<p>Spring Bank, also known as Ravenscroft and Magnolia Grove, is a historic plantation house located near Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, Virginia. It was built about 1793, and is a five-part Palladian plan frame dwelling in the Late Georgian style. It is composed of a two-story, three-bay center block flanked by one-story, one-bay, hipped roof wings with one-story, one-bay shed-roofed wings at the ends. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, a log slave quarter, and frame tobacco barn, and the remains of late-18th or early-19th century dependencies, including a kitchen/laundry, ice house, spring house, and a dam. Also located on the property are a family cemetery and two other burial grounds. It was built by John Stark Ravenscroft , who became the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, serving from 1823-1830.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Bote Mountain is a mountain in Great Smoky Mountains National Park of Tennessee, in the United States.</p><br>
<p>Bote Mountain is located in the Great Smoky Mountains, which began forming in the late Carboniferous and through the early Triassic, approximately. The oldest rocks of the Great Smoky Mountains, however, date from the Neoproterozoic, approximately. Those rocks are sedimentary rocks, and were deposited on an ancient ocean floor on the edge of a supercontinent.</p><br>
<p>Bote Mountain was named because of a misunderstanding when, in the 1830s, Cherokee workers were asked which route a new road would follow. They pointed towards Bote Mountain and said "vote", which was interpreted by the white workers, who thought they were naming the mountain, as "bote". Hence, the mountain was named "Bote Mountain".</p><br>
<p>The Bote Mountain Trail follows the crest of the mountain, and intersects the Appalachian Trail at Spence Field.</p><br>
<p>The George River is a river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The river was named on 16 July 1861 by the surveyor and explorer Frank Gregory, who was conducting an expedition in the area. It is not known after whom he named the river.</p><br>
<p>The river rises in the Chichester Range and flows in a northerly direction through the Millstream-Chichester National Park and cutting across the North West Coastal Highway before discharging into the Little Sherlock river east of Roebourne.</p><br>
<p>The George has three tributaries; The Little George River, Narrina Creek and Grant Spring Creek. It also flows through several semi-permanent water-holes including Yanna Pool, white Spring Pool and Terenar Pool.</p><br>
<p>The river is part of the Port Hedland coastal drainage basin along with the Maitland, Harding, Sherlock, Turner River and Yule River.</p><br>
<p>Hebron Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church located in the countryside northeast of Madison, Madison County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1740, with the south wing added about 1800. It is a one-story, "T" shaped, frame building on a stone foundation. The original section measures 50 feet by 26 feet. The building was renovated in 1850 and, in 1885, the flat ceilings were adorned with decorative frescoes of rich Victorian patterns by The building was renovated again in 1961.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>In 1802, a new pipe organ made by David Tannenberg, perhaps Americas most renowned early builder of pipe organs, was installed in the Hebron Lutheran Church. As the largest remaining and virtually unaltered example of Tannenbergs or any other extant organs from the colonial period, it is of special importance in American organbuilding history. It, like the church wherein it is located, are special examples of American history and are well worth a visit. More information and photos of the organ may be found in the External links below.</p><br>
<p>The La Loma Bridge is a bridge that carries La Loma Road across the Arroyo Seco, located in Pasadena, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1914, the bridge replaced the 1898 California Street Bridge, which had closed the prior year due to safety concerns. The open spandrel concrete arch bridge has a Neoclassical design inspired by the City Beautiful movement. The bridges design is reminiscent of Pasadenas Colorado Street Bridge, which was built a year earlier. La Loma Bridge has been called the "little sister" of it, and for the first several years of their existence, the two bridges were the only crossings of the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena.</p><br>
<p>The La Loma Bridge played a significant role in the development of Pasadena west of the Arroyo, particularly in the San Rafael Heights area, which Pasadena annexed at the same time it constructed the bridge.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 2004.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was closed for renovation in July 2015, and reopened on June 24, 2017 with a dedication to former California Attorney General John van de Kamp, a Pasadena native who died on March 14 of that year.</p><br>
<p>The Foothill Boulevard Milestone  is a milestone located on Colorado Boulevard west of Holliston Street in Pasadena, California. The milestone was placed along the Foothill Boulevard, one of six highways established and marked by the Highway Commission of Los Angeles County in the 1900s. Foothill Boulevard began in Los Angeles and passed through South Pasadena and Pasadena before turning east and running through the cities in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. The milestone marked the point 11 mi from the Los Angeles County Courthouse in Los Angeles. In addition, the milestone marked the block number of the highway; each highway was marked using a block system that divided every mile of the road into ten blocks. After the Highway Commission disbanded in 1908, its highway system was largely forgotten. The Mile 11 marker is the only remaining milestone of the three placed by the commission in Pasadena.</p><br>
<p>The milestone was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 1996.</p><br>
<p>The W.J. Quarles House, also known as Greenvale, is a historic residence in Long Beach, Mississippi. Constructed in 1892, the structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William James Quarles was a rural school teacher from Tennessee who settled in the Long Beach community of south Mississippi in 1884. The Quarles House was constructed in 1892 as a five-bay, wood-frame, two-story residence with clapboard outer walls. The structure was two rooms deep and sat on a foundation of brick piers with one interior chimney. The house was the residence of W.J. Quarles until 1924.</p><br>
<p>Battered by a century of hurricanes, the Quarles House was severely damaged by Hurricane Camille in 1969. Through the latter half of the 20th century, the house was vacant and sealed. In 2003, the Quarles House was listed as one of the ten most endangered historic places in Mississippi by the Mississippi Heritage Trust.</p><br>
<p>Because the house was located on property that was highly prized for commercial development in Long Beach, the owner sought permission from the keeper of the National Register of Historic Places to move the structure approximately 400 feet (122 meters) northeast, near the Quarles Family Cemetery. The move was approved in 2012. Following the move, restoration of the structure was initiated to achieve historical accuracy.</p><br>
<h3>Cottage</h3><br>
<p>When the Quarles house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, there was a one-story, two-room, clapboard cottage located just east of the main house. In 1884, the cottage was originally part of a one-story house where the Quarles family resided while their new 2-story home was under construction. In the 1930s, the 1-story house was torn down, leaving the cottage.</p><br>
<p>Lombrives cave is located in Ornolac-Ussat-les-Bains, at the eastern edge of the Pyrénées Ariégeoises Natural Regional Park, Ariège, southwestern France. Earliest excavations by Félix Régnault took place in the late nineteenth century that confirmed human occupation during the Neolithic. The Lombrives cave has been declared the largest or widest cave of Europe in terms of volume. Having a length of 39 km it is certainly not the longest cave, compared to several other European sites, that exceed a length of over 200 km.</p><br>
<p>However, the cave&#39;s subterranean passages, caverns and galleries are distributed on 7 superimposed levels, the 80 meter high Cathedral cave alone has the size of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, "The rule of Satan" hall being 4 times as large.</p><br>
<p>Due to its sheer size the cave accounts for a great variety of geological formations, underground landscapes, hundreds of karst and limestone concretions, speleothems, stalactites, stalagmites, countless minerals and crystals that can be viewed in a natural setting.</p><br>
<p>The cave has served as a refuge throughout history and in addition to prehistoric Neolithic human presence, the "heretic" Cathars gathered at the site between the 12th and 14th century.</p><br>
<p>Nansenflua is an undersea rock in the northern part of Rekvedbukta off the southeastern coast of Jan Mayen in the Arctic Ocean. The shoal is named after the ship HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen, which sank after striking the previously uncharted rock in November 1940. Nansenflua is the only obstruction in Rekvedbukta. In anything but completely calm weather conditions, Nansenflua is visible by waves being broken against it. The rock is part of the remains of a crater.</p><br>
<h2>Shipwreck of HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen</h2><br>
<p>Under the command of the exiled Royal Norwegian Navy, the offshore patrol vessel HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen visited Jan Mayen in September 1940, in order to destroy and evacuate the weather station northeast of Eggøya. The ship returned in November of the same year to disrupt German plans to re-establish a weather station on the island. Entering the bay of Rekvedbukta on 8 November 1940 in calm weather, the ship collided with the hitherto unknown shoal, rapidly heeling 45°. The whole crew of 66 entered the lifeboats. The boats reached the shore during darkness, and by the next morning the ship had sunk. Four days later the shipwrecked crew was rescued by the naval trawler HNoMS Honningsvåg and brought to Iceland. The wreck of Fridtjof Nansen, which had a length of 72.8 m and a displacement of 1,275 ST, is probably still located near the rock.</p><br>
<p>Paitchau  is a mountain in the Tutuala subdistrict, Lautém District of East Timor. Situated within Nino Konis Santana National Park, it is south of Lake Ira Lalaro. Though part of a mountain chain, Paitchau is an isolated mountain in the southern Sucos Mehara. It ranges in altitude from 0 -. BirdLife International has classified the mountain and its surrounding region of 55,797 hectare as an Important Bird Area of East Timor. The area contained within the Paitchau Range and Ira Lalaro is sparsely populated and contains several unique faunal and floral species.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Paitchau is a sharp peak, prominent from the southwest. The hill range is located in the extreme eastern part of Timor-Leste and it slopes towards the coastline of Lore and Silvicola which have coral reefs. The area is thinly populated and has diverse flora and fauna. Its slopes are steep and the southern part of the range towards the coast is thickly forested. The range rises to a maximum height of 960 m or 1,030 m and is made up of massive primary karst limestone formations.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Paitchau is characterized by tropical moist deciduous lowland forest and tropical mixed evergreen forest. There is swamp land around Ira Lalaro. Paitchau is said to contain "the best remaining &#39;primary’ forest" in the country.</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<p>There are 24 restricted-range species (listed below) in the Important Bird Area which includes the endangered Treron psittaceus (Timor green-pigeon), and the critically endangered Cacatua sulphurea (yellow-crested cockatoo).</p><br>
<p>Yellow-crested cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea)</p><br>
<p>Timor green-pigeon (Treron psittaceus)</p><br>
<p>Slaty cuckoo-dove (Turacoena modesta)</p><br>
<p>Pink-headed imperial-pigeon (Ducula rosacea)</p><br>
<p>Spot-breasted white-eye (Heleia muelleri)</p><br>
<p>Orange-banded thrush (Zoothera peronii)</p><br>
<p>White-bellied bushchat (Saxicola gutturalis)</p><br>
<p>Black-banded flycatcher (Ficedula timorensis)</p><br>
<p>Olive-shouldered parrot (Aprosmictus jonquillaceus)</p><br>
<p>Cinnamon-banded kingfisher (Todiramphus australasia)</p><br>
<p>Dusky cuckoo-dove (Macropygia magna)</p><br>
<p>Streaky-breasted honeyeater (Meliphaga reticulata)</p><br>
<p>Plain friarbird (Philemon inornatu)</p><br>
<p>Yellow-eared honeyeater (Lichmera flavicans)</p><br>
<p>Red-rumped myzomela (Myzomela vulnerata)</p><br>
<p>Plain gerygone (Gerygone inornata)</p><br>
<p>Fawn-breasted whistler (Pachycephala orpheus)</p><br>
<p>Timor figbird (Sphecotheres viridis)</p><br>
<p>Olive-brown oriole (Oriolus melanotis)</p><br>
<p>Timor stubtail (Urosphena subulata)</p><br>
<p>Timor leaf-warbler (Phylloscopus presbytes)</p><br>
<p>Timor blue-flycatcher (Cyornis hyacinthinus)</p><br>
<p>Red-chested flowerpecker (Dicaeum maugei)</p><br>
<p>Flame-breasted sunbird (Nectarinia solaris)</p><br>
<p>Tricoloured parrotfinch (Erythrura tricolor)</p><br>
<p>Lake Catani is an artificial lake in the Mount Buffalo National Park in Victoria, Australia. It was constructed in 1910 under the supervision and probably design of the Victorian Public Works engineer, Carlo Catani, to provide recreational facilities in the newly opened winter resort.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Buffalo National Park was established in 1898 with a 1166 hectare temporary reserve centred on the Eurobin Falls. In 1908 the area was increased to 9240 hectares and became permanent national park reserve. Lake Catani was completed in 1910 by construction of a mass concrete arched dam across Eurobin Creek at Haunted Gorge. The contract was let in 1908 for 2355 pounds. The dam blocked what was then known as the Underground River and flooded Long Plain, in the process also covering an Aboriginal camp site. It was initially intended to provide water for the Grossman sawmill, which was milling timber for the construction of the Mount Buffalo Chalet.</p><br>
<p>Carlo Catani was appointed Public Works Engineer in 1882, and spent much of his career developing hydrological schemes such as the drainage of Koo Wee Rup and Elwood Swamps.</p><br>
<p>Lake Catani provided a popular venue for visitors, with boating and fishing in summer and ice-skating in winter. A golf course was also opened nearby at Tuckerbox Corner in 1911. A campground is located near the shores of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Hanapepe Town Lot No. 18, in Hanapepe, Kauai, Hawaii, is a building built in 1926 historically remembered as the Pool Hall. It was built as a coffee shop, then later partly used as a radio shop. Although vacant for some time, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. Also listed on the state register, restoration of the building was completed in 2003 after being damaged in Hurricane Iniki.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "significant as a surviving example of the vernacular wood commercial buildings constructed in Hawaii in the early twentieth century. Single wall construction and the false front are characteristic of the type. The plantations popularized single wall construction, but the method was used throughout the islands because of its low cost and ease of construction. The unsupported pent roofs at the sidewalk are characteristic of Hanapepe&#39;s commercial buildings."</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant also for association with the 1920s and 1930s growth of Hanapepe, a town that is unique in Kauai for developing not as a plantation town, but rather as workers left plantations elsewhere and moved to the area to farm and to open businesses.</p><br>
<p>The Granada Theatre is a theatre located in Emporia, Kansas, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and was designed by the Boller Brothers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Granada Theatre was constructed in 1929 at a cost of $350,000 ($ in dollars). The theatre was dedicated on October 3, 1929, in a speech by “The Sage of Emporia,” William Allen White. During its early years, the theatre attracted many famous performers. In addition to screening movies, it was used for everything from beauty contests to traveling vaudeville acts. It was leased for many years to the Fox Corporation and became known as the Fox Theatre.</p><br>
<p>Architect Robert O. Boller, of Boller Brothers, Architects, designed the Granada Theatre. Boller Brothers were nationally known theatre designers with offices in Kansas City and Los Angeles.</p><br>
<p>Like many grand old movie palaces of its era, the Granada’s popularity declined during the 1960s and 70′s. During this period, the building suffered from neglect and damage resulting from a leaking roof. It was closed in 1982. In April 1985, the theatre was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, but, it was not until demolition threatened the building in 1994 that a group of citizens rallied to save the theatre.</p><br>
<p>In cooperation with the Kansas Preservation Alliance, the Emporia Granada Theatre Alliance was formed and acquired the building, saving it from destruction. Since then, the Alliance members and numerous volunteers have spent countless hours stabilizing and renovating the outside of the building and preparing for the interior phase of the project. Working cooperatively with other local arts, cultural and tourism organizations, the Alliance has developed a plan to make the Granada Theatre a keystone facility – a place that builds community.</p><br>
<h2>Board of directors</h2><br>
<p>When a group of people, known as the Emporia Granada Theatre Alliance, bought the Granada Theatre in 1994, they set up a Board of Directors to oversee everything done at the theatre. They raised money for renovating the theatre, as well. The Director of the Granada Theatre, Brian Williams, also reports to them.</p><br>
<p>Executive Members:</p><br>
<p>Kristi Henrikson-Mohn, President</p><br>
<p>Gary Andrews, Vice-President</p><br>
<p>Harry Stephens, Past-President</p><br>
<p>Janis Meyer, Treasurer</p><br>
<p>Mary Sue Wade, Secretary</p><br>
<p>Sarah Harbaugh, Executive at Large</p><br>
<p>Brad Harzman, Executive at Large</p><br>
<p>Full Board Membership:</p><br>
<p>Sue Blechl</p><br>
<p>Scott Bolley</p><br>
<p>Dr. William H. Clamurro</p><br>
<p>Tyler Curtis</p><br>
<p>Mary Downing</p><br>
<p>Staci Hammon</p><br>
<p>Rachel LeClear</p><br>
<p>Roy Mann</p><br>
<p>Janet Miley</p><br>
<p>Janelle North</p><br>
<p>Paula Sauder</p><br>
<p>Dave Stormont</p><br>
<p>Beth Thomas</p><br>
<p>Tom Thompson</p><br>
<p>Marge Trayer</p><br>
<p>Jan Traylor</p><br>
<p>Mike TurnBull</p><br>
<p>Norma Watson</p><br>
<h2>Notable performances</h2><br>
<p>Joseph Hall, Top 10 finalist of America&#39;s Got Talent (season 3)</p><br>
<p>Oak Ridge Boys</p><br>
<p>The Bellamy Brothers</p><br>
<p>Kelley Hunt</p><br>
<p>Granger Smith (a.k.a. Earl Dibbles, Jr.)</p><br>
<p>Juice Newton & Exile</p><br>
<p>Joe Diffie</p><br>
<p>Marty Stuart & the Fabulous Superlatives</p><br>
<p>Lorrie Morgan</p><br>
<p>Kansas</p><br>
<p>Wynonna Judd</p><br>
<p>Alimia or Alimnia is a Greek island of the Aegean Sea, located in the sea area between Rhodes and Halki, the complex of Dodecanese. The surface of the island is 7.4 km&sup2; and has a coastline of 21 km. The island had a small population until the period of the Second World War, and in recent decades has remained uninhabited.</p><br>
<p>The island is mentioned by Pliny under the name Evlimnia name associated with two large bays of the island, Emporio and Saint George, in the eastern and western side of the island that are safe natural harbors. Their use in antiquity is confirmed by the impressive, carved into the rock, dockyards, dating to the Hellenistic period when it belonged to the Rhodian state. In the Hellenistic period, flourished when the Rhodian state, the island was fortified with the construction of the fortress and used as anchorage and observatory Rhodian fleet. the Hellenistic castle survived until today in the highest peak east of the island.Department of Hellenistic castle was used for the construction of medieval, castle, built in 1475, when Rhodes and islands occupied by the Knights. On the coast of Emporio found Roman tombs and visible ancient walls and the foundation of an early Christian basilica.</p><br>
<p>The settlement of Alimia is built deep in the largest bay on the island. It includes several buildings, most of which are dilapidated due to the abandonment of the settlement from the 1940s. Although abandoned, the settlement has declared traditional since 1978.</p><br>
<p>Northwest of the village, a short distance from the coast there is a small lake with salty water, which is one of the 37 natural wetlands in the Dodecanese.</p><br>
<p>On October 2016 a Belgian organization called Beyond Borders Belgium dropped 20 people on this uninhabited island. The participants had to survive 10 days with hardly any food or equipment. Personal belongings like a cellphone, mattress or clean cloths were not allowed. Each day the participants had to play a game on the island to earn points. At the end of the "vacation" the participant with the most points wins the challenge. The game is based on a former Belgian TV-format called Expeditie Robinson. The Greek government agreed with this concept and gave Beyond Borders Belgium exclusive rights of the island for the full period of 10 days.</p><br>
<p>Sibley&#39;s and James Store Historic District is a national historic district located at Mathews, Mathews County, Virginia. It encompasses two contributing buildings, known variously as the Sibley Brothers General Store , the separately listed Old Thomas James Store , and The Old Store. One of the buildings consists of two sections that were originally two separate buildings, but is now connected to Sibley’s by a hyphen. The Sibley’s General Store was constructed in 1899, and is a 2 1/2-story folk Victorian wood frame building with a full front porch, weatherboard exterior cladding, and wood shingle decoration at the eaves. It is connected by a hyphen to a one-story, wood frame building built about 1840.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Poplar Grove Mill and House is a historic tide mill and home located near Williams, Mathews County, Virginia. The tide mill is a two-story frame structure built after the American Civil War with a gable roof built on a narrow mole which separates a small lagoon or mill pond from the bay. It replaced an earlier mill destroyed during the war at which, it is believed, that corn was ground for General George Washingtons troops when they camped nearby. The earliest portion of the millers house is dated to about 1770, and is a small 1 1/2 story gambrel roof cottage which has been incorporated into the present five section house as an end wing. The central portion of the house is a late 18th-century temple-form building fronted by a later Ionic order portico. Captain Sally Louisa Tompkins, the famous woman Confederate officer, was born at Poplar Grove in 1833.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<p>The Robison House in Sparks, Nevada, at 409 13th St., is a historic mansion-like house with Colonial Revival elements built c. 1904. The property includes small rental cottages used in Reno, Nevada&#39;s "divorce trade". It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<p>The house, within George W. Robisons "Robisons Addition" development, seems to have been built for George W.s son George A. Robison. The neighborhood was developed after the Central Pacific Railroad moved shops nearby. Images of this house were used in marketing lots in the development. The NRHP nomination cites Buildings of Nevada as stating: "The image of the two-story, wood-frame dwelling with its pedimented gables and bracketed eaves no doubt lent an</p><br>
<p>air of respectability to Robisons speculative enterprise" and describes that small secondary residences for rent are available, and have apparently were in use from the late</p><br>
<p>1920s and the 1930s, providing the short, six-week residency required for "quickie" divorces in Nevada.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The listing included five contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Keen Kutter Building is a former hardware warehouse located in Wichita, Kansas that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The four-story building has a free standing water tower that powered a water sprinkler system. The tower is an important landmark on the city&#39;s skyline. In 1999 the building was re-purposed as the Hotel at Old Town, which includes a large collection of Keen Kutter hardware on display.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This building displayed the owners as the "Morton Simmons Hardware Co." and it had Keen Kutter logos on its tower. Keen Kutter was a trademark owned by the Simmons Hardware Company. Simmons was the first company to establish a nationwide brand for hardware based on the idea of a catalogue; theirs was called the "Hardware Encyclopedia". These catalogues included thousands of illustrated pages that allowed the purchaser to select items. The goods were sent by rail, direct to one of the warehouses. This building was a warehouse supplied by a spur line of the Frisco Railway to nine shipping bays. There is little evidence of the bays today.</p><br>
<p>Simmons products were supplied to customers via warehouses like this one in six states. The other warehouses were in New York, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and the warehouse at Sioux City in Iowa. The warehouses stock included ammunition, lawn mowers, axes, knives, wires, and cutlery. The companys motto was, "If you cant eat it, and it dont pour or fold, it&#39;s hardware".</p><br>
<p>This 80,000 ft&sup2; building was constructed in 1905–1906, designed by the St. Louis architects Mauran, Russell and Garden, and was strongly based on the Cupples Building in St Louis. The building was constructed in brick by the Wurster Construction company.</p><br>
<p>The tall free standing tower was designed to be and became an important landmark. On each side of the building the owners advertised their name. The faded remains of the logos for "E.C.Simmons - Keen Kutter" and the subsequent owners "Harwi" can still be seen today (2013). The tower&#39;s more practical purpose was to hold 20,000 gal of water that could be delivered to sprinklers on each of the four floors in the event of a fire.</p><br>
<p>In the 1920s the Winchester Repeating Arms Company diversified to include knives and hardware. They merged with the Simmons Hardware Company. During the 1920s this warehouse was at the disposal of the merged Winchester and Simmons company. The Winchester and Keen Kutter brands did good business but in 1929 they agreed to separate and Simmons and this building returned to their core business.</p><br>
<p>The Keen Kutter tools that were stored and sold from this warehouse are now collectibles. The contemporary book Keen Kutter Planes lists over 800 items from the brand.</p><br>
<h2>After Simmons and Winchester</h2><br>
<p>The building was sold in October 1929 to Alfred Jonathon Harwi who had a Kansas-based hardware company. The Harwi company started in 1875 and was incorporated in 1889. The Harwi company had a slightly smaller building of 75,000 ft&sup2, based in Atchison, Kansas. Harwi&#39;s purchase of the Wichita building was the same year that Simmons and the Winchester became separate companies again.</p><br>
<p>The building was later purchased by Jack deBoer, a local hotel owner, who had the building converted into a hotel. The new 115-room hotel opened as the "Hotel in Old Town" in 1999. The hotel has purchased what it claims to be the "largest authentic collection ever assembled" of Keen Kutter hardware which are displayed on all the floors like a private museum focusing on Keen Kutter and old Wichita.</p><br>
<p>Mount McGregor is a mountain in Saratoga County, New York in the towns of Wilton, Moreau, and Corinth. It is one of the principal peaks of the Palmertown Range.</p><br>
<p>There are two lakes on the mountain, Lake Bonita and Lake Anna, which were previously used for fishing.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mountain was originally called Palmertown Mountain, named by a band of Native Americans who moved to the area from Massachusetts escaping from the aftermath of King Philip&#39;s War. It was renamed after Duncan McGregor purchased it for back taxes and built a hotel called the Mountain House in 1876.</p><br>
<p>In 1881 McGregor sold the mountain to the Saratoga, Mount McGregor and Lake George Railroad, owned by Joseph William Drexel. Drexel constructed a narrow-gauge railroad from Saratoga Springs and built the Hotel Balmoral at the summit with accommodation for 300 guests. In 1897 the hotel burned to the ground.</p><br>
<p>In 1885 Drexel loaned his friend, seriously ill former president Ulysses S. Grant, the use of his personal cottage on the mountain. Here Grant spent the last six weeks of his life struggling to finish his memoirs before he died. The cottage, preserved exactly as it was at his death, is now the Grant Cottage State Historic Site and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company purchased the 1,200 acres of Mt. McGregor to build a tuberculosis sanitarium for up to 350 patients, eventually comprising 30 buildings costing around $3 million. The sanitarium opened in 1914.</p><br>
<p>In 1945 New York State purchased the facility from Metropolitan for convalescing veterans of World War II. With the decline in the need for veterans&#39; services the facility was converted for use of the developmentally disabled, and in 1976 converted again to a prison, the Mount McGregor Correctional Facility. In 2013 Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans to close the prison. The Mount McGregor Correctional Facility officially closed in July 2014.</p><br>
<p>Grant Cottage State Historic Site continues to operate, but access to the area is restricted to Historic Site visitors during operating hours only. Over 700 acres of former corrections property was transferred to Moreau Lake State Park and there are new trails that access the new Lake Bonita parcel. The 325 acre former Correctional Facility property is open to redevelopment proposals.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas F. Ricks House, also known as the Y.W.C.A. House, The Palms and St. Francis Hospital at 730 H. Street, , California was designed and built by Fred and Walter Butterfield in 1885 for owners Thomas Fouts Ricks and his wife, Eva. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in October 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The building is a two-story detached Eastlake ornamented dwelling with three bays and a 1.5-story rear addition located on a quarter city block.</p><br>
<p>The house is architecturally significant as most detailed example of Eastlake style in Eureka.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Thomas F. Ricks (1855–1908) was born in Eureka, California, the son of 49-er Caspar S. Ricks (November 10, 1821 Rome, Indiana - June 21, 1888 San Francisco) who built many business and residential blocks in Eureka and Adaline A. Fouts of Clark County, Indiana who also owned Eureka property independent from that of her husband. The children of C.S. Ricks were well-to-do, socially prominent and influential. Thomas Ricks owned the Ricks Livery Stable. Thomas younger brother, Hiram Lambert Ricks (1860 - January 27, 1921) established the present day Eureka water system, then named the "Ricks Water Company", served as Mayor of Eureka, and began campaigning for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad to Captain A.H. Payson, then president of the line. Both Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ricks had extensive property holdings in Eureka, and Mrs. Ricks business extended as far as San Francisco, to which she traveled frequently. Thomas Ricks died in 1908, aged 53.</p><br>
<p>The building served as a private home from 1885 until Mrs. Ricks leased it to the privately owned St. Francis Hospital from 1907 to 1910. While the exterior was unchanged, the interior was modified to support hospital operations. Subsequently, from 1910 to 1925, it became Sequoia Hospital. In 1925 the building was sold to Charles J.A. Nelson who turned it into a boarding house named "The Palms." In 1935, the building became the Y.W.C.A. local chapter headquarters. The Y.W.C.A. owned the house until the late 1980s when College of the Redwoods purchased it.</p><br>
<p>The Simmons Hardware Company Warehouse, also known as the Battery Building, The six storey building covered a whole block and its construction was supervised by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr., the time and motion study pioneer.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed in 1905 for the Simmons Hardware Company of St. Louis to allow the rapid delivery and dispatch of their hardware products. The design is said to be influenced by the Marshall Field&#39;s Wholesale Store in Chicago which was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson in 1887. The Simmons company used the New York company of Gordon, Tracy and Swartwout to do their design. The developer was the unusual Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr., to further improve the efficiency of the building as he supervised its development.</p><br>
<p>The architects specified that hundreds of 20 ft hardened concrete piles were to be driven in to allow the soft ground to take the weight of the (estimated) two million bricks required to construct the building. Whilst the building was being built a sixth floor and other changes were made to the design. The bricks alone would have required over 250 railway cars to transport them and another 450 cars were also required to transport other building materials. The railway cars were of course easy to source as the building had its own railroad switching facilities.</p><br>
<p>The 123 ft clock tower was designed to and would become an important landmark. The building was intended to be an "ornament" and the tower was intended to convey importance and the 12 numbers on the clockface were intended to be replaced by the letters T-R-O-Q-R-L-A-T-P-I-F. This abbreviation was to signify the Simmons motto which was "The recollection of quality remains long after the price is forgotten."</p><br>
<p>The company was the first to establish a nationwide brand for hardware which they supplied via warehouses in six states across America. Other warehouses were in New York, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and a four storey building in Wichita, Kansas. The warehouses stock consisted of many items, including ammunition, knives, wires, and even dog collars. The company said that, "If you cant eat it, and it dont pour or fold, its hardware". Salesmen were not only employed to sell all products, but they also had specialist salespeople.</p><br>
<p>The company had used an aggressive system of business where it aimed to buy up its suppliers so that it had the choice of best machinery and they could give priority to their needs. In the 1920 the Winchester Repeating Arms Company decided to diversify include knives and hardware. They bought companies and also merged with the Simmons Hardware Company. During the 1920s this warehouse would have been at the disposal of the merged Winchester and Simmons company. The Winchester and Keen Kutter brands did good business during the 1920s but in 1929 they agreed to separate and Simmons and this building returned to their core business.</p><br>
<h2>After hardware</h2><br>
<p>There were multiple owners of the warehouse throughout the years. It was owned by the Kollman-Warner Seed Company in 1939 and the Sioux City Battery Corporation in 1944. Sioux City-based farm retailer Bomgaars bought the building in 1973 and used it as a warehouse and for its corporate offices.</p><br>
<p>The Bomgaars headquarters moved out in 2005 and in 2007, it was planned that the warehouse to be converted into condominiums, offices, and a restaurant. The project would have been completed with a $10.5 million budget. The owners, Roger and Jane Bomgaars, who owned the retail chain Bomgaars, partnered with developers from Omaha, Nebraska with plans to complete the restoration. The plans required city authorities to grant additional tax breaks and to make land available for parking.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino announced plans to open a Sioux City location, situating casino offices on the first floor of the warehouse, and a new casino and hotel adjoining the historic brick building. Plans evolved to move the hotel inside the historic building and for a 60-foot illuminated guitar to adorn the roof of the structure. Both the casino and hotel opened on August 1, 2014.</p><br>
<p>Donk&#39;s Theatre was a historic movie theater located at Hudgins, Mathews County, Virginia. It was built in 1946-1947, and was a vernacular rectangular building constructed of rusticated cinder and concrete block, painted white and cream with Art Deco style details. The building measured 50 feet by 100 feet, and consisted of the central theatre entrance, storefronts, and a 504-seat auditorium. The theater operated as a segregated venue for motion pictures until passage of federal civil rights legislation in 1964. The movie business was declining due to TV, and the theater closed in 1970. It reopened in 1975, as a live country music concert hall.</p><br>
<p>On January 22, 2016, the roof of Donk&#39;s collapsed due to heavy snowfall from a winter storm, as did several of the outside walls. Little survived, and what remains will have to be demolished; the owners have said that they will save the marquee.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011,</p><br>
<p>The Tianping Reservoir is a large reservoir located in the western part of Ningxiang City, Hunan, China. It is the largest body of water in Ningxiang and the second largest reservoir in Ningxiang. The reservoir is the source of the Wei River .</p><br>
<p>Created by damming some small rivers, the Tianping Reservoir has an area of 4.2 km&sup2; and a capacity of 4,416 m&sup3;.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1970s Yang Shifang (杨世芳), head of the People&#39;s Government of Ningxiang, planned to build a reservoir for irrigation, flood control, electricity generation and fish farming. Due to poverty, the government mobilized the masses and used a large amount of human resources to complete the build rather than use heavy construction equipment.</p><br>
<p>The Kong Lung Store in Kilauea, Hawaii was originally built, in c.1941, to be the Kilauea Plantation store. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>It is a 117 x building, the last stone building built by the Kilauea Sugar Company, built of field stone up to its lower gable level, that was a replacement for a previous wood building.</p><br>
<p>It is deemed significant as an example of masonry construction in Kilauea, usually used for domestic architecture, here adapted for a commercial building. And it is significant for association with the sugarcane plantation and the provision of goods to its workers. The store was managed independently from the plantation, by Chew Lung, son of Lung Wan Chee (b. 1860) who managed the first, predecessor store. It was originally open from 2am to 5am, operated by workers who then went to work in the plantation fields.</p><br>
<p>The Belknap House, at 1206 North Nevada Street in Carson City, Nevada, is a historic house built in 1875. Also known as the Barber-Belknap House or the Beck-Barber-Belknap House, it includes Second Empire architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story building with shiplap siding. It is significant as the home, during 1881 to 1908, of Charles Henry Belknap, who was Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court. It is significant also for association with Henry Hudson Beck, who had it built in 1870, and to Oscar T. Barber, a businessman and Nevada State Assembly representative, who owned it in between. And it is also significant as "an excellent example of a two-story Second Empire residential structure".</p><br>
<p>During the Cold War, the only known privately built atomic fallout shelter in Carson City was added to the property.</p><br>
<p>Grande-Terre  is the main island of the French overseas region of Mayotte. The island is located in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean, namely between northwestern Madagascar and northeastern Mozambique.</p><br>
<p>Its biggest city and prefecture is Mamoudzou. The territory is geographically part of the Comoro Islands, but the people of Mayotte chose to remain politically a part of France in the 1975 referendum. The territory is also known as Maore, the native name of its main island, especially by advocates of its inclusion in the Union of Comoros. In a 2009 referendum, 95.2% of the electorate approved accession to status of department. Mayotte became an overseas department on 31 March 2011 and an Outermost region of the European Union on 1 January 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Tuomy Hills Service Station is a commercial building located 2460 Washtenaw Avenue in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Cornelius ("Bill") and Kathryn Tuomy were siblings from a family with deep roots in the Ann Arbor area. The pair were in the real estate business, and were responsible for the development of the Tuomy Hills area of Ann Arbor. In 1928, when Stadium Boulevards was first constructed, the Tuomys decided that the area where Stadium crossed Washtenaw needed a gas station. They hired Ann Arbor architects Lynn Fry and Paul Kasurin to design this service station. The Standard Oil Company leased the station, and exhibited a replica it at the 1933 World&#39;s Fair in Chicago.</p><br>
<p>When Bill Tuomy died in 1966, Standard Oil bought the station, and ran it until 1988 when it was boarded up. In 2005, Bearclaw Coffee Co. moved into the station, and remains there as of 2013.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Tuomy Hills Service Station is a single story commercial building, constructed in a style variously described as reflecting an Irish gatehouse or English gatekeeper&#39;s cottage. The walls consists of eight inches of brick faced with eight inches of stone. The station sits on a heavy concrete pad, and is roofed with slate. The structure has two porte-cochères, each supported with hand-hewn oak pillars.</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth Hall is a historical building off Arkansas Highway 22 in New Blaine, Arkansas. It was built in 1867 as a Masonic meeting hall with funding and land donated by Masonic lodge members of Elizabeth Lodge 215 F & A M. The building is also known by that lodge&#39;s name. The lodge meets in the upper floor, while the ground floor has served as a school, a church, and a funeral chapel. The building has been described as "one of the finest remaining rural structures erected in nineteenth-century Arkansas". It was built "under the supervision of the New Blaine sheriff, E. N. Griffeth."</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The listing included one contributing site (the adjacent Elizabeth Cemetery) in addition to the contributing building.</p><br>
<p>The Parker Mill, also known as Parker Mill Park or Parker Mill Complex, is a mill located at 4650 Geddes Road, east of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The mill is a well-preserved example of a small-scale grist mill operation that was once common in Michigan. were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On this site in 1824, Robert Fleming built a sawmill, located on a rise above the creek which now bears his name. The mill, known as the "Fleming Sawmill," was eventually abandoned and fell into disrepair. on the site of the previous sawmill, which had "long since gone to ruin." At around the same time built a cabin for mill workers to stay in. In 1887, he constructed the nearby cider mill. The Parkers initially ground flour for their own use and that of their neighbors. They also pressed their own cider, but an apple blight in the early 1900s caused the use of the cider mill to be discontinued after 1914.</p><br>
<p>In 1910, William Parker died, and his son George took over operation of the mill. George began selling products to the local markets in Ann Arbor under the brand "Flemings Creek Mills," and soon the mill became well-known locally for its pancake mix, whole wheat flour, and buckwheat flour. In the 1920s, Geddes Road was widened and paved, and the Parkers raised the foundation of the grist mill. George Parker died in 1956, and commercial operations at the grist mill ceased. George&#39;s son Dale kept milling for personal use, but mill operations ceased entirely in 1959.</p><br>
<p>Soon afterward, the farm and mill were acquired by the Matthei family. At some point in the 1960s, the original dam was washed away. to the Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission for $165,000 (well under the market value). The family retained the Parker House as a private residence. The house is now a private residence.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Parker Mill Complex consists of two mills (a grist mill and cider mill) along with a log mill-worker&#39;s house, the Parker farmhouse, and various outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>The 1873 grist mill is a three-story structure set into the hill near Fleming Creek. The mill has a frame third floor, clad with board and batten siding, set atop a two-story stone foundation. The mill still contains the original milling machinery, which is in operable condition.</p><br>
<p>The 1887 cider mill, located adjacent to the grist mill, is a two-story structure, with a gabled frame second story atop an ashlar first floor foundation. The cider mill is now used as a small museum.</p><br>
<p>The mill-worker&#39;s house is a log cabin located behind the mills.</p><br>
<p>The Parker house is located west of the mill site along Geddes Road. It is a masonry Italianate structure with a hip roof. The house is not part of the Parker Mill Park.</p><br>
<p>Sunnyside is a historic plantation house located at Clarksville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The house was built in three sections: a one-room, two-story, three-bay frame dwelling with a side passage, built in 1833; a two-story, three bay I-house, begun in 1836 in front of the first dwelling and connected to it by a one-story hyphen; and a two-story, one room, one-bay addition built in 1837. Also on the property are the contributing late-19th century kitchen, an early-to-mid-19th century servant&#39;s quarter, an early-to-mid-19th century smokehouse, a mid-19th century shed, an early-20th century chicken house, the site of a 19th-century ice pit, a 19th and early 20th century tenant house / tobacco processing barn, three late 19th or early-20th century log tobacco barns, a 19th-century log tenant house, and the Carrington / Johnson family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>St. James Church  is a historic church located northwest of Charlottesville near Owensville, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States on VA 614 east of VA 676. The vernacular Gothic Revival chapel was constructed in 1896 with the help of the Garth Family and the sponsorship of Christ Episcopal Church in Charlottesville. The church served a congregation of between 25&ndash;30 people at its construction. Regular worship services were held up until the 1940s, after which only graveside funeral services were held. Beginning in 1974 and continuing to the present day, christenings, weddings, and funerals were held in the church. Although there is no active congregation, St. James Church continues to be a consecrated Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 14, 2013.</p><br>
<p>Located on the Duquesne Brewing Company building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Duquesne Brewery Clock was the largest single-face clock in the world when it was installed in 1933. Over the years its face has been used to advertise numerous brands, beginning with Coca-Cola.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 60 x clock face, with a 35 ft minute hand and a 25 ft hour hand, both of laminated aluminum, is nearly twice the size of London&#39;s Big Ben, and was built in Georgia by Audichron for $12,500 and shipped to Pittsburgh. The clock, designed by Audichron founder John L. Franklin, is driven by a 1.25 hp Janett motor.</p><br>
<p>Originally located on a Mount Washington hillside, the clocks face was used as advertising for a succession of beverages, including Coca-Cola, and Fort Pitt, Ballantine, Carling, and Schlitz beers. In 1961, the Duquesne Brewing Company bought the clock, painted its "Have A Duke" slogan on the face and installed it atop its building in the South Side where it has been running since. After the brewery closed in 1972, the clock was leased to Strohs Beer, then WTAE-TV Channel 4. After WTAE&#39;s lease ended in 1993, the clock continued to run without an ad. The Pittsburgh Brewing Company paid $44,000 to repair the clock when it took over in 1999, paying $5,000 a month to show its logo on the face. In 2002, Equitable Gas paid to have their name placed on the clock. In October 2009, AT&T took over the rights to advertise on the clock and has redesigned the face to display the traditional blue and white AT&T logo.</p><br>
<p>As of 2017, the clock is running without advertising.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The clock is featured prominently in the 1983 movie Flashdance.</p><br>
<h2>Reference List</h2><br>
<p>The Wabuska Railroad Station, on S. Carson St. in Carson City, Nevada, was built in 1906. It was a work of the Southern Pacific Co. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It is a 24 x building that was located in the small community of Wabuska, Nevada, in Mason Valley, on the Southern Pacific Railway branch line between Hazen, Nevada and Mina, Nevada. The Wabuska Hotel and Bar (c. 1883) was nearby.</p><br>
<p>It was donated by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company in 1982 to the Nevada State Railroad Museum and was moved in 1983. In 1984, the station was weathered but appeared in good condition structurally; photos in 2012 show that it has been improved.</p><br>
<p>Wabuska Railroad Station 1.JPG</p><br>
<p>Wabuska Railroad Station 2.JPG</p><br>
<p>Wabuska Railroad Station 4.JPG</p><br>
<p>Wabuska Railroad Station 5.JPG</p><br>
<p>The Chollar Mansion is located at 565 S. D Street, in Virginia City, western Nevada. It is a historic Victorian Italianate style house, that was built between 1862 and 1864.</p><br>
<p>The residence was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1993. It was deemed significant for its association with William "Billy" Chollar, a miner whose Chollar Mine, later merged with Potosi Mine to form the Chollar-Potosi Mine, tapped part of the Comstock Lode, and yielded enormous amounts of silver ore. It is also significant for its fine Italianate architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Chollar Mansion was designed by N. J. Coleman for William "Billy" Chollar, and was built when Virginia City was the Comstock Lode mining boom town in the 1860s. It was moved about.25 mi in 1870 due to mining needs.</p><br>
<p>In 1993, the NRHP registration noted that the house had been turned into a bed and breakfast inn.</p><br>
<p>Bwlch Mawr is a hill near the northeastern corner of the Llŷn Peninsula in the community of Clynnog in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales.</p><br>
<p>Its name is an odd one for a hill, as it means "big pass" in English. It forms the eastern half of a wider upland area, the highest point of which is the 522 m summit of Gyrn Ddu, though it is Bwlch Mawr on which the Ordnance Survey constructed a trig point.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>In common with a number of other isolated hills in Llŷn, Bwlch Mawr is formed by an igneous intrusion of Palaeozoic age.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>A single public footpath crosses the southern flanks of the hill but the upper parts of Bwlch Mawr are designated as open country under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and therefore freely available to walkers. In the northwest a bridleway runs south from the village of Clynnog-fawr to the edge of open country.</p><br>
<p>Gyrn Ddu is a hill near the northeastern corner of the Llŷn Peninsula in the community of Llanaelhaearn in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales. It forms the western half of a wider upland area, another significant top of which is the 510 m summit of Bwlch Mawr to the east.</p><br>
<p>The distinct northern top of Gyrn Ddu is Gyrn Goch, which attains a height of 492 m. The summit of an eastern top which reaches 491 m is crowned by a prehistoric cairn. To the southwest of Gyrn Ddu is the lower top of Moel Pen-llechog, which reaches a height of 316 m, whilst to the south is the 416 m flat top of Moel Bronmiod.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>In common with a number of other isolated hills in Llŷn, Gyrn Ddu is formed by an igneous intrusion of Palaeozoic age. The northwestern slopes of Gyn Ddu have been quarried in the past and a number of inclines descend the steep slopes beneath them.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>A single public footpath crosses the southern flanks of the hill but the larger part of the hill is mapped as open country under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and therefore freely available to walkers. A further public footpath runs from the hamlet of Gyrn Goch to the edge of the open country on its northern flanks.</p><br>
<p>The Northern Pacific Railroad Depot in Missoula, Montana, was built by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1901. The current structure is the third depot built in Missoula by the Northern Pacific, which reached Missoula in 1883.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The coming of the Northern Pacific Railway to Missoula ensured the town&#39;s economic prosperity as a major transportation hub in Western Montana. The first depot in Missoula was constructed in 1883 and was located approximately 800 ft west of the current structure. This depot was planned to be replaced in 1896, but the replacement depot was destroyed by arson before it was completed. The current depot, which was completed in 1901, was designed by noted architects Reed and Stem of St. Paul, Minnesota, in a simplified Renaissance Revival style of architecture.</p><br>
<p>The depot is constructed in brick, with a terra cotta tile roof.</p><br>
<p>Passenger trains of the Northern Pacific stopped at the depot through 1971, when passenger service in the United States was taken over by Amtrak. Amtrak continued to provide service to Missoula with the North Coast Hiawatha until 1979.</p><br>
<p>The depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 28, 1985, and is considered to be the most prominent structure symbolizing the importance of the railroad in developing and transforming Missoula&#39;s economy.</p><br>
<p>Near the depot is the preserved Northern Pacific #1356 4-6-0 steam locomotive.</p><br>
<p>Llanmadoc Hill is a 186-metre-high hill at the northwestern corner of the Gower Peninsula west of Swansea in South Wales. The summit at the western end of the east-west aligned ridge is crowned by a trig point; at its eastern end are a series of complex earthworks known as The Bulwark. Numerous other prehistoric cairns adorn the hill’s broad summit ridge.</p><br>
<p>The hill’s position above the village of Llanmadoc within 2 km of Gower’s northwest coast enables wide panoramas to be enjoyed over the western end of the peninsula and the surrounding Loughor estuary, Rhossili Bay and Carmarthen Bay.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is formed from an anticlinal east-west ridge of Old Red Sandstone, the core of which is the hard sandstone of the Lower Old Red Sandstone Brownstones Formation and the northern and southern flanks of which are the overlying quartz conglomerates of the Upper Old Red Sandstone. The lower flanks of the hill are mantled by glacial till.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Almost the entire hill is mapped as open country under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 thus providing relatively unfettered access on foot for members of the public. There is in addition a very dense network of public footpaths and bridleways criss-crossing the hill and linking to the minor roads which surround the hill on all sides. The National Trust own and manage the eastern ridge above the village of Cheriton up to The Bulwark.</p><br>
<p>The Norvall Hunter Farm is a historic farmstead on the edge of the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Established in the middle of the nineteenth century, the farm was once home to one of the village&#39;s first professionals, and it has been named a historic site because of its distinctive architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Residents</h2><br>
<p>One of Mechanicsburg&#39;s first doctors, Obed Horr was also among its earliest businessmen. Operating a store in partnership with Joseph C. Brand from 1832 to 1837. he was successful enough to build his net worth to $4,000 by 1836. and he trained others for the medical profession.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The Hunter Farm comprises eleven historic buildings, centered on the high-style farmhouse. Built in 1850, the farmhouse is a two-story structure built of brick; architectural elements such as its pilasters and recessed entryway are constructed with evidence of influence from both the Greek Revival and Italianate styles. Three barns, three sheds, two other farm-related buildings, an additional storage building, and a garage form the rest of the farm complex; these ten outbuildings and a privy are placed in two clusters.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1985, the Norvall Hunter Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its distinctive historic architecture and because of its place as the home of a leading local citizen. It is one of twenty Mechanicsburg locations on the Register; all were listed at the same time as part of a multiple property submission because the villages high propertion of non-historic buildings frustrated locals initial hopes of designating a larger historic district.</p><br>
<p>The Parish House, at 109 S. F St. in Virginia City, Nevada, is a well-preserved historic Italianate-style house that was built in 1876. It is included in the Virginia City Historic District. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant for association with persons who lived there, and for its architecture. Persons lived there served the more successful who lived "on the Comstock" and included:</p><br>
<p>Goodwin Jones, an engineer for the Caledonia Mine, one of the Comstock Lode mines</p><br>
<p>Robert Patterson, proprietor of the International Saloon</p><br>
<p>Dr. Thomas McDonald, a physician</p><br>
<p>John McGrath, a merchant on C Street</p><br>
<p>The house was used as the parish house, i.e. rectory, of St. Mary&#39;s during 1935-1970, hence its name.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd y Garn is a hill in the northwest of the Isle of Anglesey in north Wales. Its 170m high summit is crowned by a trig point and a stone obelisk. Erected in 1897 it commemorates Sir William Thomas, ship-owner and one time High Sheriff of Anglesey.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The summit of the hill is formed from Ordovician sandstone whilst Gwna Group schists outcrop on its southern slopes. To their south are New Harbour Group schists and psammites. Surrounding lower land is mantled by glacial till though the hill itself is free from such superficial deposits.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The summit area of the hill is owned by the National Trust and thereby open to free public access on foot. A couple of public footpaths run across its western slopes but access to the summit is gained from a minor road to its west by a short permissive path.</p><br>
<p>The Bangor Childrens Home was an asylum for orphans at 218 Ohio Street in Bangor, Maine. Established in 1839 by the Maine Legislature as the Bangor Female Orphan Asylum, it served the community in that role until 1975, after which its facilities were converted into the Hilltop School and day-care center. Its main building, constructed in 1869, is one of the states earliest examples of Stick style architecture, and an important early work of the architect Henry W. Hartwell, later of Hartwell and Richardson. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Bangor Children&#39;s Home is located northwest of downtown Bangor, high on the east side of Thomas Hill, just below Summit Park. It is a two story brick building, set on a granite foundation. It has a dormered mansard roof, which provides for a full third story. The dormers are gabled, with most housing one or two sash windows, although there is one with a Palladian window arrangement. All have applied Stick style elements at the gable ends. The main floors are separated by a projecting belt course of brick. The upper level windows are set in segmented-arch openings, with flanking brickwork bracketed framing. The main entrance is sheltered by an elaborate porte-cochere with a shallow-pitch pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>The Bangor Female Orphan Asylum was established in 1839 by an act of the state legislature, and was supported by the efforts of the local Union Female Education Society, founded in 1835. Originally housed in quarters in 4th Street, the present building was constructed in 1869, with funding support from a bequest by Franklin Pitcher. It was designed by Henry W. Hartwell, then early in his career, and is believed to be one of the first examples of the state of Stick style decoration. The land was donated by James Smith, Jr., and an adjoining parcel was donated by Samuel Prentiss in 1914, for use as a playground. At Pitchers demand, the facilitys purpose was broadened to include boys, and the organization was rechartered and renamed in 1866 as the Bangor Children&#39;s Home. By the 1970s, funding and treatment models had changed, and the boarding services were no longer needed.</p><br>
<p>the building houses the Hilltop School, a preschool and day-care center.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd Llangeinwyr is the highest hill in the county borough of Bridgend in the coalfield of South Wales. It forms a long north-south ridge between the valleys of Cwm Garw to the west and Cwm Ogwr Fawr to the east. The highest point of the ridge is the 568-metre flat dome known as Werfa which is crowned by a trig point and prominent masts. A secondary trig point is sited at a height of 530 m near to the ancient cairn of Carn-yr-hyrddod. The hill is named from the village of Llangeinor below its southern tip.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is formed from Pennant Sandstone overlying a thick suite of South Wales Coal Measures rocks which have been heavily mined in the past. Many NW-SE aligned faults cut through the area. Numerous small landslips affect the steeper slopes of the hill.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Almost all of the upper slopes of the hill are mapped as open country under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and thereby open to largely unfettered public access on foot. In addition numerous public footpaths give access onto the hill from the communities in the surrounding valleys and a public bridleway runs southwest from the A4107 road across the summit plateau then steeply down to Blaengarw.</p><br>
<h2>Geodesy</h2><br>
<p>Werfa, under the name of Llangeinor, was the origin (meridian) for the 6 inch and 1:2500 Ordnance Survey maps of all the old welsh counties except Pembroke, Denbigh and Fflint: Anglesey, Carnarvon, Merioneth, Montgomery, Cardigan, Radnor, Carmarthen, Brecknock, Glamorgan and Monmouth. It also was the origin for Shropshire and Hereford.</p><br>
<p>The Boydton Historic District is a national historic district located at Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. It encompasses 199 contributing buildings, 6 contributing sites, 6 contributing structure, and 2 contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of the town of Boydton. Notable buildings include the municipal building , the old jail , the Beales, Bedinger, and</p><br>
<p>Gregory, Inc. car dealership building (1918), Washington Tavern, Williams and Goode Bank (1908), Boydton Department Store (1935), Mecklenburg County Building Department (1949), Southside Regional Library (1939), Presbyterian Meeting House (1819), Saint James Episcopal Church (1840-1841), Boydton Baptist Church, Trinity Episcopal Church (1890s), "Cedar Crest" (1825), and "On the Hill" (1920), which was separately listed in 2015. Also located in the district and separately listed are the Boyd&#39;s Tavern and Mecklenburg County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Northern Pacific Railroad Completion Site is the location of the golden spike ceremony for the completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1883. The site is located near Independence Creek in Powell County, Montana off of Interstate 90, approximately 59 mi southeast of Missoula and 40 mi west of Helena.</p><br>
<p>The Northern Pacific Railway began building a transcontinental railroad route across the northern United States from Minnesota to the Pacific Coast in 1870. Crews built from both the eastern and western ends, progressing towards a yet undetermined meeting point somewhere in between. The two crews finally met near Independence Creek in Western Montana on August 22, 1883, At this point the track was connected, completing the transcontinental line; however, the "golden spike" completion ceremony would not occur until September 8, 1883. Four trains carried 300 guests from the east, including the Northern Pacific&#39;s president, Henry Villard, and visiting dignitaries from the United States, England, and Germany. The track which had been laid earlier was temporarily torn up to be relaid ceremoniously during the event. The final "golden spike" driven was not actually made of gold, but was the same spike that was driven to begin the construction of the Northern Pacific in Carlton, Minnesota, thirteen years earlier.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 19, 1983. The 2.5 acre site includes the site of the final spike, as well as the location where pavilions were constructed for the 1883 celebrations.</p><br>
<p>The Chagos Marine Protected Area, located in the central Indian Ocean in the British Indian Ocean Territory of the United Kingdom, was established as one of the world&#39;s largest marine protected areas, and one of the largest protected areas of any type  on Earth. It was established by the British government on 1 April 2010 as a massive, contiguous, no-take marine reserve, it encompasses 640,000 km&sup2; of ocean waters, including roughly 70 small islands and seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago.</p><br>
<p>The establishment of the protected area was immediately controversial, as the largest island in the area, Diego Garcia, was forcibly depopulated to make way for a United States military base in 1968 and onwards, an action that has been described as ethnic cleansing. In a cable leaked by Wikileaks, a US State Department official commented based on talks with British ministers and officials that establishing the reserve to restrict fishing would be the "most effective long-term way to prevent any of the Chagos Islands former inhabitants or their descendants from resettling." The same cable explained that the protection would permit environmental damage if caused by military use: "the terms of reference for the establishment of a marine park would clearly state that the BIOT, including Diego Garcia, was reserved for military uses... the establishment of a marine reserve had the potential to be a win-win situation in terms of establishing situational awareness of the BIOT... sought no constraints on military operations&#39; as a result of the establishment of a marine park." An exemption in the MPA allows people from the US base on Diego Garcia to continue fishing. In 2010, more than 28 tonnes of fish was caught for use by personnel on the base.</p><br>
<p>On 18 March 2015, the Permanent Court of Arbitration unanimously held that the establishment of the marine protected area (MPA) was illegal under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, as Mauritius had legally binding rights to fish in the waters surrounding the Chagos Archipelago, to an eventual return of the Chagos Archipelago, and to the preservation of any minerals or oil discovered in or near the Chagos Archipelago prior to its return. The decision of the court is final and binding. The MPA is now under negotiation between the UK government and government of Mauritius.</p><br>
<p>The CMPA is administered with assistance from the Chagos Trust, funded by donations and the British Government. Tourist visitors are generally not permitted, although as of 2016 private yachts sailing across the Indian Ocean may apply for mooring permits outside the strict nature reserve areas.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Chagos marine reserve protects the world’s largest coral atoll (the Great Chagos Bank) and has one of the healthiest reef systems in the cleanest waters of the world, supporting nearly half the area of good quality reefs in the Indian Ocean. No-take marine reserves are areas of the sea in which there is no fishing allowed and as little other human disturbance as can be reasonably arranged.</p><br>
<p>The Chagos Archipelago of 70 tiny islands and atolls is located in the central Indian Ocean, about 1,500 km from the southern tip of India, 3,400 km due east of Africa and 3,000 km west of Indonesia. Politically, Chagos is constituted as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).</p><br>
<h2>Establishment</h2><br>
<p>Previous to the establishment of the marine reserve, the Chagos Archipelago had been declared an Environmental (Preservation and Protection) Zone with legislation in place to protect much of the area’s natural resources. Commercial fishing, however, was licensed for both reef fish and tuna. Though the UK government has opposed the area being proposed as a World Heritage Site, it has agreed to treat it as such in order to preserve its environmental value.</p><br>
<p>The case for a large scale marine reserve in the Chagos was first put forward by a consortium of conservation organisations led by the Chagos Environment Network, a collaboration of nine leading scientific and conservation organisations, in "The Chagos Archipelago: Its Nature and the Future" which was launched in March 2009. The Chagos Environment Network was the leading advocate for the reserve during the consultation period and organised two of the major petitions in favour of the reserve being set up.</p><br>
<p>From 10 November 2009 to 5 March 2010, a public consultation was carried out by the UK government to take views on whether or not a marine protected area (MPA) should be established in the archipelago. Respondents were asked not only whether they believed that the MPA should be established but also to what degree they thought it should be protected, either to establish a fully no-take marine reserve or a less protected marine protected area that would allow some fishing.</p><br>
<p>The response to this consultation was high, with over 250,000 people expressing their views on the issue either through the use of petitions or more lengthy written replies. Over 90% declared their support for greater marine protection, with the majority believing that it should be a no-take marine reserve. The loss of the approximately £800,000 a year earned from tuna licensing was frequently raised as a possible hurdle to the designation of the marine reserve. In the final months leading up to the designation, the Bertarelli Foundation offered to fill the funding gap left by the absence of fisheries income and thereby contribute to the costs of an enforcement boat for a period of five years. Following this response, the total area of the Chagos’ Exclusive Economic Zone was declared a fully no-take area, with the exception of a 3-mile zone around the island of Diego Garcia.</p><br>
<p>The British Foreign Secretary instructed the BIOT Commissioner to establish the Marine Protected Area on 1 April 2010, which was essentially the last day he could do so before the dissolution of Parliament prior to the 2010 British general election.</p><br>
<p>The Chagos MPA&#39;s establishment and first five years of protection has been supported by major funding from the Bertarelli Foundation.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology and biodiversity</h2><br>
<p>Ninety percent of the United Kingdom’s biodiversity lies in its Overseas Territories, and the Chagos archipelago is by far the most biodiverse marine area in the United Kingdom’s waters. Its habitats include extensive shallow limestone reefs and associated environments, about 300 seamounts and a deep sea trench - an underwater canyon more than 4,900 m (16,000 ft) deep.</p><br>
<h3>Coral</h3><br>
<p>One of the most unusual aspects of the Chagos marine environment is its extremely healthy and diverse coral cover, which is dense even in deep water and on the steep outer slopes of reefs. The area hosts 220 species of coral including the Ctenella chagius, a variety of brain coral believed to be endemic to the atoll, and staghorn coral which is important to protecting low-lying islands from wave erosion. Chagos provides an important benchmark for coral conservation, and is a natural laboratory in which we can study the functioning of these wonderfully complex ecosystems.</p><br>
<h3>Fish</h3><br>
<p>The fish of the region are equally diverse, with at least 784 different species having been identified including the Chagos clownfish (Amphiprion chagosensis) which is endemic to the archipelago. The strictly no-take Chagos Marine Reserve has freed Chagos fish populations from fishing pressure within the reserves boundaries. The marine reserve is an important refuge for overfished pelagic species such as manta rays, sharks including whale sharks, tuna and is of particular importance for globally threatened species, such as the silky shark. It is also believed, based on results of research on similar deep water and diverse underwater terrain in other parts of the world, that the deep water trench is very likely to harbour a variety of previously undiscovered species.</p><br>
<h3>Turtles</h3><br>
<p>The islands of the archipelago provide vital nesting sites for green and hawksbill turtles (Chelonia mydas and Eretmochelys imbricata). Since the hawksbill turtle is labelled ‘critically endangered’ and the green turtle ‘endangered’ on the IUCN Red List, the Chagos populations are considered to be of international importance. It is estimated that 300-700 hawksbill and 400-800 green turtles nest annually across the 55 islands of the archipelago.</p><br>
<h3>Mammals</h3><br>
<p>Environments of Chagos Archipelago provides rich biodiversity and support varieties of cetacean species within the vicinity, mostly the toothed whales such as sperm, pilot, orca, pseudo-orca, risso&#39;s and other dolphins such as spinners. Regional extinct dugongs were historically seen in the archipelago, hence the Sea Cow Island was named due to the presences of the species.</p><br>
<h3>Birds</h3><br>
<p>The breeding seabirds of the Chagos are considered to be of international importance. The archipelago harbours eighteen different species of breeding birds and ten of its islands have been designated as Important Bird Areas (IBAs) by Birdlife International, making the region the most diverse breeding seabird community in this tropical region, though the presence of human-introduced rats on several of the other islands severely hinder seabird nesting on these.</p><br>
<p>Five species are considered to be breeding in internationally significant numbers: the sooty tern (Sterna fuscata); the brown and lesser noddy (Anous stolidus and Anous tenuirostris); the red-footed booby (Sula sula) and the wedge-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus).</p><br>
<h3>Coconut crabs</h3><br>
<p>The world’s largest terrestrial arthropod, the coconut crab (Birgus latro) is abundant on the islands of the Chagos archipelago, with an overall density in the conservation area on Diego Garcia of 298 crabs per hectare – the highest ever recorded. Due to the long distances which the larvae of the coconut crab can travel, the Chagos population is considered important in replenishing numbers in other areas of the Indian Ocean.</p><br>
<h2>Scientific research</h2><br>
<p>Scientific and conservation efforts are being undertaken to tell us more about these islands, remove invasive plant and animal species, and restore native vegetation. These initiatives are all an important contribution to the conservation of Chagos, and global biodiversity. In February and March 2013, a research expedition was undertaken in the Chagos Marine Protected Area (MPA). The expedition, which was sponsored by the Bertarelli Foundation, in partnership with Stanford University and the University of Western Australia, piloted an electronic tagging project to examine the feasibility of using remote technologies to monitor the movement of important pelagic species in the region. Five different types of electronic tags were deployed in this study, with a total of 99 electronic tags placed on 95 animals, along with the installation of an acoustic receiver array around two northern atolls to detect animal movements.</p><br>
<h2>Pollution</h2><br>
<p>According to a report by a scientific adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which the British Government refused to disclose, suggests that the Pacific Marlin, an ageing tug hired by London used to patrol the British Indian Ocean Territories, had been discharging waste while docked in waters shared with US Navy vessels. The Independent also revealed that American ships have been pouring waste including treated human sewage for three decades into the lagoon on Diego Garcia, which has served as a key strategic base for the US since the 1970s.</p><br>
<h2>Mauritian opposition to Marine Protected Area</h2><br>
<p>The MPA has been condemned by Mauritius, which owned the Chagos Islands before they were detached by the UK before the colony was granted independence, and which have remained under British control ever since. The Government of Mauritius initiated proceedings on 20 December 2010 against the UK Government under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to challenge the legality of the marine protected area. Mauritius considers that the UK, not being a "coastal State" under UNCLOS and international law, had no authority to purport to establish a marine protected area around the Chagos Archipelago and that the MPA was not compatible with the rights of the Chagossians.</p><br>
<p>The original Chagossians were deported from the largest island, Diego Garcia, 40 years earlier to make way for Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, with port facilities and an airstrip capable of handling the largest aircraft in the US Air Force. The Chagossians say they would in effect be barred from ever returning because the marine protection zone would stop them fishing, their main livelihood. "There would be a natural injustice. The fish would have more rights than us, the conservation groups have fallen into a trap. They are being used by the government to prevent us returning," said Roch Evenor, secretary of the UK Chagos Support Association.</p><br>
<h3>Greenpeace</h3><br>
<p>In a letter to Greenpeace, the Mauritian Lalit de Klas political party said "The British government&#39;s plan for a marine protected area is a grotesquely transparent ruse designed to perpetuate the banning of the people of Mauritius and Chagos from part of their own country,"</p><br>
<p>In 2012, Greenpeace ship SY Rainbow Warrior was in the Indian ocean region and the government of Mauritius initially blocked it from making a scheduled stopover at Port-Louis harbour. The reason for the refusal was the unconditional support that Greenpeace has given the British authorities in the controversial project of a protected marine park in the Chagos archipelago. Mauritius has officially denounced the "hypocritical" position of Greenpeace on this matter and deeply regrets that Greenpeace International chose to close its eyes on the illegal excision of the Chagos archipelago by the UK, despite its being recognised as part of Mauritius by various international groups. Mauritius insisted that Greenpeace, which claims to be fighting for environmental protection, showed a hypocritical attitude by remaining silent over the proposed construction of a marine park.</p><br>
<p>Thus, in official correspondence, Greenpeace International said at the outset that:</p><br>
<h3>Wikileaks</h3><br>
<p>On December 1, 2010, WikiLeaks released a leaked US Embassy London diplomatic cable dating back to 2009 exposing British and US calculations in creating the marine nature reserve. The cable relays exchanges between US Political Counselor Richard Mills and British Director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Colin Roberts, in which Roberts "asserted that establishing a marine park would, in effect, put paid to resettlement claims of the archipelago’s former residents." Richard Mills concludes:</p><br>
<p>The cable which records Roberts&#39; assertion that the marine reserve was proposed by the Pew Charitable Trust, was classified as confidential and "no foreigners", and leaked as part of the Cablegate cache.</p><br>
<p>The same cable explained that the protection would permit environmental damage if caused by military use: "the terms of reference for the establishment of a marine park would clearly state that the BIOT, including Diego Garcia, was reserved for military uses... the establishment of a marine reserve had the potential to be a win-win situation in terms of establishing situational awareness of the BIOT... sought no constraints on military operations as a result of the establishment of a marine park." An exemption in the MPA allows fishing to continue to supply food to the US military base; in 2010, more than 75 kg of fish were caught daily for consumption by the 3,200 personnel on the base.</p><br>
<h2>Chagos Marine Protected Area declared illegal</h2><br>
<p>After the Permanent Court of Arbitration decision, the Prime Minister of Mauritius pointed out that it is the first time that the UKs conduct with regard to the Chagos Archipelago has been considered and condemned by any international court or tribunal. He qualified the ruling as an important milestone in the relentless struggle, at the political, diplomatic and other levels, of successive Governments over the years for the effective exercise by Mauritius of its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. The tribunal considered in detail the undertakings given by the United Kingdom to the Mauritian Ministers at the Lancaster House talks in September 1965. The UK had argued that those undertakings were not binding and had no status in international law. The Tribunal firmly rejected that argument, holding that those undertakings became a binding international agreement upon the independence of Mauritius, and have bound the UK ever since. It found that the UKs commitments towards Mauritius in relation to fishing rights and oil and mineral rights in the Chagos Archipelago are legally binding.</p><br>
<p>The Huangcai Reservoir is a large reservoir located in the northwestern part of Ningxiang City in the province of Hunan, People&#39;s Republic of China. It is the largest body of water in Ningxiang and the largest reservoir in Ningxiang. The reservoir is the source of the Wei River. It cost about RMB 5,393,300,000.</p><br>
<p>Created by damming some small rivers, Huangcai Reservoir, with an area of 240.8 km&sup2, the reservoir has a capacity of 147,000,000 m&sup3;.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1949, the People&#39;s Government of Ningxiang, planned to build a reservoir for irrigation, flood control,electricity generation and fish farming.</p><br>
<p>In 1952, scientists started to survey the boundaries of a piece of land in Huangcai Town. In 1957, scientists started designing it. In May,1958, the construction work started. On 9 May 1961, the Chairman Liu Shaoqi and his wife Wang Guangmei, General Gan Siqi and his wife Li Zhen, the secretary of agriculture minister Liao Luyan, Xu Teli, the interior minister Xie Juezai, and the provincial party secretary Zhou Xiaozhou took part in labour.</p><br>
<p>In May,1965, the government mobilized a large amount of human labor to complete the project.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd Marchywel is a 418-metre-high hill in the Neath Port Talbot area in South Wales. Its summit is marked both by a cairn and a trig point. The larger part of the hill is cloaked in modern forestry through which numerous streams fall away westward to the River Tawe, eastward to the River Dulais and southward into the Clydach, the latter two being tributaries of the River Neath.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is formed from multiple layers of Pennant Sandstone with intervening mudstone layers and occasional coal seams. All are tilted to the south and southwest towards the axis of the South Wales Coalfield syncline. Parts of its slopes are mantled by glacial till. The coal seams have been worked extensively in the past. One of the last operations was that at Gleision Colliery under the northwestern side of Mynydd Marchywel.</p><br>
<h2>Scheduled Monuments</h2><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Mynydd Marchywel is crossed by Saint Illtyd&#39;s Walk which locally runs from Ynysmeudwy to Crynant across the northern slopes of the hill, following one of the very few public rights of way to be found on the hill. There are however numerous forest tracks and most of its western flanks, including the summit area, are designated as open access under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.</p><br>
<p>Chase City High School, now known as Maple Manor Apartments, is a historic high school complex located at Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The school building was built in 1908 and expanded in 1917. It consists of two two-story, brick Colonial Revival style buildings connected by a one-story connector building built in 1960. Also on the property is a contributing two-story, rectangular, brick building constructed in 1917 for vocational agriculture classes. A one-story, concrete block addition to the building was constructed about 1939. The school closed in 1980, and in 1991 the complex was sensitively rehabilitated for use as apartments for the elderly.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>MacCallum More and Hudgins House Historic District is a pair of historic homes and national historic district located at Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The district encompasses three contributing buildings and one contributing site They include the Hudqins-Rutledqe House built in 1910. The house is a two-story, frame dwelling with a symmetrical two-bay façade that combines Colonial Revival and Neoclassical elements. MacCallum More was designed by noted Richmond architect Carl M. Lindner and built in 1929. It is Colonial Revival in style with a three-bay, symmetrical façade and a side gable roof. It has a two-story central block flanked by one-story wings. Associated with it is a 1 1/2-story, Guest Cottage built about 1941. The houses are located in landscaped gardens designed by Charles Gillette in 1927.</p><br>
<p>The property includes the MacCallum More Museum and Gardens.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
