<p>Niska Isle, despite its name, is not an island, but a peninsula in the town of Niskayuna, New York. Niska Isle is along the Mohawk River&#39;s south shore, with a back bay and swamp that surrounds it to the south.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Niska Isle was prior to 1915 a.5 mi by.25 mi highly defensible hillock at the junction of the Lisha Kill (creek) and Mohawk River and was once the site of a Native American village. A trail led from the village to the Normans Kill and Helderberg Escarpment. A rope ferry was started in 1790 by Eldert Vischer connecting Ferry Road on the Niskayuna side to the Ferry Road on the opposite bank. The ferry was replaced by a short-lived bridge from 1900–2. The damming of the Mohawk River for the creation of the New York State Barge Canal in 1915 caused the mouth of the Lisha Kill to become a back bay and this required the building of a bridge to connect Ferry Road to the "mainland". The bridge, despite getting a new deck in the 1980s, was showing its age by 2008 when it was proposed that Niska Isle be abandoned. This was rejected due to a projected price tag of over $6 million to buy out the landowners. A new bridge, costing almost as much, was built in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Niska Isle is home to roughly nine households. Most of the peninsula is home to two families, the Schoolcrafts and the Burgers. The Schoolcrafts, who occupy most of the land south and east of Ferry Road have been there on a resident basis since 1937 though owned land as early as the early-20th century; while the Burgers have been residents since 1947 on most of the land north of the road to Lock 7 though they worked and later rented the land starting in the late-19th century. Some other families live in houses over-looking the Ferry Road bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>To the north and east of Niska Isle is the Mohawk River which separates it from the hamlet of Vischer Ferry in Saratoga County, a back bay is to the south. The Lisha Kill empties into this bay which tends to be clogged with water chestnuts, an invasive plant species. The Mohawk tends to get clogged with ice jams during the winter and flooding on the island is common, with an especially severe flood occurring in the 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The only land access to Niska Isle is by way of a bridge that carries Ferry Road over an abandoned railroad bed (now the Mohawk Hudson Hike/Bike Trail) and the back bay. The original bridge was a one-lane bridge built around 1915 due to the construction of the Barge Canal that flooded the mouth of the Lisha Kill cutting off Niska Isle from the "mainland". Because the Mohawk River is part of the Barge Canal the bridge was owned by the New York State Canal Corporation (and later New York State Thruway Authority and then the New York State Department of Transportation). The deck was replaced in the 1980s and the bridge replaced in 2010 with a new 588 ft bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>A small parking area is at the end of Ferry Road at the river&#39;s edge and allows for access for fishing and a boat launch. Fish off Niska Isle include bass, pike, muskie, panfish, and 20–30 pounder carp.</p><br>
<p>The Haystack Mountain Tower is a stone observation tower at the summit of 1,716 ft Haystack Mountain in Haystack Mountain State Park, Norfolk, Connecticut. Built in 1929, it and the land on which it stands were donated by Ellen Battell Stoeckel. It provides views of three states and Long Island Sound. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Haystack Mountain State Park is located just north of the village center of Norfolk, with its main access road, Stoeckel Drive, beginning on Connecticut Route 272. The road leads to the summit of Haystack Mountain, where the tower stands. It is about 50 ft in height and 22 ft in diameter, and is built primarily of dark grey granite that was quarried at the site. The stone is randomly laid, with deeply recessed mortaring. The interior has concrete steps leading upward to intermediate lands, with wooden stairs leading from the second landing up to a metal observation platform, which is set under a conical roof. The elevation of the second landing is indicated on the exterior by a stone string course. The observation area has eight openings providing views in all directions. With clear weather, areas in New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut are visible, with views as far south as Long Island Sound possible.</p><br>
<p>The tower was designed by Ehrick K. Rossiter of Rossiter & Muller, and is a significant local example of medieval Tudor Revival architecture. It was built in 1929 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It cost approximately $50,000 and was donated by Mrs. Ellen Battell Stoeckel, in memory of her husband, Carl Stoeckel. Mrs. Stoeckel&#39;s donation also included the initial tracts of land that make up the state park.</p><br>
<p>The Walker Tavern is a historic structure located at 11710 USA Route 12 in Cambridge Township in northwesternmost Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on February 19, 1958 and was later the county&#39;s first property added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 25, 1971. The structure was incorporated into the Cambridge Junction Historic State Park and continues to serve as a museum and venue for various events.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This structure was built as a modest farmhouse around 1832 by an unknown architect in the style of Federal architecture. It was built at the important intersection of the former Chicago Road (U.S Route 12) and the Monroe Pike (M-50). At some point, Calvin Snell began operating the building as a tavern for travelers along the road. In about 1838, Sylvester and Lucy Walker moved from New York State and likely began leasing the inn and tavern from Snell. In 1842, the Walkers purchased the tavern, renaming it the Walker Tavern. In addition to a tavern, it also served as an inn for travelers from Monroe en route from Detroit to Chicago — a stagecoach trip that once took five days. Famous guests included Daniel Webster and James Fenimore Cooper. The structure served a variety of purposes, including a meeting place for religious and political gatherings.</p><br>
<p>Walker operated the tavern until about 1853, when he constructed a similar establishment, S. Walker&#39;s Hotel, across the street. In 1865, the older Walker Tavern was purchased by Francis A. Dewey. In 1921, Frederic Hewitt purchased the tavern and converted it into a museum. In 1965, the Walker Tavern was sold to the Michigan DNR, and it underwent several alterations during a restoration process.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Walker Tavern is a two-story frame structure, sided with whitewood clapboard, and located on a low rise of ground. It is framed with hand-hewn white oak timbers about eight inches square. A basement of fieldstone extends under about half the building. The original portion of the tavern measures approximately 36 feet by 18 feet, and three major additions were made to the rear of the original structure, extending its depth.</p><br>
<p>The John W. Keeney and Erena Alexander Rogers Farm, commonly known simply as the Keeney Farm, is a historic district located at 5300 Monroe Street  in Franklin Township in north-central Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 24, 2001. The apple orchard has been continuously operating since 1875, and is one of the oldest such orchards in Lenawee County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jonathan B. Keeney was born in Lyme, Connecticut in 1815, and purchased the land on which this farm stands in 1835. In 1846, he sold the land to his brother John W.</p><br>
<p>Keeney, who was born in 1810 in New London, Connecticut. In about 1865, Keeney hired local builder Riley Butrick to construct the farmhouse located on this farm. In about 1875, John W.&#39;s son Joseph Keeney planted the first apple orchard on the property. Joseph was disinterested in the business management of the farm, preferring horticultural pursuits, so he left the management to his sister Emma and his three children, Frank, John R., and Ruth Keeney.</p><br>
<p>John R. Keeney was the driving force behind the farm management. He was born in 1882, and moved the Chicago to become a salesman. In 1916, he returned to the farm and introduced a substantial amount of new innovation to the farming process. The farm became one of the largest producers of fruit in the area, and John R. installed cold storage barns in 1922. In 1923 he married opera performer Dorothy Bladon Elton, and in 1926 the couple renovated the farmhouse.</p><br>
<p>Refrigeration units were installed in the 1930s, and the farm raised Christmas trees, and eventually instituted a "pick your own" sales model. Some of the landscape features surrounding the house, including the retaining wall along M-50, were built from 1926–1950. Frank Perry died early, and in 1963 John R. Keeney bought out his sister Ruth. The farm passed in trust to John R.&#39;s sons, John William Keeney and Frank Perry Keeney. In 1980, John William became sole owner of the farm.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The farm consists of 256 acres (104 ha), which includes the farmhouse, fields, woodlands, a pond, and an apple orchard. The majority of the property — all but 10 acres (4 ha) — has been owned by the Keeney family since it was first settled in 1835. The farmhouse stands on a small hill, and a fieldstone-trimmed concrete retaining wall runs in front of it.</p><br>
<p>The house is a two-story Upright and Wing structure with a fieldstone foundation and clapboard siding. Traces of Greek Revival details remain, including narrow corner pilasters, the wide frieze band below the cornices, and the side and transom lights framing the front entrance. The upright portion of the house is three bays wide with a shallow pitched roof. The wing section is three bays wide on the ground floor and two on the second; it also has a shallow roof.</p><br>
<p>Taylor Hall in Hawkinsville, Georgia is a building built in 1825 with Greek Revival and "Plantation Plain" architectural elements. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Taylor Hall is the oldest house in Pulaski county. Dr. Robert Newsom Taylor used Creek Indian labor to construct Taylor Hall in 1824. Originally built on the banks of the Ocmulgee River in old Hartford, the house was dismantled in 1836 and ferried across the river to its present site. Taylor Hall has weathered Yankee encampments, marauding gypsies and period of neglect. Now restored, the house features the original wainscoting and hand-hewn pine planks. It is currently a private residence. It is down a private drive, with no good view from public property.</p><br>
<p>The Eagle Hotel, also known as the Wilmington Area Historical Society Museum, is a historic former hotel in Wilmington, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first settlers in Wilmington arrived in 1836, favoring the land&#39;s abundance of streams and lumber. Thomas Cox platted the land and constructed the first grist mill in the region. Farmers traveled to the mill from long distances and required a place to stay while the corn and wheat was being ground. The land on which the hotel stood was purchased by David Lizer in 1836 and likely organized the project himself. The exact date when the building was constructed was not recorded, but it probably was built after the first general store in 1837. The building was likely used first to house goods for the mills in the region and may have served as a trading post.</p><br>
<p>Henry Brown, who owned the town&#39;s general store, build the two-story hotel across the street from the store on Water Street c. 1838. The hotel is of no particular style, but is most strongly influenced by the Greek Revival movement. An addition was added to the hotel in the 1840s, which connected the hotel to the warehouse. This addition featured a storefront where independent businesses could rent space to sell their goods.</p><br>
<p>The hotel business flourished following the connection of Wilmington to the Chicago and Alton Railroad in the early 1850s. However, the more luxurious Exchange Hotel was constructed across the street in 1844, and the Eagle Hotel failed to see the same increase in business. The Eagle Hotel managed be profitable by offering cheap rooms to families who recently moved to the region. USA Route 66 provided more customers upon its completion, but the hotel nonetheless was forced to convert to a boarding house to stay in business. The building was converted to apartments in the 1940s, retaining small businesses in the storefront until 1982. The Wilmington Area Historical Society purchased the building that year and converted it into a museum. A fire badly damaged the structure in 1990. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>San Marco in Boccalama was an island, now submerged, in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It was located between Campana, SantAngelo della Polvere and the motte di Volpego. The name derived from the presence of a church dedicated to St. Mark, and to its location at the mouth the Lama, an old branch of the river Brentas mouth.</p><br>
<p>An oratory existed here from as early as 1013. After 1328 subsidence and erosion made life impossible for the monks, and from 1348 it was used as a common burial place in the wake of the outbreak of the Black Death in Venice and its neighborhood. The last mentions of the islands date to the 16th century, after which it is likely it had already disappeared.</p><br>
<p>In the 1990s two medieval ships were found near the submerged island, a rascona (a flat transport boat) and a galley, the first example of this type found so far.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
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<p>SantAngelo della Polvere  is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, in the Contorta channel, not far from the Giudecca and the island of San Giorgio in Alga. An Italian state property, it has a surface of 0.53 ha and is home to four buildings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From 1060 it housed a church and monastery initially under the Benedictines, first male and then female; the latter dedicated the monastery to St. Michael Archangel, whence the name. In 1474 the nuns were forced to move to the monastery of the Cross in the Giudecca, due to their unruly behaviour, and from 1518 the complex was held by the Carmelites of Mantua and Brescia.</p><br>
<p>In 1555 the island took its present name, when the Senate of the Republic of Venice decided to depopulate it due to its unhealthy air and to install in it a gunpowder depot. On 29 August 1689 lightning struck the island, destroying the whole complex. The island remained abandoned for several years. 18th century maps indicate the presence of some military installations, and it remained a military site until World War II; since then it has remained unused.</p><br>
<p>The G. P. Sparks House is a historic private residence located at 509 East Logan Street in the city of Tecumseh in northeast Lenawee County, Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The G. P. Sparks House is a two-story upright and wing house constructed in the Late Victorian style of architecture. The end-gable roof has a pierced-work gable ornament. The first floor of the two story upright section contains a pair of windows with small hoods and shutters; the second floor contains paired, triangle-head, windows, above which is a bullseye topped by a drip molding. THe single story wing is slightly set back, and is fronted by a porch with narrow, squared posts and frieze panels, sheltering the entrance. The porch contains delicate latticework brackets.</p><br>
<p>The privately owned G. P. Sparks house is located one block away from M-50 near the River Raisin and just down East Logan Street from the Musgrove Evans House.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Sparks house was built in 1883 for local musical instrument and sewing merchant G. P. Sparks and his wife Mary. They apparently lived in the house for only five years before moving to the store building where Sparks&#39;s business was located.</p><br>
<p>Because of its pristine detailing and well-preserved appearance, it is regarded as one of the most significant pieces of architecture in Tecumseh.</p><br>
<p>It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site and added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 13, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Lockport Historic District, also known as the Canal and Downtown Area, is a set of fifty-nine buildings in Lockport, Illinois. Of these, fifty-six contribute to the historical integrity of the area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The downtown district of Lockport was platted in 1836, the same year that construction began on the Illinois and Michigan Canal (I&M Canal). Two years later, Lockport was designated as the headquarters for the I&M. Due to the importance of the canal for commerce, the downtown district runs parallel to it. The district featured the Canals barn, the Gaylord Store and Martin Elevator, the Norton Warehouse and Store, the Canal Office, and the Superintendents Home.</p><br>
<p>Most buildings in the area were constructed with locally quarried limestone. The downtown area, aside from canal-related structures, was mostly used for commercial purposes. It was laid out by Joseph Wapler, the surveyor for the I&M Canal. The oldest buildings in the district today is the Canal Office (1838) and the building at 1020 State Street. The Canal Office was converted into the Will County Historical Society Headquarters and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. An 1895 fire damaged the block between 10th and 11th streets east of State St. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 1975.</p><br>
<p>Dirrington Great Law is a hill in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former county of Berwickshire. The summit is around 2.5 km south of Longformacus and 9 km west of Duns. It is an isolated hill to the south of the Lammermuir Plateau. Dirrington Little Law  is located 2 km to the south-west.</p><br>
<p>Geologically, the two Dirrington Laws comprise Carboniferous volcanic felsite (riebeckite), and may be the remains of a laccolith, a type of volcanic intrusion into the surrounding sedimentary rocks of the Old Red Sandstone.</p><br>
<p>At the summit of Dirrington Great Law are three large circular cairns, 23.5 m, 21 m, and 8.5 m in diameter. The cairns are composed of stones excavated from the hilltop, rather than from loose stone gathered from the ground.</p><br>
<p>The Robert Milne House is a historic residence in Lockport, Illinois, United States. It was home to Robert Milne, Canal Commissioner of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Robert Milne was a mason from Banffshire, Scotland who immigrated to Chicago in 1836. In 1840, he was commissioned to build five of the locks on the Illinois and Michigan Canal (I&M Canal) and moved to its headquarters in Lockport, Illinois. He purchased a 240 acre lot and constructed a farm upon it, calling it "Kelvyn Grove". The land had been platted as the town of East Lockport, but had never been developed. He briefly lived in Chicago in 1849 before returning to Lockport. In 1854, he sold his Chicago business interests to focus on the canal and his ranch. Milne was promoted to Canal Commissioner by Illinois Governor John M. Palmer in 1869. Milne was also one of the first breeders of Shorthorn cattle in the United States. Four generations of the Milne family lived on the farmstead, owning the house until 1979. Most of the land that was previously on the farm is now owned by the Lockport school district. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 17, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Robert Milne house stands two stories tall and is built with locally quarried limestone. It is generally Greek Revival in design. The main section is rectangular and has cut stone facades and a stone cornice. There are two interior brick chimneys. The street facade is four bays wide while the backyard facade is five bays. A bracket porch and two rear additions were built after 1873. The property also includes a stone milk house and a well. A modern frame garage is also on the property.</p><br>
<p>The John Heck House, also known as the Hauer Residence, is a historic residence in Lockport, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Heck was a Canadian businessman who immigrated in 1838. John Heck was brought to Lockport to oversee the building of the I & M Canal. He mostly provided construction services, ranging from excavation to masonry. Heck purchased a tract of land for $9,000 in 1866; he likely organized the construction himself. His home was constructed from locally quarried limestone. It was constructed in the Greek Revival style, likely influenced by immigrants from New York City who first came to work on the canal. The house also prominently features Italianate details, which were mostly added in a remodeling in the 1870s. Heck died in 1890 and is buried in a local cemetery in Lockport at St. Joseph Church.</p><br>
<p>The residence passed to his niece, Georgina Alice Heck, who may have provided live-in support to John in his later years. Georgina sold the residence only three months later. It served as a boarding house in the 1920s, and was converted to an apartment building in the 1940s. The apartment rooms were later removed, and the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 1994 by Jon Rawson. Since 1994, the home was sold to a Couple who turned it into a Bed & Breakfast, "The Liberty Inn" which was sold 3 years later to the Lindemann family.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-story house was built with locally quarried limestone. It is representative of the Greek Revival and Italianate styles. It was originally a square, but has since had two additions. The first addition was to the south side in the late 1860s, shortly after construction. A wood frame addition, now covered in modern siding, was added to the rear (west) in 1946.</p><br>
<p>The Fitzpatrick House is a historic residence in Lockport Township, Illinois near Lockport.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Patrick Fitzpatrick immigrated from Canada in 1833-1834 and was one of Lockport&#39;s first settlers. Fitzpatrick purchased the 160 acre lot shortly after he arrive and constructed a farm. He eventually increased the size of his farm to 1,200 acre and became a prominent citizen. Irish immigrants flocked to the region in the mid to late 1830s during the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Fitzpatrick, who spent his childhood in Ireland, became an important figure in the local Irish community, having already reached a level of economic success before construction of the canal started. The limestone house was constructed along the Chicago–Ottawa stagecoach road, which later became Illinois Route 53.</p><br>
<p>Fitzpatrick&#39;s heirs donated portions of the farmstead to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, which was used for Lewis University. The last descendant of the Fitzpatrick family died in 1950. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and is currently used by Lewis University as an alumni affairs office.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Fitzpatrick House is a T-shaped stone house with Greek Revival details. The two sections of the T are each approximately 25 x. The gable ends have two bays and the long section has three bays. The interior has been completely remodeled and has no historic integrity. The south (long) section may have been built first. This side has the front door, centered in the middle bay facing west toward Illinois 53. Typical of Greek Revival houses, the Fitzpatrick House has flat stone lintels, symmetrical proportions, and a horizontal transom. The property also has a 28 x barn.</p><br>
<p>Fort Granville was a militia stockade located in the colonial Province of Pennsylvania. Its site was about a mile from Lewistown, in what is now Granville Township, Mifflin County. Active from 1755 until 1756, the stockade briefly sheltered pioneer settlers in the Juniata River valley during the French and Indian War.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>After the French victory in the Battle of the Monongahela on July 9, 1755, English settlers on the Pennsylvania frontier were exposed to hostile hit-and-run raids from their adversaries of the Franco-Indian alliance. As the Shawanese and Delawares grew bolder in their excursions in the frontier, it was decided by the provincial government that a string of forts should be constructed across the province from the Delaware Water Gap to the Maryland line. On December 17, 1755, Capt. George Croghan was issued the order below as signed by Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Fox, Joseph Hughs, and Evan Morgan:</p><br>
<p>"Sir:—You are desired to proceed to Cumberland County and fix on proper places for erecting three stockades, viz.: One back of Patterson&#39;s, one upon Kishecoquillas, and one near Sideling Hill; each of them fifty feet square, with Block House on two of the corners, and a Barracks within, capable of lodging fifty men. You are also desired to agree with some proper Person or Persons to oversee the workmen at each Place, who shall be allowed such Wages as you shall agree to give, not exceeding one Dollar per day; and the workmen shall be allowed at the rate of six Dollars per month and their Provisions, till the work is finished."</p><br>
<h2>Location and construction</h2><br>
<p>Instead of constructing the fort at the mouth of the Kishacoquillas Creek, Croghan went up the Juniata River to a site near a spring. The exact location can no longer be determined, as the construction of the Pennsylvania Canal destroyed the spring around 1829. According to historian Walter O&#39;Meara, "This fort was an important link in the chain of strongpoints on the west side of the Susquehanna, commanding the point where the Juniata falls through the mountains."</p><br>
<h2>Military history</h2><br>
<p>By the summer of 1756, the local settlers only left the fort when absolutely necessary due to an increase in the number of sightings of hostile natives. Assistance arrived under the command of Lt. Armstrong with a militia force to protect them during the harvest. Some of this militia was sent south to Tuscarora to help the settlers there. Around July 22, some sixty to seventy warriors appeared outside the fort ready for battle, but the commanding officer declined to engage in hopes they would dissipate. The Indians fired at one man and wounded him but he was able to get back into the fort with no serious injury. A short distance from the river they killed a man named Baskins, burned his house, and took his wife and children. They also took Hugh Carrol and his family prisoners.</p><br>
<p>On July 30, Capt. Edward Ward, commandant at Fort Granville, took all but twenty-four men out of the fort to protect settlers in Sherman&#39;s Valley, leaving Lt. Edward Armstrong in command at the fort.—not his brother, Louis Coulon de Villiers, as is often written incorrectly—attacked the fort on August 2. "Most of the garrison was away, protecting harvesters in the vicinity; but a Lieutenant Armstrong and 24 men held off the attackers until the next morning."</p><br>
<p>About midnight, Coulon&#39;s men succeeded in setting Fort Granville on fire. Armstrong was shot while trying to extinguish the fire, and the French commander ordered a suspension of hostilities. Coulon offered quarter to the defenders for their surrender several times, but Armstrong would not surrender. He was later shot a second time and succumbed.</p><br>
<p>Shortly after Armstrong&#39;s death, Sergeant John Turner surrendered the fort, garrison, and civilians who had taken refuge inside the stockade. The unfortunate sergeant was made an example of by the victors. They tied him to a stake and "after having heated several old gun barrels red-hot, they danced around him, and every minute or two, seared and burned his flesh... After tormenting him almost to death, they scalped him, and then held up a lad, who ended his sufferings by laying open his skull with a hatchet." The death of Turner was due to a personal feud with an Indian had had badly beaten at a previous time. The captives were taken to Fort de Chartres in the Illinois country, where they were ransomed from the Indians by the French officers and local inhabitants. Escorted to New Orleans, they were then repatriated to England and eventually returned to the American colonies.</p><br>
<p>Following orders from the French commander, Fort Granville was burnt by Captain Jacobs, leader of the Delaware participants. The French and Indian raid led to retaliation in the form of the Kittanning Expedition, led by Lt. Armstrong&#39;s brother, John Armstrong.</p><br>
<p>The Ninth Street Seven Arch Stone Bridge was a historical bridge in Lockport, Illinois. The bridge was the regions first over the Des Plaines River, facilitating trade between farmers west of the river and merchants in Lockport. Farmers were previously forced to use a ford, located near 9th Street. It was approved on March 20, 1868, and cost $4,000. The arch bridge was constructed using locally quarried limestone in eight to twelve inch blocks. Each arch of the bridge spanned 197 foot. The builder is unknown, but may have been Julius Scheibe, a notable local mason who built many of the citys stone structures of the era. Schiebe was also a highway commissioner during the bridge&#39;s construction. A concrete slab had to be added to the foundation of the bridge in the early 1900s due to increased water levels caused by the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. The Ninth Street Seven Arch Stone Bridge was closed to traffic in 1971 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>On March 8, 2011, the bridge sustained significant damage following a storm. The village of Lockport decided to demolish the bridge that spring. Pieces of the limestone will be used in historical displays.</p><br>
<p>The John B. Kane Residence is a two-story Queen Anne-Eastlake Victorian house located in West Adams, Los Angeles on Bonsallo Avenue. Built 1892-1893, the house was designated Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #500 in June 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The residence was designed by Fred R. Dorn, architect of many houses and buildings throughout Los Angeles. One of the house&#39;s distinguishing features is the three triangle peaks in sequence on the roof, rare in the neighborhood where other Dorn-designed houses typically feature one or two peaks. Behind the house is a two-horse stable that, according to area Sanborn Maps, was present when the house was completed.</p><br>
<h2>West Adams Location</h2><br>
<p>The residence is located in the Park Villas Tract of what was then known as "Los Angeles City," part of the greater West Adams neighborhood. Located one mile southwest of downtown Los Angeles, the neighborhood was bisected by the Interstate 10 and Interstate 110 freeways built in the 1950s to the northeast that form a hub of the LA freeway system. However, due to the proximity of the freeways there is a noticeable lack of cut-through traffic in the vicinity. Bordering the neighborhood to the West is the Union St-23rd St. business district. Immediately to the South of the residence is Mount St. Marys Colleges Doheny campus in University Park, and further South is USC&#39;s Annenberg Research Park and the University of Southern California main campus. Bordering to the East is the and the 23rd St Expo Line station.</p><br>
<p>The Simmons & Wright Company is a historic general store established in 1884 in Kewanee, Mississippi, a small town just outside Meridian in Lauderdale County. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The store was originally built in 1884 by William Simmons and Tom Wright before what is now known as US Highway 11/80 was built. What is now the back of the store then faced the Old Dixie Highway, which ran west through Meridian and east all the way to Key West, Florida. The site was most likely chosen because of its close proximity to the railroad, so trains could stop and unload cargo for local farmers.</p><br>
<p>Though the store still operates today, the period in which business thrived began with its establishment in 1884 and lasted until the 1960s. The company relied heavily on the cotton industry and the many farmers that needed supplies in the area. In the 1880s, the store included a blacksmith shop, a gristmill for grinding corn and wheat, a cotton gin, and a sawmill and carried every day items such as groceries, clothing, and other necessities. During the Great Depression, customers who built up a tab at the store were allowed to pay it off with cotton. The owner would purchase cotton from them. If the cotton was insufficient to pay the customer&#39;s tab in its entirety, the owner would allow the tab to roll over to the next year.</p><br>
<p>A fire destroyed the original store building in 1926, but it was rebuilt in the same year using brick instead of wood, of which the original store was built. There is a wood-burning stove on the first floor for heating during the winter, and though there is no air conditioning in the building, there are fans throughout the building for use during the summer heat.</p><br>
<p>Behind the store there is a warehouse built in 1926. It is built on brick pilings and constructed of wood and aluminum. There is a brick enclosure on the south side of the building that was used to store ice for the store. Also on the site are a cotton gin, blacksmith shop, and multiple seed storage buildings made mostly of wood and tin. These buildings were mainly used in the production of cotton. There are also older, deteriorated buildings on the site, including an older cotton gin, a shed, a gristmill, and a sawmill.</p><br>
<h2>The company today</h2><br>
<p>In the early 1950s, C.H. Ryan bought 52% ownership of the store; the remainder was passed down to Rowena, Bo, and Jean Simmons through the will of William Simmons, one of the original owners of the company. Bernice Simmons owned the company from the mid-1970s until her death in 1998. Since then, the store has been owned by Gary and Janice Pickett. Gasoline fueling tanks were added to the front of the store at some point but removed in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>Today, the store still operates and sells antiques, hardware, seed and feed for animals, and small farming equipment. The store also continues to sell groceries such as those that might be found in a convenience store as well as the store&#39;s famed hoop cheese.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, film makers working on the Robert Downey, Jr. movie, Due Date, shot video of the Simmons & Wright store that may be used in the film.</p><br>
<p>The Will County Historical Society Headquarters is a historic building in Lockport, Illinois, United States, originally known as the Illinois and Michigan Canal Office Building. It served as the headquarters of the Canal Commission of the Illinois and Michigan Canal from 1836 until 1871, when control of the canal was transferred to the state.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Illinois and Michigan Canal was a canal that connected Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River via the Illinois and Chicago Rivers. It was first conceived in 1824, when a survey of five potential routes was assessed. Three years later, the United States Congress approved the project. In 1829, the Canal Commission was formed to raise money and oversee the project. The project was dormant until ground was broken on July 4, 1836. That year, the Canal Commission laid out the town of Lockport, Illinois with the intention of locating the canal headquarters there. Slowed by the Panic of 1837, the canal was finally completed in 1848. The headquarters building was built in 1845. The first ship on the canal was launched in Lockport. The Canal Commission operated the canal from this building until 1871, when canal operation was turned over to the state.</p><br>
<p>The building was later purchased by the Will County Historical Society as a headquarters and museum. On May 17, 1972, the building was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. When the Lockport Historic District was created three years later, the building was listed as a contributing property.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The former canal office building is generally Greek Revival in style, with a symmetrical facade, low hipped roof, rectangular transom, and recessed porch. The original building was one story and today corresponds to the northern portion. A two-story residence was added to the south end of the structure in the 1860s or 1870&#39;s. The residence reflects a more Victorian style with deeply molded eaves, heavy brackets, turned porch, and low-pitched roof. However, the two portions of the building share similar window patterns.</p><br>
<p>The McGovney–Yunker Farmstead is a historic farm in Mokena, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John McGovney was one of the first settlers of Frankfort Township, first legally acquiring the land in 1841. His son Elijah McGovney took control of the property in the 1850s and began to expand the property in 1857. Both John and Elijah primarily harvested corn and oats. The 1854 completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad enabled the McGovneys to conveniently move their products. In the early 1860s, Elijah built a farmhouse and barn on the property. In the late 19th century, Elijah McGovney added a chicken coop, well house, a smokehouse/wood shed, and a second barn/shed. The new structures allowed the family to focus on exporting milk. Following Elijah&#39;s death in 1921, the property again passed to his son L. Edward McGovney. He remodeled the farmhouse to conform with early 20th-century architectural trends.</p><br>
<p>L. Edward McGovney only held on to the farmland for three years, as fellow heirs Fred and Carrie Yunker claimed ownership in 1924. The Yunkers added a few improvements in the 1940s and 1950s, including a hog house, cattle shed, corn crib, and open-wire corn bins. Two doghouses, a garage/workshop, and a tool shed were added in the 1960s followed by a metal shed in the 1970s. Edwin Yunker, the son of the original Yunker owners, worked to ensure that the farm would used to educate local children about the history of Mokena. Edwin Yunker formed the Mokena Community Park District in 1958 and sold his property to the new entity in the 1990&#39;s. The farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historical district on May 31, 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Peotone Historic District is a set of forty-two buildings in Peotone, Illinois. Of these, thirty-seven contribute to the historical integrity of the area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Illinois Central Railroad was constructed in 1856 and provided rail service for eastern Will County. Two years later, the first commercial structure opened in the city, and residents flocked to the area. By 1865, a windmill, post office, an opera house, a trolley system, and several grain elevators had opened in the city. Peotone also housed the Will County Fair during this period.</p><br>
<p>The land east of Peotone was fertile, resulting in a large population of both farmers and merchants. Most business was conducted on Railroad Street, with storefronts facing the railroad tracks. Eventually business moved to Second Street, causing many of the Railroad Street businesses to simply install new storefronts on what was the rear of their building. An electric generation plant was opened in Peotone in 1894, and street lighting was added later that year. A water tower was erected in 1895, and sidewalks were laid in 1902. A portion of the district on Main Street was destroyed in a 1913 fire and rebuilt a year later. The village trolleys carried passengers from 63rd & Halsted in Chicago south to Kankakee. A major employer in the 1920s was the Continental Bridge Company, which produced many bridges in the United States and Canada, and also supplied steel for the United States Shipping Board. Development ceased in the 1930s following the Great Depression and never recovered.</p><br>
<p>The first buildings in the town were mostly vernacular structures of framing. Following devastation by fire, focus on building materials shifted to masonry. All but two of the buildings in the historic district were, at some point, used for commercial purposes. The Downtown Peotone Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Gordon-Lee Mansion is located in Chickamauga, Georgia and was originally referred to as the Gordon residence. The house’s construction began in 1840 and was not completed until 1847 due to labor and financial issues. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Gordon-Lee House and is also known as the Gordon-Lee-Green House. It is individually listed on the National Register, and is also included in the Chickamauga Historic District. The listing includes six contributing buildings including the main house, a slave house, and a smokehouse, and it includes two contributing sites, on 13 acre.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by slave labor. Bricks were made on the site.</p><br>
<p>Just before the Battle of Chickamauga the home was used by the Union army as the headquarters of General Rosecrans. During the battle it was used as a federal hospital for soldiers. The mansion is the only remaining structure from the Battle of Chickamauga. As it stands now the home is owned by the city of Chickamauga and is a national historic site. The Gordon-Lee Mansion has now been turned into a Wedding venue and is open for tours during spring and summer.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mansion property was bought by James Gordon after the removal of the Cherokee in 1836. Mr. James Gordon previously built the Gordon Mill, which served as the first general store in Walker County, Georgia. With the success of the mill, Mr. James Gordon wanted to build a permanent estate. Construction began in 1840, but due to labor and financial problems it was not completed until 1847.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War the home was used as Union headquarters for General William S. Rosecrans, just before the Battle of Chickamauga (September 18–20, 1863). During and after the battle the mansion was turned into a hospital. Wagons were backed up under the windows of the house so the severed limbs of soldiers could be tossed out and disposed of more easily. The floors were so covered in blood that mats had to be put down to hide the stains. Many soldiers wrote their last words upon the walls and the women of the Gordon family would copy the messages down and try to send them to family members of the fallen soldiers.</p><br>
<p>James Lee bought the house from the Gordon heirs and was married into the family after wedding Elizabeth Gordon. After the death of him and his wife, their son Gordon Lee bought the house. Mr. Gordon Lee completely remodeled the house in the early 1900s and made the double front porch into one with tall pillars, this is the current state of the house.</p><br>
<p>The mansion stayed in the Gordon family for a hundred and seven years until it was sold to Dr. Green in 1974. It was then that the house and its grounds went under some reconstruction, it now looks very similar to the way it did over a century ago.</p><br>
<p>The Tecumseh Downtown Historic District is a historic district comprising the downtown commercial area of the city of Tecumseh in Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on January 16, 1976 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 17, 1986.</p><br>
<p>Settled in as early as the 1820s, the Tecumseh Downtown Historic District centers on the intersection of Evans Street and Chicago Boulevard (M-50). Evans Street contains only two contributing properties from 115–125 South Evans Street, while no portions of North Evans Street north of M-50 are included in the district. The majority of the district is on M-50, consisting of 102–128 West Chicago Boulevard and 101–154 East Chicago Boulevard. There are a total of 31 contributing properties and eight non-contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>The two-block-long district consists primarily of two to four-story Italianate buildings dating primarily from 1850–1900. In 1824, Tecumseh pioneer Musgrove Evans platted the village with the intent of Chicago Boulevard (then known as the Chicago Road) to be the main thoroughfare through the village. After being settled, Tecumseh was designated as the county seat of the newly established Lenawee County. Its growth also relied heavily on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway line running through the area. Tecumseh developed rapidly as the county seat from 1826–1838. The government then moved to Adrian, and Tecumseh&#39;s expansion halted. Because of this lack of later development, much of the downtown area has been preserved. The railway line still runs through the center of the district but has long been in disuse.</p><br>
<p>Lake Hyōko is a 281 hectare reservoir area in the city of Agano, Niigata, Japan.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir was created in 1639 during the Edo period of Japanese history. It is noted for its abundant and diverse bird life, and is an important overwintering grounds for Whooper swans and Tundra swans. The area received protection from the Japanese government as a wildlife refuge in 2005.</p><br>
<p>On October 30, 2008, it was registered as a Ramsar site.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>Whooper swan オオハクチョウ (October–March)</p><br>
<p>Tundra swan コハクチョウ (October–March)</p><br>
<p>Northern pintail オナガガモ (October–March)</p><br>
<p>Common pochard ホシハジロ (October–March)</p><br>
<p>Indian spot-billed duck カルガモ (all seasons)</p><br>
<h2>Plants</h2><br>
<h3>Land</h3><br>
<p>Nelumbo nucifera ハス white (July–August)</p><br>
<p>Iris アヤメ blue-purple (May)</p><br>
<h3>Aquatic</h3><br>
<p>Trapa natans var. japonica オニビシ</p><br>
<p>Phragmites アシ</p><br>
<p>Manchurian wild rice マコモ</p><br>
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<p>Tærø is a small Danish island in the Ulvsund Strait between Zealand and Møn, not far from Bogø and the Farø Bridges. Located in Vordingborg Municipality, the island has an area of 173 hectare. there was only one inhabitant registered on the island.</p><br>
<p>The island is formed by two glacial moraine hills surrounded by coastal meadows and small headlands. Access to the island is from the harbour at Petersværft on Zealand.</p><br>
<h2>Tærø today</h2><br>
<p>Tærø is privately owned and most of it is grazed by 180 head of Scottish highland cattle from Tærø Avlsgard, the only farm on the island.</p><br>
<p>There are also approximately 25 Exmoor ponies roaming freely on the island. They were introduced in the 1960s by a group of researchers. In 2003 some of the horses were moved to Klise Nor on Langeland.</p><br>
<h2>Round Tærø Race</h2><br>
<p>Every year in June, the boat club on neighbouring Bogø arranges the Round Tærø boat race. In 2010, it took place for the 21st time. There are individual competitions for keel boats, motorboats and multihulled boats.</p><br>
<p>The New Mount Sinai Cemetery is a 52 acre cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri that was founded in 1850. Its first burial was in 1853, and its rural cemetery landscape design was laid out in 1907.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Its listing includes 39 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 other contributing structures.</p><br>
<p>Deemed as contributing resources were:</p><br>
<p>the 28 acre rural cemetery itself,</p><br>
<p>its traditional, old Jewish graveyard, which are sections A, B, and F of the cemetery,</p><br>
<p>the red granite and wrought iron gate,</p><br>
<p>the monumental Art Deco entrance gate,</p><br>
<p>Greek Revival chapel,</p><br>
<p>Queen Anne "House of Comfort" building,</p><br>
<p>37(?) small mausoleums in Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Classical Revival, Art Deco, Modern styles.</p><br>
<p>As of the 2005 listing, the cemetery also has a Modern-style community mausoleum, three private mausoleums (Art Deco, Modern, Neo-Classical), and a formal Japanese garden.</p><br>
<p>Vigelsø is a small, uninhabited island in Odense Fjord, off the coast of Funen, Denmark. With an area of 132 hectare, it is the largest island in the fjord and an important breeding ground for waterfowl and rest stop for migratory birds. It is part of the Special Area of Conservation No. SPC 94, Odense Fjord under the EU Habitat and Birds Directives.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Archeological findings have documented human activity on the island from the earliest times. Originally the island was a 66-hectare glacial moraine island separated from the smaller islands of Store and Lille Ægholm to the south by a shallow-watered area. In 1873 this area was reclaimed and the island&#39;s size was roughly doubled.</p><br>
<p>In 1990 the Danish Ministry for the Environment acquired the island to conduct ecological restoration and reforestation.</p><br>
<h2>Vigelsø today</h2><br>
<p>Vigelsø is a low-lying island with its highest point, Østerhoved, only reaching six metres above the sea. There is a 25 hectares forest on the northern part of the island while the southern part consists of coastal meadows.</p><br>
<p>There is a 2.5 km walking trail in the forest, however the southern part is closed to human traffic to protect the bird life which is sensitive to human disturbance. The birds can be observed from an observation tower and a hide. There is a primitive camp site on the island.</p><br>
<p>Walpole Old Chapel is a redundant chapel in Halesworth Road, Walpole, Suffolk, England. Originally two farmhouses, it was converted into a chapel in the 17th century. It continued in use into the 20th century but closed in 1970. It is now owned by the Historic Chapels Trust.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building originated as two farmhouses in the late 16th century. In the middle of the 17th century a group of Independent Christians was meeting in the nearby village of Cookley. Following the passing of the Act of Toleration in 1689, which gave the right of freedom of worship to Nonconformists, six trustees from the group took out a lease on the building and the surrounding 1 acre of land, and converted the farmhouse into a chapel. In about 1700 an extension was added to the back of the building. Over the years attendance at the chapel declined, not helped by the establishment of an Independent chapel in the nearby town of Halesworth. In the 1860s the building, by then a Congregational chapel, was taken over by Primitive Methodists. Numbers continued to decline during the 20th century, and in 1958 the trusteeship was passed to the Suffolk Congregational Union. The chapel finally closed in 1970, following which the building remained unused. In 1995 it came into the care of the Historic Chapels Trust.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and furnishings</h2><br>
<p>The chapel has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. It is timber framed with some brick casing in the left-hand gable. The exterior is plastered and the roof is tiled. The entrance face contains two doors. The pulpit is hexagonal and is raised, with a reading desk at a lower level in front of it. Over the pulpit is a hexagonal canopy with an ogee roof and a ball finial. The roof is supported by three circular timber columns. On three sides, opposite the pulpit and on the side walls, is a tiered gallery. The floor is brick. On the ground floor are eleven box pews; elsewhere on the ground floor and in the gallery seating is provided on benches. Suspended from the roof is a six-branched candelabrum dating from the 18th century. Outside the chapel is a grassed graveyard.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history and present day</h2><br>
<p>Since taking ownership of the building, the Historic Chapels Trust has carried out repairs and modernisation, including the reinstatement of the historic painting scheme in the interior and, in 2007, the painting of the exterior. A detached outbuilding has been constructed to house WC and small kitchen to cater for events at the chapel. Three ecumenical services are held each year in the chapel, and at other times concerts and other events are organised. It is open for visitors on Saturday afternoons during the summer. The building is licensed for religious marriages, and can be used for baptisms and for blessings after civil marriages.</p><br>
<p>Collett Park is a public park in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana.</p><br>
<p>The park was established in 1883 on a parcel of land donated to the city of Terre Haute by Josephus Collett, a railroad magnate and philanthropist. Its 21 acre of tree-filled park land are approximately two miles north of downtown Terre Haute. A Romanesque Revival pavilion was built in 1894 by architect J. Merrill Sherman.</p><br>
<p>The park&#39;s large main building with an indoor rental facility as well as outdoor shelters and restrooms. There are also football and soccer fields, a playground, horseshoe pits and tennis courts.</p><br>
<p>Collett Park was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 for its historical significance in entertainment and recreation. The neighborhood that arose around the park, now known as the Collett Park Neighborhood Historic District, was placed on the Register itself in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Standard Oil Gasoline Station is a historic building once used as a gas station in Plainfield, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lincoln Highway was the first paved road in Plainfield. As the first transcontinental road in America, the road saw very heavy usage and was re-designated USA Route 30 in the 1920s. From 1940 to 1957, USA Route 66 ran concurrently with US 30 on the same section of Lincoln Highway through Plainfield, creating substantial traffic. Plainfield&#39;s location on the routes made it a prime location for refuelling stations.</p><br>
<p>The station is a fusion of the "Domestic" and "Spanish" style gas stations that Standard Oil designed in the early 20th century. The Domestic elements were intended to represent a cottage, promoting a mom-and-pop atmosphere, while the Spanish style incorporated southwestern architecture. Like most Standard Oil stations at the time, the color scheme was red, white, and blue.</p><br>
<p>Built during the Great Depression, the Plainfield station features less ornamentation than stations during the 1920s due to economic concerns; instead, large panes of plate glass were used along the sides of the station. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1984. It is a contributing property to the Downtown Plainfield Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The brick building has a stucco finish. The original metal roofing is intact. A small addition, built from cement block with a flat roof, was later constructed as a car wash. Four piers emerge from the roof and are decorated with glass-globed electric lights; the north two piers are further ornamented with a simple belt course. The two wooden doors have recessed panels below a window. The paint scheme was at one point changed to orange and yellow, but has been changed back to its original red, white and blue.</p><br>
<p>The Plainfield Halfway House is a historic building in Plainfield, Illinois. Plainfield was first settled in the 1820s by a group seeking to convert the local Pottawatomie to Christianity. Squire L. F. Arnold, the first postmaster of Plainfield, owned the tract of land on which the building stands. In 1834, he built a small building to serve as a post office and a stop for stagecoaches. The property was sold in 1836, and a two-story building was constructed adjacent to the original structure. This new structure operated as a tavern and inn. The inn earned its name by being halfway on the stagecoach line between Chicago and Ottawa. A year later, Dr. Erastus Wight became manager of the establishment, running it until his death in 1845. His son, Dr. Roderick Wight, took over from his father and purchased the building in 1850. He added a one-story addition to the back of the inn later that year.</p><br>
<p>The inn&#39;s large size made it an ideal site to conduct town affairs. It was used as a meeting hall in its early years and became the main location for Plainfield social events. The Plainfield Light Artillery used the building as a headquarters from 1856 until the Civil War. The building ceased to function as an inn starting in 1886, and was converted into a private residence. It was home to the decedents of the Wight family until 1956. The original building that served stagecoach passengers was demolished in the 1940s. The remaining building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Collett Park Neighborhood Historic District is a residential area in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, surrounding Collett Park.</p><br>
<p>Collett Park was established in 1883 and named after its benefactor, Josephus Collett. A community of residents soon formed around it, living mainly in large, single-family houses that were set up in a grid around the park. Many of the homes were built between 1900 and 1920 and are of various architectural styles, including Queen Anne Style, Free Classic, Shingle Style and Colonial Revival.</p><br>
<p>The area, with its tree-lined streets and impressive dwellings, became a fashionable place for the established residents of Terre Haute to live. In the time when Rose Polytechnic Institute (now Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) was located only a few blocks south of the area, several professors built homes in the Collett Park neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Collett Park Neighborhood Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 for its significance in architecture, community planning and landscape architecture. The Collett Park Homeowners Association helps care for the neighborhood. Collett Park itself was placed on the Register in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Horeb Earthworks Complex is an Adena culture group of earthworks in Fayette County, Kentucky. It consists of two major components, the Mount Horeb Site 1 and the Peter Village enclosure, and several smaller features including the Grimes Village site, Tarleton Mound, and Fisher Mound. The Peter Village and Grimes Village enclosures were mapped by Rafinesque and featured in Squier and Davis&#39;s landmark publication Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley in 1848 as Plate XIV Figures 3 and 4.</p><br>
<h2>Mount Horeb Site 1</h2><br>
<p>This site is the center piece of the University of Kentucky&#39;s Adena Park and is located on a bank 75 ft above Elkhorn Creek. It is a perfectly circlular 105 ft diameter platform, surrounded by a 45 ft wide ditch and a 13 ft wide enclosure with a 33 ft wide entryway facing to the west. In 1939 the site was excavated by William S. Webb and the Works Projects Administration. They discovered the remains of a 97 ft diameter circular wooden structure on the platform, which Webb speculated was a ceremonial center for a nearby clan. In 1936 the site and 6 acre were paid for through private dontations and transferred to the Kentucky Archaeological Society. It is currently owned and operated by the University of Kentucky as part of the Campus Recreation Department.</p><br>
<h2>Peter Village enclosure</h2><br>
<p>The earliest occupation at this site is 300 to 200 BCE and is considered to be a pre-Adena site for harvesting and processing galena, which occurs naturally nearby. At this time the site had an earthen enclosure and a palisade and later a 2 meter deep ditch. Rafinesque described the site as a twenty sided icosogonal polygon 3,767 ft long with a 15 ft wide 4 ft to 8 ft deep ditch surrounding it. An entryway to the enclosure was located to the south.</p><br>
<h2>Images in Squier and Davis</h2><br>
<p>Mount Horeb, described as "ancient work near Lexington, Kentucky," was featured in the 1848 book Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley by Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis.</p><br>
<p>Lake Sapsho  is a glacial lake in Demidovsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia. It is the largest lake  of the Smolenskoye Poozerye National Park. It is situated northeast of Demidov in the northwestern part of the oblast, near the settlement of Przhevalskoye.</p><br>
<p>A famous 19th century Russian traveller Nikolay Przhevalsky compared the lake with Lake Baikal in miniature. The lake is a natural monument. It is connected with the Baltic Sea by the Sapsha, Vasilyevka, Yelsha, and Daugava rivers. There are 4 big and 2 small islands on the lake. There are a lot of tumuli of the Tushumlin culture by Lake Sapsho.</p><br>
<p>The flora and fauna of the lake are very diverse. Yet in the beginning of the 20th century there was the industrial fishery. Though now any industry is prohibited here. A lot of species of the flora and fauna of the lake are in the Red Book.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and hydrography</h2><br>
<h3>The Lake</h3><br>
<p>Lake Sapsho is situated in the north-west of Smolensk Oblast, 120 km to the north of Smolensk. It is on the Sloboda Upland (Слободская возвышенность) that is a part of Smolensk–Moscow Upland (Смоленско-Московская возвышенность). It is the largest lake in Smolenskoye Poozerye National Park. There are two eskers. One of them is partly destroyed by glacial flows. It caused the arising of five of six islands. Lake Sapsho is divided into deep northern and shallow southern parts. The other esker forms the western border of the lake. The northern side is also abrupt. On the contrary, the eastern and southern sides are gentle. The bottom of the lake here is also not steep. The northern basin is divided into western and eastern parts by a long underwater spit. The depth here is less than 5 m. It ends with a long shoal with depth less than 1 m, a so-called "underwater island" or "sitnik".</p><br>
<p>Lake Sapsho drains into the rivers of the Western Dvina (Западная Двина) basin. In spring, usually by the middle or end of April, water volume increases because of melting snow. The melting of ice on the lake usually takes from 10 to 15 days more, and ends in the late April or early May. The swimming season opens in late June or early July, and finishes in late July or early August. The lake usually covers with ice in the 2nd or 3rd decade of November. Sometimes, it happens in the middle of December. The thickness of ice is from 50 cm to 70 cm. In most severe winters it may become up to 90 cm. The period of freeze-up is from 150 to 170 days.</p><br>
<h3>The Rivers</h3><br>
<p>Inflow rivers are the Sapshanka (Сапшанка) in the south and the Sapsha (Сапша) in the west. The outflow river is the Sapsha in the east. The Sapsha connects Lake Sapsho and Lake Petrakovskoye (Петраковское). Both lakes have similar surface elevation. The area of Lake Petrakovskoye is 0.17 km&sup2;. During the period of melting snow in spring and heavy showers in summer Lake Petrakovskoye fills with water faster than Lake Sapsho. Therefore, the Sapsha changes its flow. Usually changing of flow of the Sapsha happens several times a year.</p><br>
<h3>The Islands</h3><br>
<p>There 6 islands on the lake. Four of them are large: Chernetsky / Monk Island (Чернецкий), Raspashnoy / Border Island (Распашной), Bagryany / Crimson Island (Багряный), Dlinny / Long Island (Длинный). Two of them are small: Dubovy / Oak Island (Дубовый) and Lyubvi / Island of Love (Любви). Five of them are located in line along one of two eskers.</p><br>
<p>The Scottish Rite Temple in Guthrie, Oklahoma is a Masonic temple that serves as the home of the Scottish Rite in the Guthrie Valley, Oklahoma Orient, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, USA</p><br>
<p>It is "one of the world&#39;s largest Masonic Centers".</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by architects Parr & Hawk and built in 1919 in Classical Revival</p><br>
<p>style. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>From the NRHP nom:</p><br>
<p>The Scottish Rite Temple of Guthrie is architecturally and historically significant because it is one of the best examples of large scale, Neo-Classical Revival style in Oklahoma; it is the largest, most elaborately designed and constructed Masonic Temple in the state; and because of its importance historically to the Masonic fraternal organization in Oklahoma.</p><br>
<p>Also "it has been recognized as the center of state-level Masonic activities since 1923, when first used even before completion. It is... the site of the Mason&#39;s statewide functions...."</p><br>
<p>It is located at 900 E. Oklahoma in Guthrie.</p><br>
<p>There is a museum, the Guthrie Scottish Rite Museum, there.</p><br>
<p>The Tecumseh Historic District is a residential historic district located in the city of Tecumseh in Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1984. On May 18, 1990, the district received a boundary expansion, which required an additional listing on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The district, which contains houses dating back to the 1830s, centers on the intersection of West Chicago Boulevard (M-50) and Union Street. The district contains 82 houses, three churches, a former school, and a library as contributing properties. The structures primarily date from the late-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century and consist mostly of Greek Revival and Italianate architecture. On May 18, 1990, the district received an expansion of two houses located on 704–710 West Chicago Boulevard, bringing the total number of houses in the district up to 84.</p><br>
<p>The Tecumseh Historic District is sometimes referred to as the “West Chicago Boulevard-Union Street Historic District” to distinguish it from the Tecumseh Downtown Historic District, which is located just east on West Chicago Boulevard.</p><br>
<p>The Small–Towle House is a historic residence in Wilmington, Illinois. Wilmington was an important milling down in the 1850s, particularly with the connection of the Chicago and Alton Railroad in 1854. The house was built by William McGinnis in 1864. After five years, he sold the house for more than ten times the price he paid for the lot. One of the early owners of the house was John H. Daniels, Wilmington&#39;s first mayor. In 1870, the Small family purchased the home; the son of the owner married the daughter of McGinnis later that year. Eli Small ran the Mohawk Belle, a steamboat on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. The Smalls lived in the house until 1883, when they sold it to the Towle family. The Towles sold the house in 1933 for $1 during the Great Depression under the condition that the owners cared for Julia Towle. Constructed during the transition time between Greek Revival and Italianate styles, the vernacular building is often classified as "upright-and-wing". The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 17, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Moar Mound and Village Site is an archaeological site in the southwestern part of the USA state of Ohio. — spread out over an area of 20 acre. One of the few remaining mounds in southern Warren County, the Moar Mound has been very well preserved from deterioration.</p><br>
<p>Believed to be the work of Late Woodland peoples, the mound is believed to be the burial location for one or more individuals and a range of grave goods. It is likely associated directly with the adjacent village, from which multiple burials have been recovered. Archaeological excavations of the village site have yielded a wide range of artifacts, making the Moar Mound and Village Site one of Warren County&#39;s premier archaeological sites.</p><br>
<p>In 1976, the Moar Mound and Village Site were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places. Key to this designation as a historic site was their potential to yield archaeological information about the peoples that built the mound and lived in the village.</p><br>
<p>Keoti Falls  is in Rewa district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the 24th highest waterfall in India.</p><br>
<h2>The Falls</h2><br>
<p>The Keoti Falls is on the Mahana River, a tributary of Tamsa or Tons River as it comes down from the Rewa Plateau. It has a total height of 98 m. World Waterfall Database puts the height of the waterfall at 130 m. It is a segmented type waterfall with a single drop.</p><br>
<p>Knick point, also called a nick point or simply nick, represents breaks in slopes in the longitudinal profile of a river caused by rejuvenation. The break in channel gradient allows water to fall vertically giving rise to a waterfall. Keoti Falls is an example of a nick point caused by rejuvenation.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>It is situated 46 km from Rewa District, at the edge of the Chitrakoot Hills, a part of the Kaimur Range.</p><br>
<p>The Flanders House is a historic residence in Plainfield, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Plainfield was first settled by James Walker in 1829, who later contributed to a sawmill on the DuPage River. This mill brought new settlers to the region, creating Will County&#39;s first permanent community. The new settlement was also halfway down the Chicago to Ottawa stagecoach line, stimulating commercial development. Jason R. Flanders immigrated from Boston, Massachusetts to Troy Township. He farmed his land for eight years before moving to Plainfield in 1840. Flanders was apparently active in the local lumber trade and provided timber for the construction of frame buildings in town.</p><br>
<p>There is no record of the house ever being used for any non-residential purpose, but it may have served travelers in a manner similar to the nearby Plainfield Halfway House. It would have been odd for a building the size of the Flanders House to not take advantage of the stagecoach line. Little is known about Flanders, other than that he was the first constable of Plainfield. By the time of his death, he had amassed a 300 acre land holding. The three surviving Flanders children received a one-third share in the building.</p><br>
<p>Only two buildings remain in Plainfield that were constructed before the Flanders House. The house was sold to the Peace Lutheran Church in 1974 and converted to a parsonage. The church sold in 1990 and restored to its 1841 appearance. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Wheeler Block, also known as the Old Town Hall and the former Ransom School, is a historic civic and commercial building at 40 Norwich Avenu in Colchester, Connecticut. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure in the Second Empire style, with a mansard roof, bracketed cornice, and gable-roof dormers with paired round-arch windows. It was built in 1872 by Joshua Wheeler, a local merchant and Mason. The building originally housed commercial businesses in the ground floor and the local Masonic lodge above. In 1910 Wheeler&#39;s daughter gave the building to the town, which used it as a schoolhouse until 1936, and as town hall until 1991.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1993.</p><br>
<p>Sydhavsøerne , sometimes also referred to simply as Lolland-Falster from the two largest islands, is an informal but common term used in Danish to refer to the archipelago just south of Zealand, Denmark&#39;s largest island where its capital Copenhagen is located. Part of the Baltic Sea, the term covers Lolland, Falster and Møn as well as the numerous smaller islands of the surrounding straits, fjords and waters.</p><br>
<p>The name is a parody on the similar Danish name for the South Pacific Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia.</p><br>
<p>The name is used by Radio Sydhavsøerne, the local radio station covering the area.</p><br>
<h2>The area</h2><br>
<p>The islands are characterised by a mild climate, making them particularly well suited for fruit growing. This is celebrated every year during Sydhavsøerne&#39;s Fruit Festival.</p><br>
<h2>Islands of the area</h2><br>
<p>Apart from the three main islands Lolland, Falster and Møn, the archipelago includes:</p><br>
<p>In Smålandsfarvandet north of Lolland:</p><br>
<p>Fejø</p><br>
<p>Femø</p><br>
<p>Askø</p><br>
<p>Vejrø</p><br>
<p>Skalø</p><br>
<p>Lilleø</p><br>
<p>Rågø (83 ha)</p><br>
<p>Rågø Kalv (15 ha)</p><br>
<p>Lindholm</p><br>
<p>Havneø</p><br>
<p>Vigsø</p><br>
<p>Dyrefod</p><br>
<p>In Guldborgsund between Lolland and Falster:</p><br>
<p>Kalvø (22 ha)</p><br>
<p>Barholme</p><br>
<p>In Storstrømmen between Zealand and Falster:</p><br>
<p>Farø</p><br>
<p>Masnedø</p><br>
<p>Bogø</p><br>
<p>In Ulvsund between Zealand and Møn:</p><br>
<p>Tærø</p><br>
<p>Langø</p><br>
<p>Lindholm</p><br>
<p>In Nakskov Fjord:</p><br>
<p>Enehøje (93 ha)</p><br>
<p>Vejlø (37 ha)</p><br>
<p>Slotø (20 ha)</p><br>
<p>Barneholm ( 8.5 ha)</p><br>
<p>Dueholm</p><br>
<p>Munkeholm</p><br>
<p>Kåreholm</p><br>
<p>Rommerholm</p><br>
<p>Other islands:</p><br>
<p>Enø (off Zealand)</p><br>
<p>Glænø (off Zealand)</p><br>
<p>Nyord (off Møn)</p><br>
<p>Jezreel  Yizreel, "God sows") was an ancient Israelite city and fortress originally within the boundaries of the Tribe of Issachar, and later within the northern Kingdom of Israel. Prior to the division of the United Kingdom of Israel, the city was the hometown of Ahinoam, third wife of King David, Michal, Sauls daughter being the first and Abigail, widow of Nabal being his second. According to the First Book of Kings, the royal palace of King Ahab, "one of the most famous of the royal residences of the kings of Israel", was in Jezreel, adjacent to the vineyard of Naboth. Ahab&#39;s capital remained in Samaria.</p><br>
<p>The modern archaeological site is located on a low hill on the southern edge of the Jezreel Valley&#39;s eastern edge in northern Israel.David Ussishkin, "Jezreel—Where Jezebel Was Thrown to the Dogs", Biblical Archaeology Review</p><br>
<p>July / August 2010. Archaeologists David Ussishkin and John Woodhead believe that Jezreel was a fortress that served as a cavalry base for King Ahab.</p><br>
<h2>Biblical references</h2><br>
<p>According to, following the prophet Elijahs victory over the prophets of Baal at Mount Carmel, Elijah instructs Ahab to return home to Jezreel, where he would be reporting on events to Jezebel, his wife, but "the hand of the Lord came upon Elijah" and he reached Jezreel ahead of Ahab. Jezreel is around 50km from Mount Carmel.</p><br>
<p>As recounted in, after Jehu kills King Jehoram, he confronts Jezebel in Jezreel and urges her eunuchs to kill Jezebel by throwing her out of a window. They comply, tossing her out the window and leaving her in the street to be eaten by dogs. Only Jezebel&#39;s skull, feet, and hands remained.</p><br>
<p>In Jehu orders the death of 70 descendants of Ahab, and has their heads sent to the new king in Jezreel and piled up "in two heaps at the gate entrance."</p><br>
<p>The "breathtaking views" that the site commands to the north and east are considered to have been of strategic importance in Israelite times because the commercial and military highway from Egypt to Syria and Mesopotamia passed through Megiddo, Beth Shean and along the Jezreel Valley. Water was supplied by cisterns inside the walls and by the spring of En Jezreel northeast of the fortress. Because of the strategic location, ample water supply, and excellent grazing in the Jezreel Valley, archaeologists David Ussishkin and John Woodhead believe that Jezreel was the base for King Ahabs chariot corps and cavalry.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jezreel was a 9th-century BCE fortress possibly built during the reign of King Omri but certainly active in the reigns of King Ahab and his consort Queen Jezebel and their son King Jehoram. It was destroyed soon afterward, possibly by the Arameans in the late 9th-century. The pottery found in the fortress during the dig all dates to this brief period.</p><br>
<p>The fortress was built on the site of a small village that existed in the Early Bronze Age (c. 2750-2300 BCE) and Late Bronze Age (c. 1550-1150 BCE).</p><br>
<p>The fourth-century Christian nun and pilgrim Egeria visited Jezreel and reported that "the tomb of Jezebel is stoned by everyone to this very day."</p><br>
<p>Jezreel was the site of a Byzantine-era village, a Crusader-period village belonging to the Knights Templar, and an Arab period village named Zirin (derived from the ancient name Jezreel). A "beautiful Crusader church still stands largely intact. Benjamin of Tudela visited Jezreel in 1165 CE and reports that a Jewish man "a dyer by profession" lived there. It was the site of a large Ottoman-era fortified tower. During the Israeli War of Independence the village of Zerin "became a central base for Arab forces" and was therefore conquered and the site cleared.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>Archaeologists David Ussishkin and John Woodhead led a dig at Jezreel. In 1987, a bulldozer working near the site accidentally uncovered ancient structures, and a salvage dig was conducted, leading to the major dig under the direction of Ussishkin and Woodhead over seven seasons from 1990-1996. Staff and volunteers from about 25 countries (the largest groups were from United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark) joined the dig. Renewed excavations are planned to start in the summer of 2012 under the new directorship of Norma Franklin (University of Haifa Zinman Institute of Archaeology) and Jennie Ebeling (University of Evansville).</p><br>
<p>The excavations uncovered a casemate wall and four projecting towers surrounding the fortress, built with a combination of well-cut ashlars, boulders and smaller stones, and an upper level of mud-brick. The fortress enclosed an area of almost 11 acre. It was 860 long and 470 wide, and defended by a steep slope to the north and a moat 20&#39; deep and rampart on the other three sides.</p><br>
<p>Blount Island is an island of approximately 2,000 acre on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida, nine nautical miles  west of the Atlantic Ocean. One of three public cargo facilities at the Port of Jacksonville is located there, and it is also the site of the United States Marine Corps Blount Island Command.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before the Port Authority obtained Blount Island, the island was named Goat Island. The Bartchlett family lived on the island for over 35 years. They were there during World War II. They observed ships coming through the channel still burning from action in the war. The Dames Point Cut that straightened the river was signed off by George Bartchlett allowing the dredging to begin. He raised seven children and four grandchildren on this island. At that time the only way to the island was by boat. The house once set on the Dames Point side of the island. The children going to school caught the bus at the end of Dames point road. There is a lot of history to this island that once was a family&#39;s home.</p><br>
<p>The St. Johns River between Jacksonville and the Atlantic Ocean twists and turns. That was not a problem until shipping companies began using bigger and bigger freighters after World War II. The United States Army Corps of Engineers created the Dames Point Cut, a straight channel that provided an alternative to the river&#39;s natural course, which contained several of the sharpest turns in the river. Four marsh islands received the dredging spoil and became Blount Island. The property was turned over to the Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) for development.</p><br>
<p>The west side of the island was developed and used for freight operations after the Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) was established in 1963. Railroad access to the site was added in the late 1960s.</p><br>
<h3>Floating power</h3><br>
<p>Offshore Power Systems (OPS) was a 1970 joint venture between nuclear power company Westinghouse Electric and ship builder Tenneco. The company intended to manufacture and assemble floating nuclear power plants. The east half of the island was unused and mostly marsh until OPS obtained 850 acre of land from JAXPORT, destroyed the marsh, and replaced it with sterile fill. Utilities, roads and other infrastructure were established and the world&#39;s largest crane, 38 stories tall and capable of lifting 990 metric tons, was purchased and installed for $15 million. A total of $125 million was invested in development of the site and improvements, but no power plants were ever built and the company closed in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Westinghouse sold their Blount Island property to Gate Petroleum for $17 million in 1985.</p><br>
<h3>Gate Petroleum</h3><br>
<p>The following year, Gate Petroleum leased a portion of their Blount Island property to the United States Marine Corps. In 1989, the USA Navy signed a $5 million per year contract with Gate to dock two ships at Blount Island on new piers built for that purpose. The construction, which would require dredging the channel, was opposed by a group of fishermen, environmentalists and nearby residents who owned riverfront property.</p><br>
<p>Gates project was consistent with the citys master plan for the industrial area, but Gate chose to abandon the development and requested that the Navy cancel the contract for public relations reasons.</p><br>
<p>In November 1990, Gate sold the 20-year-old Offshore Power Systems crane for $3 million to the China State Shipbuilding Corporation and their workers dismantled it for shipment overseas.</p><br>
<h3>Marines</h3><br>
<p>Blount Island Command supports three Maritime Prepositioning ship squadrons (each with multiple ships) strategically located in the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Ocean. The squadron&#39;s ships contain enough food, equipment, supplies, and ammunition to support a Marine Air-Ground Task Force for one month.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, the USA Marine Corps established the Biennial Maintenance Command (BMC) on the east side of Blount Island using 262 acre leased from Gate Maritime Properties for $11 million per year. The lease between Gate and the Marine Corps was due to end in 2004, and in 2000, the Corp stated their intentions to purchase the property when the lease expired. The Marine Corps budget included $115.7 million for the acquisition, but extended negotiations did not result in an agreement. Gate contended that the land was worth between $160 million and $200 million, so in August 2004, the Marine Corps seized 1,100 acre on Blount Island (Gates entire Blount Island holdings) by eminent domain and paid $101 million (later increased to $106 million). In the United States, when land is seized by eminent domain for "public use", the government is required to pay landowners "just compensation", so Gate asked for a jury to decide the lands value. On November 14, 2005, a jury determined that the government should pay $162 million for the parcel.</p><br>
<h2>Public facility</h2><br>
<p>The 754 acre Blount Island Marine Terminal is JAXPORT&#39;s largest container facility, handling 80% of all container cargo at the port, but also processes Ro/Ro, heavy lift, breakbulk and liquid bulk cargoes. The terminal has 6,600 linear feet (2,012 m) of deep water berths.</p><br>
<p>Blount Island has one 112-ton whirly crane and eight container cranes (five 50-ton cranes, one 45-ton crane and two 40-ton cranes); two of the 50-ton cranes were purchased in 2010. The terminal also offers 240,000 ft&sup2; of transit shed space and a 90,000 ft&sup2; Container Freight Station for cross-dock efficiency.</p><br>
<p>In addition to import operations, several companies provide freight service to the Caribbean, including Trailer Bridge and Crowley Maritime.</p><br>
<h3>Rail</h3><br>
<p>Over 30% of the terminals shipments utilize on-dock rail service provided by CSX Corporation directly. JAXPORT owns the 14 mi of track, which was laid down in the late 1960s. In the Fall of 2009, the Port Authority received a grant of almost $6 million to improve the Blount Island rail system, which was also utilized by the USA Marine Corps terminal. The United States Department of Transportation required matching funds of $1.7 million from JAXPORT. The project laid 3½ miles of new track and replaced 12,000 aging crossties.</p><br>
<h3>Truck</h3><br>
<p>The island has highway access nearby. Interstate 295 is located one mile (1.6 km) west; Interstate 95 is five minutes away with Interstate 10 on the west side of the I-295 beltway. Interstate 75 is a one-hour drive west.</p><br>
<p>Lake Okabena is a small lake located in Nobles County in southwestern Minnesota. It was first noted on a map made by French explorer Joseph Nicollet in 1841, based upon his explorations of the 1830s. The name okabena means "home of the heron" in the Sioux language. Lake Okabena is located entirely within the present-day city limits of Worthington, Minnesota.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Though Nicollet&#39;s map shows only one Lake Okabena, the earliest survey map of the area made in 1868 shows two lakes - East Okabena (no longer in existence) and West Okabena.</p><br>
<h3>Effect of the railways</h3><br>
<p>When the St Paul & Sioux City Railroad (now the Union Pacific) was built through the region in 1871, tracks were laid between the two lakes. A station house was built along the southeastern shore of West Lake Okabena and was named the Okabena Railroad Station. Steam engines of the day consumed enormous quantities of water, and water stops were required every 8 to 12 miles along any route. The Okabena Railway Station was one of these, drawing water directly out of West Okabena.</p><br>
<p>In 1872, a large influx of settlers arrived in the region and a town was built. The town and the railroad station were christened Worthington, after the mother-in-law of A. P. Miller, one of the town&#39;s founding fathers, and it was located between West Okabena and East Okabena.</p><br>
<p>A second ditch with the curious name of Whiskey Ditch drains water into Lake Okabena. During the late 1800s there was a drought, and the level of Lake Okabena was very low. People saw spring runoff and precious summer rain running north to Heron Lake through Okabena Creek, and they wanted this runoff to instead flow into Lake Okabena.</p><br>
<p>The project consisted of many men digging through a large hill where present County Hwy 35 crosses the present ditch. The odd name for this ditch was given because of the way it was financed. The funding for project was provided by a "whiskey tax" charged within the town of Worthington.</p><br>
<p>The Burlington/Rock Island Railroad greatly changed the complexion and character of the eastern shore of the remaining Lake Okabena. Once a gently sloping shoreline with beach, boathouses, and picnic pavilions, the region came to resemble an industrial area. A large coal powered electrical generation plant was built. This plant hummed night and day, vibrating the ground of the surrounding neighborhood as it generated electrical power and steam heat for the city of Worthington.</p><br>
<h3>Modern times</h3><br>
<p>The Rock Island Railroad ceased operating in the region in the 1980s and its rail lines were torn up. The power plant also ceased operating and was demolished in the 1990s. The region has since been reclaimed as a city park named Sailboard Beach. It is presently the site of a yearly sailboard racing competition and music festival.</p><br>
<p>Mount Vaea is a 472 m summit overlooking Apia, the capital of Samoa located on the north central coast of Upolu island. The mountain is situated south about 3 km inland from Apia township and harbour. The settlement at the foothills on the northern side of the mountain is called Lalovaea .</p><br>
<p>Mount Vaea is most well known as the burial place of Robert Louis Stevenson who lived the last four years of his life in Samoa before his death on 3 December 1894. Stevenson, who had lived on the east side of Mount Vaea, had chosen the mountain top as his final resting place. The day following his death, his coffin was carried by Samoans to the summit for burial. The steep path to his grave is called the Road of Loving Hearts. It takes about an hour to ascend by foot. Stevenson was called Tusitala :tusi book, tala writer) by the people of Samoa.</p><br>
<p>Inscribed on Stevenson&#39;s tomb is his requiem:</p><br>
<p>The ashes of his wife Fanny Stevenson, who died in California in 1914, were taken back by her daughter to Samoa in 1915 and buried beside her husband. The bronze plaque for Fanny bears her Samoan name Aolele (Flying Cloud in Samoan).</p><br>
<p>Stevenson&#39;s estate and colonial home, Villa Vailima, is now a national museum in his honour. It is situated in the village of Vailima at the eastern foot of Mount Vaea,</p><br>
<h2>Memorial and Scenic Reserve</h2><br>
<p>Stevenson&#39;s memorial on Mount Vaea and more than 100 acre from the estate are protected by law in Samoa through the Stevenson Memorial Reserve and Mount Vaea Scenic Reserve Ordinance 1958.</p><br>
<p>Part of the 1958 Law states</p><br>
<p>Farfield Friends Meeting House is a Quaker meeting house no longer regularly in use by a Quaker meeting and now owned by the Historic Chapels Trust. It is located some 2 mi north of the village of Addingham, West Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1686 Anthony Myers provided a plot of land to be used as a Quaker burial ground. Three years later, in 1689, the Act of Toleration was passed giving the right to Nonconformists to build places of worship. In that year Anthony Myers gave a further adjacent plot of land for building a meeting house; the construction of this was completed during the same year.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and furnishings</h2><br>
<p>The small meeting house is typical of rural Quaker meeting houses of the period, poignant in its simplicity. It is constructed in stone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof. The building is in a single storey with three bays. There is one door, and the three windows have mullions; at the corners of the building are quoins. The interior consists of a single cell. At its east end is a dais with settles and turned ballusters.</p><br>
<h2>External features</h2><br>
<p>In the graveyard to the northeast of the meeting house are five joined chest tombs to the Myers family dated between 1687 and 1737. They are designated as a Grade II listed building. This style of tomb is unusual in Quaker burial grounds as it was considered to be ostentatious and was later discouraged by the movement.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>The building is today owned by the Historic Chapels Trust who have restored it and aim to preserve it in perpetuity, as part of the physical evidence of British religious life. It can be visited during daylight hours. Three car parking spaces and picnic area are adjacent. A long-distance footpath, the Dales Way, passes through the grounds.</p><br>
<p>The Zabriskie Tenant House was a historic house of the American colonial architecture style called Dutch Colonial on Dunkerhook Road in Paramus, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, adjacent to the Saddle River County Park. The Zabriskie family, who farmed much of the area to the east of the Saddle River , built the home to house their domestic workers. It was one of the few structures left in New Jersey directly related to free African American communities in the state, and was a remnant of an African American Dunkerhook community that  included several homes and an A.M.E. Church. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Developers Sal and Marcello Petruzella made a proposal to demolish the house and subdivide the land for the development of larger stylized houses with no reference to the historical community. In spite of the houses listing on the National Register of Historic Places, the New Jersey Register of Historic Places, and Paramuss own listing of historic resources, the Paramus Planning Board approved the demolition in late April, 2011, and the house was scheduled to be demolished in June, 2011. Preservation New Jersey, the states historic preservation advocacy group, put the house on its 2012 Most Endangered Historic Properties List. Local historians and preservationists, including Peggy Norris, Ted Manvell, and H. Michael Gelfand, worked out a plan to move the house to Bergen Community College for an educational adaptive reuse. This plan was supported by the Countys Board of Chosen Freeholders, the Bergen County Executive, and the administration of Bergen Community College. The college&#39;s campus was also a part of the Zabriskie landholdings, and began to draw up plans for the placement of the house and its use in an educational function. The county was in the process of petitioning the state for funds to move and rehabilitate the structure</p><br>
<p>when on July 13, 2012, the developers Sal and Marcello Petruzella demolished the Zabriskie Tenant House.</p><br>
<p>The demolition was a significant loss for the future understanding of the history of Dutch agricultural settlers in the 17th and 18th centuries, African Americans as slaves and freed peoples in New Jersey, and the rural nature of Bergen County that gave way to the massive suburban development after World War II. The house was of a similar plan as the Naugle House, across the Saddle River in the Borough of Fair Lawn, which utilized open space funds to purchase the Naugle House. The Borough of Paramus failed to make such an effort, but in 2013 seated a Historic Preservation Commission to prevent the loss of other historic resources in the borough.</p><br>
<p>Cote Baptist Church stands in Shifford Road, Cote, 1 mi to the east of Aston and 4 mi to the east of Bampton, in Oxfordshire, England. It is a redundant Baptist chapel in the care of the Historic Chapels Trust, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The congregation of Baptists who built the chapel originated in Longworth, a village on the other side of the River Thames, in the middle of the 17th century. The land for a chapel in Cote was given by John Williams in 1703 and the chapel built on the land was licensed for meetings the following year. In the 1750s it was either rebuilt or enlarged, and a gallery was added in 1756. In the late 1850s the chapel was extensively restored, and the double gable at the front was replaced by a single gable, which hid the roof valley behind it. At the same time, the chapel was re-floored and the vestries were enlarged, new pews and galleries were added, and a new pulpit was placed at the west end which replaced the previous pulpit on the south wall. An organ by Henry Jones of London was added in 1867, and electric light was installed in 1948. From 9th January 1945 until 25th June 1957 the Church was the home to the 1st Aston Boys&#39; Brigade Company under the captainship of Alan J Hook.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture, fittings and furniture</h2><br>
<p>The chapel is constructed in limestone rubble and has a stone slate roof. It is in two storeys and its plan consists of a single cell with a single-storey extension. Its architectural style is Georgian. The entrance front has a flat-topped gable surmounted by a plaque with scrolls at each end. In the lower storey is a central window with a semicircular arch, which stands between two doors. In the upper storey and elsewhere in the building are windows in a similar style. All the internal fittings date from 1869, and include box pews with hinged doors and, at the west end, a pulpit with a panelled front, a reader&#39;s desk and a lectern.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history and present day</h2><br>
<p>The chapel was taken over in 1993 by the Historic Chapels Trust. A restoration programme costing £250,000 was carried out and the building was reopened in 2000. The restoration included the provision of a kitchen, toilets, and committee rooms. The building is available to hire for concerts, conferences and other events. It is licensed for weddings. The surrounding burial ground is unlocked and is available for public access. The church community now meets in the Cote Fellowship Centre.</p><br>
<h2>External features</h2><br>
<p>Around the chapel is a burial ground containing headstones, some of which date from the 18th century and are elaborately carved. It contains the chest tomb of William Williams who died in 1830. This tomb is constructed in limestone and has corner balusters; it is a Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<p>Salem Chapel, East Budleigh is in Vicarage Road, East Budleigh, Devon, England. Initially a Presbyterian, then a Congregational chapel, it was later owned by the Assemblies of God, and is now owned by the Historic Chapels Trust. The chapel, together with the adjacent assembly room and the boundary walls, is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The chapel was built in 1719 and enlarged by the addition of further galleries in 1836.</p><br>
<p>It is reputed that during the 18th and 19th centuries the chapel was involved with smuggling, involving its minister Samuel Leat, the smuggled goods being concealed in the chapel&#39;s large roof space.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The chapel is built in stone which has been rendered, and has a slate roof. It is a square building with a vestry projecting at right angles from the rear of the right side. The roof is hipped on all sides. There are two doors in the entrance face which bears a limestone plaque inscribed "Salem chapel, built 1719" and a sill inscribed "enlarged 1836". There are two windows on each side and another two windows on the back wall. Internally, over the entrance is a gallery which was part of the original building, and on each side are galleries added in 1836. In the centre of the original gallery is an 18th-century clock. The preaching desk dates probably from the late 19th century as do the benches, and there are some 18th-century box pews in the galleries. The ceiling is vaulted and is supported by a central steel post. The former central post had been iron but this was replaced during the restoration.</p><br>
<p>The separate assembly room has a rectangular plan and under it is a basement. On its long face is a door between two sash windows. There is another sash window on the left end, and on the right end is a door leading to the basement. The boundary wall is constructed in rubble and brick. On the front wall are two gate piers between which are cast iron double gates and a wrought iron overthrow. The overthrow is decorated with scrolls and at its top is a lamp holder.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Today, the chapel hosts a wide variety of events, including concerts, open days, and occasional services of worship. It is available to hire and is licensed for religious marriages. It may also be used for blessing ceremonies following civil marriages.</p><br>
