<p>The Rockland Trust Company building is a historic bank building and a branch of the Rockland Trust Company at 288 Union Street in Rockland, Massachusetts. The bank was founded in 1907, and was originally in offices across the street before commission this building in 1917. It is a two-story brick building designed by Boston architect Thomas M. James, a well-known specialist in bank design. A single-story addition was added in 1923, which was raised to two stories in 1947. A three-story addition was added in 1947. The original building and additions are all built of red brick laid in Flemish bond. The main entry is recessed behind a pair of massive columns, which are flanked on the facade by a pair of pilasters, which support an entablature that is topped by a brick parapet and granite balustrade. The bank&#39;s corporate headquarters were housed here until 2008.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>Lake Thompson is a lake in Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States. With an area of 16,236 acre, it is one of the largest natural lakes in South Dakota. The maximum depth of the lake is 26 ft, and the shoreline has a length of 44.6 mi. The lake is located in east-central South Dakota, on the Coteau des Prairies and is within the watershed of the Vermillion River.</p><br>
<p>Lake Thompson&#39;s size is highly variable. It was completely dry during the 1930s. By the early 1990s, it had grown to cover (at times) 20,000 acre, becoming the largest natural lake in the state.</p><br>
<p>The lake is the location of a state recreation area managed by the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks which includes camping facilities. Several boat launches are also located on the lake. A popular destination for anglers, game fish in the lake include walleye, northern pike, yellow perch and sunfish. Common carp and black bullheads are also present.</p><br>
<p>The area is an important habitat for fish and waterfowl, and Lake Thompson has been named a National Natural Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Lake Thompson has the name of John Thompson, an early settler. Lake Thompson is near De Smet, one of the residences of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, and appears in several of her novels as one of the "Twin Lakes", along with Lake Henry.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Yeomans House is a historic house on the waterfront of Palmer Cove on Brook Street in the Noank section of Groton, Connecticut. It is a 1-1/2 story gambrel-roofed wood frame structure, whose construction history dates to 1713. At that time Edward Yeomans built a five-bay center-chimney structure with gable roof, on land that was contested by the local Pequot people. Before 1760, a sixth bay was added, and the roof replaced by the gambrel roof. In the early 19th century, a shed-roof kitchen addition was added, and the main entrance relocated from the south to the north side of the house. The house is believed to be the oldest in Noank.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978.</p><br>
<p>Cymbelines Castle, also known as Cymbelines Mound and Belinus&#39;s Castle, is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in woods north of Great Kimble in Buckinghamshire, England. It is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.</p><br>
<p>The motte is about 42 m in diameter and encircled on three sides by a ditch, outside which lie two additional baileys. Within the baileys have been found pottery fragments of the 13th–15th centuries, and Iron Age and Romano-British fragments have been recovered to the east of the remains. A short distance to the west are remains of another motte-and-bailey castle, along with a moated enclosure and a Roman villa.</p><br>
<p>The name associates it with the ancient British king Cunobeline (Cymbeline), although this may be a Victorian invention. (There is also a theory that the nearby villages of Great Kimble, Little Kimble and Kimble Wick are named after Cymbeline; however, this has been discredited, as the etymology of Kimble is a description of the hill rather than a name.)</p><br>
<p>It is said that if one runs around this mound seven times, the devil will appear.</p><br>
<p>The Canal de la Bruche is a canal in eastern France that originally connected Soultz-les-Bains, near Molsheim, to the city of Strasbourg. It was built in 1682 by the famous military engineer Vauban, principally to transport sandstone from the quarries of Soultz for use in the construction of the fortifications of Strasbourg. The last commercial load was carried in 1939 and the canal formally closed in 1957, after bridges damaged during World War II were rebuilt with insufficient headroom for navigation.</p><br>
<p>The canal is 20 km long and has 11 locks on its course, with a total rise of almost 30 m. It roughly parallels the Bruche river, taking its water supply from the confluence of the Bruche and Mossig rivers at Wolxheim, with a secondary supply downriver at Kolbsheim. It enters the Ill river at Montagne Verte in Strasbourg, just downstream of the confluence of the Bruche and Ill, and some 2.5 km upstream of the centre of the city. When the canal was built, the Ill provided navigable connections to the city and the Rhine, and in later years to the Canal du Rhone au Rhine and the Canal de la Marne au Rhin.</p><br>
<p>Although no longer navigable, the canal is retained in water, and is now managed by the Conseil Départemental du Bas-Rhin. The towpath has been converted into a cycle path, which forms part of the 3,900 km long EuroVelo 5 route that links London with Brindisi.</p><br>
<p>The Winthrop Mill  is a historic mill building on Mill Street in New London, Connecticut. It is a grist mill located astride Briggs Brook between bridges carrying the eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 95. The first mill was supposedly established on this site in 1650 by Governor John Winthrop, Jr., and the property remained in Winthrop family hands until the late 18th century. Some elements of the mill infrastructure may be very nearly original to the period of first use, notably the elevated flume, wheel pit, and tail race. The present building may also include elements of the original, although it is known that the mill was set afire during Benedict Arnold&#39;s 1781 raid on New London and Groton. The property went through a succession of owners until 1892, when it was acquired by the city. It was leased for commercial operation until 1913, and underwent a major rehabilitation in 1960.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 30, 1982. The grounds are open daily; the mill itself is open to tours by special appointment.</p><br>
<p>The Gurdon Bill Store is located in Ledyard, Connecticut. In 1818, the land for the store was purchased by Gurdon Bill and his partner, Philip Gray. In 1819, Gray sold his interest in the store for $500. Bill operated the store until his death in 1856 and the store is believed to have made its final transaction in 1868. It has not been used since it was sold to the Congregational Society in 1875, retaining its historical integrity. The store is an 18 by by -story gable-roofed clapboarded structure built upon fieldstone and stone blocks. It has some unusual architecture in the form of a pent-roof and three-part window shutters. Clouette describes the store as "the best preserved early 19th-century store known in Connecticut." The Gurdon Bill Store was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Gurdon Bill Store is named for Gurdon Bill, who was born in 1784. The land was originally purchased by Bill and his partner, Philip Gray, in 1818. Clouette notes that four years later, Bill was the sole owner of the property; a record from 1819 says Gray sold his interest in the store to Bill for $500. Bill continued to run the store until shortly before his death in 1856. At age 21, Bill went to Plainfield Academy and later went on to work with various merchants before setting up the store in North Groton, later incorporated as Ledyard, Connecticut. Clouette notes a brief passage of the store out of the Bill family, soon reacquired, before it was sold to the Congregational Society in 1875. The Congregational Society has made limited use of the store, preserving its historical integrity. Local historians speculate that the store&#39;s final transaction was made in 1868; afterwards the store was boarded up and left essentially unused.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1818, the Gurdon Bill Store is a 18 ft by 30 ft -story clapboarded store. The walls extend higher up than the ceiling to an attic for additional storage space. The wood-shingled gable roof also has a smaller pent roof on the front facade that projects about 1 ft beyond the wall, which is unusual in New England architecture. The foundation of the store is built upon fieldstone and has stone blocks above the ground; the store has a full cellar. The main facade has two large twelve-by-twelve light sliding sash windows on the left side that can be covered with three-part batten shutters. The main door is a Dutch door with a plain frame and to its right is a smaller six-by-six sash window without a batten shutter. The rear facade is plain and devoid of any windows. The north end of has four windows, two for the attic, and the south end has only two windows for the attic, all with six-over-six sash.</p><br>
<p>The interior consists of one large room on the south end, from the main entrance, and two smaller connecting rooms on the north. The walls of the main room have wide-board horizontal panels and a large L-shaped counter running parallel to the south and west walls. Behind the counter are tiers of pine shelving and on the west wall are built-in drawers with simple wooden pulls and open bins on the bottom. The east wall has a plank bench. The two connected rooms on the north are similar with both having "plastered walls, a narrow beaded board for pegs or hooks, simple sliding shutters on the windows, beaded post casings, and brick diagonal fireplaces."</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>Clouette writes, "The Gurdon Bill Store is the best preserved early 19th-century store known in Connecticut. There are earlier store buildings and more elegant ones, but it would appear that the Bill Store is unique in retaining so many of its original features intact, particularly in the interior." It was submitted to the National Historic Register of Places under criteria A for being a "country store" which supplied items that local farmers needed, but could not produce or manufacture. The building also was submitted for its well-adapted and well-preserved architectural integrity. The store also has an unusual pent-roof and three-part window shutters, the purpose of which is not entirely known.</p><br>
<p>Locally, the Gurdon Bill Store was rumored to have been a tavern or an inn, although no evidence or record indicates such a use, and it was apparently a waystation for stagecoaches. A historical marker in the immediate vicinity ties the Gurdon Bill store to the birthplace of Samuel Seabury, America&#39;s first Episcopal bishop. No conclusive evidence for this claim exists.</p><br>
<p>The Altar Valley is a 45-mile  long north-south valley, trending slightly northeast from Sasabe, Arizona on the Mexico border to the Avra Valley west of the Tucson Mountains. It is delimited by Arizona State Route 86, from east-to-west on the north separating it from the Avra Valley which then trends northwesterly, merging into the plains and drainage of the Santa Cruz River.</p><br>
<p>The valley is traversed from north to south by Arizona Route 286.</p><br>
<p>The major Baboquivari sky island range borders the valley on the west; the east is bordered by a series of mountain ranges, that have Nogales, Arizona nestled in between at the United States-Mexico border. Two wilderness areas lie to the west of the valley, the Coyote Mountains Wilderness east of Kitt Peak Observatory, and the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness.</p><br>
<p>The center of the valley is near Baldy Peak ( in the southwest Sierrita Mountains. Baldy Peak&#39;s height is 4,120 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Madrean Sky Islands</h2><br>
<p>The Madrean Sky Island region of southeast Arizona, extreme southwest New Mexico, northern Sonora and extreme northwest Chihuahua, Mexico, is the region at the northern limits of the western spine mountain of Mexico, the Sierra Madre Occidental-(Mother Mountains, West). The ranges were broken up by Basin and Range faulting, and leaving wide areas of bajadas or graben-type valleys, sometimes with obvious horst-type mountain ranges; even extreme volcanic cones can form on these horst boundaries, like the seven minor volcanoes at the northern end of the Mohawk Mountains</p><br>
<h2>Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge</h2><br>
<p>The Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge borders the southeast Altar Valley and covers half the valley&#39;s length. Sasabe, the USA-Mexico border town is surrounded by the refuge, including to the west.</p><br>
<p>The lower elevation Cerro Colorado range borders the refuge to the northeast, the similar San Luis Mountains to the southeast.</p><br>
<h2>Table of mountain ranges</h2><br>
<p>The mountains to the west and east associated with the Altar Valley.</p><br>
<p>On maps of Arizona, in the Altar Valley region, the United States-Mexico border changes direction to the northwest to end at the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona. This change in border direction mostly follows a water divide change, separating drainage basins from each country; there are minor regional exceptions along the border to Yuma and the California border. Southern Arizonas desert waters flow north-northwest mostly ultimately ending at the Gila River which starts in extreme southwestern New Mexico and ends at Yuma, bordering California. Mexicos border drainage is into the Gran Desierto de Altar, with two rivers of northern Sonora draining to the southwest into the northern Gulf of California. These two areas of southwest Arizona and northwest Sorona are most inhospitable and dangerous in summer months. (The Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range uses the Arizona region because of its remoteness and yeartime usage abilities by flight.)</p><br>
<p>The Land Title Building and Annex is a historic early skyscraper located at 1400 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was built for the oldest title insurance company in the world, the Land Title Bank and Trust Company. The two-building complex, joined at the first floor, was built in two phases. The earlier, northern one of the building&#39;s two towers, erected in 1898 of 15 stories, was designed by Chicago-based architect Daniel Burnham, who was an early pioneer in the development of tall buildings. The southern, 22-story, 331-ft tower, added in 1902, was also designed by Burnham in collaboration with Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer; it was built on the site of the former Lafayette Hotel.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Trindade hotspot is a working hypothesis supposing that the submarine volcanic chain Vitória-Trindade, off the eastern coast of Brazil in the southern Atlantic Ocean, is a volcanic hotspot chain. It was considered that the supposed hot-spot should be responsible for the creation of the east-west trending Vitória-Trindade seamount chain, which includes the Trindade and Martim Vaz archipelago at its easternmost end. Trindade, a small island in the archipelago, is the hotspot&#39;s most recent eruptive center.</p><br>
<p>This ideas was based on the geochemical data, especially of the highly silica-undersaturated alklaine ultramafic rocks of the Trindade Island and Martim Vaz Island. The isotopic data is OIB-type, which is favourable to the hot-spot hypothesis. However, the volcanic chain direction is E-W and the absolute motion vector of the South America Plate is NW. Therefore, the volcanic chain cannot be a hot-spot chain. Recent research papers, such as and , proposed that the hot mantle penetrated horizontally along the Vitória-Trindade fracture zone which is present in the lithospheric mantle. Because of the same reason, the Fernando de Noronha Volcanic chain also is not a hot-spot chain. On the other hand, the NW-SE magmatic alignments, such as the Cruzeiro do Sul Chain, Bahia Chain, and Macau-Queimado, are considered to be hot-spot chains.</p><br>
<p>The Humphrey–Williams Plantation, also known as Humphrey–Williams–Smith House and Plantation, is a historic plantation complex located near Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina. The Humphrey–Williams House was built about 1846, and is a two-story, five bay, vernacular Greek Revival style frame farmhouse. It features a one-story, full-width shed porch. Also on the property are the contributing William Humphrey House , Annie Fairly&#39;s House , tobacco barn , a carriage house , a smokehouse, a store-post office , and the agricultural landscape.</p><br>
<p>The main house, on a 9 acre property, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, as Humphrey–Williams House. The larger plantation, including 5 contributing buildings and 1 additional contributing site on a 566.6 acre property, was re-listed in a boundary increase listing in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Qualibou, also known as the Soufrière Volcanic Centre is a 3.5 X 5 km wide caldera on the island of Saint Lucia that formed approximately 32-39,000 years ago. This eruption also formed the Choiseul Tuff which covers the south east portion of the island.</p><br>
<p>The Pitons are two large lava domes that formed 200-300,000 years ago, some time before the formation of the caldera and since then other domes have filled the caldera floor. More recently, there was a phreatic eruption in 1766 that deposited ash over a wide area.</p><br>
<p>Sulphur Springs is an active geothermal area located roughly in the centre of the caldera.</p><br>
<p>In 1990, 1999 and 2000 there were shallow depth volcanic earthquakes located 6 km ESE of the caldera.</p><br>
<p>Cullahill Mountain is listed as a marilyn hill and a Special Area of Conservation in County Laois, Ireland. Cullahill with an elevation of 313 m gives its name to the local townland.</p><br>
<p>Cullahill Mountain takes its name from an ancient forest that covered the hill and extended down to Cullahill Castle and village of Cullahill. The first mention of the area was about 1460 where it was called "na Cúlchailli" and later in 1540 it was called "Cowlekyll".</p><br>
<p>Cullahill Mountain contains a walking trail. There is population of rare Green-winged Orchid and on the downslope there is an Ash and Hazel woodland. It is situated on the Castlecomer Plateau, along the main N8 road between Durrow in County Laois and Johnstown in County Kilkenny.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>It forms the northern boundary to the valley running from Ballyragget to Freshford. Cullahill Mountain lies on a western side of the Castlecomer Plateau.</p><br>
<p>Cullahill Mountain is listed as Special Area of Conservation The site has a large population of Green-winged Orchid which is a rare species that is legally protected under the Irish governments Flora Protection Order (1987).</p><br>
<p>Most of vegetation at the site is herb-rich grassland over limestone. With about 5 grass species, 2 sedges and 20 broad-leaved herbs and allows a rich insect fauna to maintain itself. Grasses found include Quaking-grass, Crested Dogs-tail, Sheeps- fescue, Downy Oat-grass and Yellow Oat-grass. Amongst these grasses is Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Wild Thyme, Birds-foot-trefoil, Ladys Bedstraw, Carline Thistle, Mountain Everlasting, Purging Flax and Eyebright.</p><br>
<p>The orchid flora of the grassland is notably rich, with Twayblade, Frog Orchid, Bee Orchid, Early-purple Orchid and Green-winged Orchid. The west side of site extends downslope to an Ash and Hazel woodland.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>It is a scenic walking route called Cullahill mountain is through forests and farm land in partnership with Laois/Offaly Walking Partnership and Cullahill Rural Development Association. The walk begins at Cullahill village, and is a 10 km walk along field paths, forest tracks, lanes and minor roadways.</p><br>
<p>Passing Cummer Well and a ring fort, it tracks the low hills above the village of Cullahill. The walk provides views of the Slieve Bloom mountains to the north west, the Comeraghs and Galtees to the south west, and the Blackstairs and Wicklow Hills to the east. Blackstairs, Keeper Hill and Slieve na mBan Mountains can be seen.</p><br>
<p>The Kösseine is a massif in the High Fichtel mountains in Germany, lying in northeast Bavaria south of Wunsiedel. The highest elevation of this granite massif is the summit of the Große Kösseine. The border between the Bavarian provinces of Upper Franconia and Upper Palatinate runs over the Kösseine as does the European watershed between the North Sea and the Black Sea. Around the Kösseine are the settlements of Wunsiedel, Marktredwitz, Bad Alexandersbad, Waldershof, Hohenhard, Neusorg, Brand, Ebnath, Nagel and Tröstau, tourist resorts within the Fichtelgebirge.</p><br>
<p>On the Kösseine rises an eponymous stream (officially called the Kössein), which flows through Waldershof and Marktredwitz before discharging into the Rösla, a tributary of the Eger, near Seußen.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation and natural monuments</h2><br>
<p>In the vicinity of the Große Kösseine peak is a large granite blockfield with an area of 15.8 hectare which has been placed under protection. Various rock formations (the Kleine Kösseine, the Großer and Kleiner Haberstein, the Burgsteinfelsen, Mühlstein, Püttnersfel and Jakobifels) are protected natural monuments. The view of the twin peaks of Kleine and Große Kösseine (Little and Great Kösseine), visible from almost all sides, is quite striking.</p><br>
<h2>History and famous visitors</h2><br>
<p>The Kösseine was first mentioned in the records on 7 March 1283, when large parts of the Kösseine (Choezsin) were transferred to Duke Louis the Strict, Count Palatine of Rhine and Duke of Bavaria. From 1542 (Caspar Bruschius: Des Vichtelbergs gründtliche Beschreibung) to the present day the mountain appeared in all local geographical and historical books and was famous for its outstanding views. By the 15th century its thick woods were already a favourite hunting ground of the Bayreuth margraves, and the forests supplied wood for construction and fuel to the surrounding villages. Granite quarrying began in the same century.</p><br>
<p>In 1785 and 1820 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe came to the Fichtelgebirge. He wrote scientific treatises about granite weathering and made sketches of the various rock formations in the Kösseine area.</p><br>
<p>Because of its clear, far-reaching views in all directions of the compass (to the Bavarian Forest, Rhön, Thuringian Forest and Ore Mountains) the mountain has long been a popular destination. Its fame rose considerably as a result of the visit of the nobility from 13 June 1805 to 5 July 1805 and who stayed in (Bad) Alexandersbad. On 17 June 1805 Frederick William III of Prussia and his wife Louise as well as a large entourage rode out to the Kösseine. Many newspapers reported the event and spread the mountain&#39;s renown.</p><br>
<h2>Structures on the summit</h2><br>
<p>In 1805 the first primitive shelter was erected and, in 1833, another one. In 1882 the Fichtelgebirge Section of the German-Austrian Alpine Club (forerunner of the Fichtelgebirge Club) built a timber refuge hut with food for hikers. Due to the constantly rising number of visitors a permanent house was called for which was finally opened in 1903 after a long preparations and which was considerable extended in the years that followed. In 1924 a stone observation tower, the Kösseine Tower (Kösseineturm), was built to replace the wooden towers. Both house and tower belong to the Fichtelgebirge Club. The house, built of Kösseine Granite and leased, offers accommodation and food all year round.</p><br>
<p>From 1998 to 2000 the Kösseinehaus was fully renovated, so that it now has all the modern facilities of an inn. The forest road to the house is out-of-bounds to private vehicles, so it can only be reached on foot. The Kösseinehaus is on the network of main hiking trails maintained by the Fichtelgebirge Club; it lies directly next to the High Way and is well used by walkers.</p><br>
<p>The volunteer workers of the Fichtelgebirge Club have laid out 13 marked hiking trails of varying lengths from all directions to the summit of the Kösseine. The surrounding villages include the Kösseine as a local attraction in their advertising brochures.</p><br>
<h2>Culture and Kösseine Granite</h2><br>
<p>The mountain hut on the Kösseine has been a venue for folk musicians for a long time who, at regular intervals, play authentic folk music. Folk evenings, too, enjoy great popularity. Near the Kösseinehaus there is a large, wooden cross and a stone altar; mountaintop services on Ascension Day and other special occasions are a tradition here.</p><br>
<p>Kösseine Granite, which is a blue granite that is unique in Europe, is also called Kleinwendern Granite or Schurbach Granite and occurs near Schurbach and Kleinwendern. It also occurs in a narrow band at the Luisenburg Rock Labyrinth north of the Kösseine that runs eastwards. Only the eastern part of the lower rock labyrinth consists of Kösseine Granite, the western part is made of Dach Granite. Kösseine Granite is quarried today only near Waldershof in the district of Tirschenreuth.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>The Fichtelgebirgsverein (publ.): The Kösseine in the Fichtelgebirge, Issue 3/1993 in the series The Fichtelgebirge. New revised, edition, 2005.</p><br>
<p>Scotia Bluffs form a 2-mile  series of gray sandstone cliffs along the north bank of the Eel River near Rio Dell, California.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The course of the lower Eel River changes from northeasterly to westerly as it encounters a resistant formation of fossiliferous upper Pliocene marine sandstone 15 miles (25 kilometers) inland from the Pacific Ocean. River turbulence has created deep pools beneath steep sandstone cliffs on the northeasterly bank. Tributary streams, including Nanning Creek, cut steep, narrow canyons through the cliffs. The southwesterly bank of the river is an alluvial plain extending to the estuary. The community of Rio Dell occupies the bank opposite the cliffs. The cliffs expose abundant remains of ancient clams and sand dollars.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Pacific Lumber Company built a railroad across the face of the cliffs between 1883 and 1885 to transport lumber to Eureka, California. This alignment was followed by the Northwestern Pacific Railroad to avoid bridging the lower Eel River. The rail line maintained an elaborate series of benches, retaining walls, and trestles approximately 50 feet (16 meters) above the river during low summer flows, and the cliffs extend 75 to 500 feet (25–150 meters) above the track. These trestles and benches have been frequently damaged by floods and by massive blocks of sandstone falling from the upper cliffs. Rail service was interrupted in 1907, 1913, 1933, 1938, 1942, 1946, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1964 and 1971. A railroad bridge crew was assigned to work exclusively on the Scotia Bluff trestles from 1916 through 1959. Flood waters reached track level in 1955 and were 11 feet (3.3 m) over the railway in 1964. Three trainmen were killed when engine 184 was swept into the river by a 17 January 1953 landslide off the bluffs.</p><br>
<p>The Mantanani Islands  form a small group of three islands off the north-west coast of the state of Sabah, Malaysia, opposite the town of Kota Belud, in northern Borneo. The largest island is Mantanani Besar; the other two are Mantanani Kecil and Lungisan. It is a popular site for recreational diving as there are three nearby dive wrecks dating from the Second World War, as well as being known for its dugongs.</p><br>
<h2>Birdwatching</h2><br>
<p>For birdwatchers, the Mantanani Islands are great for seeing birds that usually nest on islands, because of their relative lack of terrestrial predators, and are rarely or unpredictably seen on the mainland. There are several trails through the center of the Mantanani Besar island in addition to open beaches along the coasts where birds can be spotted.</p><br>
<p>Mantanani Besar is the only place in Malaysia to see the Mantanani scops owl. The islands are also home to four breeding pigeon species that include the Pied imperial-pigeon, Grey imperial-pigeon, Pink-necked green pigeon and Metallic pigeon. An additional two pigeon species visit the island occasionally from the mainland and they include the Nicobar pigeon and the Black-naped fruit dove. Emerald Doves can also be seen on the island. Mantanani Besar is also home to the Philippine megapode, which thrives in the coastal forests. Three species of sunbird has been recorded on the islands; the Brown-throated sunbird, the Red-throated sunbird and the Olive-backed sunbird. The Blue-naped parrot is locally extinct.</p><br>
<p>Lungisan Island has a nesting cave colony of German&#39;s swiftlets and is an important roost for three species of frigatebirds. Other seabirds that can be seen around the islands is the Brown booby and the Black-naped tern.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The islands are accessible by a one-hour speedboat journey from Kuala Abai jetty, Kota Belud, 80 km north-east of Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah. Mantanani Besar contains a small resort, catering mainly to scuba divers, and Mantanani Kechil has a small dive lodge.</p><br>
<p>First African Baptist Church is a historic church at 264-272 E. Short Street in Lexington, Kentucky. The congregation was founded c. 1790 by Peter Durrett and his wife, slaves who came to Kentucky with their master, Rev. Joseph Craig, in 1781 with "The Travelling Church" of Baptists from Spotsylvania, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>First African Baptist of Lexington is the oldest black Baptist church in Kentucky and the third oldest in the United States; it is the oldest black congregation west of the Allegheny Mountains. In 1850 under its second pastor, it had more than 1,800 members, the largest congregation of any in the state. The nineteenth-century Italianate church was constructed in 1856; by 1861 the congregation at this building numbered 2,223 members. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Today the first African Baptist congregation worships at a newer church at 635 Price Road.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Peter Durrett As a young man of 25, he converted to the Baptist faith and married an enslaved woman who lived on Rev. Joseph Craigs plantation. Peter probably accompanied frontier guide Capt. William Ellis to the Kentucky district in 1779 scouting the subsequent Travelling Church migration. After their return and upon learning that his wifes master intended to so migrate, Peter asked for help from Duerrett, who traded him to Craig so the couple could stay together.</p><br>
<p>Durrett and his wife migrated in 1781 with their master and others of the largely Baptist Travelling Church from Spotsylvania, Virginia, led by Josephs older brother Rev. Lewis Craig. Because Durrett helped the military leader, Captain William Ellis, guide the several hundred migrants and their slaves on the arduous 600-mile journey through the Appalachian Mountains, he was known as Old Captain after the trip. By 1784 Old Captain and his wife were members of a Separatist Baptist church at Boones Creek, where Joseph Craig was pastor.</p><br>
<p>Soon after, Peter Durrett and his wife got permission from Craig to be hired out and moved to Lexington. There they hired themselves to the pioneer John Maxwell, who let them build a cabin on his property at Maxwell Spring in Lexington. This is where Duerrett began preaching to fellow slaves. The 19th-century religious historian Robert Hamilton Bishop noted that Mrs. Durrett was integral to forming the first congregation:</p><br>
<p>His wife was also particularly active in providing accommodations for the people, and in encouraging them to be in earnest about the things which belonged to their everlasting peace.</p><br>
<p>Durrett applied to the local Baptist association for ordination, accompanied by numerous people seeking baptism. He had hesitated to baptize them without ordination. The association did not ordain Durrett, but "directed him to go on in the name of their common Master." Durrett began to baptize persons he believed ready.</p><br>
<p>Durrett and his wife gathered about 50 congregants, most of whom he baptized. About 1790, the members united as the First African Church (now known as the Historic Pleasant Green Baptist Church in Lexington), and Durrett began to administer the Lord&#39;s Supper. It is also the oldest black church west of the Allegheny Mountains. Its early congregants were slaves and free blacks from the Lexington area. The congregation bought its first property in 1815. In 1816 it started a religious school, which continued with lay teachers and classes in various locations.</p><br>
<p>The congregation&#39;s first deed for land was dated in July 1820, for property purchased by the trustees: Rolla Blue, William Gist, Solomon Walker, and James Pullock, all free men of color. Durrett lived until 1823, when he was said to be near 90. His congregation then numbered near 300.</p><br>
<p>Durrett was succeeded in 1823 by Rev. London Ferrill, who was appointed preacher by the Lexington city trustees. A former slave from Hanover County, Virginia, he was freed as a young man by his unmarried masters sister, who inherited his estate and named the infant. (He was likely his first masters son, as he is believed to have been of mixed race and was given a distinguishing name by his master&#39;s sister.) Although not formally educated, Ferrill was a powerful preacher; he worked as a skilled carpenter. He and his wife migrated to Kentucky and settled in Lexington. He was ordained as a preacher by the First Baptist Church (majority white) before being called to the First African Baptist Church, and was a leader among both the white and black communities.</p><br>
<p>Ferrill served nearly 31 years. After his appointment, his church was received into the Elkhorn Association of the Baptist Church. With the continuing growth of Lexington, the First African Baptist congregation attracted many new members, mostly enslaved, but also free blacks. In 1833 the church purchased the former Old Methodist Meeting House and met there for some years. Ferrill led the congregational growth from 280 to 1,820 members by 1850, when it was the largest church in Kentucky, black or white.</p><br>
<p>During the cholera epidemic of 1833, Ferrill was one of three clergy who stayed in the city to care for people; his own wife died during the crisis. He was said to marry slaves with the words: "united until death or distance did them part," which reflected the years of many slaves being sold from the Upper South to the Deep South. Louisville was a major shipping point for slaves being transported down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.</p><br>
<p>In 1854 Ferrill died suddenly of a heart attack. His funeral procession of nearly 5,000 persons to his burial at the Old Episcopal Burying Ground of Christ Church was said to be the largest in Lexington after that of the statesman Henry Clay two years before. Ferrill was the only black to be buried there.</p><br>
<p>In 1856 First African Baptist completed their new building, designed in the popular Italianate style with large, arched windows. By the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, the congregation numbered 2,223.</p><br>
<p>After the war, together with most other black Baptist churches, the congregation withdrew from the Elkhorn Baptist Association, as they wanted to be independent of white supervision. First African Baptist soon joined a state association of black Baptist congregations established after the war. Today the congregation is part of the National Baptist Convention, USA, the largest association of African-American Baptists.</p><br>
<p>In 1987, the First African Baptist congregation sold its historic building downtown to the nearby Central Christian Church, which has used it as a childcare center. They are considering sale of the historic structure. The First African Baptist congregation moved in the 1980s to a new facility at 635 Price Road.</p><br>
<h2>Honors</h2><br>
<p>The 1856 church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>2008, Christ Church Cathedral named its community garden for London Ferrill, second preacher of First African Baptist.</p><br>
<p>In 2010 Christ Church helped gain approval for a city monument installed in honor of London Ferrill at the Old Episcopal Burying Ground. The state has also memorialized the site with a highway marker.</p><br>
<p>Min Mountains or Minshan are a mountain range in central China. It runs in the general north-south direction through northern Sichuan  and southernmost borderlands of Gansu. The highest elevation is Mount Xuebaoding , 5588 m and the second highest is Mt Little Xuebaoding , 5443m.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Min mountain range is a southern prolongation of the Kunlun Mountains that separates the basins of two major rivers of Sichuan: the Min River (to the west) and the Jialing River (to the east). Both rivers flow in the general southern direction, and are tributaries of the Yangtze.</p><br>
<p>The Min Mountains are part of a wider mountainous region:</p><br>
<p>Amne Machin: The range located to the far west, known to the ancient Chinese as Mount Jishi (積石山, 积石山, Jīshíshān), part of the Kunlun Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Xiqing Mountains (西倾山): The northern range.</p><br>
<p>Qionglai Mountains: The central part of the range to the west of the Min River</p><br>
<p>Motian Mountains: The easternmost prolongation, merging with the Daba Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to the Records of the Grand Historian, the Xia Dynasty managed this mountain range as early as 2000 BC.</p><br>
<p>The Lazikou Pass, a site of strategical importance during the Long March, passes through the Min Mountains and connects northwestern Sichuan with southern Gansu.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>The characteristic ecosystem of the Min Mountains and the Qionglai Mountains (which are located further west, separated from the Min Mountains by the Min River valley) has been described by the World Wildlife Fund as the Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests.</p><br>
<p>Important tourism and nature conservation objects in the Min Mountains include the Jiuzhaigou Valley Nature Reserve (in Jiuzhaigou County) and the Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area (in Songpan County); both are listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church is a historic church on Moscow Avenue in Hickman, Kentucky. It is part of the Christian Methodist Episcopal denomination formed in the South after the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>On December 16, 1870 in Jackson, Tennessee, 41 freedmen who were former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South organized what was then called the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. (The Methodist Church had split before the war into North and South denominations.) This denomination was composed primarily of African Americans who wanted to have their own churches free of white supervision. In 1954 they changed the name of the denomination to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>This church was built in 1895 and added to the National Register in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Montgomery Ward Company Complex is the former national headquarters of Montgomery Ward, the United States&#39; oldest mail order firm. The property is located along the North Branch of the Chicago River at 618 W. Chicago Avenue in Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a National Historic Landmark on June 2, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The two earliest buildings in the complex, the old Administration Building and the Mail Order House, are constructed of reinforced concrete and were designed by Richard E. Schmidt and Hugh Garden, members of the architectural firm of Schmidt, Garden and Martin.</p><br>
<p>The 400,000 ft&sup2, eight-story Administration Building served as the company&#39;s headquarters until 1974, and features sword and torch motifs on the base and vertical piers that rise uninterrupted, culminating in a parapet with motifs similar to the base. A four-story tower was added in 1929 on the northeast corner of the building, with a pyramid roof.</p><br>
<p>Crowning the roof of the Administration Building is a 22.5 ft replica of the bronze statue that was originally placed on top of the old Montgomery Ward Building on Michigan Avenue. An adaption of an earlier statue that had topped both Madison Square Garden in New York and the Agriculture Building at the 1893 World&#39;s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was made for the building by the same creators, W. H. Mullins Manufacturing Company of Salem, Ohio and was sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The statue is called The Spirit of Progress, and depicts the goddess Diana, dressed in flowing robes, balancing on a globe, and holding a torch in her right hand and a caduceus in her left hand.</p><br>
<p>Forty feet north of the Administration Building is the 2,000,000 ft&sup2; Mail Order House, also known as the Catalog House, that was the heart of Montgomery Ward&#39;s operations. Completed in 1908, the eight-story building was painted white and capped with a flat roof, with an interior that contained miles of chutes, conveyors, and storage lofts within ceiling heights ranging from 12 to 17 ft. The west facade, following a bend in the river, is almost 1,100 ft long and a single floor covers 6 acre. At one time the building had its own post office branch and a ground-floor shipping platform that could accommodate 24 railroad freight cars. The Catalog House was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 17, 2000.</p><br>
<p>In later years, Montgomery Ward and Company added several warehouses and parking structures, followed by a 26-story office building in 1972, designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the former World Trade Center towers in New York City.</p><br>
<h2>Currently</h2><br>
<p>After the bankruptcy of Montgomery Ward in 2001, the earliest buildings were converted into upscale condominiums. The project met the Secretary of the Interior&#39;s Standards with the exception of the balconies. In 2004, the office tower also was converted to condominiums, now called The Montgomery.</p><br>
<p>The Mail Order House building is now home to restaurants, the Big Ten Network, Wrigley, David Barton Gym, Allyu Spa, Groupon, Kingsbury Yacht Club boat slips, InnerWorkings, Dyson Inc., and 298 luxury condominiums. Bankers Life & Casualtys Chicago offices were also located here for several years, until Groupons expansion led Bankers to move in late 2011.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s School is a historic former school building on Birch Street in Biddeford, Maine. Built in 1887, it was one of the first large masonry schools to be built in the state, and became a focal point for the migration of French Canadians into the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former St. Josephs School is set in a residential area a few blocks south of Biddefords central business district, on the north side of Birch Street, between Alfred and Graham Streets. It is a large 3-1/2 story brick building with a rectangular footprint and a full fourth story under a tall mansard roof. The roof is pierced by wall dormers featuring three-part round-arch windows topped by gablets. String courses separate the floors, and the window bays of the main (north-facing) facade are roughly grouped in threes. There is modest Romanesque brick corbelling at the eave. The main entrance is set in a 1916 brick stair tower at the northwestern end of the building.</p><br>
<p>Biddefords textile mills saw an influx of both Irish and French Canadian migrants in the mid-19th century, resulting in the establishment first of the predominantly Irish Roman Catholic parish of St. Marys, and then in 1870 of the establishment of St. Josephs, which catered primarily to the French Canadian Catholic population. Parochial education first began in the basement of the St. Josephs church, and the present school was built in 1888, to a design by Dr. Ferdinand Bernier, a parishioner. The school remained an anchor of the local French immigrant population well into the 1960s, with much of the curriculum taught in French. The building has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>Mount E is an active stratovolcano of the Kameda peninsula. It is located in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Mount E is part of Esan Prefectural Natural Park.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Mount E consists of non-alkali, mafic, volcanic rock. The andesitic volcano is topped with a lava dome.</p><br>
<h2>Eruptive history</h2><br>
<p>Mount E last erupted on June 8, 1874. This eruption consisted of phreatic explosions and was rated a 1 on the VEI scale.</p><br>
<p>The oldest recorded eruption started November 18, 1846. The eruption triggered lahars damaging several houses and causing fatalities.</p><br>
<p>Radiocarbon dating and tephrochronology indicate five other eruptions predating the historical records in the approximate years 1350, 550 BC, 1050 BC, 3900 BC ±100 years, 7050 BC. The eruption in 7050 BC was the largest with a VEI of 3.</p><br>
<p>The Xiaoxiang Range is a mountain range in Sichuan Province, China. It is part of a complicated system of mountains in south-central Sichuan, and runs in the general north-south direction within Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and the adjacent parts of Ya&#39;an prefecture-level city.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Xiaoxiang Range is situated in the rugged mountainous regions of Southwestern China where the Hengduan Mountains abut the Yungui Plateau. Despite lying between the Dadu and Yalong Rivers, the Xiaoxiang are not considered part of the Daxue Mountains. The Xiaoxiang, and all mountains further south bounded by the Jinsha (upper Yangtze) River, are more commonly considered a northern extension of the Yungui. The Xiaoxiang Range is separated from the Daxue Mountains by a narrow fault trench through which the G5 Expressway runs.</p><br>
<p>The Xiaoxiang are notable for their high ridge line, providing an unusually consistent straight range of peaks in the region. This is due to the Xiaoxiang&#39;s orogenic formation at the edge of the Yangtze Plate. The highest point of the range is Huatou Point (铧头尖) at above sea level. The Xiaoxiang Range was heavily glaciated during the last glacial period leaving many cirques and tarns dotted along the ridgeline today.</p><br>
<p>The Xiaoxiang Range is drained to west by the Anning River and its tributaries. The Anning separates the Xiaoxiang from the Miaoniu Mountains to the west. To the north and east, the Xiaoxiang is drained by tributaries of the Dadu River. Across the Dadu to the north lies the Daxiang Range. To the south and east are poorly-defined mountains regions with no range-like features with the exception of the Daliang Mountains further east.</p><br>
<h2>Human activity</h2><br>
<p>The valleys surrounding the Xiaoxiang were originally inhabited by Yi peoples before Han Chinese settlement. The mountain summits have long been inaccessible and have been spared from the intensive agricultural uses that dominate many nearby mountainous areas. Thus, the lakes and forests along the Xiaoxiang ridgeline form a significant contiguous ecological habitat dominated by indigenous rhododendron species. This ecosystem has been classified by the WWF as part of the Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests and Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests ecoregions.</p><br>
<p>Administratively, the Xiaoxiang Range falls within Mianning County to the west, Yuexi County and Ganluo County to the east, and Shimian County to the north.</p><br>
<p>The Xiaoxiang Range rises above the primary route between Kunming, the capital of Yunnan, and Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. The Chengdu–Kunming Railway passes directly east of the Xiaoxiang and the new Beijing-Kunming Expressway passes directly to the west. Areas at the south end of the Xiaoxiang Range are currently being developed as a tourist zone.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Hempstead House, also known as the Old Huguenot House, is a historic house on Hempstead Street in New London, Connecticut. It is a 1-1/2 story stone structure with a gambrel roof. Although the house was built in 1759 by Nathaniel Hempstead, the English grandson of Joshua Hempstead , its form and building material are unusual for southern New England in that period, leading to local lore attributing its construction to French Huguenot immigrants. It is possible that laborers who built the house were Acadians resettled to New London after the Expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in the 1750s. The house is owned by Connecticut Landmarks, along with the 1678 house, operating the pair as the Hempstead Houses museum.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Gov. Samuel Huntington House is a historic house at 34 East Town Street in Norwich, Connecticut. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and clapboard siding. Its most prominent feature is a monumental entry portico, rising a full two stories to a gabled pediment, supported by paired columns. The main entry is flanked by sidelight windows and a carved woodwork surround, and there is a latticework porch above. The house was built in 1783 by Samuel Huntington , a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and a Governor of Connecticut. The entry portico and wide entry section are 19th-century alterations.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 6, 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Van Ness Farmhouse is located in Fairfield, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built in 1740 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 29, 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Van Ness Family History</h2><br>
<p>After arriving in America in 1699, nine Dutch settlers (Simon Van Ness, Gerebrand Clawson, Hans Spier, Elias Franson, Christopher Steinmets, Andrese Louwrentz, Garret Vanderhoof, Hessell Pieters and Jan Spier) purchased the 14,000 acre (57 km²) Horseneck Tract from the Lenape Native Americans for goods equal to about $325 today. Simon Van Ness owned 300 acres of the north-east boundary. He also gathered some of this land through private contracts with the Lenape Native Americans. Eventually, he ran into trouble with the Lords Proprietor of the region, so he accepted their terms and got a deed on September 3, 1744, confirming he owned the land. After his death in 1749, Simon distributed the land to his four children and two sons-in-law. His son Isaac was given most of what is now Fairfield, New Jersey. Isaac&#39;s son Peter was named executor of the will of Isaac Reyken (Ryker) on September 30, 1768. Peter Van Ness then became the first registered owner of the Van Ness House, along the Passaic River where it can still be found today.</p><br>
<h2>Changes to the House</h2><br>
<p>The house went through some renovation in the 1840s, 1930s, and today has electricity.</p><br>
<p>The Charles E. Beach House is a historic house at 18 Brightwood Lane in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1900-01, it is one of the town&#39;s finest examples of Shingle style architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 23, 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Charles E. Beach House is located in a residential area on West Hartfords south side. It is located on the north side of Brightwood Lane, which is now filled with residential development on the former grounds of the houses once-larger estate. It is a large 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with busy asymmetrical massing, including projecting sections and gables. The main roof is pierced by two large dormers, one gabled and the other gambreled, on what is now its primary southeast-facing facade. A single-story porch extends across part of that facade and around to the west. At the western end of the attic level is a polygonal screened porch. The exterior is finished entirely in natural-finish wooden shingles, with trim painted green. A fieldstone porte-cochere is located on the northwest facade, which was the building&#39;s original front. The interior, in a marked contrast to the simple finishes of the exterior, is richly decorated.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1900-01 on what the Beach family called Vine Hill, for Charles E. Beach, whose family were an important business and financial family in the Hartford business community. Beach&#39;s father had purchased the estate in stages beginning in 1859, and developed it as a dairy farm. Beach built this house, along with several surviving outbuildings (now separate residences on Brightwood Lane), and maintained it until his death in 1940. The family the subdivided the property, donating a portion to the town for Beachland Park. West Hartford has three major examples of Shingle architecture, of which this is the best-preserved.</p><br>
<p>The Asa Gillett House is a historic house at 202 South Main Street in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1760 for the grandson of one of the areas early settlers, it is one of the towns few remaining 18th-century houses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Asa Gillett House stands on the east side of South Main Street, south of downtown West Hartford and a short way north of the Noah Webster House. The front of its property is lined by a low brownstone retaining wall. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney. The main entrance, centered on the front facade, is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, and topped by an entablature. The main block is extended by a single-story ell to the right, and a two-story ell to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The house was probably built in the mid-18th century by Asa Gillett, grandson of one of West Hartford&#39;s early proprietors. Joseph Gillett settled the area in 1694, and was one of the signatories to a petition for a western parish of Hartford, which the area was then part of. He was also a founding organizer of the new Congregational church. Asa Gillett was primarily a merchant, although other Gilletts were active in farming the surrounding land.</p><br>
<p>The Timothy Goodman House is a historic house at 567 Quaker Lane South in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built in the early to mid-18th century, it is one of West Hartford&#39;s few surviving 18th-century houses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Timothy Goodman House stands in southeastern West Hartford, on the west side of Quaker Lane (a busy north-south local artery) just north of its junction with Jackson Avenue. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It is five bays wide, with a large central chimney and a rear leanto section, giving it a saltbox appearance. The bays are symmetrically located but not regularly spaced, with wide spaces on either side of the center entrance. The doors, windows, and house corners all have simple trim. The interior includes a number of early 18th-century features, including wood paneled fireplace surrounds, enclosed main beams, and original period doors and door hardware.</p><br>
<p>The construction date of the house is unclear. Analysis of its roof system suggests a construction date of about 1720, but no house is recorded on deeds for this land until 1778, when Timothy Goodman sold land and dwelling to Isaac and Gideon Webster. Goodman had purchased the land, without dwelling, in 1751 from the grandfather of Noah Webster.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Hosmer House is a historic house at 253 North Main Street in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1774, it is one of the town&#39;s small number of surviving 18th-century buildings, and is a well-preserved example of a Georgian farmhouse. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Daniel Hosmer House is located in central West Hartford, at the southwest corner of North Main Street and Asylum Avenue, both of which are busy through streets. It is set well back, facing North Main Street, with a low brownstone retaining wall marking a probable early route of the road. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a centered doorway, and overhanging second floor. The doorway is topped by a five-light transom window and flanked by simply-decorated molding. A single-story ell extends to the rear of the main block.</p><br>
<p>This house was probably built by Daniel Hosmer in 1774, around the time of his marriage, on land belonging to his family. Hosmer was the grandson of Stephen Hosmer, one of West Hartford&#39;s first settlers. The area was at the time farmland, and was sold by Hosmer in 1788. The property included a number of farm outbuildings when it was listed on the National Register in 1986; these have since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>Spring Pond, United States,  abuts the three cities of Lynn, Peabody  and Salem. In the center of these townships "is a beautiful pond". It is a secluded lake known by residents of the three cities and visitors who come to enjoy the camps, trails and natural environment of the woods. "It is in fact one of the most picturesque and romantic lakelets in Massachusetts". Stretching from Spring Pond to Marlborough Road in Salem, the pond and woods form a microcosm of beauty. On the edge of Spring Pond was once the Fay Farm, an English manor estate in New England. The mansion of Fay Farm was a well-known hotel in 1810, when the springs of these areas were believed to possess medicinal qualities. People visited the springs near Spring Pond to restore health, and worship the goddess Hygeia  and drink from the rusty iron-rich water trickling from the foot of a bank. Later, some traveled there solely for fun and frolic. The hotel was then converted into a private residence. The waters of Spring Pond are conveyed by springs from an aquifer lying below Spring Pond  through Peabody, Lynn and Salem. Spring Pond is listed as one of the "Massachusetts Great Ponds".</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1669 (and again in 1793), colonial divisions between townships were drawn using the spring at Spring Pond as the benchmark to create the city boundaries; Spring Pond supplied water to Danvers (now Peabody), Lynn and Salem. In 1669, the spring was used to establish the boundary between Lynn and Salem; in 1793 (when Salem divided, forming another township) the borders were redefined based on the spring. The stone benchmark remains in the water of Spring Pond, engraved with the initials of each township: L (for Lynn), P (for Peabody) and S (for Salem). In 1793 Spring Pond was divided among three towns: Peabody (once Danvers), Salem and Lynn (once Saugus). The spring was the boundary of the colonial division line of the townships. The dividing line left valuable, arable land on one side of the town boundary and separated the Mansion House and buildings in Lynn.</p><br>
<p>"Lo", a Native American, was killed around 1676 by John Flint, a soldier in the war against King Philip by the Wampanoags, near the pond (at the present border of Lynn and Salem). Legend says that he was the first (and only) Native American killed in the area; his body and bones nourished the shrubs and trees near Spring Pond.</p><br>
<p>Before 1704, early settlement of the area included Jacob and Elizabeth (John Clifford) Allen of Salem (and their daughter Elizabeth) as recorded landowners near what was then known as Lynn Mineral Spring Pond.</p><br>
<p>During the Third Plantation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (in about 1704) John Casper Richter Von Crowninshield (Johannes Kaspar Richter Von Kronenscheldt, as first spelled), a German physician, settled on the hillsides near Spring Pond on land purchased from Elizabeth Allen (partly in Salem and partly in Lynn). Among Crowninshields descendants were George Crowninshield, who founded the Crowninshield & Sons shipping business and whose family built Crowninshield’s Wharf in Salem. Benjamin Williams Crowninshield served as United States Secretary of the Navy, Representative in Congress, member of the Massachusetts State Senate and House of Representatives, and became one of the first directors of the Merchants Bank of Salem; he founded East India Trade of Salem, and the USS Crowninshield naval destroyer was named in his honor. George Crowninshield Jr. built and sailed the yacht Cleopatra’s Barge. Louise E. du Pont Crowninshield, wife of Francis Boardman Crowninshield, was one of America&#39;s first historical preservationists and a founding member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>In 1810 the Twin Springs Hotel (later known as the Mineral Spring Hotel, part of the Crowninshield estate and the Fay Estate Mansion of Lynn) was built near the spring, whose water was rich in iron and believed to possess medicinal qualities. Patients traveled great distances to drink the water and, for a time, to worship the goddess Hygeia to restore their health. This "classical worship" damaged the hotel&#39;s reputation, and it was later converted into the private summer residence of Richard Sullivan Fay. In 1862, Fay commissioned an army at his own expense. Officers and members of the 38th Regiment of Massachusetts named the company the “Fay Light Guard”. It was attached to the 39th Massachusetts Regiment and fought at Port Hudson, Cane River, Mansion Plains, Winchester, Fisher’s Hill and Cedar Creek.</p><br>
<h2>Drinking water</h2><br>
<p>The Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers (vol. 3) reported that "In 1851 a 12 in main 1,600 ft in length was constructed to bring water by gravity from Spring Pond in Peabody, one of the present sources of supply of that town. This pond is about 40 ft above the central portion of Salem".</p><br>
<h2>Spring Pond in literature</h2><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Alonzo Lewis: Writer, poet, teacher, reporter, artist, surveyor and Lynn&#39;s first historian, was strongly attracted to Spring Pond (or Mineral Spring, as it was then known). Lewis published a drawing and published articles about the Mineral Spring Hotel and its surrounding wooded areas. Lewis wrote The History of Lynn, which was sold in four parts; the third is entitled Lynn Mineral Spring Hotel, or (as modern Lynn calls it) the Fay Estate.</p><br>
<p>Casper Van Crowninshield: Owned and settled on the lands near Spring Pond in retreat and for farming. He hailed from Germany; eminent citizens were entertained at his retreat, including Cotton Mather.</p><br>
<p>Cotton Mather and his father Increase Mather: Both were visitors to the Spring Pond retreat and the adjacent lands of Casper Van Crowninshield. One of Cotton Mather&#39;s works (his memoir of his father) extols the virtues of the Spring Pond area. In it, he describes the healing waters and retreat under the trees of the area. Cotton Mather was a New England Puritan minister, author of more than 450 books, whose writings were influential in the Salem witch trials.</p><br>
<p>Elias Trask (Captain John, William Traske): Born in Salem in 1679, of Trask&#39;s farm adjoining Spring Pond and Long Pond</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Clifford) Allen of Salem, Massachusetts</p><br>
<p>James R. Newhall: Writer, literary executor to Alonzo Lewis and one of Lynn&#39;s first historians, he was attracted to the Spring Pond region.</p><br>
<p>William Bentley: Early 19th-century diarist</p><br>
<h2>Increase Mather's Diaries of Spring Pond</h2><br>
<p>Parentator or Remarkables of Dr. Increase Mather, by Cotton Mather, was published in 1724.</p><br>
<p>In his book, Cotton Mather shares excerpts from the diary of his father, Increase Mather, concerning the latter&#39;s recovery from illness due to the healing waters of Mineral Spring Pond (as it was then known). Some excerpts follow:</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Quest for Survival: An appreciation of Local Wildflowers, Lynn, Salem & Peabody Massachusetts, by Leslie Courtemanche of Lynn, Massachusetts, an Author of Nature for Spring Pond, Photographer and Conservationist</p><br>
<p>Heritage and Habitat Lost: A Collection of Thoughts and Photographs of the Spring Pond, Area of Lynn, Salem and Peabody, Massachusetts, by Leslie Courtemanche of Lynn, Massachusetts, an Author of Nature for Spring Pond, Photographer and Conservationist</p><br>
<p>The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Volumes 16-18, by Lynn Historical Society, Lynn Massachusetts</p><br>
<p>Country Arts in Early American Homes, by Nina Fletcher Little</p><br>
<p>History of Lynn, Essex County: Massachusetts including Lynnfield..., Volume 1, by Alonzo Lewis, and James Robinson Newhall</p><br>
<p>The History of Salem, Massachusetts, Volume 1, by Sidney Perley</p><br>
<p>History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with..., Volume 1, Issue 1, by Duane Hamilton Hurd</p><br>
<p>History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with..., Volume 2, Part 1, by Duane Hamilton Hurd</p><br>
<p>Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, by Massachusetts Historical Society</p><br>
<p>Collectections of the Massachusetts Historical Society for the Year 1799</p><br>
<p>Bulletin of the Essex County Ornithological Club of Massachusetts, Volumes 1-6, by Essex County Ornithological Club of Massachusetts</p><br>
<p>Massachusetts Wildlife, by Massachusetts. Division of Fisheries and Game, Massachusetts. Division of Fisheries and Wildlife</p><br>
<p>The Flora of Essex County, Massachusetts, by John Robinson</p><br>
<p>The Diary of William Bentley D.D., Pastor of the East Church, Salem, by William Bentley, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, Alice G. Waters, Essex Institute</p><br>
<p>The Physical Geography, Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology of Essex County</p><br>
<p>The Peabody Story: Events in Peabody&#39;s History, 1626-1972, by John Andrew Wells</p><br>
<p>The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 56, by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society</p><br>
<p>The Fifth Half Century of the Landing of John Endicott at Salem, Massachusetts, by Essex Institute</p><br>
<p>Historical Collections of the Essex institute, by Salem Mass, Essex inst</p><br>
<p>Rhodora, Volume 4, by Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, A book about the plants of the Mineral-Spring Pond area</p><br>
<p>The Diary and Letters of Benjamin Pickman (1740–1819) of Salem, Massachusetts, by Benjamin Pickman</p><br>
<p>The Lynn Album: A Pictoral History, 1990, by Elizabeth Hope Cushing</p><br>
<p>The New England Farmer, Volume 10, by Samuel W. Cole</p><br>
<p>Parentator or Remarkables of Dr. Increase Mather, by Cotton Mather, Published 1724</p><br>
<p>Bronsdon and Box families, by Lucius Bolles Marsh, Harriet Moncrief Kinmonth Fitts Parker</p><br>
<p>Recreation in and about Boston: a handbook of opportunities by Prospect Union Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts</p><br>
<p>The Percy R. Pyne House  is a neo-Federal townhouse at 680 Park Avenue, located at the corner of Park Avenue and 68th Street in Manhattan.</p><br>
<p>Today the Americas Society uses the building as its New York City headquarters.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed by McKim, Mead & White for Percy Rivington Pyne II, grandson of the noted financier Moses Taylor, it was built from 1909 to 1911.</p><br>
<p>Its materials and scale established a character that was followed by the architects of all the subsequent houses on this Park Avenue blockfront. The building was occupied by the Soviet Mission to the United Nations from 1948 to 1963. The generous actions of the Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Larraín, Marquesa de Cuevas, in acquiring the property in 1965 and presenting it to the Americas Society, saved the building from destruction.</p><br>
<p>Together with the buildings of the neighboring Oliver D. Filley House (now the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute) at 684 Park Avenue and the Henry P. Davison House (now the Italian Consulate General) at 690 Park Avenue, it forms one of the last intact architectural ensembles on Park Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The building was designated as a New York City landmark by the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission on November 10, 1970. A landmark plaque was provided by the New York Community Trust in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Confederate Monument in Portsmouth, Virginia, was built between 1876 and 1881. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The monument is a 35-foot obelisk of North Carolina granite. It is located at the town square of Portsmouth, on Court Street at the corner of High Street. Also facing on the town square are the Trinity Episcopal Church dating from 1828 and the Portsmouth Courthouse dating from 1846, which are also NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<p>It was erected by the Ladies Memorial Aid Association of Portsmouth, Virginia, which was founded in 1866 with one purpose "being the erection of a monument to the Confederate dead of Portsmouth and Norfolk County." The design was by topographical engineer Charles E. Cassell.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone was laid in 1876. Several artifacts were placed within it, including a Confederate flag; Confederate bonds, currency, and postage stamps; rosters of officers and men in two army units; a photograph of Col. James G. Hodges, commander of the 14th Virginia Infantry; and an array of silver coins. The monument&#39;s capstone was not placed until 1881, and the monument as a whole was not completed until 1893.</p><br>
<p>The four cast white bronze figures that surround the obelisk, including their heads and facial features, are largely generic. The sailor figure, for example, also appears outside the G.A.R. Memorial Hall in Wabash, Indiana.</p><br>
<p>The city of Portsmouth "gave 1,242 men to the Confederacy of whom 199 were killed or died; Norfolk County gave 1,018 men to the cause of whom 280 were killed or died; and the City of Norfolk gave 1,119 of whom 176 were killed or died."</p><br>
<h2>Calls for removal and relocation</h2><br>
<p>In August of 2017, in the wake of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville Virginia where many white supremacist groups protested the removal of Confederate monuments, mayor of Portsmouth John Rowe called for the movement of the monument from its current location. Mayor Rowes proposed new site for the monument is nearby Cedar Grove Cemetery where many Confederate soldiers are buried. Shortly after the mayors announcement, a Change.org petition amassing over 30,000 signatures went viral started by a local Virginia man named Nathan Coflin to have the current monument replaced by a statue of Portsmouth native rap artist and businesswoman, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott. This petition received national attention in many publications such as Newsweek, CNN, People and Time Magazine.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is located in central Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as Calvary Baptist Church/First Baptist Church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1839 First Baptist Church organized and held its first service in the home of John M. Eldridge on Brady Street. The Rev. Israel Fisher was its first pastor. The charter members were: J. M. Eldridge, Mary Eldridge, John Swartout, Charles Swartout, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Price and Mr. and Mrs. David Wilson. Richard Price and David Wilson were the church’s first deacons.</p><br>
<p>Baptists then occupied a series of buildings in the city. They moved into a room over a store on Front Street, now River Drive. Services were held there until the congregation built a brick structure at the corner of Fourth and Brady Streets on a lot donated by Antoine LeClaire. The congregation met there until they moved into a new building on the corner of Sixth and Main Streets. They sold the Brady Street location to St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>In October 1851 sixteen persons who had taken letters from the First Baptist Church met in a school house on Perry Street to organize Second Baptist Church. The first officers of the church were Dr. J. M. Witherwax, C. G. Blood, W. M. Crosson, Levi Davis and J. Solomon.</p><br>
<p>The Second Baptist congregation purchased a house on the northwest corner of Fourth and Perry Streets and held services there. In 1852 they sold this lot and bought one on the southwest corner of Fourth and Perry. A short time later they moved to Third and Brady Streets into a place called the Medical College. That same year the Rev. E.M. Mills joined the community as its pastor. He stayed for five years, and toward the end of his pastorate, they built a church building at the corner of Fourth and Perry Streets.</p><br>
<p>Second Baptist incurred considerable debt in building its new building. Soon after the building was completed both First and Second Baptist were joined. In 1864 the Rev. D.S. Watson became the pastor, the debt was canceled, and the church was renamed Calvary Regular Baptist Church.</p><br>
<p>On May 6, 1886, under the pastorate of the Rev. Frank L. Wilkins, D.D. the congregation decided to build a new church building on the corner of Perry and Fourteenth Streets.</p><br>
<p>The property for the new church was acquired for $3,400. The cornerstone for the new building was laid on September 21, 1889 and it was dedicated on Sunday, May 25, 1890. The total cost of the building and its furnishing was $33,000. That price included a pipe organ, which cost $3,100.</p><br>
<p>In 1968 the congregation reverted to the name First Baptist Church.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>First Baptist is a late 19th-century interpretation of the Romanesque style inspired by Henry Hobson Richardson known as Richardsonian Romanesque. It combines late Victorian polychrome surface areas with a shingle-style roofline treatment. The buildings is a nearly square in plan and features a very high hipped roof with blind dormers, corner pavilions and a three-stage tower. The structure was built of red brick and rough stone. It incorporates wide, rounded arch windows in its massive form. They are accompanied by smaller rectangular windows that are grouped in twos and threes. Period stained glass fills the window openings. The corner tower originally had a spire on top. A classroom wing is attached to the sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>The Bone Mound II is a Native American mound in the southwestern part of the USA state of Ohio. Located northwest of the unincorporated community of Oregonia, the mound sits in an area of light woodland.</p><br>
<p>At a height of 4 ft and a diameter of 50 ft, it is believed to have been built by people of the Fort Ancient culture. Although it has never been excavated, multiple confirmed Fort Ancient sites, including mounds and two cemeteries, are located within 1 mi of the Bone Mound II. The closest of these sites, a rare cemetery composed of limestone burial vaults, is only about 500 ft away.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Ancient people are known to have used burial vaults, pits, and two types of mounds for the burial of their dead. However, most areas with such a high concentration of Fort Ancient sites employ only a single method of burial. Because the area around the Bone Mound II shows evidence of multiple methods of burial, it may have been occupied by multiple foci of the Fort Ancient people; consequently, the region is very valuable archaeologically.</p><br>
<p>On July 15, 1974, the Bone Mound II was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its potential to be an archaeological site. The Bone Stone Graves, the cemetery with limestone vaults, was listed on the Register on the same day.</p><br>
<p>The John W. Blodgett Estate, also known as Brookby, is an historic landmark at 250 Plymouth Rd, SE, East Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1928, the estate is located on Fisk Lake. The estate consists of the Blodgett house as well as several other subsidiary buildings. The main house was designed by the A. Stewart Walker, a member of the architectural firm of Walker and Gillette. It is significant for its association with John W. Blodgett and his wife, Minnie Cumnock Blodgett, both of whom were important to the history of the city.</p><br>
<p>https://www.facebook.com/Brookby-House-John-W-Blodgett-Estate-East-Grand-Rapids-MI-184500511629157/</p><br>
<p>The Kenwood Historic District is located north west of downtown Enid, Oklahoma and is named for Kenwood Boulevard, a diagonal street created in 1894. The neighborhood encompasses 160 acre of housing created between 1895 and 1915. Houses in the district were designed by A.A. Crowell and R.W. Shaw, and feature American Foursquare styled homes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>N. E. Sisson and Maurice A. Wogan both laid claim to the land in the Land Run of 1893. Following a period of dispute, Sisson relinquished his claim, and the land became known as the Wogan Block. The land was the first platted area for the city of Enid. In 1895, Wogan sold the land to the Kenwood Land and Development Company, owned by Harrison Lee and his son-in-law Territorial Attorney General W.O. Cromwell. In the early days of Enid, the neighborhood became a home for wealthy businessmen, including Territorial Governor Frank Frantz, and his brothers, Montgomery, William, and Edmund Frantz.</p><br>
<p>The Union Block is a historic business building on Public Square in downtown Lima, Ohio, United States. Built in 1878, it is a three-story brick building with a modified rectangular floor plan and a sloping roofline.</p><br>
<p>From Limas earliest years, the Union Blocks site on the southeastern corner of todays Public Square was a leading commercial site. Preceding it was Limas first hotel, built by the second white man to settle in Lima.</p><br>
<p>The block&#39;s architecture is an example of a commercial variant of the Victorian style. Among its most prominent exterior details are ornate lintels and stone trim, while the interior features iron posts on the first floor and a staircase of cast iron. Each bay features a cluster of windows, most of which are composed of two or three windows.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Union Block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its well-preserved architecture. Sixteen other Lima buildings were listed on the National Register at the same time; all were part of the Lima Multiple Resource Area, a collection of architecturally-significant buildings in and around the city&#39;s downtown. Two other buildings on Public Square were included in this collection: the Neal Clothing Building, completed before the Civil War, and the early 20th-century First National Bank and Trust Building.</p><br>
<p>The Bone Stone Graves are a prehistoric cemetery in the southwestern part of the USA state of Ohio. Located northwest of the unincorporated community of Oregonia in northwestern Washington Township, Warren County, the cemetery is composed of an uncertain number of graves of individuals from the Fort Ancient culture of Native Americans.</p><br>
<p>Graves at the site are composed of bodies contained within limestone stone box graves. A cemetery of this type from the Fort Ancient period is very uncommon, making the Stone Graves a valuable archaeological site. Increasing the significance of the area is a complex of other nearby Fort Ancient sites, including the Bone Mound II that is only 500 ft away. Because most Fort Ancient sites include only a single type of burials, rather than both a mound and a cemetery, it is believed that the vicinity of the Stone Graves may have been inhabited by people of two different foci. In the future, more information may be gained from the cemetery, for the site has never been subject to an archaeological excavation.</p><br>
<p>On July 15, 1974, the Bone Stone Graves were listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of their archaeological value. The Bone Mound II was listed on the Register on the same day.</p><br>
<p>The Waverley Historic District is located in Enid, Oklahoma, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places  since 2006. It consists of four Waverley additions. The William and Luther Braden farm was the first parcel of land to be platted by the Waverley Development Company in May 1902. Subsequent additions were platted in 1905, 1906, and 1907. The District has 275 buildings built between 1895 and 1935. Architectural styles in the district include Queen Anne cottages, Folk Victorian houses, Colonial Revival houses, Craftsman Bungalow and Prairie School Foursquare Houses. There are also a few Tudor Revival, Neoclassical, Italian Renaissance, and Spanish Eclectic homes.</p><br>
<p>The T. T. Eason Mansion (36&deg;23&prime;47&Prime;N latitude, 97&deg;53&prime;38&Prime;W longitude) and the McCristy-Knox Mansion (36&deg;23&prime;47&Prime;N latitude, 97&deg;53&prime;40&Prime;W longitude) are also located within the district, and were both owned by wealthy oilmen. Both of these mansions were listed on the NRHP in 1987. T.T. Eason of Eason Oil Company purchased his house following original owner John W. Graham&#39;s death. Graham had the Prairie Box style house constructed in 1916, and Eason lived in it from 1923 to 1935.</p><br>
<p>Charles E. Knox, who owned a refinery in Covington, Oklahoma, purchased his mansion from Joseph McCristy, president of the Enid Mill and Grain Company. The mansion was built in 1909 in the Neo-Classical style and designed by R.W. Shaw.</p><br>
<p>Knox also owned another site listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Knox Building. Musician Michael Hedges also lived in the house with his family.</p><br>
<p>The George Washington Hotel is a historic hotel located in downtown Winchester, Virginia. It was built in 1924 by The American Hotel Corporation, as part of their "Colonial Chain" of hotels. Like many hotels of the era, the property was built in close proximity of a B&O train station and was constructed to provide lodging to railroad passengers.</p><br>
<h2>Original hotel</h2><br>
<p>Originally the five story hotel was built in the shape of an "L", with a rear one-story kitchen wing. It contained 102 rooms and 45 baths. The lowest level contained a barber-shop, cafeteria, candy shop and men&#39;s furnishing shop. In 1929 an additional wing was added to the hotel, which provided 50 more guestrooms.</p><br>
<p>In 1950 the property was remodeled to include a Howard Johnson&#39;s restaurant.</p><br>
<p>The property remained a vital part of downtown Winchester, Virginia and has in the past been home to the headquarters of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. Over the years, a number of notable people have stayed at The George Washington Hotel. Guests have included Lucille Ball and Jack Dempsey among many others.</p><br>
<h2>Changing times</h2><br>
<p>With the construction of interstate highways and widespread availability of motor cars, railroad travel began to decline. Undoubtedly, this change in travel, contributed to the closing of the property in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It was then operated as The George Washington Home for Adults from 1978 to 1993. The property then lay vacant until 2004. That year it was purchased and renovation work began which lasted until the property reopened in April 2008. The property has undergone a complete renovation and revitalization. It now includes 90 guestrooms, an indoor pool and hot tub, fitness room, restaurant "Georges Food And Spirits". It operates under the name The George Washington Hotel – A Wyndham Grand Hotel. The property contains all the amenities of today, while capturing the historical elements which make it so unique.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Sittee River is a river in Belize. It is also the name of a village along the river.</p><br>
<h2>River</h2><br>
<p>Located in central Belize, the mangroves located at the mouth of this river are the tallest ever reported for the Caribbean region and among the tallest anywhere in the entire Neotropics. The mouth of the Sittee River represents the optimal conditions for mangrove development and the forest found there has a high level of structural development. Freshwater flows and sediments carried by the river itself, draining from the Maya Mountains, and tidal flushing from the Caribbean Sea all support this tree growth. The forest at the mouth of the river is composed of three mangrove species: red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), and black mangrove (Avicennia germinans).</p><br>
<h2>Village</h2><br>
<p>Sittee River Village possesses a population of 312. In 2001, the arrival of Hurricane Iris caused significant flooding in the community.</p><br>
<p>Located in Sittee River Village, Serpon Sugar Mill is the ruins of a 19th-century sugar refinery which has been designated a park. There is a small general store with camping and a community phone on the main village road.</p><br>
<p>Toolibin Lake is a seasonal fresh to brackish water perched lake or wooded swamp, in south-western Australia. The lake is contained with a 493 hectare nature reserve and it is located about 200 km south-east of Perth, in the Shire of Narrogin, and 40 km east of the town of Narrogin, in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The lake is listed by the Australian Government as a threatened ecological community under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The lake lies in the catchment of the upper Blackwood River at an altitude of 300 m above mean sea level. It is about 300 hectare in area and 2 km in diameter, has a maximum depth of 2 m, and is one of the last remaining inland freshwater lakes found in south-western Australia. It is one of a chain of wetlands occupying a palaeodrainage valley forming part of the northern Arthur River system. Most of it is covered with a woodland of water tolerant tree species, with a large open area on the eastern side. Many other Wheatbelt wetlands formerly supported a vegetation community and ecosystem similar to that of Toolibin, but clearing for agriculture has resulted in most such sites becoming saline with a concomitant loss of emergent vegetation. Toolibin is the only major lake in the catchment that has not become completely saline.</p><br>
<p>Toolibin Lake lies in a low rainfall area of the Wheatbelt with an average annual rainfall of 400 mm, mainly falling in May–August, with annual evaporation of 1800 mm. It usually only holds water at certain times of year; sometimes drying out completely for several years</p><br>
<h3>Ramsar site</h3><br>
<p>Toolibin Lake is recognised as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, under which it was designated Ramsar Site 483 on 7 June 1990. The Ramsar site includes the entire area of the lake with some adjacent land on the northern, western and southern sides of the lake added in 2001 since the original site nomination, ensuring a buffer zone of at least 100 m width around most of the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Toolibin is the only remaining example in Southwest Australia of a wetland with extensive living thickets of swamp sheoak and the paperbark Melaleuca strobophylla on the lake fringes and bed - one of the main wetland types in the region prior to agricultural development there. Flooded gum, acorn banksia and rock sheoak woodland occur on the higher ground and deep sands surrounding the lake. The vegetation includes submerged aquatic plants and sedges around the lake.</p><br>
<p>The vegetation community provides habitat, now rare in the central wheatbelt, for woodland birds and other animals. Toolibin and its environs support more breeding waterbird species — up to 25, including the rare freckled duck, cormorants, egrets, night herons and spoonbills — than any other inland wetland in south-western Australia. It also supports a population of the threatened red-tailed phascogale.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation</h2><br>
<p>The main threats to Toolibin’s ecological community are salinisation and waterlogging due to clearing of the catchment for dry-land agriculture, particularly wool and cereal grain production; eutrophication caused by run-off containing agricultural fertilizers; invasive weeds changing the structure of the ecosystem and reducing natural vegetation available for food and shelter for animals; and grazing of regenerating seedlings by kangaroos, livestock and rabbits.</p><br>
<p>Actions to recover the environmental values of the lake and its catchment include the reduction of recharge – including revegetation and the protection of remnant vegetation; changes in farming methods, such as contour farming and the use of perennial grasses for grazing; the management of surface water in the catchment to reduce waterlogging of farmland, to decrease the salinity of water entering the lake, and to decrease salt loading of the lake; and groundwater pumping to lower the water table beneath the lake.</p><br>
<p>Named for James Wolcott, a prosperous businessman during the late 1820s to the mid 1840s, only the Wolcott House is original to the site. Built by James Wolcott and his wife, Mary Wells, the Wolcott House began as a log house and evolved into a beautiful 14-room Federal-style mansion between the years 1827 and 1836.</p><br>
<p>Maumee, the Foot of the Rapids of the Maumee River, was an important transshipment point serving Indian, French, English and American traders throughout the 19th century. The Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1795 secured the Northwest Territory for the settlement, and a lively river trade developed in the years following the War of 1812.</p><br>
<p>A proposed canal to connect Lake Erie with Fort Wayne stimulated speculative interest and attracted Eastern entrepreneurs. Among the earliest emigrants was James Wolcott of Connecticut. Wolcott traveled to Missouri, where he met and married Mary Wells. Mary Wells Wolcott was the daughter of William Wells and his wife Sweet Breeze who was the granddaughter of the great Miami Chief Little Turtle. William Wells was kidnapped at age 12 by the Miami Indians near his Kentucky home, was adopted by Chief Little Turtle and fought alongside the Indians during the Indian Wars, 1790-1794. He later went over to the Americans to serve with General Anthony Wayne. He was present at Wayne&#39;s victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 and served as the interpreter for the Miami at the Treaty of Greenville in 1795. Wells was killed during the Fort Dearborn massacre in 1812.</p><br>
<p>Reports of the growing commercial opportunities at the Foot of the Rapids prompted James and Mary to travel to Maumee in 1826. They purchased 300 acres for $1.25 an acre in 1827 and began construction of their handsome home. The house is a blend of federal and classic architecture. Wolcott built wharves and warehouses on the Maumee River just below his home and constructed two steamships - the General Harrison and the James Wolcott - to transport his merchandise. By 1837, Wolcott&#39;s retail and wholesale businesses were booming and his fortune increased with the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canals.</p><br>
<p>Mary&#39;s Native American heritage prompted her kindness, understanding and sympathy toward the Native Americans of the Maumee Valley as they were slowly driven from their lands. She was known for her incredible hospitality toward both Indians and white settlers to the area.</p><br>
<p>James and Mary Wolcott had five sons and a daughter. Their home passed through three generations to Wolcotts great-granddaughter, Rilla Hull, who was the last of the Wolcott line to reside in the "Mansion on the Maumee". She cherished the heritage of her ancestors and the broader history of the lower Maumee Valley and took an active role in preserving local sites such as Fort Miamis. Upon her death in 1957, Ms. Hull bequeathed her home for public use and benefit. St. Pauls Episcopal Church transferred the landmark to the City of Maumee for use as a historical museum.</p><br>
<p>Home Ownership: James and Mary Wolcott – b.1789 to d.1873, Mary Ann Wolcott Gilbert – b.1827 to d.1891, Fredrica Gilbert Hull – b.1850 to d.1934, and Rilla E. Hull – b.1880 to d.1957.</p><br>
<h2>Wolcott House Museum Complex</h2><br>
<p>Today the Hull–Wolcott House is part of the Wolcott House Museum Complex, which is owned by the city of Maumee and run by the Maumee Valley Historical Society. The complex consists of the following structures:</p><br>
<p>The Wolcott House, ca. 1835</p><br>
<p>The Log House, ca. 1850</p><br>
<p>The Gilbert-Flanigan House, ca. 1841</p><br>
<p>The Box Schoolhouse, ca. 1850</p><br>
<p>The Clover Leaf Depot, ca. 1888</p><br>
<p>The Monclova Country Church, ca. 1901</p><br>
<h2>Maumee Valley Historical Society</h2><br>
<p>The roots of the Maumee Valley Historical Society go back to 1864 with the formation of the Maumee Valley Pioneer Association. The founding members were early settlers of Northwest Ohio who came together to protect and preserve the historic artifacts of the Maumee Valley as well as to document information about themselves for future generations.</p><br>
<p>Peter Navarre was the first president of the Society and served until his death in 1873. Horatio Conant served as Vice-President. The first meeting was held in Toledo on February 22, 1865, with Morrison R. Waite of Maumee City, Ohio, as the guest speaker.</p><br>
<p>In 1918, the Society became known as the Historical Society of Northwest Ohio. The object of the Society was to:</p><br>
<p>1)acquire books, printed papers, and manuscripts. 2)encourage writing of books and papers. 3)deliver lectures and addresses on subjects of history. 4)collect and arrange objects of historical interest and provide for their preservation and exhibition. 5)provide a museum to house these collections.</p><br>
<p>The purpose of the Historical Society broadened in the late 1950s when its dream of operating a museum became a reality. In 1957 Rilla Hull, the last direct descendent of James and Mary Wolcott, died bequeathing her ancestral home to St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church of Maumee. The church sold the estate to the City of Maumee and is managed by the Maumee Valley Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The mission of the Maumee Valley Historical Society is to collect, preserve, study, interpret and communicate the history and culture of the Maumee Valley for the public. This mission is accomplished through a variety of educational programs, events and projects, which are presented within the context of an early nineteenth to early twentieth century recreated village around a central green on the grounds of the Wolcott House, using period structures containing appropriate furnishings and artifacts.</p><br>
<p>The Stanley Theater in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, was built in 1927 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1986.</p><br>
<p>This Spanish Atmospheric style theatre was named for the Warner Brothers-owned circuit that built it. Frank Grad was the architect, with interior decoration by Landish Studios. The Stanley Theatre first opened in 1927, but due to its location in the outskirts of Newark, it ran second-run to the circuit&#39;s downtown Branford Theatre.</p><br>
<p>By the early 1970s, the Stanley Theatre was no longer profitable and got sold to an Italian-American cultural organization that turned it into a social hall called Casa Italiana. The Atmospheric style decor was retained, but the single floor auditorium was cleared of seats so it could be used for dining and dancing.</p><br>
<p>Since 1980 it has been Newark Tabernacle.</p><br>
<p>The Fireman&#39;s Insurance Company was an insurance company founded in 1855 in Newark, New Jersey that built two buildings downtown to house its offices.</p><br>
<p>The Home Office Building is located adjacent to Military Park at 10 Park Place in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The building was built in 1928 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 17, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Jay H. and Wilson C. Ely and built for the Fireman&#39;s Insurance Company. Construction began in 1924 and the building was completed in 1928. In 1982 the building was designated a New Jersey Historic Place and a National Historic Place. The 10-story building has 16,000 ft&sup2; of space. The Berger Organization purchased the building in 1990, the same year a plaque was placed on it by the Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee. The building underwent renovations in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Inscription</h2><br>
<h2>Fireman's Insurance Building</h2><br>
<p>The company had previously been based in a building they had also built. The Fireman&#39;s Insurance Building was one of the first skyscrapers in the city and the tallest in the city upon its completion in 1910. It is situated at the northeast corner of Market and Broad Streets, the original heart of downtown and the Four Corners Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Griffith Building is located in Newark, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The building was built in 1927 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 24, 1984. The building is 15 story&#39;s and 64.01 m tall. The Griffith Piano Company erected the building as a showroom, workshop, office tower and recital auditorium. Under the direction of Mrs. Parker O. Griffith, a foundation supported by the company was responsible for the direction, support, and programming at Newark Symphony Hall.</p><br>
<p>There have been plans to convert the building along with the adjacent Hahne and Company flagship store into condo loft apartments. A joint venture called HG Jetson between the Berger Organization and Cogswell Realty Group will be converting the buildings.</p><br>
<p>Along with the planned One Theater Square, and the completed Eleven 80, the restoration will significantly increase the residential population of Downtown Newark, particularly around Military Park.</p><br>
<p>The Sarah Whitman Hooker House is a historic house at 1237 New Britain Avenue in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1720, it is believed to be the oldest standing house in the town. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Sarah Whitman Hooker House is located in southern West Hartford, on the south side of New Britain Avenue (Connecticut Route 71), just east of its junction with South Main Street. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with two interior chimneys and a centered entrance. It is set at the busy southeast corner of New Britain Avenue and South Main Street. The main entrance is flanked by sidelight windows and framed by a molded surround.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1720, and originally had a central chimney. It was built by John Seymour in what was one of the first areas of Hartford&#39; West Parish to be settled. It underwent a major renovation in the early 19th century, at which time that chimney was removed, and the attic and rear leanto spaces were rebuilt. The interior suffered fire damage in 1935, but this has since been restored.</p><br>
<p>In addition to its age, the house is notable locally for its role in the American Revolutionary War, when the house was owned by Thomas Hart Hooker, a descendant of Hartfords founder Thomas Hooker, and his wife Sarah Whitman Hooker. The Hookers held as captives Andrew and Philip Skene, Loyalists who were taken prisoner early in the American Revolutionary War by colonial forces that captured Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York and ransacked the elder Skenes house.</p><br>
<p>The house is presently owned by the town.</p><br>
<p>The Spanish House is a historic house at 46 Fernwood Road in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1928, it is the only Spanish Colonial Revival house in the town, and a well-preserved and documented exemplar of the style. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 14, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Spanish House is located in a residential area of eastern West Hartford, on the northwest side of a bend in Fernwood Road east of Steele Road. It is a U-shaped 1-1/2 story structure, with the legs running north-south and enclosing a courtyard that is open at the southern end. The walls are masonry finished in stucco, and the roof is red tile. Wrought iron elements accent the exterior, and portions of the interior have painted landscapes and abstract patterns executed by N. Ross Parke, a Hartford artist. A two-car garage, integral to the structure, projects north from the eastern leg of the U, and is accessed via a semicircular drive on the east side of the property.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by the Hartford architect Lester Scheide in consultation with his patron, Grace M. Spear Lincoln, a Hartford native who had lived in Spain. The Spanish architectural style exhibited by the house is unique to the period for central Connecticut. The house was built in 1928, Fernwood Road having been platted for development in 1925. Interior floor tiles and fountains were imported from Spain. The entire history of the house&#39;s design and construction is documented through sketches, plans, and bills.</p><br>
<p>The Whitman House is a historic house at 208 North Main Street in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1764, it is one of the town&#39;s few surviving 18th-century buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Whitman House is located north of West Hartford center, on the east side of North Main Street, a short way south of its junction with Clifford Lane. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a large central chimney, gabled roof, and clapboarded exterior on a brownstone foundation. A rear leanto section gives it a saltbox appearance. The main facade is six bays wide, with asymmetrical window placement. The main entrance is off-center, and is a wide two-leaf entry flanked by fluted pilasters and topped by a corniced entablature. The interior retains a number of original period features, includes raised paneling and wainscoting.</p><br>
<p>The original five-bay section of the house was built c. 1764 by John Whiting, Jr., possibly on the site of an older 17th-century house. Whiting was a prominent landowner who was involved in petitions to separate West Hartford from Hartford, and was the brother of Sarah Whitman Hooker, whose house also still stands. The house was widened about 1813, and underwent a major architect-led rehabilitation in 1913. A prominent early 20th-century resident was Frederick Duffy, a dairy farmer who introduced milking machines and the storage of grain in silos to the area.</p><br>
