rain water was also captured from the roof and was channeled into a cistern. The collected water could then be pumped into mansion. At the start of the mansions construction, Paintsville had also not yet received electrical service. Due to this, the original plans called for the use of carbide gas to provide lighting. But, during construction, electric power transmission lines connected Paintsville to a power grid and the carbide gas system was never installed.</p><br>
<p>The sandstone used in the construction of the exterior of the mansion was cut and shaped at Thomas Jefferson Mayos (John Mayos father) farm which was located across Paint Creek. The sandstone blocks were then transported across the valley from his father&#39;s farm to the construction site on an overhead tram that was 3/4 mile long. After each stone column was shaped, it was transported as three individual pieces using a team of oxen. The team of oxen then had to pull the individual segments of the columns through Paint Creek during the dry season to the mansion. In December 1912, after a cost of $250,000 ($ in dollars), the three-story, forty-three room mansion was complete.</p><br>
<p>Mayo died on May 11, 1914. Three years after his death, his wife, Alice Jane Mayo, and his two children moved to Ashland, Kentucky due to the regions isolation. Much of the mansions interior, including the marble, tile, and furniture, was taken to Ashland where the family constructed a new mansion. The estate was sold to the Sandy Valley Seminary, which was renamed John C. C. Mayo College. After the college closed due to financial difficulties in 1936, the property and estate were given back to Alice. The estate was then sold to E. J. Evans, who was a friend and employee of her husband. In 1945, Evans sold the mansion and property to Most Reverend William T. Mulloy, the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky at the time. In October of the same year the Sisters of Divine Providence from Melbourne, Kentucky established Our Lady of the Mountains School, which still occupies the building today.</p><br>
<p>Heart Lake el. 7,461 ft is a large backcountry lake, nestled at the base of Mount Sheridan in Yellowstone National Park. Heart Lake is in the Snake River drainage and is drained by the Heart River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Heart Lake was apparently named sometime prior to 1871 for a local 1840s hunter, Hart Hunney, a fact that was later verified by Hiram Chittenden. In 1871, Captain John W. Barlow thought the name was Heart Lake because of it shape and the name became its official name. During the Arnold Hague Geologic Surveys, Chittenden petitioned Hague to change the name back to Hart, but Hague thought that Heart Lake was named because of the lake&#39;s shape and refused to change it. In 1870 a member of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition, the solitary explorer Truman C. Everts, who had become separated from the rest of his party, probably camped on the shores of Heart Lake and named it Bessie Lake after his daughter.</p><br>
<h2>Heart Lake Geyser Basin</h2><br>
<p>The Heart Lake Geyser Basin begins a couple miles from the lake and descends along Witch Creek to the lakeshore. Five groups of hydrothermal features comprise the basin, and all of them contain geysers, although some are dormant.</p><br>
<h2>Angling Heart Lake</h2><br>
<p>Heart Lake holds Yellowstone cutthroat trout, lake trout, and mountain whitefish. Lake Trout were introduced in the 1890s. Angling is restricted to Fly fishing or artificial lures. All cutthroat trout and whitefish must be released. There is no limit on the number of lake trout harvested. The park record lake trout, 42 lbs was caught in Heart Lake.</p><br>
<p>Heart Lake is 7.5 mi from the south entrance road at Lewis Lake via the Heart Lake trail. Heart Lake can also be reached via the Trail Creek trail that traverses the southern shoreline of Yellowstone Lake or via the Heart River trail/Snake River trail from the park&#39;s southern border.</p><br>
<p>Heart Lake is within the Heart Lake Bear Management Area and access to the area is closed between April 1 and June 1 annually.</p><br>
<p>Lake Jacomo is a 970 acre freshwater reservoir located near Blue Springs in Jackson County, Missouri. The lake’s name is a portmanteau for Jackson County, MO .</p><br>
<p>The lake is located in the 7,809 acre Fleming Park, which is managed by Jackson County Parks and Recreation. The idea for the lake began in 1932. The Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Harry S. Truman, requested that a study be done for a potential park. However, nothing was done at that time. It was 20 years later that local voters approved a bond issue to create and develop the lake. Lake Jacomo officially opened May 30, 1959.</p><br>
<h2>Recreational Activities</h2><br>
<p>Activities at the lake including sailing, pontoon boats, fishing, and hiking. Common fish include crappie, bluegill, largemouth bass, carp, catfish, hybrid striped bass, and walleye.</p><br>
<h2>Marina</h2><br>
<p>Lake Jacomo boasts a "state of the art" marina open to the public year around. This marina is the largest boat rental marina in the Kansas City metropolitan area with more than 80 rentals available. Services provided include:</p><br>
<p>Full Service Convenience Store</p><br>
<p>Bait and Tackle</p><br>
<p>One-Day Jackson County Boating Permits</p><br>
<p>Fuel and Boating Supplies</p><br>
<p>Three Lake Area Boat Ramps</p><br>
<p>Boat Waste Pump-out Station</p><br>
<p>Pontoon Boat, Fishing Boat, Paddle Boat & Canoe Rentals</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
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<p>Elephant Mountain is a mountain located in Bowdoin College Grant West  Piscataquis County, Maine.</p><br>
<p>It is about 5 mi southeast of Moosehead Lake, 2 miles southwest of Baker Mountain, and 5 miles west of White Cap Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Elephant Mountain stands within the watershed of the Piscataquis River, which drains into the Penobscot River, and into Penobscot Bay.</p><br>
<p>The west side of Elephant Mtn. drains into North Brook, thence into Upper Wilson Pond, Lower Wilson Pond, Big Wilson Stream, Sebec Lake, the Sebec River, and the Piscataquis River.</p><br>
<p>The south and southeast faces of Elephant Mtn. drain into South Brook, thence into Upper Wilson Pond.</p><br>
<p>The northeast faces of Elephant Mtn. drains into Baker Brook, thence into Mountain Pond, Mountain Pond Brook, the West Branch of the Pleasant River, and into the Piscataquis River.</p><br>
<p>On January 24, 1963, a United States Air Force B-52 plane crashed on the mountain. There are pieces of the wreckage still on the mountain. A hiking trail leads visitors to the area of the crash, where a memorial is located.</p><br>
<p>The Cathcart is a historic apartment building located at 103 E. 9th St. in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination states: "The Cathcart is an architecturally outstanding example of the "Eastern" flat type apartment that was a significant part of the commercial/real estate development of Indianapolis."</p><br>
<p>It is built of deep red brick and grey limestone and has detailing "reminiscent of the Arts and Crafts or Craftsman style."</p><br>
<p>The site of the building was the location of a cottage which had been given as a wedding present to Robert Weir Cathcart and Alice Morrison Cathcart in 1870, and was their family home. In 1909, recently widowed, Mrs. Cathcart undertook to have the apartment building constructed "despite the warnings of all advisors."</p><br>
<p>In 1983, the Cathcart was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the "Apartments and Flats of Downtown Indianapolis" multiple property submission. The apartments in this group were added to the Register for their architecture and for their place in the development of commerce and real estate development in Indianapolis.</p><br>
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<p>The Murphy Mound Archeological Site (23 PM 43), is a prehistoric archaeological site in the Bootheel region of the USA state of Missouri. Located southwest of Caruthersville in Pemiscot County, Missouri the site was occupied by peoples of the Late Mississippian period, centuries before European colonization of the area.</p><br>
<p>Conclusive dates for the sites occupation have not been determined; one survey concluded that occupation began around 1200 CE and continued until at least 1400. A study of the sites pottery held that the location was inhabited from approximately 1350 until 1541. The platform mound, now overgrown with trees, may be the largest of any Mississippian culture site in Missouri. It is located on private land and is not open to the public. A selection of the pots is displayed at the University of Missouri Museum of Anthropology.</p><br>
<p>Excavation at the site&#39;s cemetery has revealed ninety-one skeletons. These were buried in numerous fashions, including bundle burials, bodies fully extended, and cremations. In 1969, Murphy was listed on the National Register of Historic Places; it was the first site in Pemiscot County to be listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
