<p>Ibex Cave is a limestone cave on the Rock of Gibraltar which has yielded stone artefacts of Mousterian tradition. It was discovered in 1975. It is so named as an ibex skull was found within the cave which would have been hunted by the Neanderthals of Gibraltar thousands of years ago. Ibex Cave was named and excavated by the Gibraltar Museum in 1994. Its first formal description was in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ibex Cave was named and excavated by the Gibraltar Museum in 1994. Before this, a sand collection operation had been ongoing on the Eastside of the Rock of Gibraltar. The sand from the slopes that was then beneath the water catchments was extracted and transported along a conveyor belt system to the road below for industrial use. The decaying skeleton of this conveyor system was visible from Sir Herbert Miles Road until very recently.</p><br>
<h3>Discovery and rediscovery</h3><br>
<p>In 1985, when workers began removing sand from above the water catchments, they discovered the entrance to a small cave. They recovered stone artefacts and bones until ordered to stop by George Palao of the Public Works Department. Palao gathered the collected items and arranged for the cave to be sealed according to notes found years later in a vault at the Gibraltar Museum. These finds were rediscovered in a bag in 1991 by Prof. Clive Finlayson, Director of the Gibraltar Museum. They included stone tools, made mainly of red jasper and many mammal bones including the almost complete skull of an ibex, a wild mountain goat. In the bag was Palao&#39;s report and thus was able to establish where the finds came from. The stone artefacts were of Mousterian tradition, i.e. Neanderthal. A museum collaborator, Julio Gafan, was aware of this find and introduced Prof. Finlayson to one of the former workers at the site who agreed to take them to the site where the artefacts had been recovered.</p><br>
<p>Writing about the rediscovery, Prof. Finlayson and his wife Dr. Geraldine Finlayson stated:</p><br>
<p>It is now known that Ibex Cave would have been a hunting station for the Neanderthals around 40,000 years ago, a site where they went to hunt the ibexes. Other fauna associated with the site included the now rare lammergeyer or bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus).</p><br>
<p>The McDonald Farm is a historic agricultural complex near the city of Xenia in Greene County, Ohio, United States. It has been named a historic site, largely because of a quarry on the farm, which supplied stone for the Washington Monument.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Much of Greene County is underlain by Dayton Limestone, a high-quality limestone whose type locality is in the city of Dayton in the adjacent Montgomery County. Farmers in Greene County supplied building stone for local needs through much of the nineteenth century, and by the late 1870s it was being exported to distant localities by the Dayton and Xenia Railroad. Wilford McDonald, who lived about 3.5 mi south of Xenia, after it was exposed by erosion from a nearby small stream. Quarrying revealed limestone deposits as deep as 8 ft in some places, much of it smoothed by glacial abrasion. The reputation of McDonalds quarry became more prominent than any other source of Greene County limestone; Eventually, McDonald became known as the supplier of one of Ohios best limestones. Quarrying continued until 1896, when the stream by the quarry flooded it, although a small amount of stone was quarried in the 1930s. Today, the quarry remains filled with water.</p><br>
<h2>Historic significance</h2><br>
<p>In 1849, each of the United States was asked to supply a block of stone for the construction of the Washington Monument. Because McDonalds quarry was known as one of Ohios best sources of limestone, state geologists decided to supply a block of McDonald stone, and a Xenia mason produced a block measuring 6 xx to be sent to Washington, D.C., where it was eventually placed in the monument&#39;s interior stairway.</p><br>
<p>In 1996, the McDonald Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, by Margretta Lott Bodewell-Great-Great-Granddaughter of the original owner of the property, qualifying both because of the farm buildings architecture and because of the farms place in local history. The architecture of the farm buildings is mixed among multiple architectural styles, including a vernacular I-house and the formal Federal and Greek Revival styles. The historic portion of the farm comprises nine buildings and two sites over an area of 68 acre, which is designated a historic district.</p><br>
<p>Eel Lake is large, deep lake in a chain of water bodies along the Oregon Coast south of the Umpqua River in the United States. The chain includes other large lakes&mdash;Clear, North Tenmile, and Tenmile&mdash;as well as smaller lakes, which drain into the Pacific Ocean via Tenmile Creek.</p><br>
<p>Eel Lake is about 7 mi south of Reedsport, east of USA Route 101 and north of Lakeside. Steep slopes of the Oregon Coast Range border Eel Lake on the east. William M. Tugman State Park borders the lake on the west, and Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area is less than 1 mi further west.</p><br>
<p>Clear Lake, to the north, drains into the west side of Eel Lake via Clear Creek as do the smaller lakes Edna, Teal, Stuttpelz, and Hall. Water exits Eel Lake via Eel Creek, a tributary of Tenmile Creek. Eel Lake is the source of drinking water for about 1,200 people in and near Lakeside.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The lakes in the Tenmile Creek watershed formed after rising sea levels, driven by post-glacial warming, inundated the lower reaches of the creek and its tributaries. Sand dunes that later formed along the coast altered the region&#39;s drainage patterns and led to a string of lakes at varied elevations within the Tenmile basin.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>William M. Tugman State Park surrounds the western arm of Eel Lake. It has 94 campsites for recreational vehicles (RVs) as well as 16 yurts for hikers and bikers; a day-use area, a boat ramp, a fishing dock, and a hiking trail. Activities on or near the lake include fishing, swimming, boating, and wildlife watching. The lake supports populations of largemouth bass, crappie, stocked rainbow trout, steelhead (sea-run rainbow trout), and Coho salmon, the latter of which must be released if caught.</p><br>
<p>Hopewell Friends Meeting House is an 18th-century Quaker meeting house located the northern Frederick County, Virginia one mile west of the community of Clear Brook at 604 Hopewell Road . Clear Brook, VA 22624. This community was the home of Thomas William "Tom" Fox , a Quaker peace activist, affiliated with Christian Peacemaker Teams  murdered in 2006 in Iraq.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early History</h3><br>
<p>Hopewell Friends Meeting was named "Opeckan", after nearby Opequon Creek, when it was set off from the Concord (Pennsylvania) Quarterly Meeting in 1734. It is the oldest Quaker meeting in Virginia&#39;s Shenandoah Valley. The original group of settlers came from the Monocacy valley in Frederick County, Maryland. Initially, this meeting was a member of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. At that time, the settlement included about seventy families. Initially, a log meeting house was built on lands originally granted by Lt. Gov. William Gooch of Virginia to two Irishmen, a Quaker named Alexander Ross (in 1730) and Morgan Bryan (a 1732 grant to this Presbyterian). Prominent London Quaker John Fothergill (1712-1780) visited this meeting in 1736. In 1757, the 1734 meeting house burned. In addition to losing its place of worship, the congregation also lost all its early records in a 1759 house fire.</p><br>
<h3>Current Meeting House Built</h3><br>
<p>Thomas McClun acted as builder for the original 33 feet x 44 feet coursed rubble limestone structure. Located at “the gate of the Shenandoah Valley”, this meeting prospered and increased. From 1789 until 1794, the western 30 x 30 addition nearly doubled the size of Hopewell Meeting House. The National Register Nomination Form described the interior thus:</p><br>
<p>The interior of the meeting house consists of a large open space with a tiered gallery on the south and west walls. The balcony retains early benches with scrolled ends. Enclosed stairs, side by side, ascend from the center of the south wall. Large posts, some squared, some turned, support the gallery at various points. The main floor has early benches with open backs and some later, standard church-type benches. A platform with additional benches is against the north wall facing the congregation area. As might be expected the effect of the interior is exceedingly plain; the walls and ceiling are plastered and the openings are devoid of ornamental trim.</p><br>
<h3>The Great Separation and After</h3><br>
<p>Following the Great Separation of 1827, local Hicksite Quakers use one half of the meeting house and their Orthodox brethren the other. Both were buried in the nearby meeting house cemetery. In 1870, W. D. Lee built a limestone wall around the cemetery. Both sides contributed to repairing the structure in 1910 and this led to a healing of the schism. It is thought that the current roof lines date from this renovation.</p><br>
<h3>Subsequent History</h3><br>
<p>In 1934, Hopewell celebrated it bicentennial and in 1936 Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia: Records of Hopewell Monthly Meetings and Meetings Reporting to Hopewell; Two Hundred Years of History and Genealogy compiled from official records and published by a Joint Committee of Hopewell Friends, assisted by John W. Wayland was published. (It was reprinted in 1975 by Baltimores Genealogical Publishing Company.) Hopewell Meeting House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 3, 1980. In 1999, Hopewell and Winchesters Centre meeting united to form the Hopewell Centre Monthly Meeting. It is a member of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting. In 2011, the Hopewell Centre Monthly Meeting reported 71 full members, 16 associate members, and 17 attenders for a total of 104 members, a decrease of five from the previous year&#39;s report.</p><br>
<p>The Manor House in Chew Magna, Somerset, England, was a country house built in the middle of the 17th century. It was the principal residence of the Adlam family from the mid 1800s until 1940. The house is a Grade II* listed building and formed part of the Sacred Heart Convent School. It has now been redeveloped and returned to residential use.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The four-storey manor house has Tudor origins, including a fireplace dated 1656. It incorporates a tower which remains from an earlier building on the site which dates from the late 15th or early 16th century.</p><br>
<p>From 1680 to 1824 the Manor House was the home of prominent Quaker families including the Vickris, the Summers and the Harfords. William Penn preached here in 1687.</p><br>
<p>In the 1860s the house was remodelled in a Gothic Revival Style by John Norton for William Adlam. The house stayed in the Adlam family until being handed over to the British Army in the 1940s. The majority of the exterior dates from this period, although some internal features have survived from the earlier work.</p><br>
<p>In 1940 the house was requisitioned by the army and then abandoned when they found it had no electricity, running water or modern sanitation. The senior school closed in 1986 but a junior school continued until 2006. The building and the surrounding site has since been redeveloped and restored for residential use.</p><br>
<h2>Grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house had 4.9 acre of gardens laid out in the 19th century, which were later used to build the convent school.</p><br>
<p>Two of the stables attached to the Manor House are Grade II listed.</p><br>
<p>Recent redevelopment has included demolition of some of the convent school buildings and the development of a courtyard of four large private homes within the grounds.</p><br>
<p>The Sessera  is a 35.5 km long torrent in the Piedmont region - NW Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Sessera starts in the Biellese Alps on the south-eastern slopes of Monte Bo.</p><br>
<p>It initially flows from NW to SE and then encircles the Cima dell&#39;Asnas and forms the artificial lake of Mischie, where it meets its first important tributary, the torrente Dolca (Dolca creek).</p><br>
<p>With several meanders the Sessera reaches Coggiola and the inhabited part of its valley.</p><br>
<p>After having received two other relevant tributaries, the Ponzone in Pray from right and the Strona di Postua in Crevacuore from left, it enters into the Valsesia and flows into the river Sesia near Borgosesia.</p><br>
<h2>Floods</h2><br>
<p>The river caused severe destruction in 1968 along the Sessera Valley.</p><br>
<p>David Carlton Pepper Farm is a historic home and farm located near Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware. It is dated to the mid-19th century, and is a 2-story, six bay, single-pile frame and shingle farmhouse with a 1 1/2-story side wing. It has a one-story wing attached to the rear of the 1 1/2-story side wing. A one-story kitchen wing was added to the 1 1/2-story side wing about 1935. The oldest section of the house is the 1 1/2-story side wing and dates to about 1820 and is in the late-Federal style, with the main house added in the 1840s. The newer section features Greek Revival style interior details. Also on the property are notable mid-19th century outbuildings including a milk house, privy, and smoke house; a barn, a frame granary, a log corn crib,</p><br>
<p>and an extremely early Sussex County poultry house (1916).</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Sussex County Courthouse and the Circle is a historic courthouse located at The Circle in Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware. It was designed by noted Philadelphia architect William Strickland  and built between 1837 and 1840. It is a two-story, brick structure with a brick tower over the entrance hall. It originally featured a squat entrance tower surmounted by an undersized cupola. In 1914, the tower was enlarged and columns were added to the front. Renovations carried out in 1970 gave the building a decidedly more Georgian appearance. The Circle was laid out in 1791-1792 as a public green at the center of a baroque town plan for Georgetown. One of the first building constructed was the Old Sussex County Courthouse, which was moved to allow construction of the current Sussex County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Georgetown Coal Gasification Plant, also known as the Georgetown Service and Gas Company, is a historic coal gasification plant located at Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in the late-19th century, and is a rectangular one-story, three bay by three bay brick structure measuring 40 feet by 25 feet. It has a gable roof with a smaller gable roofed ventilator. Also on the property is a small brick gable roofed brick building measuring 8 feet by 10 feet; a small, square concrete building; a large, cylindrical "surge tank;" 500-gallon bottled-gas tank; and a covered pit for impurities. The complex was privately owned and developed starting in the 1880s to provide metered gas for domestic lighting, town street lights, municipal and domestic uses. The coal gasification process was discontinued in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Bridgeville Public Library was housed in a historic library building located in Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1866, and is a 1 1/2-story, three bay, frame structure in the Gothic Revival style. It has a steeply pitched gable roof. There is a one-story gable roofed wing and one-story rear addition. To the front there is a two-story, gable-roofed bell tower and a gable-roofed Colonial Revival open portico. It was originally built to provide a place of worship for the First Presbyterian Church of Bridgeville. In 1917, the Tuesday Night Club bought the building. In 1919, the club&#39;s Literary Guild organized a circulating library and in 1964, the Tuesday Night Club signed the building over to the Town of Bridgeville for use as a library. The new 13,500 square foot library was opened in 2009.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Durward&#39;s Glen is a historic property located in the town of Caledonia, Columbia County, Wisconsin, northeast of the village of Merrimac. The land encompasses a ravine nestled between steep bluffs, part of the Baraboo Bluffs adjoining the Wisconsin River. Nature trails wind throughout the area.</p><br>
<p>The 40 acre property includes a church, a grotto, residences, a barn, an outdoor way of the cross, and religious statues, including the Guardian of the Glen statue near where Durwards daughter was born. A small cemetery contains the graves of the Durwards and several of their children. The Durwards original house burned in 1951.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1862 the property became the home of Bernard Durward, a painter and poet, and his family. Durward had been born in Montrose, Scotland, emigrating to the United States in 1842, and finally settling in Wisconsin in 1845. Before moving to the glen, he was a painter in Milwaukee whose compositions included portraits and works with religious themes. Among his portraits were those of local notables, including Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn, and Archbishop John Henni. It was while painting Henni that Durward became interested in Catholicism, converting in 1851. He then became the first teacher of English literature at St. Francis Seminary, where he taught for several years.</p><br>
<p>The Durwards discovered the site when they were visiting friends in the area. When they fell in love with the glen, they negotiated with the blacksmith who lived there to buy the land. The Durwards called their home "Auld Geordies", but later referred to it simply as "the glen".</p><br>
<p>The Durwards had six children, five sons and a daughter. Two sons became priests. While living in the glen, they engaged in various artistic endeavors. Mrs. Durward made lace, often for priests&#39; vestments. One son was a religious painter. To supplement their income, they also engaged in truck farming, selling their fruits and vegetables in local markets.</p><br>
<p>The Durwards constructed a house on top of a knoll on the property.</p><br>
<p>The Durward family sold the land to the Roman Catholic Order of St. Camillus in 1932. The order established a seminary on the land, where it trained priests beginning in the 1930s. The order&#39;s primary building was a 75-foot stone and log novitiate, built entirely by hand. The buildings were expanded in the 1960s to accommodate a conference and retreat center.</p><br>
<p>The glen was sold to The College of Saint Mary Magdalen in 2007, which owned the land for four years before selling it to Durward&#39;s Glen Our Lady of the Rosary Group. The group now uses the property as a retreat center, and for weddings and other group events.</p><br>
<p>The glen was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Hohneck is, at the third highest summit of the Vosges Mountains  and the highest point of Lorraine. On its summit stands a mountain hut, clearly visible in the distance. Nearby the mountain&#39;s top is located the ski resort of La Bresse Hohneck.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is divided between the French municipalities of La Bresse (dep. of Vosges), Metzeral (department of Haut-Rhin) and Stosswihr (department of Haut-Rhin).</p><br>
<p>A mountain, located east of the Hohneck, is named Petit Hohneck (in English Little Hohneck).</p><br>
<p>On a clear day from the Hohneck summit is possible to spot not just the entire Vosges range but also the Black Forest, the Jura, a good part of the Swiss Alps and, in the distance, the Mont Blanc.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hohneck area has been up to the 19th century the main connection route between Gérardmer and Munster, before the opening of the col de la Schlucht road. Therefore not faraway from the summit have been found ruins dating back to the Thirty Years War and re-used during Napoleons military champaigns.</p><br>
<p>A tramway line from Gérardmer to the Hohneck operated between July 25, 1897 and August 28, 1939. From the Alsace side of the mountain a rack railway reached the Hohneck from Munster passing through the col de la Schlucht between 1907 and 1914.</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>The well known Route des Crêtes (French for road of the peaks) transits not faraway from the top of the mountain, which can be reached by car following a small asphalted branch.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Une Montagne vosgienne: le Hohneck, Guy-Jean Michel; Institut coopératif de l&#39;École moderne, Imprimerie Merle et Cie, Grasse, 1963</p><br>
<p>Guide du botaniste au Hohneck et aux environs de Géradmer, C. Brunotte and C. Lemasson, Coubé, 1921</p><br>
<p>La Bresse-Le Hohneck, clins doeils sur lhistoire, Imprimerie Sailley, Le Thillot, 1995</p><br>
<p>The Inner Tay Estuary, the inner, western part of the Firth of Tay, stretching from the Tay Railway Bridge in the east to the Queen&#39;s Bridge over the River Tay in Perth and the bridge in Bridge of Earn on the River Earn. The estuary is one of the largest in eastern Scotland and is up to 2.5 km wide. The estuary consists primarily of inter-tidal sand and mud flats that extend seaward out to the main channel of the estuary, the majority of which lie on the northern shore. Landward of these are saltmarsh and Phragmites reedbeds. There are two large islands: Mugdrum Island opposite Newburgh and Moncreiffe Island immediately below Perth. The narrow form of the estuary and the large volume of freshwater from the Rivers Tay and Earn restrict the influence of salt water west of the Tayport narrows. Much of the tidal water in the estuary is freshwater or mildly brackish.</p><br>
<h2>Nature conservation</h2><br>
<p>The 20 km or so stretch between the railway bridge and the confluence of the Rivers Tay and Earn is a site of special scientific interest. The current SSSI was notified in August 1999 and extends to 4,115 hectares or thereby.</p><br>
<p>Scottish Natural Heritage provides more information about the SSSI in its site management statement.</p><br>
<p>Perth & Kinross Council and Dundee City Council manage part of the north shore as a local nature reserve. RSPB manages areas of reedbed.</p><br>
<p>The Phragmites reedbeds on the north shore stretch for some 15 km and are thought to be the largest and most continuous in the UK. The reedbeds are tidal and flooded on spring tides. They support nationally important breeding bird populations. With the help of groynes built out into the estuary, reedbeds were planted in the 19th century to protect agricultural land, and have since expanded naturally. Much of the agricultural land was formerly marsh which itself had been drained and cultivated by Cistercian monks in the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1974 commercial harvesting of the reedbeds for thatching reed began, and has continued to the present day, albeit now on a reduced scale by RSPB. At its height approximately 30-40% of the reedbeds were cut by Tayreed (company) on an annual rotation (single wale) using a mechanical harvester known as a Seiga. Even at that extent the cutting was thought to have been compatible with, if not beneficial for, the bird, plant and insect interest of the reed beds.</p><br>
<p>The best remaining saltmarsh is at the eastern, seaward end of the reedbeds and these support locally rare saltmarsh plants including sea club-rush Bolboschoenus maritimus, grey bulrush Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani and common saltmarsh grass Puccinellia maritima.</p><br>
<p>The Inner Tay was the type locality of the midge Culicoides machardy (1960) but the species was rduced to a junior synonym of the previously described Culicoides machuriensis - a species of northern China, northern Russia, Scandinavia and Scotland. The mudflats of Invergowrie Bay are the first in Britain found to support the large polychaete worm Marenzellaria viridis - a species normally found only in north-eastern North America.</p><br>
<p>Scottish Natural Heritage has commissioned and published habitat survey reports for the Inner Tay Estuary.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Public roads run within a few hundred metres of the both north and south shores providing easy access to view the estuary and its wildlife, though car parking is limited in many places: (south shore) Wormit, Balmerino, Newburgh, Elcho Castle; (north bank) Riverside Drive in Dundee by the railway bridge, Invergowrie, Kingoodie, Port Allen, Powgavie, Cairnie Pier; (in Perth) from both banks, the bridges, Moncreiffe Island; (in Bridge of Earn) the bridge. The minor road from Newburgh to Balmerino offers excellent panoramic views northwards over the inner estuary.</p><br>
<p>Teddy&#39;s Tavern, originally called the Blue Hen Garage, is a historic tavern located at Ellendale, Sussex County, Delaware, USA. It was built about 1923, as a service station catering to motorists on the newly constructed Du Pont Highway. It was converted into a roadside tavern in 1937. It is a one-story, polychrome brick building with a low-pitched gable roof, low parapet, and exposed rafter ends in a Mission/Spanish Revival style. It has a flat-roofed "porch" supported by four massive brick and concrete conical columns. The interior consists of a package store, dining areas and a labyrinth of service rooms. It is one of the few surviving service stations or roadside taverns remaining from the pre-1940 era in Delaware.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Nenagh River  rises in the Silvermine Mountains in County Tipperary, Ireland. It flows east of Nenagh and into Lough Derg just north of Dromineer.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The river, and its tributary the Ollatrim river, is popular for angling, it holds a stock of wild salmon and trout. There are also coarse fish particularly near the mouth of the river during spawning times. Funds were allocated to the Ormonde Anglers Association to improve areas for spawning and in-stream structures improving access, fencing, protecting banks and installing a number of deflectors.</p><br>
<p>There is 22 km of trout fishing and a further 15 km on the Ollatrim. It is classified as a rich lowland river.</p><br>
<p>Slí Eala ("Way of the Swan") is a 10 km waymarked trail which follows the banks of the Nenagh River from Dromineer via Ballyartella to Scott&#39;s Bridge, on the N52 road north of Nenagh. The walk takes its name from the population of mute swans on the river. There are trailheads at Scott&#39;s Bridge and in Dromineer village.</p><br>
<h2>Bridges</h2><br>
<p>There are several bridges over the river.</p><br>
<p>Ballynaclogh bridge, built in about 1700, four arched limestone bridge with refuges for pedestrians. Widened in about 1750.</p><br>
<p>Tyone Bridge (c. 1830) with three limestone arches carries the R498 road over the river just south of Nenagh town.</p><br>
<p>Bennett&#39;s Bridge is a modern bridge carrying the R445 road, (previously the main Dublin to Limerick road) over the river at Lisbunny.</p><br>
<p>Kyleeragh Bridge is a narrow bridge carrying the Nenagh-to-Birr road over the river just upstream of its confluence with the Ollatrim river.</p><br>
<p>Scott&#39;s Bridge carryies the N52 road over the river. This modern bridge replaced the Old Nenagh bridge, a limestone five arched bridge from about 1725 which is still in use by pedestrians.</p><br>
<p>Ballyartella Bridge is a rubble limestone bridge built in about 1720 exhibiting the technical achievements of local craftsmen. The bridge was built with pedestrian refuges to allow traffic to pass freely.</p><br>
<p>Annaghbeg Bridge is a seven-arched bridge from the mid-18th century. It is of limestone rubble with cut limestone features.</p><br>
<p>The Ramey Mound, designated 15BH1, is an archaeological site in Bath County in the northeastern part of the USA state of Kentucky. Built by people of the prehistoric Adena culture, the site has been known for more than two centuries; it was recorded in 1807 as consisting of an enclosure at least 3 ft high. In 1871, another survey observed four mounds in association with the main earthwork: one was located just east of the enclosure, another directly to the west, a larger one to the southeast, and a small one to the southwest. The source of a nearby brook lies within the site and transverses the enclosure; the 1871 survey supposed that it had been dug to provide earth for the enclosure. By the time of this later survey, cultivation had reduced the earthwork to the point that it was nearly indistinguishable.</p><br>
<p>The Ramey Mound was also observed by the Kentucky Geological Survey under the direction of John Robert Procter, who marked numerous Bath County earthworks on his topographic maps of the county. By 1932, despite the damage of the plow, locals observed that it could still be distinguished from the surrounding terrain. The mounds name is shared with Emma Ramey, who owned it in 1932. In 1998, the mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological significance; it is Bath Countys only archaeological site on the Register.</p><br>
<p>Hosmer Lake is a natural body of water in the central Cascade Range in the USA state of Oregon. Nearly 5,000 ft above sea level, the lake is part of a volcanic landscape about 20 mi west-southwest of Bend along the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway.</p><br>
<p>Hosmer Lake is about 5 mi west of Mount Bachelor in Deschutes National Forest. Nearby lakes include Elk, Sparks, Blow, Doris, Lava, and Little Lava.</p><br>
<p>Encroaching vegetation is gradually turning Hosmer Lake into a marsh. The lake bottom consists of mud and peat, and mosses and aquatic plants restrict the open water. Water lilies and bullrushes are prevalent.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Formerly populated by trash fish, including carp, the lake was treated with rotenone in 1957 and restocked with Atlantic salmon. The lake supports populations of "very large" brook trout as well as "deep-bodied" salmon. Only fly-fishing with barbless flies is permitted on Hosmer Lake, and salmon must be released if caught. Boats with electric motors may slowly ply the lake, which is also open to canoes and other non-motorized craft.</p><br>
<p>Mallard Marsh Campground and South Campground, managed by the United States Forest Service, are near the southwest end of the lake. Between them, they have about three dozen campsites, a paved boat ramp, and access to hiking and horse-riding trails. Snow may block access to the lake through the winter months and sometimes as late as June.</p><br>
<p>Lake Lucero is a playa located within that section of the Tularosa Basin that is contained within the White Sands National Monument in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The playa is noted for the unusually high quantity of water-deposited and wind-deposited gypsum dissolved in its intermittent waters. Annual evaporation cycles have caused much of the gypsum to precipitate into crystals of impure, brownish selenite that line the alkaline mudflats of the lakeshore. The further process of gypsum erosion abrades the fragile selenite, and other precipitated gypsum, into the pure-white sands covering most of the national monument.</p><br>
<p>Lake Lucero is located in a section of the National Monument, the Zone of Cooperative Use, to which access is typically restricted for reasons of USA military security. Periodic guided tours, supervised by the National Park Service, give interested parties an opportunity to pay brief visits to the lake and adjacent arid desert.</p><br>
<p>The nearest community offering tourism facilities is Las Cruces, New Mexico.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lake Lucero is named after two brothers, Jose Lucero and Felipe Lucero, who in 1897 acquired a quarter-section of water-bearing land along the south shore of the largely dry lake. The brothers, who also served as sheriffs of Dona Ana County, parlayed their homestead into a 20,000 acre ranch; the arid land could support 2,000 cattle. Eventual condemnation of the ranch helped create part of the White Sands Missile Range (1945), now also used as the Zone of Cooperative Use section of White Sands National Monument.</p><br>
<p>The Columbus Firemans Park Complex consists of two buildings and one gate in Firemans Park in Columbus, Wisconsin, United States. Firemans Park became a Columbus city park in 1915, and the citys fire department developed the park as a community project. The park&#39;s pavilion opened in 1917; while mainly used for community dances, the pavilion also hosted a variety of other events. The second building in the park, known as Rest Haven, opened in 1923. This building, a Prairie School structure designed by Alfred C. Clas, was used for cooking and sanitation by the many auto tourists who visited the park. The west wall and gate of the park were built in 1917 and are also part of the historic site. The park buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The Fred and Lucia Farnham House is a historic house in Columbus, Wisconsin. The Italianate style home was constructed in 1867 by Columbus carpentry contractor Richard D. Vanaken, and was initially inhabited by Fred and Lucia Farnham. Fred Farnham had come to Columbus from New York in 1847 and became a prosperous merchant in the city; he married Lucia Marsh of New York in 1850. Farnham and James Allen, Lucia&#39;s brother-in-law, then became business partners and ran a highly successful produce and wholesale store. The profits from the store allowed Fred to build his new house at a corner lot on West James Street, a significant street in Columbus. The two-story house has a cruciform plan with a small kitchen wing in the back, similar to other Italianate houses in Columbus.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Reinhard and Amelia Schendel House is a historic Queen Anne style house located at 211 North Ludington Street in Columbus, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1894 for Reinhard Schendel, a Prussian immigrant and lumber dealer, and his wife Amelia. The house includes a tower on one corner and a wraparound porch, both typical features of Queen Anne architecture. The gable ends of the house are covered in decorative wood shingles in various designs; the left gable end features star-shaped shingles around a full moon, the front gable end features shingles shaped like playing card suits, and the right gable end includes more suit-shaped shingles and a variety of other shapes. The Schendel couple lived in the house until Amelia died in 1924. The house is now used for apartments.</p><br>
<p>On June 7, 2010, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Brown Willy is a hill in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The summit, at 1,378 ft above sea level, is the highest point of Bodmin Moor and of Cornwall as a whole. It is situated about 2.5 mi north-west of Bolventor and 4 mi south-east of Camelford. The hill has a variable appearance that depends on the vantage point from which it is seen. It bears the conical appearance of a sugarloaf from the north but widens into a long multi-peaked crest from closer range.</p><br>
<h2>Toponymy</h2><br>
<p>The first part of the hill&#39;s name is a common Brythonic element meaning "breast, pap; hill-side, slope, breast (of hill)", which is frequent in Welsh placenames. It is sometimes suggested that the name came from the Cornish bronn ughella meaning "highest hill", as it is the highest point of Bodmin Moor and of Cornwall, but the toponymist Craig Weatherhill disagrees. The name has evolved through a variety of historical spellings as follows: Brunwenely c.1200, 1239; Brown Wenely 1239; Brenwenelyn 1276; Bronwenely, Brunwely 1280; Brounwenely 1350, 1362; Broun Welyn 1386; Brounwenyly 1401; Brownwenelegh 1450, 1470; Brounwellye, Bronwelly 1576; Brown-wellye 1584; Brounwellie 1639; Menar Brownuello 1754.</p><br>
<p>It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. In 2012 a campaign was launched to have the hills name restored to the original Bronn Wennili on the grounds that it would be "slightly more attractive to residents and tourists than Brown Willy". Cornish residents objected to the idea. One commented: "Its been Brown Willy for as far back as living memory goes and I suspect, as others have pointed out, that it will always be called that, whatever name we may formally give it." The Daily Telegraph ran an editorial supporting the existing name and called for campaigners to keep their "hands off Brown Willy".</p><br>
<h2>Geography and geology</h2><br>
<p>The summit of Brown Willy is 1,378 ft above sea level, the highest point on Bodmin Moor and in the county of Cornwall. The geography of the surrounding terrain is typical of Bodmin Moor – tors surrounded by desolate moorland. Streams and marshes are common surrounding the summit, and the River Fowey rises nearby. There are naturally occurring piles of granite boulders around the summit, and one, known as the Cheesewring is composed of five separate rocks which get progressively higher towards the top.</p><br>
<p>The hill is part of a 1,221 acre estate known as Fernacre and includes a five-bedroom farm house. The property was put on the market in September 2016 for £2.8 million and sold to an undisclosed buyer the following April. The new owner has the grazing rights for the property and shooting rights for deer, snipe and woodcock. Under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, the public will continue to have the right to walk on the hill.</p><br>
<h2>Brown Willy Cairns</h2><br>
<p>There are two man-made cairns on the summit. Brown Willy Summit Cairn or Brown Willy North Cairn is a man made rock pile that sits alongside an Ordnance Survey triangulation station.</p><br>
<p>The Cornish word for "cairn" is karn (from karnow, meaning "rock piles"), and it has been suggested that Cornwall&#39;s ancient name Kernow is related. William Copeland Borlase classified ridge-top cairns such as these in the most common category a "bowl"- or "cone"-shaped tumulus. He also referred to them as "sepulchral mounds" but admitted that burials had not been found at many. Brown Willy Summit Cairn has never been excavated and folklore suggests an ancient Cornish king may lie entombed underneath. Nicholas Johnson and Peter Rose dated nine of the cairns on Bodmin Moor, eight gave mean date ranges between 2162 and 1746 cal BC, suggesting the early bronze age was the main building period for cairns of this type. These are amongst the most intact due to their remote and inaccessible location. Many rocks from similar cairns have been spoiled and removed over centuries of neglect to be re-used in dry stone walling and other local construction.</p><br>
<p>Rodney Castleton has suggested that from the centre of Stannon stone circle, the autumn equinox sun rises over Brown Willy North Cairn. and Christopher Tilley refers to a "dramatic association with Rough Tor. These purported alignments have been taken as evidence of some astronomical purpose in cairn placement and construction.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Brown Willy is a popular destination for walkers and is said to be one of "the UKs best-loved high points". The hill features in an held on New Years Day that starts and finishes at Jamaica Inn, an old coaching inn made famous by Daphne du Maurier&#39;s 1936 novel of the same name.</p><br>
<p>The hill is regarded as a sacred mountain by members of the Aetherius Society, a UFO religion founded in 1954 by George King. They believe that Brown Willy was charged with "holy energy" on 23 November, which they celebrate each year as "Charging Day", and gather at the hill on that day each year to celebrate the sun&#39;s alignment with "positive and negative rocks". Other Aetherian "holy mountains" include Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, a mountain in California, two in New South Wales in Australia and two in Devon.</p><br>
<h2>Environment</h2><br>
<p>The hill is known for a meteorological phenomenon known as the Brown Willy effect, in which heavy rainfall develops over high ground and then travels downwind for a long distance. The effect produces heavy localised rain which can cause disastrous flash flooding such as the Boscastle flood of 2004. In another case when the effect was manifested, a continuous line of showers developed on 27 March 2006 stretching 145 miles from Brown Willy to Oxfordshire.</p><br>
<p>Brown Willy is unusual in that, unlike other hills on Bodmin Moor, there is little evidence of prehistoric settlement around it. It may have instead been set aside for use as a communal area for people from the surrounding settlements, who may have used the ridge as a ceremonial procession route. There are no house circles or platforms in the area of the summit. The remains of seventeen houses and platforms have been found on the lower part of the eastern slopes and another 23 low on the western slopes; they were crudely constructed and probably only used seasonally. Nearly two-thirds of them were constructed in positions with a clear line of sight to the summit of Brown Willy and the nearby hill of Rough Tor, suggesting that the hilltops were viewed as special places.</p><br>
<h2>Media</h2><br>
<p>It is the location for a comedy film of the same name, about two 40-year-old former school-friends on a misguided stag do, written and directed by Brett Harvey.</p><br>
<p>Spring Garden, also known as the Lewis Homestead, is a historic home located near Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware. It is an "L"-shaped, brick and frame dwelling built in three sections over a 100-year period. The large brick main core was built about 1782, and is a 2 1/2-story, double-pile, center-hall plan structure with a three-bay facade in the Federal style. The interior has Georgian style details. It has a summer kitchen addition built about 1860, and it is a 1 1/2-story, single-pile structure added to the rear of the main core. About 1880, a large, two-story, frame addition was built onto the west gable end of the original brick section. It is in the Victorian Gothic style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Cedars is an historic early 19th century house in Columbus, Mississippi.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Cedars began as a log cabin whose exact construction date and original owner are unknown but is believed to be and possibly as early as 1818. The first recorded owner was Vardry McBee, who sold the land and cabin to Capt. Edward Brett Randolph in 1835. Capt. Randolph was from Virginia and settled near Caledonia, Mississippi in 1825 on a plantation that he named Goshen. Shortly before buying the McBee property, Randolph freed all of his slaves, sending any that wished to go to settle in Liberia.</p><br>
<p>The original log cabin was single-pen, 21 foot square, and made of hewn pine. Randolph and his wife, Elizabeth Bland Beverly, made renovations in 1835-1836, elevating the roof-line an extending the gable end south to add a room. A kitchen was also added. In 1979, the house had a -story gable roof front section with a one-story multi-gable rear section. A part of the original log cabin wall could still be seen along a stairway. A brick-wall basement and brick-pier foundation support the house. The house is on its original four-acre lot with a cedar-lined perimeter.</p><br>
<p>The cabin is believed to be the oldest existing house in Columbus and one of the oldest buildings. As of 1979, the house remained in the hands of Captain Randolph&#39;s descendants. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Taq-e Gara or some times Taq-e Shirin is a stone structure in Iran which is Belonging to the Sasanian Empire. It is built in the Patagh Pass in the heights where is known as the Gate of Zagros in Kermanshah Province of Iran. This structure is located in the way from Kermanshah to Sarpol-e Zahab, on the 15th kilometer from Sarpol-e Zahab; beside of an ancient paving which connect Iranian Plateau to Mesopotamia. Due to changes of the path, now it is located below the road slope.</p><br>
<h2>Design and construction</h2><br>
<p>There are conflicting views as to the time of its construction. Parthian and Sassanid eras have been proposed, but most archeologists and historians believe that it has been built during late Sassanid Empire for a variety of reasons.</p><br>
<h2>Access and attributes</h2><br>
<p>The monument is located on the old road from Kermanshah to Qasr-e Shirin with the new road overlooking it. It is about a five hundred meters walk away from the main road.</p><br>
<p>Doris Lake is a natural body of water in the Three Sisters Wilderness of the central Cascade Range in the USA state of Oregon. At 5,300 ft above sea level, the lake is part of a volcanic landscape 27 mi southwest of Bend and about 3 mi by trail west of the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway.</p><br>
<p>Doris Lake is west-southwest of Blow Lake and Elk Lake in the Deschutes National Forest. Other nearby lakes include Senoj and Leech. Doris Lake lies slightly east of the Lane County border and the Mink Lake Basin.</p><br>
<p>The lake is up to 95 ft deep in a small basin carved by Pleistocene glaciers. No perennial streams enter or leave the lake, which is thought to gain and lose water through seepage.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The Six Lakes Trail, which runs by Doris Lake, connects the scenic byway to the east with the Pacific Crest Trail to the west. The trail offers opportunities for day hikes, backpacking, and horse riding.</p><br>
<p>Brook trout, stocked annually in the lake, grow to 14 in here. Fishing is said to be "fair". Much of the lake is difficult to fish without a raft or float tube brought in along the trail.</p><br>
<p>Harmon School, also known as Warwick No. 225, is a historic rural school building located near Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in the early 1920s, and is a one-story, frame structure with wood shingles in the Colonial Revival style. It sits on a concrete foundation and has a gable roof and large, square brick central chimney. The front facade features a central pedimented portico with four square columns and two square pilasters. The Harmon School was originally formed to be used exclusively for Nanticoke Indian students until after the new school was constructed in the 1920s. The introduction of African American teachers and students caused the Indian students to withdraw and form the Indian Mission School.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Highball Signal is a historic railroad signal located at Delmar, Sussex County, Delaware. It is a white sphere mounted on a pole and located next to the railroad tracks to signal permission for a train to proceed at full speed, if the ball was at the top of the pole. The term "highball" came to be synonymous with a clear right-of-way and for trains to proceed at full speed. It was originally in service at New Castle, Delaware, and then at Hurlock, Maryland. The highball signal was moved to Delmar, Delaware for display during the town&#39;s centennial in 1959, and is no longer used to direct railroad traffic, but is maintained as a public exhibition in a park near the railroad.</p><br>
<p>It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Scharfenstein is a high hill spur of the Eichberg-Süd in the Harz Mountains of Germany, near the town of Wernigerode in the county of Harz in Saxony-Anhalt.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Scharfenstein lies in the Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park on the eastern edge of the Upper Harz. It is located about 1.5 km south-southwest of Nöschenrode, a village southeast of Wernigerode. To the north a notch leads to the Eichberg-Süd and, to the east, is the Astberg. Towards the west and southwest the spur drops into the valley of Kalte Tal ("Cold Valley") and to the south and southeast into that of the Zillierbach stream.</p><br>
<p>There is a rock formation called the Scharfensteinklippe on the hill.</p><br>
<h2>Hiking</h2><br>
<p>The Scharfenstein is no. 34 (Scharfenstein) in the system of checkpoints of the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network. There is a footpath to the summit from the north, from the Eichberg-Süd. From its southern end a narrow stone staircase leads to the top of the spur. From the viewing point here there are views of the Harz, notably the highest mountain, the Brocken. The return path is the same as the spur drops steeply on all sides with the exception of the route to the north.</p><br>
<p>Dodd Homestead is a historic home and farmstead located near Rehoboth Beach, Sussex County, Delaware. It is a modified "L"-shaped, wood frame dwelling, the earliest portion of which dates to about 1830. The main house is a long, rectangular, two-story, single-pile structure in a vernacular Federal / Greek Revival style. It has a wing, that was originally one-story. but later raised to a full two-stories, probably in the mid-19th century. There is also a two-story rear wing. The house is sheathed in hand-hewn cypress shingles and has stuccoed brick interior end chimneys. Contributing 19th century outbuildings include a low brick ash shed, milk house, wood shed, storage shed, a small shed-roofed poultry house, stable, barn, a large gable-roofed dairy barn, corn crib, and carriage house.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>South Side Sportsmen&#39;s Club was a recreational club that catered to the wealthy businessmen of Long Island during the gold coast era from the 1870s thru the 1960s. Its main clubhouse and other facilities were added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Southside Sportsmens Club District in 1973, and are today contained within the Connetquot River State Park Preserve.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1886, a club was formed and chartered under the name of "The South Side Sportsmen&#39;s Club of Long Island". The first article of the constitution of the association stated, "This club is established for the protection of game birds and fish and for the promotion of social intercourse among its members."</p><br>
<p>By 1907 there were one hundred members including George Slade, William Bayard Cutting, John Cochrane, Frank Hall, George De Witt, Esq., Daniel Fearing, Frederic Rhinelander, W.K. Vanderbilt, Alfred Wagstaff, Jr., Esq., and H.B. Hollins. Herbert R. Clarke was an honorary member. Included among guests was Ulysses S. Grant.</p><br>
<p>In 1908 the club owned 2,324 acre and leased an additional 1,147 acre from the Breeze family. The Connetquot Brook runs through the property for a distance of about 4 mi from railroad to railroad. This Brook empties into Great South Bay. Its lower part is known today as "Great River", but on older maps and on the government maps it is shown as the "Connetquot River".</p><br>
<p>The Long Island Railroad once had a stop between Great River and Oakdale for the Sportsman&#39;s Club. The stop was called the "Clubhouse". It was abandoned in the first half of the twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>The South Side Sportsmen&#39;s Club promoted many of the laws protecting game not only on Long Island but throughout the state. The club is no longer in existence, and the property is now part of the Connetquot River State Park Preserve owned by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<h2>Facilities</h2><br>
<p>The clubs facilities included a main clubhouse building, a smaller residence building, and an old wheat and corn-grinding gristmill built c.1750 and operated until 1878, among other service buildings, that are still standing in the Connetquot River State Park Preserve. Part of the main building built in 1820 was originally Snedecors Tavern (known as "Obe Snedecor&#39;s") owned by Eliphalet (Liff) Snedecor on the old stage road. The "shingle style" clubhouse was the first building designed by architect Bradford Gilbert. Between 1866 and 1973, it was used as the clubhouse. Members and their guests used the residence when visiting for fishing, sporting clays and other types of outdoor recreation. The main clubhouse contains an elaborate library, billiard room, dining hall, clubhouse room, and various bedrooms. Currently the building houses the New York State Regional Environmental Education Office and Interpretive Center, historic exhibits and Outdoor Learning Laboratory of BOCES Scope.</p><br>
<p>South Side Sportsmen&#39;s Club was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is now a meeting place for the Vanderbilt Historical Society and other groups.</p><br>
<p>Maull House, also known as the Thomas Maull House, is a historic home located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. It dates to about 1730, and is a 1 1/2-story, with attic, cypress sheathed frame dwelling with a gambrel roof. It measures 30 feet by 16 feet. A rear wing was added about 1890. It is the oldest Lewes building in its original location and with the least alterations. Adjacent to the house is a section of the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal where a dock for the pilots&#39; boats would have been. In 1803, Jérôme Bonaparte and his bride, Betsy Patterson, were shipwrecked off Lewes and entertained at the Maull House. Joseph Maull  served as Governor of Delaware from March 2, 1846, until his death on May 3, 1846. The house remained in the Maull family until 1957, and was obtained by the Colonel David Hall Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, in 1962.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, with a boundary increase in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Cooper Creek Reservoir is a body of water behind an earthen dam across Cooper Creek in the Umpqua River basin of the USA state of Oregon. The reservoir is in Douglas County, about 2 mi east of Sutherlin and about 11 mi north of Roseburg. The impoundment provides part of Sutherlin&#39;s drinking water.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir supports populations of largemouth bass, panfish, and stocked rainbow trout. The panfish and bass grow to large sizes, but mercury pollution from old mine tailings upstream makes eating them risky. However, municipal water from the reservoir was deemed safe to drink, and the mercury posed no threat to recreational activities in the lake. Mercury levels in the fish were not expected to diminish in the foreseeable future.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Cooper Creek Reservoir Park, managed by Douglas County, has two boat launches, a swimming area, and a dock. The park is for day use only, and no camping is allowed. A hiking trail circles the reservoir.</p><br>
<p>The Bay of Saint Louis  is a shallow-water, partially enclosed estuary of the northeast Gulf of Mexico along the southwestern coast of Mississippi. The estuary receives freshwater input from two blackwater, or swamp-land, tributaries of the Mississippi River, the Jourdan River on the west and the Wolf River on the east and some smaller streams ; these are mixed in the bay with salt water from Mississippi Sound and the Mississippi Bight. The waters are comparatively well mixed, with an average salinity of less than 20.</p><br>
<p>The Bay of Saint Louis is classified as an "impaired" waterway by the United States Environmental Protection Agency due to high fecal coliform levels in the waters from urban development on the bay and surrounding waters.</p><br>
<p>The Sandlünz is a hill in the Harz Mountains of Germany. It is and located near Netzkater in the county of Nordhausen in the state of Thuringia.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Sandlünz lies in the South Harz within the South Harz Nature Park immediately southeast of Netzkater (ca. ), which belongs to Ilfeld in the municipality of Harztor. It rises above the valley of the Bere stream, into which the Brandesbach empties, north of the wooded hill, and the Schuppenbach to the west of it. The northern and northwestern flanks of the Sandlünz are part of the Brandesbachtal nature reserve. Towards the southeast, the countryside transitions to the hills of Rabenkopf and Poppenberg. To the south is the hill spur of Herzberg with its rock formation, the Gänseschnabel ("Goose Beak"). Its western neighbour on the far side of the Bere is the Netzberg, where the Dühringsklippe crags are found.</p><br>
<h2>Dreitälerblick</h2><br>
<p>On the northwest flank of the Sandlünz, above Netzkater, is the viewing point known as Dreitälerblick or "Three Valleys View" (ca. ) that, like the summit of the Sandlünz, is only accessible on woodland paths, for example from the Bere valley. It is no. 93 in the system of checkpoints in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network; the checkpoint box being located just under 50 metres east--southeast of Dreitälerblick immediately next to a refuge hut (ca. – 51&deg;36&prime;4.65&Prime;N latitude, 10&deg;47&prime;32.88&Prime;E longitude). From the viewing point, there are vistas of the "Cold Valley" (Kalte Tal) to the northwest, the Ilfeld Valley running roughly north to south, with the Bere in the north and the Brandesbach valley in the east. The Bere lies below the Dreitälerblick at.</p><br>
<h2>Rabensteiner Stollen</h2><br>
<p>On the northwest slopes of the Sandlünz, east of the Rabenstein ("Raven Rock") and above the Bere stream, is the Rabensteiner Stollen, a former underground mine and only coal mine in the extensive mining history of the Harz. It operated from 1737 to 1949 and has been a visitor mine since 1981.</p><br>
<p>Bethel Historic District, also known as Lewisville and Lewis Wharf, is a national historic district located at Bethel, Sussex County, Delaware. The district includes four contributing buildings. They are representative of dwellings built by the villages skilled ship carpenters. They are the two Ship-Carpenter Houses, the Moore House, and 4 Rs Farm house. The two Ship-Carpenter Houses were built before 1868, and each consists of a low, 1 1/2-story section with an adjoining rear wing and a taller 1 1/2-story addition. The Moore House is a 1 1/2-story dwelling with a 2 1/2-story addition and kitchen wing. It features a Victorian cross-gable roof adorned with gingerbread trim. The "4 Rs Farm" house is a square, two-story, three bay dwelling in the Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Bridgeville Historic District, also known as Lewisville and Lewis&#39; Wharf, is a national historic district located at Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware. The district includes 166 contributing buildings and 70 contributing structures at Bridgeville, a center of agricultural commerce. The district is primarily residential with resources built from the second quarter of the 19th century through the Great Depression. The dwellings are in a variety of vernacular forms including the "I-house," Shotgun house, and late 19th and 20th century revivals. Located in the district and separately listed are the Bridgeville Public Library and Old Bridgeville Fire House.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Former Bridgeville Public Library DE 2.jpgThe former Bridgeville Public Library building</p><br>
<p>Bridgeville DE Police Dept.jpgThe current police department building</p><br>
<p>The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Mound, designated 33GR31, is a Native American mound near the city of Dayton in Greene County, Ohio, United States. Named for its location on an Air Force facility, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the mound is an archaeological site.</p><br>
<p>The mound lies on a bluff sitting above generally flat terrain; it measures 86 ft in diameter and slightly more than 8 ft tall. Located about 0.62 mi south of the memorial to the Wright brothers on Huffman Prairie, it is believed to have been built by people of the prehistoric Adena culture, who inhabited southwestern Ohio approximately between 500 BC and AD 400. Pieces of limestone are present near the mounds surface; this may indicate that the builders covered it with limestone and that natural forces such as wind have since covered the stone with the soil that now forms the mounds surface.</p><br>
<p>In 1972, the mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological importance; it was the fourth Greene County location to be added to the Register, following Huffman Prairie and the two earthworks sites at Indian Mound Reserve near Cedarville. While it has never been excavated, it was subjected to a range of geophysical survey methods in mid-1996. Hoping to discover the locations of buried bodies and to learn about the soil within the mound, the surveyors used techniques such as ground-penetrating radar and found evidence of the mound&#39;s stratigraphy, as well as revealing evidence of unidentified features in and around it. Future excavations, if conducted, are expected to increase knowledge of Adena death customs and daily life.</p><br>
<p>Devetàshka cave  is a large karst cave around 7 km east of Letnitsa and 15 km northeast of Lovech, near the village of Devetaki on the east bank of the river Osam, in Bulgaria. The site has been continuously occupied by Paleo humans for tens of thousands of years, served as a shelter for various faunal species during extensive periods and is now home to nearly 30,000 bats.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Devetashka cave is located approximately 2 km from the village of Devetaki. A narrow path by the river lead from the village to the cave. It can also be accessed directly via Road 301 along a 400 m long dirt road and a concrete bridge. Now part of a public park, that includes a waterfall, the 2 km long karst cave formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks, characterized by sinkholes and an underground river It is rich in speleothems, stalagmites, stalactites, countless rivulets and majestic natural domes.</p><br>
<p>The site is 35 m wide and 30 m high at the entrance. The cave widens after around 40 m, forming a spacious hall with an area of 2,400 m&sup2, a height of 60 m that can reach to up to 100 m. Several large openings in the ceiling allow daylight to lighten the vast interior, due to commercial use of the site during the 1950s</p><br>
<p>Discovered in 1921, excavations began only in the 1950s and revealed almost continuous human occupation since the late Paleolithic. Earliest traces of human presence date back to the Middle Paleolithic around 70,000 years ago. The site also contained one of the richest sources of Neolithic cultural artifacts (6,000 to 4,000 BC).</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Besides significant archaeological findings, Devetashka cave provides a habitat for a wide diversity of faunal residents. During the breeding season of mammalian species in the cave from early June to the end of July, the site is entirely closed to visitors. Twelve species of protected amphibians and reptiles, including the Aesculapian snake (Zamenis longissimus), the Triturus (Triturus cristatus), the European tree frog (Hyla arborea), Hermann&#39;s tortoise (Testudo hermanni), eighty-two bird species can be found in the area, thirteen of which are included in the Red List. Thirty-four species of mammals, four of which are included in the Red List and fifteen species of bats are to be found at the Devetashka cave.</p><br>
<h2>Filming</h2><br>
<p>Devetashka cave was shown in the action movie The Expendables 2, filmed in 2011. The Supreme Administrative Court of Bulgaria declared that several activities during filming violated Bulgaria&#39;s environmental regulations. A contractor hired by The Expendables crew was subsequently fined for trimming the shrubbery in front of the site. After a fatal accident during the filming of a stunt, the production team again clashed with the authorities over damages to the cave. Loud noises, bright lights, crowds of people and fires in close proximity to the cave might have caused the displacement of large numbers of bats from the cave. However, by late 2012, the majority of the bats had returned to the cave.</p><br>
<p>Promont is a historic house in Milford, Ohio, United States, which was built in 1865 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It was home to John M. Pattison, 43rd Governor of Ohio from 1879 until his death in 1906.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Promont was built in 1865 by William McGrue on a hill above the village of Milford, OH and the Little Miami River. The Italianate Victorian home was purchased in 1879 by John M. Pattison, 43rd Governor of Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Promont served as the Governors residence during Pattisons term in office. Pattison suffered from Bright’s disease and was so weakened by the disease that after his inauguration on January 8, 1906 he was too ill to remain in the state capital. He returned home to Promont that day. He never returned to Columbus. Pattison directed the state government from Promont until his death on June 18, 1906.</p><br>
<p>Promont remained a private residence until 1983 when it was donated by James Kirgan to the Greater Milford Area Historical Society. Promont was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Promont Today</h2><br>
<p>Today, Promont operates as a historic house museum. The home is furnished in Victorian style and is open to the public for tours. It also houses exhibits of local history and a historical library of local reference information.</p><br>
<p>Hills Creek Reservoir, also known as Hills Creek Lake, is an artificial impoundment behind Hills Creek Dam on the Middle Fork Willamette River in the USA state of Oregon. The lake is near Oakridge in Lane County about 40 mi southeast of Eugene, at the confluence of Hills Creek with the Middle Fork. The reservoir and its watershed lie within the Willamette National Forest.</p><br>
<p>The USA Army Corps of Engineers created the lake in 1961 when it built the dam, primarily to control floods and generate hydroelectricity. Since then, the lake has become a popular recreation site with parks, boat launches, and a fishery.</p><br>
<p>Hills Creek was named for John J. Hill, who settled near the mouth of the creek in 1870. The dam and lake take their names from the creek.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Hills Creek reservoir supports populations of crappie, wild coastal cutthroat trout, threatened bull trout and stocked rainbow trout, the latter of which average 8 to 12 in. All wild trout (non-fin clipped) must be released.</p><br>
<p>The United States Forest Service manages campgrounds, picnic areas, and hiking trails near the lake. These include the Packard Creek Campground, Bingham Boat Launch, C.T. Beach Picnic Area, Larison Cove Canoe Area, and Larison Trail Area. The lake provides opportunities for swimming and waterskiing as well as fishing and boating.</p><br>
<p>Magalia Community Church is a historic church located on Stirling Highway in Magalia, California.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the church began in 1850 but was left incomplete. This first phase of construction resulted in only the floor and 4 walls. Completion of the church was not accomplished until 1904. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is estimated that around the year 1850, a Christian minister by the name of Albert Samuel Parsons came from Cherokee, California (Butte County, California) and started building a church. It is uncertain why he eventually abandoned the project, but he left the structure incomplete, only leaving a structure with a foundation, a floor and four walls (including the windows that exist to this day).</p><br>
<p>In 1900, the Reverend Albert Parsons moved away from the Magalia area and local interest in the church waned. At this point, the propertys owner, Mr. George McLean, asked that the partially completed church be removed from the grounds. Fortuitously, Miss Carrie Brydon, purportedly a staunch supporter of the temperance movement, arrived in Magalia, California from Canada at this time. She came across the partially completed church and was granted permission to have it moved to a location near the intersection of Old Skyway Road and Glover Lane (Magalia, California).</p><br>
<p>With the philanthropic assistance of Annie Bidwell (also see Bidwell Mansion) and the local Crew family, she was able to raise $600.00 to have the church dismantled and then rebuilt to the same specifications. With the money raised, they were also able to finish the interior and add a vestibule, a belfry, a steeple and a small kitchen. Sometime later the kitchen area was made part of the church proper to make room for a pulpit, an organ and a piano. It is noted that the bell and organ were purchased by Annie Bidwell at that time for $50.00. The completed building was finally dedicated on Easter Sunday, 1904.</p><br>
<p>During its history, it appears that the structure was moved three different times but there are varying accounts of the exact locations. Sources indicate that it might at one time have been located close to Whiskey Flat (Paradise East), California(a.k.a. Whiskey Flats), at another location near the juncture of Coutolenc Road and Old Skyway Road, and perhaps also at yet another location in Magalia between Nimshew Road and the Magalia Reservoir.</p><br>
<p>Church members report that on a rainy day in 1993, the small church made a final precarious journey to its present-day location on Stirling Highway in Magalia, California. The Magalia Community Church was dedicated as a historical site on Aug 21, 1982, and the Magalia community continues to support the ongoing cost of restoring and preserving the chapel. To this day, the original church bell rings out every Sunday morning to signal the start of church services.</p><br>
<p>Copperopolis Congregational Church  is a historic church building at 411 Main Street in Copperopolis, California. The church was built in 1866 and designed in the Gothic Revival style; it is the only Gothic Revival building remaining in Copperopolis and one of two in Calaveras County. The brick church features a Gothic arch entrance and windows, a gable roof, and a bell tower. The church held Congregational services until it was leased to the Presbyterian Church; it became a Congregational church again in 1874 and remained so until 1895. In 1903, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows bought the church and converted it to a lodge hall. The Odd Fellows owned the church until 1939, when it became a community center.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 30, 1997.</p><br>
<p>Rectory, Catholic Church of the Assumption is a historic rectory at 563 Ocean Avenue in Ferndale, California which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Catholic church in Ferndale was completed on 9 May 1879 and served until 1895 when it was moved from the corner of Washington and Berding streets to another lot on Washington. The new church was built at Washington and Berding by J.W. Blackmore, at a cost of $4062.50 and dedicated on 16 August 1896.</p><br>
<p>In 1883 the first rectory was replaced with a second one on the site of the old one to the north of the church, facing Berding Street. In 1964, the congregation decided to tear down the second rectory building to build a third one, at a cost of $64,763.91. A descendant of one of Ferndale&#39;s pioneer families, Mrs. Viola Russ McBride, purchased the second rectory for $1.00 from Church authorities and had it moved to its present location at 563 Ocean.</p><br>
<p>Christian Church of Gilroy is a historic church located at 160 5th Street in Gilroy, California. The church was built in 1857 for Gilroy&#39;s congregation of the Christian Church, also known as the Disciples of Christ. The congregation was one of the first of any denomination in Gilroy, and it was the first to build its own church. The Greek Revival church is a rectangular, -story building with a bell tower over the northern entrance. The tower features louvered openings, corner pilasters, and a projecting cornice at the top. The church held the 1859 State Meeting of the Disciples of Christ, which attracted roughly 1,000 attendees. In 1885, the church moved several blocks to its present location.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Calvary Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building at 2501–2515 Fillmore Street, on the corner with Jackson Street in San Francisco, California.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1901 and features Late 19th And 20th Century Revival architecture and an Edwardian style. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Calvary Presbyterian Church was first founded on July 23, 1854. San Francisco Mayor C. K. Garrison chaired a committee which raised the funds to build the church and hired Dr. William Anderson Scott as the first pastor. The first church was built on Bush Street, between Montgomery and Sansome Streets and dedicated on January 14, 1855. At the time it was the largest Protestant church building on the west coast.</p><br>
<p>After Bush Street became too commercial the church moved to new location on Union Square at Powell Street and Geary Boulevard. This church was dedicated on May 16, 1869. After Union Square became too commercial the church moved to its current location at 2515 Fillmore Street. One million bricks used in the Union Square church become part of the new church, as well as all the pews, the metal balcony supports and much of the woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The first service on Fillmore St. was held on Thanksgiving Day 1902 and the building was dedicated on February 7, 1904. Twenty-six months later the 1906 earthquake destroyed much of the city but left the new building untouched. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Old First Presbyterian Church and Temple Emanuel all held their services in the new building after the quake and a temporary courtroom was constructed in the basement for use by the Superior Court.</p><br>
<p>San Francisco CA Calvary PHS912.jpgCalvary on a vintage postcard</p><br>
<p>Saint John&#39;s Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church at 25 Lake Street and 201 Arguello Boulevard in the Presidio Heights—northern Richmond District of San Francisco, California.</p><br>
<p>It was designed in a Gothic Revival Shingle Style and completed in 1905.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. John’s was first located on Post Street near Mason at the former St. James Episcopal Church. That church was built in 1866 and then sold in 1870 to St. John’s for $45,000. Dr. William Anderson Scott, the founder of San Francisco Theological Seminary, served as the first pastor from May 1870 until 1885. Membership in the church grew to 382 from 61 over this period. The church moved to the corner of California and Octavia Streets in 1888.</p><br>
<p>Membership fell after the move and the church had difficulty paying its mortgage. Calvary Presbyterian shared the church while they were building a new church. Calvary helped pay the mortgage and the two churches discussed merging. Nevertheless, St. John&#39;s moved again in 1902, this time to the present site in the Richmond district, with financial help from Arthur W. Foster.</p><br>
<p>The new site was surrounded by sand dunes until row houses were built in the neighborhood. The first service was held on Easter Sunday, April 15, 1906, three days before the great San Francisco earthquake. Damage from the quake was not repaired until a year later; in the meantime, services were held in members homes. In the immediate aftermath of the quake, many people moved across the Bay to Berkeley, where former congregants of St. Johns organized a new church, also called St. Johns Presbyterian Church. Dr. George Granville Eldridge, former pastor of the San Francisco congregation, became the founding pastor of St. Johns in Berkeley.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s was used as a location for the 1993 movie "So I Married an Axe Murderer" starring Mike Myers, and for the 1997 movie "Little City" starring Jon Bon Jovi.</p><br>
<p>St. Paulus Lutheran Church was a historic church at 999 Eddy Street in San Francisco, California. The church was built from 1892 to 1894 next to Jefferson Square and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The church was destroyed by fire on November 5, 1995 and never rebuilt.</p><br>
<p>The site is now a community garden. On October 7, 2014, the SF real estate website Socketsite announced the church had put the site up for sale.</p><br>
<p>On October 5, 1980, the church became San Francisco Landmark number 116. The church&#39;s landmark status was rescinded after the 1995 fire.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The church is seen in the background of a few shots in the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo (1958) with James Stewart and Kim Novak.</p><br>
<p>St. Matthew&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church at 521 E. 8th Street in National City, California. It was built in 1887. It is still an active church within the Episcopal communion and is part of the Diocese of San Diego.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>It was designed by Chula Vista architect William Herman based on an initial design by Chula Vista resident "Mr. Crocker," who was inspired by a picture of a small church in the south of England. It was built in the Gothic Revival style with Tudor influences. The tall steeple was a landmark which could be seen for miles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>An Episcopal Society for National City was formed on January 30, 1882; the secretary was Frank Kimball, founder of National City. On May 13, 1882, the society became St. Matthew&#39;s Parish Episcopal Church. It met in homes, and later in the Grange Hall, with worship led by priests from San Diego. Elizur Steele donated the land for the church, and Kimball and his brother donated a piece of property which was sold and the proceeds used to construct the building. The first worship service in the church was held on July 3, 1887, and services have been held regularly ever since. The church was consecrated on October 24, 1890.</p><br>
<h2>National Register</h2><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>First Christian Church of Rialto is a historic church located at 201 N. Riverside Avenue in Rialto, California. The church was built from 1906 to 1907 to serve Rialtos First Christian Church, which was founded in 1905. Architect H. M. Patterson designed the church in the Late Gothic Revival style; his design also features elements of the American Craftsman style. The churchs design features a gable roof with a corner tower, pointed arch stained glass windows, and louvered vents, all characteristic Gothic Revival features. The Craftsman influence on the design can be seen in its redwood shingled body and roof, its overhanging eaves with ornamental brackets, and its decorative stickwork. The congregation owned the church until 1964, when it was purchased by the City of Rialto to avoid its demolition.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 2003.</p><br>
