<p>The John A. North House is a historic house museum and archives located in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Currently, the North House is Greenbrier County&#39;s only historic house museum. Since 1976, The Greenbrier Historical Society has operated within the North House, and in 1992 the North House was officially purchased by the Greenbrier Historical Society. In 1992, the home officially became known as " North House Museum, Greenbrier Historical Society."</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The North House was the original home of prominent local lawyer John A. North and his new wife Charlotte. Built in 1820, the North House was initially a two-story "L-shaped plan," Federal Style dwelling. The layout consisted of a foyer, an informal parlor (which would have been used only by the family), a formal parlor for entertaining guests, and a dining room. The upstairs would have mirrored the downstairs floor plans and would have been used by the family as sleeping quarters. The interior of the home was quite lavish for the 1820s, but the exterior was also exquisite. The North House features a double portico with heavy columns supporting a high pediment, and the English red clay bricks which were used in the exterior construction of the home were originally dug from the front lawn and fired in a kiln on the property. Once completed, the North House became one of Lewisburg&#39;s first two-story brick homes.</p><br>
<p>The North Family moved into the house in 1821 and lived there until the early 1830s. The North family consisted of John A. North, his wife Charlotte,and their four daughters, Mary Elizabeth, Margaret, Isabella, and Martha Jane. The North&#39;s were a wealthy family with prominent status. John A. North was of English descent and was the Grandson of Roger North of Banberry, England and Catherine Davis of Donegall County, Ireland.</p><br>
<p>During his time in Lewisburg, John A. North was appointed Clerk of the Greenbrier District Court of Chancery, and Clerk of the District of Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.</p><br>
<h2>Expansion</h2><br>
<p>After the North Family had moved out of the home, the property was quickly purchased by a local man named James Frazer. By 1834, Frazer was already known in Lewisburg for building a two-story brick building which he leased to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. This building was conveniently located adjacent to the North House. After he had purchased the North House in 1836, Frazer and his family opened "Frazer&#39;s Star Tavern." Frazer changed the original layout of the house and added two wings to the property. The new additions to the home allowed Frazer to establish a popular local restaurant and an affordable Inn with guest rooms for travelers, lawyers, and jurists to use while attending Court in the adjacent Court House. The Inn and Tavern also served as a popular "rest stop" for travelers along the James River and Kanawah Turnpike.</p><br>
<p>After Frazer&#39;s death in 1868, his son sold the Inn and Tavern in the early 1870s. The North House was transferred to a new owner, Colonel Joe McPherson, and once again became a private residence. The house had been purchased by Col. McPherson for his daughter and son-in-law, and the house underwent a "Victorian Era" make-over. One of the tavern wings which had been added by Frazer had been removed, and metal window hoods, gutters, segmented columns, and architectural embellishments were added to the facade of the home.</p><br>
<p>At the turn of the 20th century, the North House was once again sold, and became occupied by Dr. Robert L. Telford and his family. From 1890 to 1894, Dr. Telford pastured the Old Stone Church (Lewisburg, West Virginia), and then later became the first President of the Lewisburg Female Institute, also known as the Greenbrier College for Women. Dr. Telford lived in the home with is family until his death.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the early decades of the 1900s, the North House underwent several changes in order to make it a modernized home. In 1925, the house was purchased by the Lewisburg Female Institute (Greenbrier College for Women), and the renovation process began. A two-story addition containing a sun-parlor and a porte cochere were constructed; and closets, a new front door, the instillation of central heating, and running water were also added to the home. The renovated house became the official Lewisburg Female Institute (Greenbrier College for Women)President&#39;s Home, until the closing of the College in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The North House has also housed the Lewisburg Seminary and Conservatory of Music. However, since 1976 the Greenbrier Historical Society has operated the North House Museum out of the home, and the Historical Society has officially owned the building since 1992.</p><br>
<p>Additionally, the North House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Greenbrier Historical Society and North House Museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the rich history of the Greenbrier Valley. The museums permanent displays and temporary exhibits feature items from across the Greenbrier Valley, including, but not limited to; the training saddle of General Robert E. Lees horse Traveler, an 18th-century covered wagon, Civil War artifacts, furniture and textiles made by local craftsman and women, as well as items from the North family.</p><br>
<p>The Greenbrier Historical Society and North House Museum also offers educational program, a research archive,group tour rates, and membership opportunities.</p><br>
<p>Stuart Manor is a historic home located near Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The manor house was built in 1789. It is a long and low, two-story limestone building. It features thick gray walls and has a fort-like appearance. A two-story stone wing was added later, as were a number of frame additions. It features a verandah along two sides of the older wing. Also on the property is a one-room stone building built in 1778 and served as the county clerk&#39;s office for many years. The manor was home to Colonel John Stuart, considered the "Founder and Father of Greenbrier County." In 1884, "Gov." Samuel Price was interred in the Stuart Burying Ground.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Burlington Montgomery Ward Building is a historic former department store building located at 52-54 Church Street, between Cherry and Bank Streets, in the Church Street Marketplace of downtown Burlington, Vermont. Built in 1929, it is a fine example of Classical Revival architecture, and is the best-preserved of the small number of original Montgomery Ward stores built by that retailer in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Burlingtons former Montgomery Ward building stands on the east side of the pedestrian mall of Church Street, roughly midway between Cherry and Bank Streets. It is a two-story masonry building, three bays wide, with an exterior facade of concrete and brick. The ground floor consists of modern storefronts finished mainly in brick, while the second-story facade is faced in concrete that is finished in imitation of stone. Each bay has a Chicaco-style three-part window with rounded upper corners, and is topped by a terra-cotta panel. The central bays panel displays Montgomery Wards "Spirit of Progress" emblem, designed for the company by J. Massey Rhind, and which adorns many of the companys stores built at the time. The bays are articulated by concrete pilasters topped by urns, and have low parapets with neo-Classical motifs at the top.</p><br>
<p>The building was opened on December 28, 1929, and was the 515th Montgomery Ward store in the United States, part of the company&#39;s strategy to open many small stores to compete with the smaller number of large stores that were being opened by its competitor, Sears, Roebuck & Company. The company continued to operate the store in Burlington until December 1961, when it was closed. Since then, a number of retailers have utilized the building, part of which has been partitioned off to become a bank branch.</p><br>
<p>The County Road 557–West Branch Escanaba River Bridge is a bridge located on County Road 557 as it passes over the West Branch of the Escanaba River in Wells Township in Marquette County, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1928, the Michigan State Highway Department determined a bridge was necessary in this location. In March, the department awarded a construction contract to the P.J. Nickel Company of Ironwood, Michigan, valued at $20,016.19. Nickel used a steel superstructure fabricated by the Massillon Bridge and Structural Company of Massillon, Ohio, to finish the bridge.</p><br>
<p>The bridge construction is significant because it was one of the first truly long single-span bridges constructed in the state. Recent (at the time) improvements in I-beam fabrication allowed the construction of steel stringer bridges of extended length. Since construction, the bridge has been essentially unaltered.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The County Road 557–West Branch Escanaba River Bridge is 75 ft in length with a roadway width of 30.1 ft and a complete structure width of 35.5 ft. The structure is a steel stringer bridge, constructed of rolled I-beams supported simply by straight-walled concrete abutments on each side of the river. The outside of the stringers are encased in concrete, giving the bridge the appearance af an all-concrete construction. The deck is concrete, resurfaced with asphalt. Guardrails with fluted balusters and paneled bulkheads run along each side of the bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Old M-95–Michigamme River Bridge is a bridge located on Old M-95 as it passes over the Michigamme River in Republic Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early part of the 20th century, before the Michigan State Highway Department standardized bridge designs, local road commissions were responsible for bridge designs in their own areas. In rural areas, the bridges built for vehicular traffic primarily had steel or timber superstructures. In Marquette County, however, the road commission built at least three rural concrete arch bridges in the 1910s: one over the Dead River in Marquette, one over the Michigamme River in Republic, and this bridge over the Michigamme. This bridge was built in 1910, and although modest in scale and design, it is technologically and historically significant as an embodiment of local bridge design before state standardization.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Old M-95–Michigamme River Bridge is 120 ft long with a main span length of 60 ft. It spans the Michigamme River on an abandoned roadway (now used as a private road) that was once M-95, immediately west of the current highway. The bridge has two filled spandrel arches, with continuous elliptical arch rings. The arches sit on concrete abutments on each shore pier located in the center of the river. The deck is cambered and made of earth, and flanked on each side with concrete guardrails.</p><br>
<p>Granot Loma is an estate located on County Road 550 north of Marquette, Michigan, constructed in the tradition of the Great Camps of the Adirondacks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is said to be the "biggest log cabin in the world" and the most expensive residence in Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>American businessperson Louis Graveraet Kaufman began building Granot Loma in 1919, for use as a summer residence. He hired Marshall and Fox of Chicago as architects and employed three hundred local craftsmen, He imported pine logs from Oregon for the construction. Construction was complete in 1923 or 1924, with some additional interior work continuing through 1927 or 1928.</p><br>
<p>The Loma Farms complex, designed to provide income and supply food for the lodge, was constructed in 1927 by the Bartlett Construction Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Bartlett used a number of designs provided by the Louden Machinery Company of Fairfield, Iowa.</p><br>
<p>Kaufman held an opening bash in 1927 to celebrate the completion of Granot Loma. Guests who stayed at Granot Loma over the years included tennis star Bill Tilden, George Gershwin, Mary Pickford, Fred Astaire, and Cole Porter.</p><br>
<p>Louis Kaufman died in 1942; his wife Marie died in 1947. With Maries passing, the farming operation ceased. One of the couples daughters, Joan, lived there with her last husband, Jack Martin, the former caretaker of Granot Loma for a few years, but by 1950 the lodge was essentially abandoned. They occupied the farm and the lodge was used for special occasions. Granot Loma was finally sold by the Kaufman family to Tom Baldwin in 1987. Baldwin renovated the house, and in 1991 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The estate’s title, Granot Loma, is a random hodgepodge of letters from the names of Kaufman’s first three children and his wife’s name. Kaufman retained 22 architects to design the building. Pine logs were shipped from Oregon by train. The structure is built on a steel frame resting on a two-yard thick concrete foundation.</p><br>
<p>As completed in 1923, the 26,000 square foot lodge cost $5 millionequivalent to $70 million in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The estate of Granot Loma sits on 5,180 acres of woodland located along the Lake Superior shore. The lodge is an enormous, L-shaped structure built of logs over a steel frame and with a slate roof. The lodge includes a 60-foot long greatroom and 23 or 26 bedrooms, 13 baths and 26 stone fireplaces. The estate contains unique and irreplaceable accoutrements, e.g., Indian/Western scenes by Orry Kelly, an Academy Award-winning designer.</p><br>
<p>Loma Farms is a planned farming complex which includes thirteen buildings constructed of vitrified clay tile, situated about one-half mile from the lodge complex.</p><br>
<p>Bachelor Island is an island in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located in the Columbia River near Ridgefield, just south of the mouth of the Lewis River and a few miles north of the mouth of the Willamette River. The island stretches from Columbia river mile 88 to 91.5. The northern end of Sauvie Island lies across the Columbia from Bachelor Island.</p><br>
<p>Bachelor Island is separated from the mainland by Bachelor Island Slough and Lake River. Bachelor Island Slough separates from the Columbia River at Bachelor Point and the southern end of Bachelor Island. The slough joins Lake River, which empties into the Columbia River at the northern end of Bachelor Island.</p><br>
<p>Most of Bachelor Island is part of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lewis and Clark first called the island "Green Bryor Isd," when they passed it while traveled downriver in 1805. They changed the name to "Quathlahpotle Island" in 1806, during their return voyage upriver. The name honored a large village, "Quathlahpotle", of 14 wooden houses and 900 inhabitants on the mainland nearby.</p><br>
<p>In 1841 Charles Wilkes of the United States Exploring Expedition named the island "Pasainks Island". Bachelor Island Slough he called "Piscou Creek". It was sometimes called Columbia Island during the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>In 1849 or 1850 three bachelors took donation claims and settled on the island, giving rise to its present name, Bachelor Island.</p><br>
<p>Mountain Home, also known as Locust Hill and Robert Dickson House, is a historic home located near White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was built about 1833, and is a large, two-story brick dwelling with a kitchen ell. It features a two-story, one-bay lunette-adorned pediment with plastered brick Doric order paired columns. It has Late Federal and Roman Revival elements on both the exterior and interior.</p><br>
<p>It was built by "Greeenbrier Valley master builder" John W. Dunn and includes mantels and other woodwork done by master wood-carver Conrad Burgess. Morlunda (Greenbrier County, West Virginia) is another of their joint works.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Lakes Muncoonie, Mumbleberry and Torquinie Important Bird Area is a 2013 km tract of land in the Channel Country of western Queensland, Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The IBA consists of Lakes Muncoonie, Mumbleberry and Torquinie, with the associated swampy floodplain of Mulligan River and Eyre Creek, on grey clay soils. It lies about 80 km west of the small town of Bedourie and is bordered on the west by the longitudinal sand-dunes of the Simpson Desert. Mumbleberry and Torquinie are ephemeral lakes that become inundated in most years; their waters are fresh when first flooded, but increasingly saline as they dry out. The Muncoonie Lakes system comprises an extensive area of floodplains, swamps, permanent waterholes, anastomosing channels and dry lakes.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The site has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports large numbers of waterbirds, the lakes regularly holding over 1% of the world populations of freckled and pink-eared ducks, red-necked avocets, grey teals and sharp-tailed sandpipers. The floodplains have once been systematically surveyed when flooded (in 2001), when they probably contained over a million waterbirds. The IBA also supports a population of Eyrean grasswrens.</p><br>
<p>The 11th Street Bridge was completed in December 1915 to carry vehicles across the Arkansas River at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Used from 1916 to 1972, it was also a part of USA Route 66. Functionally, it has been replaced by the I-244 bridges across the Arkansas. At present, the bridge is in poor structural condition and unsafe even for pedestrians. In 2008, the gates were locked to exclude all visitors.</p><br>
<p>This bridge was added on December 13, 1996, to the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria A and C. Its NRIS number is 96001488. It was named the "Cyrus Avery Route 66 Memorial Bridge in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Although the bridge still stands, it is considered unsafe for use and has been closed to vehicles since 1980 and to pedestrians since 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Engineered by Harrington, Howard and Ash of Kansas City, this bridge replaced an earlier wooden structure. It was built by the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company for $180,000. A multi-span concrete arch bridge, with 18 spans, it was 1470 feet long and 34 feet wide. It had a railroad track in the center and one vehicular lane on each side of the track. At the time, it was one of the longest concrete structures in the midwestern United States.</p><br>
<p>In 1929, the original balustrades and Victorian-style lights were replaced with Art Deco guardrails and lights. A 1934 project constructed a second arched bridge immediately downstream and connected both bridges with a single deck. This brought the deck width to 52 feet 8 inches, with a roadbed that was 40 feet wide and accommodated four lanes of traffic.</p><br>
<h2>Obsolescence</h2><br>
<p>Completion of the I-244 bridges in 1967 removed most vehicular traffic from the 11th street bridge. In 1980, it was closed to traffic, although it remained open to pedestrians. In 1996, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Present condition</h2><br>
<p>Time has not been good to the old bridge, and it has been rated as "quite dangerous" and unsafe for pedestrians by the City of Tulsa. There are holes in the deck, the pavement has buckled in many places, and weeds grow in the cracks. The gates were locked in 2008. Although it was considered as the centerpiece of a Route 66 exhibit, engineers estimated that it would cost $15 million just to be made safe for pedestrians. The conclusion was that the historic structure is "...too expensive to repair, too historic to demolish, and too valuable to ignore."</p><br>
<p>Ironically, the I-244 bridges have already reached the end of their service lives. The westbound bridge was closed and demolition begun in May 2011. Demolition was 85 percent complete as of August 1, 2011. The demolished structure will be replaced by a double-deck, multimodal span. The top deck will carry vehicles and the lower deck will have a pedestrian way and two railroad tracks (to be added in the future). Completion is scheduled for 2013. Extreme care has been used during the demolition to avoid vibrations that might further damage the old 11th Street Bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza</h2><br>
<p>The Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza is located adjacent to the east entrance of the historic Eleventh Street Bridge in Tulsa, at the intersection of Southwest Boulevard and Riverside Drive. The first phase of the plaza included a display of flags of the eight states which were served by U.S Route 66. It was completed in July 2008 and dedicated on August 7, 2008. A skyway with an observation deck leads pedestrians from the visitors&#39; parking lot iacross Southwest Boulevard.</p><br>
<p>The plaza features a bronze sculpture, created by artist Robert Summers titled "East Meets West." The sculpture is 14 feet long, 18 feet wide and 14 feet high. The sculpture depicts the Avery family riding west in a Model T Ford auto meeting an eastbound horse-drawn carriage. It weighs over 20,000 lb and cost about $1.178 million.</p><br>
<h2>Proposed museum</h2><br>
<p>A museum to educate visitors about the significance of Route 66 has been proposed. It would be built on a hill adjacent to the existing parking lot. No date has been established for this project.</p><br>
<p>The Perşani Mountains is a mountain range in central Romania.</p><br>
<p>Geologically the Perşani Mountains are part of the Căliman-Harghita Mountains of the Inner Eastern Carpathians. Within Romania, however, it is traditional to divide the Eastern Carpathians in Romanian territory into three geographical groups (north, center, south) instead. The Romanian categorization includes the Perşani Mountains within the central Carpathians of Moldavia and Transylvania (Munţii Carpaţi Moldo-Transilvani).</p><br>
<p>The main ridge runs in a north-south direction and has a length of 60 kilometers. The Persani Mountains consists mainly of basalt, shale and flysch. It is mostly forested, and for the most part the elevations are rounded. The geologic diversity of the rock results in interesting natural phenomena (basalt formations, caves, canyons).</p><br>
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<p>The Legune  Important Bird Area comprises a low-lying, swampy, floodplain peninsula at the south-eastern end of the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf in the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia. The land is part of the Legune Station, a cattle station and pastoral lease.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The IBA lies between the estuaries of the Keep and Victoria Rivers, not far from the border with Western Australia. Much of the area consists of hypersaline mudflats, but there are also freshwater sedge swamps, seasonal grassy marshes, wooded swamps and lakes, with mangroves and mangrove-fringed channels.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The site has been identified by BirdLife International as a 1391 km Important Bird Area (IBA) because it is believed to support over 1% of the world population of pied herons. More than 40,000 waterbirds have been recorded, mainly wandering whistling-ducks and various herons and egrets. Other birds recorded from the IBA in substantial numbers include magpie geese, rufous night-herons, glossy and Australian white ibises, little black cormorants, intermediate egrets, Terek sandpipers, Eurasian coots and purple swamphens.</p><br>
<p>Aire Gap is a pass through the Pennines in England formed by geologic faults and carved out by glaciers. The term is used to describe a geological division, a travel route, or a location that is an entry into the Aire river valley.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Geologically the Aire Gap lies between the Craven Fault and the limestone uplands of the Yorkshire Dales to the north and the Forest of Bowland and the millstone grit moors of the South Pennines. The South Pennines is the system between the Aire Gap and the Peak District.</p><br>
<p>The gap was formed by the dropping of the Craven Faults in the Carboniferous through Jurassic periods combined with glacial scouring by ice sheets in the Pleistocene Ice Age.</p><br>
<p>The Aire Gap splits the Pennines into north and south by allying with the River Ribble. The Pennine chain is divided into two sections by the Aire Gap formed by the River Aire flowing south, a member of the Humber basin, and the Ribble flowing west and entering the Irish sea.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The term Aire Gap is used in both Ribblesdale and Pendle to denote a hypsograph between those rivers and Airedale. Two locations are so described:</p><br>
<p>Ribblesdale’s Aire Gap designates a precise point at 160 m just East of Hellifield near Settle at 54.00000&deg;N latitude, 2.16667&deg;W longitude, and is labelled Aire Gap on some maps. It is the watershed of that pass and lies between the "Little" North Western Railway and the A65 road.</p><br>
<p>The head of Pendle Water valley culminates in Foulridge 53.8768&deg;N latitude, 2.176420&deg;W longitude near Colne. In literature Colne commonly describes itself as being in the Aire Gap. When the Leeds and Liverpool Canal was being constructed they dug a tunnel at altitude 140 m beneath Foulridge’s 165 m to make a route even lower than the 160m pass near Hellifield.</p><br>
<h2>Transport route</h2><br>
<p>The Pennines form a natural barrier to east-west communications, but the Tyne Gap links Carlisle and Newcastle and the Aire Gap links Lancashire and Yorkshire.</p><br>
<p>Its extent is vague, a 19th-century author wrote:</p><br>
<p>The Aire Gap is of considerable strategic importance and historically Skipton Castle controlled the area. Skipton is now considered more central to the Aire Gap than terminal.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>The treeless moorland gives no shelter and modern Pennine transport can find it a formidable barrier when roads are blocked by snow for several days. The Aire Gap route is a sheltered passageway, and inhabited along its length.</p><br>
<p>The Aire Gap was of topographic significance for the historic North of England providing a low-altitude pass through "the backbone of England". It was the Pennine transport corridor from Cumbria and Strathclyde to the Vale of York. Neolithic long-distance trade is proved by many finds of stone axes from central Cumbria.</p><br>
<p>To the north stand limestone hills of up to 736 m above mean sea level and to its south lie bleak sandstone moors, that above 275 m grow little but bracken.</p><br>
<p>The builders of the "Little" North Western Railway sought the lowest course through the Aire Gap and found that to be 166 m near Giggleswick scar at 54.074167&deg;N latitude, 2.318056&deg;W longitude, and 160 m just East of Hellifield at 54.00000&deg;N latitude, 2.16667&deg;W longitude a point labelled Aire Gap on maps.</p><br>
<p>There is a lower pass from Airedale to Ribblesdale near Thornton-in-Craven of 144 m at 53.93413&deg;N latitude, 2.16276&deg;W longitude that was used by the Romans who built a road.</p><br>
<p>The nearest alternative pass is Stainmore Gap (Eden-Tees) to the north that climbs to 409 m and its climate is classed as sub-arctic in places.</p><br>
<p>Oakhurst Links is a historic golf course located at White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It is a nine-hole course conceived in 1884, in a design based upon traditional Scottish design elements. The first competition at Oakhurst was held in 1888.</p><br>
<p>Located on the grounds is course developer Russell W. Montague&#39;s home which served as the Oakhurst Links Clubhouse. It was built about 1880, and is a two story "I house" plan dwelling with sparse Colonial Revival stylistic elements. The property was operated as a golf course until 1912, when the property reverted to pasture. In 1994, a restoration effort was launched for the course. Modern players typically dress in period clothes and use hickory-shafted clubs and gutta-percha balls driven from tees fashioned from sand as was done before the wooden tee was invented.</p><br>
<p>The course was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Confederate Cemetery at Lewisburg is a historic cemetery located at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The cemetery is the final resting place of 95 unknown Confederate soldiers from the Battles of Lewisburg  and Droop Mountain . They are buried in a three foot high mound shaped as a Christian cross. The cross measures 80 feet, 5 inches in length, with the "arm" extending 53 feet. There are four commemorative monuments, including one installed by the Federal government in 1956. It is enclosed by a six foot high wrought iron fence.</p><br>
<p>The Confederate "monument was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy at a cost of $2,800. The monument was originally located on the campus of the Greenbrier College, but moved to its present location, when USA Route 60 was relocated."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Supreme Court Library Building, now known as Greenbrier County Library and Museum, is a historic library building located at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was built in 1834, and is a two story building built of locally fired brick. It was constructed to serve as a law library and study for the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. This was leased to the State of Virginia until the court sessions ended in 1864. During the American Civil War it served as a military hospital. It was then occupied as a Masonic lodge until acquired by the Greenbrier College for Women. In 1935, the college deeded it to the town for use by the Greenbrier County Library and Museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Hutoushan Reservoir  is a man made reservoir in Lhünzhub County, Tibet, to the north of the city of Lhasa. It is an important wintering place for black-necked cranes and other migratory birds.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The reservoir lies in Qangka Township, Lhünzhub County. The villages of Gana, Tiangacun, Seronggang and Zhujiecun lie near the lake.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir is bordered by large swamps and wet meadows, and has abundant plants and shellfish.</p><br>
<p>It takes its name from a nearby mountain, whose shape was said to resemble a tiger&#39;s head.</p><br>
<p>The Hutuoshan Reservoir is the largest in Tibet, with planned total storage of 12,000,000 m&sup3;.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir lies in the Pengbo River valley.</p><br>
<h2>Black-necked cranes</h2><br>
<p>The endangered Black-necked cranes migrate to the middle and southern part of Tibet every winter, and may be seen on the reservoir.</p><br>
<p>The cranes migrate from the frozen Changtang Grassland in northern Tibet in mid- to late-October, and overwinter in Linzhou (Lhünzhub) County.</p><br>
<p>They return when the weather becomes warmer, in late March. They are the only species of crane that lives and breeds at these high elevations.</p><br>
<p>In 2013 the population in Linzhou County was over 1,000.</p><br>
<p>Village volunteers patrol the 96 km&sup2; Linzhou Black-necked Crane Preservation Zone, established in 1993, where the cranes eat the remains of farm crops.</p><br>
<p>A monitoring platform has been built to watch the health of the birds.</p><br>
<p>Flocks of the birds stay on the HuTouShan Reservoir overnight, where they can be observed around daybreak before they fly off to search for forage.</p><br>
<p>Mount Iide is the main peak of the Iide mountain range that spans the Fukushima, Niigata and Yamagata prefectures in Japan. On top of the mountain stands the Mount Iide Shrine. Mount Iide is, together with the rest of the range, one of the mountains described in Kyūya Fukada&#39;s book 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Mount Iide is located at 2105 m above sea level but is not the highest peak of the Iide mountain range even though it is the main peak of the range. The highest is Mount Dainichi that is 2128 m high.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is located on the border between Niigata prefecture and Yamagata prefecture, but the summit itself, Mount Iide Shrine and a path roughly one meter wide leading there belongs to Kitakata, Fukushima. This was a response to complaints when Higashikanbara District was transferred from Fukushima to Niigata during the Meiji period. As a result, Fukushima prefecture has an uneven border, with an arm stretching through the Iide mountain range up to the Mount Iide Shrine.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson–Hansen House is a historic house located in Provo, Utah. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>Located at 485 East 400 South, Provo, the Neils Johnson home is both architecturally and historically significant. "The log cabin, brick house, and garage, built between 1870-1938, describe settlement patterns and periods of development in Provo. Linking the brick historic home with a "modern" garage through the log cabin symbolizes the connection between past, present, and future. These structures are architecturally significant as excellent examples of local 1870s architecture and as a unique, late 1930s blend of nostalgic and modern influences on residential design (Historic Provo p. 25)."</p><br>
<h3>The plat of the City of Zion</h3><br>
<p>Provo was first occupied in 1849 when the first fort was built. People began moving outside the fort in 1850-51, and when two canals were dug to irrigate the fields in the 1850s, agriculture was the primary industry. Utah settlement patterns were based on the plat of the City of Zion that was outlined by the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. The plan, though not fully implemented, served as a model for Mormon settlements across the west under the direction of Brigham Young. The plats were strictly organized, being one mile square, ten acres each and forty rods square, and the lots were laid off alternately within the squares, setting up what were considered to be garden views from the houses. There was to be space for each house to have a small yard in the front, and the houses were to be built primarily of stone and brick. The towns were set out in a grid pattern with the public buildings and church located in the center of town, surrounded by residences, with the outlying areas being used as farmlands. The plat of Zion&#39;s design is described in the following:</p><br>
<p>"As soon as it was considered safe to move out of the fort, instead of making a home on his piece of land as the ordinary pioneer farmer would have done, the Provo settler, following the advice of President Young and the example of the older colony, selected a site and made his home in the platted part of the city. Each family had a quarter of a block -- perhaps more -- on which was the dwelling house... Each morning the farmer and his sons went to their work on the farm, returning to their town home in the evening."</p><br>
<p>The purpose of combining town and farm life was to provide better protection against the Indians and to provide a greater opportunity for a religious and social life.</p><br>
<h3>Niels Johnson and Ray Hansen</h3><br>
<p>Born on August 5, 1848, in the country of Denmark, Neils Johnson was both a farmer and a sexton for the city cemetery. He was married to Josephine C.M. who was born in Norway on December 17, 1846. Together they had five children, although three of them died before 1898. Johnson lived in this home between 1871 and 1923, and was listed as residing at 356 South 500 East for four years afterward. Albert L. and Beatrice Hulick resided at the Neils Johnson home between 1926 and 1929, and J. Lanning Hall in 1930-31, but throughout their tenancies Neils Johnson still owned the home. Johnson died in 1937, bestowing the property to his daughter (two-thirds to Caroline Hinckley and one-third to Christine Hinckley Robinson. Mr. Ray Hansen then purchased the home.</p><br>
<p>Born in Benjamin, Utah, Ray Hansen was born on February 22, 1902. He was married on July 2, 1927 to Blanche Mcbeth, and they lived at 356 South 500 East in Provo before purchasing the Johnson–Hansen property. Ray Hansen was employed under Pacific States CI and P Co., a pipeline manufacturer. In the year 1939 Mr. Hansen became a foreman, and in 1959 a patternmaker for the same company. He married a second time to Helen Hansen, and he died on June 3, 1989.</p><br>
<h3>The house today</h3><br>
<p>The Johnson–Hansen home is one of four c.1870s houses remaining within this older, tree-lined residential neighborhood that demonstrate the town grid settlement pattern. These older homes are situated on corner lots and appear to have been laid off alternately within quarter sections of the square blocks. The log building remains as physical evidence of the kinds of structures that were built when Provo was originally settled. Ray Hansen used the log cabin as his gunsmith shop for over 50 years. The reasons he moved the log structure to its current location and connected it to his house and a "modern" garage are not known.</p><br>
<p>The present owners, Dr. and Mrs. M. Gary Hadfield, have carefully rehabilitated the brick house and log cabin since they purchased the home in 1990. The restoration work included the chemical removal of many layers of paint on both buildings. The home is being maintained as a single family residence. The Neils Johnson Home was designated a Provo City Historic Landmark on April 28, 1995. These structures have been well-maintained and retain their historic integrity and association.</p><br>
<p>The Littleton Main Street is a historic district located along W. Main Street, from South Curtice Street, to South Sycamore Street in Littleton, Colorado. The district dates from 1890. The nineteenth century buildings are red pressed brick, many with stone foundations and trim. These buildings replaced smaller frame structures from the pioneer era and proclaimed the success of their builders through solid construction and application of exterior ornament.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing Buildings</h2><br>
<h3>West Main Street</h3><br>
<p>2299 West Main Street, Sommers Oil Service Station, 1922. The Service Station is early evidence of the impact of the automobile. Built in 1922 by the Sommers Oil Company of Denver. Built as two buildings, the filling station and the greasing facility were joined at a late date. The south building is built of narrow concrete blocks with a hipped roof. The drive-through was set on piers. The greasing facility has a flat roof with parapet and elaborate coping.</p><br>
<p>2329 West Main Street, LW. Hunt Building, 1919, Ivy W. Hunt erected his Ford car dealership. The large, rectangular building includes the original one-story auto dealership and a stepped back modern rooftop addition. The red pressed brick walls have paneled piers and decorative white brick insets forming the letter "H". The building has a flat roof with piers, which project above the roof, contrasting white concrete coping, and courses of molded brick. The large central entrance facing Main Street is surrounded with glazed white brick and has inset double doors with rectangular lights topped by a divided transom. A plaque above the entrance is inscribed "I.W. Hunt 1919." Flanking the entrance are huge plate glass display windows with smooth white concrete sills, clerestory windows, and fabric awnings. In the mid-1980s, the Urban Design Group produced a three-story stepped back brick addition with central, gabled, glazed atrium, and rehabilitated the original building. The 1919 portion of the building retains its original design, scale, materials, feeling, and association, while the sympathetic 1980s addition is subtly setback to diminish its impact on the earlier building.</p><br>
<p>2359 West Main Street, Palm Theater, 1925, Unknown, Twentieth Century Commercial. As motion pictures became popular, J.H. Peterson built the Palm Theater in 1925. The double-height one-story building has a flat roof with projecting piers and brick coping and a molded metal secondary cornice. The walls are composed of painted, wire-drawn brick on the front and pressed brick on the sides. The central inset entrance has a door with large rectangular light and transom flanked by large plate glass windows. Above the secondary cornice is a central ribbon of five multi-light windows with shared sill flanked on each end by paired windows. An alley is adjacent to the east wall of the building. The building has a one-story rear addition with garage door. The theater operated only a few years and the building was remodeled by the 1930s as a department store, with entrance and windows in the current configuration.</p><br>
<p>2379-99 West Main Street, Valore Hardware, 1925. This one-story brick building was erected by A.J. Valore in 1925 to house his hardware business and two other enterprises. The red brick building, with three storefronts facing Main Street has a flat roof with contrasting white brick coping and is divided into three bays by piers of red and white brick. The storefronts have inset entrances with glazed doors flanked by plate glass display windows with continuous metal lintels. Walls above lintels have panels outlined in white brick. The eastern storefront has a thin, projecting, metal hood above the windows. The west wall has decorative brickwork and two multi-light windows with lintels and sills of white brick. Alterations include removal of clerestory windows and addition of stone veneer under display windows. Piers and parapets originally projected above the roof.</p><br>
<p>2400 West Main Street, Thomas Building, 1954. Local civic leader and real estate developer Diva C. Thomas built this corner commercial building in 1954. The building, which occupied part of the location of an earlier commercial structure, maintained the street wall by employing the same setback as the earlier building. The one-story rectangular buff brick building has a beveled corner with glazed door with sidelights and transom facing the intersection on the northeast. The building has a flat roof with a raised parapet at the center of the east wall. Five storefronts with slightly inset entrances and plate glass windows with concrete sills are on the east. The northern part of the building has been partially clad with Roman brick. The south and west walls are stuccoed. Other alterations include some glazed doors and newer plate glass windows and covered up entrances on the east and south.</p><br>
<p>2450 West Main Street, Littleton Town Hall, 1920, J.J.B. Benedict. When local officials requested a town hall whose front would "have a character that would dominate the design," architect J.J.B. Benedict drew inspiration from the Palazzo della Regione in Vincenza, Italy. The front of the Italian Renaissance style two-and-a-halfstory building is clad with architectural terra cotta blocks cast to resemble stone and hand molded ornamentation. The first story features an arcade of triple pointed arch entrances accentuated by archivolt molding. Flanking the central arch are lanterns Grafted by Benedict from old iron balconies. On the second story, a central arcade of five, slender, pointed arch windows with polychromatic ornaments and small columns is flanked by two similar windows facing wrought iron balconets. The flat roof building is crowned by a projecting, tiled cornice with modillions. The building has been altered by enclosing the three arches of the first story arcade with multi-light doors, sidelights, and overdoors, and by a 1980s rear concrete block addition not visible from the front. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated Littleton landmark.</p><br>
<p>2485 West Main Street, Coors Building Extension, 1906. In 1906, a one-story addition to the Coors building was erected containing three storefronts. The buff brick building has a flat roof with concrete coping, a simple molded brick cornice, and a rooftop flagpole at the southeast corner. The front wall has a shopfront cornice above its three bays divided by brick piers. Two western bays have large plate glass display windows with paneled kickplates, while the eastern bay has an inset entrance with paneled and glazed door flanked by display windows with paneled kickplates. The building was renovated in 1990. Entrances were removed from the two western bays.</p><br>
<p>2489 West Main Street, Coors Building, 1905, Adolph Coors of Golden erected this significant two-story corner business block, which included five storefronts on the ground floor and space for a gentlemen&#39;s club above. The buff brick building has a flat roof stepped up at the southwest corner with plaques inscribed "COORS" and a projecting cornice with dentil molding, as well as a storefront cornice. The second story features evenly spaced sash windows between brick pilasters rising from a stone sill course. The first story has an inset beveled wall at the southwest, with the cantilevered upper story supported by a metal column. The front (south) wall is divided by metal pilasters between plate glass windows with clerestory windows and paneled kickplates. The first story of the west wall has segmental arched windows and a paneled door with arched transom. The building was restored in the 1990s. The building is a designated Littleton landmark.</p><br>
<p>2500 West Main Street, Kauer Block, 1899, F.C. Eberley. In 1899, August Kauer erected this two-story corner commercial block with lava stone foundation and trim and used part of the building for his meat market. The flat roof building has a molded brick cornice and shop front cornice. Pilasters divide the upper story into four bays, each bay is enframed with molded brick and has two windows with shared stone sills. A shingled mansard overhangs the first story, which is divided into two storefronts flanking a central entrance to the upper story. The storefronts have paired plate glass display windows with architectural tile under the windows.</p><br>
<p>2509 West Main Street, First National Bank of Littleton, 1905. The First National Bank of Littleton and local residents Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lilley collaborated in the construction of this two-story painted brick business block. The corner building has a flat roof pierced by short brick pilasters topped by finials. Spaces between the finials are ornamented with a parapet with an elongated sawtooth pattern, beneath which is a projecting cornice with arcaded cornice trim. The upper story has evenly spaced windows with stone sills and brick molding. The first story is surmounted by a secondary cornice and has a beveled inset wall on the southeast; the cantilevered upper story of the southeast corner is supported by a brick pier. Plate glass display windows of the first story sheltered by fabric awnings, are topped by clerestory windows. Walls under windows are clad with stacked brick. The east wall has a large arched window and a slab door with stone threshold. The first story has been altered with new display windows and new brick under the windows.</p><br>
<p>2516 West Main Street, Rice Grocery, 1932. This one-story brick commercial building originally housed a grocer and a dry cleaner and later a meat market. The building has a flat roof with brick coping and walls of painted, wiredrawn brick; newer Roman brick is under the windows. An off-center brick pier divides the building into two bays. The entrance on the east has an inset door and transom. A single plate glass display window with clerestory window is adjacent to the door; a ribbon of display windows is west of the pier. This building is a designated Littleton landmark.</p><br>
<p>2529-39 West Main Street, Lilley Building/Boddy Block, 1906. This two-story brick building was erected by Harry H. Lilley about 1906 and housed three commercial establishments and the Arapahoe County offices before the courthouse was completed in Littleton the following year. The brick building filled the gap between two buildings owned by Lilley and was designed to continue the pilasters, parapet, cornice and ornamentation of the building to the east. The upper story of the building has a central group of four windows flanked by groups of two windows. The windows are each framed with brick and have rock-faced stone sills linked by a course of brick. The first story is sheltered by a shingled mansard overhang above two storefronts with metal frame plate glass windows and glazed doors. The first story has been completely remodeled and the brick has been painted.</p><br>
<p>2530 West Main Street, O.G. Hill Drug Store, 1886. This small one-story commercial building was erected by O.G. Hill to house his pioneer drug store on Rapp Street in 1886. In 1900, the building was moved to this lot on Main Street and historic photographs indicate that its stepped brick parapet with geometric insets had been added by 1911. The lower portion of the front wall has been remodeled with an inset, angled, stuccoed wall leading to the entrance and paired plate glass windows.</p><br>
<p>2546 West Main Street, Littleton Independent, 1906. The Littleton Independent, the town&#39;s longest-lived newspaper, constructed this building for its office and printing plant in 1906. The two-story painted brick building has a flat roof with paneled and molded cornice and the upper story is divided by pilasters into two bays, each with a segmental arched window with arched hood molding and rock-faced stone sill. The first story has a center, recessed entrance flanked by angled walls and plate glass display windows. A secondary entrance on the west has a paneled and glazed door. Alterations include painted brick, stacked brick under the display windows, casement windows on the second story, and newer door at the western entrance.</p><br>
<p>2550 West Main Street, Kraft Building, 1903. This two-story painted brick building was erected by Henry Kraft in 1903 to house a dry goods and notions store on the first floor and meeting hall on the upper story. The buildings design has much in common with Littletons commercial buildings of the previous century. The building has a flat roof with molded brick and a brick corbel table. The second story has four tall, narrow, transomed, segmental arched windows with rock-faced stone sills. Above the windows is a course of decorative molding. The first story includes an off-center, inset entrance with wood paneling flanked by plate glass display windows topped by clerestory windows covered with paneling and with stacked brick under display windows. The first story storefront has been remodeled.</p><br>
<p>2580 West Main Street, Littleton Post Office, 1893. This two-story painted brick commercial building with Italianate commercial details was an early location of the Littleton post office. The flat roof rectangular building has an elaborately paneled cornice and decorative stringcourses. Second story walls are divided into two bays and enframed by pilasters. Each bay features a window with segmental arched transom, hood molding, and a stone sill. The remodeled first story is clad with horizontal board siding and has a central entrance flanked by projecting, above ground, hipped roof display windows.</p><br>
<p>2559 West Main Street, Lilley Livery Stable, 1907. Harry H. Lilley erected this building as a livery stable about 1907, replacing an earlier frame building of the same function. The two-story painted brick building continues the pilasters, parapet, cornice, and ornamentation of the two buildings to the east. The upper story has three groups of two windows with rockfaced stone sills linked by a course of brick. Each window is enframed with brick; the windows have been bricked in. The first story, which has a single storefront, has been remodeled with board and batten siding above angled plate glass display windows sheltered by metal and fiberglass hoods. The building had an eastern storefront by 1914 and two western storefronts were added by the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>2560-64 West Main Street, Dana Downing Grocery, 1905. This building was erected in 1905 to house a grocery and was described as "the big daylight store." The two-story brick building has a flat roof, corbel table, and courses of molded brick. The second story features two windows with wide rock-faced stone lintels and stone sills and paneled shutters. The first story is clad with simulated masonry and has corner pilasters and a central inset entrance area clad with shingles and flanked by large display windows. Alterations include addition of simulated masonry and wood shingles to first story and painting of brick and stone. A secondary western entrance has a newer door and covered up transom.</p><br>
<p>2569-75 West Main Street, Batschelet Building, 1908. Cattleman and investor Edward F. Batschelet erected this business block, which contained storefronts on the first story and a meeting hall on the second in 1908. The two-story building has a flat roof with projecting, bracketed cornice with dentil molding and a storefront cornice. The painted brick walls have a continuous sill course on the second story and a brick string course with stone insets. Large windows with architrave surrounds are evenly spaced on the second story. The first story has four entrances with doors with large rectangular lights and transoms flanked by large plate glass display windows with wood kickplates sheltered by awnings. The first story of the building was converted to an auto garage in the early twentieth century and restored to storefronts after 1955. The building is a designated Littleton landmark.</p><br>
<p>2570 West Main Street, Kalinowski Bakery, 1890s. Charles Kalinowski operated a bakery in this building, which appears on the 1893 Sanborn map. The two-story, flat roof, painted brick commercial building has a projecting, elaborately ornamented metal cornice with decorative molding and brackets. The second story is divided by narrow pilasters into three bays, each with a segmental arched window with hood molding and stone sill. The remodeled first story is surmounted by a steel lintel and has a central entrance with angled wall flanked by plate glass display windows enframed by piers of stacked brick.</p><br>
<p>2590 West Main Street, Spotswood Building/Burden Meat, 1890s. In 1893, this two-story corner building was a meat market. The building has a cornice of molded brick with a central projecting bracket. The upper floor has brick pilasters with corbelled bases and has transomed windows. A continuous stone lintel and sill courses and molding between the courses. The first story has been remodeled with horizontal board siding, an inset entrance, and a bay window.</p><br>
<h2>Side Streets</h2><br>
<p>5686 South Sycamore Street, Franzen Grocery, 1920. Cornelius Franzen built this one-story grocery store in 1920. It has a flat roof with a parapet only on the front. A suspended metal awning shelters the off center entrance and a large window opening.</p><br>
<p>5717 South Nevada Street, Medical Offices, 1951. A two-story Art Moderne brick building housed doctors&#39; offices. It has a curved corners with glass blocks lights. The flat roof has a coping curved, and with a projecting hood covering the first floor. The entrance is in a curved project at the northeast corner. The front wall of the fGlass brickirst story has a ribbon of plate glass windows, with architectural tiles above and below.</p><br>
<p>Glass brick</p><br>
<p>The Newman Brothers Building is a former commercial building in Joplin, Missouri. The building was the home of Newman&#39;s Department Store from 1910 to 1972. In 1990, the building was entered into the National Register of Historic Places. After going through several owners, the building is now occupied by Joplin city offices. It is located in the Joplin Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Newman Mercantile Company was founded by Jewish merchant Joseph Newman, who emigrated from Germany in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>In 1922, Newman Mercantile purchased the Kennedy Dry Goods Company In 1928, the company bought the Denneky Dry Goods Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After World War II, the company again expanded with additional stores in Springfield, Missouri, Hutchinson, Kansas, and Midwest City, Oklahoma.</p><br>
<p>The Newman Brothers moved into the newly built Northpark Mall in 1972. The building then housed the Messenger Book Store of the Pentecostal Church. In 1989, owner Kenny Cox ran a teen club called the Boulevard in the building, and fought the city who wanted to demolish the building.The building was restored and renovated in 1995 at a cost of 5 million dollars, by Martin Smith and Greg Fears. The City of Joplin purchased the building in 2003 and did renovations costing 3 million dollars.</p><br>
<p>Newman Mercantile closed its Enid, Hutchinson and Midwest City stores in 1987, and filed Chapter 11 and liquidated its other stores in 1988. The Pierce City storefront was destroyed by tornado in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Slanské Hills  is a range of mountains in eastern Slovakia, one segment of the Mátra-Slanec Area of the Inner Western Carpathians.</p><br>
<p>The area is named after the nearest town in the southern portion, Slanec. The range is approximately 50 km long, 16 km side, and extends southeast of the city of Prešov, between the Košice Basin and the Eastern Slovak Lowland.</p><br>
<p>The mountains average 800 to 1000 m high, with the highest elevation at Simonka, 1,092 m (where 700 healthy, mature elms were discovered in 1998). The mountains are forested, with several mineral springs, and resources such as gold, silver, and antimony. Passes through the mountains include the Herľany Pass and Dargov Pass (Dargovský priesmyk), site of a significant World War II battle.</p><br>
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<p>Tuckwiller Tavern, also known as Valley View Stock Farm,Inc. and Wilson Farm, is a historic tavern located at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was built between 1826 and 1828, and is a large, two-story  rectangular brick building with a one-story ell in an early rusticated Greek Revival style. It sits on a fieldstone foundation and features a portico supported by four massive, white wooden columns. Also on the property is a brick smokehouse. During the American Civil War, it was used as a headquarters and barracks in 1864 by Union General David Hunter.</p><br>
<p>It is believed to have been built by "local brickmasons, contractors, and architects" John W. Dunn and David K. Spotts.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Alderson Historic District is a national historic district located at Alderson, Greenbrier County and Monroe County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 196 contributing buildings and three contributing sites located in the commercial district and surrounding residential section. They are predominantly 19th and early 20th century frame detached residences and masonry commercial buildings including notable examples of the Federal, Greek Revival, and Queen Anne styles. Notable buildings include the Woodson Mohler Grocery building, Johnson and Gwinn warehouse, Greenbrier Mill, First National Bank building, Alderson&#39;s Store, Cheasapeake and Ohio depot, USA Post Office, and the City Hall . The Alderson Ferry Site is for the ferry established 1789. Located in the district is the separately listed Alderson Bridge.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Clinton Grove Cemetery is a burial ground located at 21189 Cass Avenue near Mount Clemens, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Clinton Grove Cemetery Association was established on March 30, 1855 as a non-sectarian, non-profit association. The cemetery started on a five-acre parcel, which has been increased to 50 acres through a series of purchases. In 1885, a caretaker&#39;s house was constructed on the property, and in 1914 a Tudor office and chapel building were added, both designed by Mount Clemens architect Theophilus Van Damme.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Clinton Grove Cemetery is located on 50 acres west of Mt. Clemens. Over 19,000 graves are located on the property, as well as an office, chapel, mausoleum, and caretaker&#39;s house. Both the office and chapel were designed by architect Theopolis Van Damme. Family mausoleums and crypts are scattered among the in-ground burials, as well as a wide variety of 19th and early 20th century monuments. Over 570 trees grow in the cemetery, many over 100 years old. The cemetery is an outstanding example of an urban, park-like memorial burial ground, retaining the feel of a Victorian-era rural cemetery through both landscaping and the variety and quality of its gravemarkers.</p><br>
<p>Gethsemane Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church building located at 40 North Hering Street in Appleton, Minnesota, United States. Built in 1879 during the episcopate of pioneer Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple, it was originally a Carpenter Gothic style wooden-frame structure with the board and batten walls and lancet windows typical of that style. Around 1920 the interior and exterior walls were plastered over which greatly changed its appearance and obscured its Carpenter Gothic origin. Over the years, additions were made to the building and a basement was added. Although it ceased to be an active parish in 1991, it is still owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota and is occasionally used for funerals and other services. On July 20, 2011, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>City Hall in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, is a historic building built in the early 18th century, listed on New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places. It is now the oldest City Hall still in use in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction of the building began in 1714 and was completed in 1717 or 1718. It served as the local courthouse and jail, and was also used by the Provincial Assembly until 1775. The building has twice been rebuilt after being badly damaged by fire; first in 1731, rebuilt until 1745, and again around 1765 following an arson attack believed to have been committed by a former inmate who was imprisoned on debt charges. It was rebuilt a second time in 1767.</p><br>
<p>City Hall has undergone three renovations, most recently in 2006, although some of the original structure remains. The building is now Victorian in style.</p><br>
<p>A two-room surveyor&#39;s office was built adjacent to City Hall in 1867, which was used by the General Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey.</p><br>
<h2>Notable events</h2><br>
<p>On November 20, 1789, the State of New Jersey became the first to ratify the United States Bill of Rights.</p><br>
<p>On March 31, 1870 Thomas Mundy Peterson (1824–1904) became the first African-American to vote in an election under the just-enacted provisions of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.</p><br>
<p>The Piatra Mare Mountains is a small mountain range in Brașov County, southeast of Brașov, Romania, and also close to the resort town of Predeal.</p><br>
<p>Geologically the Paitra Mare Mountains stand at the southern end of the grand arc of the Eastern Carpathians, and between the inner ring of the Inner Eastern Carpathians and the outer ring of the Outer Eastern Carpathians. The neighbouring Postăvarul Massif is also positioned in the same transitional area.</p><br>
<p>The range consists mainly of limestone and Carpathian flysch. The rock forms a predominantly north-south ridge, from which structured side combs extend to the west, and steep drops to the east. The highest peak, also called Piatra Mare, stands at 1843 m (although sources differ on the exact height).</p><br>
<p>The mountain is a popular recreation and hiking area. In addition to the treeless summit that allows an unobstructed panoramic view in all directions, the landmarks are:</p><br>
<p>the Ice Cave, Peștera de Gheața</p><br>
<p>the gorge called Șapte Scări in the Șipoiaia Valley</p><br>
<p>and the Tamina Gorge in the valley Valea Pietrei Mici Valley</p><br>
<p>In winter the Piatra Mare peak is one of the four main massifs surrounding the ski resort of Poiana Braşov -- the other three are the already mentioned Postăvaru (1,799 m), Piatra Craiului (2,238 m), and Bucegi (2,505 m).</p><br>
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<p>The Alpha Terrace Historic District is a historic district in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The site consists of twenty-five stone rowhouses, which were built between 1889 and 1894 using a heterogeneous mix of Queen Anne and Romanesque revival architectural influences. Until they were subdivided and individual sold in the 1950s, the properties were part of a single block of upper-middle-class rental units; for a time, USA Steel leased a number of the homes for use by corporate executives.</p><br>
<p>The block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 18, 1985. In 1979, it was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks, and in January 1996, the district was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations.</p><br>
<p>The Fourth Avenue Historic District is a historic district in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The district was the center of finance and banks for the city during the decades surrounding the turn of the 20th Century. Many ornate structures still exist from that era, including the location of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Smithfield Street from 1864-1903, the now vacant lot of its location at 229 Fourth Avenue from 1903 to 1962 and the still standing structure of the Exchange from 1962 until it closed in 1974. It is roughly bounded by Smithfield Street, Third Avenue, Market Square Place, and Fifth Avenue. The period of significance for the District is from 1871  to 1934 .</p><br>
<p>Some of its structures are:</p><br>
<p>Burke Building 211 (1836)</p><br>
<p>Dollar Bank 340 (1871)</p><br>
<p>Pittsburgh Stock Exchange 333</p><br>
<p>Arrott Building 401 (1902)</p><br>
<p>Benedum-Trees Building 223 (1905)</p><br>
<p>The Carlyle 306 (1906)</p><br>
<p>Investment Building 239 (1927)</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 5, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Armstrong Cork Company  was a cork manufacturer located at 2349 Railroad Street in the Strip District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company&#39;s building was built circa 1901, and designed by architect Frederick J. Osterling. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 10, 2005, and to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Today, the building is maintained as loft apartments (since May 2007), and is called "The Cork Factory " (also known as the "Cork Factory Lofts", and "The Cork Factory - loft apartments on the river").</p><br>
<p>Armstrong Cork Company eventually moved its headquarters to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The company&#39;s product lines evolved from cork products and Linoleum, to vinyl floors and acoustical ceiling products.</p><br>
<p>The Houses at 2501-2531 Charles Street in the Perry South neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, were built in 1885. The row originally included 25 nearly identical houses, 13 feet wide and 35 feet deep. All but 2 of the buildings survive. They each have two rooms on the first floor, a parlor and a kitchen, and two bedrooms on the second floor. A third bedroom comprises the third floor behind the mansard roof. The houses rise gradually with the street, stepping up about 2 feet every fifth house. Every fifth house also has a large decorative gable over the mansard roof.</p><br>
<p>These row houses were built by William A. Stone, who later became governor of Pennsylvania. In 1887 Stone built a similar set of rowhouses on Brightridge Street. The Charles Street row was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The New Granada Theater at 2007 Centre Avenue in the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was built in 1927 and 1928. This Art Deco theater was designed by architect Louis A. S. Bellinger, and originally was a Pythian Temple, a meeting place for the Knights of Pythias . In this case, it was a lodge for a group of African American construction workers known as the Knights of the Pythian. In the 1930s, the building was sold to Harry Hendel, who moved two blocks from his old Granada Theater to this New Granada Theater. The building was remodeled in 1937 and 1938 by Alfred M. Marks, and it became a movie theater as well as a place for live entertainment, music and dancing. Jazz legends such as Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Cab Calloway performed at this location.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on October 8, 2004, the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2007, and the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 2010.</p><br>
<p>Čergov is a mountain range in the central part of the Prešov Region of Slovakia.</p><br>
<p>Geologically the range is part of the Outer Western Carpathians, but may be classified (as Slovaks do) as part of the Eastern Beskids, or classified (as Poles do) as part of the Western Beskids. The Polish name for the range is Góry Czerchowskie, the Czerchów Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The entire range is composed of Carpathian flysch and is oriented from north to southeast. The major peaks include Minčol (1157 m), Veľká Javorina (1098 m), Bukový vrch (1010 m), and &#39;Lyá (1068 m). Čergov Peak itself stands at 1050 m.</p><br>
<p>The Topľa River and many of its tributaries, creeks and rivers arise from its eastern slopes. The slopes are grown with mixed forests with a predominance of deciduous trees, mostly beech, maple, oak, and birth.</p><br>
<p>At least five major nature reserves have been set aside for rare and protected species of trees, original vegetation, and protected animals. One of these, Národná prírodná rezervácia Čergovský Minčol (National Wildlife Reserve of Minčol in the Čergov), is centered on the highest peak and was founded in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>Limmen Bight is a bight, or large, open bay, at the western end of the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, about 360 km east of the town of Katherine. It is part of the traditional lands and waters of the Marra people. It was named in April 1644 by Abel Tasman for one of his ships on his voyage of exploration along the northern Australian coast. It contains the second largest area of tidal flats in the Northern Territory.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Limmen Bight contains several small offshore islands, the largest of which is Maria Island; others are Edward, Sandy and Beatrice Islands, and Low Rock. It is bounded on the south-west by the Gulf Plains of the Northern Territory, on the north-west by the south-eastern coast of Arnhem Land, and in the north by Groote Eylandt. The mouth of the Roper River marks the westernmost point of the bight; other rivers flowing into the bight include the Rose, Towns and Limmen Bight Rivers. Land around the bight is predominantly Aboriginal freehold land held by the Arnhem Land and Marra Aboriginal Land Trusts, with some parts lying within the Nathan River and other pastoral leases. Port Roper, at the mouth of the Roper River, is a site for semi-permanent fishing camps.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The beaches of the Bight&#39;s islands are important for nesting terns and for marine turtles, for which the site is considered to be of national significance.</p><br>
<h3>Important Bird Area</h3><br>
<p>A 2234 km tract of land along the coast of the Limmen Bight has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports over 1% of the world populations of grey-tailed tattlers, great knots and white-headed stilts. The IBA includes the coastline from the Roper River to the Limmen Bight River, with the inland swamps south of and along the lower Roper River. The main habitats are intertidal mudflats, low samphire shrubland, scattered patches of dry rainforest, and channel-fringing mangroves.</p><br>
<p>Chestnut rails inhabit the mangroves of the IBA. Black-tailed godwits have been recorded in substantial numbers. A waterbird breeding colony near the Roper River mouth held about 2500 birds, including pied herons, egrets and cormorants. Seabird breeding aggregations at the site include the largest pied cormorant and little tern colonies in the Northern Territory. There are also colonies of up to 10,000 crested terns and 5000 roseate terns. Sandy Island and Low Rock form a separate IBA important for nesting terns.</p><br>
<p>The Hartington City Hall and Auditorium, also known as the Hartington Municipal Building, is a city-owned, brick-clad, 2-story center in Hartington, Nebraska. It was designed between 1921 and 1923 in the Prairie School style by noted architect William L. Steele .</p><br>
<p>Prairie School architecture is rare, and this rural Nebraska specimen is particularly unusual for being designed and built in the 1920s, subsequent to the Prairie Style’s rapid loss of popularity after 1914.</p><br>
<p>The building originally housed city offices, a fire house, an armory, and an auditorium. It is currently used for events, meetings, sports, recreation, and social functions.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land which would become Cedar County, Nebraska was held for thousands of years by various Native American tribes, most recently by the Omaha, with the Ponca somewhat to the west and the Yankton Dakota generally north of the Missouri River. On March 16, 1854, the Omaha were forced to surrender Cedar County and most of the rest of their territory, and were restricted to what by 1882 would become their reservation, now primarily within Thurston County, Nebraska.</p><br>
<p>For over 35 years, Hartington had no large indoor venue. In 1919, after a series of prosperous years resulting from high grain prices during and immediately after World War I, voters passed a bond issue of $25,000 for the purpose of erecting a new city hall with multiple uses, including an auditorium. When that amount proved insufficient, a second bond issue of $25,000 was approved in 1920.</p><br>
<p>Known to work in a number of styles, Steele had recently been concentrating on the Prairie School style of architecture originally developed by Frank Lloyd Wright and others inspired by Sullivan. Upon first arriving in the region, Steele had been unable to convince any of his clients to try his progressive designs. However, beginning with his Prairie-influenced Ben and Harriet Schulein House (Sioux City, 1913), he had begun tentatively moving in the Prairie School direction.</p><br>
<p>Steele drew up initial plans in 1921, then made revisions at the request of the city council. The council accepted the revised plans in January 1922, including space for the auditorium, city offices, fire house, and the National Guard armory that doubled as a gymnasium.</p><br>
<p>Guarantee Construction Company of Sioux City obtained the contract and began work in the spring of 1922, with the cornerstone laid on June 7. Henry Mahlsted served as Guarantee’s superintendent of construction, hiring local labor to do most of the work. The building was completed in January at a cost of $65,000, and the city council officially accepted the building on January 16, 1923. This was followed on January 30 by the official dedication ceremonies, featuring speeches, displays of local talent, and a free dance. On February 1, the Hartington Herald gushed that it had been a “most important event…attended by thousands of people…. The new building is one of the finest of its kind in the state... and will be a credit and an ornament to this community for many years to come.”</p><br>
<p>Over the decades, the auditorium has hosted dances, athletic competitions, theatrical, musical, and other events. County-wide eighth grade graduation ceremonies were held there until the late 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The building is still owned by the City of Hartington, and has recently been renovated. Over the years, many of the windows have been filled in with white stucco, and a new entrance door leading to the basement has been cut into the south facade. The upper auditorium level is currently used primarily for basketball, volleyball, and other recreational activities, while the lower armory level now consists of a meeting room with adjacent kitchen, available for rent through the city. The National Guard armory, city offices, and volunteer fire department have relocated. The new fire house is next door to the east on Centre Street.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Plan and principal facades</h3><br>
<p>As situated at the intersection of Broadway and Centre Streets, the two principal facades are the front (west) facing Broadway and the south facade facing across Centre to the brick Romanesque Revival Cedar County Courthouse. The front facade is two stories above the raised basement. However, Centre Street slopes downward as it moves east away from Broadway, so that the basement level is fully above grade at the back, presenting a three-story east facade.</p><br>
<h3>Prairie School design</h3><br>
<p>Prairie Style architecture was primarily originated by Frank Lloyd Wright, inspired by the ideas of Louis Sullivan, who served as mentor to Wright, Steele, and many other practitioners of the Prairie School. As developed by Wright, George Grant Elmslie, William Gray Purcell, Marion Mahony, Walter Burley Griffin, and others, the Prairie School of architecture rejected historical revival styles and was inspired by the flat terrain and horizon of the prairies of the Midwest. Prairie Style features crisp, rectilinear geometries with an emphasis on horizontal lines set off by occasional vertical counterpoints. Ornament should develop from the structure itself or express it rather than being added to it as an embellishment, and the architect should rely on construction materials honestly used as themselves, rather than imitating something else. A building’s internal structure should determine its exterior and be clearly expressed on the outside, in keeping with Sullivan’s famous motto of “form follows function”.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Hartington City Hall and Auditorium “is an outstanding representation of the Prairie Style in Nebraska”. It represents a rare civic Prairie School building, and its importance is heightened given that Steele was able to build such a progressive design at a time when conservative architecture was overwhelming the Prairie Style. After about 1914, interest in progressive architecture in general and the Prairie School in particular waned in the big Midwestern cities, such as Chicago and Minneapolis, that had earlier embraced it. By 1915, H. Allen Brooks states, Prairie School “architects were having difficulty obtaining commissions, despite the fact that the quality of their work remained steadfastly high, and the building industry continued active.”</p><br>
<p>The Hartington City Hall and Auditorium is a good example of Steele’s successful construction of Prairie Style buildings. It came at the midpoint of the 18 years during which he designed in that style, from his Ben and Harriet Schulein House (Sioux City, 1913) to his Williges Building (Sioux City, 1929–1930), “one of the last manifestations of the...Prairie Style in the United States.” Steele’s ability to persist in selling clients on the Prairie Style at these late dates, especially in rural Nebraska and neighboring South Dakota and Iowa, is remarkable.</p><br>
<p>Lewisburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 112 contributing buildings and are representative of the development and evolution of Lewisburg, over a period of more than two centuries . Notable buildings include log cabins dating to the period 1755-1769, "The Barracks," Mount Esperance , Williams-Henning Store/house , Welch-Bell House , John W. Dunn House , John Withrow&#39;s Store/ House , Greenbrier Valley Bank Building , and Carnegie Hall . Located in the district and separately listed are the Old Stone Church, Greenbrier County Courthouse and Lewis Spring, John Wesley Methodist Church, Gov. Samuel Price House, Mt. Tabor Baptist Church, Supreme Court Library Building, James Withrow House, and John A. North House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Nivolet Pass  is a mountain pass in the Eastern group of the Graian Alps in northern Italy. It is located at the top of the Orco Valley on the road from Turin to Ceresole Reale, in the Gran Paradiso National Park. Beyond the pass, the road terminates in the upper reaches of the eponymous Valsavarenche valley in the Gran Paradiso mountain group, before the valley descends to Valsavarenche and Villeneuve. The colle forms part of the boundary between the Aosta Valley and the Piemont region. The highest point of the paved road is 2,641 metres . Two artificial lakes, Serrù Lake and Agnel Lake, are located immediately below the pass.</p><br>
<p>The approach road from Agnel Lake was the location of several scenes in the film The Italian Job, including the iconic final bus crash.</p><br>
<p>Ronceverte Historic District is a national historic district located at Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 215 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and three contributing structures located in the commercial district and surrounding residential section. It includes residential and commercial buildings, along with several churches, a historic train depot and locomotive coaling tower, one historic bridge, and several historic brick-paved streets. The oldest building is "Edgarton," built about 1832 and heavily remodeled in the 1880s. Other notable buildings are the old Ronceverte City Hall, Episcopal Church of the Incarnation , Trinity Methodist Church , Grand Theater , and C & O Passenger Depot .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Erin–Warren Fractional District No. 2 Schoolhouse, also known as the Halfway Schoolhouse, is a school building located at 15500 Nine Mile Road in Eastpointe, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first school classes offered in the village of Halfway (now the city of Eastpointe) were held in 1838 in the home of German farmer Christian Gerlach. A log building was used as a classroom in the 1840s, and in 1850 a red frame schoolhouse was built, serving children in Erin and Warren townships. In 1872, the earlier school was replaced with this structure, built facing Grove Road at Nine Mile. A wing was added to the school in 1901, and it was used for school classes until 1921,</p><br>
<p>After the school was closed, it was sold to Kaiser Fuel and Supply, who moved it to the southeast corner of Nine Mile Road and Gratiot Avenue and used the structure as a warehouse, although it remained essentially unaltered. In 1984, the East Detroit Historical Society purchased the building, and moved it once more to within 60 feet of its original site. The historical society restored the building to its original appearance, and in 1987 added a small rear annex housing lavatories.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Halfway Schoolhouse is a one-story front-gabled structure with clapboard siding trimmed with cornerboards and surmounted with a frieze. The front facade is symmetrical, with a double-door entry with fanlight and an arched hoodmold, flanked by sash windows. A roundel containing the school name and date of construction is placed high above the door. A pyramid-roofed belfry with flag staff sits atop the cedar-shake roof. Each side of the structure has four windows identical to the front windows, and the rear has a small modern gabled annex.</p><br>
<p>On the inside, the walls are plastered and wainscoted, and the original hardwood floor is still in place. A cloakroom is located to the left of the entrance, and the original wood stove is located toward the rear of the building. The room is furnished with pupil&#39;s desks, kerosine reflector lamps, and a slate chalkboard.</p><br>
<p>The structure is an excellent example, essentially unaltered, of a vernacular one-room schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>Deitz Farm, also known as General Robert E. Lee Headquarters, is a national historic district located near Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The house was built about 1840, and is a two story side gabled red brick residence in the Greek Revival style. It features a three bay, one-story wooden porch across the front of the house. Also on the property are two contributing wooden outbuildings and earthworks associated with the property&#39;s role as General Robert E. Lee Headquarters during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The trench-like earthwork were built by the Confederates in 1861. On September 21, 1861 Confederate General Robert E. Lee arrived at Meadow Bluff and assumed command of the Confederate forces then operating in the area under General John B. Floyd. Lee and Floyd occupied the Deitz House as headquarters for two days, at which time he moved his camp to Big Sewell Mountain. Lee returned to the Deitz farm on October 21, remaining until October 29. During the War, the property was used as a camp for both Confederate and Union forces and the house used as a military hospital and command center. In addition, the property contains the burial site of a number of soldiers who died here during the War.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Hopkins Mountain Historic District is a national historic district located in the Monongahela National Forest near Alvon, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The district encompasses two contributing buildings, one contributing site, and two contributing structures. It includes the Mountain Tower Road , fire tower and the fireman&#39;s</p><br>
<p>residence. They were all constructed by the members of Camp Alvon of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1935. The house is a Bungalow style, gable roofed dwelling measuring 14 feet by 20 feet. Located nearby is a contemporary privy with board-and-batten siding and a gable roof, also built by the CCC. The property also includes the Civil War Trail. It was used by the Virginia 26th Battalion under the command of Lt. Colonel George M. Edgar for its retreat from the Battle of Droop Mountain on November 6 and 7, 1863. Also on the property is a logging tramway in use from about 1908 to the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Martholme is a grade I listed medieval manor house standing on the banks of the River Calder 1+1/4 mi from Great Harwood, Lancashire, England and 5 mi north-east of Blackburn.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 13th century, the house belonged to the de Fitton family. It was passed through marriage to the Hesketh family. Parts of the current building date from Medieval times. Additions and alterations took place in 1561, when the gatehouse was rebuilt and 1607.</p><br>
<p>The house was rebuilt in 1577 by Thomas Hesketh (d. 1588), High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1563.</p><br>
<p>After the Civil War the Hesketh family, as Catholics, were heavily fined, losing much of their land at Great Harwood. As a result Martholme was neglected. It is now a private residence but much of the house has been demolished. It has been designated a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Martholme is constructed, to a T-shaped floor plan, of sandstone rubble, now rendered, with a slate roof.It was originally surrounded by a moat, of which there are still traces.</p><br>
<p>The 16th-century gatehouse is about 75 ft south of the house. It too is built of sandstone, with slate roofs. It is rectangular and measures approximately 43 ft by 20 ft. The entrance is a round stone archway. The building has three bays and is on two storeys.</p><br>
<p>English Heritage designated the house a Grade I listed building on 11 July 1966. The Grade I designation—the highest of the three grades—is for buildings "of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important". The gatehouse has received a separate Grade II* designation.</p><br>
<p>North River Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at North River Mills, Hampshire County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 25 contributing buildings and five contributing sites. The district lies along Hiett Run, which</p><br>
<p>empties into the North River, a tributary of the Cacapon River. It has become an industrial ghost town, now visited only by summer residents and tourists. The contributing buildings include the Hiett House (c. 1770) with shed and privy; Croston House (c. 1840) and barn (c. 1910); North River Mills Grocery (c. 1810, c. 1920); Shanholtz House (c. 1930), also known as North River Mills Society for Antiquarian Arts and the Diffusion of Knowledge; North River Mills School (c. 1880); Miller House (c. 1790) and associated outbuildings; United Methodist Church (c. 1893); Kump House (c. 1805); and the Moreland House (c. 1880). Contributing sites are the cemetery associated with the Kump House, Miller Mill Site (c. 1880), Shanholtz Mill Site (c. 1930), mill pond (c. 1880), and millrace (c. 1880).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>"The Willows", also known as Randolph House, is a historic home located near Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was built in three sections in a telescoping style. It consists of One small log house, a middle section of frame, and a brick mansion all connected end-to-end. The oldest section is the 1 1/2 story log structure built before 1773. The main section is a two story, brick Greek Revival style mansion house. It features a square columned entrance porch. During the American Civil War, McNeills Rangers used the farm for care of some of their horses. In the last year of the War, McNeills Rangers commander Major Harry Gilmore used "The Willows" as his command.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>"Willow Wall", also known as McNeill Family House, is a historic home located near Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was built in 1811-1812, and is a two story, "U"-shaped brick dwelling in the Georgian-Tidewater style. It has double Georgian porch, outlined by Ionic order columns. The two wings have double Palladian windows on the front gable ends. The interior features the French hand-printed wallpaper "The Passing of the Chase." The property was first settled in between 1760 and 1770 by Daniel McNeill. During the American Civil War the McNeill properties were centers of activity for McNeill&#39;s Rangers and the Willow Wall residence was used as a hospital for wounded men.</p><br>
<p>Willow Wall was strong architectural and historical connections to four nearby Van Meter family dwellings: Buena Vista Farms, Traveler&#39;s Rest, Fort Pleasant, and the Garrett VanMeter House.</p><br>
<p>Willow Wall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Garrett VanMeter House  is an historic home near Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA.</p><br>
<p>The house is a two-story brick I house dwelling with a two-story rear "ell". It has Greek Revival stylistic elements. Attached to the ell is a one-story summer kitchen. It has a side gable roof and sits on a stone foundation. It features a centered entrance portico.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1830 to 1835 by Colonel Garrett VanMeter (1732-1788) who had inherited Fort Pleasant as part of the estate of his father, Isaac VanMeter (1691-1757), the first white settler (1744) in the area. The Colonel (he had commanded a regiment in the Revolutionary War) was one of the wealthiest farmers in the region. He owned several hundred head of cattle and about 30 slaves. (No land records, or other corroborating documents, are available to confirm the dates of construction, which are estimates.)</p><br>
<p>The Garrett VanMeter House is one of four significant VanMeter family dwellings; the others are Traveler&#39;s Rest, Fort Pleasant, and Buena Vista Farms.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Meesapulimala  is the second highest peak in the Western Ghats of Idukki district  on the Indian subcontinent after Anamudi. Its peak is 2,640 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>The name derives from the fact that it is formed of eight peaks which spread like a "moustache" and it is located in the Anaimalai Hills near Suryanelli(in Devikulam taluk) around 20km away from Munnar. Kolukkumalai tea estate and Tipadamala (2135m) is also nearby.</p><br>
<p>Treks to the peak via Rhodo Valley (favourable for rhodendron flowers) can be organized through the Kerala Forest Development Corporation in Munnar. It is the first and the best favourable trekking place in Kerala and South India. Sun set, misty hills and valley around these peak results a spectacular view.</p><br>
<p>The path from Kolukkumalai to Meesapulimala is highly restricted.</p><br>
<h2>Citations</h2><br>
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<p>Old Hardy County Courthouse, also known as "First" Hardy County Courthouse, is a historic courthouse building located at Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was built in two sections, the first built in 1792-93 and the extension added about 1833. It is an "L"-shaped brick building painted white. The original section measures approximately 25 by and the 1833 extension 50 by. The original section has Federal style detailing and features a cupola atop the gable roof. The building was remodeled in 1972. It served as the courthouse and clerks office until the 1860s. It was subsequently occupied by a girls day and boarding school and offices.</p><br>
<p>Following a remodel by architect Marjorie Pierce in 1972, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Moorefield Historic District is a national historic district located at Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 171 contributing buildings. It consists of a mix of commercial, residential and civic structures, ranging in age from</p><br>
<p>the mid 18th century to the early 20th century. Predominate residential styles are Greek Revival and Queen Anne. The commercia1 buildings are</p><br>
<p>Italianate style. Notable buildings include the Hardy County Court House (1914), City</p><br>
<p>Hall, and Emmanuel Episcopal Church (1879). Located in the district are the separately listed Old Stone Tavern, Thomas Maslin House, and Old Hardy County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
