<p>South Wayne Historic District is a national historic district located in Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 316 contributing buildings in a residential area of Wayne. The majority of the dwellings were built between 1881 and 1930, and include notable examples of Shingle Style and Colonial Revival architecture, representing the work of Will Price, Horace Trumbauer, and several other architects.</p><br>
<p>The district reflects suburban development in the late-19th century as it was a major component of a large, planned, railroad commuter suburb called "the Wayne Estates," complementing the northern half of the residential area which is now included in the North Wayne Historic District, and the downtown area of Wayne, which sits between the two residential districts, now the Downtown Wayne Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Beaver Dam Mountains are a 23 mi long mountain range located mostly in extreme southwest Washington County, Utah, west of St. George, with the south of the range extending into the Arizona Strip.</p><br>
<p>The range contains the Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness which straddles the state&#39;s borders. The south of the range can be impressively seen from Interstate 15, as it traverses the corridor into Utah through the Virgin River Gorge, as the Virgin River exits the west of the Colorado Plateau.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The range contains two sections. The northern massif is anchored by the highpoint (photo), of the West Mountain Peak (Washington County), 7,680 ft. The eastern flank of the north massif contains Shivwits, Utah in the center of a section of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, the Shivwits Band of Utah. Utah highway 91 traverses the northwest-southeast sections through Utah Hill Summit.</p><br>
<p>The center of the range is adjacent to the Highway 91 mountain pass, and Tahoari (peak), 5,523 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The center of the range at about 4,731 ft, (Utah Hill Summit), can be easily accessed from the west-southwest by Highway 91, from Littlefield, Arizona. The east and southeast of the range can be accessed by routes from St. George and Interstate 15.</p><br>
<p>Heyburn Lake is a reservoir on Polecat Creek in Creek County, Oklahoma. It is about 15 mi southwest of Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Tiger and Brown Creeks also drain into the lake. The nearest town is Kellyville, Oklahoma. It was named for the now-defunct community of Heyburn. Its primary objectives are to provide flood control, drinking water and recreation. It is owned by the Corps of Engineers. Heyburn State Park  adjoins the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The earthen dam was completed in 1950, and is 89 ft high and 2,920 ft long.</p><br>
<p>The lake capacity is 55,395 acre feet, while normal storage is 7,105 acre-ft. The normal surface area is 940 acres. The shoreline is 52 mi.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation facilities</h2><br>
<p>Recreational facilities include boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing. Three areas offer campgrounds: Sunset Bay (tent sites), Sheppard Point (tent and RV sites) and Heyburn Park (RV sites). They all have picnic areas, restrooms, showers, playgrounds and boat launches.</p><br>
<p>The Heyburn Public Hunting Area is a 6,000 acre tract that allows hunting quail, squirrel, rabbit, waterfowl and wild turkey.</p><br>
<h2>Heyburn, Oklahoma</h2><br>
<p>The hamlet known as Heyburn, Oklahoma, was built along the Frisco railroad during the 1880s. It was named for a local resident, Clay Heyburn. By 1920, there were 35 residents, a railroad station, a post office, two general stores and a cotton gin. The post office opened December 11, 1911 and closed October 14, 1922. When U, S. Route 66 was built a half mile north of the community, one of the general stores moved to the highway. The rest of the hamlet was soon abandoned and the structures vanished. The store on the highway has changed owners and locations several times, but is still known as the Heyburn store.</p><br>
<p>La Ferrassie is an archaeological site in Savignac-de-Miremont, in the Dordogne department, France. The site, located in the Vézère valley, consists of a large and deep cave flanked by two rock shelters within a limestone cliff, under which there is a scree slope formation.</p><br>
<h2>Age</h2><br>
<p>Artifacts found at the site are the productions of Mousterian (300-30,000 BP), Aurignacian (45–35,000 BP), and Périgordian (35–20,000 BP) cultures. The cave area contains Gravettian (32–22,000 BP) objects and the scree contains objects from all these ages as well as the Châtelperronian (35-29,000 PB). The site was abandoned during the Gravettian period (27 kya). Complex Mousterian burial structures found at La Ferrasie finally provided the evidence of Neanderthal burial practice.</p><br>
<h2>Exploration history</h2><br>
<p>A small area of the site was initially investigated by M. Tabanou in 1896, a teacher who died of a landslide at the Badegoule rock shelter shortly thereafter. Denis Peyrony and Louis Capitan explored the site in 1905, 1907 and 1912; Peyrony in 1934, Henri Delporte in 1969 and 1984, and Delporte with Tuffreau in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Fossils</h2><br>
<p>At least seven Neanderthals have been found in La Ferrassie, including infants and one fetus. All specimens were found in a thin 60 cm archaeological layer dated to 74-68 thousand years ago.</p><br>
<p>Hyam&#39;s Mineral Water Works is a nineteenth century building at 23 Glendower Street, Monmouth, Wales. Formerly a mineral water works, it is currently used as residential apartments. The building holds one of the 24 blue plaques awarded by the Monmouth Civic Society to buildings of especial historical and social interest, and features on the Monmouth Heritage Trail.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A mineral water works, for the manufacture of soda water, lemonade and ginger beer, was established in Glendower Street in 1866 by Thomas E. Hyam, a leading figure in nineteenth century Monmouth. He was a corn and timber merchant, saw mill owner, and shop owner, who became Monmouths mayor in 1875/6 and was also a Justice of the Peace. To quote Keith Kissack, "No committee or association was considered complete unless it included his name". Residences in Monmouth associated with the Hyam family were Cornwall House in Monnow Street and Parade House on North Parade. In 1870, the Duke of Beaufort commended his mineral waters, writing:"For upwards of six months I have used no Seltzer water but Mr Hyams of Monmouth… I have found it most excellent. I have never been so well supplied." In 1895 Kellys Directory of Monmouthshire for 1901 describes John B Hyams business as "mineral & aerated water manufacturer & ale & porter merchant." About this time proprietary medicines became popular and were advertised in the Monmouthshire Beacon, amongst which was Hyams Anti-Influenza Tonic Water&#39;.</p><br>
<p>Hyam owned a saw mill and timber yard at Wyesham, and owned boats known as trows for hauling his timber and carrying goods on the River Wye. He also had a retail shop at 33, Monnow Street, designed by Lawrence of Newport and built by Lewis of Monmouth in 1866. The new building of freestone with Aberdeen granite pillars was widely praised at the time. The spandrels were elaborately carved and it was one of the first shops in Monmouth to introduce curved plate glass windows. The premises are, in 2012, occupied by a kitchenware and gifts retailer.</p><br>
<p>In 1911 the business was taken over by Charles Ballinger, and traded as Ballingers Mineral Water Works until the 1960s. Ballinger was also the landlord of the Griffin Hotel in Whitecross Street. He traded as a Mineral Water Manufacturer and bottler of Bass and Worthingtons Ales, Guinness Stout and Wheatley&#39;s Hop Bitters. This continued until the 1960s when the firm closed down. The premises were then occupied by Ebley Ltd., a tyre company,</p><br>
<p>who subsequently relocated to the Mayhill Industrial Estate, and the buildings on Glendower Street were converted into apartments and named Hyam Court.</p><br>
<p>The John Skillern House is a historic cabin located 25 mi northwest of Fairfield in Camas County, Idaho, near the confluence of the Big Smokey and Little Smokey creeks. The cabin was built in 1921-22 for John Skillern and his wife, who used it as a summer home and headquarters for Johns large sheep ranching business. Skillerns wife based the cabins rustic design off of the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park, which is reflected in the cabins steep roof and covered front porch. The cabin&#39;s other significant rustic features include its sleeping lofts with pole railings, its horizontal log construction with exposed logs on the inner walls, and its stone chimney.</p><br>
<p>The cabin was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Upper Brownlee School is a historic school building located on Dry Buck Road near Sweet, Idaho, United States. The school was built in 1911 by the residents of Brownlee, one of the several small mining communities which had grown in the Boise River basin in the late 19th century. The two-room schoolhouse was built in keeping with contemporary standards for rural schools; it provided for heating and ventilation, had several windows to provide light, included two cloakrooms and a library room, and featured hand-carved wooden trim for decoration. Like many rural Idaho schools, the schoolhouse also served as the local community center. The declining local population and the expense of new safety regulations in the 1940s spelled the end of Brownlees school, and the district merged into Sweets district in 1951. The building was purchased by area residents to serve as a community center and is now the only active community building in the area.</p><br>
<p>The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 31, 1998.</p><br>
<p>Hollingshead Homestead is a historic homestead located at 107 W. 1200 N. County Road in Teton County, Idaho, near the city of Tetonia. Brothers Miles and Karl Hollingshead established the homestead in 1906, claiming the land under the Homestead Act of 1862. At the time, Eastern Idaho was one of the few places where homesteaders could claim productive farmland, as its climate had discouraged earlier settlement. The brothers built a farm on the land, reflecting the region&#39;s agricultural economy.</p><br>
<p>Eight buildings and four structures remain at the homestead. The brothers built their original log house, called the "chicken coop", when they first settled the homestead. In the early 1910s, the brothers constructed a new log house with a stone foundation. Around this time, the brothers also built a granary and horse barn. A smokehouse, a barn which later became a granary, a privy, and three grain bins were added in the 1930s. The last two buildings, a dwelling and a forge, were built in the 1950s using poteaux-sur-sol construction; the method, which uses vertical logs to form walls, is uncommon in Idaho.</p><br>
<p>The homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Ririe A Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge is a Pegram truss railroad bridge which crosses the Snake River 3 mi north of Ririe, Idaho. The bridge, which carries a one-track section of the East Belt Branch, consists of two truss spans and is 420 ft long by 18 ft wide. The bridge was originally constructed for a crossing in Nyssa, Oregon in 1894 for the Union Pacific Railroad and was relocated to its current site in 1914, where it carried Oregon Short Line Railroad tracks. The bridges Pegram truss design was the work of George H. Pegram, the chief engineer for Union Pacific; as Pegram held a patent on the design, all surviving Pegram truss bridges were commissioned during Pegrams tenure with the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 25, 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Ririe B Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge is a Pegram truss railroad bridge which crosses the flood channel of the Snake River north of Ririe, Idaho. The single-span bridge, which carries a single track of the East Belt Branch, is 210 ft long and 18 ft wide. The bridge was originally constructed for a Union Pacific Railroad crossing in Nyssa, Oregon in 1894 and was relocated to its current site in 1914, where it carried Oregon Short Line Railroad tracks. The bridges Pegram truss design was the work of George H. Pegram, the chief engineer for Union Pacific; as Pegram held a patent on the design, all surviving Pegram truss bridges were commissioned during Pegrams tenure with the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 25, 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Malad Second Ward Tabernacle is a Latter-Day Saint  tabernacle and meetinghouse located in Malad City, Idaho. It is significant for its large scale and unorthodox adaptation of architectural styles, as well as its historical importance to Oneida County, which once was among the most populated counties in Idaho. It is, along with 6 other buildings in Oneida County, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Physical Description</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The exterior tabernacle is largely unchanged from its original appearance: the only modifications are the replacement of the wood-framed doors with metal-framed doors and the addition of metal railing to the entry steps, as well as minor work done in 1985. The one tall story of the red-brick building has a double-pitched end-gabled roof and rests on an elevated "look-out" basement. A parapeted, square corner tower (a tower set into the corner of a building) with white stone trim, which contains the main entrance, is outset from the Northeast corner of the building. The façade is also elaborated by a parapeted gable, also trimmed with white stone, and also with a molded belt course which follows the angle of the gable. A large tripartite (divided into three sections) window of primarily green stained glass centered in façade is round-headed, as are each of its three major sections. A white stone trim employing a stepped voussoir and a keystone motif is repeated above this window, the blind arches of the tower, and above the fan-lights over the front and side entrances. These entrances also have gabled overdoors, supported by volute-carved white wooden brackets.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At the time the Malad Second Ward Tabernacle was constructed, Malad City was an important commercial center between the Salt Lake Valley in Utah and Butte, Montana. The railroad had arrived in Malad in 1906 and the population of the city would double in the next fifteen years. The tabernacle was designed by M. E. Anderson, an architect living in Brigham City, Utah at the time. A number of individual businessmen and other members of the community contributed to the construction of the building. The completion of the impressive structure was much anticipated by the Mormon residents of Malad, and its progress was well reported in Malad&#39;s Idaho Enterprise, a contemporary local newspaper (the tabernacle made the front page of the newspaper several times). At the time of its completion, the tabernacle was surrounded by fields near the railroad station.</p><br>
<p>The wood-framed doors were eventually replaced by metal-framed glass doors, and metal rails were added to the entry steps, probably in 1949.</p><br>
<p>On July 27, 1979, after a nomination by the Idaho State Historical Society, the tabernacle was added to the National Register of Historic Places for "its ambitious scale and interesting adaptation of styles" and its "special significance within its particular community." At this time several large trees had grown up on the tabernacle grounds which are no longer there today.</p><br>
<p>In 1985, minor work was done which did not significantly affect the structure of the tabernacle.</p><br>
<p>The building once served as a Latter-Day Saint stake center, but that function has now been taken up by a different building and the Malad Second Ward Tabernacle currently operates as a normal meetinghouse, serving the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Wards.</p><br>
<p>The Albion Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located at 102 North St. in Albion, Idaho. The church was built in 1888-89 for Albions Methodist congregation, which was established in 1878. The churchs design is typical of vernacular rural churches built in Idaho at the time, featuring a gable front with a small belfry and a one-room interior. When the church opened, it became Albions first institutional building; it remained one of the citys few public buildings for much of its early history and hosted other churches&#39; services, public meetings, and classes at the Albion State Normal School. The church remained open through 1951, when it closed due to its inability to maintain an active congregation in a small town with a majority Mormon population.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The George Epperson House is a house located southeast of Jerome, Idaho, United States. Construction on the house was initiated in 1912 by George Epperson and his sons, who completed the foundation, basement, and several of the walls. The house remained unfinished for several years; additional construction was done in 1922, but the house was not completed until 1929, when George&#39;s son Ivan acquired the money to finish the building. The bungalow style house was built with lava rock; the dark rock and dark roof of the house are contrasted by the white trim and details. The house gained local notoriety in 1942 when owner Reuben Stoller was found dead in its basement; his murder was never solved.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Merritt Fry Farm is a historic farm located west of Jerome, Idaho, United States. The farm includes three stone buildings: a house, a bunkhouse, and a barn. The house and bunkhouse were built by prominent Jerome stone mason H. T. Pugh and illustrate his ability to match stones, join them with mortar, and use concrete for decoration. Farmer Merritt Fry had the bunkhouse built in 1916; it served as his temporary home until he could build a more permanent house. While farmers frequently built temporary farmhouses, Frys is unusual in that it uses stone rather than a less sturdy material. The barn followed the bunkhouse in 1926, and Frys permanent farmhouse was completed in 1930.</p><br>
<p>The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Comanche Point is the northwestern headland and prominence of the Tejon Hills, notably extending westward into the southern San Joaquin Valley, west of the Tehachapi Mountains. It is approximately 4 mi south of Arvin, in Kern County, California.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>Comanche Point and the rest of the Tejon Hills are on the Tejon Ranch, in the section managed by the Tejon Ranch Conservancy.</p><br>
<p>There are natural alkali springs and marshes on Comanche Point and the alkaline uplifted marine sediment deposits that form it, which support locally and regionally endemic and rare California native plants (flora).</p><br>
<p>The major threats to the areas rare flora and fauna are overgrazing, rooting feral pigs, and invasive plant species.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd Mallaen is an expansive plateau to the northwest of Cilycwm in northeast Carmarthenshire, Wales. It forms part of the Cambrian Mountains massif, and is north-west of the Black Mountain  in the Brecon Beacons. It takes the form of an undulating plateau with steep slopes dropping away to the Towy valley to the east and those of the Gwenffrwd, Nant Melyn and Afon Cothi to the north and west. Its highest point of 1516 feet or 462m at OS grid reference SN 723455 is surmounted by two Bronze Age cairns known as Crugiau Merched . Caeo Forest covers much of the southern flanks of the hill and smaller forests also cover its eastern slopes. Much of the native woodland consists of sessile oak groves, especially on the valley sides. The human population is very low, being restricted to hill farms engaged in sheep farming, and some holiday cottages.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The geology of Mynydd Mallaen is complex, comprising mudstones of the Claerwen Group together with sandstones of the Doethie and Glanyrafon Formations and the Caerau Mudstones Formation. Each of these Silurian rock formations is folded and faulted. Indeed it is an outcrop of conglomerate turbidite rock on the western limb of the Cothi Anticline which forms the summit of the hill.</p><br>
<p>Glacial till and boulder clay from the last ice age occupies some of the hollows on the plateau, and there are many stones and boulders of white quartz scattered across the plateau, perhaps the remains of mineral veins eroded away.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>In addition to several round barrows, there are many standing stones on the plateau, two being very near to Cregiau Merched; one is named as Maen Bach.</p><br>
<p>Gold mining occurs on the south-eastern flank of the plateau, and was pioneered in the Roman period as soon as the area had been conquered ca 75 AD. The remains are visible at Dolaucothi and traces of the Roman aqueducts can be seen on the neighbouring parts of the mountain. They tap both the River Cothi and Afon Twrch, Carmarthenshire. The earlier earthen aqueduct shows several channels above the minehead, and tapped local springs. The channels led to water tanks above a single opencast near to Pumpsaint on the south western flank of the plateau. A larger one tapped the Twrch higher up the valley. The Cothi aqueduct tapped the larger river about 7 miles upstream, and fed a large reservoir at the minehead. Such tanks were used in hushing, a method of removing surface debris to find gold veins in the bedrock. They were also used for washing gold-bearing sand or other deposits, a form of placer mining or hydraulic mining, as well washing crushed ore on special gold washing tables. From dating evidence at Melin-y-Milwyr, a small reservoir above the minehead and the large Roman fort under Pumpsaint village, mining tailed off after 150 AD although some presence continued till circa 350 AD.</p><br>
<p>There was also a very large lead mine nearby to the north of the plateau at Rhandirmwyn which was one of the largest in the world in the 1750s. There is also some evidence of earlier mining on a smaller scale at the head of the mine, at the outcrop of Pencerrig mwyn which may also be of Roman origin.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>There are numerous bird species present in the area, including large birds of preys like the red kite, common buzzard, raven, kestrel and carrion crow, as well as songbirds such as the skylark, among many others. The red kite retreated to this area after intense persecution by gamekeepers in the rest of the country. There are foxes and badgers especially in the woods and forests, and the local rivers are well stocked with salmon, trout and sewin. There is a wide distribution of mammals such as field voles and rabbits as well as many songbirds. The skylark is plentiful due to the extensive rough pasture present below the main peaks which allows ground nesting of the species. Pied wagtails are common near the streams and torrents running from the hill tops.</p><br>
<p>The numerous sessile oak groves along the sheltered hillsides host the common bluebell in the spring, as well as offering sanctuary to wildlife.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The entire hill is mapped as open country under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 so is freely available to those on foot. Additionally there is a bridleway which crosses the hill in an east-west direction and a further one approaching from the south. Large parts of the plateau is peat bog and wet underfoot, so care is needed in walking the top in the absence of clear footpaths. Apart from the two standing stones and large cairns, there are few obvious landmarks.</p><br>
<p>Old Main and Chemistry Building are two, connected historic buildings located on the campus of Widener University at Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. "Old Main" was built in 1867, and is a four-story, stucco and stone building with a two-pitched roof. It has a central grand pediment, with two minor flanking pediments. Atop the grand pediment is a "dome" structure and atop both minor pediments is a cupola. It measures 243 feet long and between 55 and 65 feet deep. Old Main was expanded in 1883, with the addition of an auditorium, and dormitory and classroom space. The Chemistry Building was built in 1883, and is a three-story building measuring 37 feet by 51 feet.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Chester Waterside Station of the Philadelphia Electric Company is a historic former coal-fired power station, located on the Delaware River in Chester, Delaware County, southeastern Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Built by the Philadelphia Electric Company, it is currently owned by the PECO Energy Company of the Exelon Corporation. The complex has been converted into an office building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The original section of the Station building was built in 1916, and consists of the Boiler House with attached Coal Towers and Turbine Hall, and the Switch House. The complex was designed by architect John T. Windrim and engineer William C.L. Eglin, and featured then recent advances in generating technology and industrial construction. The principal facades were designed in the Beaux-Arts style.</p><br>
<p>The Turbine Hall Annex addition was built in 1939-1942.</p><br>
<p>Also located on the property is the two-story, red brick Machine Shop building. It was also built by the Philadelphia Electric Company.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Chester Waterside Station was documented by the federal HAER−Historic American Engineering Record, with extensive exterior and interior photography by renowned architectural photographer Jack Boucher in 1997 and 1998; architectural drawings; and a detailed descriptive report of the facility design and history, and its contemporary industrial history contexts.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, the machine shop was converted into a 16,500 square foot indoor training facility and offices for the Philadelphia Union Major League Soccer club.</p><br>
<p>Isola del Garda or Isola di Garda or Isola Borghese is the biggest island on Lake Garda. It is part of the comune of San Felice del Benaco, in the Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. The island has a long and varied history, having been used as a Roman burial ground, pirate lair, a site for a Franciscan monastery, border fortification and as a residential villa. The island has been visited by numerous famous people over the centuries, reportedly including Francis of Assissi, Anthony of Padua and Dante Alighieri. Today, it is covered by a park and is dominated by the Venetian neogothic Villa Borghese Cavazza. Although privately owned by the Cavazza family, Isola del Garda has been open to visitors since 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Isola del Garda is located in the southwest of Lake Garda, just south of the Gulf of Salò, close to the town of San Felice del Benaco, in Brescia province. It is separated from Capo San Fermo by only about 220 meters of open water. It is by far the largest island on the lake. The island (or actually islands, since Isola del Garda includes some small outcroppings of rock and most of the park is divided from the house by a narrow channel) was initially just rocks jutting out from the lake. All the soil for the gardens was brought in over time by the inhabitants. The island is around 1.1 km long, but only around 70 m wide at the widest point. It is now mostly covered by a park and formal gardens with a large variety of plants.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island has been known in turn as Insula Cranie ("Isle of Skulls"), Isola dei Frati ("Isle of Monks"), Isola Scotti, Isola Lechi, Isola de Ferrari and Isola Borghese. It has likely been inhabited since the Roman period. 130 Gallo-Roman tombstones found on the island indicate that it was at least used as a burial area at the time. Remains of votive temples have also been discovered. Reportedly, after having been abandoned during the period of decline of the Roman Empire, the island served for a long time as a hideout for pirates who preyed on the shipping on Lake Garda.</p><br>
<p>The island is first mentioned in written documents in a decree by Duke Carloman of Bavaria, dated 879, which granted the island to the monks of San Zeno of Verona. Apparently, they did not hold on to the property because in 1180 it was mentioned again when Emperor Frederick I granted it as a fief to one Biemino of Manerba. Around 1220, Francis of Assissi travelled through northern Italy. Although it is not certain whether he actually visited the island, the Franciscans did establish a simple hermitage among the caves and rocks of the island at that time, after it was bestowed on them by Biemino. In 1224, the Bishop of Trent visited the hermitage and three years later so did reportedly Anthony of Padua in 1227. According to local legend, in 1304, Dante Alighieri came to the island and later referred to it in his Divine Comedy as:</p><br>
<p>Loco è nel mezzo là dove &#39;l trentino</p><br>
<p>pastore e quel di Brescia e &#39;l veronese</p><br>
<p>segnar poria, se fesse quel cammino</p><br>
<p>(Inferno, Canto XX)</p><br>
<p>In 1422, Bernardino of Siena was on the island for the first of several visits and in that period a Franciscan convent was constructed. It was rebuilt and expanded in 1438, the added church was named Santa Maria dello Scoglio. In 1470, Father Francesco Licheto (1450–1520), a member of the noble Lechi family from Brescia, founded a school of theology and philosophy on the island. In 1517, a religious commentary he wrote was printed for him by Paganino Paganini on the island, and became the first printed book to be published in the whole region around Lake Garda. Giano Fregoso, Doge of Genua, and his son Alessandro used the island as a retreat. However, after Licheto&#39;s death the religious community there went into decline. From 1685 to 1697 it was a convent for novices.</p><br>
<p>In 1795, the government of the Republic of Venice decided to suppress the monastery. Its last head, Bonaventura di Casalloro, was forced to close the monastery and leave the island with the remaining monks. The property was then requisitioned by a decree of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798, after the establishment of the Cisalpine Republic. Its government sold the island to private owners in 1800. After passing through several hands, it was bought in 1817 by Count Luigi Lechi from Brescia. He ordered major construction and renovation works and the monastery was turned into a villa. Lechi was also a poet and among his guests were composers Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti, the writers Ippolito Pindemonte and as well as painter Luigi Basiletti and architect Rodolfo Vantini. The latter designed the islands small port with its tower. Lechis lover, the singer Adelaide Malanotte, was also a regular guest. In 1837, Luigi Lechi passed the property on to his brother Teodoro (1778-1866), a former general in the Napoleonic army, who—among other changes—added the terraces at the front of the villa.</p><br>
<p>In 1860, the island was expropriated by the newly unified Italian state and turned into a border fortification against the Austrians, who at the time still held the region of Venetia including the eastern shore of Lake Garda. Although some construction work was done, the idea to turn the island into a fortress was abandoned after the Austrians ceded most of their holdings in northern Italy to the Kingdom of Italy after the Third Italian War of Independence in 1866. After that, only the northern end of Lake Garda around Riva del Garda remained Austrian. In 1870, the island was sold at auction and purchased by Baron Scotti. He in turn sold it to Duke Gaetano de Ferrari (1818–1893) from Genoa. De Ferrari and his wife, the Russian Archduchess Maria Sergeyevna Annenkova (1837–1924), a niece of the Russian Tsar, moved to the island. Between 1880 and 1900 they had the park constructed, built containment walls to keep out the water and imported fertile earth and exotic plants. Whilst the park was designed from the beginning as an English-style garden, the area in front of the house was laid out as a more formal Italian garden. In 1893, the Duke died, but the couple had previously decided to build a new villa on the site of the old Lechi villa. This Venetian neogothic palace was constructed in 1890 to 1903, based on a design of architect.</p><br>
<p>After the Archduchess died, her daughter Anna Maria (1874–1924), wife of Prince Scipione Borghese from Rome, inherited the island but she survived her mother by only a few months. In 1927, the prince died, leaving the island to his daughter, Princess Livia Borghese (1901–1969), who was married to Count Alessandro Cavazza from Bologna (1895–1969).</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>Today the island is owned by Lady Charlotte Cavazza. She lives on the island with her family (her seven children—four brothers and three sisters—and their families). The family also owns properties on the nearby peninsula where they run businesses that include boat rental, olive growing, a camping site, an agriturismo and a riding school.</p><br>
<p>Since 2002 the island has been open to visitors on guided tours. It can also be rented for special events.</p><br>
<p>The Fish Springs Range is a 16-mile  long narrow, and north-trending mountain range located in center-west Juab County, Utah. The northeast of the range borders the Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge; the entire east of the range borders the Fish Springs Flat, where the east region of the flat borders the Thomas Range.</p><br>
<p>The Fish Springs Range lies at the south of the Great Salt Lake Desert; southwards, as well as southwest and southeastwards, north-trending valleys and mountain ranges drain northwards to the Great Salt Lake Desert. The sequence of these landforms west-to-east, are Snake Valley (Great Basin), Confusion Range, Tule Valley-(Fish Springs Range-north), House Range, Whirlwind Valley, and Drum Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The south of the range borders the north of Tule Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Range description</h2><br>
<p>The Fish Springs Range is north-south trending, linear, narrow (mostly 3 to 4-mi wide), the range is veryslightly "arc-shaped", and curved, to the west.</p><br>
<p>A small sub-range, Middle Range, lies 6.5-mi southwest, towards the Confusion Range. Southeast lies the extreme north foothills of the House Range. Fish Springs Flat borders the east of the range, and west of the range lies a satellite sub-peak (only other regional peak), The Honeycombs, 5,686 ft.</p><br>
<p>The highpoint of the range in the center-south is George H. Hansen Peak, 5,686 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The Fish Springs Range and wildlife refuge can be accessed from the west from Trout Creek. From the east, access can be from the Dugway Range region by unimproved roads, and southeast by the same from Delta, and Utah State Route 174, (through the Sevier Desert).</p><br>
<p>Home of Peace is a Jewish cemetery in Helena, Montana, founded in 1867 by the local Hebrew Benevolent Society , which formed on December 9, 1866. The Society formally purchased the land in 1875. The Home of Peace Cemetery Association now maintains the grounds. It is the oldest active cemetery in Helena and the oldest active European ethno-religious cemetery in Montana. There are three major sections of land owned by the Association: the cemetery, undeveloped adjacent land, and land leased to the Helena School District since 1975. The portion leased by the school district is a practice football field for Capital High School and contains unmarked graves from the earliest days of the cemetery. The original wrought iron fence erected in 1867 still stands except on the north side and is in disrepair in places. A granite gateway erected in 1910 is at the main entrance. The east gate also has granite markers. There is a water tower, pump house, and landscaping shed. Twelve broken tombstones lie at the base of the water tower. The northwest corner has remained undeveloped and in its natural wild state. In 1910 cottonwood trees were planted along the driveway.</p><br>
<p>Jewish immigrants arrived in Helena as early as 1864. Most of the Jewish immigrants to Helena had come from Germany or Prussia in the wake of the Montana Gold Rush. Most of them practiced Reform Judaism and worked as merchants, providing goods and services to the miners. As of November 2005, there are 204 tombstones and over 240 recorded burials in the cemetery. There are no markers remaining from the 1860s. The oldest remaining marker is that of Hattie Jacobs who died in 1873. Most markers are made from local sandstone or granite, a few of imported marble. Markers are found both lying down and standing upright. As the Jewish population of Helena peaked in 1900 with 138 adults, burials in the cemetery are no longer as frequent as they once were. The Jewish population of Helena declined steadily over the years and there are now more Jewish people buried in this cemetery than there are living in Helena.</p><br>
<p>The Stratford Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic former church building located near the city of Delaware, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the 1840s for workers in a company town, it was home to a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church until the community faltered following the company&#39;s closure. Situated at the southern end of the company town, it remains prominent because of its architecture, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1838, Caleb Howard and Hosea Williams bought a watermill on the Olentangy River near Delaware, with the goal of converting the property into industrial use as a pair of paper mills. Desirous of avoiding the poverty and slums so closely associated with burgeoning industry in the United Kingdom, the owners established a mill village with amenities to assist the workers. The first new buildings in the settlement were constructed by Howard and Williams, for it was to be a company town; they retained the tavern that was already on the property, and their contractors residences and a church for the workers. Continued growth mandated a more formal existence for the community, so it was platted in 1850 and given the name "Stratford" in honor of the Bards hometown. The companys fortunes fell soon after the end of the Civil War; the 1870s saw production falter, as the mills were operating for just nine months per year in 1880, and by 1890 one was closed entirely. The company closed in 1896, and five years later the mills were sold to a local railroad company.</p><br>
<p>Stratford Methodist Church was built in 1842 with money from Hosea Williams and Hiram Andrews, who had replaced Caleb Howard in the company partnership; it was constructed on land given by one of its charter members, Forrest Meeker, who had sold to Williams and Howard most of the land needed for the mill village. Organized circa 1845, the congregation was attached to St. Paul&#39;s Methodist Church in Delaware during the latter half of the Civil War. Being financially dependent on the paper mill, the congregation closed in 1896 following the closure of the mills.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Stratford Methodist Church is built primarily of stone; the roof is metal, and various elements are made of asphalt and wood, but the dominating appearance is stone — limestone was used for the foundation, and the walls are composed of a mix of limestone and sandstone. The gabled facade is divided into three bays, with windows in the first-story side bays and in the second-story central bay. A short tower once sat on the peak of the roof near the front of the building; it was a frame structure. Among the most prominent components of the architecture are the large semicircular arches around the windows, piercing walls 5 ft thick. Inside, the gabled roof is supported by an unusual structural system of king post trusses.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In late 1991, the former Stratford Methodist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its place in local history. It was part of a multiple property submission of buildings erected in Stratfords earliest years; all of the other buildings were residences. Crucial to its historic significance was its contribution to the communitys built environment: the church is surrounded by a large open lot, which helps to demonstrate the rural context in which the village is located. Situated on the corner of the junction of USA Route 23 and State Route 315, the church lies at the southern end of the old village; an old boarding house sits just to the south, but all of the other original buildings, including several worker houses, are located well to the north.</p><br>
<p>Broad Street Christian Church is a historic church building on the near east side of Columbus, Ohio, United States. The edifice was constructed in an exclusive residential neighborhood at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it has been designated a historic site. It was home for most of its history to a Disciples of Christ congregation, and is now the seat an Ethiopian Orthodox congregation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1870, some of the citys New Lights formed a church that soon built a building downtown on Gay Street at Third Street. This building remained in use for approximately thirty-five years, acquiring the nickname of "Old Central", before its replacement by the present structure in 1907. The congregation employed Columbus architect Wilbur T. Mills to design its new building on E. Broad Street, which by the late nineteenth century had become the citys premier wealthy neighborhood. Here the congregation remained until the end of 2009, when it closed; members last worshipped together on December 27, after which many of the contents were removed and the building sold to a parish of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church is primarily a stone building: walls, foundation, and smaller elements are all stone, although terracotta tiles cover the roof. Rather than ashlar, the stone blocks of the walls are rough-hewn, and only the trim is smoothed. The overall appearance is that of the Arts and Crafts movement; besides the rough-hewn stonework, the style is displayed through elements such as the bracketed shelters over the entrances and the eaves over the edges of the building. Other major components include a square corner tower with a hip roof, round turrets on the other corners, short but thick Tuscan columns, rounded arch windows of stained glass, and an arcade sheltering the main entrance. Overall, the two-story building possesses a rectangular floor plan.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>In 1986, the Broad Street Christian Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its architecture and because of its place in the communitys history. A historic district and twenty-three other buildings, including the nearby East Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Saint Pauls Episcopal Church, were listed with it as part of a multiple property submission of significant buildings on East Broad Street.</p><br>
<p>Holy Cross Church, Rectory and School is a historic church and home to an active parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus. It is located in the Discovery District neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio at 212 S. 5th Street. The “Mother Church of Columbus”, Holy Cross Church is a Gothic Revival church building that was constructed in 1848 making it the oldest Christian church building in Columbus. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the early 1800s, the first Catholics in Columbus were visited only occasionally by traveling priests of the Dominican order. When Father Thomas Martin, OP visited Columbus in May 1833, a group of five local landowners (Samuel and Margaret Crosby, Nathaniel and Caroline Medbury, and Phoebe Otis) met with him and proposed to gift property at Fifth and Walnut streets to the Catholic Church provided that a church building be constructed and in use within five years’ time. That building, Saint Remigius Church, was dedicated on April 29, 1838.</p><br>
<p>Measuring at just 55 feet long and 30 feet wide, Saint Remigius Church was planned as a temporary place of worship that would later be turned into a school. The pastors at Saint Remigius also served the Catholics in neighboring cities in addition to the parish’s own primarily German congregation.</p><br>
<p>Father William Schonat became the first resident priest in 1843. By then, the growing Catholic population in Columbus necessitated a larger church building. At Father Schonat’s request, the parish was renamed “Holy Cross”. The present structure was completed in 1848, just as Irish immigrants began to arrive in Columbus to escape the Great Famine. This influx of migrants eventually split off to form Saint Patrick Church, though they continued to share Holy Cross while the new church was being built.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>The property is located on 0.165 acres at the corner of South 5th and East Rich Streets in Columbus. The church is constructed of over 800,000 bricks. It features a prominent statue of Jesus on the Via Dolorosa with the inscription “Follow Me”, and clock tower with a steeple and belfry. The “Follow Me” statue covers an inscription that reads “God forbid that I should glory, but in the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world”, a quote from the Epistle to the Galatians.</p><br>
<p>The rectory and the school were built of brick in 1861 and 1871, respectively.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>Many murals adorn the church interior. Two murals near the sanctuary depict Saint Helena finding the True Cross and the presentation of the True Cross to Pope Saint Sylvester. Other murals along the sides of the nave include the Annunciation, the Nativity of Jesus, the Finding in the Temple of the Child Jesus, the Resurrection of Jesus, and the Ascension of Jesus.</p><br>
<p>The two manual, six rank pipe organ was built by Page Organ Company in 1928. It was installed in the Fayette Theater (Washington Court House, Ohio) before it was moved to Holy Family Church in Franklinton, Ohio in 1947. The organ was moved to Holy Cross in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Munich-style stained glass windows were created by Zettler Studios. The windows were stored on a German dock during World War I until they were finally shipped to Columbus after the war.</p><br>
<p>Shiloh Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church in Columbus, Ohio, United States. One of the oldest black churches in the city, it has been active since the 1860s, and its 1920s building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick on a concrete foundation, the Gothic Revival church features limestone details and is covered with an asphalt roof. The major part of the church is on the second story, sitting above a basement with windows at ground level; the main part of the building is entered through large doors atop a flight of exterior stairs. Squat rectangular towers with pyramidal roofs sit on the front corners of the building, with simple rectangular windows above small doorways. The plan partially reflects traditional ecclesiastical architecture, with a gabled roof being interrupted by cross gables on the sides. Many of the windows, as well as the doorways, are wide ogive arches.</p><br>
<p>Shiloh Baptist Church was formed by a group of former members of the citys Second Baptist Church. Seeing the citys black population increasing rapidly, especially on the near east side, Second Baptist leaders asked for volunteers to leave and form a new church; these volunteers formed the entire charter membership of the new Shiloh church. From their first meeting in 1869 until 1871, they worshipped in a rented property at Gay and Fourth Streets downtown, after which they moved a few blocks eastward to Cleveland Avenue and Long Street. The congregation again moved in 1923 upon the completion of the present building on Mount Vernon Avenue, significantly farther east than the previous houses of worship. A minister, James Burks, was responsible for the design, with additional work being performed by the A.O. Day Construction Company.</p><br>
<p>As the third oldest black church in Columbus, younger only than the parent church and a congregation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the congregation has long played a significant part in the life of Mount Vernon. In recognition of its significance in local history, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The congregation remains active in the wider Baptist community as a part of the Eastern Union Missionary Baptist Association.</p><br>
<p>The Welsh Presbyterian Church is a historic former church in downtown Columbus, Ohio, United States. Used as a church only for a few decades, the building has seen many uses over the ensuing decades, ranging from commercial to government-affiliated to social services. Because of its architecture, the building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Founded in 1849, the Welsh Presbyterian Church first worshipped one block away from its second location. Work began on the second church building in 1887 and was finished in the following year. This building, in turn, closed in 1919 after the congregation moved farther away, and for many years the property was employed for commercial purposes. Among its tenants since that time have been the offices of Commercial Motor Freight, a factory, a store of the M.C. Lilley Company, and the offices of the Community Action Organization for the Columbus metropolitan area.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick, the Romanesque Revival building rests on a foundation of limestone, is covered with a slate roof, and features elements of sandstone. Two entrances are placed on the front of the building: one at the far left, and one at the far right, with large windows between them. The roof is steeply gabled, with an oculus near the peak on the front gable, while the single-story side walls feature both small and large windows at various heights. Cylindrical components are placed at the corners as well as occasional points on the facade. These elements combine to produce somewhat of the appearance of a fortress with turrets and buttresses.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Welsh Presbyterian Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its architecture. Its significance derives partly from its location, as almost no 19th-century structures have survived in its immediate vicinity, and comparable examples of Romanesque Revival architecture are rare in downtown Columbus. The building is now home to Faith Mission, a homeless shelter affiliated with Lutheran Social Services.</p><br>
<p>The Auburn Free Will Baptist Church is a historic former Baptist church building in Auburn Township, Geauga County, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, it is no longer home to the congregation that built it, but it remains a significant component of the area&#39;s built environment, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The Auburn Free Will Baptist Church was formed in 1839 or 1840, led by an Elder Miller as the first pastor. The congregation was able to build a church building by the end of 1840, but forty years later the congregation remained weak enough that they were forced to share their pastor with another church. Before the building was finished, the church often worshipped in a schoolhouse or in a barn belonging to farmer Richard Slitor.</p><br>
<p>Built with clapboarded walls on a foundation of sandstone, the church is most distinctive for its roofline and the roofs structural support. From the outside, the roof resembles an ordinary gable roof, but an unusual system of trusses and diagonal bracing supports the underside of the roof. Local historians have deemed this construction style particularly rare in the Connecticut Western Reserve. With this exception, it is typical of the regions vernacular Greek Revival churches; three windows appear on the sides and on the second story of the front, while the main entrance is centered between a window on each side of the front&#39;s first floor. A tower once sat atop the front of the building.</p><br>
<p>In May 1976, the church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically distinctive architecture and because of its place in local history. It is the only National Register-listed location in Auburn Township, and one of three Geauga County churches with this designation, along with the Claridon Congregational Church in Claridon Township and the South Newbury Union Chapel in Newbury Township.</p><br>
<p>Perlilla is a mountain of 5587 m in the Cordillera Blanca range, a part of the Peruvian Andes. It lies within the provinces of Asunción, Carhuaz and Huari. Its eastern summit  is located in the Huari Province.</p><br>
<p>The peak was climbed for the first time on July 14, 1966 by M. Ishinabe, A. Kurihara, A. Miyahara, S. Ooe and T. Suzuki).</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>Perlilla has an area a bit greater than 30 km², 90% of its surface is accessible without much difficulty from the town of Chacas. The 14 km² of snow surface at its northern part are suitable for the practice of winter sports because the slopes do not exceed 50°.</p><br>
<p>Due to its latitude (9 ° 18&#39;16 "S) so close to the equator, could be considered the ski center at higher altitudes closer to Ecuador, surpassing the Chacaltaya Bolivian track for its vast area of 3000 snowfall hectares and its enormous potential for the development of winter sports.</p><br>
<p>The beauty of its surroundings comprises the following natural attractions:</p><br>
<p>Yanaqucha</p><br>
<p>Paqarisha Lake</p><br>
<p>Ventanilla Lake</p><br>
<p>Quebrada Honda</p><br>
<p>Quebrada Ashnuwana</p><br>
<p>Juytush River</p><br>
<p>Sirikari  is a small mountain village  located in western Crete, in the regional unit of Chania, Greece. It is part of the municipality of Kissamos. It is 55 km to the west from Chania and 17 km to the south from Kissamos. Sirikari differs from other typical Greek villages in that it comprises 12 scattered neighbourhoods . The ones that are not populated anymore are Micheliana and Marouliana or Felesiana). The name is suggested to derive from the Byzantine surname Sirikarios, which means the person who makes silk linen, generally the silk-worker.</p><br>
<h2>History and population</h2><br>
<p>The settlement is mentioned in three Venetian census reports. The name&#39;s etymology along with the presence of a Byzantine church (Aghioi Apostoloi), suggest that a settlement with the same name has been in the area since Byzantine times. The village saw its population drop dramatically over the past decades and now comprises 132 people (2001 census).</p><br>
<h2>Attractions</h2><br>
<h3>Chestnut forest</h3><br>
<p>Sirikari has a big chestnut forest which is typical of the region. There is also a small river that runs through it which makes it a very nice scenery. The biggest annual festival (paniyiri) is held in this chestnut forest. Chestnuts are one of the main sources of the local agricultural economy.</p><br>
<h3>Sirikari - Polyrrhenia Gorge</h3><br>
<p>A beautiful gorge exists between Sirikari and the ancient acropolis of Polyrrhenia. A moderate path runs the gorge and it is an activity suggested by travel guides and local agents.</p><br>
<h3>Agrotourism</h3><br>
<p>Agrotourism is well established in the area. A few years ago, Milia (Μηλιά), a nearby abandoned village, was refurbished and opened as an eco-friendly inn.</p><br>
<h3>Churches - Paniyiria</h3><br>
<p>Villages in Greece have lots of small scattered churches. Sirikari is no exception with various churches. Each church holds an annual festive liturgy on the day of the saints name celebration. After the liturgy, a paniyiri is held which involves live music, dancing and lots of food and wine. The biggest paniyiri in the area is Panagias which is held on the 15th of August every year and draws crowds from the surrounding areas and villages. The paniyiri is held in the chestnut forest. Another very well known paniyiri is the Holy Cross one held on the 13th and 14 September every year.</p><br>
<p>The church of Aghioi Apostoloi was built in 1427. It is one of the Byzantine churches of the area worth visiting.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopalian parish in the city of Hillsboro, Ohio, United States. Constructed during the middle of the 19th century, this Gothic Revival church building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys considers its history to have begun in 1851, when occasional Episcopalian services were conducted in the Highland County Courthouse. The first priest, Noah Schenck, came two years later, after Bishop McIlvaine directed him to spend half of his Sundays with St. Marys and half with a parish in Troy. In 1854, the parish began construction of its church building after hiring Cincinnati architect John R. Hamilton, and the Hillsboro contractors Henning and Shinn completed construction in the following year. Thirty years later, the building was improved by the installation of a large pipe organ with 1,600 pipes.</p><br>
<p>Built on a foundation of limestone and covered with an asphalt roof, the church has substantial components of wood and glass. A small tower sits atop the building&#39;s large gable front, much of which consists of a large stained glass window above the main entrance. Its buttressed limestone walls set it apart from all other churches in the city, as no other limestone churches were built in Hillsboro in the nineteenth century. Lit by six ogive-arch windows, the interior features oaken pews installed at the time of construction, a lofty vaulted ceiling, and wainscoting made of marble.</p><br>
<p>In 1988, St. Mary&#39;s Church and its rectory were together listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of their distinctive historic architecture. The combined property is one of more than thirty current and former Episcopal churches on the Register in Ohio, and one of twenty-six Register-listed properties in Highland County. The parish remains an active part of the Diocese of Southern Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Millersburg Christian Church is a historic Disciples of Christ church at 100 North Clay Street in Millersburg, Ohio. The earliest Christian Church was a frame structure built on this site in 1859. The brick building was constructed during 1903-04.</p><br>
<p>An early 20th century Victorian Gothic design in polychromatic tan brick. Built on an L-shaped layout, three bays wide and six deep. The exterior is accented with dark brownstone sills, brick hood moulds and a corbelled cornice. The walls are pierced by paired stained glass windows with buttresses. On the southwest corner is the main entrance under the bell tower, which is topped with a pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1903 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>United Methodist Church is a historic church North Washington Street in Millersburg, Ohio. The Methodist Episcopal Church of Millersburg was built in 1871, replacing an earlier building from 1821. It is a Romanesque Revival style standing two stories high with a slate gabel roof.</p><br>
<p>The exterior has a paired stain glass window under a brick hood mould with brick corbelling. A stone belt runs between the first floor windows and the second floor windows. The gable peak is surmounted by a wooden cross on a finial. The northeast corner supports a buttressed bell tower with a tent roof. The sanctuary is on the second floor and retains the stained glass windows and a balcony.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Zion Episcopal Church is a historic Protestant Episcopal parish in the village of Monroeville, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the 1860s in the regionally unusual Carpenter Gothic style, the church building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Monroeville was platted in 1817, one year after the arrival of the first settler, and the village was incorporated in 1868. Within the first few years, churches of the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian faiths were organized.</p><br>
<p>Built with weatherboarded walls and covered with a shingled roof, Zion is a Carpenter Gothic structure. Its architectural style distinguishes it among rural mid-nineteenth-century churches in the Connecticut Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio, many of which were Greek Revival buildings without the single tall tower so prominent in Zion&#39;s design. At the same time, Zion differs from the typical Carpenter Gothic church in its use of angled gable-shaped windows instead of the ogive traditional in Gothic Revival buildings. Worshippers enter the building though double doors in the base of the tower, above which are placed one large window and one small. A belfry with louvering occupies the highest level of the tower, above which stands a cross-tipped steeple. The roof rises steeply to front and rear gables, with a small section of the roof and much of the front gable being obscured by the tower.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, Zion Episcopal Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. On the same day, the same designation was granted to two other Monroeville locations, the Seth Brown House and the John Hosford House.</p><br>
<p>Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church is a historic Greek Orthodox church building near downtown Steubenville, Ohio, United States. Constructed for a large Methodist Episcopal congregation in the early twentieth century, it was acquired by the present occupants in 1945. Featuring Neoclassical elements such as a large dome and a prominent colonnade, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Methodist history</h3><br>
<p>The first minister to pass through Jefferson County appears to have been Baptist preacher David Jones, a travelling minister who preached to Indians and scattered settlers during a 1772 visit. Jefferson Countys first Methodists were present by the 1780s, appearing in Richard Butlers journal during an expedition to remove squatters from Indian country in 1785. Methodist preachers were active in Steubenville during 1794; a circuit had been formed by 1796, and a separate congregation was formed before long. When Francis Asbury visited Steubenville to preach in 1803, he observed that their usual meeting place, the courthouse, was too small to hold everyone. Several years passed before this problem was resolved; some members formed a separate congregation nearby in 1810, and wealthy member Bezaleel Wells donated land at the corner of Fourth and South Streets in Steubenville upon which a church was ready for use by the end of 1811. Epidemics carried away many in 1813, but the numbers continued to swell as revival meetings won numerous converts, and while the new building was complete by 1814, an expansion was necessary as early as 1821. By 1824, the church was larger than any other in Steubenville, but the coming of New Light preachers caused a split, as the newcomers won away many Methodists. Membership stood at 178 in 1830, but 82 members left during the national schism that produced the Methodist Protestant Church in that year, and an epidemic of scarlet fever killed many younger members in the following year. Nevertheless, the congregation eventually began to regain its strength; the members living in northern Steubenville became a separate congregation in 1845, but eleven years later, the original building was replaced with a larger structure that was expanded in 1871. Further church planting was conducted in 1867 and 1870, but by 1910, membership was approximately 650. Consequently, the present building was constructed on the same site in 1914.</p><br>
<h3>Orthodox history</h3><br>
<p>The earliest members of the Greek Orthodox faith resident in Steubenville had no church building; some were members of the Holy Trinity parish, which worshipped on the upper floors of commercial buildings, while others crossed the Ohio River to Weirton for worship, even though both the Fort Steuben Bridge and the Market Street Bridge charged tolls at the time. The situation changed in 1945, when Holy Trinity bought the former First Methodist building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Holy Trinity is a composite Neoclassical building; the walls are brick with significant sandstone elements, covered by an asphalt roof and resting on a stone foundation. The main entrance is set in a recessed portico at the center of the facade, accessed by a small flight of steps and sheltered by a colonnade of four Ionic columns. A tall entablature, as high as some of the windows, stands above the columns, while a small pediment sits atop the middle of the entablature. On the side facing South Street, the primary component of the facade is a large gabled section filled with a central arch window and smaller rectangular windows. Corner sections of the building, plus a section extending farther along South, are two stories tall with an exposed basement, and numerous smaller windows pierce the walls on all three floors. A tall square tower, once topped with a cupola, is placed along the South Street side, while a far larger dome covers the central portion of the building.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 2006, Holy Trinity Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. It is one of eight National Register-listed locations in the city, along with buildings such as the 1900 Carnegie library one block away, the pioneer-era Federal Land Office at Fort Steuben, and the Steubenville Commercial Historic District downtown.</p><br>
<p>Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house near OH 150 in the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. It was built in 1814 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and was the first Quaker yearly meeting house west of the Alleghenies.</p><br>
<p>Mount Pleasant, named a National Historic Landmark District for its association with the antislavery movement in the years leading up to the American Civil War, is home to five documented Underground Railroad “stations”. The village celebrated its 200th anniversary with tours, special displays and programs on Saturday, Aug. 2 and Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. On Saturday, Aug. 2, there was a special program in the 1814 Quaker Meeting House with The Hon. John Doyle Ong, former USA Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway and descendant of Jacob Ong who built the house. Jacob Ong was the Meeting House "carpenter" or in modern terms contractor. He was a minister and was remembered by an friend thus: He usually had a message for the people, his theme was always love. In the earnestness of his soul he would deliver the message, while tears would trickle down his furrowed cheeks. Trembling from head to foot, he would exhort young and old to love the Lord and one another."</p><br>
<p>The building is now owned by the Ohio Historical Society and managed by the Mount Pleasant Historical Society as the Quaker Yearly Meeting House.</p><br>
<p>The Monument to the Independence of Brazil  is granite and bronze sculpture in São Paulo, Brazil. It is also known as the Ipiranga Monument  or the Altar of the Fatherland . The monument is located on the banks of the Ipiranga Brook, in São Paulo, on the historic site where the later Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil proclaimed the independence of the country on September 7, 1822.</p><br>
<p>The monument was designed and built by the Italian sculptor Ettore Ximenes (1855-1926) and the Italian architect Manfredo Manfredi (1859-1927) to celebrate the first centenary of Brazilian Independence.</p><br>
<p>The Brazilian Imperial Crypt and Chapel is located inside the monument. The crypt was built in 1972 to house the remains of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, also King Pedro IV of Portugal, and his wives, Maria Leopoldina of Austria and Amélie of Leuchtenberg. The crypt is consecrated as a Catholic chapel, as demanded by the then head of the Brazilian Imperial Family, Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza. He agreed to allow the transfer of the bodies of his ancestors to the Monument on the condition that the place be consecrated as a Catholic place of burial, with a Catholic altar, where Masses could be offered for the repose of their souls. Pedro I and Amélie of Leuchtenberg&#39;s bodies were transferred from the Royal Pantheon of the House of Braganza, in Lisbon; while D. Maria Leopoldina was moved from the Convent of Santo Antônio in Rio de Janeiro.</p><br>
<p>The Macedonia Baptist Church is a historic former Baptist church building near the community of Burlington at the southern point of the USA state of Ohio. Constructed in the middle of the nineteenth century, it held a significant place in the culture of the local black population, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Situated at Ohios southernmost point, the Burlington vicinity saw large numbers of runaway slaves and free Negroes in the decades before the Civil War. Into such a context, a group of Baptists settled and founded a church at some point between 1811 and 1813; after a period of worshipping in their homes, the congregation constructed a small and primitive church building. Late 1849 was the churchs watershed moment: Virginia landowner James Twyman freed many of his slaves at his death and provided for them to be given land near Burlington, and thirty-two of them settled near the church on land that they officially owned, beginning at the end of October. Joining with the existing Baptist congregation, they helped build a replacement church building on Macedonia Ridge, from which the congregation took its name of "Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church". With such a large group of black immigrants, the church began to occupy a prominent place for local blacks, both religious and cultural, and as the years passed, numerous groups of members were sent out to found daughter churches; eight such churches, both in Ohio and in present-day West Virginia, remained active into the late twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>Macedonia Baptist Church is a simple building, constructed without an architectural style. Its plain gable-front plan features three side windows but no openings in the front gable per se; one enters through double doors at the base of a short bell tower, which is itself set into the front gable. Simple weatherboarding covers the walls, which rest on a stone foundation and are topped with a tin roof; the main body of the building has a plain roof with a steep pitch, although the tower&#39;s roughly square shape necessitates a pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, Macedonia Baptist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and because of its important place in local history. It is one of four Register-listed locations in and around Burlington, along with the old county jail, the local black cemetery, and the William C. Johnston House and General Store, and one of nineteen countywide. The Ohio Historical Society placed a state historical marker at the church in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Welsh Congregational Church is a historic church in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. Formed by some of Youngstown&#39;s large Welsh American community, it was once the center of Welsh life in Youngstown, and it has been designated a historic site.</p><br>
<p>During the middle and late nineteenth century, Youngstown began to develop as an industrial powerhouse, and its population expanded with the arrival of thousands of western European immigrants. The largest ethnic group was Welsh, many of whom came to work in coal mines at Brier Hill, west of the city. Major reconstruction was performed on the building in 1887, completely changing its architectural style. Few other alterations were made over the next century, and by the 1980s, it was Youngstown&#39;s oldest church and the only frame house of worship without recent modifications.</p><br>
<p>One and a half stories tall, the church is composed of weatherboarded and shingled walls and an asbestos roof, set upon a stone foundation. It was originally a Greek Revival structure, although the Queen Anne style has dominated since 1887. The floor plan is vaguely cruciform, with the arms placed so near the street that they appear to form the facade, and the top of the cross protrudes only a slight distance from the arms. All sections are gable-roofed. Small dormer windows are placed in the arm roofs, and a polygonal tower with a steep roof sits atop the facade.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, the Welsh Congregational Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and because of its place in community history. It was part of a multiple property submission of downtown-area buildings, along with numerous commercial buildings, the Masonic Temple, and First Presbyterian Church. By this time, it was no longer occupied by its original owners, having become home instead to the Messiah Holiness Church.</p><br>
<p>St. Pauls Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal parish in Medina, Ohio, United States. Formed in the 1810s as Medinas first church, it worships in a high Gothic Revival church building constructed in the 1880s, which has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Parish history</h2><br>
<p>The first preacher in Medina Township was an Episcopal priest, R. Searle, who arrived from Connecticut in 1817; his first recorded sermon in the township was preached at the house of Zenas Hamilton on 11 March of that year. Before long, Searle organized a parish dedicated to St. Paul, and the first church building was constructed on 10 April; because of the scarcity of resources, this building was used for a time as a union church by both the Episcopalians and the Congregationalists. As Medina increased in population, the place of worship was moved there from its original remote location. During their earliest years in Medina, the parishioners worshipped in the courthouse; this condition endured until the construction of a frame church building, which was completed in an uncertain year during the episcopacy of Bishop McIlvaine. In the 1880s, the church decided to construct a replacement structure; it was consecrated in 1887, three years after construction was completed.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The present church building is the 1887 structure, for which the parish solicited prominent architect Gordon W. Lloyd after learning of his previous commissions in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and other parts of Ohio. One of Lloyd&#39;s last church buildings, it demonstrates the influence of Richard Upjohn. The walls are sandstone, built on a stone foundation and covered with a slate roof. Its floor plan is reminiscent of many other Anglican churches, with the typical tower atop the narthex and the rectangular nave. In a similar manner, the building is constructed in the shape of a cross, due to the construction of transepts connected to the chancel. Even the tower is reminiscent of traditional Anglican churches, due to the presence of a belfry with a steep pyramid-shaped roof and louvred openings. The main body of the church features ogive windows and a gabled facade, while small cloverleaf-shaped windows are placed in the tower above the entrance and below the main windows.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1982, St. Pauls Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One of ten Medina locations on the Register, it qualified because of its historically significant architecture, as it is Medina Countys best Gothic Revival church building.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s remains an active part of the Summit Mission Area of the Diocese of Ohio. In late 2013, the rector was C. Eric Funston.</p><br>
<p>The Universalist Church of Westfield Center is a historic church in Westfield Center, Ohio, United States. One of Ohios oldest Universalist congregations, it has experienced a generally peaceful history since its establishment in the 1830s. Located on the village green, the congregations church building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Organic history</h2><br>
<p>Ninety Universalists organized their church in May 1839, holding their first worship services and business meetings in the Baptist church and the local schoolhouse; they were the second Universalist church organized anywhere in Ohio. In 1847, they paid $60 to purchase a piece of land on the public square in Westfield Center; one year later, the building operations began, and the dedication occurred on 16 June 1849. Comparatively few interpersonal difficulties appear in the church records; a schism occurred in 1853, but few members left, and the congregation was little affected. The original building remains in use, although expanded. Today, the congregation is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The congregation&#39;s church building is a weatherboarded structure with a foundation of stucco. Its main portion consists of a symmetrical gabled structure with a partial pediment, topped with a rectangular tower with a steep pyramidal roof. Double windows are placed on each side of the trabeated entryway. Despite the modifications of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the church retains much of its original Greek Revival appearance, including its general simplicity and symmetry, as well as individual elements such as pilasters and the belfry. Constructed in the late 19th century, the side addition features the substantially different architecture of the Stick style, but in a way that fits well with the original section of the church.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1978, the Universalist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its architecture and its significant place in local history. As a longtime community landmark, it is one of 28 locations in Medina County on the Register, and the only one in Westfield Center.</p><br>
<p>The York United Methodist Church is a United Methodist congregation in Medina County, Ohio, United States. Formed during the middle of the 19th century, it worships in a prominent church building that has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1840s (perhaps in 1841, but the date is uncertain), a Methodist Protestant minister formed a small religious society that worshipped in an old log schoolhouse near York Center. Until 1844, the group met both in the schoolhouse and in a private residence, but in the latter year a decision was made to build a frame church building. Growth over the next thirty years prompted the construction of a larger building on 1877, at a cost of $5,000; fully $3,000 of this total was donated by one woman, Mary Ford, from whose name was derived the churchs nickname of "Marys Chapel". The previous building was sold and converted into a house, while a group of members later donated a separate house to the church for use as a parsonage. Into the early twentieth century, this congregation was one of only two churches in York Township, along with a Congregationalist congregation founded in 1833.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick, the church is a Romanesque Revival building divided into four bays on the sides and three on the front. Tall windows fill the side bays and the left and right bays on the front, while a tower projects forward from the middle bay. Windows and the main entrance pierce the ground floor of the tower, with a wheel window and normal windows on higher stories; thanks to its spire, the tower is the tallest section of the building. Aside from the tower, the building was historically an ordinary rectangle in its floor plan, but the southern side (rear end) of the building was modified in the 1960s by the construction of an addition for classroom space. Although it was erected in the late 1870s, the building displays the style of an older era: carpenter Thomas Rogers, who was both architect and general contractor, produced a building reminiscent of Romanesque Revival churches from the beginning of the 19th century, at which time the Greek Revival style was far more popular in Ohio.</p><br>
<p>In early 1978, the church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its important architecture and because of the place it has played in the history of Mallet Creek and the surrounding area. Today, the congregation remains an active part of the East Ohio Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>Ryan Peak, at 11,714 ft above sea level is the highest peak in the Boulder Mountains of Idaho. Located in Custer County, Ryan Peak is about 0.5 mi north of the Blaine County border. The peak is also on the border of Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Salmon-Challis National Forest and partially within the Hemingway–Boulders Wilderness.</p><br>
<p>Ryan Peak is the second highest peak in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, after Castle Peak as well as the 16th highest peak in Idaho. Kent Peak, which is the second highest peak in the Boulder Mountains is about 0.75 mi southeast of Ryan Peak.</p><br>
<p>The primary route to Ryan Peak begins north of Ketchum along Idaho State Highway 75 at the Sawtooth National Recreation Area headquarters. Take national forest road 146 north from the headquarters until you reach the trailhead at the end of the road. Trail 115 ascends the ridge to the southwest of Ryan Peak, and from the ridge Ryan Peak is about a 1 mi off trail hike from the ridge.</p><br>
<p>The Pchyovzha  is a river in Lyubytinsky and Chudovsky Districts of Novgorod Oblast and in Kirishsky District of Leningrad Oblast in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Volkhov River. It is 157 km long, and the area of its basin 1,970 km&sup2;. The main tributary of the Pchyovzha is the Raplya . The urban-type settlement of Budogoshch is located on the banks of the Pchyovzha.</p><br>
<p>The source of the Pchyovzha is located in the western part of Lyubytinsky District, southwest of the settlement of Nebolchi. The river flows north. Downstream from the village of Petrovskoye, it accepts the Raplya from the right, turns west and enters Leningrad Oblast. Upstream from Budogoshch it is dammed and forms a reservoir. Downstream from Budogoshch the Pchyovzha reenters Novgorod Oblast. The mouth of the Pchyovzha is close to the village of Melekhovskaya, almost at the border between Novgorod and Leningrad Oblasts.</p><br>
<p>The river basin of the Pchyovzha comprises the western part of Lyubytinsky District, the north of Chudovsky District, the southwestern part of Kirishsky District, as well as some areas in the southern part of Boksitogorsky District of Leningrad Oblast.</p><br>
<p>The Soldier Mountains are a mountain range in the USA state of Idaho, spanning northern Camas and eastern Elmore counties. The highest point in the range is Smoky Dome at 10,095 ft, and the range is bounded on the west and north by the South Fork Boise River. The mountains are located within Sawtooth National Forest north of Fairfield, Idaho. The Soldier Mountain Ski Area is located within the range to the east of Smoky Dome.</p><br>
<p>Iron Mountain near the western end of the Soldier Mountains has an old Forest Service fire lookout on its summit. Several road and trails are located in the mountains, which provide for a variety of activities including hiking, off road vehicle riding, fishing, and hunting. Most of the peaks can be accessed relatively easily via class one or two routes.</p><br>
<h2>Peaks</h2><br>
<h2>Lakes</h2><br>
<p>The Casstown Lutheran Stone Church is a historic former church building in the village of Casstown, Ohio, United States. Built in the late 1830s, it was home to one of the region&#39;s earliest Lutheran congregations for just a short time before being converted for profane use. Its solid stone construction has made it architecturally important, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>One story tall, the building is a simple stone structure with a basic gabled roofline; the sides are divided into four bays with windows, while the front has a central entrance with one window on each side. Unlike most other stone buildings, constructed of ashlar stone, the church in Casstown is built of rough, comparatively unworked stone. Its roof is of a rare form: the wooden beams supporting the roof form a fuller truss system than in many comparable buildings, and the complex system of pegs and mutually supporting beams enables the roof to stand without any interior load-bearing walls whatsoever.</p><br>
<p>Casstowns first Lutherans organized a church around 1835, just four years after the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio was formed. Composed largely of emigrants from Pennsylvania, the congregation had no church building in its earliest years, so the members worshipped in that of the villages Methodist Episcopal congregation. Construction of the present building began in 1839, and upon its completion in the following year, the Lutherans left the Methodist building and occupied their own edifice. It remained their home for little more than a quarter century, as the congregation erected a larger brick building and moved to it in 1867. Following this time, it was converted into a residence, with two of its more prominent inhabitants being C.R. and Eunice Randall.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, the old church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It qualified for historic designation both because of its architecture and because of its place in the area&#39;s history, for it was considered to represent an important stage in the emigration of Pennsylvania Lutherans to western Ohio. One of more than forty National Register sites in Miami County, it is the only one in Casstown.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building in the city of Troy, Ohio, United States. Built in the 1860s, it was the third building used by a congregation formed nearly fifty years earlier. A high-quality example of period Romanesque Revival architecture, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Congregational history</h2><br>
<p>Civilization first came to Concord Township in 1804, when the first settlers arrived, although Troy itself was not platted until 1807. it required four years&#39; work for completion. At some point in 1863 or 1864, the two congregations chose to reunite, despite the remaining division between the Old and New School denominations on the national level, which was only resolved in 1870.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a brick building with stone elements, set on a stone foundation. Constructed by George R. Browning, its style is the Romanesque Revival and represents some of the best pre-Civil War architecture extant in Troy. The large sanctuary is simple, typical of traditional Presbyterianism, and its design demonstrates Browning&#39;s unusually high degree of skill. The overall plan is rectangular, although a tall flat-roofed tower sits at the front of the building, with an arched doorway set in its base and battlements at the top. Large arched windows, taller than the door, are placed on two levels of the tower, with an oculus between the levels on each side. Yet taller arch windows, nearly twice the height of the doors, are placed in the front (one on each side of the tower) and sides (six on each) of the building. The ends of the building rise to gables, which on the front is highlighted by a pediment behind the tower.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>In 1976, First Presbyterian Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and because of its place in local history. It is one of fifteen National Register-listed locations in Troy, and one of forty-four in Miami County. The congregation remains active, led by Richard Culp as pastor in 2012; its membership was 479 at the end of 2013, and it is part of the Miami Valley Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA).</p><br>
<p>The Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ is a historic church in the village of Pleasant Hill in the western part of the USA state of Ohio. Built in the early twentieth century, it was the fourth building used as the home of one of the area&#39;s oldest congregations, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Founded in 1843, Pleasant Hill was originally called "Newton" in honor of Sir Isaac, after whom the surrounding township was also named. By the time it was incorporated in 1866, it had changed its name to "Pleasant Hill&quot the establishment of a post office in the community led locals to wonder if their mail would be mis-sent, so a new name was chosen. The area&#39;s first residents were Quakers; they organized in 1813 and built their first church building in 1820. A group of Christian Connexion-affiliated people founded a church two years after the Quakers; it took the name of "Hopewell" following a naming discussion at the original meeting, during which one of the charter members said she "hoped the church might do well". The earliest structure, a log building, was built in 1820 out of town, but it was later removed and replaced by a frame structure on the same site. It in turn was replaced by a brick building in Pleasant Hill; according to a congregation historian, this change was the result of an 1868 storm that virtually destroyed the old building. This structure served the congregation for slightly more than forty years; following the worship service of 10 April 1910, it was taken down to facilitate the construction of the present building on the same site. During the 20th century, the congregation became a part of the United Church of Christ, within which it remains.</p><br>
<p>The church is a Gothic Revival structure built with an Akron Plan interior. It appears to be built of brick, but the structure actually relies on limestone for its foundation and walls, with a roof of ceramic tile and occasional elements of wood. Located on a corner lot, the building features a tower on the corner facing the intersection; worshippers can enter by climbing a small flight of stairs to the base of the tower. Large gabled sections with fat ogee-arched windows face both streets, with a functional addition to the rear.</p><br>
<p>In late 2002, the Pleasant Hill UCC was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One of more than forty such locations in Miami County and the only one in the village of Pleasant Hill, it qualified for listing because of its historically significant architecture.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Catholic Church is a historic Catholic church building in an eastern neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, United States. Constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century, it remains home to an active parish. Its grand architecture has made it an aviators landmark, and it has been named a historic site by the federal government.</p><br>
<h2>Parish history</h2><br>
<p>Emanuel Church, the first Catholic parish in Dayton, was formed in 1837. Many English-speaking families left to form a separate parish in 1846, but Emanuel continued growing to the point that division was necessary by the end of the 1850s. Accordingly, land was chosen on Xenia Avenue at the Allen Street intersection in one of the citys eastern neighborhoods, and the owner donated enough property to permit the construction of a church, rectory, and school. Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati laid the cornerstone in April 1859, and the finished building was consecrated by Purcell and Henry Damian Juncker, the Bishop of Alton, in August of the following year. The building measured 110 x, but by the opening years of the twentieth century, the parish had outgrown it, and construction began on a new building; Archbishop Moeller laid the cornerstone in July 1905 and consecrated it in November 1906. Growth continued, and St. Anthonys Church was established in 1913 by families coming out of St. Mary&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s remains an active part of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati to the present day. Masses are celebrated both in English and in Spanish.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The current St. Mary&#39;s Church is a Romanesque Revival structure built in a mix of brick and stone. Constructed according to a design by John B. Vermont, the design features two massive clock towers on the three-bay facade. Three large doorways piece the facade at the top of a staircase, with occasional large windows and numerous pairs of narrower windows on higher levels. Each window is topped with a dormered dome above the clock. Built at a cost of $125,000 (or $ in 2013 dollars), the church is a landmark because of the twin towers; during World War II, Army aviators used it as a waypoint when navigating to the runways at Wright Field.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In April 1983, St. Marys Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Although as a religious property it would not normally be considered eligible for designation, it nevertheless qualified because of its distinctive historic architecture. It is one of five Dayton churches on the Register, along with Sacred Heart, St. Adalberts, and Holy Cross Catholic Churches and First Lutheran Church.</p><br>
<p>The Chesterville Methodist Church is a United Methodist congregation in the village of Chesterville, Ohio, United States. Founded in the 1830s, it is Chestervilles only church, and it worships in a landmark 1850s building. Constructed during the villages most prominent years, the building is one of the most significant structures anywhere in the community, and it has been named a historic site as an important part of the village&#39;s nineteenth-century built environment.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built of brick on a foundation of sandstone, the Chesterville Methodist Church building is a Greek Revival structure covered with a metal roof and possessing exterior elements of wood. When originally built, the church measured 70 x. Today, the facade and side are both divided into three bays: two windows (one above the other) appear in each side bay and in the right and left bays of the facade, while the middle facade bay is pierced by an entry door with a datestone above it. Above the main part of the facade is a pediment, and a belfry crowns the building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Organic</h3><br>
<p>Chestervilles first church was a Primitive Baptist congregation, which was organized in 1816. The first Methodists in the vicinity of the present village gathered under the preaching of itinerant preachers in the late 1820s, and the first Methodist sermon in Chesterville itself was preached in 1833 by a minister who stayed overnight in the village while travelling from Mansfield to Columbus. A class was formed soon afterward, worshipping in an old schoolhouse, and the first minister was a Rev. McDowell. The congregations earliest extant records date from July 1836. One year later, the first church building was erected at a cost of $1,200 in addition to $150 for the land. The congregation continued worshipping at this property until late 1850; they sold it in 1849 for $350 while retaining the right to use it for a year, and in later years, the building was converted into a school. The present church building was erected in 1851 at a cost of several thousand dollars; it was several years before the congregation struggled out of debt,</p><br>
<h3>Community</h3><br>
<p>Chesterville&#39;s earliest years, late in the first half of the nineteenth century, were highly prosperous; numerous private schools and a prominent textile manufacturing company were established there. Its decline began in the late 1840s: several area communities united to fight for the creation of a separate county but fought each other for the title of county seat, and when Mount Gilead was chosen for this position instead of Chesterville, the town stagnated as both government and railroads concentrated on Mount Gilead. This combination of early prosperity and later stagnation is responsible for the present existence of the Methodist Church and numerous other Greek Revival buildings in the village: a building boom occurred early in its history, and neither finances nor necessity permitted the construction of newer buildings in later years.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>During the 1970s, a community group known as Chester Community Concerns was formed to encourage preservation of the villages historic architecture. In 1978, the group sponsored a project to record the villages historic buildings with the Ohio Historic Inventory, a historic preservation survey, with the goal of nominating the most important historic properties for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. Using the multiple property submission process, nine Chesterville buildings were added to the Register in August 1979: the Chester Township Hall, the Methodist Church, the Jarvis and Enos Miles Houses on Portland Street, the Old Union School, the Post Office and the A.B. Sears House on Sandusky Street, and the Old Bartlett and Goble Store and a Wood Commercial Building at the villages main intersection. The Methodist Church qualified both because of its well-preserved historic architecture and because of its place in local history: it was deemed the villages most important architectural landmark, and its location on State Route 95 on the villages east side makes it one of the villages most prominent buildings, contributing greatly to Chesterville&#39;s continued appearance as a nineteenth-century trading center.</p><br>
<p>St. Henry&#39;s Catholic Church is a historic Catholic parish in the rural community of Harriettsville in the southeastern part of the USA state of Ohio. Established for German settlers in the 1860s, it worships in a landmark church building constructed in the 1890s. As the only stone building in the area and the work of a prominent architect, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Noble Countys pioneer settlers arrived soon after the Treaty of Greenville, 1795; although the area is near the earliest settlement at Marietta, the northward advance of civilization was delayed by events such as the Big Bottom massacre, 1790, on the Muskingum River not far to the west. However, the history of Harriettsville began far later, for Moses T. Spencer platted it in 1839. Among the earliest settlers were a pair of Frenchmen, while numerous Germans were among the small villages population by the late 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The first clergy in modern-day Noble County were itinerant ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church; preachers from other denominations were equally as active as the Methodists, but less numerous. and construction finished in 1894.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>St. Henry&#39;s Church is a stone building in the Gothic Revival style; the most prominent component is a multi-story tower on one side of the facade. Small windows pierce the walls of the tower, the main section of which is topped by a louvered belfry. Crowning the entire tower is a tall spire topped with a cross, while space for large clocks is left unoccupied between the spire and the belfry. The primary portion of the church is a simpler rectangular structure; the shingled roof rises to a prominent gable at the front of the building. Sitting next to the church is a small frame rectory with gabled roof, built in the late nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>Rather than hiring a local architect, the parishioners chose Chicago architect Adolphus Druiding to design their new church at the end of the nineteenth century. One of Ohio&#39;s most rural areas, Noble County possesses a built environment consisting primarily of traditional vernacular buildings, rather than the high style and professional craftsmanship that the church exemplifies. Moreover, very few stone buildings are found anywhere in the county, and Harriettsville has no other stone buildings at all.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>In 1982, the church and rectory were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of their historically significant architecture and because of their important place in the areas history. The property is one of nine Noble County locations on the National Register; among the others is Immaculate Conception Church in Fulda, which supported Harriettsvilles Catholics before St. Henry parish was formed.</p><br>
