<p>The Dacian fortress of Covasna County served as a Dacian fortified town and is rated to have been built in the 1st century BC. It sits on a mountain in the Orastie Mountains above the town of Covasna, which is 227 km from the capital of Bucharest. The fortress is also known by the name of the Fairies Fortress, sitting atop of the Valley of Fairies.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The fortress consisted of a number of terraced fortifications sitting at an altitude of about 900 m above sea level with a command of the areas around south-east Transylvania, south Moldavia and east Wallachia. In all the fortress covered an area of 10,000 m. A number of defensive buildings were built as well as religious sites and the terraces had the effect of blocking and hampering advancing armies as they were bolstered by 1.5 m to 2 m high and 2m to 2.5 m thick solid sandstone slab walls.</p><br>
<p>The first terrace was 3,000 m while the second was 3,700 m and the third 150 m. Each was fortified by walls. Excavations lead to the possibility of other terraces further down.</p><br>
<p>The main acropolis was situated at the base of the plateau was a 700 m circular solid stone building.</p><br>
<h2>Conquering</h2><br>
<p>The fortress is assumed to have been a Dacian haven for over two centuries until the Roman-Draco wars of the 2nd Century AD.</p><br>
<h2>Excavation</h2><br>
<p>Three major excavation works have happened here through the last century:</p><br>
<p>Al. Ferenczi (1942 - 1943)</p><br>
<p>C. Daicoviciu (1949)</p><br>
<p>V. Sârbu and V. Crisan, 1998</p><br>
<p>The United States Public Health Service Building, also known as the Department of the Interior - South Building, is a historic government office building, the headquarters of the Office of Surface Mining. It is located at 1951 Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., adjacent to the Eccles Building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site was home to a YWCA.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Jules Henri de Sibour, for the Public Health Service in 1931. It was renamed to the Combined Chiefs of Staff Building on January 30, 1942. It was the site of the planning for the Manhattan Project; the Atomic Energy Commission occupied the site from its creation in 1947 until its relocation to Germantown, Maryland in 1958. The Bureau of Indian Affairs began using the building in April 1965, and Office of Surface Mining joined them in 1977. The building has since been used by several offices and bureaus of the Department of the Interior which is headquartered next door.</p><br>
<p>On November 3, 1972, a group of around 500 American Indians with the AIM took over the building, the culmination of their Trail of Broken Treaties walk. They intended to bring attention to American Indian issues, including their demands for renewed negotiation of treaties, enforcement of treaty rights and improvement in living standards. They occupied the Department of the Interior headquarters from November 3 to November 9, 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural Description</h2><br>
<p>The structure is a three story E-shaped building featuring a raised basement, shallow projecting corner pavillions, and a gabled tile roof. The structural system is composed of a concealed steel frame and concrete floors. At the east, south, and west elevations the building is surrounded by raised terrace separated from the exterior walls by an areaway. The principal exterior building materials consist of marble on the east, south, and west facades; limestone within the two courtyards; and stucco on the north facades of the east and west wings.</p><br>
<p>The primary facade is faced in white Georgia marble and features a thirteen bay, engaged double-height colonnade of fluted Doric pilasters flanked by shallow projecting corner pavillions. A large entabulature composed of a plain frieze and enriched ornamental cavetto cornice surmounts these pilasters. A single-height entrance pavilion composed of three pedimented formal entryways is centered on the facade.</p><br>
<p>Notable interior spaces include an elaborate marble entrance lobby, marble stair and elevator lobbies, and an ornamental auditorium space, all of which feature decorative painted finishes on ornamental plaster and compo features. An elaborate wood panelled primary executive office suite is located on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>School Number 6 is an historic building located in Davenport, Iowa, United States. The building was completed in 1903. It was later renamed Jackson School and served the public school district into the 1940s. From 1943 to 1964 the building served as a parochial school for Holy Family Catholic Church. Since then it has been an office building. In 2010 the building was purchased by Renaissance Realty Group of Chicago to renovate into housing for senior citizens. It has been divided into 48 apartments and is called The Jackson Renaissance. They previously renovated the historic Taylor School in Davenport. The former Jackson School building was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties and on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Concatedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús or in English, Co-Cathedral of the Sweet Name of Jesus, is a Catholic cathedral located on the town plaza in Humacao, Puerto Rico. Along with the Catedral Santiago Apóstol in Fajardo it is the seat of the Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first church for the parish of Dulce Nombre de Jesús was a simple structure built in 1769. A second church was built from 1825-1826. It was in a ruinous state by 1860 and the present church was built between 1868-1877. It was designed by Don Evaristo de Churruca in the Gothic Revival style. The bell tower collapsed as the result of an earthquake in 1918. The church was repaired in 1928 and another renovation took place in the 1980s. Dulce Nombre de Jesύs became a cathedral church when Pope Benedict XVI established the Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao on March 11, 2008. The church was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1984, using the name style Church Dulce Nombre de Jesús of Humacao.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The cathedral is on the east side of the town plaza. A low concrete wall with metal grillwork surrounds the church building. The wall is modulated by pillars that hold cast iron lamps. The building is cruciform in shape with a nave, transept and two side aisles. It is one of the few churches in Puerto Rico with a transept. The main façade is dominated by a four-level square bell tower topped with a spire. It is flanked by two smaller round towers that house a spiral staircase and the weights for the clock. All the windows and doorways are framed with moldings. Small buttresses flank pointed arch windows on the sides of the building. The two-level transept is crowned with a gabled roof. Each side has two pointed-arch windows on the first level and round window in the second.</p><br>
<p>On the interior horizontal moldings have been eliminated to give the illusion of a taller structure. Pillars separate the nave from the side aisles and they are assembled into five bays on each side. The main nave is covered by a pointed vault and the side naves are covered by groin vaults. Four pairs of small pointed arch windows are above the side aisles. There is a dome over the crossing, but it is covered by acoustic tiles and cannot be seen. The apse is covered by a groined half-dome and contains stained glass windows. The floor is covered with colored native cement tiles and a new choir loft is in the rear of the church.</p><br>
<p>Wheat Row is a row of four Late Georgian style townhouses located at 1315, 1317, 1319, and 1321 4th Street SW in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Begun in 1794 and completed in 1795, the structures are some of the oldest residential homes in the District of Columbia. They served several uses in the early and mid 20th century, but were integrated into the Harbour Square apartment cooperative in 1963. Wheat Row was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>The Residence Act of 1790, which established the site for the capital of the United States, provided for the appointment of three commissioners by the President (and without the need for Senate confirmation) to govern the District of Columbia, survey its land, purchase property from private landowners, and construct federal buildings. James Greenleaf was a land speculator who arrived in the city on September 17, 1793. On either September 23, 1793, or December 24, 1793, Greenleaf purchased from the D.C. commissioners the land on which Wheat Row would be built. By the start of 1794, Greenleaf owned half the federal government&#39;s salable land in the District of Columbia.</p><br>
<p>Greenleaf began construction on the four townhouses which became Wheat Row in 1794. The builder was James Clark. Sources differ on the architect. Historian Bob Arnebeck argues it was Clark, but most sources attribute Wheat Row to the important local architect William Lovering.</p><br>
<p>Wheat Row was the first example in the District of Columbia of the terraced house (also known as the row house or townhouse). According to the National Capital Planning Commission, they are probably the first houses built after the District of Columbia was chosen as the seat of the federal government. The Thomas Law House and Duncanson-Cranch House, both nearby, were erected at about the same time by Greenleaf and his partners.</p><br>
<p>Wheat Row was not initially a successful development. The townhouses were considered small by the standards of the day, of an out-of-date architectural style, poorly constructed, and built with inferior materials. Greenleaf refused to pay for them, and Clark suffered a mental breakdown as a result of the business setbacks caused by Greenleaf&#39;s actions. Wheat Row remained incomplete at the end of 1794, and was not finished until the following year.</p><br>
<h3>Occupants and uses</h3><br>
<p>The earliest occupant of Wheat Row was William Prentiss, a surveyor who helped lay out housing plats in the District of Columbia in the 1790s. He married Marie Josephine Wilhelmina Matilda Greenleaf, daughter of James Greenleaf, and they took up residence on Wheat Row in 1796.</p><br>
<p>The Wheat Row name is derived from that of John Wheat, a prominent local designer of gardens and a messenger employed by the United States Congress. According to the earliest extant records, Wheat owned 1315 4th Street as early as 1819. 1317 4th Street was owned by Robert P. Washington, and 1319 4th Street by Richmond Johnson. 1321 4th Street was jointly owned by Thomas L. Washington and Philip Stuart. Stuart bought out Washington&#39;s interest by 1824, and purchased a share of 1319 4th Street from Johnson. By the time Wheat died in 1844, he had purchased 1319 and 1321 4th Street from Johnson and Stuart. He left all three row houses to his wife, Mary. Members of the Wheat family continued to own these houses until at least 1868.</p><br>
<p>The four row houses of Wheat Row were used for residences until 1939. John Neligh, the director of industrial crafts at Barney Neighborhood House, owned 1315 4th Street. Barney Neighborhood House served as a home for poor women and worked to improve cultural awareness among the working class. Established in 1904, Barney Neighborhood House occupied the Duncanson-Cranch House. When Neligh died in 1939, he left his home to the Barney Neighborhood House, which renovated it and used it as a neighborhood art gallery known as Rhoads House. That same year, 1317 4th Street was purchased by the National Craft Training Center, a newly established organization which taught handicrafts to poor and working class girls. By May 22, 1941, 1315 4th Street housed the Rhoads Service Men&#39;s Club, a service organization which provided free and reduced-cost entertainment to members of the United States military. In late 1941, Mary Adams purchased 1319 4th Street, renovated it, and donated it to the Barney Neighborhood House in memory of her mother. The organization used it as a day care facility, serving 30 children (double the capacity available in its old location). By 1950, Barney Neighborhood House had come into possession of 1317 4th Street.</p><br>
<p>1321 4th Street, however, remained in use as a residence, although by 1950 it had been subdivided internally into apartments.</p><br>
<h3>Harbour Square</h3><br>
<p>In the 1950s, Wheat Row was saved from demolition and incorporated into the Harbour Square development. Washington, D.C., had undergone rapid population growth during World War II. In 1946, the United States Congress passed the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act, which established the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency (RLA) and provided legal authority to clear land and funds to spur redevelopment in the capital. Congress also gave the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) the authority to designate which land would be redeveloped, and how. The RLA was not funded, however, until passage of the Housing Act of 1949. A 1950 study by the NCPC found that the small Southwest quarter of the city suffered from high concentrations of old and poorly maintained buildings, overcrowding, and threats to public health (such as lack of running indoor water, sewage systems, electricity, central heating, and indoor toilets). Competing visions for the redevelopment ranged from renovation to wholesale leveling of neighborhoods, but the latter view prevailed as more likely to qualify for federal funding. Demolition faced almost all structures in Southwest Washington.</p><br>
<p>However, in December 1954, the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. successfully pressured the RLA into giving consideration to saving Wheat Row and the Duncanson-Cranch House. Then in September 1958, O. Roy Chalk, president of DC Transit, proposed integrating the Edward Simon Lewis House, Wheat Row, and the Duncanson-Cranch House into the new developments then on the drawing board. By January 1959, the RLA was actively pushing for all three properties, plus the Thomas Law House, to be saved and integrated into the new construction, even as housing and other buildings around them were being demolished. The RLA subsequently awarded development of the area around Wheat Row to Shannon and Luchs, a local real estate development firm. On June 3, 1960, Shannon and Luchs announced it would build a $12 million, 447-unit cooperative apartment complex known as Harbour Square on the Wheat Row site. Wheat Row, the Duncanson-Cranch House, and the Lewis House would be incorporated into the new development. Construction on the project, designed by the architectural firm of Satterlee & Smith and now including financial partner John McShain, began in February 1963. Wheat Row was integrated into Harbour Square as four of the 17 townhouses offered for sale by the cooperative. Harbour Square was completed in 1964.</p><br>
<p>Wheat Row remains part of Harbour Square as of 2014.</p><br>
<h2>About Wheat Row</h2><br>
<p>The four row houses of Wheat Row were designed in the Late Georgian architectural style. Architectural historian Daniel Reiff has argued that the design is based on that of Hollis Hall, a dormitory at Harvard university constructed from 1762 to 1763. Reiff has noted that Wheat Row is a prime example of the vernacular domestic architecture constructed in the District of Columbia during the city&#39;s first three decades.</p><br>
<p>Each of the four row houses that make up Wheat Row has a foundation made of stone, and a basement with stone walls. The exterior walls are all brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The north wall is different in that it is laid in an English bond pattern. It is believed that this is the only example of English bond brickwork in a building constructed in the city&#39;s first decades. The building containing the four row houses is 102.5 ft long and 34 ft wide. The longer facades each have 12 bays, with each house having three bays. The middle two houses are slightly narrower than the end houses. The entrance is found on the long east facade. The four middle bays on this facade project slightly. The south facade originally had three bays, while the north facade had none. Today, Harbour Square townhouses abut both the north and south facades, and prevent any openings in either wall. Belt courses consisting of four headers separate the first and second and the second and third floors on the east, west, and south facades. The belt course on the south facade is no longer visible due to the adjoining 1964 townhouse.</p><br>
<p>The window sills and decorative window lintels in the facades are both of stone, with the lintel having bevels etched into them to mimic voussoirs and keystones. A trench, surrounded by a black wrought iron fence and not visible from the street, permits light to enter the basement windows. The basement window sills are wood and the lintels brick. The first and second story windows are 9/9, while the smaller third story windows are 6/3. The basement windows are all 6/6.</p><br>
<p>Wheat Row is topped by a low hip roof, sheathed in copper. Double chimneys rise where the row houses meet. A triangular pediment rises above the projecting central section of the structure, pierced by an oval window. (This window&#39;s stone facing is not historic, and was created in 1964.) A bas-relief fretwork wooden cornice runs most of the way around the building, except where a stone band separates the pediment from the third floor.</p><br>
<p>Originally, the wood trim and stone band of Wheat Row were all white, which contrasted with the red brick of the building. During the 1962-1963 construction of Harbour Square, they were painted light grey to match the trim of the rest of the development.</p><br>
<p>Four doorways in the east facade provide access to the row houses. Two occupy the corner bays, while two occupy the center-most bays. Each door has a semi-circular fanlight and a brick arch over the door. At some point before the 1962-1963 construction of Harbour Square, the brick arch over the door to 1317 4th Street was replaced with a brick jack arch. This jack arch was removed and the facade restored to its uniform appearance. Modern lighting fixtures illuminate each door.</p><br>
<p>The interior plan of each of Wheat Row&#39;s townhouses is Federal in style. There are two rooms on each floor, and side halls with stairways. The internal space does not reflect the symmetrical facade. The interior walls of Wheat Row, which are wood frame, have been modified many times over the years to accommodate modern appliances and conveniences (such as bathrooms).</p><br>
<p>Lake Ozonia is a lake located by Lake Ozonia, New York, St. Lawrence county in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. The outlet of the lake is Lake Ozonia Outlet which flows into the St. Regis River.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>The lake is a popular fishing spot partly because it is close to the St. Regis River which is stocked with over 10,000 trout each year. The lake itself harbors different species of fish including splake, atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, brown trout, american eel, lake trout, landlocked salmon, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, and brown bullhead. It can be fished year-round and there is a NYSDEC carry-down boat launch located on Lake Ozonia Road. The lake may only be accessed by a non-motorized boat or a motorized boat with a 10 horsepower or less motor.</p><br>
<h2>Links</h2><br>
<p>https://www.facebook.com/LakeOzoniaWaterfront</p><br>
<p>St. James Basilica is a parish church in the Diocese of Fargo as well as a minor basilica located in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States. A previous church building, completed in 1882, served briefly as a cathedral in the 19th century. The present church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as St. James Catholic Church, and it was elevated to a minor basilica in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Catholics settled in the Jamestown area as early as 1872, and the first Mass was celebrated in the town on January 10, 1879. As the congregation had no building to call its own for three years, they met in hotels, school buildings, and meeting halls. They also did not have a pastor so they were served by visiting clergy. Father Flannigan became the parish&#39;s first pastor in 1882. He raised $6,000 to build a frame church that measured 86 by, and a small rectory next door. They were completed in June 1882. Anton Klaus, a prominent Jamestown citizen, donated the block on which the buildings were built. It was dedicated by Bishop Martin Marty, OSB on May 13, 1883.</p><br>
<p>On November 10, 1889 Pope Leo XIII established the Diocese of Jamestown, and St. James became the cathedral church for the new diocese. Bishop John Shanley was installed as bishop. He established St. John&#39;s Academy, added a sacristy to the cathedral, renovated the rectory, and convened the first Catholic Congress of the Dakotas in 1891. The later was an annual meeting to aid the Native Americans in North Dakota. Shanley found running the diocese from Jamestown difficult and moved to Fargo in 1891. He had the Cathedral of St. Mary built there and the See City was transferred to Fargo on April 6, 1897.</p><br>
<p>By the early 20th century it became obvious that a new church was needed. Under the direction of the Rev. Edward J. Geraghty and Michael Murphy, a local banker and contractor who led the building committee, the Hancock Brothers of Fargo designed a new church in the Gothic Revival style. Jeff Shelde from Litchfield, Minnesota was chosen as the contractor. The groundbreaking took place in 1910 and it took four years to build the church. Bishop James O&#39;Reilly consecrated it on November 29, 1914.</p><br>
<p>A major building program took place from 1956 to 1958. A new and larger rectory was designed by the Minneapolis architectural firm of Hills, Gilbertson and Hayes. The basement of the church was transformed into a parish hall and the interior of the worship space was updated. The renovation included a new paint scheme and simplified altar furnishings.</p><br>
<p>On October 26, 1988 Pope John Paul II elevated St. James Church to the rank of a minor basilica. Bishop James S. Sullivan presided at the dedication liturgy on July 23, 1989. The Apostolic Brief, which raised St. James to the basilica status, is located near the southwest entrance into the church building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The basilica is a cross-shaped structure that measures 140 by and 70 ft at the transept. The building itself is 42 ft high and the twin towers that flank the main facade are 125 ft. The spires on the towers are capped with 23 carat gold-leaf crosses. The foundation is rock faced, trimmed granite. The exterior walls are covered in Hebron brick and they are trimmed in Bedford stone. The seating capacity of the church is 650 with another 100 able to fit in the choir loft. The stained glass windows that depict scenes from the life of Christ were installed by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in 1918.</p><br>
<p>Number of temples: 1</p><br>
<p>Responsible body: Private</p><br>
<p>Frogmore Mound Site (16 CO 9) is an archaeological site of the Late Coles Creek culture in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. It was added to the NRHP on July 28, 2004 as NRIS number 04000740.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site consists of a platform mound and associated village area with middens covering an area roughly 400 ft by 200 ft. The site originally had a walled ceremonial structure 20 ft to 30 ft in diameter. This structure was burned and subsequently covered with dirt. A mound, constructed in two stages very near each other chronologically, was built over top of the structure. The rectangular mound now measures 14 ft in height, with the base being 160 ft by 190 ft, and the summit 60 ft by 70 ft. Excavations at the site have produced charcoal from beneath the mound which dates to 1020–1260 CE, and pottery recovered from the midden places the occupation of the site to the Late Coles Creek period.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The site is located 7.4 mi west of Ferriday on US 84 just 0.4 mi past its junction with La 566.</p><br>
<p>Mangum Mound Site  is an archaeological site of the Plaquemine culture in Claiborne County, Mississippi. It is located at milepost 45.7 on the Natchez Trace Parkway. Two very rare Mississippian culture repoussé copper plates have been discovered during excavations of the site. The site was used as a burial mound during the Foster Phase of the culture  and is believed to have been abandoned before the 1540 expedition of Hernando de Soto.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The burial mound was first investigated in 1936 by its owner Spurgeon C. Mangum, a farmer. Mangum found human remains, various pottery fragments belonging to the Plaquemine culture, chunkey stones, and three fragments of a repoussé copper plate with an avian design similar to other plates found throughout the American Midwest and Southeast. These portray the Birdman motif important to the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC). The site underwent a series of test excavations in April 1951 as part of the Natchez Trace Park Survey.</p><br>
<p>The site was excavated in 1963 for the National Park Service by archaeologist Charles F. Bohannon. Bohannon and his team found the burials of numerous individuals. One individual, believed to have been a woman in her late 30s, possessed markings on her bones which suggested to investigators that she suffered from multiple myeloma. Bohannon excavated the remains of eighty-four individuals, of which more than half were bundled burials. Some of the bundles seemed little more than disarticulated piles of bones, and Bohannon came to believe they were earlier burials that had been moved to make way for new extended burials. Another copper plate was also found during these excavations.</p><br>
<p>The Totenberg, at, is the highest hill in the Bramwald, a forested hill range in the Weser Uplands in South Lower Saxony.</p><br>
<p>The hill is surrounded by the Totenberg nature reserve with an area of about 437 hectares, of which 342 ha is managed as "near-natural forest". The rest is designated as Naturwald (95 ha) where logging is prohibited. Signs indicate that it may not be entered.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h3>Location</h3><br>
<p>The Totenberg is located in the western part of the district of Göttingen in the northern half of the Bramwald and the Münden Nature Park. The River Nieme flows around the lower part of its northern slopes and discharges into the Upper Weser somewhat further west near Bursfelde. Southwest of the hill is Hemeln, to the southeast is the municipality of Niemetal.</p><br>
<h3>Topography and geology</h3><br>
<p>Between 195 and 408 metres the Totenberg lies on typical Bunter Sandstone beds mixed in with loess.</p><br>
<p>The Norris Almshouses were erected in 1893 in Sherwood, Nottinghamshire.</p><br>
<p>They comprise a row of eight one-bedroom houses for Ladies, designed by the architect Fothergill Watson and paid for by Mary Smith Norris (1827-1909) in 1893 in memory of her brother John Norris.</p><br>
<p>The charity objectives were to provide a residence available for poor widows or spinsters or married couples of not less than 60 years of age resident in the City of Nottingham or within a distance of 6 miles therefrom. Preferences shall be given to persons so qualified who are members of the Church of England or some orthodox Protestant dissenting denomination.</p><br>
<p>A restoration in 1991Cleaning Historic Buildings: Cleaning materials and processes.</p><br>
<p>Nicola Ashurst. 1994 included the manufacture of hand-cut bricks, a terracota dragon for the roof ridge and a specially commissioned weather cock and sundial.</p><br>
<p>The almshouses are now managed by Nottingham Community Housing Association and the Norris Homes Charity (236206) which formerly managed the properties was wound up in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Edinburg Mill is a grist mill in Edinburg, Virginia. The three story wood framed building stands on Stony Creek, set on a limestone basement. A working mill until 1978, the original structure was built in 1848 by the Grandstaff family. It replaced an 1813 complex developed by Grandstaff that included a sawmill, grist mill and a carding operation. The present mill was almost burned during the American Civil War, when forces under Union general Philip Sheridan set fire to the mill as part of their scorched-earth campaign. Local women convinced the soldiers to salvage the mill&#39;s flour, and the fire was extinguished, saving the mill.</p><br>
<p>The mill is three stories tall with a prominent gable formed by the deep roof structure. Shed-roofed extensions are found to either side of the gable, with a lean-to office addition at the front gable end. Although built in the 19th century, the mill uses some 18th-century techniques, such as shoulder posts.</p><br>
<p>Edinburg Mill is owned by the town of Edinburg in partnership with a preservation group. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 7, 1979. It is included in the Edinburg Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Washington Canoe Club is a boat club on the Potomac River.</p><br>
<p>It is located at 3700 K Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Georgetown neighborhood. It was established in 1904.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Washington Canoe Club was originally built on pilings in the Potomac River.</p><br>
<p>During the 1960s, the Army Corps of Engineers demolished the piers of the Potomac Aqueduct Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The bank under the Canoe Club became stagnant and was subsequently filled with concrete.</p><br>
<p>Shortly thereafter the area north of the Canoe Club was paved.</p><br>
<p>The club leased the land from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and now the National Park Service.</p><br>
<p>The club has produced national champions, and Olympic medalists.</p><br>
<h2>Olympic medalists</h2><br>
<p>Frank Havens 1948 Silver medal; 1952 Gold medal</p><br>
<p>Francine Fox; Glorianne Perrier 1964 Silver medal</p><br>
<p>Norman Bellingham 1988 Gold medal</p><br>
<p>The Bröhn , is the highest hill in the Deister range in the German state of Lower Saxony. It owes its name to the broom growing here . The highest point of the hill is close to the, an observation tower on the territory of the town of Springe close to the boundary of the municipality of Wennigsen.</p><br>
<h2>Height</h2><br>
<p>At 405.0 metres above sea level (NN), the Bröhn is:</p><br>
<p>the highest hill in the Deister,</p><br>
<p>the highest hill on the extreme northern rim of the German Central Uplands,</p><br>
<p>because all hills in Germany with a higher latitude are lower than the Bröhn.</p><br>
<h2>Observation tower</h2><br>
<p>On the summit of the Bröhn stands the Anna Tower (Annaturm), a 28 metre high microwave tower made of reinforced concrete, the 5th successor to the original survey tower that was built on this spot at the instigation of Professor Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1834. From this observation tower there is a panoramic view in good weather over the Calenberg Land as far as Hildesheim and Hanover, to Lake Steinhude and also over the northern Weser Uplands.</p><br>
<p>Next to the Anna Tower is the woodland inn of the same name, the building in the foreground of the picture. The Anna Tower is about 3 kilometres from the car park on the Nienstedt Pass. It is also about 3 kilometres from Springe (car park towards Köllnischfeld). The Anna Tower is open daily except Mondays (10.00 – 17.00).</p><br>
<p>Not far from the Bröhn, on the Höfeler (395 m), is a tower belonging to German Air Traffic Control with a radar site. Each of these six sites across the country has a capture radius of about 145 nautical miles, or about 270 km. In the vicinity on the crest of the Deister are other flight safety installations.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s there was an air traffic control centre of the Federal Agency for Air Safety. At 11 am on a September day in 1958 an F-84 Thunderjet fighter of the Danish Air Force crashed about 300 metres east of the control centre. The aeroplane grazed several treetops over a distance of some 500 metres before exploding. Its 24-year-old pilot, Jörgensen, died in the crash. He had taken off with his squadron from Copenhagen and his destination was the Upjever air base near Schortens. In fog, he lost his bearings and sent his last position report at a height of 250 m over Stadthagen.</p><br>
<p>The Albert Ball Memorial Homes were erected in 1922 in Lenton, Nottingham.</p><br>
<p>Alderman Albert Ball commissioned the building of the Albert Ball Memorial Homes in Lenton to house the families of local servicemen killed in action, in memory of his son, Albert Ball, a fighter pilot who had been killed in World War I.</p><br>
<p>Opened on 7 September 1922, the homes featured some unusual design elements. The building, containing eight residences, was built to evoke an aircraft, with the homes the wings, and the central porch reminiscent of a cockpit. The two centre homes had curving doors, windows, and walls that also fit the theme. Windows on the row are suggestive of propellers. They were also built with ease of use for the elderly in mind. The Albert Ball Memorial Homes were Grade-II listed in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>War memorial</h2><br>
<p>The Lenton War Memorial, located in front of the homes, includes Ball&#39;s name and was also paid for by the Ball family.</p><br>
<p>The William Woodsend Memorial Homes were erected in 1912&ndash;13 on Derby Road in Lenton, Nottingham.</p><br>
<p>They were built as six almshouses in memory of local builder William Woodsend by his sons, Jack and Arthur. These almshouses have several conditions of tenancy including preference to be given to persons who, through no fault of their own, have become reduced in circumstances. Or, to women previously employed as governesses, nurses or school mistresses who have not been able to make provision for their old age.</p><br>
<p>The William Woodsend Memorial Homes charity looked after the property and its residents from 1913 until 2007.</p><br>
<p>When the charity managing the homes ran out of money in 2007, the homes were taken over by the Nottingham Community Housing Association.</p><br>
<p>Westend is a temple-fronted house near Trevilians, Virginia. Built in 1849, the house&#39;s design refers to the Classical Revival style, representing an extension of the Jeffersonian ideal of classical architecture. The house was built for Mrs. Susan Dabney Morris Watson on a property that she had inherited from her late husband. The building project was supervised by Colonel James Magruder. The house was the centerpiece of a substantial plantation, and a number of dependencies, including slave dwellings, survive. Westend remains in the ownership of the descendants of Mrs. Watson.</p><br>
<p>The two-story house is built of brick, and features a tetrastyle Tuscan portico on its principal facade. The main three-bay section is flanked by three-bay, one-story wings and surmounted by a hipped roof with prominent interior chimneys The fronts of these wings were originally orangeries. The rear facade features a one-story Tuscan porch. The house is painted in a light color to resemble stucco. The interior is arranged around a central hall that is subdivided into an entrance hall and a stair hall to the rear, with two rooms to either side.</p><br>
<p>Westend was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Port an Eilean Mhòir ship burial is a Viking boat burial site in Ardnamurchan, Scotland, the most westerly point on the island of Great Britain. Dated to the 10th century, the burial consists of a Viking boat about 5 m long by 1.5 m wide in which a man was laid to rest with his shield, sword and spear as well as other grave goods.</p><br>
<p>In 1924 nails, rivets and other finds were discovered by T.C. Lethbridge at Cul na Croise (Gorten Bay) in Ardnamurchan, which were characterised at the time as having come from a ship burial; the exact location of this site is lost and so the nature of the finds cannot be determined with certainty. A similar case was the mainland burial site at Huna, in Caithness, discovered in 1935, although this was better documented and is accepted as a ship burial. Nine other Viking ship burials, or possible burials, have been found on Scottish islands, including six in the Hebrides and another three in the Northern Isles.</p><br>
<p>The discovery was announced by archaeologists from the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, directed by the Universities of Manchester and Leicester, CFA Archaeology and Archaeology Scotland on 18 October 2011. Students and academics have for several years investigated archaeological sites on the Ardnamurchan peninsula and have previously made a number of discoveries, including an Iron Age fort and a Neolithic chambered cairn. The project aims to examine social change on the peninsula from 6,000 years ago to the 18th- and 19th-century Highland Clearances. Its work has been supported by the Ardnamurchan Estate, which owns a large part of the peninsula.</p><br>
<p>The site is located on the north coast of Ardnamurchan at Port an Eilean Mhòir between Achateny and Ockle. The archaeologists had initially thought that the site of the burial was merely a mound of rocks cleared from fields in recent times. On further investigation it was realised that it was a boat burial.</p><br>
<h2>Finds</h2><br>
<p>The vessel itself had almost entirely rotted away, but its outline and around 200 rivets still remained in place, some still connected to small pieces of wood. The ship had almost entirely been filled with stones in what may have been a ritual practice.</p><br>
<p>Within the boundary of the ship, archaeologists discovered the fragmentary remains of a man, including pieces of an arm bone and teeth. He had been buried with grave goods including a shield, placed over his chest, and a sword and a spear lying by his side, besides an axe, a knife, a bronze ring-pin from Ireland, items of pottery, a whetstone from Norway and apparently a drinking horn, of which only a bronze fitting survives. Dozens of other iron fragments were discovered but have not yet been identified.</p><br>
<p>It is not yet known where the man came from, but archaeologists hope to be able to identify his home region by analysing radioactive isotopes extracted from his bones and teeth. The fragments of wood found with the remains of the ship should reveal what type of wood the vessel was made from and possibly where it was built.</p><br>
<p>After the finds have been examined and conserved, it is expected that they will be claimed by the Crown as treasure trove which will enable museums to apply to keep and display them. The local Member of the Scottish Parliament, Dave Thompson, has called for the finds to be put on display at Ardnamurchan, and local tourism chief John Peel has suggested that a permanent historical exhibition could be established on the peninsula to boost tourism. In 2014 some of the finds were put on display at the British Museum in an exhibition titled Vikings: Life and Legend.</p><br>
<h2>Significance and context</h2><br>
<p>According to Dr. Hannah Cobb, a co-director of the project from the University of Manchester, the boat burial is "one of the most important Norse graves ever excavated in Britain." It is the first time a confirmable Viking boat burial has been found fully intact on the UK mainland. Although other boat burials have been found, most famously that at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, they had either been deposited centuries earlier or had not been successfully excavated due to deficiencies in archaeological methods.</p><br>
<p>The sites location, near existing Neolithic and Bronze Age cairns, gives it added significance. Dr. Cobb has commented: "We dont think the association with the older monuments can be a coincidence — this was a place which was very important to people over an extraordinarily long period of time." No Viking settlements have been found in the area, but the Vikings had a significant presence in Scotland. They first began raiding Scotland in the eighth century and settled in Orkney and Shetland in the ninth century. There are previously known Viking ship burials on Scottish islands at Carn nan Bharraich and Lochan Kill Mhor and one other site on Oronsay, two more on Colonsay and one on North Uist in the Hebrides, at Scar on Sanday in Orkney, one on Fetlar, and another at Ling Ness on Mainland Shetland. p.89 and p.138</p><br>
<p>Port an Eilean Mhòir is about 45 km south east of Loch na h-Airde on Skye where evidence of a Norse-era maritime centre has been found, although it is not known if it was in existence as early as the 10th century. Dr Oliver Harris of the University of Leicester, one of the ATP co-directors who worked on the site, believes that the occupant of the burial was "someone of high status, who was wealthy and powerful and very interested in being seen as a warrior." He commented:</p><br>
<p>Black Hawk Museum and Lodge is located in the Black Hawk State Historic Site in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. The lodge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is a part of the Illinois State Park Lodges and Cabins Thematic Resources.</p><br>
<h2>Black Hawk State Historic Site</h2><br>
<p>The Black Hawk State Historic Site was established in 1927 and the lodge was built in 1934 as a project of the Civilian Conservation Corps.</p><br>
<h2>Hauberg Indian Museum</h2><br>
<p>The John Hauberg Museum of Native American Life was opened in the lodge in 1939 with a collection started by Dr. John Hauberg, a Rock Island philanthropist and president of Augustana College. The museum interprets the story of the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes that lived in the area in a village called the Saukenuk. It was considered one of the largest Native American villages in North America. The collection includes winter and summer houses used by the tribes, and dioramas that depict the lives of the people who lived here from 1750-1830. Artifacts include authentic trade goods, jewelry and domestic items as well as the 18 tonne sculpture of Black Hawk, created in 1892 by Welsh sculptor David Richards (1829-1897).</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>Sloswicke&#39;s Hospital was erected in 1657 in East Retford, Nottinghamshire, England.</p><br>
<p>Richard Sloswicke’s will left money to found almshouses “for the maintenance of six poore old men of good carriage and behaviour to the end of the world.” The present building dates from 1806; an additional pair of houses was added in 1819, behind the 1806 building. A further modern block containing four self-contained flats was built to the left of the 1806 building in the 1980s and the Sloswick&#39;s Trust also owns several other properties around East Retford, including a row of terraced houses on Queen Street and Hawksley House on Coronation Street, all used for the housing of old people from or with a connection to East Retford.</p><br>
<p>Sloswicke’s Almshouse Charity (229556) maintains the properties to the current day.</p><br>
<p>Ionia is a frame house near Trevilians, Virginia, that was the centerpiece of a large plantation in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Built around 1775, Ionia was the home of the Watson family. It was built as Clover Plains by Major James Watson, the son of a Scottish immigrant, in a fertile area of Louisa County, Virginia that is now a National Historic Landmark District, the Green Springs National Historic Landmark District. The plantation was the third largest in Louisa County in the late 18th century, leading to the nickname "Wheat Stacks" for Watson as a result of his prosperity. After Major Watson&#39;s death in 1845 the house passed to his son, Dr. George Watson, who renamed the house "Ionia" and, since he lived in Richmond, used it as a summer residence. George Watson died in 1854, leaving Ionia to his widow, who lived there until the 1870s. Following her death in 1879 the property was subdivided. The Watson family went on to build a number of houses in the Green Springs area.</p><br>
<p>The house is a 1-1/2-story frame structure, covered with wood clapboards. One-story wings flank the main block on either side, with an ell to the rear. The house retains much of its original woodwork. The property includes several dependencies, including a dairy house, smoke house, kitchen, slave quarters and an early barn.</p><br>
<p>Ionia was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1972.</p><br>
<p>Holy Name of Mary Proto-Cathedral, also known as St. Mary Proto-Cathedral, is a historic Roman Catholic parish church in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, United States that was formerly a cathedral church and the first Cathedral, hence "Proto-Cathedral", of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette. It is the oldest parish and oldest cathedral parish in Michigan, and the third oldest parish in the United States . While the present church edifice, the fifth for the Parish, dates from 1881, the Parish began in 1668 as a Jesuit mission. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and designated a State of Michigan historic site in 1989. The Proto-Cathedral was the  Cathedral of the Diocese of Marquette when it was denominated the "Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie", which diocesan title is presently that of a titular episcopal see.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Holy Name of Mary was begun by Jesuits in 1668. On January 9, 1857 Bl. Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie and the Church was named the Cathedral Church of the new Diocese, being the first cathedral in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Ven. Irenaeus Frederic Baraga became its first Bishop. In 1865, the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie became the Diocese of Marquette and St. Peter Cathedral in Marquette became the Cathedral in its stead.</p><br>
<p>The present church, the fifth for the Parish, was erected in 1881. Canadian architect Joseph Connolly designed it in the Gothic Revival style. The Church was extensively remodeled in three phases from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The present rectory was added in 1922.</p><br>
<p>In 1968 the Parish erected the Tower of History as a shrine to the Catholic missionaries who served the community. It was designed to be a part of a larger complex that was to include a community center and a new church edifice. Parish priorities changed and the structure was sold to Sault Historic Sites in 1980, which continues to operate it. Proceeds from the Tower of History still benefit the Church.</p><br>
<h2>Catholic Schools</h2><br>
<p>St. Mary’s School was opened 1885. The Sisters of Loretto opened Loretto Academy in 1896 and educated girls from grade school through high school. It became a co-educational high school in 1945. The present school building was built in 1937 and held classes through eighth grade. Both St. Mary’s School and Loretto Academy closed in 1971 for financial reasons. The academy building was sold to the local school district. St. Mary’s School re-opened in 1993 and serves students from kindergarten through eighth grade.</p><br>
<p>The Battery Heights Historic District is a historic neighborhood and national historic district located southeast of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Named for the earthen batteries stationed in the area during the Civil War, the neighborhood has a suburban character, despite its close proximity to the city center.</p><br>
<p>The district is roughly bounded by East Martin Street on the north, Battery Drive on the east, East Davie Street on the south, and Sherrybrook Drive (originally Cox Street) on the west. It has a highly intact collection of 18 contributing buildings built between 1956-1964 and is a good example of Raleighs post-World War II suburban development. Battery Heights prominent architectural styles include Ranch and Split-Level homes primarily built in brick, stone and concrete.</p><br>
<p>Battery Heights was one of a few subdivisions planned for the African American community in Raleigh. Its original owners and residents included physicians, educators, builders and government agency employees—one of whom, George Exum, was as the general contractor for several of the homes. The neighborhood is rapidly renewing since the mid 2010s and many new homes are being built on vacant lots and existing homes are being repaired. The newly renovated Roberts Park and Community Center is situated centrally in this neighborhood. The park has a childrens playground, tennis court, basketball court, small baseball field and community center. Raleigh National Cemetery encompasses 7 acres in Battery Height&#39;s neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Battery Heights was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in January 2011.</p><br>
<p>Capitol Heights Historic District is a historic post-World War II neighborhood and national historic district located just north of the city of Raleigh, North Carolina. The district encompasses 87 contributing buildings and was built between about 1946 and 1949.</p><br>
<p>The subdivision was platted in 1946 and developed as a result of the postwar housing demand. Its homes are homogenous in form and design: small one-story two- and three-bedroom houses constructed in the Minimal Traditional style. Ernest I. Clancy and George Henry Wright were the primary builders of the Capitol Heights neighborhood. Today the neighborhood represents one of the best-preserved post-war speculative subdivisions in Raleigh.</p><br>
<p>Due to its high level of integrity, Capitol Heights was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in January 2011.</p><br>
<p>Metaxochori  is a village and a community of the Agia municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Agia.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Metaxochori is located two kilometres to the northwest of Agia, at the foot of Mount Ossa.The village is separated in two parts, with a small stream and a small bridge connecting each other.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>The inhabitants are principally engaged in the cultivation of apple and cherry and the area is known for its silk production.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>According to the 2011 census, the population of the settlement of Metaxochori was 478 people, a decrease of almost 13% compared with the population of the previous census of 2001.</p><br>
<p>Hawkwood is an Italianate-villa style country house near Gordonsville, Virginia. The house was designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis of New York in 1851 for Richard Overton Morris of the locally prominent Morris family, and was completed in 1855. The house, which has also been described as in the Italian Villa style, is one of only two Davis designs in that style which have not been substantially altered.</p><br>
<p>The house is constructed of stuccoed brick, dominated by a projecting two-story pavilion with one-story hipped-roof wings on either side. The south wing has an arcade on three sides, and features a picturesque three-story tower capped by a hipped roof. The main entry hall is octagonal. Interiors were sparsely detailed. Landscaping is informal, complementing the house and its hilltop site. A nearby overseer&#39;s house is complementary, in a wood-frame cottage style.</p><br>
<p>The house was gutted by fire in 1982, which left the walls and tower standing. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1970.</p><br>
<p>Balmoral Mounds  is an archaeological site of the Coles Creek culture in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. The site has components located both on the east and west sides of US 65 near Bayou Rousset.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site consists of 3 platform mounds that form an equilateral triangle. Mound A, the southwestern most of the group, measures 11 ft in height, with the base being 150 ft by 165 ft. Mound B, the northern most mound, is a dome shaped mound measuring 9 ft in height, with the base being 100 ft by 130 ft. The northern most mound in the triangle, Mound C, is also a dome shaped mound and measures 8 ft in height, with the base being 130 ft by 150 ft. Core samples of Mounds A and C suggest they were built at roughly the same time and in single stages</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The site is located on US 65 3 mi south of Somerset.</p><br>
<p>Peck Mounds  is an archaeological site of the Late Troyville-Early Coles Creek culture  in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The mounds are located in the vicinity of the Ferry Place Plantation house. It consists of five mounds, of which one is no longer visible. Three of the remaining mounds are low dome-shaped bumps measuring roughly 4 ft in height, with their bases being about 100 ft by 130 ft. Mound E, the largest and most southernmost mound, is a platform mound measuring 18 ft in height, with the base being 165 ft by 180 ft and a summit area measuring 65 ft by 55 ft. The site is situated on Maçon Ridge and overlooks Lake Lovelace. It was added to the NRHP on August 29, 1980 as part of the Ferry Place National Register District, NRIS number 80001711. The site is first mentioned by James A. Ford in 1933 when he conducted investigations at the nearby Peck Village Site, which is also located next to the lake.75 mi south of the mound site.</p><br>
<p>Ghost Site Mounds  is an archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana with an Early to Middle Coles Creek culture component  and a Late Coles Creek to Plaquemine culture component .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site has three surviving mounds and could have had as many as five. Mound A, the largest mound, is a 11 ft in height and 118 ft by 92 ft platform mound. The mound has been used historically as a cemetery. Since 1990 considerable erosion has damaged the mound, after portions of it were removed to build a dam across a nearby bayou. The other two remaining mounds are small dome-shaped mounds less than 2 ft tall and about 60 ft by 90 ft at their bases. Mound B was also partially removed for the dam project, but Mound C is still intact. Two other small rises still exist (Mound D and Mound E), but it is unclear if they were mounds or natural features.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>Limited archaeological testing has been done at the site. Bone, shell, ceramics, and charcoal were found underneath Mounds A and B, and based on decorative elements on the pottery they are dated 700–1200 during the Early to Middle Coles Creek period. Other examples were found in Mounds B and C that have been dated to 1200 to 1541 during the Plaquemine period.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The site is located on La 4 0.4 mi east from its junction with La 128. It is on a bayou that flows into the Tensas River.</p><br>
<p>The Ruins of Fort St. Barbara  are the ruins of a fort located in La Línea de la Concepción, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This fort was just one part of a whole line of defence known as the Lines of Contravallation of Gibraltar. This fortification was constructed by the Spanish after Gibraltar was formerly ceded to the United Kingdom after being captured by an Anglo-Dutch force in 1704. The agreement to cede the isthmus was part of the Treaty of Utrecht and Spain gave Britain Menorca, Gibraltar and the right to sell slaves to Spanish colonies. As a result, a defensive line (hence La Línea) was built at the north end of the isthmus joining the Rock of Gibraltar to Spain in order to keep the British from attacking or encroaching on Spain.</p><br>
<p>In a later bilateral agreement between Spain and the UK when they agreed mutual support against Napoleon, it was agreed that this defensive line would be destroyed. It was argued that this was necessary to prevent these fortifications from falling under French control. The main Spanish lines were destroyed by Colonel Sir Charles Holloway on 14 February 1810. Following the main explosion other towers were destroyed and volunteers took away the rubble.</p><br>
<p>The ruins today are owned by the Spanish municipality of La Línea de la Concepción. The ruins were declared a national cultural interest of Spain (Bien de Interés Cultural) in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Green Springs was built in the late 18th century on lands in Louisa County, Virginia assembled by Sylvanus Morris. His son Richard  developed 1,746 acre near the mineral springs that gave the property its name and built the two-story frame house. The property stands in an unusually fertile region of central Virginia, surrounded by a number of 18th and 19th century farms and plantations. The district has been designated a National Historic Landmark district, comprising about 14,000 acre under scenic easement protection.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The main house is a two story frame structure with a compact plan. The house forgoes the typical Virginia central-hall plan, employing instead a simple four-room plan on the main floor, with the stairs relegated to a small space at the rear. The two front rooms each have their own entry in the five-bay main elevation. The rear has received a shed-roofed addition, and a two-story frame addition has been added on the west side of the house. The interior features its original woodwork, using simple shapes and patterns. The property includes a number of barns and other dependencies.</p><br>
<h2>The Morris family</h2><br>
<p>Colonel Richard Morris held a number of public offices, including Commissary for the Commonwealth, and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1788. Morris operated a small resort at the Green Springs with two houses, an icehouse, servants quarters, a blacksmith shop and utility buildings, which were abandoned by Richards son and heir James Maury Morris.</p><br>
<p>Green Springs was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1972. It is a component of the Green Springs National Historic Landmark District.</p><br>
<p>Boswell&#39;s Tavern is an excellent example of a complete 18th century tavern in Virginia. Located near Gordonsville, Virginia, the tavern is located at the intersection of present-day USA Route 15 and Virginia State Route 22, the centerpiece of a village named after the tavern. The tavern was built in the mid-18th century, probably by Colonel John Boswell. The tavern was the site of a 1781 encampment by French forces during the American Revolutionary War under the Marquis de Lafayette. The tavern was a frequent meeting place for notable Virginia figures, including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Patrick Henry. A few colonial troops were captured at the tavern in March 1781 by British colonel Banastre Tarleton in an attempt to capture Jefferson and to disrupt meetings of the Virginia legislature.</p><br>
<p>The tavern is a two-story three-bay frame building with prominent chimneys at the west end. The innkeepers wing, originally 1-1/2 stories, has been increased in height to two stories. A small gabled porch is a modern addition, as is a one-story addition to the innkeepers quarters. The public section consists of two main rooms, a warming room, a bar and a stair hall. Portions of the original bar remain. The innkeeper&#39;s wing consists of a single large room on the main level with a sleeping area above.</p><br>
<p>Boswell&#39;s Tavern was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 25, 1969.</p><br>
<p>Wyoming Apartments is an historic apartment building, located at 2022 Columbia Road, Northwest, Washington, D.C. in the Kalorama neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Beaux-Arts luxury apartment building was designed by B. Stanley Simmons, for Lester A. Barr. The building has two wings: The first was built in 1905, and the second wing was constructed in 1911. In 1982, Barr&#39;s grandson sold the building for $6.3 million to developers, who converted it to condominiums.</p><br>
<p>The building is composed of 106 apartments, 76 in the South Wing and 30 in the North Wing.</p><br>
<p>Betty Friedan, George Stephanopoulos, Christopher Hitchens and Dwight D. Eisenhower lived there.</p><br>
<p>Featured in book, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, as the weekday residence of her son, who worked for the Republican National Committee, and his partner.</p><br>
<p>The Wyoming is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a contributing property to the Washington Heights Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Grassdale is an Italianate-style villa in Louisa County, Virginia, notable for its size and style in a stable, rural region. The house was built in 1861 by James Maury Morris, Jr., a member of the prominent Morris family of Louisa County. The tract had originally been assembled by James Morris&#39; grandfather, Colonel Richard Morris, who had established the neighboring Green Springs plantation. The property is part of the Green Springs National Historic Landmark District, established to preserve the notable houses of the area and their surrounding landscapes.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Grassdale is a two-story brick house in a T-shaped plan. A broad veranda surrounds the house on the front (east) side and part of the south side. The exterior features extensive bracketing in scales varied to suit the main house and the porch. The ell takes the form of a projecting pavilion, with its own projecting porch. The interior is laid out around a central hall with a room on either side, a cross hall with a stairway, and a dining room to the rear. The front hall is set apart from the cross hall with pilasters and an entablature. The main rooms have access to the porch through full-length windows that raise into a pocket in the wall above. Outbuildings include a smokehouse and a two-story kitchen.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James Maury Morris Jr. inherited the property from his father, Dr. James Maury Morris Sr., in 1844. There had been structures at the site prior to the construction of the 1861 house. James Jr. died in 1872, leaving Grassdale to his widow. Their daughter, Imogene, inherited the house. Her husband was Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor, whose Watson and Taylor family connections were notable apart from his own notability in naval affairs and ship design. Imogene sold the house to the Walton Lumber Company in 1943.</p><br>
<p>Grassdale was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 2, 1973. It is included in the Green Springs National Historic Landmark District, which encompasses much of the surrounding countryside.</p><br>
<p>Fitzhugh Mounds is an archaeological site in Madison Parish, Louisiana from the Plaquemine\Mississippian period dating to approximately 1200–1541 CE. It is the type site for the Fitzhugh Phase of the Tensas Basin Plaquemine Mississippian chronology.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site was once an impressive seven-mound complex, with four of the platform mounds surrounding a central plaza. The site is first mentioned in E. G. Squier and E. H. Davis&#39; Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley in 1848.</p><br>
<p>The largest mound at the site, at 30 ft in height, was bulldozed and carted away to use as fill during the construction of Interstate 20. Other of the mounds have been extensively plowed by local farmers and only two of the original seven mounds remain. Mound B is 10 ft in height. Mound D serves as an active historic cemetery and is approximately 4 ft in height.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The site is located on La 602 4 mi south-southwest of its junction with I-20.</p><br>
<p>Scott Place Mounds is an archaeological site in Union Parish, Louisiana from the Late Coles Creek-Early Plaquemine period, dating to approximately 1200 CE. The site is one of the few such sites in north-central Louisiana.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site a five-mound complex located near the confluence of Corney Bayou and Lake D’Arbonne. Mound A is the largest mound at 11 ft in height with a square base measuring 125 ft by 125 ft and its summit 70 ft by 45 ft. Mound B is the second largest at 6 ft in height and 65 ft in diameter and is located 270 ft to the northeast of Mound A. The three remaining mounds (Mounds C, D and E) are approximately 2 ft in height and range from 65 ft to 25 ft in diameter. All of the mounds were built in single stages. Charcoal samples taken from underneath Mound B have been dated to approximately 1200 CE.</p><br>
<p>The Castle of Jimena de la Frontera  is a castle located in Jimena de la Frontera, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1931.</p><br>
<p>The castle is situated on the outskirts of Jimena de la Frontera in the Province of Cádiz, Spain. The castle was originally built by the Grenadian Moors of the Umayyad Caliphate ruling over the area of Hispania Baetica (modern Andalusia) in the 8th Century. It served as one of many castles guarding both the approach to the fortifications around Gibraltar and the Bay of Algeciras where the strategic and important Moorish stronghold and fortress of Algeciras was located.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The fortress was likely built over the ruins of the ancient city of Oba which dated to pre Roman Celtiberian period. Given its strategic location on the frontier of the Gibraltar region, this fortress proved an important Moorish stronghold throughout the Muslim domination of the Iberian Peninsula.</p><br>
<p>The castle was taken by the Jerezanos in 1430 and retaken by the Moorish Kingdom of Granada in 1451. In 1465, it was integrated into the Kingdom of Castille as the property of the crown. It was declared a national monument of Spain in 1931, described as the building that best represents the town of Jimena de la Frontera.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The outer defenses consist of a long irregular wall that is lengthened in places to adapt to the uneven mountainous terrain. Watchtowers line this wall at regular intervals. The most well known tower is the Torre del Reloj or Albarrán (English: Clock Tower) and together, the towers have a very effective line of sight and defense forming an easily defensible arch of a fire zone. Various trenches also exist, all dug in different eras.</p><br>
<p>Inside the walls stands the Alcázar which was built or renovated after the Christian takeover of the castle. the Torre del Homenaje, with its large circular dome juts out of the Alcázar at a height of 13 meters making it the tallest tower of the castle. The inside of the Torre del Homenaje hides an earlier polygonal pattern tower that was presumably built over after the Christian takeover.</p><br>
<p>Venable Mound  is an archaeological site in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana with a single mound with components from the Troyville, Coles Creek and Plaquemine period.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site formerly had three mounds and was a group known as the McTheney Mounds site. It is situated on a natural levee on the east bank of Bayou Bartholomew. The site has been under cultivation since about the 1850s. In the 1870s Benjamin Brodnax of the Smithsonian Institution visited the site when it still had three of its mounds. By the time Clarence Bloomfield Moore came in 1908 it only had two. The one remaining platform mound is approximately 22 ft in height, with a base 140 ft by 140 ft square and a summit platform measuring 50 ft square. Excavations have shown that the site was first occupied from 400 and 700 CE during the Troyville period. Construction of the mound is dated to 700 to 1200 CE during the Coles Creek period. Analysis of ceramics from the site date have been dated other occupations of the site to 1200 to 1541 during the Plaquemine/Mississippian period.</p><br>
<p>The United States Post Office and Courthouse, commonly called the Knoxville Post Office, is a state building located at 501 Main Street in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Constructed in the early 1930s for use as a post office and federal courthouse, the building contains numerous Art Deco and Moderne elements, and is clad in Tennessee marble. While the building is still used as a branch post office, the court section is now used by the state courts. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architecture and political significance.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Knoxville Post Office is a three-story structure occupying the lot bounded by Main Street, Locust Street, Walnut Street, and Cumberland Avenue. The building measures 250 ft by 138 ft, and contains 123,000 square feet of gross space. The first floor is used primarily for the post office, while the upper floors contain the court room and offices. The lot includes a large parking lot behind the building, mainly for postal service vehicles.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed using six different types of Tennessee marble, The exterior, clad mostly in Tennessee "pink" marble, includes a facade of imposing columns, Moderne-style cylindrical molding along the roofline, and four eagle statues carved by Candoro Marble Works sculptor Albert Milani (1892&ndash;1972). The entrances are located at the corners of the building, while the front of the building contains aluminum casement windows and a sunken courtyard. This courtyard is masked by a retaining wall built of red Tennessee marble, and topped with Art Deco light fixtures.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building contains numerous Art Deco elements, namely grillwork with floral motifs, floral patterns in the entrance transoms, aluminum spandrels on the upper floors with floral and zigzag patterns, and a plaster ceiling with aluminum floral and zigzag moldings (this ceiling was later hidden by the installation of a tiled ceiling in the 1960s). The first floor contains a marble floor and marble, aluminum, and bronze paneling. The courtroom floor is made of cork wood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lot on which the Knoxville Post Office now stands was part of James Whites 1795 extension of the city. By 1886, this lot contained several large houses and townhouses. By the time the federal government purchased the lot for the post offices construction, it was occupied by the home of prominent Knoxville physician Walter S. Nash and his wife, Eva.</p><br>
<p>Knoxvilles first federal building, the Old Customs House, was built on Market Street in the early 1870s, and expanded in 1910. By the following decade, the citys growing population had rendered this building too small for the city&#39;s postal needs. In the late 1920s, Congress appropriated several million dollars for the construction of new postal facilities across the country. Senator Kenneth McKellar and Congressman J. Will Taylor, both from Tennessee, managed to have some of this money allocated for the construction of a new post office and courthouse for Knoxville.</p><br>
<p>The new post office and courthouse was designed by Baumann and Baumann, a prominent local firm that had recently designed the Andrew Johnson Hotel on Gay Street. The firm&#39;s two chief partners were Albert Baumann, Sr. (1861&ndash;1942) and his son, Albert Baumann, Jr. (1897&ndash;1952). Albert Baumann, Jr., had studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania under Beaux-Arts champion Paul Cret, and the design of the Knoxville post office was likely conceived from a Treasury Department model inspired by Cret.</p><br>
<p>The A.W. Kushe Company of Detroit was hired as the contractor for the new building. Construction began in December 1932, and was completed in February 1934. On February 15 of that year, the new building was dedicated in a ceremony attended by Congressman Taylor and Knoxville Mayor John O&#39;Connor. The new post office opened about a month later, on March 11, 1934.</p><br>
<p>The Knoxville Post Office was renovated in 1964, during which time a lower, tiled ceiling was installed.</p><br>
<p>The post office is twice mentioned in Cormac McCarthys 1979 novel, Suttree. In one instance, the title character traverses the buildings long ground-floor corridor to briefly escape the bitter cold. In another scene, an itinerant mountain wanderer known as "the goatman" is chastised by a police officer for allowing his goats to graze on the post office&#39;s lawn.</p><br>
<p>The Brothers-O&#39;Neil House is fully developed example of Bungalow architecture. The gable roof is pierced by a traditional roof dormer and exterior brick chimney on the south elevation. The front porch is supported by two large wire-cut brick columns. The foundation is concrete with a sandstone plinth. Side gables have a shingle wall treatment above the first floor, while the other walls have aluminum siding. The interior of the house comprises beamed ceilings and original woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The estate of Marie M. Marshall deeded this land to the Home Mission of the Presbyterian Church in 1916. An Augusta undertaker, L. M. Brothers, acquired the vacant parcel following the brief interim ownership of William Sayers, The house was built by Brothers son-in-law, Leo G. ONeil, during 1916 and 1917. Brothers deeded half interest in the house and property to ONeil in 1917. Both families continued to live in the house. In 1922, as part of a divorce settlement, ONeil deeded "the house and all claims of alimony and future support" to his former wife who sold the property in 1923 to Isaac Reynolds.</p><br>
<p>Deprato Mounds , also known as the Ferriday Mounds, is a multi-mound archaeological site located in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. The site shows occupation from the Troyville period to the Middle Coles Creek period . The largest mound at the site has been radiocarbon and decorated pottery dated to about 600 CE. It was added to the NRHP on October 22, 1998 as NRIS number 98001258.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site is a complex of five platform mounds and a central plaza area sitting on four acres of land to the east of the confluence of Black Bayou and Bayou Cocodrie. The mounds now appear smaller than they were in the past because extensive flooding since their construction has deposited 3 ft of sediment over the base of the mounds and the plaza. The largest remaining mound, Mound C, has a base measuring 82 ft by 66 ft and is about 6 ft in height. Mound D has been used as fill for a highway construction project. Mound E is now the location of a house. During excavations human remains were found in three of the mounds. The site has been purchased by The Archaeological Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that plans to protect the site from future degradation.</p><br>
<p>Skotina  is a rural settlement of the former municipality of East Olympos, itself part of the municipality of Dio-Olympos, in the Pieria regional unit, Central Macedonia, Greece.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The name is taken due to handmade costumes (woolen fabrics, handmade costumes), which were made in the region that made the cloaks and the sails for sailing ships of the era.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The village is built on the southeastern edge of the mount Olympus, 32 km from the city of Katerini, and has a view towards the Thermaic Gulf. Ancient places nearby are Herakleion (4 km) and Leivithra (2 km).</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>The community of Skotina had a population 949 inhabitants as of 2011. The community consists of the settlements of Skotina, Paralia Skotinas and the nowadays uninhabited Palia Skotina.</p><br>
<p>Farmington is a house near Charlottesville, in Albemarle County, Virginia, that was greatly expanded by a design by Thomas Jefferson that Jefferson executed while he was President of the United States. The original house was built in the mid-18th century for Francis Jerdone on a 1,753 acre property. Jerdone sold the land and house to George Divers, a friend of Jefferson, in 1785. In 1802, Divers asked Jefferson to design an expansion of the house. The house, since greatly enlarged, is now a clubhouse.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Jefferson addition comprises the present buildings main facade, consisting of an elongated octagon with its long axis perpendicular to the large tetrastyle Tuscan portico. The original house was a two-story, three-bay brick house over a basement with a side-hall plan. There were two rooms above and below. Jeffersons addition is to the east. The additions portico extends for two stories in front of three main bays, with the entry door centered, flanked by typical Jefferson triple-hung windows extending to the floor. The door and windows are crowned by round windows lighting the upper level. To either side are projecting half-octagon wings with windows matching the central portion. In Jeffersons design and as built, the long octagon was divided into two unequal rooms. The interior was greatly altered following a mid-19th century fire, with the creation of a central hall and a second floor over all. When the property became a country club the second floor was removed in 1929 and the three spaces were combined into a single space. The house was greatly enlarged to the rear with service, dining and accommodation spaces.</p><br>
<h2>Influence</h2><br>
<p>Farmington was extensively studied by University of Virginia architectural historian Fiske Kimball, who adapted the design for his own residence, Shack Mountain, now a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Farmington was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 15, 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Dörenberg is a hill, in the Teutoburg Forest in the district of Osnabrück, in the German state of Lower Saxony.</p><br>
<h2>Origin of the name</h2><br>
<p>Dören could be derived, especially in the area of Ostwestfalen-Lippe, from Dör, the Low German word for a hill or mountain pass.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Dörenberg, the highest elevation in the centre section of the Teutoburg Forest, lies between Bad Iburg and the Georgsmarienhütte village of Oesede, whereby the boundary of both parishs runs over its southern flank, close to the summit. East of the hill, the B 51 runs between both settlements in roughly a north-northeast to south-southwest direction. The summit can be reached on woodland tracks from this road.</p><br>
<h2>Hermann's Tower</h2><br>
<p>On the summit of the Dörenberg stands the Hermann&#39;s Tower, from which, at a height of, there are views southeast over the Teutoburg Forest, southwards of the Münsterland and north to the Wiehen Hills. On the Lammersbrink, 2.8 kilometres northwest, stands the Varus Tower. Both observation towers are linked by a hiking trail, the Kammweg ("Crest Way").</p><br>
<h2>1962 air crash</h2><br>
<p>In 1962 an aeroplane of the Royal Air Force crashed on the Dörenberg. Both crew members died. A memorial stone has been laid on the Zigzag Way (Zickzackweg) that runs from the Karlsplatz west of the summit towards the Benno Quarry. It bears the inscription: "Am 18. Januar 1962 stürzte an dieser Stelle ein Flugzeug ab. Zwei junge Flieger im Alter von 24 und 26 Jahren fanden den Fliegertod." ("On 18 January 1962 an aircraft crashed at this spot. Two young airmen - 24 and 26 years old - died an airman&#39;s death.") The memorial tablet stands below the first bend on Zigzag Way.</p><br>
<h2>Panorama</h2><br>
<p>The Hube is a ridge, up to, in the Leine Uplands and district of Northeim, in the German state of Lower Saxony.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The densely wooded Hube lies immediately northeast of the town of Einbeck, with its pretty, timber-framed houses, west of the River Leine and north of the Ilme valley. Although the ridge, which measures some 8.5 x 5.5 kilometres, is west of the Leine it is counted as part of the southwestern Harz Foreland in Germany&#39;s official natural regional classification.</p><br>
<p>The highest elevation on the Hube is the Fuchshöhlenberg with its transmission mast at. About 150 metres southeast of the tower is the highest point of the actual summit. On the northern edge of the Greene Forest, the northern part of the Hube, are the ruins of Greene Castle above the town of Greene with good views from the castle tower. In the southern part of the Hube, 570 metres north of the Altendorfer Berg and between Einbeck and Negenborn stands the Emperor Frederick Tower (Kaiser-Friedrick-Turm), also called the Einbeck Tower (Einbecker Turm).</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>In the Hube region, carbonate rocks predominate. Upper and Middle Muschelkalk occur on its western rim, Lower Muschelkalk in the central area and Bunter Sandstone on its eastern slopes.</p><br>
<h2>Hills</h2><br>
<p>The hills of the Hube, including its foothills, are (sorted by height in metres above sea level (NN):</p><br>
<p>Fuchshöhlenberg (346.2 m)</p><br>
<p>Kalkrosenberg (336.0 m)</p><br>
<p>Greener Berg (334.0 m)</p><br>
<p>Burgberg (ca. 325 m)</p><br>
<p>Einbecker Berg (308.1 m)</p><br>
<p>Breitenberg (305.2 m)</p><br>
<p>Eschenberg (304.0 m)</p><br>
<p>Lietberg (287.7 m)</p><br>
<p>Spillenberg (272.2 m)</p><br>
<p>Altendorfer Berg (270.8 m)</p><br>
<p>Tauberg (ca. 270 m)</p><br>
<p>Röhrenberg (265.8 m)</p><br>
<p>Luhberg (210.2 m)</p><br>
<p>Knollenberg (202.3 m)</p><br>
<p>Oberg (201.4 m)</p><br>
<h2>Settlements</h2><br>
<p>Settlements around the Hube whose built-up areas impinge significantly on the ridge are (sorted alphabetically):</p><br>
<p>Andershausen</p><br>
<p>Brunsen</p><br>
<p>Einbeck</p><br>
<p>Garlebsen</p><br>
<p>Greene</p><br>
<p>Holtershausen</p><br>
<p>Ippensen</p><br>
<p>Kreiensen</p><br>
<p>Kuventhal</p><br>
<p>Negenborn (with its holiday village)</p><br>
<p>Salzderhelden</p><br>
<p>Volksen</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Fr. Knoll: Topographie des Herzogtums Braunschweig. Verlag Wollermann 1897</p><br>
<p>Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumforschung: Geographische Landesaufnahme 1:200000. Naturräumliche Gliederung Deutschlands. Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 99 Göttingen. Bad Godesberg 1963</p><br>
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<p>Jordan Mounds  is a multimound archaeological site in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. It is the type site for the Jordan Phase of the local chronology. The site was constructed during the protohistoric period between 1540 and 1685.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site was once an impressive mound complex, with seven platform mounds surrounding a central plaza and an associated village area. It was once located on the Arkansas River, which has a relict channel nearby. The site was constructed during the protohistoric period (1540 to 1685) after Native Americans in the area were first contacted by Europeans of the Hernando de Soto Expedition of the early 1540s. The builders were an intrusive group in the area, possibly from the Mississippi River area to the east. By the late 1600s the site was abandoned, possibly due the collapse of their society brought about by the aftereffects of European contact. In the early 1840s the site was purchased by Dr. Thomas P. Harrison and A.T. Hawkins Duvall. Clarence Bloomfield Moore tried to visit the site in the early 1900s but was unable to do so because the site lacked riverine access for his steamboat the Gopher.</p><br>
<p>The Raffman Site  is an archaeological site located in Madison Parish, Louisiana and constructed between 700 and 1200 CE. It has components from the Tchefuncte culture and the Coles Creek culture, whose main period of occupation was during the Balmoral Phase of the Tensas Basin and Natchez Bluffs chronology and which was virtually deserted by the end of the Preston Phase .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site is quite large with nine platform mounds arranged around a central plaza. The plaza is 90 m by 100 m, with Mounds A, B, C, D, E, and G closely crowded around it. Mounds H and I are located adjacent to Mound A just to the southeast of the plaza. Located on the southern boundary of the plaza is Mound A, the largest at the site. It is 12 m in height and 75 m by 100 m at its base.</p><br>
<h3>Chronology</h3><br>
<p>Testing of the site revealed Early Woodland period deposits from the Tchefuncte period (600 BCE to 200 CE) underlying the Coles Creek period mounds (700 to 1200 CE). After the Early Woodland phase the site was the site of Middle and early Late Woodland occupations. Sometime after 700 CE the inhabitants of the site began erecting large flat and conical mounds. By 1000 CE during the Coles Creek period a massive construction effort succeeded in restructuring the plaza and further mounds were added to the group. About 1200 CE the site was almost entirely abandoned.</p><br>
<h3>Excavations</h3><br>
<p>Raffman is first mentioned as an archaeological site in 1954 by noted archaeologists Philip Phillips and Robert Neitzel. Except for some mapping and shovel tests in 1981 by Williams, Belmont and Kardish, investigations over the fifty years were sparse. Beginning in the late 1990s the site was excavated over multiple seasons by archaeologist Tristam R. Kidder in 1998 and 2000 and then by Lori Roe and Kidder in 2002 and 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Massanetta Springs Historic District is a retreat in Rockingham County, Virginia, administered by the Presbyterian Synod of Virginia, and chiefly associated with the Massanetta Springs Summer Bible Conference Encampment. The district includes the Hotel , Hudson Auditorium  and Camp Massanetta . A Methodist camp existed at the site, originally known as Taylor&#39;s Springs, from 1816.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first settler in the area was James Taylor, who built a house there after 1730. About 1816 Jonathan and William Taylor leased the site to the Rockingham Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church for use as a camp meeting ground. The annual meetings were extremely popular, and the springs were reported as having healing properties. The springs came under the ownership of Evan Henton in the late 1840s, who operated a modest spa at the site. A partnership established in the 1870s attempted to rename the property the "Ague and Healing Springs", and Dr. Burke Chrisman built a house there in 1885 and a hotel that may have survived until 1994. By 1893 the area was becoming known as Massanetta Springs, a portmanteau of the common local place name Massanutten and Chrismans wifes name, Henrietta. Chrisman marketed water from the springs, artificially carbonated and sold nationwide as "Massanetta Spring Water" and "Massanetta Water". After the death of Dr. Chrisman in 1909, the property was sold to banker James Robert Lupton of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Lupton began to build a brick hotel at the springs. In 1912 he sold the property to the Massanetta Springs Company, but took back ownership in 1919. The same year Lupton and his wife sold the resort to Hampden-Sydney College in return for a lifetime annuity of $2,400.</p><br>
<p>Hampden-Sydney College apparently planned to use the property as a Presbyterian boarding school, and retained the New York architectural firm of Visscher & Burley to draft a master plan. By 1920 the academy was losing appeal, and in 1923 the college transferred ownership to the synod. The synod operated the resort as a religious retreat once more and built a tabernacle, the open-air Hudson Hudson Auditorium. Conferences and attendance at Massanetta was ecumenical, with Methodist, Baptist, Brethren and Lutheran groups organizing conferences. In the 1930s, the idea of using the property for a school briefly resurfaced, but was abandoned. In 1931, the Massanetta Music School held festivals for church choirs, running through 1939.</p><br>
<p>From 1925, a series of cottages was built near "The Grove", eventually comprising 41 privately owned cottages. These cottages are outside the historic district. In 1947, the Richardson Building, an army surplus structure, was built to provide additional guest accommodation; it was modernized and given a second floor in 1962, giving it the appearance of a motel, and resulting in its exclusion form the historic district.</p><br>
<p>In the mid-1950s, Camp Massanetta was established on a ridge to the west of the main development. Minnesota architect W. Glen Wallace designed a campground with sixteen cabins, lodges, dining hall, bathhouses, infirmary, director&#39;s cabin and a swimming pool, all completed in 1956. Tent campsites were developed in the surrounding woods. In 2001, the New Lodge was built.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The most significant building in the district is the Hotel. The brick and frame hotel is four stories with a mansard roof in a version of the Second Empire style. The ground floor is of brick, with stuccoed second and third floors, and a pressed -metal treatment on the attic or fourth floor. A porch extends across the front and rear. The interior was partly renovated in the 1950s with plywood and glass. The principal interior historic element is the grand staircase.</p><br>
<p>The Hudson Memorial Auditorium is a roofed structure open to the weather on the sides. The original section was built in 1922, with a classroom addition in 1925. More classrooms were added in 1930, 1939 and circa 1950. The roof trusses are exposed. Seats are bolted to the sloping floor, which falls to the stage at the west end. Benches are arranged on the sides, with bleachers at the east end. Classrooms are underneath the auditorium, with toilets in a basement.</p><br>
<p>Other buildings include the rustic Fannie Lupton Building, which provides meeting space, and the Lucy Steele Memorial Prayer Room, a plain concrete block chapel. The reinforced concrete Nook (1957–58) is a book store and cafe. The Springhouse houses faucets and the spring itself.</p><br>
<p>Camp Massanetta is arranged in four "villages" labeled A, B, C and D. Buildings are of frame construction on concrete slabs with rough siding. Deep overhanging eaves are supported by diagonal braces with a modern look. Interiors are austere with open trusses and minimal finishes. The Bell Auditorium is the chief building in the camps, which continues the theme of deep overhangs supported by diagonals. It is now used as a dining facility.</p><br>
<p>Massanetta Springs was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 26, 2005.</p><br>
<p>Troyville Earthworks  is a Woodland period Native American archaeological site with components dating from 100 BCE to 700 CE during the Baytown to the Troyville-Coles Creek periods. It once had the tallest mound in Louisiana at 82 ft in height. It is located in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana in the town of Jonesville. The site is the type site for the Troyville culture of the lower Ouachita and Tensas River valleys. Before it was destroyed for bridge approach fill in 1931, Troyville was one of the largest mound groups in North America.</p><br>
<h2>Site description</h2><br>
<p>The site is at the confluence of the Tensas, Ouachita, and Little Rivers. It had nine platform mounds and a perimeter embankment that were built before 700 CE. A historian, John W. Monette, in 1844 described the complex as occupying close to 400 acres and noted the existence of twelve small mounds and one large one. The embankment was started during the Middle Baytown period, with periodic repair work taking place during the Late Baytown period. The largest mound, Mound 5 ( also known as the “Great Mound” ), was 82 ft in height. and had three levels, the bottom two rectangular and the third on the top a truncated conical mound. Monette described the lower level of Mound 5 as being 300 ft by 150 ft at its base and rising to the height of 30 ft. He described the conical mound at the top as 30 ft. Measurements for the smaller mounds at the site were about 12 ft to 20 ft in height with bases measuring 150 ft by 60 ft. Four of the mounds were surrounded on the southern and western side of the plaza by the embankment, which measured 10 ft in height, 10 ft in width and 100 ft across.</p><br>
<p>By the time of the American Civil War, the mound had been reduced in size to 50 ft in height.</p><br>
<p>In 1883 the site was visited by the prominent ethnologist Cyrus Thomas, who described the group as then consisting of six mounds within an embankment, with some of the smaller mounds having been largely destroyed. One had been turned into a modern cemetery, which can still be seen today on the grounds of the local Methodist Church. The Great Mound had also been reduced, by this time it was only 45 ft in height, 270 ft in length and 180 ft in width. In 1931 the mound was drastically reduced in size, the majority of its remaining mass being used as fill for a nearby bridge approach. Today the mound is only 3 ft in height.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>The site takes its name from the Troy Plantation, which was part of a Spanish land grant of 1,000 acres made to John Hebrard in 1786. William Dunbar was the first European to make note of the mound site in his report to Thomas Jefferson for the Red River expedition of 1804. It is the first written description of an archaeological site in Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>In 1931 and 1932 the Smithsonian archaeologist Winslow Walker excavated parts of the site. He found woven cane matting, palmetto fronds, and wooden planks within the mound, materials used by the Native Americans as part of the complex engineering to build the large structure. These materials had been used to construct a "cane dome", which had been layered like an onion by alternating layers of split cane and mound fill to strengthen the structure. The builders also used different colors of dirt, including blue clays and red clays. Walker also discovered a log palisade and steps made of tree trunks up one corner of the mound. He published a 103-page booklet on his work.</p><br>
<p>In the late 2000s parts of the site were being investigated for purchase by The Archaeological Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that plans to protect the site from future degradation. The Conservancy purchased the site of Mound 4 and the old house located on the property was demolished. The Conservancy plans to landscape and fence the site and use it as a research preserve.</p><br>
<p>Kendrick&#39;s Cave on the Great Orme, Llandudno, Wales, was the site of important archaeological finds by Thomas Kendrick in 1880. The site is a small natural cavern on the south of the Great Orme Head, a limestone massif on the seaward side of Llandudno .</p><br>
<p>Kendrick, a lapidary, was clearing a cave in his garden to extend his workshop. In the process he found a decorated horse jaw, flint artefacts, bear teeth with holes for use as beads or pendants and human and animal bones.</p><br>
<p>An analysis of the human bones found shows that they had a diet high in seafood and the presence of the bones has been taken to indicate that the cave was a burial site rather than a camp site. A recent research project involving with the British Museum, the Field Club, Llandudno Museum and Archives, Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Historical Society, the National Museum of Wales, and Oxford and Bradford Universities has reunited the once dispersed finds from the cave.</p><br>
