<p>The West Ninth Streetcar Line Historic District is located in the north-central section of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. The focus of the district is West Ninth Street from University Avenue on the south to Hickman Road on the north, which had a street car line that ran on it. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1998. It is part of the Towards a Greater Des Moines MPS.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The period of significance for the West Ninth Streetcar Line Historic District is 1883 to 1936, which was the timeframe that the street served as a streetcar route. It was Des Moines’ most fully developed streetcar corridor in the Victorian era and it remains largely intact. It was in competition with the West Sixth Streetcar Line. It was also developed earlier and ran on narrow gauge tracks. It was unique in Des Moines that more than one line would serve a single neighborhood. In addition, another line served Eleventh and Twelfth Streets. By being served by multiple lines shows the importance of North Des Moines as a Victorian-era suburb. In large part it was responsible for the housing boom in the area in the 1880s and 1890s.</p><br>
<p>The streetcar line was developed by the Des Moines Street Railroad Company as an extension of their downtown loop and was called the “Red Line.” Originally it was a horse-drawn line that was electrified under the direction of Jefferson S. Polk. Eventually, the Red Line was extended to Crocker Woods along the Des Moines River. It also served the east side of Des Moines and extended to the suburb of Capitol Park. The Ninth Street streetcar line ended service when it was replaced by gas-powered buses.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>For the most part the buildings in the West Ninth Streetcar line Historic District are houses and their ancillary buildings, namely garages and stables. There are a total of 145 buildings. Of these 97 buildings are contributing properties. Most of the buildings are single-family houses. Nine of the buildings are multi-family dwellings, which include both double houses and apartment buildings, and 20 are ancillary buildings. The architectural styles employed in the district include the Stick style, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, American Foursquare and American Craftsman. Two of the houses follow either the Shingle or the Prairie School styles. Most of the houses are built of wood; however, there are six that are masonry buildings.</p><br>
<p>There are also six institutional buildings, which are all non-contributing properties. The district also contains the former campus of Des Moines University, which merged with Highland Park College on the latter’s campus. The property then became the campus of Dowling Catholic High School an institution of the Diocese of Des Moines. After it moved in the 1970s the main building was torn down and the property has been used for a variety of public and semi-public purposes.</p><br>
<p>The Thaddeus Stevens School is a historic African American school located at 1050 21st Street, N.W., in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D.C. As of 2001 it was the oldest extant elementary school still being used as a school in the District of Columbia, but soon after was involved in controversy as the district government planned to convert it to residential use.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>With a 92% increase of freed slaves between 1840 and 1860, a large population of this demographic migrated to wards 1 and 2 of Washington, DC. This is proved by the census data of the wards of Washington, DC from 1860. This influx of freed slaves to the Foggy Bottom neighborhood caused apparent demand for a public school. The Stevens School was erected in 1868 because the city needed a public colored school and the most feasible place to put it was on square 73 which was accessible by both wards 1 and 2. It seemed apt to build a school for freed black in this area, as it was derelict and unsanitary. Within square 73 the school was built on lots 22, 23, and 24. The property that provided the grounds for the Stevens School was initially privately owned by Alfred Jones and his wife in 1868. These lots were bought in 1868 for a combined value of $7,413.14. Once the physical building was built, the final cost was $89,099.17. For the time, this was considered to be inexpensive, both for the land and the development of a public school. In 1932 the American Banking and trust company purchased lot 20. The Stevens School was comparatively smaller than other public, namely white, contemporary institutions such as the Grimke School and Slater School.</p><br>
<p>The Stevens School was under the jurisdiction of the Board of Colored Schools and many of the board members were African American. The D.C Board of Colored Schools was consolidated in 1880 into one Board of Public Schools that had control over both white and black public schools</p><br>
<p>An addition was built in 1885 and it was partially rebuilt and enlarged again in 1895-96. A pioneering school for African-Americans, it was named for Thaddeus Stevens, the Radical Republican abolitionist congressman from Pennsylvania. The Preparatory High School for Negro Youth was housed in the building after it was founded in 1871 and later moved becoming the M Street High School and ultimately Dunbar High School.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed in the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 1972 and then on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Enrollment</h2><br>
<p>Enrollment for the Stevens School progressed throughout the years, gaining popularity as the population in wards 1 and 2 increased. The enrollment in 1877, according to The First Report of the Board of Trustees of Public Schools of the District of Columbia, was 980 students. There were also 13 teachers, 715 desks, and 14 classrooms. Additionally, this report reveals the fact that the teachers taught at both the grammar and primary levels, which is equivalent to a ‘K-12’ educational structure. Enrollment at the Stevens School grew to as large as 949, just 5 years after its initial opening. The School’s value also depreciated to $29,000. The increased enrollment corresponds to the population trends in 1873 as large numbers of freed slaves migrated to wards 1 and 2 of DC. As mentioned above in Section 2, the school had 980 students by 1877– but only 715 desks. Four years before, in 1873, the building had a mere 14 classrooms. Simply put there were approximately 70 students per classroom and a desk shortage of 265.</p><br>
<h2>Stevens School fire</h2><br>
<p>On January 11, 1876, a fire occurred at the Stevens School that started in an upstairs classroom used by the 4th primary school. As news of the fire quickly spread, children began to panic and storm down the stairs to get out. There were no casualties but there were a few children that sustained minor injuries from being trampled by other students during the commotion. Two small boys jumped from a third floor window but thankfully they were caught by spectators in the crowd. Teachers were praised as heroes for the calm and safe manner in which they got the children out of the building. An investigation was later conducted after the incident and the fire was said to be caused by a buildup of waste that was swept into the radiating surface. The rails of the staircase were also damaged due to the pressure that the children exerted on it during the commotion. Total damages weren&#39;t expected to exceed $150 or $200 and the damages were covered by insurance.</p><br>
<h2>Early physical condition (1870s)</h2><br>
<p>The school property contained 16,481 feet; the building was built out of brick and was four stories in height. The buildings held a large assembly hall and 12 school rooms, each room was thirty-eight feet long, twenty-three feet wide, and twelve feet high. The rooms were used for about 750 sittings for the students. Two additions were made to the building in 1873. After the first addition, the school was able to house 14 class rooms and after the second addition five more rooms were added. The physical condition of the building was in shambles, as Superintendent Cook’s Report from 1874-1875 points out the Stevens School sanitary condition was, “unsatisfactory and in violation of the laws of health, and if not remedied is likely to result in such diseases of diphtheria, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, and such other fevers as result from want of proper ventilation and sewerage”. Referring to Figure 13, it can be seen that the value of the building dropped to $29,000, which is much less than it cost to produce it at $89,099.17. As all of these documents would suggest, the Stevens School was a poor school in a poor neighborhood riddled with danger and disease.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>Standing proud and tall as one of DC’s landmarks as deemed by the National Park Services, the Stevens School is still in its original location on Square 73. As the NPS Statement of Significance says, the Stevens School “is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history”, there is no doubt that this building played an important role in developing Foggy Bottom. Its role of bringing public colored education to an unskilled and overpopulated community provided the inhabitants with opportunity and hope for the American Dream.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Amy Carter</p><br>
<p>Carlos Reyes</p><br>
<p>Charles R. Drew</p><br>
<p>Bernard A Spriggs Jr.</p><br>
<p>Roberta Flack</p><br>
<p>Ralph "Petey" Green</p><br>
<p>Robert Hooks</p><br>
<p>Rayford Whittingham Logan</p><br>
<p>Blackadder House was an estate and stately house near the village of Allanton, in Berwickshire, Scotland. It was built on the site of the earlier Blackadder castle. The house was vandalized by troops in World War I. Since there was no money to repair it, the house was demolished around 1925.</p><br>
<h2>Early History of the Blackadder Estate</h2><br>
<p>The Blackadder family were an integral part of the constant Borders’ feuds, and opportunistically extended their lands by grants from James II. These were bestowed as a reward for repelling English raids, with great ferocity. The Borders holdings of Blackadder of that Ilk were taken into the family of Home (now the Home Robertson family) by the marriage of Beatrix and her younger sister, the only heirs of their father Robert, to younger sons of Home of Wedderburn in 1518 (Wedderburn Castle is still owned by his descendent, Georgina Home-Robertson).</p><br>
<p>According to Anderson, this was achieved in the following manner: ‘Andrew Blackadder followed the standard of Douglas at Flodden in 1513 and was slain along with two hundred gentlemen of that name on that disastrous field leaving a widow and two daughters, Beatrix and Margaret, who at the time were mere children. From the unprotected state of Robert’s daughters, the Homes of Wedderburn formed a design of seizing the lands of Blackadder.</p><br>
<p>They began by cutting off all within their reach whose affinity was dreaded as an hereditary obstacle. They attacked Robert Blackadder, the Prior of Coldingham, and assassinated him. His brother, the Dean of Dunblane, shared the same fate. Various others were dispatched in like manner.</p><br>
<p>They now assaulted the Castle of Blackadder (which was sited somewhere on the land that is now Blackadder Mains and was destroyed in the early 16th century when the English, under the command of Surrey, invaded Scotland) where the widow and her two young daughters resided.</p><br>
<p>The garrison refused to surrender but the Homes succeeded in obtaining possession of the fortress, seized the widow and her children, compelling them to the marriage by force. The two daughters were contracted to younger sons, John and Robert in 1518 and as they were only in their eighth year, they were confined in the Castle of Blackadder until they became of age.</p><br>
<p>Whatever the truth of this story, the Home possession of the estates was challenged by a cousin, Sir John Blackadder, who held the lands of Tulliallan. Sir John sought assistance from Parliament but, as was so often the case at that time, the matter was ultimately resolved by steel. Sir John Blackadder was beheaded in March 1531 for the murder of the Abbot of Culross in a dispute over land. He was succeeded in the barony of Tulliallan by his brother Patrick, who again renewed his dispute against the Homes for the family lands. Again, Anderson accused the Homes of treachery in the story of Patrick’s murder in an ambush near Edinburgh, where he was to meet the Homes to try to resolve their differences.</p><br>
<p>The Blackadders thereafter relinquished their claim to the Borders lands, and Sir John Home was created Baronet of Blackadder in 1671. The Homes retained possession of the castle until 1836, when it was acquired by the Houston family, later Houston-Boswalls.</p><br>
<p>In 1857 the owner was listed as Sir George A.F.H. Boswell.</p><br>
<h2>Blackadder house</h2><br>
<p>The original peel tower was probably relatively unchanged until the mid eighteenth century.</p><br>
<p>Around then James Playfair drew up plans for substantial rebuilding and remodelling of the earlier house, but these were not undertaken. Later, Robert Adam drew up plans which were carried out.</p><br>
<p>In 1842 the house was described as an elegant modern edifice with extensive shrubberies and greenhouses and a beautiful Gothic conservatory.</p><br>
<p>An 1845 description highlighted the conservatory, which took the form of a Gothic chapel with a framework made entirely of cast iron, and with some of the glass panels stained. The conservatory had been erected by the late proprietor, Thomas Boswall, at a cost of several thousand pounds.</p><br>
<p>An 1848 magazine article again mentioned the conservatory, which seems to have been the most notable feature of the house.</p><br>
<p>The proprietor was given as Lady Houston.</p><br>
<p>In 1853 John Lessels extended the house, ballastrading the terraces and adding a large asymmetrical wing.</p><br>
<p>The result was a magnificent classical house built in Palladian style.</p><br>
<p>The house was described as "The Home of the Stately Home".</p><br>
<p>It was probably the first in Berwickshire to have electric power. The original power house survives.</p><br>
<p>The gardens suffered badly from the severe frosts of the winter of 1879-1880, when the temperature was measured at -23 &deg;F. Peach trees that had been planted by Lady Boswall&#39;s family fifty years ago were killed to the roots, as were apricots and other fruit trees. An English Yew that had been planted the year Lady Boswall was born also died, as did many oaks. The frost killed Bay Laurels, Portugal Laurels, Rhododendrons, Hollies and other smaller trees.</p><br>
<p>During World War I the mansion was requisitioned by the government as accommodation for troops, who vandalised the building, using parts of the grand staircase bannisters for firewood. The post-war government refused to pay for the restitution of the house to its former state and with the agricultural depression it was closed up. It was demolished circa 1925.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>Within Allanton&#39;s main street still stand a pair of splay-fronted lodges (Lydd Cottage and Westside Cottage), defining the entrance to the former Blackadder House.</p><br>
<p>The farm of Blackadder Mains along with Blackadder Bank, Blackadder West and Blackadder Mount and the nearby village of Allanton were all originally part of the Blackadder Estate which surrounded Blackadder House.</p><br>
<p>While the house is gone, impressive ruins remain that make a walk through the estate worthwhile.</p><br>
<p>Little remains of the house other than a folly walkway with stone balustrade which was at the back of the house below ground level, cut into the rock of a cliff face that overlooks the river Blackadder below. Where the house was, a wood was planted. Below the folly on the bank of the river the remains of the hydro electric power house is still visible (Blackadder House was reputedly the first in Berwickshire to have electric lighting).</p><br>
<p>Other buildings built to service the estate remain. Blackadder Cottage (or the Butlers House&#39;) with an impressive pair of lions on the parapet, sits on a high bank above the Blackadder Water. Allanbank Courtyard is a U-planned steading begun c. 1780. There is also a Walled Garden with a Summerhouse, and several bridges over the Blackadder Water. An impressive stable range with tower and obelisk steeple survive the destruction of the house, attributed to architect Alexander Boswell in 1785.</p><br>
<p>Port-Cros is a French island in the Mediterranean island group known as the Îles d&#39;Hyères. It is part of the commune of Hyères, and part of the department of Var in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d&#39;Azur. The island was donated to the French government with the promise that a national park, the Port-Cros National Park, would be created on the island. This was established on December 14, 1963. The island is 4 km wide and its most elevated point is 199 meters. It is 650 hectares.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island was known as Messea (Middle Island) to the ancient Greeks. Its present name derives from the small port on the island, which is cross-shaped. Roman tombs on the island indicate that there may have been a Roman colony on the island, and coins and canals of Roman origin have also been found on the island. In the 5th century, the monastery of Lérins established a branch on the island of the Levant, and this foundation on Levant established a branch on Port-Cros in the small valley of Notre-Dame. This monastery on Port-Cros was destroyed by Barbary pirates, who repeatedly attacked the Hyères Islands from the 10th to the 16th centuries.</p><br>
<p>In 1531, François I of France visited the Hyères, and as a result of being informed by inhabitants of the pirate attacks, charged Bertrand dOrnesan with the task of constructing fortifications on the islands to defend them against pirates. He elevated the three islands to the status of a marquisate on February 13, 1532. In 1549, this marquisate passed to Christophe de Rocquendorf. To attract colonists, he granted asylum to common law criminals, but these caused as much disorder as the pirates they were meant to be a shield against. In 1617, the promised fortifications had not yet been built, but under the direction of Cardinal Richelieu, construction began with the building of the Tour de lÉminence, the fort of l&#39;Estissac and the fort at Port-Man. Louis XIV of France fought against piracy in the region, but the lack of a substantial garrison caused the British to plunder Port-Cros in 1700 and to invade in 1742 before being driven out by the Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas.</p><br>
<p>The last marquis of the islands was Louis de Colvet, Mirabeau’s father-in-law. Colvet sold the islands to Jean Joseph Barthélémy Simon de Savornin in 1783. In 1793, the British attacked Port-Cros again. Napoleon restored the defenses in 1811 and installed a garrison of veterans. After the fall of the First French Empire, the garrison was replaced by a company of crippled soldiers. The marquisate was purchased by the French state in 1815, and changed hands a number of times before being sold to a Dr. Crotte, who tried to develop the island into a tourist resort. Some facilities for tourists, including a hotel, were built when the island was acquired by Marcel Henry and Claude Balyne. Between the two World Wars, the island was visited by numerous figures of the artistic and literary world: Jean Paulhan, André Malraux, André Gide, Saint-John Perse, Paul Valéry and Jules Supervielle. Vivienne de Watteville lived there from 1929, and wrote a book about her first year on the island, Seeds that the Wind may bring.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, during the Allied invasion of Provence, the Battle of Port Cros took place on the island on August 15, 1944, in which the German garrison of 150 men fought against a force of American and Canadian commandos, known as the Devil&#39;s Brigade. The island was captured by the Allies on August 17, 1944.</p><br>
<p>When Madame Henry, the owner of the island, died in 1966, she bequeathed the island to the state, with the exception of the hotel Le Manoir, which her great-nephew, Pierre Buffet, inherited. The Port-Cros National Park was created in 1963. The photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand is working on the restoration of the fort at Port-Man.</p><br>
<p>Brookholt was a Gilded Age mansion on Front Street in East Meadow, Long Island, New York. It was built for Oliver and Alva Belmont in 1897. Designed by Richard Howland Hunt, the house was built in the Colonial Revival-style, rendered in wood. John Russell Pope designed a Georgian-style farmhouse on the property in 1906 also.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Alva Vanderbilt married Oliver Belmont on January 11, 1896, following her divorce from William Kissam Vanderbilt in March 1895. Alva had received a large settlement from the divorce, but the Long Island estate that she had helped design with Richard Morris Hunt, Idle Hour, was retained by William. Although the Belmonts already had two summerhouses in Newport, Rhode Island, Alvas Marble House and Olivers Belcourt Castle, they desired a new estate on Long Island. Brookholt was the result.</p><br>
<p>Oliver Belmont died an early death at the estate in 1908, following an operation for appendicitis. Some scholars have alleged that Alva Belmont was superstitious about sleeping in a room where anyone had died. She did have a new master bedroom suite added to Brookholt following Oliver&#39;s death. After a mason also died in an accident during the new construction, she wrote: "It really does seem as though Fate had decided I am never to sleep peacefully at night."</p><br>
<p>Alva Belmont established the Brookholt School of Agriculture for Women on 200 acre of the estate in 1911, operating it as a training school for female farmers. The school did not work as Belmont had intended, so she terminated the experiment after its first year. After that Belmont focused all of her attention on the women&#39;s suffrage movement, holding many meetings and rallies at the estate.</p><br>
<p>Belmont began contemplating selling Brookholt as early as 1909. She finally sold it in 1915 to Alexander Smith Cochran. Cochran, in turn, sold the estate in late 1923 to the Coldstream Golf Club, which planned to turn the estate into a country club. The main house was ultimately destroyed by fire in 1934 and the rest of the estate buildings were later demolished. The site is now occupied by the Mitchel Manor development.</p><br>
<p>Saco Mercantile is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Saco, Montana. It was added to the Register on December 8, 1997. It has also been known as Saco Co-operative Store and as C.P. Martin Store.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story brick commercial building. Its NRHP nomination states that:The Saco Mercantile&#39;s design embodies the typical characteristics of the Western Commercial style. The primary facade (south) is organized in a symmetrical, bipartite arrangement. This facade included a first floor storefront typical of the period, having a central entrance flanked by display windows, a lower window panel, and a transom across the top. A canvas storefront awning is pictured in historic photos of the building.</p><br>
<p>Engaged pilasters enframe the storefront, and extend up to visually support the cornice. A third pilaster divides the upper story into two equal parts, each part houses two double-hung windows. These openings are finished with flat brick arches and a continuous stone sill stretching between the pilasters. An ornate metal and brick cornice crowns the front. It begins with a corbeled brick stretcher course above which are two recessed brick panels. Above the panels is a projecting metal cornice with garlands across the frieze. Above this, a short brick parapet rises to a secondary brick cornice which echoes the lines of the lower metalwork.</p><br>
<p>Sleeping Buffalo Rock is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located near Saco, Montana. It was added to the Register in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The placard reads:</p><br>
<p>A nearby wind-swept ridge overlooking the Cree Crossing on the Milk River was the original resting place of this ancient weather-worn effigy. There the boulder sat as the leader of a herd of reclining buffalo envisioned in an outcrop of granite. Incised markings made in the distant past define its horns, eyes, backbone, and ribs. Since late prehistoric times, native peoples of the Northern Plains have revered the Sleeping Buffalo’s spiritual power. Oral traditions reveal that it was well known to the Cree, Chippewa, Sioux, Assiniboine, and Gros Ventre as well as the more distant Blackfeet, Crow, and Northern Cheyenne. Stories passed from generation to generation tell how the “herd” fooled more than one buffalo-hunting party. While each tribe has its own culture and beliefs, native peoples share a worldview intertwining the sacred and secular. A Chippewa-Cree elder explained, “These rocks are sacred, just like our old people.” In 1932, the Sleeping Buffalo was separated from its ridgetop companions. Relocated to the City Park in Malta, the Sleeping Buffalo was said to have been restless; stories are told of its changing position and nighttime bellowing. Moved to this site in 1967 from old Highway 2, the Sleeping Buffalo was later rejoined by the larger “Medicine Rock” in 1987, also collected near Cree Crossing. These timeless objects continue to figure prominently in traditional ceremonies. They provide a link to ancestral peoples of the high plains and the long ago time when, as one elder put it, “The power of the prairie was the buffalo.”</p><br>
<h2>Popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The monument provides the setting in the song "Sleeping Buffalo", a song by Garnet Rogers.</p><br>
<p>Cheever-Cain Ranch is a historic ranch located at 8 Trails End Road in Powder River County, Montana, near the community of Volborg. George and Martha Cheever, along with their daughter Lucretia and her husband Ernest Shy, claimed the land under the Homestead Acts in 1905. George died in 1908, but the rest of the family built a farmhouse and established a ranching operation on the land. The ranch was one of many established in the Pumpkin Creek valley under the Homestead Acts; it also bordered the Custer National Forest, an early attempt to preserve land from overgrazing caused by the multitude of new ranches. After Martha Cheever died, Lucretia and Ernest ran the ranch; Ernest later sold the property to the Cain family, with whom he was close friends.</p><br>
<p>The ranch was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 2010.</p><br>
<p>Cross Ranch Headquarters is a historic ranch located east of Montana Highway 59 roughly 26 mi south of Broadus, Montana, USA. Rancher Spencer Fullerton Baird Biddle built the headquarters in 1893, one year after purchasing the ranch. A Philadelphia native, Biddle moved to Montana in 1881; he quickly became a prominent rancher, and by 1885 he was both an early member of the Montana Stockgrowers Association and a representative in Montanas territorial legislature. At the time, ranchers were a powerful influence on state government, and Biddles legislature passed several laws supported by the ranching industry.</p><br>
<p>Biddle&#39;s ranch headquarters has a French Colonial design, an unusual example of a high architectural style in a ranch building. The building features a porch encircling all four sides and supported by wooden columns, piece sur piece walls, and a hip roof.</p><br>
<p>The ranch was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Newfoundland Mountains are a 20 mi long mountain range located in southern Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The range is the only island mountain range encircled by the Great Salt Lake Desert salt flat. Other ranges protrude into the desert salt flat, the Silver Island and Dugway Ranges being the premiere examples. Other individual mountains also arise as island peaks, or mountains in the salt flat desert itself, most notably Granite Mountain in the south desert, and Wildcat Mountain to its north. Granite Mountain lies at the north of the Dugway Range.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Newfoundland Mountains are crescent-shaped, mostly only 3 mi wide, and its closest neighboring landform across the salt flats, is 6 mi northeast from the northeast range terminus, the Hogup Mountains. The northeast end of the range is a wider section, with the range&#39;s highest peak southerly (at the north section). The range is made of one ridgeline, and gets progressively lower in elevation, especially at the very south.</p><br>
<p>The highpoint of the range is Desert Peak, 7,005 ft. The southern tip of the range lies on the north perimeter of the Utah Test and Training Range. Only one major peak is named in the range, Desert Peak.</p><br>
<p>Other ranges located on the perimeter of the Great Salt Lake Desert are: Pilot Range, Silver Island Range, Deep Creek Range, Fish Springs Range, Dugway Range, Cedar Mountains, Grassy Mountains, Lakeside Mountains, Hogup Mountains, and Grouse Creek Mountains; some other, much shorter series of hills/mountains exist on the desert&#39;s perimeter, and include a group on an alluvial fan region south of the Grouse Creek Mountains, the closest to the Newfoundland range.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The closest access to the range is to the north from the Hogup Mountains. The Union Pacific rail route across the central-north of the Great Salt Lake Desert lies about 2 mi north of the range; an unimproved road parallels the route. From the east, at Lakeside, and Hogup, 10 mi east of the range, and at the south of the Hogup Mountains, the north of the range can be accessed.</p><br>
<p>From the west from Lucin, the unimproved route along the Union Pacific Railroad rail is 32 mi long.</p><br>
<p>An unimproved road encircles the Newfoundland Mountains foothills at the salt flat. The route is 40+ miles long. (The southern 2.5 mi stretch of the range lies in the Utah Test and Training Range.)</p><br>
<p>The Denniston House is a historic building located at 117 East Front Street in Cassville, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built by a firm from New York City when Wisconsin was still the Wisconsin Territory. At the time, Cassville was considered likely to be selected as the capital of the future state and the house was thought to figure prominently in the future of the potential capital. However, the city of Madison, Wisconsin was instead chosen. Ironically, the house was later owned by Nelson Dewey, the first Governor of Wisconsin after it had become a state.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The building is currently pending restoration. Renovation plans have been approved by the Department of Interior. For more information go to: www.dennistonhouse.com weburl=www.dennistonhouse.com</p><br>
<p>The Potosi Brewery is located in Potosi, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Beer began being brewed in the building in 1852 by Gabriel Hail and John Albrecht. In 1886, the building was bought by Adam Schumacher. The Potosi Brewing Company was officially founded by Schumacher and his brothers, Nicholas and Henry, in 1906. In 1972, the brewery ceased operations. Gary David purchased the building in 1995. Since then, it has been restored.</p><br>
<h2>Museums</h2><br>
<p>In 2004, it was chosen as the site of the National Brewery Museum by the American Breweriana Association.</p><br>
<p>The site also features the Potosi Brewing Company Transportation Museum, with historic vehicles and displays about the area transportation of beer to customers.</p><br>
<p>Galgiriya Mountain is an isolated mountain located in Kurunegala District in Sri Lanka. The mountain is 478 m high and it ranks as the 7th highest mountain in North Western province and the 212th highest mountain in Sri Lanka. Galgiriya Mountain is noted for its unique length about 7 km which is different from other isolated mountains in the area. At present the mountain is a forest reserve as it consists of many types of valuable flora and fauna.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The known history of Galgiriya mountain runs as far back to the era of King Dutugemunu.King Dutugamunu had a son named Saliya Raja Kumara. He was an intelligent Prince and conducted many meritorious deeds. This young Prince, fell in love with a beautiful Chandala girl named Asokamala. Prince Saliya was told that he would not be able to become the King, if he continues his love affair with Asokamala. Prince Saliya’s love for Asokamala was greater than his desire for the kingdom. Against the wishes of the country, he married Asokamala without any regard to the throne.Prince Saliya fled with Asokamala from Anuradhapura to southern side of the island as his father Dutugemunu strongly opposed their affair.Then they came to the area where Galgiriya mountain is.Later they inhibited at one side of the mountain and even today some historically important places of the mountain confirm these facts.At one end of the mountain there is a temple called Saliya hermitage. It seems that the Prince Saliya settled at the place within a short period of time and started irrigation works near the mountain. As the Galgiriya mountain provides considerable water sources to the water bodies at the bottom of the mountain, Prince Saliya organized these waterways to convert them to the tanks that could supply water to the paddy cultivation which existed there. Today, six such tanks can be found around the mountain at either side. Kuda galawewa, Maha galawewa, Embogama wewa, Gaketiyagama wewa and Kaduruwewa wewa are some of those tanks. But it is hard to confirm that which lakes were built by Prince Saliya.</p><br>
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<p>The Woodland Place Historic District is located on the west side of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. The houses in the district are primarily bungalows and square houses. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Percival-Porter and Company had Woodland Place platted in June 1907 and Ellen F. Whitman, the landowner, had it officially recorded on July 5, 1907. The plat was composed of six rectangular blocks with 138 numbered lots that measured 50 ft by 132 ft. There was little in the way of development in the plat until 1910 when Des Moines real estate developer Henry H. Pharmer secured 19 lots in 1910 and 1911 in the northwest quarter of the plat. He also had a dozen showcase bungalows built in 1910. Percival and Porter offered 27 newly built houses for sale during the first half of June 1910, although records indicate only ten were built. Some of these houses could have been those built by Pharmer. What makes this situation unique in Des Moines is that the developers were offering completed houses for sale, rather than empty lots. The houses were being offered for $3,500. It required a down payment of $350 and a monthly payment of $35. The houses that Percival-Porter offered were seven room, square houses. Many of the people who bought land and had their own homes built chose to build bungalows. Harry Taylor was responsible for the houses that were built around 1920. He purchased the lots from the United Investment Company and several realtors. These lots were also in the northern part of the plat, right below Pharmers’.</p><br>
<p>The residents of Woodland Place organized early on in its existence. Mrs. Raymond A. Bullard organized the "Woodland Neighbors" in early 1911. It was a woman’s group who goals were social interaction in order to develop lasting friendships. Around the same time the "Woodland Boosters" were organized to promote "sidewalk, paving, and other improvements and in a general way to enlist the interest of the people of that section in the city beautiful movement." The "Woodland Place Improvement Club" was organized in mid-1912. Its accomplishments included having 27th Street lowered by as much as 12 ft, as well as ensuring the safety of the residents.</p><br>
<p>Bentworth Hall is a country house in the parish of Bentworth in Hampshire, England. It is about 1 mi south of Bentworth village centre and 4 mi northwest of Alton, the nearest town.</p><br>
<p>The previous Bentworth Hall (also known in the past as Bentworth Manor House), now called Hall Place, was built in the early 14th century and is a Grade II listed building. It lies 330 ft south of the village green. The current Bentworth Hall is surrounded by woodland that was planted during building which started in 1832, after Roger Staples Horman-Fisher purchased the Bentworth Manor estate.</p><br>
<h2>1832 - Building the new Bentworth Hall</h2><br>
<p>In 1832, the Bentworth Hall estate of about 500 acres was sold at Garraway’s Coffee House in the City of London by the Fitzherbert family. The Fitzherberts were relatives of Maria Fitzherbert, the illegal wife of the Prince Regent, later George IV (illegal because although George married Maria Fitzherbert, she was a Roman Catholic and banned by Act of Parliament from marrying into the Royal Family).</p><br>
<p>The Bentworth Hall estate was purchased by Roger Staples Horman-Fisher for about £6000.</p><br>
<p>Horman-Fisher started building the current Bentworth Hall on what was then open downland about 1 km to the south of the earlier Bentworth Hall at 51&deg;8&prime;52&Prime;N latitude, 1&deg;3&prime;0&Prime;W longitude, access being from an 800-metre private drive from the Bentworth-Medstead road.</p><br>
<p>The book "Heraldic Illustrations" by Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, stated the following about the Horman-Fisher family. Capitals and abbreviations are as in the original:</p><br>
<p>"ROGER STAPLES HORMAN-FISHER, Esq., of Bentworth Hall, eldest son of the late Robert Fisher, Esq. of the Inner Temple, and of Mitcham, Surrey, by Mary, his second wife, dau. of Charles Staples, Esq. of London, by Mary, his wife, dau. and heir of Baron Butz, a German noble, bears a quartered shield, FISHER and HORMAN, and an escutcheon of pretence for HORMAN, in right of his wife, Elizabeth, dau. and heir of John Horman, Esq. of Finchley."</p><br>
<p>It would appear that proof reading in those days was not very good, because under the Horman-Fisher crest, Bentworth is spelled "Brereworth", and the heading of the extract quoted above says "Fisher, of Bentworth Hall, Hants" omitting the name "Horman" which in the copy reproduced in this entry has been added in pencil.</p><br>
<h2>1848 - Sale of Bentworth Hall Estate</h2><br>
<p>"A handsome newly erected Elizabethan (sic) mansion of unique elevation with wall garden, elegant conservatory and stabling. The mansion is built in the most substantial manner and finished without reference to expense, by the proprietor for his own residence. The walls are constructed almost entirely of BLACK FLINT (emphasised in capitals in the original), carefully and minutely cut and smoothed at an incalculable cost, with Stone Cornices, mullions &C blending a beautiful and unique specimen of workmanship with a suitability and durability impenetrable to every change of atmosphere. Six airy and cheerful Family Bedrooms, spacious landing and a broad light principle (sic) staircase leads to the Ground Floor on which is another water closet. This floor comprises a neat vestibule, with a porch at the North-west entrance for the carriage road; a handsome inner hall; surrounded by a library and a breakfast room, elegant drawing room 23 ft by 18 ft. A handsome dining room of the same size, all 12 feet high finished with expensive cornices, handsome modern marble chimney pieces and other decorations."</p><br>
<h2>Later 19th Century</h2><br>
<p>Robert Ives died in 1865 and the estate passed to his widow Emma. The Ives family later included George Cecil Ives who lived for a time at Bentworth Hall. George Cecil Ives met Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas in London, publishing books on history and homosexuality.</p><br>
<p>In 1890, Emma&#39;s son, Colonel Gordon Maynard Gordon-Ives built and lived in Gaston Grange, about 0.8 mi west of Bentworth Hall. Emma Ives died seven years later and ownership of the Bentworth Hall estate passed to Colonel Gordon-Ives who continued to live at Gaston Grange.</p><br>
<h2>Early 20th Century</h2><br>
<p>"Bentworth Hall, Bentworth, tenanted by W. G. Nicholson, M.P., J.P. Bentworth Hall is a large Mansion built about eighty years since of squared flints and stone. The flint work is held to be a fine specimen of its kind. The house stands in a park of 400 acres, and is the property of Colonel Gordon-Ives, C.B."</p><br>
<p>The small crenellated tower on the right in the photo is believed to have been a water tower, but has subsequently disappeared, as have the small extensions to the ground floor windows on the south west side. In later photos the tower is almost completely covered with ivy.</p><br>
<p>Colonel Gordon-Ives died on 8 September 1907 and the estate passed to his son, Cecil Maynard Gordon-Ives, a Captain in the Scots Guards in the 1914-18 war, who occupied it until his death on 23 July 1923. The Bentworth Hall Estate, then of 479 acres, was offered for sale by John D Wood & Co of 6 Mount St London W1 on 19 July 1924.</p><br>
<p>The sale document states, with capitals as in the original: "THE CAPITAL AND SPORTING RESIDENTIAL ESTATE of about 479 acres, lies compactly together, with a FLINT AND STONE-BUILT MANOR HOUSE, approached by long avenue drive through richly timbered park, stands nearly 600ft. above sea, and contains fourteen bed and dressing, two bath, five reception rooms, halls, billiard room, good offices. ELECTRIC LIGHT. CENTRAL HEATING. AMPLE WATER. LODGE. COTTAGES. EXCELLENT STABLING. INEXPENSIVE SHADY OLD GROUNDS. TUDOR (sic) FARMHOUSE. EXCELLENT BUILDINGS"</p><br>
<p>The sale was in 7 Lots, Lot 7 being for "Lordship of Manor."</p><br>
<p>It was offered again for sale on 26 June 1930, by direction of A d’A Willis who presumably purchased it in 1924. This time, the advertised area was 462 acres, which suggests that Lot 6 of the 1924 sale, Redwood Fields, was not included (the Redwood area is south of Bentworth close to the village of Medstead). The purchaser was probably Major John Arthur Pryor who is recorded as living at Bentworth Hall in the 1930s.</p><br>
<h2>World War II</h2><br>
<p>At the beginning of the war, the Bentworth Hall estate was taken over by the military together with other local large houses and estates such as Gaston Grange and Thedden Grange.</p><br>
<p>In 1941 Bentworth Hall was occupied by a unit of the Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) as an out-station of Haslar Naval Hospital in Portsmouth. The bedrooms were the wards and there was a doctor’s office upstairs. The upstairs bathroom in the middle of the west wing was a darkroom for developing X-ray plates, presumably because it had one relatively small window that was easy to cover. This information came from N Crabb, a Royal Marine who was at Bentworth Hall during the war and married a maid who had worked at Medstead Grange, a country house 1.1 mi south of Bentworth Hall.</p><br>
<p>Later, other organisations were there because in the woods there is a carving of "48 CDO" on one of the trees. This refers to the UK 48 Marine Commando which presumably had a unit at Bentworth Hall before deploying abroad for operations. Several Nissen huts were erected in the woods to the west of the Hall and the concrete bases of many of them are still there (as of 2017) together with small amounts of the corrugated iron which covered them, although some concrete was removed in the 1980s. What may have been a brick-built ablution block is still standing, and near the west boundary of the woods is a 3 ft wide square drain cover under which are sewer pipes that served latrines in the hut complex.</p><br>
<p>In 1944 Bentworth Hall was occupied by American and British Commonwealth personnel. A swimming pool had been put in, also two cookhouses and a water tower. Huts in the woods were for accommodation although some officers lived in the Hall itself. The cornfield to the SW was an airstrip with 3 L4 light aircraft (the US Army version of the Piper Cub) which the Colonel used to fly to the airfield at Lasham</p><br>
<p>The above information came from Michael (Mick) Lennox, ex US Army, who visited Bentworth Hall from his home in New York on 6 June 1994 (the date of D-Day 50 years earlier). Lennox said that he had been accommodated in one of the huts in the woods before D-day and on walking round the woods, he located where his bed-space would have been.</p><br>
<p>In the woods there are carvings on the trees which include "US Army" and various symbols. There are also remains of the concrete bases on which the huts would have stood, the remains of a brick building, maybe an ablution block, and a concrete cover on top of what was a junction in the sewerage system from the huts.</p><br>
<h2>After the War</h2><br>
<p>An ordnance disposal unit operated in the corner of the wood near the field to the south, towards Colliers Wood. Ordnance was taken to the hollow or "dell" in the field and detonated there.</p><br>
<p>In 1947, the Bentworth Hall estate was bought by Major Herbert Cecil Benyon Berens, who was a director of Hambros bank in London from 1968. In 1950, Major Berens built two new lodge houses at the junction of the drive to Bentworth Hall with the main road through the village towards Medstead. He also built an extension to the south of the centre of Bentworth Hall itself with tall windows down to ground level facing south west. The walls of the extension matched the squared flint of the main building, and the extension was known as the "Garden Rooms" - compare the photo of the south side in 1983 with earlier photos.</p><br>
<p>Major Berens was a keen game shooter and each year his keeper raised pheasants in the old stable block before the young birds were put into the woods. There was accommodation for the keeper in the stable block with one downstairs and one upstairs room. In the 1970s the keeper was "Ginger" Woods, a well-known village character who also had a house on the road between Bentworth and Medstead near the cricket pitch, land that was owned by the Berens family.</p><br>
<p>Major Berens died at Bentworth Hall on 27 October 1981 and after this the remaining estate was put up for sale.</p><br>
<p>It was first offered as a single property but this did not sell, part of the property being in a rather dilapidated state with leaks in the roof, particularly in the centre section of the Hall.</p><br>
<p>It was then offered for sale as several so-called "dwelling units" with the main house split into three units, each with several bedrooms, and the old stable block into two units. This is still the position in 2017.</p><br>
<p>Sales of the five units commenced in 1983, the Strachan family being the first to move in - to the West Wing in March 1983.</p><br>
<p>At this time the stable block to the NE was still stabling with hay still in some of the mangers and there was a large wooden door at the NE end which in the past would have been used for horse-drawn coaches. Later in 1983 the stable block was bought by the Varleys who converted it into two dwellings that were called The Coach House and Stable Cottage.</p><br>
<p>Stella Strachan is a keen gardener and further developed the West Wing garden, particularly re-furbishing the sunken garden SW of the West Wing that had originally been installed in late Victorian times.</p><br>
<p>She is also founder chairman of the Bentworth Garden Club that was formed in 2001 after the Bentworth area Millennium survey had identified a desire for such an organisation.</p><br>
<p>The West Wing garden is opened for special events associated with the Bentworth Garden Club and other local organisations.</p><br>
<p>Kato Tithorea  is a town in Phthiotis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Amfikleia-Elateia, of which it is the seat. Population 1,841 . It is situated on the right bank of the river Cephissus and between the Parnassus and Kallidromo mountains, 11 km east of Amfikleia and 24 km northwest of Livadeia. Nearby places includes Panagitsa , Agia Paraskevi  and Tithorea . The town has a train station on the Athens-Thessaloniki main railway line.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Filopimin Finos, the founder of Finos Film, a film production company that dominated the Greek film industry from 1943 to 1977</p><br>
<p>Ioannis Grivas, President of the Court of Cassation and caretaker Prime Minister in 1989</p><br>
<p>Pine Valley is a 50 mi long valley located in southwest Utah, United States. Most of the valley lies in Beaver and Millard Counties; the extreme south of the valley arises in two mountain range regions in north Iron County.</p><br>
<p>The valley is endorheic, with a north flowing Pine Valley Wash that ends in sinks. At about 7-mi north of the sinks region, in a north valley area, lies the Pine Valley Hardpan, about 4 mi long, east-west.</p><br>
<p>The northwest of Pine Valley contains a 12 mi long Desert Biosphere Reserve and Experimental Station. The southern stretch of the Tunnel Springs Mountains is in the experimental station.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Pine Valley is about a 50-mile (80 km) long valley. The valley narrows in the south to about 3 mi wide, where Pine Valley Wash originates. The valley is a north-south valley, but the southern 10 mi turns southeasterly, paralleling a mountain ridgeline stretch of the Indian Springs Range bordered to the west. The south terminus of Pine Valley is at the merge point of the southeast Indian Springs and Wah Wah Mountains. Steamboat Mountain, 8,588 ft, is west, south of the Indian Springs, but a northeasterly stretch of peaks, ridges and hills, form the southern border of the two ranges. The northeast mountainous stretch, is also a part of the northwest border of the Escalante Desert which lies below at lower elevations.</p><br>
<p>The north terminus of Pine Valley also narrows; here, the Tunnel Springs Mountains are the west border, and a lower stretch of mountains and hills trend northwest from the north Wah Wah Mountains, to form the east border.</p><br>
<p>The center of Pine Valley has a 7 mi long alluvial fan that trends northeasterly off the center and southeast flank of the Mountain Home Range. The center of the valley has CCC Reservoir (south, about the north-south valley center); the center-north contains, Cow Camp Well, and Electric Fence Reservoir. Cow Camp and Electric Fence are in the sinks region at the north terminus of Pine Valley Wash. Adjacent just north is the Pine Valley Hardpan, which has washes feeding it from the northwest (Tunnel Springs Mtns), and northeast; and from the alluvial fan washes southwest, Pine Valley Wash, south, and other washes from the east and southeast (Wah Wah Mtns).</p><br>
<p>The lowpoint of the valley is probably Pine Valley Hardpan, or the Pine Valley Wash sinks.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The paved highway, Pine Valley Road traverses from the south Pine Valley terminus to its north center, east of Five Points. The highway starts at Lund at the south of the Wah Wah Mountains, and in the Escalante Desert. The paved route section ends at the north at its intersection with State Route 21. A local road section of Pine Valley Road transits north from State Route 21, a due-north, straight stretch that borders the east of the Desert Biosphere Reserve and Experimental Station, traverses the west of north Pine Valley, adjacent its terminus, and also crosses the east flank of the small Tunnel Springs Mountains. The road terminates further north at the east-west stretch of USA Route 6-USA 50. Pine Valley Road also dissects the Pine Valley Hardpan; the west section of the hardpan is in the Desert Range Experimental Station.</p><br>
<p>State Route 21 northwest, from Garrison crosses the central-north section of Pine Valley; the route transits east to Milford, about 40 mi distant.</p><br>
<p>Numerous unimproved roads access surrounding mountain foothills, and many mountain canyons, or washes.</p><br>
<p>The Gen. James Bintliff House was built in 1858 in Monroe, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>James Bintliff had immigrated from England around 1841, worked in wool factories in New York, and moved to Monroe in 1853. There he worked as a bookkeeper in a dry goods store, as a bank cashier, and as register of deeds. In 1859, he began practice as a lawyer. In 1860 he and a partner bought the Monroe Sentinel. Bintliff helped organize the Republican Party, he was against slavery, and in 1862 he raised an infantry company which was captured in the Battle of Thompson&#39;s Station in Tennessee. After release from imprisonment, Bintliff recruited the 38th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment and commanded three regiments in the Third Battle of Petersburg. For distinguished service there, Bintliff was nominated by President Andrew Johnson on January 13, 1866 and confirmed by the USA Senate on March 12, 1866 for appointment to the rank of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from April 2, 1865.</p><br>
<p>Bintliff&#39;s house in Monroe is in Gothic Revival style, characterized by the steep roof, the tall windows, and the elaborate bargeboards on the gables. The walls are brick, on a brick foundation. Parts of the house are lit by 9-foot French windows. Inside are a fireplace, a porcelain and glass chandelier in the dining room, and a spiral staircase.</p><br>
<p>Bintliff lived in the house until around 1870. After him, N. C. Twining, the head of local schools lived there, then the Henry Pick family. In 1960 the Hamiltons of the Monroe Evening Times bought the house, and in this house E.C. Hamilton wrote about the history and architecture of Monroe.</p><br>
<p>The NRHP nomination describes the Bintliff house as "Monroe&#39;s best domestic example of Gothic Revival style."</p><br>
<p>Robert T. Coles House and Studio is a historic home and architectural design studio located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It was designed and built in 1961, by locally prominent African American architect Robert T. Coles. It consists of two prefabricated rectangular units arranged in an "L"-shape in the Modern style. The studio unit is a single story and living unit is two levels. It has post-and-beam construction with a variety of pre-fabricated, non-structural panels and sliding glass door units. Coles once worked for the Techbuilt company under Carl Koch and the design of this dwelling reflects that experience.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It is located in the Hamlin Park Historic District.</p><br>
<p>University Park Historic District is a national historic district located in the University Heights neighborhood of Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It has 489 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 4 contributing structures adjacent to the south campus of the University at Buffalo. The district is exclusively residential, with homes built starting in 1913. The home are in popular architectural styles from the inter-war period including American Foursquare, American Craftsmanm Bungalow, and Colonial Revival. The contributing site is the overall design and layout of the subdivision and the contributing structures are distinctive entry gates to the community. Located in the district is the separately listed Edward A. Diebolt House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Witmer&#39;s Tavern, also known as the Conestoga Inn Tavern, is a historic inn and tavern located at East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, just east of USA 30 on Old Philadelphia Pike. It is a large 2 1/2-story, rectangular blue limestone building. The original section was built about 1725, and expanded in 1773. It was renovated in 1978. and was later operated as a bed-and-breakfast.</p><br>
<p>Up until 2005, the historic tavern had two barns that stood on its property. The structures were torn down after part of the lot was sold to build town homes. A prop airplane crashed into one of the barns, but both the pilot and passenger survived. Significant damage was done to the roof and rafters which could have been the cause for the barns being torn down.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Freitag&#39;s Pure Oil Service Station is an automobile service station styled like an English cottage and built in Monroe, Wisconsin in 1935 by the Pure Oil Company. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Many early gas stations were rough, simple shacks along the road. The Pure Oil Company decided to defy that stereotype with its widespread brand. In the 1920s, their chief engineer Carl August Peterson designed a steep-roofed, brick-walled station in a Tudor Revival style. It had tall chimneys on each end, flower boxes and fancy ironwork, suggesting a picturesque English cottage. Pure Oil built hundreds of cottage-style stations like this across the USA from 1927 through the 1930s. The standard look suggested predictable quality to the passing motorist, prefiguring today&#39;s chain restaurants. The "cottage" styling allowed the station to blend in - even into residential neighborhoods.</p><br>
<p>Freitag&#39;s service station in Monroe is one of these cottage-style stations. Along with the standard office section it has a "lubridome" section, where cars were serviced. This station was built by C. W. (Slim) Freitag, a big band trombonist and pilot. He built it for his father to operate. The original cost for the building and the land was $16,000. After Pure Oil, by then owned by the Union Oil Company of California, merged with Union 76, the service station became affiliated with that brand.</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Regez Sr. House is a historic house built in 1901 by an important local cheesemaker in Monroe, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 17, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Jacob Regez was born in 1849 in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. His father made cheese, and Jacob learned cheesemaking at a factory scale. In 1872 he emigrated and in 1875 set up a cheesemaking business in Monroe. Soon he had an interest in twenty local cheese factories and operated the large Legler Cheese Factory. Later he was involved in the Monroe Milk Condensing Company.</p><br>
<p>In 1884 Regez had a Queen Anne-styled house built on the site of the current house, but it was hit by lightning and burned in 1901. Within a week of the fire, Regez hired Fridolin Heer & Son, Swiss architects of Dubuque, to design a replacement. It was finished within six months.</p><br>
<p>The 1901 house sits on the same limestone foundation as the 1884 house, but the frame structure is a different Queen Anne style design, 2.5 stories with bay windows, broad eaves, pedimented dormers, and a complex roof. On the southeast corner is a large one-story round veranda with its roof supported by seven Doric columns. The walls are clad in narrow clapboard, with bands of sawtooth shingles. Inside are parquet floors, a built-in china cabinet, a tiled fireplace, a mural, stenciling, and an ornate main staircase.</p><br>
<p>The NRHP considers the house significant as one of the finest historic houses in Monroe, and as an intact example of late Queen Anne architecture. Regez himself was "one of the dominant figures in the development of Monroe&#39;s Swiss cheese industry." And the design is an important work of Fridolin Heer. The house has also been listed on the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places and designated a Monroe Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Lancaster County House of Employment, also known as Old County Hospital Building No. 1, is a historic building located at Lancaster Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1799-1801, and is a two-story, 15 bay wide stuccoed stone building. It has a full width front porch with Tuscan order columns, added about 1875-1876. The same renovation added Gothic Revival style details. It has been in continuous ownership by Lancaster County since its construction. It was built as a poor house and used as the House of Employment until 1876, when it was converted to a hospital. It later housed county offices.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>LanCo House of E No one.JPGSign on the building</p><br>
<p>The Elizabeth Almshouses, Elizabeth Road, Worthing, West Sussex are a collection of four almshouses built in 1860 by the architect William Burges. The almshouses were paid for by Williams father, Alfred Burges, in memory of Alfreds wife. The building is listed Grade II.</p><br>
<h2>History and architecture</h2><br>
<p>Alfred Burges was a civil engineer who made a considerable fortune through his work with James Walker for their engineering company Messrs. Walker and Burges. In 1860, he commissioned his son, William, to draw up plans for the building of four almshouses in memory of Alfred&#39;s wife. The building is two-storeys high and is constructed of red brick. Under a centrally-situated gablet is a statute of St Elizabeth. The almshouses are a Grade II listed building, described as a "symmetrical design of some richness".</p><br>
<p>The 1970 edition of Sussex, part of The Buildings of England series, and authored by Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner, makes no mention of the almshouses, although Nairn, who wrote the West Sussex section, does describe Worthing, recording it as "an exasperating town (that) began by imitating Brighton and ended by imitating Bournemouth".</p><br>
<p>Conestoga Town is a historic archaeological site memorializing the Native American tribal village which stood on the site from the late 17th into the mid-18th-century; it is located at what is now Manor Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The town is a settlement at the southern end of the once vast range of the Susquehannock nation or Conestoga Indian nation, which once extended from the northern reaches of Maryland to the along the southern width of southern New York State and southern Catskills where a related people, the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy held western settlement in check for 200 years. Their territory encompassed the entire drainage basin of the Susquehanna River which shares the tribe&#39;s root name and extended to the drainage divides of the flanking mountains both to the East to the Delaware nation and to the West to Shawnee lands. The town is the earliest established known surviving settlement of the tribe, and it is known that William Penn himself visited to negotiate with the tribal leaders; but by then its people were well past its tipping point and were fading into insignificance. The site is also one known to be among the last occupied of the Susquehannock town sites in Pennsylvania as they faded into obscurity.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the majority of the seventeenth century, the Susquehannock-Conestoga were a strong fierce Indian people who also came to be known locally as the Conestogas (meaning "Buried Pole Place" or "town," much like "Can-ah Da" means "Buried Pole Place" or "town" in other Iroquois languages). Excavations revealed log-cabin like structures and cemeteries. The village was occupied from the 1690s to about 1725&mdash;well after the collapse of the Susquehannock nation in the 1670s, after which the village moved to different sites within a 414-acre tract. It was an important meeting place between various Native American tribes and Pennsylvania government officials, including William Penn.</p><br>
<p>Of the early neighbors of Conestoga we find that thirty eight of them were signers of the petition in 1728 to create the county of Lancaster, out of 188 signers from the entire county. The Jones the Hendrickes, Postlethwaites, Gales, Swifts, Linvills, Worleys, Pattersons, McCurrys, Bakers, Middletons, and Wilkinses, Hughs, Willises, Mitchells, Brians, Powells, and Ludford representing the English. Stoneman, Steh, man, Ferr, Barr, Punk, Lemon, Hans, packer, Miller and others representing the German-Swiss. All signed it.</p><br>
<p>The Court records in Chester county as to Conestoga township in those days show that both the English and the Swiss took part in public affairs.</p><br>
<p>The beginning of the little group of houses called Conestoga town started in 1715 by James Hendricks, who in that year secured the right to 1,166 acres of land, reaching from Rock Hill up the Conestoga River, eight miles— almost to Wabank and east along and south of "Stehman&#39;s run," nearly to New Danville Old Mennonite Church. This settlement differed from the Pequea settlement to the east. While the Pequea colony, at Willow Street, were all Swiss Mennonites, the settlement along the Conestoga consisted of a Scotch-Irish and English core, bordering on both sides of that river, surrounded by scores of German-Swiss on all sides.</p><br>
<p>In 1763, the Paxton Boys raided a later Conestoga Town village.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>CONESTOGA TOWN, LANCASTER COUNTY, PA.jpgMarker on the roadside</p><br>
<p>CONESTOGA TOWN, MANOR TWP., LANCASTER COUNTY, PA.jpgPlaque</p><br>
<p>Mount Dōgo, is a volcanic mountain located on the border of Nichinan, Tottori Prefecture and Shōbara, Hiroshima Prefecture. The mountain has an elevation of 1,268 m. The name of Mount Dōgo in Japanese is formed from two kanji. The first, means "road" and the second, in this context means "behind" or "to the rear". Due to its scenery mountain is known as the "Queen of the Chūgoku Mountains."</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Mount Dōgo is part of Hiba-Dogo-Taishaku Quasi-National Park, and is the second largest mountain in the park after Mount Hiba. Mount Dōgo offers a clear view of Mount Hiba to the west and Daisen and the Japan Sea to the north. On clear days the Shimane Peninsula is also visible from the mountain. The Nariwa River, a prominent tributary of the Takahashi River, originates at Mount Dōgo. The border of Tottori Prefecture and Hiroshima Prefecture is marked by a low 1,268 m long stone wall.</p><br>
<h2>Alpine plain</h2><br>
<p>High-elevation flatlands, particularly the broad area known as Noro on the Hiroshima Prefecture side of Mount Dōgo. The plain is used as pastureland for dairy farms and cattle. Wagyu cattle are farmed in this area.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<h3>Trees</h3><br>
<p>Mount Dōgo features outstanding examples of numerous trees, including the:</p><br>
<p>Shiba chestnut</p><br>
<p>Kousa Dogwood</p><br>
<h3>Alpine plants</h3><br>
<p>Higher elevations of Mount Dōgo feature alpine plants. Warabi (Pteridium aquilinum), a bracken fern used in Japanese cuisine, are collected in early spring around Mount Dōgo.</p><br>
<h3>Flowers</h3><br>
<p>Mount Dōgo is known for its various species of flowers.</p><br>
<p>Forested areas of Mount Dōgo are home large clusters of the Rhododendron kaempferito species of rhododendron.</p><br>
<p>Taniutsuji (Weigela hortensis), a deciduous shrub of the honeysuckle family flowers in late spring.</p><br>
<p>Rengetsutsuji (Rhododendron japonicum), known as the Japanese azalea, blanket Mount Dōgo in June.</p><br>
<p>Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) is found in the area around Dōgo Kogen Kuro Park in Shōbara, Hiroshima Prefecture.</p><br>
<h2>Japanese giant salamander</h2><br>
<p>Mount Dōgo is one of the remaining homes of the Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus), the second largest salamander species in the world. The species, endemic to Japan, is closely related to the Chinese giant salamander and reaches a length of 1.5 m. The Japanese giant salamander, while protected by the Japanese government since 1952, is considered near threatened by the IUCN.</p><br>
<h2>Hiking and ski resort</h2><br>
<h3>Hiking</h3><br>
<p>Mount Dōgo can be accessed on the Hiroshima Prefecture side from Dōgoyama Station on the JR West Geibi Line. Access on the Tottori Prefecture side is via Shōyama Station on the JR West Hakubi Line, then by bus to a stop in the Niiya district of Nichinan. From these points the hike to the summit of Mount Dōgo takes approximately three hours. Mount Dōgo is known for its fall foliage.</p><br>
<h3>Dōgo Kogen Kuro Park</h3><br>
<p>Mount Dōgo is home to Dōgo Kogen Kuro Park. The park, at an elevation of 700 m, has a broad, flat area 44 times the size of the Tokyo Dome. The recreational facilities of Dōgo Kogen Kuro Park are maintained by the town of Shōbara. Cross country skiing is popular, and the town hosts an annual triathlon in the park. The stadium in the park is home to soccer matches and in-line skating and cycling competitions.</p><br>
<h3>Mountain & Ski Resort Dogoyamakogen</h3><br>
<p>The Mountain & Ski Resort Dogoyamakogen is open from approximately December to March for skiing and snowboarding, and is accessible from the Chūgoku Expressway via Japan National Route 183. The resort features three slopes, as well as a snowboarding and skiing school.</p><br>
<p>The Petersberg , formerly known as the Stromberg, is a mountain in the Siebengebirge mountain range near Bonn, Germany. It overlooks the cities of Königswinter, on the right bank of the Rhine river, and Bonn on the opposite side. Today the peak is the site of the Hotel Petersberg, which serves as a guest house of the Federal Republic of Germany.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There is evidence that humans were already living on the Petersberg in 3500 BC. A ring wall constructed about 1000 BC has been excavated.</p><br>
<p>In 1189, by order of the Archbishop of Cologne Philipp von Heinsberg, Cistercian monks from the abbey of Himmerod took over an abandoned hermitage built by Augustinians. In 1202 the new Heisterbach Abbey was constructed in the Peterstal, the valley below the Petersberg.</p><br>
<p>The mountain was first known as Stromberg (as documented in 1142) and received its current name after a chapel dedicated to Saint Peter was erected on its peak in 1764. In 1834 the area was sold to the merchant Joseph Ludwig Mertens. His wife Sibylle Mertens-Schaafhausen built a summer residence on the Petersberg, and became known as the Rheingräfin ("countess of the Rhine").</p><br>
<p>At the end of the 19th century the Nelles brothers from Cologne bought the area and by 1892 had opened the Hotel Petersberg, along with the Petersbergbahn, a rack railway that linked it to Königswinter. In 1912 Ferdinand Mülhens bought the property and the hotel was converted into a spa. Terraces to overlook the Rhine and a new access road were built in the 1930s, whilst the railway closed in 1958.</p><br>
<p>Since the second world war, the hotel has served as the headquarters of the Allied High Commission for Germany, and as a guest house for the Federal German Government. Many world leaders have stayed there during official visits to Germany.</p><br>
<p>The Buckskin Mountains on the Arizona-Utah border, is about a 15-mile  long mountain range divided almost equally in the counties of Coconino County, Arizona, and Kane County, Utah.</p><br>
<p>The range lies at the north end of the Kaibab Plateau, of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon; the Kanab and Paria Plateaus of Arizona, lie southwest, and southeast.</p><br>
<p>The Buckskin Mountains border the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument of Arizona, southeast. The north portion of the range in Utah is located in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.</p><br>
<p>The northeast range terminus is Buckskin Gulch. To the range&#39;s east, across the narrow Coyote Valley of the north-flowing Coyote Wash, lies the Coyote Buttes of Arizona.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The range trends approximately north-northeast, and descends steeply on its southeast flank to Coyote Wash. The range highpoint is Buckskin Mountain located just south of the state border in Arizona at 6,668 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The northeast, east, and south of the Buckskin Mountains can be accessed from USA Route 89A in Arizona from House Rock, Arizona, Road 1065, the House Rock Valley Road; the road is almost due-north trending, and in Utah, the road becomes The Cockscomb Road, connecting to USA 89, 17-mi west of Big Water.</p><br>
<p>Regions around the west and northwest of the Buckskin Mountains can be accessed from Kanab, and Canyon Point, Utah, 8-mi east of Kanab, on USA 89. USA 89 turns northeasterly at the mountains northwest flank, with access by unimproved roads.</p><br>
<p>The unimproved routes on the west, and southeast also connect to an improved route at the south terminus of the mountain range. The route comes from House Rock Valley Road, east, and its west route terminus, at USA 89A, 7-mi east of Fredonia, Arizona.</p><br>
<p>Chermsideøya  is an 14 km² island north of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. It is separated from Nordaustlandet by the 1–2 km wide Beverlysundet. Two km to the east lies the two smaller Castrénøyane .</p><br>
<p>Nordkapp (North Cape) on the northern coast is considered the northernmost tip of Svalbard proper, although both Sjuøyane and Karl XII-øya are situated further to the north. Parryøya in Sjuøyane lies some 15 km to the northeast, separated by Nordkappsundet strait.</p><br>
<p>The islands&#39;s two highest peaks are Knoll (280 m) on the southwestern half and Tott (230 m) on the northeastern half, named after the cartoon characters The Katzenjammer Kids, which in Norwegian is named Knoll and Tott. The two mountains are divided by Chermsidedalen (Chermside Valley). Area covered with ice: ca. 5 % of total area.</p><br>
<p>The island is named after Herbert Chermside, 1850-1929, later lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Chermside, Governor of Queensland, Australia (1901–07). As lieutenant Chermside, R. E., he accompanied Mr. Leigh Smith on his voyage to Spitsbergen in 1873.</p><br>
<p>Karl XII-øya  is an island north of the island of Nordaustlandet in Svalbard, Norway.</p><br>
<p>Except for Sjuøyane, Karl XII-øya is the northernmost part of Svalbard, and thus also Norway.</p><br>
<p>Karl XII-øya is a roughly 2 km long, narrow island situated about 34 km north of Nordaustlandet proper. The 105 meter high Kongsberget in the north and the 30 meter high Drabanten in the south are two of the highest points on the island. The nearest point on Nordaustlandet is Bergstrømodden, but there are two islands, Nordre Repøya and Søre Repøya that are closer to Karl XII-øya. Hence, the distance from Nordre Repøya is about 25 km.</p><br>
<p>Karl XII-øya is named after Carl XII, 1682–1718, King of Sweden 1697-1718. The island was visited by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld in 1861. Alfred Gabriel Nathorst and others on board the Antarctic visited the island in 1898. Members of the Swedish-Norwegian expedition to Svalbard also visited in 1931.</p><br>
<p>Hall Place  is a manor house in the parish of Bentworth in Hampshire, England. It is about 300m SW of Bentworth Church and 3.6 mi NW of Alton, the nearest town. Built in the early 14th century, it is a Grade II listed building. It is a medieval hall-house, known by various names through the centuries. It is 0.5 mi from the current Bentworth Hall that was built in 1832.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1086 Domesday Survey that was ordered by the first Norman king, William the Conqueror, Bentworth is listed as a parish in the Domesday entry for the Hundred of Odiham. Soon after Domesday, Bentworth became an independent manor in its own right. In about 1111 it was given by King Henry I "Beauclerc", the youngest son of William the Conqueror, together with four other English manors, to the diocese of Rouen and Geoffrey, Count of Anjou. When King John began losing his possessions in Normandy he took back the ownership of many manors, including Bentworth. He then temporarily ceded the manor of Bentworth in 1207&ndash;8 to the Bishop of Winchester, Peter des Roches. It was John who signed Magna Carta in June 1215 at Runnymede, staying at Odiham castle 10 km north-east of Bentworth the night before. However, the manor was returned to the Archbishops of Rouen, who successively held the manor until 1316, when Edward II appointed Peter de Galicien custodian of the manor in that year.</p><br>
<p>Some time after 1280, most likely 1320s, a new stone hall-house was built in Bentworth, possibly by the constable of Farnham castle, William de Aula. In 1330, Matilda de Aula was given permission to have a private chapel at the hall. In 1336, ownership of the manor of Bentworth passed to William Melton, Archbishop of York. Upon his death in 1340, he left his possessions to his nephew William de Melton, son of his brother, Henry.</p><br>
<p>In 1348, William de Melton obtained the king&#39;s permission to give his manor to William Edendon, Bishop of Winchester, and then ownership of the manor of Bentworth passed by marriage to the Windsor family, who had been constables of Windsor Castle. However, this hall was evidently returned to the Melton family, as it is mentioned among his possessions in an inquisition taken in 1362&ndash;3, and descended to his son, Sir William de Melton. He died in 1455, and was succeeded by his son (d.1474), then his grandson John Melton. The manor of Bentworth itself was said to have remained in possession of the Windsor family for at least one hundred and fifty years.</p><br>
<p>In 1590, Henry Windsor (1562&ndash;1605), the 5th Lord Windsor, sold the "sub-manor of Bentworth" to the Hunt family who had been tenants since the beginning of that century. Ownership passed in 1610 to Sir James Woolveridge of Odiham and in 1651 to Thomas Turgis, a wealthy London merchant. His son, also Thomas, was described as one of the richest commoners in England and in 1705, he left the manor of Bentworth to his relative William Urry, of Sheat Manor, Isle of Wight.</p><br>
<p>In 1777, the Urry descendants were daughters Mary and Elizabeth, who married two Catholic brothers, Basil and William Fitzherbert of Swynnerton Hall, Staffordshire.</p><br>
<h2>The 1800s</h2><br>
<p>In about 1800, Mary Fitzherbert (who had 11 children) became owner of the Bentworth Hall Estate and in 1832, the Estate was put up for auction by the Fitzherbert family. The auction was held at Garraway’s Coffee House in Exchange Alley in the City of London, and was sold to Roger Staples Horman Fisher for about £6000. Almost immediately he started building the present Bentworth Hall about a mile south of the old Manor House on what was then open downland.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and fittings</h2><br>
<p>Hall Place (the former Bentworth Hall or Manor) is a Grade II* listed medieval manor house, located along the main road of Bentworth. It was built in the early 14th century, with extensive additions in the 17th and 19th centuries. The hall is believed to have been constructed by either the constable of Farnham Castle, William de Aula, or John of Bynteworth (Bentworth), and served for some time as the manor court.</p><br>
<p>The hall has thick flint walls, gabled cross wings, with a Gothic stone arch and 20th-century boarded door and two-storey porch. Pevsner mentions that the porch is early 14th century. The west wing of the house has a stone-framed upper window and very large attached tapered stack. The east wing has sashes dated to the early 19th century. The old fireplace remains in the north-facing room with its roll moulding and steeply pitched head. Pevsner notes that this building is now a dairy.</p><br>
<h2>Grounds</h2><br>
<p>A chapel in the grounds was part of the house complex. It was added soon after the construction of 1330 under the request of Matilda de Aula.</p><br>
<p>Swasey Mountain, is the north section of the House Range of northwest Millard County, Utah, United States; the extreme north of Swasey Mountain extends into south Juab County.</p><br>
<p>The Swasey Mountain section contains a north-trending ridge at the west, about 14-mi long; the south of the section is east-west, the mountain shaped like an "L". The south, an east-west section is a massif, with a circular section attached to the southeast.</p><br>
<p>The highpoint of Swasey Mountain is at the southwest corner of the massif (the L-shape), and is Swasey Peak, 9,673 ft.</p><br>
<p>The section of the House Range attached to the south is a shorter, north-trending ridgeline section, Middle Ridge, with mountain passes on both ends; the north has Antelope Springs Road, through Dome Canyon, and Dome Canyon Pass. The south has Old Highway 6 & 50 Road through Marjum Canyon and Marjum Pass.</p><br>
<p>The south House Range contains Orr Ridge, with three major peaks anchoring the west region, and geographically, shaped much like a circular massif.</p><br>
<p>Tule Valley lies at the west flank of the mountain. East of the mountain is the Sevier Desert, and to the northeast are the Drum Mountains. The north terminus of the Swasey Mountain section is adjacent to the south terminus of the Fish Springs Range, also on a north-south trendline.</p><br>
<p>Central Hotel and A. Bube&#39;s Brewery, are a historic hotel and brewery complex located at Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The brewery building was built in 1859, and consists of a 2 1/2-story, stone flat roofed building with a one-story, attached brick building. The stone portion features large, arched double entry doors. In 1880, Alois Bube built the Central Hotel. It is a three-story, flat roofed building with a wide overhanging cornice and elaborate decoration in the Late Victorian style. The original third-floor had a mansard roof, but it was destroyed by fire in 1893, and replaced with the present configuration. The two buildings are connected by a three-story ice house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 1973.</p><br>
<p>On April 25, 2012, the complex was featured in an episode of Ghost Hunters on Syfy.</p><br>
<p>John Casper Stoever Log House is a historic home located at New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1740, and is a 1 1/2-story, 36 feet 6 inches by 22 feet, log dwelling. It has corner posts, to which the logs are attached with mortise and tenon joints. It had a gable roof with dormers and sat on a stone foundation. The log structure was covered with asbestos shingles over novelty siding. A one-story, rear addition was built in the 1880s and a glass entryway in the 1920s. Its builder, Rev. John Casper Stoever , was a prominent figure in the development of the Lutheran church.</p><br>
<p>The house is no longer located at 200 W. Main St., and appears to have been moved about 30 feet south and turned 90 degrees.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>White Chimneys is a historic home located at Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is a 2 1/2-story, five bay building of stuccoed limestone. It is topped by a gable roof with dormers. It was built in four sections. The oldest section was built about 1720, and served as a tavern. A two-room addition was built in 1790, and a large Federal style addition in 1807. The west wing was added in 1923, and includes a ballroom. As of December 26, 2006, the mansion is maintained as a private residence. The grounds and formal gardens are open to the public by appointment. In most recent years, the property has gained popularity as an elegant wedding ceremony and reception venue. The bank barn and pastures are utilized for horses.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Mascot Roller Mills, also known as Resslers Mill, is a historic grist mill complex located at Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of the mill, millers house, summer kitchen, and frame barn. The original section of the mill was built in 1737. The machinery was installed in 1906. It is a three-story, "L"-shaped stone building with a gable roof and cupola. The house was built in 1855, and is a two story, gable roofed brick banked building. The summer kitchen is adjacent to the house is a one-story, brick structure. The small frame barn dates to the late-19th century. It is the oldest continuously operating grist mill in Lancaster County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Johannes Harnish Farmstead is a historic home and farm located at West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The property includes a Pennsylvania German style farmhouse, a brick Pennsylvania style ancillary dwelling , a frame kitchen , a stone springhouse , and a frame tobacco shed . Also on the property are the runis of a stone bank barn from the 19th century and the remains of the family burial ground dated to the 18th century. The farmhouse was built in 1774, and is a 2 1/2-story, rectangular stone dwelling. It is four bays by two bays and has a slate covered gable roof with shed dormer. A one-story rear addition was built between 1958 and 1960.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Hans Herr House, also known as the Christian Herr House, is a historic home located in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1719, and is a 1 1/2-story, rectangular sandstone Germanic dwelling. It measures 37 feet, 9 inches, by 30 feet, 10 inches. It is the oldest dwelling in Lancaster County and the oldest Mennonite meetinghouse in America. The Mennonites who worshipped there formed the nucleus of what became the Willow Street Mennonite Congregation. It was restored to its 1719 appearance in 1972-73.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Hans Herr House is open to the public as a museum. The house is located at 1849 Hans Herr Drive in Willow Street, Pennsylvania. The museum complex includes the 1719 Hans Herr House, the Georgian-style 1835 Shaub House, the Victorian-style 1890s Huber House, several barns and outbuildings with animals, exhibit buildings, blacksmith shop, bake-oven, smoke house, and a collection of farm equipment. Exhibits focus on Mennonite history, colonial and Victorian-era farm life, and the Herr family. The museum opened in 1974 and is administered by the Hans Herr House Foundation.</p><br>
<p>Windsor Forge Mansion, also known as Windsor Place, is a historic home and national historic district located at Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes four contributing buildings and three contributing objects. The buildings are the Ironmasters Mansion, stone smokehouse , stone spring house , and stone summer kitchen / servants quarters . The three objects are pieces by noted artist and poet Blanche Nevin , who purchased Windsor Forge Mansion in 1899. Her grandfather Robert Jenkins  had previously been ironmaster and congressman. The oldest section of the Ironmaster&#39;s Mansion was built about 1742; the western section was built about 1765, and the connecting middle section about 1815. A shed roof porch was added in 1899, at which time it was generally renovated. The house is 2 1/2-stories and built of stone. Nevin added a studio to the house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>David Davis Farm, also known as the Christian Summers Farm and John Martin Farm, is a historic farm and national historic district located at Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes seven contributing buildings and one contributing site. They include the farmhouse, a stone bank barn , spring house , two frame tobacco barns, a small frame shed , and family burial ground. The farmhouse is an evolutionary dwelling originally built as a two-story, stone building about 1750, and extensively remodeled in 1787. Stone and frame additions were made about 1815, about 1870, and about 1890. Attached to the house is a small frame summer kitchen with beehive oven, that was once a separate structure.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Mezgitkale is a 2nd- or 3rd-century mausoleum in Mersin Province of Turkey.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Mezgitkale (also known as Korkusuz Kral Mezarı “Mausoleum of fearless king” ) is a small mousaleum near Öztürkmenli village in Silifke district. It is situated in the 500 m high plateau to the south of Toros Mountains. It is accessible from Atakent on the Mediterranean shore. Distance to Silifke is 27 km and to Mersin is 80 km</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although the Turkish suffix -kale means fort, this building is actually a mausoleum. Also, contarary to popular belief it is not a mausoleum of a king. It was built by an eminent Roman citizen (probably a land owner) for his family. The building was used as a tomb for about two centuries. Then it was abandoned during the Byzantine era. During Ottoman era, the building was used as a house and a furnace was added to the original building.</p><br>
<h2>Technical details</h2><br>
<p>The dimensions of the square building are 7.8 x 7.8 m (25.6 x 25.6 ft). The entrance with four Corinth type columns and corbels is at the south. On the north wall there are reliefs of a shield, a sword and two scorpions. On the west wall there is a relief (now partially damaged) of a phallus probably dedicated to Priapos. Next to the moselaum, there is a stone carved cistern with dimensions 5 x 20 x 8 m ( 16.4 x 65 x 26 ft).</p><br>
<p>According to Ministry of Culture and Tourism, there was also an olive oil workshop.</p><br>
<p>Ephrata Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 36 contributing buildings in the central business district of Ephrata. It has notable examples of the Queen Anne and Italianate architectural styles and buildings designed by noted Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban. The oldest building dates to 1808 and is the Eagle Hotel. Other notable buildings include the I.G. Sprecher & Sons Hardware , Richard Heitler House , J.W. Yost Liquor Store , Ephrata Railroad Station , USA Post Office , Ephrata National Bank , and Grant and Wenger Feed Mill . Located in the district is the separately listed Mentzer Building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Lititz Moravian Historic District is a national historic district located at Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 113 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in Lititz. It has notable examples of the Federal and Late Victorian architectural styles. The buildings date from about 1755 to 1930. Notable buildings include the Wardens House , Corpse House  , Werner House, Tinsley Cottage, Sisters House , Moravian Church , Brothers&#39; House , Lititz National Bank, Commonwealth National Bank , Mary Dixon Memorial Chapel  on the campus of Linden Hall School, and General Sutter Inn .</p><br>
<p>The contributing site is the Moravian Church Cemetery (established 1758). Among other notables, the cemetery contains the graves of General John Augustus Sutter, of Gold Rush fame, and his wife Anna Dubeld Sutter, and Francis Florentine Hagen, composer of the beloved Christmas hymn "Morning Star, O Cheering Sight." Located in the district are the separately listed Congregational Store, Sturgis Pretzel House, and Johann Agust Sutter House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Manheim Borough Historic District is a national historic district located at Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 787 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Manheim. The majority of the buildings are residential and include notable examples of the Italianate and Eastlake Movement architectural styles and buildings designed by noted Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban. The buildings date from about 1762 to 1949, with the majority built between 1860 and 1930. Notable non-residential buildings include the Stiegel / Arntz Building , Kready&#39;s Store, Manheim Railroad Station , Manheim National Bank , Keystone National Bank , Eisenlohr Cigar Factory, Fuller Factory, Bond Caster and Wheel Corporation, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church , and Hope Hose Company Firehouse . The contributing site is the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Yandang Mountains or Yandangshan ") refers, in the broad sense, to a coastal mountain range in southeastern Zhejiang province in eastern China, covering much of the prefecture-level city of Wenzhou  and extending to the county-level city of Wenling in Taizhou prefecture. The mountain range is divided in two by the Oujiang River, the two parts being the North Yandang and South Yandang. More narrowly, Yandangshan is also used more narrowly to refer to Mount Yandang, a specific part of the North Yandang around an ancient caldera near a small town of the same name . The highest peaks of North Yandang are located here, and this is also the main tourist spot. In this article, name "Yandang Mountains" is used to refer the mountain range and "Mt. Yandang" to refer to the caldera.</p><br>
<p>The main peak of North Yandang, Baigangjian (, Bǎigǎng Jiān, "Hundred-Peak Point"), rises 1,150 m above sea level There is a radar station on the peak, which is closed to the public.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, Yandangshan became National Geological Park and in the beginning of 2005, a member of Global Geoparks Network, with total area of 450 km&sup2;. The Yandangshan National Forest Park has an area of 841 hectare, covering Mt. Yandang.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Yandang is known for its natural environment, arising from its vertical rock faces and pinnacles, mountain slopes with forests and bamboo groves, streams, waterfalls and caves. The area also hosts several temples and shrines, many of them with a long history; characteristic for the temples is that many of them are built inside caves or in mouths of caves.</p><br>
<h2>Environment</h2><br>
<p>Yandang Mountains were formed through volcanic activity during the Cretaceous period -120 million years (Ma) ago. Similar igneous rocks are widespread in SE China, forming a ~400 km wide and ~2,000 km long belt of volcanic-intrusive complexes.</p><br>
<p>Yandangshan caldera is a round volcanic‐intrusive complex with a diameter of 13 km&sup2, of which the north-east part was destroyed by a later regional fault. Yandangshan volcano erupted in four episodes. The mountain consists of various igneous rocks: ignimbrite, rhyolite, syenite and tuff. The mountain shows often conspicuous layering corresponding to the four different episodes of eruptions, giving rise to terrace-like structures where flatter, forested areas are separated by vertical cliffs.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Yandang is mostly covered by deciduous and evergreen forests, mixed with some Cunninghamia. Drier ridges can be dominated by small pine trees. There are also some bamboo grooves. Lower slopes and valleys are used for agricultural purposes, for example for growing tea, or as fruit gardens. Herbs and mushrooms collected from the mountain are sold locally.</p><br>
<p>A number of plant and animal species have been named after Mt. Yandang. A species of sedge, Carex yandangshanica, has been described from Mt. Yandang and two other mountainous locations in Zhejiang. Mt. Yandang has also given its name to Cyclosorus yandangensis, a marsh fern, and Arachniodes yandangshanensis, a holly fern. Among animal species, a mite Eustigmaeus yandangensis has been named after Mt. Yandang, but this has been challenged.</p><br>
<p>Yandang Mountains are everywhere influenced by human activity; there is an extensive network of official tourist paths, clearings for fire-prevention, and unofficial paths used by the local people for collecting resources from the mountains; nevertheless, because of the steep terrain, some parts are difficult to access. Whatever wildlife survives tends to be very elusive. Notable inhabitants of Yandang Mountains include Cabot&#39;s tragopan, a nationally-protected species in China. Chinese pangolin is also reported to live in Yandang Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Yandang Mountains have been considered as one of the areas where South China tiger might still persist, but there is no positive evidence and the species is considered functionally extinct in the wild.</p><br>
<h2>Cultural significance</h2><br>
<p>Yandang Mountains are dotted with temples and shrines, many of them with long history. Most of them were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, but many have been rebuilt.</p><br>
<p>Guanyin Temple (or Avalokitesvara Temple) is a Buddhist temple located on Mt. Yandang, in the Lingfeng Peaks scenic area. The temple lies between two rock peaks leaning against each other such that a big crack-like cave is formed; the peaks are together known as the "Holding Palms Peak". The cave is 100 metres high, with the cave bottom sloping steeply up. The temple follows this natural structure and has nine levels (floors), with the Guanyin shrine occupying the highest, most hidden section of the cave. The temple was first build in 265.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<h3>North Yandang</h3><br>
<p>North Yandangshan, in the geographic sense, contains three scenic areas, Yangjiaodong/Fangshan, Middle Yandangshan and North Yandang, the latter commonly referred to as the Yandangshan, the most famous of the scenic areas in the Yandang Mountains.</p><br>
<p>North Yandang Scenic Area is centered on Mt. Yandang and has an area of 450 km&sup2;. China’s National Tourism Administration rated North Yandang as a "5A scenic area" in 2007, up from "4A" before. A number of touristic attractions, or "scenic spots", have been develop around Mt. Yandang, the most famous being:</p><br>
<p>Lingfeng Peaks.</p><br>
<p>Lingyan Rock.</p><br>
<p>Great Dragon Pond Waterfall.</p><br>
<p>The great majority of domestic tourists only visit the key scenic areas, which can get very crowded, and not all development has been kind to the surroundings. However, areas outside the formally developed scenic spots can be quite serene. Mt. Yandang is also increasingly popular as a hiking area for urbanites.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Yandang can be accessed using the Yandangshan Railway Station on the fast railway track between Ningbo and Wenzhou.</p><br>
<p>Middle Yandang Scenic Area is a "4A scenic area" in south of Yueqing County. The total area of the scenic area is 93 km.</p><br>
<p>Yangjiaodong/Fangshan Scenic Area is on the border between Wenzhou and Taizhou. This is a single mountain, but the name of the scenic area changes on the border. Yangjiaodong is the Wenzhou half, and Fangshan the Taizhou one.</p><br>
<h3>South Yandang</h3><br>
<p>South Yandang is a "4A scenic area" and consists of five scenic spots near Nanyanzhen town in Pingyang County. East and West Caves are the most famous sights. The total area of the scenic area is 169 km.</p><br>
<p>Kirks Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 12 contributing buildings in the village of Kirks Mills. They are Jacob Kirks Mansion House , Brick Mill / Kirks Mill , the brick millers house, stone and log barn converted to a residence in 1975, Joseph Reynolds House , Eastland Friends Meeting and Tenant House , Ephriam B. Lynch House , Harry Reynolds House , Manuel Reynolds House, Eastland School House , and Log House. The Jacob Kirks Mansion House is a three-story, brick dwelling with a two-story ell. It features a full porch on the front and right sides. Kirk&#39;s Mill is a 2 1/2-story brick building with a slate gable roof. It was remodeled to a residence about 1940.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Columbia Historic District is a national historic district located at Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 833 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 7 contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Columbia. The district is primarily residential with notable examples of Late Victorian architectural styles. Notable non-residential buildings include the Reading and Columbia Freight Station , Holy Trinity Catholic Church and School , American Legion Post 469, Womens Club, Columbia Lodge #1074 BPOE, Columbia Town Hall , St. Pauls Episcopal Church , Franklin Hotel , and Columbia Water Company . Located in the district is the separately listed Bachman and Forry Tobacco Warehouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Freeman House Store was once called the Lydecker Store and is located in the Town of Vienna in Fairfax County, Virginia, the house lies in Northern Virginia near the District of Columbia. Built in 1859 for Abram Lydecker, both Confederate and Union Army troops occupied the house during the American Civil War. The house has been restored in accordance with historical records. Civil War paraphernalia are sold in a restored general store on the first floor of the house. A museum on the second floor of the house presently displays Civil War artifacts.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Freeman House Store and Museum is located in the Town of Vienna in Fairfax County, Virginia on Church Street. The house takes up approximately 0.83 acre, while the entire property took up six acres when Abram Lydecker purchased it. As the House is less than twenty miles from Washington, D.C., its location had importance during the Civil War. The Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad constructed a line through Vienna, creating large growth in the town and of Lydecker’s business. The Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail now travels along the railroad&#39;s route, south of the House.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The Freeman House is a two-story, five-bay frame house. The house has white paneling with a full width front porch. The house has an off center entrance slightly to the right. On each side of the house is a chimney, which can be observed through the exterior. On the right side of the house a manmade bridge was built for pedestrians crossing over the creek from the house to the railroad. Originally built in 1859, the house has gone through restorations. After the house was inherited to Leon Freeman in 1911, he started making changes. Then through 1975 through 1977 a major restoration was made. Throughout its many uses, the top floor was used as the living quarters and is now today the museum. The bottom floor acted as the general store and post office.</p><br>
<h2>Historical Background</h2><br>
<h3>The Lydecker Family</h3><br>
<p>The Freeman House was originally built in 1859 for Abram Lydecker, an immigrant from New Jersey. The top floor acted as the living area and the bottom was the store that sufficed as Vienna&#39;s post office and fire department. Abram Lydecker owned and operated the store/house until he and his family fled when the Civil War was brought to the area.</p><br>
<h3>Civil War Uses</h3><br>
<p>In 1861, the house was the polling place for the secession vote. A vacant house in its location was a perfect headquarters for the Confederacy and then later the Union. For both sides, the house acted as a hospital and offices. After the war moved on and ended, the Lydeckers moved back into the house.</p><br>
<h3>The Freeman Family</h3><br>
<p>In 1872 Lydecker&#39;s son-in-law, Anderson Freeman, moved into the house with his wife and family and helped operate the family business. The store was transferred to Anderson Freeman and then to his son Leon Freeman.</p><br>
<p>Leon Lydecker Freeman was an active member of the town of Vienna. Leon was handed down the family business at the age of eighteen. He attended public education provided by the county and at Bethel Military Academy. He then attended the Spencerian Business College in Washington D.C. His accomplishments include serving as the first president of the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department and a member of the Town Council including three years as mayor. After passing the house down to his wife, Hattie Belle, it was then passed to their daughter Dorothy. In 1969 Dorothy sold the home to the Town of Vienna. The Town of Vienna then began the restorations and changes.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The Town of Vienna owns the Freeman House and Museum, which the Town and Historic Vienna, Inc., jointly operate. The building has been restored and now includes civil war artifacts and a small museum. The house sells candy and other town paraphernalia on the first floor and has the museum and administrative offices on the second floor. It holds tours by appointment only by volunteers of Historic Vienna Inc. The House is open to the general public from Wednesday through Saturday from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. and on Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.</p><br>
<p>A Civil War exhibit will be open for the public in the House throughout 2012. The exhibit, designed and mounted by Historic Vienna Inc. volunteers, includes reproductions of Union and Confederate uniforms and a dress of the period, bullets and ammunition, a genuine Colt revolver, buttons, currency, a Confederate war bond, original 1861 Harper’s Weekly pages on the Battle of Vienna and on the use of an observation balloon between Vienna and Falls Church, artifacts on camp life and domestic life such as children’s games and cooking utensils, a period doll, an officer’s writing desk, and other photographs and memorabilia.</p><br>
<p>Today the surrounding area of the Freeman House still has its historical context of small local businesses and unique fairs. All of the outhouses that were once a part of the estate have now been demolished.</p><br>
<h2>Recognitions</h2><br>
<p>On September 22, 2011, The Virginia Department of Historic Resources placed the Freeman Store on the Virginia Landmarks Register. It is the only structure in Vienna to hold this designation. On April 21, 2012 the Vienna Community unveiled a plaque commemorating the Freeman Store&#39;s inclusion on the Virginia Landmarks Register. The USANational Park Service listed the Freeman Store on the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Bayard Park Neighborhood is a neighborhood in Evansville, Indiana which is bounded by Lincoln Avenue, US Highway 41, Washington Avenue and Garvin Street. The Bayard Park Historic District contains approximately 87 acres including 335 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site within the neighborhood boundaries. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The architecture of residential homes in the neighborhood include quaint 1890s Queen Anne cottages, ground-hugging bungalows, American Fourquares, and high-style Early American and English revival types. The neighborhood also features Evansville&#39;s first neighborhood park and the East Branch Library, a Carnegie Library funded by the renowned philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bayard Park enclave took root in the last decades of the 19th century as the city of Evansville expanded eastward. The area&#39;s future as a residential area was determined when various owners of the land determined in 1893 to prohibit, via recorded plan restrictions, any type of commerce in their respective subdivisions. This made the neighborhood the first planned land development in Evansville.</p><br>
<p>By 1897, the area had been annexed into Evansville which brought with it city amenities like water and sewer lines, and the erection of a public school. As the 20th century commenced, the city&#39;s middle class moved heavily into the area, with the period of 1905 to 1915 one of intense development. By the beginning of the Great Depression, the residential district was fully established.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Like many urbanized neighborhoods, Bayard Park has undergone significant demographic changes over the years. In 2009 about 22.9% of the residents in the historic district of the neighborhood lived below the Poverty line, compared with 13.7% in the city as a whole.</p><br>
<h2>Bayard Park</h2><br>
<p>Bayard Park, located within the neighborhood and giving the district its name, was Evansville&#39;s first neighborhood preserve. The ten acre tract was donated in 1901 to the city for perpetual park use by Mrs. Martha Orr Bayard (1836-1909). The gift was made on the condition that the park be named after her late husband, banker Samuel Bayard, and that she be allowed to landscape it; however, she further stipulated that the City was to provide maintenance.</p><br>
