<p>Fort Steele, also known as Fort Fred Steele, was established to protect the newly built Union Pacific Railroad from attacks by Native Americans during construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States. The fort was built in 1868 where the railroad crossed the North Platte River in Carbon County, Wyoming. Work on the fort was carried out by military and civilian labor. Fort Steele was one of three forts built on the line. Fort Sanders  near Laramie and Fort D.A. Russell at Cheyenne were the other railroad forts. Fort Steele was named for the recently deceased General Frederick Steele.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Immediately after the forts establishment in the summer of 1868 it was the scene of a meeting that included Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, who had come west to inspect the railroad, accompanied by Generals Philip Sheridan, August Kautz, Joseph H. Potter, William S. Harney, Frederick T. Dent and Adam J. Slemmer, with Union Pacific officials Thomas C. Durant and Sidney Dillon. The fort provided both military protection and law enforcement for the region. Troops from the fort also dealt with labor disputes in Wyoming and as far away as Chicago. The most notable incident occurred in 1878 during the White River War, when the fort sent a contingent that was ambushed with heavy losses in the Battle of Milk Creek. Casualties included the forts commander, Major Thomas Thornburgh.</p><br>
<p>The fort was abandoned in 1886. The fort&#39;s structures have suffered from repeated fires. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1969.</p><br>
<p>University of Nevada Reno Historic District on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno is a 40 acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  on February 25, 1987. It includes works by architects Stanford White and Frederick J. DeLongchamps. It includes 13 contributing buildings and two other contributing structures, including two separately NRHP-listed buildings, the Mackay School of Mines Building and Morrill Hall.</p><br>
<p>The 13 historic buildings are:</p><br>
<p>Morrill Hall (1886)</p><br>
<p>Lincoln Hall (1896)</p><br>
<p>Manzanita Hall (1896)</p><br>
<p>Mackay School of Mines (1908)</p><br>
<p>Jones Visitors Center (1914)</p><br>
<p>Veterinary Building (1914)</p><br>
<p>Peter Frandsen Humanities Building (1918)</p><br>
<p>Thompson Student Services Center (1920)</p><br>
<p>Physical Plant (1921)</p><br>
<p>Clark Administration (1927)</p><br>
<p>Mackay Science Hall (1930)</p><br>
<p>Palmer Engineering Building (1941)</p><br>
<p>Gymnasium (1945) (of "exceptional significance to the district")</p><br>
<p>and the two other contributing elements are</p><br>
<p>University Quadrangle</p><br>
<p>Manzanita Lake</p><br>
<p>Morrill Hall at the University of Nevada, Reno is a historic Italianate building that was built during 1885–86. It was described by architect Edward Parsons as "a classic example of Italianate Victorian architecture...dignified with a wood shingled mansard roof and full dormer windows."</p><br>
<p>The hall was the first building constructed on the campus and originally housed the entire university, including offices, classrooms, library and living quarters for the grounds keeper. It is named after USA Congressman and later Senator Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont, who was the author of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act that led to the development of the University of Nevada, Reno.</p><br>
<p>Morrill Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1974.</p><br>
<p>Takling La is a parallel trek route through the Parana La , located in the Himalayan Mountains. Parana La is the most famous trek route of Spitz and connects Kaza to Karzok. It has an altitude of 18,600 ft  and follows the traditional trade route between Lambada and Spitz Valley.</p><br>
<p>This pass was initially used as a trade route between Spiti and Ladakh and was popular throughout the 19th century. Over the years, it diminished in use. In 1993, Romesh Bhattacharjee led a group of students from Delhi through this pass. According to Bhattacharjee, many points along the trail serve as the passage across the ridge known as Takling La (Pass).</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Takling La is a mountain pass located in the Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It is a 5,575 m high pass and is parallel to Parang La.</p><br>
<h2>Trek</h2><br>
<p>Takling La trek starts at Kibber village or Kyoto and runs towards the Korzoke village of Tso Morrori, The temperature starts to drop between late August and the beginning of September. Late June to mid-August is be the best for trekking due to the weather.</p><br>
<p>Atlantic City Mercantile is a former store now used as a bar and restautrant in Atlantic City, Wyoming. It is one of the chief buildings in the small mining town in the South Pass area of Wyoming, and is a significant example of a late 19th-century commercial building on what had recently been the frontier.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The store was built in 1893 by Lawrence Geissler, a 38-year-old German immigrant who had arrived in Wyoming at the age of 18 to work as a cowboy. In 1889 he married Emma Stegmiller in South Pass City. The couple opened a store in Atlantic City the following year on land owned by Emile Granier, a mining speculator who owned most of the land in Atlantic City. Geissler bought the property from Granier in 1900 for five dollars. The store served as the towns telephone exchange and post office. It closed after Geisslers death in 1929. It was reopened as a tavern in 1964 by Lyle F. Moerer, who retained the name and appearance of the store. It was sold in 1971 to Terry Weirman. and again in 1977 to Robert Rice. The establishment has been profiled in a variety of media, including National Geographic and Esquire.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Atlantic City Mercantile is built from adobe blocks covered with tin siding, with a false front on the south side of the building. The interior walls and ceilings are also covered with tin. The one-story building stands on a stone foundation with a full basement. It is roofed with a gabled roof hidden by the false front. The building&#39;s principal characteristic is its front facade, with large display windows and a formed metal cornice.</p><br>
<p>The Mercantile is the oldest surviving building in Atlantic City, with the exception of Hyde&#39;s Hall. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 25, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Point of Rocks Stage Station is a former resting place at the meeting point of the Overland Trail and the Union Pacific Railroad in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA. It was built as a stop for the Overland Stage Line in the 1861 or 1862, equidistant between the earlier Black Buttes and Salt Wells stations, which were 28 mi apart. The station served the stage line from 1862 to 1868. In 1868, the Union Pacific line reached Point of Rocks, putting the stage line out of business. The station then became a freight depot for nearby mines, with a road leading to Atlantic City and South Pass. The freight activity declined, and in 1877, the station became a residence. At one point it was allegedly inhabited by Jim McKee, a former member of the Hole in the Wall Gang. It became the property of the state of Wyoming in 1947 and is administered as Point of Rocks Stage Station State Historic Site.</p><br>
<p>Point of Rocks Station is sited next to the alkaline Bitter Creek, in a valley framed by steep cliffs. The station is a low one-story building, built of local sandstone with mud mortar. The station has burned at least once, and roof construction is a timber structure with metal covering. A stable building is nearby. The station is close to the present-day Interstate 80. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1970.</p><br>
<p>Lake Harihari is a dune-dammed lake 10 km south of Kawhia in the Waikato region of New Zealand. Its water quality is the best among the Waikato dune lakes. It is ranked eighth in importance in the region.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The lake is dammed by the dunes, though in wet weather a stream flows from it. Under the dunes a hard strong friable greywacke sandstone forms most of the coastline from Albatross Point to Awakino. It is part of the Late Triassic (Oretian-Otapirian) rocks of the Newcastle Group.</p><br>
<p>The lake bed belongs to Taharoa Lakes Trust and the land around it is private. Waikato Biodiversity Forum said, "We know of only one other shallow lake in the region that is comparable in terms of water quality." It is ranked eighth in regional importance as a Category Two Lake – high condition, high vulnerability.</p><br>
<h2>Biota</h2><br>
<p>Lake Harihari has the best quality of all the Waikato dune lakes with oligomesotrophic water quality. Biota recorded include dabchicks, shells, a large freshwater mussel population, freshwater sponges (common), native snails, native fish, the common bully and New Zealand smelt.</p><br>
<p>The health of the lake is indicated by the variety of zooplankton in it - rotifers (Anuraeopsis fissa, Synchaeta grandis, S. longipes, Ascomorpha ovalis, Brachionus angularis, B. caliciflorus, Keratella cochlearis, K. tecta, Polyarthra dolichoptera, Trichocerca similis), Bosmina meridionalis, Calamoecia lucasi, Mesocyclops leuckarti, nauplii. However, there are also weed species such as willow, pampas, kikuyu and Canadian pondweed.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The archaeology map shows a dozen sites around and near the lake.</p><br>
<p>Granger Station State Historic Site, also known as Granger Stage Station, South Bend Station and Hams Fork Station, is a Wyoming state park dedicated to the interpretation of the station, the Pony Express and the Overland Trail. A settlement was first established about 1856 at the meeting of Hams Fork with Blacks Fork of the Green River, where a ferry crossed Hams Fork. This became a station on the Pony Express in 1860-1861, then was a station on the Overland Trail in 1862. By this time it was known as the South Bend Station. In 1868 the trail was superseded when the Union Pacific Railroad arrived at the site. The station was deeded to the State of Wyoming in 1930. It is operated as a state historic site. The Granger Station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 26, 1970.</p><br>
<p>The station is a rectangular one-story stone building measuring about 56 ft by 22 ft. There are two interior rooms.</p><br>
<p>İnandıktepe is an archaeological site located in Cankiri Province, Turkey, about 50 miles northeast of Ankara. In 1965 workers found there potsherds of the famous İnandık-vase. Thereafter excavations took place.</p><br>
<p>Overall five levels could be identified. Most of them dating to the Hittite Age. A complex of about 2000 sq. m. was unearthed extending over the entire ridge of the mound. It was preserved only in parts since it was destroyed in a great fire. The excavators supposed this building to be a temple. Nevertheless this is controversial - it has also been suggested to be an estate.</p><br>
<p>Most of the archaeological finds were ceramics. Among them there were small vessels, jugs, a figurine of a bull, a temple-model as well as a tub. In addition there was found a clay tablet with an Akkadian inscription. It documents a land-gift of the official Tutulla. It is sealed by the Tabarna seal which was in use till the reign of great-king Alluwamna. Comparable finds date to the reign of Telipinu. Hence it can be assumed that this tablet and the layer it was found in date to the late 16th century BC.</p><br>
<p>Inverness is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Burkeville, Nottoway County, Virginia. In its present form the house is a five-bay, two story, gable-roofed, "L"-shaped frame-and-weatherboard I-house set above a high basement, with exterior end chimneys. The original section of the house was built about 1800, and raised to two stories in the early-19th century. A large, two-story, two-room wing was added about 1845, forming the "L"-shape. Around 1895 a crude, two-story kitchen wing, was attached to the 1845 wing, and side porches were added. A Classical Revival monumental portico with four Doric order columns and a small second-floor balcony, was installed across the three center bays of the front facade about 1907. Also on the property are a contributing 20th century frame and cement-block dairy barn, and a 20th-century frame milk shed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Blackstone Historic District is a national historic district located at Blackstone, Nottoway County, Virginia. It encompasses 272 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the town of Blackstone. They include residential and commercial structures dating from the late-18th to early-20th centuries. They include notable examples of the Late Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, and Romanesque styles. Notable buildings include the former Blackstone College for Girls , First National Bank, Thomas M. Dillard House, Richmond F. Dillard House, Blackstone Public School Complex, Bagley House , Blackstone Baptist Church , Crenshaw United Methodist Church , St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church , and Blackstone Presbyterian Church . Located in the district is the separately listed Schwartz Tavern.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd William Meyrick is a 535-metre-high hill straddling the boundary of Bridgend and Rhondda Cynon Taf county boroughs between the valley of the Rhondda Fawr and Ogmore Valley in South Wales. It takes the form of a broad northwest-southeast ridge with numerous broad shoulders extending to the east, south and west, each of which have different names and some of which constitute minor tops. Listed clockwise from the north these are; Mynydd Maendy, Mynydd Ton, Mynydd Bwllfa, Mynydd Pwllyrhebog, Mynydd Maes-teg, Mynydd y Gwair and Mynydd yr Aber. The summit of the entire massif is often referred to as Mynydd Ton. Its western sides are open moorland whilst its eastern sides have been afforested by the Forestry Commission .</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is formed from Pennant Sandstone overlying a great thickness of the South Wales Coal Measures. Several coal seams outcrop on its flanks including (in descending order) the No1 Rhondda Rider, No1 Rhondda and the No2 Rhondda. These and other strata are affected by several geological faults, the most significant of which are aligned roughly northwest – southeast. Landslips affect some of the steeper slopes of the hill, not least those above Price Town on its western side.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Most of the hill, both the open moorland and the afforested parts, is recorded as open country under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 thereby giving largely unfettered access to walkers. A number of public rights of way cross the hill and provide access from neighbouring valleys.</p><br>
<p>The William Brooks Farm, also known as the Washington Stanley Farm, is a farmsite located at 3521 Big Beaver Road in Troy, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Washington Stanley was born in Shaftsbury, Vermont in 1807. There he married a young wife, Lydia, and in 1826 moved with his wife and widowed mother to this site. He built a log cabin and began farming. Washington and Lydia Stanley had six children over the next 15 years, and Lydia died and Stanley remarried. In 1852, Stanley built the two-story fieldstone house that sits on the site. Stanley died in 1873 and the farm passed to his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Frank Ford.</p><br>
<p>The Fords continued to farm the property, and in 1911 their daughter, Alta Ford Peabody, when they sold most of the property to developers.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The William Brooks Farm consists of a farmhouse and various outbuildings, including a machine shop with a smokehouse, hog barns, dairy barns, a milk house, a silo, and a corn crib. The farmhouse is a well-preserved two-story fieldstone Greek Revival structure built on a rectangular plan with side gables. The windows are six-over-six anes with shutters. The front facade has a single-story, columned porch with Gothic detail, and the date of construction (1852) is carved into a stone block above the east-side window. A covered porch is built on the rear.</p><br>
<p>The so-called Tigris tunnel is a cave approximately 50 miles north of Diyarbakır in Turkey. It has a length of about 750 m. The Berkilin Cay flows through this cave. It forms a source of the Tigris, but not the main one, although the exit was long believed to be this. In fact the spring is near Bingöl not far away from the Tigris tunnel. In its vicinity there are several archaeological monuments, three Assyrian Empire and Neo-Assyrian rock reliefs and five inscriptions.</p><br>
<p>Best preserved are the rock reliefs of Tiglath-Pileser I and Shalmaneser III that are carved into the wall of the Tigris tunnel. Their production in 852 BC is shown in the relief of the bronze door bands of the Balawat Gates, now in the British Museum. Above the Tunnel there is a natural rock arch that is connected to the tunnel by a stairway created by the Urartians. Above the exit of the Tunnel there are further caves. The biggest of them bears a baldy preserved relief and inscription of Shalmaneser III.</p><br>
<p>The Holy Priory Church Cathedral Basilica of the Military Order of Our Lady Saint Mary of the Prado of Ciudad Real is located in Ciudad Real, Autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. Construction began in the 15th century in Gothic style, although it has elements of late Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque styles; it has undergone many restorations with the first remodelling credited to Alfonso X  since the Romanesque period. It was completed in the mid 16th century after construction of the roof vaults. The tower was built in the early 19th century. The structure is a monument indexed in the Spanish heritage register of Bien de Interés Cultural under the reference RI-51-0000514.</p><br>
<h2>History and architecture</h2><br>
<p>The oldest part of the cathedral is the Door of Forgiveness (Puerta del Perdón) from the late 13th or early 14th century, which may have been reassembled later. It was probably the door of the primitive chapel which stood on the site of today&#39;s cathedral church. The cathedral was built in stages, combining the Gothic and Renaissance styles. The apse dates to the early 15th century, the eastern section of the nave is from 1514 while the remainder was completed c. 1580. The cathedral consists principally of a huge nave, 34 m high, 53 m long and 18 m wide, the second largest in Spain after that of Girona Cathedral. The Chapel of the Virgin and the sacristy are in the 17th-century Baroque style. The tower, rebuilt in 1825, has recently been restored. During the Spanish civil war, the cathedral was used as a military garage. As a result, many of its treasures were stolen or destroyed.</p><br>
<p>The architectural style of the Perdón doorway is in Gothic with Romanesque features while the Renaissance style is seen in the southern doorway; Perdón doorway is conjectured to belong to the reign of Alfonso X. The tower built in the 19th century is in stone masonry and it is in four tiers.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The magnificent Baroque altarpiece is the work of Giraldo de Merlo and his son-in-law, the painter Juan de Hasten. The work was continued by the brothers Cristóbal and Pedro Ruiz Delvira who charged Juan de Villaseca to implement a design created by Andrés de la Concha, completed in 1616. The altarpiece is dedicated to the Virgen of the Prado, the patron saint of Ciudad Real. The carved walnut pews are from the first half of the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The Sacristy has many paintings. There is also a chest of drawers made in a Baroque style.</p><br>
<p>The church of Santa Maria del Prado gained the status of cathedral by papal bull in 1875.</p><br>
<h2>Restorations</h2><br>
<p>1967 - First restoration of the bells: bells recast, providing them with metal yokes</p><br>
<p>1983 - 1986: Restoration of the tower</p><br>
<p>1987 - 1988 - Second restoration of the bells, recast and new mechanization</p><br>
<p>1992 - Third restoration of the bells: minor welding hood</p><br>
<p>1998 - 2002 - Restoration of the facades and the ceiling of the old sacristy</p><br>
<p>2001 - Restoration of the organ</p><br>
<p>2003 - 2004 - Restoration of the altarpiece</p><br>
<p>2009 - 2010 - Restoration of the Virgen del Prado Chapel</p><br>
<p>The South Bottoms Historic District is a residential neighborhood of Lincoln, Nebraska. The district includes 1050 contributing structures, with a relatively small proportion of 148 non-contributing structures. The neighborhood was settled primarily by Volga Germans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The houses are primarily wood-framed single-family residences, with some commercial structures on F Street between 2nd and 5th Streets. The houses mix vernacular American house construction with wood frame traditions brought from Russia by the residents. The neighborhood is roughly bounded by A and M Streets from Eighth Street to the city limits.</p><br>
<p>The area along Salt Creek was settled by Volga Germans starting in the 1870s, attracted by the inexpensive housing found in the Salt Creek floodplain. Immigrants from individual Russian villages tended to stick together. For instance, the Norker Bottom section was inhabited by people from the villages of Norka, Kukkus and Huck, while the Franker Bottom section housed people from Frank, Balzer and Beideck. Since many of the immigrants were farmers, many people from the South Bottoms spent May through November working in the sugar beet fields in central Nebraska.</p><br>
<p>Typical houses in the South Bottoms neighborhood have front or side porches and are on raised concrete block foundations. Porch columns are supported by masonry piers, and houses typically have hipped roofs. A number of churches are found in the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The South Bottoms Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1986.</p><br>
<p>Lincoln City Hall is the former seat of the Lincoln, Nebraska city government. The hall was built from 1874-1879 as the USA Post Office and Court House, designed by the office of the USA Treasury Department&#39;s architect, Alfred B. Mullett. A new post office and court house was built in 1906 and the property was transferred to the city. It was superseded as city hall in 1969 when the city government moved into the City-County Building. Although Mullett is officially listed as the architect, much of the design work may have been carried out by his assistant, William Appleton Potter, who specialized in the Gothic style.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>City Hall is built of brick faced with rough limestone blocks. It is four stories tall with a basement, measuring 60 ft by 90 ft in plan. The exterior is detailed in an austere High Victorian Gothic style, capped by a mansard roof. The interior is similarly finished, with Gothic details in the woodwork. The style was influenced by the work of John Ruskin.</p><br>
<p>Lincoln City Hall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1969.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas P. Kennard House, also known as the Nebraska Statehood Memorial is the oldest remaining building in the original plat of Lincoln, Nebraska. Built in 1869, the Italianate house belonged to Thomas P. Kennard, the first Secretary of State for Nebraska, and one of three men who picked the Lincoln site for the new state&#39;s capital in 1867. The house was designed by architect John Keys Winchell of Chicago.</p><br>
<p>In 1965 the Kennard House was designated the Nebraska Statehood Memorial, and became a museum. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1969.</p><br>
<p>The house is a 2-1/2 story stuccoed brick building with a frame cupola on the shallow-pitched hip roof. The house was extensively altered inside and out before its designation as a memorial and required major restoration work to return its appearance to its original state.</p><br>
<p>Alaska Nellie&#39;s Homestead, located at Mile 23 of the Seward Highway in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, is the former homestead of Nellie Neal Lawing. Neal Lawing had migrated to Alaska in 1915 and ran a number of roadhouses for the Alaska Railroad before settling at the Roosevelt roadhouse on Kenai Lake in 1923, where she built her homestead. She planned to marry Kenneth Holden after settling, but he died in an industrial accident before their marriage; his cousin Billie Lawing then proposed to her, and the two married. A post office opened in the area in 1924; Nellie was the first postmistress, and the post office was named Lawing in her honor.</p><br>
<p>Nellie was a wildlife expert and trophy hunter, and she kept her hunting trophies, which included three bears, in the roadhouse. She was also known to keep pet bear cubs outside her home. The homestead became a popular lodge due to Nellie&#39;s wildlife lectures, and it attracted guests such as Will Rogers, Alice Calhoun, and Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. After Billie died in 1936, Nellie continued to operate the lodge and roadhouse until her death in 1956.</p><br>
<p>The roadhouse was destroyed in the 1960s, likely by the rising waters of Kenai Lake after the 1964 Alaska earthquake. The homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975; at the time, only the homestead and a number of outbuildings still stood at the site. The homestead was used as a tourist shop in the 1970s and later became a bed and breakfast; however, it was eventually vacated. In 1998, the Alaska Association for Historic Preservation listed the site as one of the ten most endangered historic properties in the state.</p><br>
<p>The Hilzinger Block is a commercial building located at 106-110 South Main Street in Royal Oak, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hilzinger Block building was completed in 1925 as the Hilzinger Hardware Store. for Albert Hilzinger. Hilzinger&#39;s sons, Raymond and Franklin, took over the business in the 1950s, and ran it as the Hilzinger Brothers Hardware Store until 2002, The building was purchased in 2003 by 2mission, who rehabilitated the building and restored the original brick facade, and brought in five tenants to the building.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hilzinger Block is a 12000 square feet, two story brick building. The current facade is similar to the original, and includes an unusual multi-light transom over the first-floor storefronts that was re-created from old photographs.</p><br>
<p>The Rankin County Confederate Monument is a war memorial located on the downtown square of Brandon, Mississippi, at the intersection of Government and North streets. The monument was erected in 1907 by the Brandon Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The monument is 37 feet tall in total. A seven foot tall granite statue of a Confederate soldier, facing west in a lookout posture, stands atop a marble pillar and stepped base. Below the statue, on the west side of the pillar, is a relief of a crossed rifle, bayonet and sword. The base is inscribed with poetry.</p><br>
<h3>Inscriptions</h3><br>
<p>Inscriptions of poetry are featured on each side of the square base. The inscriptions are in all capital letters. The poetry is unattributed. Aside from poetic verse, there is also an inscription attributing the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy as having erected the monument, as well as E.J. Martin, grand master of a local Masonic organization, as having laid the cornerstone.</p><br>
<p>North face- "States&#39; rights and home rule truth crushed to the Earth will rise again. Men die, principles live forever. Although conquered we adore it; weep for those who fell before it; pardon for those who trailed and tore it."</p><br>
<p>South face- "Loves tribute to the noble men who marched neath the folds of the Stars and Bars and who were faithful to the end. / Under the sod & dew, waiting for the judgment day.&#39;"</p><br>
<p>East face- "To those who wore the grey, in legend and in lay our heroes in grey, shall forever live over again for us. / The epitaph of the soldier who falls with his country, is written in the hearts of those who love the right and honor the brave."</p><br>
<p>West face- "Lord God of Hosts be with us yet lest we forget, lest we forget."</p><br>
<h2>Historical context</h2><br>
<p>According to the NRHP applications narrative statement of historical significance, "Local tradition holds that the monument marks the spot where General Sherman ordered his troops to stack arms during the siege of Brandon....&#39;" The monument is an example of many similar monuments erected in southern parks and squares during a period postbellum resurgence in regional identity that occurred from approximately 1870 until the first World War. The Rankin County Confederate Monument differs from other, similar monuments in that it is oriented to face west, toward the direction where Union troops entered town during the Siege of Brandon. Most other such monuments are oriented to face toward the north.</p><br>
<p>St. Thomas Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Orange, Virginia, United States. It is a rectangular brick structure measuring 40 feet wide and 105 feet deep. The front facade features a recessed portico with two Doric columns flanked by two Doric pilasters. Atop the gable roof is a three-stage tower topped by an octagonal cupola. The original church building was built in 1833-1834, and measured approximately 40 feet wide and 65 feet deep. It was built by William B. Philips, a master mason employed by Thomas Jefferson during the construction of the University of Virginia. It was enlarged and improved in 1853, and enlarged again in 1912. In 1928, the rear addition was raised to a full two stories and a parish hall constructed. The original church is believed to have been based on the plans by Thomas Jefferson for Christ Church in Charlottesville, Virginia. That church was demolished in 1895.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is located in the Orange Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Orange County Courthouse is a historic courthouse complex located at Orange, Orange County, Virginia. It was built in 1858–1859, and is a 1 1/2-story, Italian Villa style brick structure. The front facade features a three-part arcade consisting of a semi-elliptical arch flanked by small semicircular arches. Above the arcade is a three stage tower consisting of the main entrance as the first stage; a clock, installed within existing round windows in 1949, as the second stage; and arched openings with louvres covered by a shallow hip roof and topped by a finial complete the tower. Associated with the courthouse are the contributing clerk&#39;s office  and jail .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Orange Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Orange Springs is a historic 52-acre home, farm complex, and former resort spa located near Unionville, Orange County, Virginia, just east of the intersection of US Route 522 and Route 629, located along Route 629, overlooking Terry&#39;s Run.</p><br>
<p>The two-story, "L"-plan frame residence on the property was originally constructed in the 1790s as a tavern. It was converted shortly thereafter into a dining room and "dancing room" or ballroom for the spa complex. Orange Springs was in operation as a resort spa from the early 1790s until about 1850, after which the spa building was remodeled and enlarged for a family home. It features a two-story front porch supported by chamfered wooden piers with vernacular Doric order capitals. Also on the property are the contributing frame smokehouse topped with a pyramidal roof, dating from the period of the operation of the Orange Springs spa; a pit greenhouse; ice house; a granary, large barn, and cow shed built in 1916; and frame hen house (1908).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>A Statement of Significance on its nomination for this register was recorded as follows:</p><br>
<p>"Orange Springs is a rare example of an early spa resort located in the Virginia Piedmont that in the mid-nineteenth century evolved from a popular spring resort to a private residence and farm complex. It is eligible under Criterion A for its association with mineral spring resorts and their popularity as a source of healing and recreation. Virtually all known Virginia spas were located to the west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the Shenandoah Valley or in what is now West Virginia. Although Orange Springs was not as large or well-known as such western resorts as Hot Springs or White Sulphur Springs, the surviving records of Orange Springs testify to its prominence in antebellum Virginia; they contain the names of such patrons as the parents of President James Madison and the president himself.</p><br>
<p>Orange Springs is also eligible under Criterion C for its architectural significance at the local level as an intact example of a late-eighteenth-century residence that was remodeled in the Greek Revival style in the mid-nineteenth century. In addition to the main dwelling which retains a high degree of integrity, the complex contains seven contributing ancillary buildings and two contributing structures that range in date from the late 1790s to 1916."</p><br>
<p>The has a Facebook page where they promote their history and encourage visits.</p><br>
<p>Wimbledon manor house; the residence of the lord of the manor, was an English country house at Wimbledon, Surrey, now part of Greater London. The manor house was over the centuries exploded, burnt and several times demolished. The first known manor house, The Old Rectory was built around 1500 still stands as a private home, despite very nearly falling into a state beyond repair, in the 19th century. The ambitious later Elizabethan prodigy house, Wimbledon Palace, was "a house of the first importance" according to Sir John Summerson, and is now demolished.</p><br>
<p>The manor house passed through several further iterations, being entirely rebuilt three times. From the 18th Century onwards the manor lands began to reduce in size as various owners sold off parts. What was known as the Old Park, an area of around 300 acres stretching westwards from the present Cannizaro House (now a hotel) and public park, was sold off in 1705. Most of the present day Wimbledon Common was also once part of the manor, with grazing rights given to tenants of the lord of the manor.</p><br>
<p>The Common was saved from enclosure and development in 1871 by a remarkably early act of conservation. 42 acres, previously part of the manor parklands, are now occupied by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club that has made Wimbledon synonymous with tennis. Further tracts of the listed public Wimbledon Park include its present-day golf course and the lake, the latter created along with further improvements to the park by the famous landscaper Capability Brown for Earl Spencer, in 1768.</p><br>
<h2>Early History</h2><br>
<p>Until 1328, Wimbledon manor formed part of the manor of Mortlake. In 1364, Simon Islip, the Archbishop of Canterbury, gave the demesne lands to Merton Priory. Wimbledon was among the possessions of the church forfeited by Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1397. On the accession of Henry IV, Arundel was restored, and the archbishops continued to hold the manor of Wimbledon until 1536, when Thomas Cranmer, then archbishop, handed the manor and advowson to Henry VIII, as part of the Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, who then granted them to Thomas Cromwell. In 1540, Wimbledon manor was taken back from Cromwell on his death by the crown and annexed to Hampton Court. Henry VIII gave it to his queen, Catherine Parr, in 1543. After her death in 1548 the manor remained in the Crown until 1556, when Queen Mary granted it to Cardinal Pole as part of the Counter Reformation. Queen Elizabeth I seized it back and gave it to Sir Christopher Hatton in 1576 who sold it to Sir Thomas Cecil the same year.</p><br>
<h2>The Old Rectory</h2><br>
<p>The Old Rectory, Wimbledons first known manor house and its oldest surviving residence, originally known as the Parsonage House, was commissioned by the church in the early 1500s and is Grade II* listed. In the same category is the formerly adjoining park, local authority owned. The house was once moated, and adjoins the grounds of St Marys Church. After the dissolution of the monasteries the former rectory manor and its "Parsonage" or "Rectory" house, compulsorily purchased from the church and vested in the Lord Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell, in 1536, were on his downfall in 1540 seized by Henry VIII who gave them to his sixth and last wife Catherine Parr in 1543. On 20 December 1546, in the months prior to his death, during a tour of his Surrey estates, the king was overcome by his various ailments and was unable to continue on to his Palace at Whitehall, so he stopped for three days at Catherine&#39;s house. In 1550, the house became a grace and favour home for Sir William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. Described by one of Cecil’s biographers as "not luxurious, but adequate", a survey from 1649 describes The Old Rectory as "A two storey house with a large dining hall, a withdrawing chamber, a parlour and little chamber, and extensive service quarters. A spiral staircase to the first floor with ten chambers and five closets, with five garrets in the roof".</p><br>
<p>By 1720, it was known as The Old Laundry House, presumably for the Cecil house built in 1588, next door (see below). The house was uninhabited when Sir Theodore Janssen bought the manor in 1717 (see below) and who allegedly pulled down the south wing and restored the remainder of the house. By 1861, the house was a near ruin when it was sold as part of Wimbledon Park (but not the manor), by Earl Spencer, to the developer, John Beaumont (see below). Beaumont restored and extended The Old Rectory, repaired the exterior, transformed the interior, laid out the grounds and planted the famous fig walk. His successor, Samuel Willson, who bought the house for £6,000 in 1882, carried on the works, adding two-storey drawing-room wing and installing carved-oak doors and English, Flemish and Italian chimney pieces. In 1909 the house was purchased by marine engineer Matthias Jacobs, who enlarged it considerably with help from his brother, an architect, who designed a new single-storey billiard room, a large service wing to the north and a study extension to mask the chapel. In 1923, Thomas Lethaby purchased the house and he concentrated on embellishing the interior. The drawing room was fitted with oak panelling from the Chantry House, Newark, an elaborate plaster ceiling based on one at Knole House, and a grand fireplace.</p><br>
<p>The Lethabys sold the house in 1947. In 1953, Russell Brock, later Baron Brock of Wimbledon, an eminent cardiologist, bought the house for £13,750. The Brock family sold it in 1978 and the kitchen garden was sold and developed for housing known today as Rectory Orchard. The Old Rectory was then bought by an Iraqi entrepreneur and philanthropist, Basil Faidhi. Faidhi had fled Iraq for Britain and though he spent vast sums restoring the house with assistance from English Heritage, he also created a basement discothèque for his daughter, Nina, and a bar. In 1992 Faidhi commissioned Wimbledon historian Richard Milward to write a history of the building: The Rectory – Wimbledon’s Oldest House.</p><br>
<p>In 1994, the astrophysicist, songwriter and lead guitarist of the rock band Queen, Brian May CBE, paid £4 million for the house, with the intention of living there with his partner and later wife, the long-running BBC TV soap opera Eastenders actress Anita Dobson. In 2006 May sold The Old Rectory for £16 million to an Italian architect-owner Antonella Carminati and her husband, who initiated further works with the help of the architect Sir Donald Insall CBE. In 2012, the Carminatis put The Old Rectory on the market for £26 million. The house standing in acres, was sold in June 2013 for an undisclosed sum to an unknown buyer.</p><br>
<h2>Cecil Wimbledon</h2><br>
<p>Sir Thomas Cecil, later Earl of Exeter, had connections with Wimbledon manor, before he bought it in 1576, for he had lived there when he was a child, in The Old Rectory. His father, Sir William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, had tenure of the house as a grace-and-favor residence by the Crown. Whilst Sir Thomas did own The Old Rectory, as it came as part of the manor, he decided to build a grand new Wimbledon manor house which was to be known as Wimbledon Palace. This was built next door to The Old Rectory and completed in 1588, Englands Annus Mirabilis. It was a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Sir Thomas son Edward Cecil was made 1st Viscount Wimbledon on the basis of this seat. Edwards sarcophagus sits within the Cecil chapel at St Marys church, Wimbledon, near the site of his demolished home.</p><br>
<p>The site, which was near the village of Wimbledon, was near the top of a high hill, astride the upper part of what is now Home Park Road, with extensive views northwards over the present day Wimbledon Park, above a steep slope that was dramatically terraced with massive retaining walls. The house was built on a modified H plan, with a slightly recessed central range facing south, and on the north, a central entrance between deep flanking wings, with matching staircase towers in the inner corners. An informally arranged service wing, not part of the symmetrical design, lay to the west. The entrance court, essentially a deep gated terrace entered from the sides, lay 26 steps below the upper cour dhonneur, which could be approached only by a monumental axial staircase with paired helical flights rising from a central raised landing. Wimbledons series of terraces and axial stairs and its hilltop site was "inspired presumably" by the Villa Farnese at Caprarola.</p><br>
<p>The estate stood within a days ride of Westminster, making it eminently suitable for an active courtier; there, the Cecils entertained Queen Elizabeth I of England for three days in 1599. John Thorpes undated plan of Wimbledon&#39;s ground floor and forecourts of ca 1609, suggests that they were about twelve acres in extent, divided among eleven separate spaces, featuring plantations, walks, and parterres, laid out asymmetrically on the sloping site. The house was damaged in 1628 by the accidental igniting of gunpowder stored there. The glories of this house, after repairs had been effected, were concentrated in the long Gallery, one of two in the house, which was richly painted and marbleized, no doubt by Francis Cleyn, who was responsible also for the exterior that was painted en camaieu in tones of yellow and burnt ochre.</p><br>
<h2>King Charles I and Queen Henrietta-Maria</h2><br>
<p>Immediately after Viscount Wimbledon died, in 1638, the manor together with manor house was sold by his heirs to trustees for the queen of Charles I, who gave it to Queen Henrietta-Maria. Alterations and expansion were made in 1640-41, just at the outbreak of the English Civil War. Overseeing plans and construction was the court architect Inigo Jones, Surveyor of the King&#39;s Works, and on site was the prominent sculptor-builder Nicholas Stone. The two-storey house with a flat balustraded roof was severe in outward aspect. Thomas Fuller calls Wimbledon manor house "a daring structure;" and says, that "by some it has been thought to equal Nonsuch, if not to exceed it."</p><br>
<p>The magnificent gardens which were created for the Queen by French garden designer Andre Mollet, were later described in a Parliamentary inventory taken in 1649; after noting the lower court and the upper court, the survey reported its several ascents in detail, counting the very steps: "The scite of this manor-house being placed on the side slipp of a rising ground, renders it to stand of that height that, betwixt the basis of the brick-wall of the sayd lower court, and the hall door of the sayd manor-house, there are five severall assents, consisting of three-score and ten stepps, which are distinguished in a very graceful manner; to witt, from the parke to a payre of rayled gates, set betwixt two large pillers of brick; in the middle of the wall standing on the north side of the sayd lower court is the first assent, consisting of eight stepps, of good freestone, layed in a long square, within which gates, levell with the highest of those eight stepps, is a pavement of freestone, leading to a payr of iron gates rayled on each side thereof with turned ballasters of freestone, within which is a little paved court leading to an arched vault neatly pillowred with brick, conteyning on each side of the pillers a little roome well arched, serving for celleridge of botteled wines; on each side of this vault are a payre of staires of stone stepps, twentie-three stepps in assent, eight foote nine inches broad; meeting an even landing-place in the height thereof, leading from the foresayed gates unto the lower court, and make the second assent; from the height of this assent a pavement of Flanders brickes thirteene foot six inches broad", leading "to the third assent, which stands on the south side of the lower courte, consisting of a round modell, in the middle whereof is a payre of iron gates rayled as aforesayd, within which is a fountayne fitted with a leaden cesterne fed with a pipe of lead; this round conteynes a payre of stone stayres of 26 stepps in assent, ordered and adorned as the second assent is, and leades into the sayd higher courte, and soe makes the third assent; from the height whereof a pavement of square stone nine foote broad and eightie-seaven foote long leades up to the fowerth assent, which consists of eleven stepps of freestone very well wrought and ordered, leading into a gallery paved with square stone, sixtie-two foote long and eight foote broad....</p><br>
<p>"From the forementioned first assent there is a way cut forth of the parke, planted on each side thereof with elmes and other trees, in a very decent order, extending itself in a direct line two hundred thirty-one perches from thence quite through the parke northward unto Putney-common, being a very special ornament to the whole house."</p><br>
<h2>Civil War and the Interregnum</h2><br>
<p>As a consequence of the English Civil War, the monarchy was overthrown in 1649 and the Crown lands were put up for sale. The manor passed to the Cromwellian General John Lambert. "Lambert," says Roger Coke, in A Detection of the Court and State of England during the four last reigns and the interregnum (1719), "after he had been discarded by Cromwell, betook himself to Wimbledon-house, where he turned florist, and had the finest tulips and gilliflowers that could be got for love or money; yet in these outward pleasures he nourished the ambition which he entertained before he was cashiered by Cromwell." The reputation of Wimbledon manor house in the history of flower gardening thus begins with General Lambert, who painted some of the flowers he was cultivating. Though the Queen&#39;s flower gardens may have fallen to ruin in the decade of the Civil War, the glory of Wimbledon aside from the straight avenue of elms and other trees centred on the house, that stretched forth as far as Putney was chiefly its fruit. Among a thousand fruit trees of every kind, the Parliament-men who inventoried the house and gardens in 1649 noted the "three great and fayer" fig trees that covered a very "greate part of the walls of the south side of the manor-house" "by the spreading and dilating of themselves in a very large proporcion, but yet in a most decent manner&quot to have grown so extensive in 1649 the figs must have been planted in the time of Lord Exeter or his son Lord Wimbledon. The orangery in 1649 held 42 orange trees planted in boxes, valued at £10 each, and 18 young ones, a lemon tree "bearing greate and very large lemmons" (£20) a "pomecitron" tree" (Citrus medica, valued at £10), and six pomegranate trees. Doubtless the inventoried bay tree (Laurus nobilis) and the equally tender "Irish arbutis, very lovely to looke upon," were being taken into the orangery for winter protection, as England was then in the frigid grip of the Little Ice Age.</p><br>
<h2>The Restoration</h2><br>
<h2>Sir Theodore Janssen</h2><br>
<p>File:Belvedere House, Wimbledonc1888.jpgleftthumb133x133pxJanssen&#39;s manor house later Belvedere House, with 1782 alterations to facade + additional storey; possibly completing the Campbell design. Photo 1888. Demolished 1900</p><br>
<p>The Dukes heirs sold the manor in 1717, to Sir Theodore Janssen 1st Baronet of Wimbledon, one of the founding directors of the Bank of England, the new parallel East India Company, and the ill-fated South Sea Company. Janssen paid the famous architect Colen Campbell and Gould, £70 as "overseers" of a new house to be built for him at Wimbledon in 1720. Built in part with brick from the Elizabethan manor house on a new site to the south west of St Marys church. Janssen, as a director of the South Sea Company, was heavily involved in the South Sea Bubble fiasco, where the directors were accused by Parliament, in 1721, of committing fraud. Parliament itself was not immune from implication in the scandal, for several members of the cabinet were impeached for their corruption. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Aislabie, was found guilty of the "most notorious, dangerous and infamous corruption", and imprisoned. Janssen petitioned Parliament for leniency before they introduced a Bill enabling them to confiscate the assets of the directors. Parliament allowed him to keep £50,000 but in the end he evidently kept £100,000" Consequently, in 1721, he was also stripped of Wimbledon manor by Parliament.</p><br>
<p>In 1741, Janssen, appears to be living next door to the house he had built, albeit with the Campbell design incomplete (see map). Because the house was sold in 1749, the year after his death, this might indicate that he at least continued to own the house, which had been separated from the manor estate, in 1721; with the Rush family as tenants (see map). This theory appears to be confirmed by the Wimbledon Museum: "Although he (Janssen) was allowed to keep his newly built house he preferred to live in another, nearer the High Street". Reports that the Duchess of Marlborough owned and demolished this house, therefore, seem to be incorrect. Sir Theodore continued to live out his life quietly in Wimbledon. He died in 1748 aged 94 and is buried in the graveyard of St Mary&#39;s Church.</p><br>
<p>So in 1749 the Janssen house and land comprising some 70 acres, was sold to Mrs Martha Rush. In 1759 it was inherited by her son Samuel. In 1782 alterations were made to the facade and a further storey was added; possibly completing the original Campbell design (see pic). In 1783 the estate was inherited by Sir William Beaumaris Rush who died there in 1833 aged 83. The family were for a century and a half the proprietors of a great vinegar yard in Southwark, afterwards Pottss, and from the last of those wealthy merchants Sir William inherited a large fortune. The house, which had become known as Belvedere House, stood at what became the rear gardens of todays Nos. 6-12 Alan Road, was eventually demolished in 1900, to make way for a housing development to be known as the Belvedere Estate.</p><br>
<h2>The Duchess of Marlborough</h2><br>
<p>(née Jennings),</p><br>
<p>Duchess of Marlborough.</p><br>
<p>circle of Closterman c.1700</p><br>
<p>In 1723, the manor was purchased for £15,000 by Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. Sarah was the widow of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, who had died the year before, in 1722.The Duchess demolished the remains of the old Cecil manor house then she turned to the "Architect Earl" of Pembroke, Henry Herbert, for another house on a new site completed in 1733. This was immediately behind where the former Cecil house had stood and close to the junction of the present Arthur Road and Home Park Road in the grounds of the current Ricards Lodge school.This iteration of Wimbledon manor house was engraved in 1771 for the fifth volume of Vitruvius Britannicus, where attribution for the design of fifty years previous was given to Lord Pembrokes assistant Roger Morris. Letters of the Duchess of Marlborough do mention Morris on the site, but implying that he was acting on Pembrokes behalf, and the architect-builder Francis Smith of Warwick is also mentioned, as surveyor.</p><br>
<p>Palladian Wimbledon manor was a compact house of gray brick with Portland stone dressings, of seven bays, its broader end bays slightly projecting; the three central bays were crowned with a pediment over a lightly projecting Ionic portico of four attached columns.The ground floor was sunken to allow the Duchess, who had gout, to enter at first floor level, without going up steps. Evidently the Duchess was not pleased with the finished house for she wrote to her granddaughter, Diana, Duchess of Bedford, sometime between 1732 and 1735 that the Earls talent was little more than to "imitate ill whatever was useless" in Inigo Jones and Palladios buildings.</p><br>
<p>English Heritage, which lists Wimbledon Park a Grade II* protected monument, suggest that the Duchess consulted the landscape gardener Charles Bridgeman, but the extent of his contribution is unknown. Through the Duchess of Marlborough, Wimbledon manor passed, in 1744, to her heir, the 10-year-old John, Viscount Spencer, soon to be made the 1st Earl Spencer.Under a contract of late 1764 Lancelot "Capability" Brown undertook landscaping projects in the park, which still comprised some 1200 acres; his work, which included the lake (Wimbledon Park Lake), was complete by 1768, In 1780, Hannah More visited the house as the guest of Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph, to whom Lord Spencer lent the house annually for a season: "I did not think there could have been so beautiful a place within seven miles of London. The park has as much variety of ground, and is as un-Londonish as if it were an hundred miles out." Hannah More enjoyed the Duchess of Marlboroughs books in the library, where: "numbers of the books were presents to her from the great authors of her time, whose names she had carefully written in the blank leaves, for I believe she had the pride of being thought learned, as well as rich and beautiful." "elegantly fitted up, and are used as an occasional retirement by Lord Spencers family. The situation is singularly eligible, having a beautiful home prospect of the park, with a fine piece of water towards the north, and an extensive view over the country of Surrey on the south." The house burnt down at Easter 1785, spreading from the laundry-room where linen was being aired in preparation for the return of the family after a brief absence. Lord Spencer cleared away the ruins and leveled and turfed the ground, so that scarcely a trace remained of its foundations except for an underground tunnel, which still survives, which had linked the main house to the separate staff quarters.</p><br>
<h2>Spencer Wimbledon</h2><br>
<p>Between 1799 and 1802 the 2nd Earl Spencer had Wimbledon manor house rebuilt, in the Regency style, very close to the site of the Marlborough house, incorporating the surviving staff quarters. The new house would be called Wimbledon Park House, allegedly to designs by Capability Browns son-in-law, Henry Holland. Joseph Paxton, renowned later as the designer of the Crystal Palace for the 1851 Great Exhibition, worked here as a garden-boy assisting his brother, the head gardener. Sir Joseph Paxton returned to design new formal gardens in the 1840s for the Duke of Somerset, Spencers tenant at the house from 1827. In 1838 the Duke entertained Queen Victoria there. In 1846 the Spencers left Wimbledon Park House, selling the estate (but not the manorial title) for £85,000 (£71 an acre), to the real estate developer John Augustus Beaumont, an insurance company director, who reduced the size of the park after 1860, with speculative streets of houses. to enclose Wimbledon Common, which he still owned, for the creation of a new park with a house and gardens and to sell part for building. Though Sir Joseph Paxton testified on Earl Spencer&#39;s behalf, in a landmark decision for English common land, and following an enquiry, permission was refused and 1871-created Board of Conservators received the land to preserve it in its natural condition. In 1996 the 9th Earl Spencer sold his vestigial interest in Wimbledon, the title of lord of the manor of Wimbledon, to a buyer from Brazil for £171,000; manors may bring minor rights such as fishing, lesser mineral, and foraging rights but no powers nor property are believed to appertain to the archaic estate (interest in land), an incorporeal hereditament.</p><br>
<p>The Prospect Hotel, also known as the A. H. Boothby House, in Prospect, Oregon, is two-story hotel listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Located on the community&#39;s main street, Mill Creek Drive, the hotel and several tourist cabins occupy a 5 acre site near the Prospect School and Prospect Store. The hotel is a short distance from Oregon Route 62, the main highway from Medford to Crater Lake. The L-shaped building with four large gables has a 10 ft veranda, added in about 1915, that extends from three sides of the main building. The rear of the hotel includes a shed addition.</p><br>
<p>Called the Boothby House by its original owner, it was turned into a hotel for people traveling by wagon to Crater Lake in the last decade of the 19th century. During the first two decades of the 20th century, the hotel evolved into a tourist stop for automobile travelers. Guests who signed the register included William Jennings Bryan, Zane Grey, Joaquin Miller, and Jack London.</p><br>
<p>The Kregel Wind Mill Company made wind wheel water pumping windmills in Nebraska City, Nebraska starting in the 1879. It is the present day Kregel Windmill Factory Museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The brand of windmills that the Kregel Windmill Company produced was called "ELI" — as an homage to one of George Kregel&#39;s friends, a preacher named Eli Huber, who had died. Kregel windmills were used to pump water from wells at farms and homes in the region of southeastern Nebraska surrounding Nebraska City. Managed by George F. Kregel, the company moved to the current Central Avenue building in 1903, operating in that location for 88 years.</p><br>
<p>The Central Avenue factory has been preserved with all of its manufacturing equipment. The machinery in the factory is powered by a central transverse line shaft and leather belts coming down to pulleys on each machine. The line shaft itself was originally powered by a single cylinder engine but in the 1920s was converted to electricity. After manufacturing more than 2000 windmills the company stopped making windmills in the 1940s, and the Kregels worked instead in pump repair and well maintenance until 1991 in the same location.</p><br>
<p>The factory is a one-story wood frame building. The flat-roofed building has two small roof monitors for light and ventilation. The front facade is clad with pressed sheet metal in a brick pattern, with four bays. The interior is a large open space with two structural bays, and a small office space. All of the company&#39;s tools and records have been preserved.</p><br>
<p>Auden’s Col is a high altitude mountain pass connecting Rudugaira valley and Bhilangna valley. It is situated at 5,490 m elevation and connects the ridge coming from Gangotri III  peak on the north-west and the ridge coming from Jogin I  on the east, and also binds a glacier coming from Jogin I on the north side of Rudugaira valley, and deadly Khatling glacier on the south side of Bhilangna valley.</p><br>
<p>Rudra ganga stream or Rudragairu (gairu means deep) or Rudugaira gad drains Rudugaira glacier and eventually flows into Bhagirathi (Ganga) river near Gangotri, and Bhilangna river originates from Khatling glacier and meets Bhagirathi near Old Tehri.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The pass is named after John Bicknell Auden of the Geological Survey of India, who first discovered it in 1935 and crossed it in 1939. Mr Harish Kapadia and Mr Romesh Bhattacharjee from the Himalayan Club repeated Auden’s explorations in the late eighties.</p><br>
<h2>Trekking</h2><br>
<p>Audens Col is arguably one of the most dangerous passes in Garhwal Himalaya as the pass and the Khatling glacier are heavily infested with crevasses. Also, by crossing Audens Col and then Mayali Pass, one can trek from Gangotri to Kedarnath, both among holiest Hindu temples.</p><br>
<h3>Route</h3><br>
<p>Trekking route, schedule, and plan depends on a trekker’s ability, experience, as well as prevailing weather condition. Since the trek is strenuous and dangerous, it is advisable to secure, well in advance, services of a guide who has first-hand knowledge of the trek, and possibly has done it several times. A typical route plan in good weather condition is as following.</p><br>
<p>Reaching Gangotri (3050 m): There are train, bus, car/taxi services from New Delhi or Dehradun to Haridwar / Rishikesh. From Rishikesh, taxis and buses are available to go to Gangotri via Uttarkashi. Uttarkashi is the last point to purchase food provisions. Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, one of the best mountaineering schools in India, is conveniently located in Uttarkashi and is good place to rent various trekking and mountaineering equipment. If one needs to hire guide and high altitude porters, Uttarkashi is the last (and the best) possible point to do so on the way to Gangotri. Forest permissions needed for the trek can be obtained either at Uttarkashi or Gangotri. It is a good idea to spend a day in Gangotri doing acclimatization trek.</p><br>
<p>Gangotri—Nala Camp (3760 m): It is gradual beautiful climb through pine and birch forests, and Nala campsite is by the Rudragaira river. First glimpse of the Gangotri III peak.</p><br>
<p>Nala Camp—Rudugaira Base Camp (4350 m): Birch forests give way to green meadows. There are steep climbs and rock fall zones and a river crossing on the way to Rudugaira Base Camp site. Camp site offers views of Rudugaira peak, Gangotri I, Gangotri II, Gangotri III, and Jogin I.</p><br>
<p>Rudugaira Base Camp—Gangotri Group Base Camp (4500 m): It is nice, short and gradual climb through moraine. The camp site offers closer views of Gangotri peaks. On a clear day, it is possible to get first glimpse of Auden’s Col.</p><br>
<p>Gangotri Group Base Camp—Auden’s Col Base Camp (4720 m): Again gradual climb on moraine and ridge through a valley surrounded by Gangotri and Jogin peaks, with glacier flowing on the right. Auden&#39;s Col becomes clearly visible and increasingly prominent.</p><br>
<p>Auden’s Col Base Camp—Auden’s Col Advanced Base Camp (4975 m): More of gradual climb on moraine and ridge. Camp site is situated at the end of the ridge where glaciers on left and right merge, right before the ice field leading to the Col.</p><br>
<p>Cross Auden&#39;s Col (5490 m), to Khatling Glacier Camp (5000 m): This is the longest and hardest part. It is better to start really early, preferably by 5:00am, as snow plodding becomes difficult as sun comes up. Approach to Col is littered with crevasses, so team must be roped. On a clear day, Rabbit Ears are clearly visible, and magnificent views are on offer at the pass. Descend to Khalting side is steep, initially scree and then ice, and might require rappelling. At the base of the descent, a 1–2-metre-wide crevasse runs end to end, and there are a couple of snow bridges. After descend, it is a long roped walk through crevasse infested Khatling glacier. At Khatling Glacier Camp site, there is a small patch of stones, but camping on glacier ice is also possible. Camp site also offers amazing views of virgin unknown pass and valley on the west side.</p><br>
<p>Cross waterfall zone to reach Khatling Base camp at Bhilangna river snout (3800 m): Another difficult day regardless of whether one crosses waterfalls or remaining of Khatling. However, after crossing boulder zone at the Bhilangna river snout, the camp site offers much-needed respite and greenery. Hard part of trek is over now. An alternate is to descend all the way down to Khatling Glacier and keep walking towards its snout. This path is not chosen due to dangerous crevasses and a need to cross over the Ice Wall. Till now only a team from Indore is on record, having done it successfully.</p><br>
<p>Bhilangna snout—Kharsoli (2880 m): Green meadows gives way to pine and birch tree forests. Kharsoli is lush green camp site.</p><br>
<p>Kharsoli—Gangi (2500 m): Nice walk through dense Deodar tree forests. With shepherds, first sign of civilization appear. There is a Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam (GMVN) operated guest house at Gangi.</p><br>
<p>Gangi—Ghuttu (1550 m): Trek ends with a slow descend to Ghuttu village. There is a camp site as well as GMVN guest house. A road connects Ghuttu to Kedarnath highway.</p><br>
<p>Returning from Ghuttu: Take public transportation or private jeeps to Guptakashi on Kedarnath National Highway 109, which has regular traffic going to Rudraprayag, and further down to Srinagar (Uttarakhand), Rishikesh, and Haridwar.</p><br>
<p>Acclimatization and rest days should be added as needed based on weather as well as state of trekkers. Some of the camps on the way to Audens Col Advanced Base Camp can be skipped, again based on capability and state of trekkers and support staff. There are some instances of teams camping at the top of Audens Col, but on bad weather day with high wind and snowfall, it can turn highly risky. That is why starting very early on the pass crossing day is highly desirable to get ample time. If there is delay for any reason, it is better to descend to the Khatling side and camp at a suitable place in the vicinity of the base of the pass.</p><br>
<p>Tutupaca is a twin volcano in Peru, about 5,815 m high. Historic records of the latest eruption were considered to be from the neighboring Yucamane volcano before being confirmed by recent geochronology work. Debris avalanche deposits are mined for sulfur.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Tutupaca rises above a high plateau of 4400 to 4600 m mainly formed from sedimentary and volcanic material of Miocene-Pliocene age, and is formed from a basal edifice and two smaller ones constructed on top of it. This basal edifice, mostly of andesitic and dacitic composition and centered on the south of the two current edifices, was heavily affected by Pleistocene glaciation and hydrothermal alteration as well as a late ignimbrite eruption. Major moraines of probably Late Glacial Maximum lie in the surrounding valleys and on the basal edifice. The western (or northern) smaller edifice is a complex of lava flows and domes with Plinian eruptive activity, also affected by glacial erosion. One biotite was dated to 0.7 Ma ago. The eastern (or southern) edifice is formed by lava domes unaffected by glacial action, but is cut by a NE-open amphitheatre and containing the remnants of a summit crater. Several non-pristine lava flows are discernible. Two edifice failure events are noticeable on the southern edifice, an older channelized towards the east-southeast, and a more recent one towards the northeast. The river valleys Tacalaya and Callazas run beside the volcano complex, the latter separating it from the younger looking Yucamane. A major SE-NW-trending fault system is associated with the volcano and may be related to the formation of the amphitheatre.</p><br>
<h2>Recent eruption</h2><br>
<p>A major eruption occurred between 1787 and 1802, causing the failure of the flank of the southern volcano with a volume of 1 km. The collapse caused the release of pyroclastic flows with a total volume of 6.5–7.5×10 m. The main collapse was preceded by a pyroclastic flow named Suri Phuju after the valley it is exposed in. The main debris avalanche formed levees and contains huge blocks and hummock hills. The debris deposit is overlain with a second pyroclastic flow named Paipatja that reached the Suches lake to the north of the volcano. Ash fall was reported as far as Arica, 165 km to the south of the volcano. This is probably the youngest debris avalanche in the Andes and one of the largest historical volcanic eruptions of Southern Peru.</p><br>
<h2>Future hazard</h2><br>
<p>The volcano was affected by an earthquake swarm in 2001. While the area surrounding the volcano is sparsely populated, a large scale eruption of Tutupaca in the future could affect 8000-10000 inhabitants in the region, as well as important geothermal and mining structures in the area.</p><br>
<p>Bloomsbury is a historic home located near Orange, Orange County, Virginia. The original section dates to the early- to mid-18th century, and is a 1 1/2-story, frame Colonial dwelling with a steep gable roof and "U"-plan stairway of a form unknown elsewhere in Virginia. It retains nearly all its original late-Georgian interior detailing. It was doubled in size about 1797, with a two-story Federal-period addition that stands at right angles to the original block and is flanked by early shed-roofed end wings. The house was restored in the 1960s. Also on the property are a contributing 19th-century smokehouse, a contributing 18th-century cemetery, and a contributing garden site.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Hare Forest Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States. The main house was built in three sections starting about 1815. It consists of a two-story, four-bay, brick center block in the Federal style, a two-story brick dining room wing which dates from the early 20th century, and a mid-20th-century brick kitchen wing. Also on the property are the contributing stone garage, a 19th-century frame smokehouse with attached barn, an early-20th-century frame barn, a vacant early-20th-century tenant house, a stone tower, an early-20th-century frame tenant house, an abandoned storage house, as well as the stone foundations of three dwellings of undetermined date. The land was once owned by William Strother, maternal grandfather of Zachary Taylor, and it has often been claimed that the future president was born on the property.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Baie de Bouéni is a large bay in the south-west of the French island territory of Mayotte, in the Comoro Islands lying at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel between the East African country of Mozambique and Madagascar. It is about 5 km wide at its mouth, and 10 km in length.</p><br>
<h2>Important Bird Area</h2><br>
<p>The coastal fringe of the bay holds the largest area of mangroves in the Comoro archipelago. It forms a strip about 13 km long and up to 800 m wide. It has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because its mangroves and intertidal mudflats support populations of Madagascar pond-herons, Mayotte drongos, Mayotte white-eyes, Mayotte sunbirds and red-headed fodies. It is also home to the endangered and endemic Robert Mertens&#39; day gecko.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot is a historic former railroad station in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The station is located on the southeast corner of Forest Avenue and Brooke Street.</p><br>
<p>Rail service in Fond du Lac can be traced as far back as 1852, although Fond du Lac was also the namesake of the former Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad, which existed from 1855 to 1859 before going bankrupt and being acquired by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. In 1891 C&NW replaced the original station with the current one. The building&#39;s architect was Charles Sumner Frost.</p><br>
<p>The station served trains such as the Flambeau 400 and Peninsula 400 until it was closed in 1975, well after most intercity passenger service in the United States was turned over to Amtrak in 1971, which never used this station.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 10, 1990. Today it houses several small shops, and the former right-of-way is a rail trail. An active railroad line exists west of the station, but that line was operated by Soo Line and no longer contains a station nearby.</p><br>
<p>Chestnut Hill is a historic home located at Orange, Orange County, Virginia. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, frame dwelling in a combination of the Italianate and Greek Revival styles. A Second Empire style mansard roof was added in 1891. The front facade features a central, one-story, one-bay porch with a balustraded deck above and balustraded decks with the same scroll-sawn balusters across the front. The historic floor plan is a double-pile center-passage plan with two interior chimneys serving four fireplaces on each floor. The house was moved to a new location, 150 feet away from its original site, when threatened with demolition in 2003. Also on the property is a small, one-story, single-bay, 19th-century contributing shed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Burlington is a historic plantation house located near Barboursville, Orange County, Virginia. The main house was built in 1851-1852, and is a two-story, three-bay, "T"-shaped residence with a shallow hipped roof in the Greek Revival style. It has a traditional I-house plan with an ell addition. The front facade features a portico with six Greek Ionic order columns with a plain entablature. It has a Jeffersonian Chinese lattice balcony cantilevered on the second floor. The exterior and interior detailing is derived almost entirely from Asher Benjamin&#39;s The Practical House Carpenter, 1830 edition. The house was built by James Barbour Newman, nephew of Governor James Barbour.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Black Meadow  is a historic plantation house and farm complex located near Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia. The house was built in 1856, and is a 1 1/2-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style dwelling with a front gable roof. It was renovated in 1916, with the addition of a two-story wood frame ell and realignment of interior spaces. Also on the property are the contributing milk house ,  tenant quarters , a dairy barn , a bent barn/stable , a multiuse barn/shed , and a tenant house .</p><br>
<p>Black Meadow was one of the outlying farms owned and cultivated by James and Dolley Madison, whose Montpelier home lies just a few miles northwest.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The farm, known since the mid-1970&#39;s as Wolftrap Farm, is now operated as a wedding and events venue and seven homes on the farm are available as vacation rentals.</p><br>
<p>Rocklands is a historic home and farm complex located near Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia. The house was built about 1905, and underwent a major renovation under the direction of William Lawrence Bottomley in 1933-1935. It is a 2 1/2-story, five-bay, Georgian Revival style brick dwelling with a hipped roof. The front facade features a monumental Ionic order hexastyle portico. Also on the property are the contributing guest house ; a small service court designed by Bottomley and consisting of a garage, servant&#39;s house, woodshed, and tunnel; a 19th-century coach</p><br>
<p>barn of wood-frame construction; the mid-19th century farm manager&#39;s house; Spencer Neale, Jr., Residence (c. 1900); bank barn (c. 1910); and a brick house (1822).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Stone County Courthouse was constructed in 1917-18 and serves as the seat of county government for Stone County, Mississippi. The courthouse was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Stone County was created by the Mississippi Legislature in 1916. One of the first acts by the new county’s Board of Supervisors was to award a contract for construction of the county courthouse. Constructed by Standard Construction Company of Meridian, Mississippi, the courthouse was completed in March 1918, at a cost of US$29,515.18. Within the two-story structure, the lower floor was divided into county offices, and the upper floor served as the courtroom. Offices of the sheriff, tax collector, circuit clerk, and chancery clerk were once located on the first floor. The courthouse was used continuously throughout the 20th century, with modifications that included first-floor extensions on each end of the building.</p><br>
<p>By the year 2000, the courthouse was in need of renovation. It received a Community Heritage Preservation Grant in 2002 and a Save America’s Treasures grant in 2003. Upgrades included an elevator, a youth court, and internet access. Renovation of the building was completed in September 2004 at a cost of $2.4 million.</p><br>
<h2>Courthouse grounds</h2><br>
<p>The original county jail was built just south of the courthouse. After the structure was abandoned as a jail in the late 20th century, it was renovated to house county offices.</p><br>
<p>Two memorials are located on the courthouse grounds. One honors Stone County citizens killed in World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, and the Global War on Terrorism. The second memorial is a tribute to Mississippians who received the Medal of Honor.</p><br>
<p>The Elinore Pruitt Stewart Homestead, near McKinnon, Wyoming, United States, has significance dating to 1898. Also known as the Elinore and Clyde Stewart Homestead, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is significant for representing "the long overlooked role of women homesteaders in the American West" and for its association with Elinore Pruitt Stewart&#39;s book, Letters of a Woman Homesteader, which was a basis for the 1979 film Heartland. As Elinore Pruitt Rupert, the author-to-be arrived in Wyoming in 1909 and filed for homestead property before marrying Mr. Stewart, whose own homestead filing was close by.</p><br>
<p>The homestead house on the property consists of a c.1898 log cabin and c.1909 additions.</p><br>
<p>The Basin Republican-Rustler Printing Building is a historic newspaper printing building located at 409 West C Street in Basin, Wyoming. The building was used to print the Basin Republican-Rustler, Basin&#39;s weekly newspaper. The Republican-Rustler formed from the merger of two newspapers, the Rustler and the Republican. The Rustler was founded in 1889 in Bonanza and was the first newspaper in the Bighorn Basin; it was published in Hyattville before moving to Basin in 1900. The Republican was first printed in 1905 as a political counterpoint to the Rustler, which had affiliated with the Democratic Party. The two newspapers merged in 1928, four years after the Republican had moved into the Printing Building. The building contains a number of historic printing machines, many of which are still operational; its collection includes linotype machines and an Intertype machine as well as a number of other printing presses and devices used to assemble newspapers.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1976.</p><br>
<p>Willow Grove, also known as the Clark House, is a historic plantation house located near Madison Mills, Orange County, Virginia. The main brick section was built about 1848, and is connected to a frame wing dated to about 1787. The main section is a -story, six-bay, Greek Revival-style brick structure on a high basement. The front facade features a massive, -story, tetrastyle pedimented portico with Tuscan order columns, a full Tuscan entablature, an arched brick podium, and Chinese lattice railings. Also on the property are numerous 19th-century dependencies and farm buildings, including a two-story schoolhouse, a one-story weaving house, a smokehouse, and a frame-and-stone barn and stable.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Stowe&#39;s Hill is an elongated hill, 381 m high, located on the eastern edge of Bodmin Moor in the county of Cornwall, England.</p><br>
<p>Stowes Hill is a prominent granite ridge located about 1500 metres north of Minions, the highest village in Cornwall. It is dominated by Stowes Pound, a huge tor enclosure comprising two massive stone-walls. The smaller enclosure surrounds the tors at the southern end of the hill; the larger one encircles the rest of the ridge. At the southern end is a large, disused quarry, but the hill is best known as the site of the Cheesewring, the extraordinary granite formation that gave the quarry its name.</p><br>
<p>Inside Stowe&#39;s Pound are two Bronze Age cairns, a stone round house and over 100 house platforms. The site is thought to be Neolithic or Bronze Age and connected with other settlements and ritual monuments in the vicinity.</p><br>
<p>Gordonsville Historic District is a national historic district located at Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia. It encompasses 85 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in the town of Gordonsville. They include 19th- and early 20th-century residential, commercial and institutional buildings in a variety of popular architectural styles including Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, and Georgian Revival styles. Notable buildings include the E.J. Faulconer House , Faulconer-Schlosser House , Linney-Barbour Building , Swan-Payne House , Magnolia House , Gordonsville Christian Church , Gordonsville Presbyterian Church , Gordonsville Methodist Church , St. Marks Catholic , Christ Episcopal Church , Grammar School , Memorial Hall, Sneeds Store , Allman Building, Gordonsville Motor Car Company Building , The Old Oaken Bucket , and the Blakey Building . Located in the district is the separately listed Exchange Hotel.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Orange Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Orange, Orange County, Virginia. One of Virginias Main Street communities, it encompasses 61 contributing buildings in the central business district of Oranges county seat.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>While the courthouse maintains records dating back to the countys formation in 1734, almost all the buildings were built after formal incorporation of "Orange Court House" as a town in 1872. The towns name was shortened in 1890.</p><br>
<p>Especially after the American Civil War, during which many Confederate convalesced in Orange, the town grew as a railroad center. The Orange and Alexandria Railroad (begun in 1850), which connected in Gordonsville, Virginia to a railroad from Charlottesville and Lynchburg into Richmond, for decades was the main transportation link between Washington, D.C. and Richmond. The town experienced a devastating fire on November 8, 1908, which led to an economic decline. However, by 1930 the area had adopted to the increasingly popular automobile, with many dealers, related industry and tourism.</p><br>
<p>The districts 19th- and early 20th-century residential, commercial and institutional buildings show various popular architectural styles, especially the Italianate. Notable buildings include Peliso (c. 1806), Sparks Building (c. 1830), Holladay House (c. 1830), Miles B. Lipscomb Store (1853), Nazareth Baptist Church (1913), Masonic Opera House (1885, 1921-1922), Trinity United Methodist Church (1892), former National Bank of Orange (1892), former Citizens National Bank (1925), Levys Busy Corner (1908), and the Southern Railway Depot (1908). Located in the district but previously (and separately) listed are the Orange County Courthouse and St. Thomas Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Wasilla Elementary School, located near the corner of East Swanson Avenue and North Boundary Street in Wasilla, Alaska is a historic one-room school that was built in 1917. It was Wasilla&#39;s first school, and served as its primary school until 1934 when a larger school was built. It is 22 x in dimension. It was moved to its present location, in a historic park, shortly before its NRHP nomination in 1979. It had been located about three blocks away. After 1934 it was used again as a school overflow classroom and it also served as a community hall and for weddings, funerals and other events; it served as a Church of Christ for a number of years.</p><br>
<p>The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Kilmar Tor  is an elongated hill, 396 m high and running from SW to NE, on Bodmin Moor in the Duchy of Cornwall, England. Its prominence of 118 metres qualifies it as a HuMP.</p><br>
<p>Kilmar Tor is located on the eastern side of Bodmin Moor, about 2½ kilometres WSW of the hamlet of North Hill and 3½ kilometres north of Cornwall&#39;s highest village, Minions. It is</p><br>
<p>surmounted by granite tors. There is trig point at the summit as well as a cairn and cist. The course of a dismantled railway runs around the hill to the south, evidence of the mining that used to be carried out in the area.</p><br>
<p>On Kilmar Tors northern flank is Twelve Mens Moor with Trewortha Tor and Hawk&#39;s Tor beyond the saddle. To the southeast is Bearah Tor and, to the south, Langstone Downs. Withy Brook runs roughly north to south past the western end of the hill and, to the east, open moorland descends to the valley of the River Lynher.</p><br>
<p>Watch Croft  is a prominent hill, 252 m high overlooking the north coast of the county of Cornwall, England. Its prominence of 225 metres qualifies it as a Marilyn, one of only five in Cornwall. The others are Brown Willy , Kit Hill , Hensbarrow Beacon  and Carnmenellis . It is the highest point in West Penwith.</p><br>
<p>Watch Croft is located within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the St Just Mining District World Heritage Site, on the White Downs in the Cornish region of West Penwith, 7 kilometres WNW of Penzance, about 7½ kilometres northeast of St. Just and about a kilometre from the north Cornish coastline. The summit is a rock tor. There are views across Mount&#39;s Bay to the Lizard, south to Ding Dong Mine and north to Pendeen Watch.</p><br>
<p>Chandola Lake is located near Dani Limda Road, Ahmedabad, Gujarat state, India and covers an area of 1200 hectares. It is a water reservoir, embanked and circular in form. It is also home for cormorants, painted storks and spoonbill birds. During the evening time, many people visit this place and take a leisure stroll.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Chandola Lake was established by the wife of a Mughal Sultan of Ahmedabad named Tajn Khan Nari Ali. It was in existence when Asha Bhil founded Ashaval.</p><br>
<p>The Historic Salt March around nine in the morning, after covering a distance of seven miles from the Sabarmati Ashram and a few minutes after the trucks and the taxis carrying radio and print journalists had disappeared down the road, had reached the Chandola Lake. Mahatma Gandhi had stopped under a large pipal tree next to the lake, no bigger than a small pond in the middle of a vast expanse of mud during March, 1930.</p><br>
<h2>Usage</h2><br>
<p>Water from this lake is used for irrigation and industrial purposes. It is also being for agriculture, as well as for other purposes like processing of waste oil and plastics.</p><br>
<p>The Kharicut Canal Scheme which is one of the oldest irrigation schemes of Gujarat was constructed with the main purpose of providing irrigation to 1,200 acres of rice land near Chandola lake in Ahmedabad.</p><br>
<h2>Pollution and encroachment</h2><br>
<p>Large-scale encroachment have been built on this water body. Kharicut, the lake’s feeder canal is choked with filth and garbage.</p><br>
<h2>Chandola Lake Development Plans</h2><br>
<p>The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has ambitious plans for developing Chandola lake in a big way. AMC has also drawn an exhaustive plan for the upkeep of Chandola lake, which till now was a neglected public space. The AMC has tendered jobs for cleaning and sanitation activities to be carried out around Chandola. The civic body has earmarked Rs 3.70 lakh for clearing the garbage from the lake.</p><br>
<p>Fort Philip Long is a historic fort complex located on the Shenandoah River near Stanley, Page County, Virginia. It is a significant example of the fortifications undertaken by the families in the Massanutten country of Page County in the later half of the 18th century. It includes an 18th-century, 1 1/2-story, rubble limestone structure with a gable roof. It sits on an English basement and features a massive exterior asymmetrical stone chimney. The fort is situated about 100 yards from the stone dwelling. It consists of random rubble limestone walls that form a tall barrel vault pierced by loopholes. The fort may also be entered by means of a tunnel, sunk into the limestone, running from the basement of the stone house. Also on the property is a large brick three-bay square house built in 1856 and a stone slave quarter.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Redwell–Isabella Furnace Historic District is a historic iron furnace complex and national historic district located near Luray, Page County, Virginia. The district includes two contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and one contributing structure. The two buildings are the Isabella Furnace Office , a two-story stone building with Georgian interior detail, and the Yager Spring House , a two-story stone dwelling with a large cooking fireplace and a stone and frame addition made in 1965. Both buildings have metal-sheathed gable roofs. The district also includes a cemetery , a stone foundation, the furnace bridge mound, and Yager Spring, the power source for the furnace and later mills beginning about 1787.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
