<p>The Park Hotel and Cabins is a hotel complex located at 11137 County Road LLK in Republic, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Consul was born in Crete in 1887; when he was 19, he immigrated to the United States and settled in New York City. There he learned the trade of chef, and was then recruited to be a chef in other locations, first at Mackinac Island and then at the Douglass House in Houghton, Michigan. In Houghton, he met and married Esther Byttalla, a native of Republic. The Consuls soon moved to Chicago, where John Consul worked to start up a new restaurant for a prominent hotel chain. As the chain started hotels in various locations, the Consuls moved around the country, saving money with the intention of starting their own restaurant.</p><br>
<p>However, the Great Depression intervened, wiping out the Consuls savings. In 1930, they moved to Esthers hometown of Republic, and opened the Highway Lunch Restaurant on a shoestring. At that time, M-95 ran through Republic, and the restaurant was visible from the highway. When Prohibition was repealed, the Consuls changed the restaurant’s name to the Pine Grove and then began a bar and night club. In 1939 they moved across the highway to a location near the Michigamme River.</p><br>
<p>In 1941, John Consul’s brother-in-law, Herbert F. Anderson, deeded him the land near the Michigamme River that the hotel now stands on. Consul began work on improving the property, and in 1943 started building the hotel. The Park Hotel opened in 1946, although some of the cabins had not yet been competed. The Consuls asked their daughter Marcella and her husband Albert Schrader to run the hotel; the Schraders moved into the first floor of the hotel. John Consul continued working on constructing more cabins and a house on the property; however, construction stopped when he died in December 1948 at the age of 61. The Schraders continued to run the hotel until Als death in 1962. After that, Marcella ran the hotel until her death in 1969. The Schraders son Jon ran the hotel after that until the early 1970s, when M-95 was relocated to bypass the town. Jon Schrader closed up the hotel and moved to Florida. A lessee operated the hotel until about 1980, when it was closed permanently.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was vacant until 1988, when Georgean and Nancy Perry purchased it with the intention of reopening it as a hotel. They did no work until 1998, when Nancy sold her portion to Georgean, who moved with her husband Melvin Perry into the hotel and began renovations. However, both Melvin and Georgean died within a few years, leaving the hotel vacant once more. In 2006, John Jilbert purchased the property, and hired a caretaker to live in it.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Park Hotel is located on a 15 acre plot along the Michigamme River covered with pine trees. The site contains a two-story log hotel near the street and 15 stone cabins along the edge of the river. It also contains two open woodsheds and the foundation and lower walls for an unfinished house.</p><br>
<p>The hotel is a two-story hipped roof structure with walls of large vertical pine logs sitting on a concrete foundation and double-hung three-over-one wood windows. The hotel originally had a wraparound veranda on all sides sheltering a ground-floor porch and supporting a second-floor deck. The porch still exists in the front, but the entire verandah superstructure has been removed. The hotel originally had 12 rooms, with eight on the second floor and four on the first four on the first; the remainder of the first floor contained the lobby, a kitchen and dining room, and office space. The first floor rooms were later converted to a private residence. There was a lounge in the basement called the Nature Bar. The corridors on the second floor form a cross shape, reached by a stairway from the lobby. The interior is finished with hardwood floors and veneer paneling.</p><br>
<p>The 15 cabins are located on a two-track loop behind the hotel. They are hipped roof structures made from cut stone, with concrete floors and pine veneer interior walls and ceilings. Twelve of the cabins are single-room structures with a kitchenette; the remaining three are two-bedroom units with a central living area.</p><br>
<p>Belmead is a historic home located near Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia, designed by noted architect Alexander Jackson Davis for Philip St. George Cocke &mdash; and constructed about 1845. Approximately 150 slaves worked the land, growing tobacco and grains.</p><br>
<p>The house is a two-story, Gothic Revival style stuccoed brick residence with a three-story central cross gable. It features a square tower with corner piers, crenellation, belt courses, ground level Tudor arched openings, and diamond-paned casement windows. The roofline has clusters of circular and polygonal shaped chimney stacks and stepped gable ends. The kitchen outbuilding was incorporated into an extensive two- and three-story addition built by the school.</p><br>
<p>In 1897, the property was conveyed to the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People and opened as St. Emma&#39;s Industrial and Agricultural School for African American children. St. Emma Military Academy (named after Emma Wicke) for boys and St. Francis de Sales School for girls are credited with educating 15,000 black students.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<p>The schools were closed in the early 1970s.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, the order of Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, headquartered in Philadelphia, have put the 2,265 acres known as Belmead Plantation, or Belmead-on-the-James on the market. The sale of the property is managed by Plante Moran Real Estate Investment Advisors, which asked for proposals by Dec. 19, 2016. The community and alumni have formed a nonprofit group named, Belmead on the James, to mount a fundraising campaign.</p><br>
<p>The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church in Farmborough, Somerset, England. It was principally built in the 15th century  and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church has a nave, chancel, north aisle and porch. The 3 stage west tower survives from the 15th century however the rest of the fabric of the building is more recent, with Victorian restoration including a new nave in 1869 undertaken by John Elkington Gill. The stained glass, which dates from 1838, was brought to Farmborough from Christ Church in Brighton when it was demolished in 1982. It was inspired by the glass at New College, Oxford designed by the 18th-century portraitist Sir Joshua Reynolds.</p><br>
<p>In the 15th century John Stafford who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury was the rector of Farmborough.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Farmborough, Marksbury and Stanton Prior within the archdeaconry of Bath.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Augustine is an Anglican parish church in Clutton Somerset, England. It was originally built around 1290, but much of it has been rebuilt since, and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. The church is dedicated to St Augustine of Hippo.</p><br>
<p>The tower is made of red sandstone with diagonal buttresses ending in pinnacles and probably dates from 1726. The tower contains two bells dating from 1734, made by Thomas Bilbie of the Bilbie family.</p><br>
<p>Two railed tomb enclosures within the Broadribb family plot are also listed as Grade II, as are a group of three Broadribb and Purnell monuments.</p><br>
<p>In 1780 John Wesley came to the church but was denied use of the pulpit, so he had to preach from a stone in the churchyard.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Clutton with Cameley, Bishop Sutton and Stowey within the archdeaconry of Bath.</p><br>
<p>The Charest River takes its source in Charest Lake, in the sector Montauban-les-Mines, in the extreme East of the municipality of Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, located in the Mekinac Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Mauricie in the province of Quebec, Canada. In the upper part, Charest River also drains the surrounding lakes: lake of the Mine, lake Perron, lake Perreault and lake End.</p><br>
<p>The Charest River flows south, crossing the rows St. Paul, St. Achilles and Sainte-Anne, in Saint-Ubalde and gradually goes away from the boundaries of the Lac-aux-Sables. In his course, going toward the boundary Saint-Ubalde and Saint-Adelphe, this river gets water from lakes Sainte-Anne and Perch. Then the river flows South-East (almost in parallel to the Batiscan River) and through 16 lots in the First Price Row in the Eastern section of Saint-Adelphe, where its course becomes very coil.</p><br>
<p>After descending the moraine more than a kilometer in the North-East row in the municipality of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Charest River forks to 90 degrees to the right (southbound) entering Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain, moving towards the village, along the foot of the moraine. Then the river forks again 90 degrees to the left and passes through the agricultural zone lowlands of Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain, and goes to flow into the delta of the Sainte-Anne River near "Ile Rivard" (Rivard island), in the municipality of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade. In its course of 35 km Charest River drains a lot of farmland and forest areas especially in his journey through the moraine.</p><br>
<p>In 1950, a landslide on the banks of the Charest River in Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain left a mark on an area of 300 X 525 meters. This shift has been diverting the course of the channel in a loop and altered the hydrological dynamics.</p><br>
<h2>Gendron Creek</h2><br>
<p>From its source to the row Price in Saint-Adelphe (far eastern territory of Saint-Adelphe), Gendron stream follows a parallel course to the rivers Charest and Batiscan. After crossing straight rough and not conducive to agricultural land, Gendron creek descends the great moraine in a long crevice. His journey becomes very meander in the St. Lawrence plain through the village of Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain (northeast side), in First row St. Edward and row St. Elizabeth. Gendron stream reform constantly meandering channel and on the loamy bottom Lowlands St. Lawrence plain.</p><br>
<p>Gendron Creek flows into the Charest River, close to the mouth of the latter. In Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain, Edouard Creek is the main tributary of Gendron stream. The flow of Gendron stream is accentuated when the snow melts in the spring, it can also be temporarily after heavy rains. (Localisation of the mouth of the Gendron creek: 46 ⁰ 36 13.07 North, -072 ⁰ 15 29.24 West).</p><br>
<h2>Toponymy</h2><br>
<p>The name Charest River was entered in the register of place names of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec) on December 5, 1968.</p><br>
<p>Coddu Vecchiu is a Nuragic funerary monument located near Arzachena in northern Sardinia, dating from the Bronze Age. The site consists of a stele, stone megaliths and a gallery grave, and is one of the larger Nuragic Giants&#39; graves on the island. The Nuraghe La Prisgiona is located nearby.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site was excavated in 1966 by Editta Castaldi. Among the artifacts recovered were pans, bowls and plates with comb decoration, as well as vases with bent necks, and vase fragments of the early Nuragic Bonnanaro culture, suggesting the monument was constructed early in the Nuragic period c. 1800–1600 BC.</p><br>
<p>Coddu Vecchiu appears to have originally consisted of a cist, which was expanded during the middle Bronze Age c. 1800–1600 BC and covered with a gallery grave and the ornate stele portal stone and megaliths characteristic of Giants&#39; graves. The stone forecourt consists of eleven granite stones arranged in a semicircle and measures about 12 meters (40 feet) across. It has been hypothesized that the semicircular arrangement of the stones may have been an attempt to harness the telluric current of the granite for rejuvenative purposes. The central stele stands about 4 meters (13 feet) high and contains the entrance into the tomb. The gallery grave extends behind the forecourt, measures about 10 meters (33 feet) long, and was probably once covered by a tumulus.</p><br>
<p>The upper portion of the stele was once taken by a local farmer and used as a plow, but it was soon recovered and restored to its place in the monument. Coddu Vecchiu is among the most well-preserved of Giants&#39; graves, and continues to be a popular tourist attraction.</p><br>
<p>Saint Henry&#39;s Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery is a church located on M-38 in Laird Township near Nisula. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1894, a group of Finnish settlers arrived in the area that is now around the hamlets of Nisula and Alston. They established a Lutheran congregation immediately, and purchased the property where this church and cemetery now stand. A small log church, measuring 16 ft by 20 ft, was built and consecrated in May 1895. In 1904, the church was completely reconstructed to build the structure that is in place today. In 1913, the chancel was added, and in 1925 the vestibule and steeple were remodeled. Later, likely in 1931, a concrete basement was built beneath the church.</p><br>
<p>The church functioned as an independent congregation until 1908, when it joined the church at nearby Mass City. In 1925, the Nisula church joined those at Pelkie and Elo to form a single parish. That same year saw the peak in membership, with 485 people in the congregation. Lumbering and agriculture in the area slowly declined, and by 1955, membership had dropped to 162 people, and in 1983 to 112. In 1989, the three churches at Nisula, Pelkie, and Elo voted to combine, holding services at the Pelkie church. The last service at Nisula was in 1992. Laird Township assumed ownership of the church, preserving it as a historical attraction. The associated cemetery is still in use.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Saint Henry’s Evangelical Lutheran Church is a white rectangular structure on a concrete foundation, clad in clapboards and having a steep gable roof. To the rear is a hipped roof chancel with a round end, with a sacristy projecting from it. A square tower with pyramid-roofed belfry projects from the front façade, containing double entry doors sheltered under a projecting gable. A vestibule near the front doors lies under a shed roof addition.</p><br>
<p>Through the vestibule is the rectangular nave, with a smooth plaster arched ceiling. A broad archway leads to the chancel. A small staircase lead downward to the social hall and kitchen on the basement level.</p><br>
<p>The church is flanked on both sides by the cemetery. Cemetery plots are arranged in rows, with primarily granite, and some marble, monuments. One grave is marked with a large boulder.</p><br>
<p>Nesquehoning Mountain or Nesquehoning Ridge is a 15 - coal bearing ridge dividing the waters of Lehigh Valley to the north from the Schuylkill River valley and the several near parallel ridgelines of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians barrier range all local members of which run generally WSW-ENE in the greater overall area.</p><br>
<p>Nestled above a creek sculpted ravine across from the even less negotiable sides of Broad Mountain the flanks above Nesquehoning Creek reach a sharp bend cut by the water gap of the Lehigh River and merge with the ridge of Pisgah Ridge to the south into a common terminal mountain, Mount Pisgah within sight of the Southern Poconos in a region once touted as "The Switzerland of America" along the eastern edge of the Southern Anthracite Region, all several ridge lines north of the escarpment Blue Mountain Ridge, Pennsylvania. in part providing the source waters for Nesquehoning Creek a tributary of the Lehigh River in the Poconos of eastern Pennsylvania in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>Watersheds divided</h2><br>
<p>Nesquehoning Creek originates both in a forested area on the slopes of Broad Mountain at an elevation somewhat in excess of 1360 ft on USGS topological maps, as well as above Tamaqua Gap cut by the Little Schuylkill River and Tamaqua in a saddle pass connecting with Broad Mountain. It flows south for about 2 mi then turns to the northeast and flows into Greenwood Lake. Approximately 600 ft downstream from the spillway, it discharges into Lake Hauto. It then continues to the northeast in a relatively narrow valley flowing past the ravine now traversed by US 209 climbing up Room Run to the upper foot of Mount Pisgah above the divide from Panther Creek. The stream then travels down a narrow undeveloped section to its confluence with the Lehigh River.</p><br>
<h2>History and surrounds</h2><br>
<p>The heavily forested, relatively steep slopes of Broad and Nesquehoning Mountains characterize the land within the watershed. While US 209 and PA 93 both climb watercourse ravines on opposite sides of the valley, the Nesquehoning route is very steep and was not anything more than a mule road before the systematic attempt to create a USA highway was put through alongside the creek.</p><br>
<p>The Nesquehoning Creek valley consists of some residential and industrial development. Urban development is concentrated in the Borough of Nesquehoning and Hometown along the climb to Barnesville, where the transportation corridor can drop down into the Mahanoy Creek Valley. In 1830 Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company operating manager Josiah White opened mining digs at overt anthracite outcroppings in Room Run ravine (Also spelled Rhume Run), and built a self-acting plane (funicular) railroad two miles downstream to the company&#39;s Lehigh Canal.</p><br>
<p>Large areas in the valley have been disturbed by coal mining related activities, including a majority of terrains down-crest inside the Panther Creek Valley. While the ridge has been extensively mined, most of the digging is on the higher and less steep side of the mountain within the Panther Creek Valley. Much of the runoff from strip mines is retained in abandoned pits, and shaft mines from the Nesquehoning Creek side have been rare, the sole exception being the mine converted into the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad&#39;s Hauto Tunnel in 1872, and therefore lesser amounts of surface runoff is discharged into Nesquehoning Creek.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Catherine is an Anglican parish church in St Catherine, Somerset, England. It was built in the 12th century as a chapel of ease of Bath and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>The manor of St Catherine belonged to Prior Cantlow of Bath Abbey in medieval times. The church was remodelled by him around 1490, with the tower being added in 1503, and underwent further changes in 1704, 1846 and 1880. The interior includes a 12th-century font and a 15th-century pulpit.</p><br>
<p>The church stands within the grounds of the 16th century St Catherine&#39;s Court, which is Grade I listed.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Batheaston with St Catherine within the archdeaconry of Bath. St Catherine&#39;s has been part of the parish since it was annexed in 1258.</p><br>
<p>The Batiscan Lake is located in Upper Batiscanie and is the limit of unorganized territories of Lac-Blanc  and Lac-Croche. This territory is related to the La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of the Capitale-Nationale, in the province of Quebec, Canada.</p><br>
<p>Shape while length (6.35 km by 0.5 km at the widest in the East-West direction), the Batiscan lake marks the southwestern boundary of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve and the northeastern boundary of the Zec de la Rivière-Blanche.</p><br>
<p>Shaped in length, in the East-West direction, the size of the lake is 6.35 km by 0.5 km at the widest. The Batiscan Lake mark the southwest boundary of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve and the northeastern boundary of the Zec de la Rivière-Blanche.</p><br>
<p>Fueled mainly by the Croche River (La Tuque) coming from northeast, Batiscan lake drains into the Lightning River which joins 15 km to the west, the Batiscan River. The Croche River (La Tuque) is powered by the Lac Croche.</p><br>
<p>The Moïse River, coming from the north, flows into the Lightning River just at the mouth of Lake Batiscan. The Moïse River is powered by Moïse Lake which in turn is fed by three smaller rivers. The Moïse Lake marks the boundary of the southwest boundary of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve and the north boundary of the Zec de la Rivière-Blanche.</p><br>
<h2>Toponymy</h2><br>
<p>In 1873, the Surveyor Pascal Dumais Horace wrote that the heights of the lake, you could see the mountain range west of the Saint-Maurice River, the whole area of Lac-Édouard, Quebec, the valley of the Bostonnais River and that of the Métabetchouane.</p><br>
<p>The name "Batiscan Lake" was officially registered at the Commission de toponymie du Québec, as of December 5, 1968. The name "Batiscan Lake" is sometimes confused in the use of the place name "Petit Lac Batiscan", which is located in the municipality of Saint-Raymond. Batiscan lake is considered the second head of the river of the same name, especially through the Moïse River (Quebec) and other rivers that feed it. French place names in Canada, it is natural to associate the name for a lake head and toponym discharge.</p><br>
<p>The St. Seraphim Chapel, also known as the Old Church, is a historic Russian Orthodox church in Lower Kalskag, Alaska, United States, in Bethel Census Area, that may include a portion built in 1843, or it may have all been built later. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The community has a 1975-built new church used for Russian Orthodox services; this is an old church that is either a later enlargement of an original church built probably in 1843 or it is wholly a later 1800s replacement. The old church reflects the influence of traditional three-part Russian Orthodox ecclesiastical architecture in America expressed in the style of a log cabin. Balanced in the center, it is divided into three parts: vestibule, nave, and altar chamber. Each section is built by squared logs with corner dovetailing and straight butt joints at points where the logs are shorter. A 1979 survey suggested that no other extant log church in Alaska (and perhaps nowhere else in all of North America) of its age possessed comparable construction.</p><br>
<p>The Bailey Colony Farm, also known as the &#39;Estelle Farm, is a historic Matanuska Colony farmstead that dates from 1935. It is located along the Glenn Highway near Palmer, Alaska in Matanuska-Susitna Borough. It was part of a New Deal program opening farms in Alaska as part of assisting overpopulated rural areas of the lower 48 states of the USA, in a program conceived of by FERA architect David Williams.</p><br>
<p>The Bailey Colony Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The listing included two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It was the home of Ferber and Ruth Bailey and their children, who were colonists from Wisconsin. The house is a 28 x -story building with a gambrel roof; the barn is a 32 x log and frame built building also with a gambrel roof. Both were built in 1935. The barn was moved about 150 feet in the 1940s to its present location, when the Glenn Highway was widened.</p><br>
<p>Brumer Islands are an island group of Papua New Guinea.</p><br>
<p>The islands are located off the southeast coast of New Guinea, about 10 km from the South Cape.</p><br>
<p>Badila Bedda Bedda Bonarua (2,49 km²), is the westernmost island of the group. it is long and narrow, and extends over 14 km from northeast to southwest. It is dense with coconut forests and other trees. The soil is fertile. In the valleys, many fenced fields of the farmers who raise bananas and sugar cane can be seen. At its highest point, Mount Bonarua, it reaches 120 m. There is a light beacon on the southwest cape of the island. Harikoia, the second largest island (1,32 km²) is located east of Badila Bedda Bedda Bonarua, it is higher and reaches 165 m.</p><br>
<p>The other islands of the group, including Ahana rock, are all located southeast of Harikoia.</p><br>
<p>The islands belong to Alotau LLG, and are not related to Louisiade archipelago.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>At the time of the 2000 census the population of the group was 160, all in the only village on the main island Bonarua.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>First recorded sighting by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of Luís Vaez de Torres in the summer of 1606, that charted it as Mira Como Vas (Look How You&#39;re Going in Spanish).</p><br>
<p>The Calvados Chain are a group of islands in the Solomon Sea, belonging to Papua New Guinea within the Louisiade Archipelago.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The group extends from Pana Varavara in the west to the small island of Nigaho in the east over a distance of 88 km.</p><br>
<p>The easternmost island of Nigaho is where the chain of islands end. Pana Tinani is separated from the group by the isolated Magamaga Channel.</p><br>
<p>The islands rise up to 302 meters (Motorina) steeply from the sea and are either wooded or overgrown with grass. Many islands are surrounded by their own reefs and small lagoons. Apart from the high islands, there are numerous low coral islands and reefs.</p><br>
<p>The eastern edge of the chain lies to the northwest of Vanatinai (formerly Sudest) Island.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>Twelve of the islands are inhabited, with a total of 3276 residents.</p><br>
<p>The islanders speak the Misima-Paneati Language.</p><br>
<h2>Islands</h2><br>
<p>Primary islands in the chain:</p><br>
<p>The Renard Islands are an archipelago in the Solomon Sea. Politically they belong to Milne Bay Province in the southeastern region of Papua New Guinea.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Renard Islands are located in the north of Louisiade archipelago, 21 km north of the barrier reef of Vanatinai and 19 km southeast of Misima.</p><br>
<p>The small Manuga Reef, which is located 19 km southeast of Renard Islands, is part of the Renard Ward.</p><br>
<p>The Renard Islands are located on a 21-km by 6 km wide sandbank in a rectangular shape. The largest islands in the group are Kimuta (286 ha ), Niva Beno (49 ha) and Oreia (47 ha). Kimuta Island is 5.9 kilometers long, with widths averaging at 550 meters. The hilly island rises up to 84 meters above the sea level. The islands of Niva Beno and Topuna are liying east of Kimuta. Bagaium is a tiny island (less than one hectare) about 2 kilometers southwest of Kimuta. On the northwest side of the bank several reefs including the islands Baiwa (17 ha), Pana Wadai (1 ha) and Pana Roran (6 ha). On the southeast side of the sandbank are the islands of Oreia (5.5 km southeast of Kimuta) and Epoko (4 ha, 13 km southeast of Kimuta). Both islands are located in the center of small reef lagoon.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>According to the 2014 census, the island group had 617 inhabitants, spread over two villages on the main island Kimuta:</p><br>
<p>Awa (345, in the east)</p><br>
<p>Atuatua (272 in the West)</p><br>
<p>Several sources claim that there is a family from Kimuta that actually lives yearly on the island of Niva Beno.</p><br>
<p>The Strathord Islands are an uninhabited island group of five islands in the Louisiade Archipelago of Papua New Guinea.</p><br>
<p>Politically they belong to the province of Milne Bay in the southeastern region of Papua New Guinea.</p><br>
<p>The islands are located about 100 km northwest of Misima and form the northernmost group of Louisiade archipelago. They are among the Bonvouloir Islands which include two other islands to the south.</p><br>
<p>The main island Strathord Island, also known as Pana Mole, lies on the southern part of the reef. The group is heavily forested and flat.</p><br>
<p>Strathord was inhabited by two families from Ewena until 2013. Nowadays, they come a couple of times a year to collect yams and coconuts from their gardens.</p><br>
<p>Yeina Island is an island of volcanic origin in the Southeast Louisiade Archipelago in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island has an area of 16 km. The island is hilly, rising to 80 m at Mt. Yeina.</p><br>
<p>The island is 10 km north of Vanatinai, and separated from it with the Yuma Channel. It is also 10 km east of Pana Tinani.</p><br>
<p>The island is circled by a coral reef.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the island is dominated by a chain of low, grassy hill, surrounded by a coastal forest, with many mangrove areas.</p><br>
<p>Between Yeina and Vanatinai is the Marx Reef.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island was discovered in the late 18th century.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>At the census of population in 2014, the island had 437 inhabitants, spread across 4 villages.</p><br>
<p>The main town is Buwo, on the West coast.</p><br>
<p>former town of Kabagi-bagi was damaged by hurricanes recently. nearly entire island population have moved to the village of Buwo.</p><br>
<p>Bald Mountain, or Rondaxe Mountain, is a part of the Adirondack Mountains in the U.S. state of New York. The summit of this mountain reaches 2,350 ft. The trail leading up the mountain is a popular hike, likely due to its proximity to tourist towns . It is also home to the Rondaxe Mountain Fire Tower, which also contributes to the trail&#39;s popularity.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bald Mountain was used by Verplanck Colvin in the 1870s as a survey point. Colvin suggested in 1886 that the summit take the name "Mt. St. Louis".</p><br>
<h2>Official Name</h2><br>
<p>Bald Mountain is the name most commonly used today, but it was officially renamed in 1912 when a fire tower was erected on a mountain with the same name in Croghan.</p><br>
<h2>Hiking</h2><br>
<p>The trail is just under a mile long and climbs 500 feet in elevation. The fire tower in the most popular in the Adirondacks, with over 15,000 visitors annually.</p><br>
<p>The Slana Roadhouse, on Nabesna Road in Slana, Alaska, in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area, is a historic site dating to 1928. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The listing included four contributing buildings on 5 acre.</p><br>
<p>The roadhouse building is a log building about 32 x in dimension, and was built by homesteader Lawrence DeWitt in 1928 near the Slana River. The building replaced a smaller, older roadhouse building. The community of Slana grew around it, and, in 2004, included a post office, an elementary school, stores, and more with a population of 50-100.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant of one of few surviving pre-World War II roadside stops that used to be located about 30 miles apart on the Nabesna Road and other remote roadways in Alaska. The roadhouse operated from 1928 to 1953 when the Glenn Highway was relocated to about a mile away; in 2004 it was a residence of Lawrence DeWitt&#39;s son.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary and St Edward is an Anglican parish church in Barrow Gurney, Somerset, England. It was built in the 12th century, but largely rebuilt in the 1880s, and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church was originally connected to the neighbouring Barrow Gurney Nunnery which became Barrow Court. It was originally built in the 12th century but was virtually rebuilt by Henry Woodyer 1887–90 for Henry Martin Gibbs son of William Gibbs of Tyntesfield.</p><br>
<p>It has a three-stage west tower surmounted by pinnacles and a spirelet. There is a two bay chancel, with a Cosmati work floor and four bay nave.</p><br>
<p>In 2013 an appeal was made for funds to help make repairs to the church including redecoration and servicing of the organ, which was largely unchanged since its construction by Vowles of Bristol around 1890.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Long Ashton with Barrow Guerney and Flax Bourton within the archdeaconry of Bath.</p><br>
<p>Barrow Court is a manor house in Barrow Gurney, Somerset, England. The site was originally Barrow Gurney Nunnery and was rebuilt in the 16th and 19th centuries. It has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Benedictine nunnery was founded in 1212 by one of the Fitz-Hardinges (or Fitzhardinge), who had been granted the Lordship of the Manor by William Rufus. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 the area and buildings were granted by Henry VIII to John Drew, of Bristol, who converted it into a private mansion, renamed Barrow Court. The house is closely attached to the original priory Church of St Mary And St Edward.</p><br>
<p>The original building was converted into a country house in around 1538, largely rebuilt in 1545, and further altered and extended in around 1602 by its owner Dr Francis James into its current E shape, which is the oldest part to survive. It was sold in 1659 to William Gore, in whose family it was passed down until 1881 when it was bought by Anthony Gibbs, son of William Gibbs of Tyntesfield, who sold it to his brother Henry Martin Gibbs. He largely rebuilt the Jacobean house and the church.</p><br>
<p>During the Second World War it was used as a military hospital. It became a college of education from 1949 to 1976 but remained in the Gibbs family ownership until they sold it in 1976. It was then divided into several separate dwellings.</p><br>
<p>On the west of the main house is a tithe barn that dates from the 14th century but has now been turned into a house.</p><br>
<h2>Gardens</h2><br>
<p>The house is surrounded by 6 hectare of formal gardens and a more extensive area, around 60 hectare, of parkland, which held a medieval deer park.</p><br>
<p>In 1890 Inigo Thomas carried out extensive work. building gazebos, a balustraded garden wall and walled courts. In 1890 he added a set of gates and a wall with twelve pillars known as the twelve months of the year. They support sculptures by Alfred Drury representing the "daughters of the year", with January being a young girl at the northern end along to an elderly matriarch representing December at the south, each with flowers suitable to the particular month.</p><br>
<p>The lily pond with its accompanying pedestals and urns date from the same time, along with other ornamental steps, walls, vases, a sundial, and a mock temple.</p><br>
<p>The Alfred Bersbach House is a John S. Van Bergen-designed house in Wilmette, Illinois. Built in 1915, it is reflective of the Prairie School approach to house architecture. Architectural historian Carl W. Condit and others considered the house to be Van Bergen&#39;s masterpiece.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Alfred Bersbach was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 5, 1856. The son of immigrants, Bersbach worked his way up to company president of the Manz Printing and Engraving Company. His son, Frank, would also lead the company. Bersbach was involved with the Chicago Historical Society, Freemasonry, and the Chicago Athletic Association. He commissioned John S. Van Bergen to design a house in Wilmette, Illinois, in 1914. Bersbach sold the house to Eva A. Schram on July 20, 1920; she owned the house for over thirty years.</p><br>
<p>The house was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1967. On September 17, 2003, the house was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Alfred Bersbach House was completed in 1915 and is found at 1120 Michigan Avenue in Wilmette. The house is heavily influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, and it is often mistaken for one of his designs. The house was mistakenly advertised as a Wright design in real estate listings in the 1950s and 1970s. The two-story house is a Prairie School design of brick and stucco; brick dominates the first story while stucco features in the second story. It includes a long, flat roof with deep eaves, typical of the style. The foundation is Indiana limestone and walls are built with beige and brown bricks. The mortar is stained in a color reflective of the sand in a nearby beach. Brick piers, topped with wooden planters, are used at the outside corners of major rooms. All exterior wood is cypress. Art glass is used throughout the house.</p><br>
<p>Moynes Court is a Grade II* listed building in the village of Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales, about 3 mi south west of Chepstow. An earlier building was rebuilt as a private residence by Francis Godwin, Bishop of Llandaff, in about 1609/10, and much of the building remains from that period. Its grounds contain earthworks thought to be the foundations of an earlier moated manor house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From perhaps as early as the 7th century, lands at Mathern, close to the Severn estuary, were the property of the Bishop of Llandaff. However, according to local historian E. T. Davies, a new manor of Newton-juxta-Mathern was formed out of the ecclesiastical lands, and was granted by the lord of Striguil (or Chepstow) to Sir Bogo (or Bevis) de Knovell (or Knovil), Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire in 1254. A fortified manor house or castle – sometimes called Mathern Castle The only built remnant from the period is part of a gatehouse to the north, dating from the 14th century. This is square in plan, with two external stair turrets and some mediaeval windows.</p><br>
<p>The Knovil family retained the lordship of the manor until about 1360, when John de Knovil died leaving his estate to his widow Margery, who married Thomas de Moigne (or Moyne). According to Bradney, it is likely that the original house at Moynes Court was built at that time, within the bailey to the north-east of the remains of the castle. Soon after 1510, the estate came into the possession of the Morgan family of Pencoed, who held it until it was sold to Francis Lewis of St Pierre in 1638.</p><br>
<p>Moynes Court changed hands many times. although Davies states that "the story that it was built by is without foundation."</p><br>
<p>Around 1670 the ownership of the estate and the house passed to Col. Hughes son-in-law, Richard Lyster, later passing in turn to his own son-in-law, Lewis Owen. Members of the extended family of Owen and Lyster then retained the house until it was sold in about 1826. After the start of the First World War, it was occupied by the Wanklyn family; the young David Wanklyn later became the Allies most successful submarine commander in the Second World War, in terms of tonnage sunk, and was awarded the VC and DSO before his death in 1942.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The house itself is built mainly of local limestone with some Bath stone. Described as "delightfully trim and regular", it is of two storeys with five bays, and "presents an appearance of absolute symmetry." It has a steep gable-ended roof of three gables, with prominent groups of chimneystacks, mullioned stone windows, and a central porch. The building may originally have been in a T shape, but has been much extended to give a house two rooms deep. Internally, only the main staircase is original, but the house contains several 17th-century fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>The main house was subdivided into two properties – Courtyard House and Knovil House – in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>Moynes Court was given Grade II* listed building status on 10 June 1953. The gatehouse was given Grade II* status on 19 August 1955.</p><br>
<p>The property is not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Vågsøy is an island in Vågsøy Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The 59.1 km&sup2; island lies on the northern side of the mouth of the Nordfjorden, the sixth longest fjord in Norway. The Stadlandet peninsula lies to the north of the island, the islands of Silda and Barmøya and the mainland lie to the east of the island, the island of Husevågøy lies to the south , and the open ocean lies to the west. Since the island lies along the open ocean, which can be rough, there are several lighthouses along the coastline of the island including: Hendanes Lighthouse, Kråkenes Lighthouse, and Skongenes Lighthouse. The highest point on the island is the 613 m tall Veten.</p><br>
<p>The island is connected to the mainland by the Måløy Bridge. The main population centre on the island is the town of Måløy, which is also the administrative centre for the municipality. Other population centres are the villages of Raudeberg, Kvalheim, Langenes, Refvik, Vågsvåg, and Vedvik. The population (2001) of the whole island was 4,207. There are 2 churches on the island: Nord-Vågsøy Church in Raudeberg and Sør-Vågsøy Church in Måløy.</p><br>
<h2>Media gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Ithaca Town Council Chambers is a heritage-listed former town hall of the former local government area of the Town of Ithaca, and now a community centre in Paddington, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Located at 99 Enoggera Terrace , Red Hill, it was designed by Atkinson and McLay and built in 1910 by Charles Thomas Hall and Francis Joseph Mayer. It is also known as Ithaca Library and Red Hill Kindergarten. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 March 2000.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, it was owned by Communify, a not-for-profit community group, who rent out the building for community activities.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prominently situated on Enoggera Terrace, the former Ithaca Town Council Chambers comprises the Ithaca Library and Red Hill Kindergarten. Completed in 1910, the former Chambers were designed by Brisbane architects Henry Wallace Atkinson and Charles McLay, and built by Charles Thomas Hall and Francis Joseph Mayer.</p><br>
<h3>Town of Ithaca</h3><br>
<p>The Municipality of Brisbane was proclaimed on 7 September 1859, shortly before the Separation of Queensland from New South Wales in December of that year. Although individual settlements such as Fortitude Valley, Kangaroo Point and South Brisbane agitated for separate municipality status, it was not until the Local Government Authorities Act of 1878 and the Divisional Boards Act of 1879 that a series of local authorities were created in the Brisbane Metropolitan area.</p><br>
<p>The Division of Ithaca was proclaimed in 1879, and was named after the birthplace of Lady Diamantina Bowen, wife of Queensland&#39;s first Governor, George Bowen. Ithaca comprised most of the western suburbs of Brisbane from Kelvin Grove Road to Mount Coot-tha and the head of Kelvin Grove Brook. An area just before the junction of Waterworks Road and Kelvin Grove Road formed the southeastern extremity of the Division.</p><br>
<p>The Ithaca Division was proclaimed Shire of Ithaca in 1887, and eventually a Town on 19 August 1903.</p><br>
<h3>Council Chambers</h3><br>
<p>In 1900 the Ithaca Shire Council purchased subdivisions 131 to 133 on Enoggera Terrace, at the corner of Kennedy Terrace, considered by the Council to be a prominent and central location within the shire from which to conduct municipal business. Although plans had previously been drawn up, architects Henry Wallace Atkinson and Charles McLay were commissioned to prepare plans for a suitable hall in brick and in wood in 1909. Atkinson and McLay practiced in partnership from 1907 until McLay&#39;s death in 1918. Prior to working in private practice, both Atkinson and McLay worked for the Department of Public Works during the late nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>Tenders for the new Council Chambers (in brick) for the Ithaca Town Council were invited in October 1909; that of Charles Thomas Hall and Francis Joseph Mayer for £1149 was accepted, but reduced to £1100 with the removal of certain embellishments from the plans. The building was completed in 1910.</p><br>
<p>The new council chambers were officially opened on Saturday 19 March 1910 with a dinner for approximately 100 guests hosted by the mayor.</p><br>
<p>The Council Chambers fronted Enoggera Terrace, with the main entrance at the southern end of the building. In addition to the Council Chamber, the building provided offices for the Town Clerk, Accountant, Mayor and Engineer, and included a strongroom. A second entrance was provided at the northern end of the building. An internal staircase led to an earth closet, lavatory and tool store downstairs. The plans indicated a future extension of the building along the Kennedy Terrace frontage; a modified version of which appears to have been carried out with the extension of the building to accommodate the kindergarten during the 1950s. Signage on the building and a flagpole had been added to the building by 1919.</p><br>
<p>Enoggera Terrace was also used by trams. The tram line extended along Enoggera Terrace to the terminus at the corner of Kennedy Terrace in 1902, and was extended to its terminus at Federal Street in 1904. During the 1920s/30s a tram shelter was erected adjacent to the front of the former Council Chambers, to a standard Brisbane City Council design.</p><br>
<p>In May 1925, burglars attempted to break into the council&#39;s strongroom using high explosives to break through the reinforced concrete floor, but the noise attracted attention and they fled without stealing anything.</p><br>
<h3>Brisbane City Council era</h3><br>
<p>The building served as the town&#39;s headquarters until 1925, when the Town of Ithaca was absorbed into the City of Brisbane. After this, the Brisbane City Council used the building and grounds partly as a Council depot until 1961.</p><br>
<p>During the 1940s the Red Hill Community Centre was established in the former Council Chambers by TR Groom (later Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1955 to 1961) and other community members. The Centre included a library in the former offices of the Mayor and Engineer, known as the Ithaca District Community Library, which became a branch of the Brisbane City Library in 1947. A kindergarten established in 1947 made use of the former Chamber. The former Chamber was also hired out for various community activities such as dancing classes, wedding receptions and Liberal Party meetings.</p><br>
<p>The library was taken over by the Council in 1946/47 by which time it occupied the former Chamber, and was renamed the Ithaca District Municipal Library. Although plans were prepared for a proposed gymnasium and club room at the rear of the building, these additions did not eventuate.</p><br>
<p>In 1954, an extension was built at the rear of the building to provide additional space for the kindergarten.</p><br>
<p>Additional space in the building was required by the early 1950s; a large extension to the west of the building was completed by 1954 and used for kindergarten classrooms. In 1959 the Kindergarten was formally inaugurated as the Enoggera Terrace Community Association – Kindergarten. Further need for space during the early 1960s resulted in the Kindergarten taking over the former Council Works Department sheds in the grounds, and the space underneath the building (the Council no longer using it as a depot) whilst the Library took over some of the Kindergarten space. Successive leases have required the occupants of the building to carry out improvements; consequently the building has undergone a series of minor changes and alterations.</p><br>
<p>The library was closed in 1998, and the former library space is now used as a venue for community groups and community meetings. The toilets at the rear of the former Chambers have been altered, and a new adult toilet provided in the Kindergarten. The former Works Department sheds and the flagpole at the front of the building are no longer extant (February 2000).</p><br>
<h3>Fate of other town halls in Brisbane</h3><br>
<p>Only some of the twenty "town halls" that existed at the time of Greater Brisbane in 1925 are still extant (November 2014):</p><br>
<p>Coorparoo Shire Hall</p><br>
<p>Hamilton Town Hall</p><br>
<p>Ithaca Town Council Chambers</p><br>
<p>Sandgate Town Hall</p><br>
<p>South Brisbane Municipal Chambers (commonly known as the South Brisbane Town Hall)</p><br>
<p>Stevens Shire Offices (now a private residence)</p><br>
<p>Toombul Shire Hall</p><br>
<p>Windsor Shire Council Chambers</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Prominently located at the corner of Enoggera Terrace and Kennedy Terrace, the former Ithaca Town Council Chambers comprises the original single storey brick Council Chambers and a two storeyed timber extension attached to the south west corner of the Council Chambers. The extension, which fronts Kennedy Terrace, is generally obscured from view by several mature trees in the grounds. With the exception of two rooms, the former Council Chambers are used as a community hall. The former Clerks room and the former Accountants room, together with the extension, comprise the Red Hill Kindergarten. A shelter shed, is situated adjacent to the southern end of the Council Chambers, and fronts Enoggera Terrace.</p><br>
<p>The former Council Chambers is a single storeyed, hip roofed building with a basement. The external walls are brick with contrasting rendered elements including linear banding and ornamental framing around openings. Two entry porches of different design and materials to distinguish the former public entry and the former main entry, are located at the northern and southern ends of the building respectively.</p><br>
<p>The timber framed shelter shed includes a diamond pattern shingle roof and terracotta ornaments. The shelter shed is open on all sides, and is divided lengthways by a lattice panel which separates the public seating on the street side from the kindergarten entrance at the rear of the structure.</p><br>
<p>Generally rectangular in plan, the former Council Chambers is accessed via a decorative timber and brick entry porch at the northern end of the building, which leads into the original chamber space. The southern wall of the chamber has been partially removed, and the removal of the wall between the Mayors room and the Engineers room creates a large open space approximately twice the size of the original chamber, now a community hall. The original pressed metal ceilings are generally intact and this, together with evidence of former openings, indicates the original organisation of the rooms. Modern fluorescent lighting is suspended from the ceilings of the Mayors room and the former Engineers room.</p><br>
<p>A small kitchen is located in a separate room on the northern side of the hall. A door at the rear of the hall leads to a verandah, the northern end of which is enclosed as a toilet and bathroom, whilst the southern end leads to the kindergarten extension.</p><br>
<p>Formerly the main entrance to the building, the southern entry porch includes a single rendered column. A sign above the porch identifies the building as "Ithaca Hall". A set of double doors with coloured glass panels opens into a hallway, and a staircase at the end of the hallway leads down to the basement. The basement generally comprises a series of storage and amenities spaces. The hallway also provides access from the hall into the Clerks room and the Accountants room which are now used as part of the kindergarten space.</p><br>
<p>The Red Hill Kindergarten is accessed via a separate entry off Kennedy Terrace, through the space behind the shelter shed. This entry space is paved, and has been covered with a pergola type structure and enclosed by a high timber fence. The former Clerks room is used as the kindergarten Directors office, whilst the former Accountant&#39;s room is used as the kindergarten kitchen. The original Council vault and vault door remain intact in the kitchen. A skylight has been inserted through the ceiling of the kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The two storeyed timber extension which adjoins the south west corner of the original building provides classroom space for the kindergarten on both levels. An area on the south eastern side of the extension has been converted to provide an adult toilet and bathroom.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>The former Ithaca Town Council Chambers were listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 March 2000 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The former Ithaca Town Council Chambers provides evidence of the growth and development of Ithaca during the early twentieth century. Owned by the Brisbane City Council following the formation of Greater Brisbane in 1925, the former Ithaca Town Council Chambers is also important in demonstrating the development of local government in Brisbane. The tram shelter shed adjacent to the former Ithaca Town Council Chambers provides evidence of the extension of public transport services through Ithaca during the early twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>With its prominent location at the corner of Enoggera and Kennedy Terraces and its clearly articulated facades with modest decorative detailing, the former Ithaca Town Council Chambers, and adjacent tram shelter, makes an important contribution to the Enoggera Terrace streetscape.</p><br>
<p>The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.</p><br>
<p>Erected in 1910 for the Ithaca Town Council, and extended in the 1950s, the former Ithaca Town Council Chambers and kindergarten extension continue to have a strong association with the Red Hill/Paddington community as a focal point for social and community functions.</p><br>
<p>The Crawford-Tilden Apartments are an apartment building on the eastern side of the city of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Built to fit an unusual piece of land, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Constructed in 1908, The structures exterior is brick with elements of stone and iron, including architectural elements such as pinnacles on the roofs parapet and bay windows along the walls in many locations. Its plan is shaped like the letter "V" culminating with a tip one bay wide; the tip includes such stylistic elements as Ionic columns and a pediment. Numerous details were included in the construction of each of the building&#39;s twenty apartments, none of which have experienced substantial change since their construction more than a century ago.</p><br>
<p>Crawford-Tilden has been designated a landmark by the city of Cleveland, and in 1978 the complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It qualified for federal designation because of its architecture: it is among the best works of one of the most prominent architects in Clevelands history, it prefigures the architectural styles of the Progressive Era, and it is one of the areas earliest garden apartment complexes. Despite its historic status, the building decayed near the end of the twentieth century, but it has seen new life: in 1997, the Ohio SHPO presented one of its annual Preservation Merit Awards to the city of Cleveland in general, the municipal Department of Community Development, and to a related foundation, as the three had collaborated to restore the property.</p><br>
<p>Middle Lake Hamilton, is a natural freshwater lake on the northeast edge of Winter Haven, Florida. At one point on the north shore the Winter Haven city limits touches the lakes shore. This lake has an 103 acre surface area. Middle Lake Hamilton is between two other lakes with Hamilton in their names, Lake Hamilton  and Little Lake Hamilton. Ironically, Middle Lake Hamilton is considerably smaller than Little Lake Hamilton. Much of Middle Lake Hamiltons north and northwest shore is bordered by a residential area, which is partly inside Winter Haven. The northeast shore is bordered by woods. The entire shore from the southeast around to the southwest is bordered by the Lake Region Mobile Home Park.</p><br>
<p>The public has no access to the shores of this lake. Middle Lake Hamilton is part of the north system of the Winter Haven Chain of Lakes. It is directly connected by canal to connected by canal on its west side to Lake Hamilton (Florida) and on its west side to Little Lake Hamilton. However, for a number of years the water level in the canal to Little Lake Hamilton was so low or even nonexistent that it was impossible to get to Little Lake Hamilton by boat. Boats can easily navigate the canal leading from Lake Hamilton. As there is no shore access to this lake, there are no public swimming areas or boat ramps on this lake&#39;s shore. The TakeMeFishing.Org website says this lake contains largemouth bass and bluegill.</p><br>
<p>Pencoed Castle is a ruined Tudor mansion, largely dating from the 16th century, in the parish of Llanmartin, now within the city of Newport, south Wales. It is located about 0.5 mi east of Llanmartin village, and 0.5 mi south-east of Llandevaud, at the end of a farm lane.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Welsh name Pen-coed means "end of the wood", and refers to the site&#39;s location at the southwestern extremity of the Wentwood forest. The manor of Llanmartin was owned by the Kemeys family around 1300, but it is not clear whether Pencoed was a separate manor at that time.</p><br>
<p>By about 1470, the estate was in the hands of the Morgan family of Tredegar. It seems to have been owned by Morgan ap Jenkin Philip, and then his son, Sir Thomas Morgan (c.1453–1510), who is thought likely to have fought at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 and who was probably the first of his family to settle at Pencoed. He was followed by his son Sir William Morgan (c.1480–1542), and in turn his son Sir Thomas Morgan (c.1513–1565). After the end of the Wars of the Roses, the more peaceful nature of society allowed such houses to be built. According to the architectural writer John Newman, it is likely that parts of the remaining building were built by the first Sir Thomas before 1510, and the main range and gatehouse by his grandson (also Sir Thomas) between 1542 and 1565. In about 1545, John Leland mentioned Pencoed as the home of Sir Thomas Morgan, and described it as "a fair maner place".</p><br>
<p>Around 1584, the estate became the property of Sir Walter Montagu, the husband of Thomas Morgans grand-daughter Anne; Montagu was also responsible for founding almshouses at Chepstow. In 1701, Montagus descendants sold Pencoed to John Jeffreys, MP. His son in turn sold it in 1749 to Admiral Thomas Mathews of Llandaff, also an MP. In later years the property was owned successively by Sir Mark Wood, Sir Robert Salusbury, and Thomas Perry, but became increasingly dilapidated and ruined, and was let out to farmers.</p><br>
<p>It was sold in 1914 to David Alfred Thomas, later Lord Rhondda. Thomas intended to restore the house, and began work on the main central building, but it was incomplete at the time of his death in 1918. His widow then commissioned Chepstow architect Eric Francis to build a new house adjoining the ruins, in 1922; she sold it a few years later and it is now a farmhouse. In the mid-1950s, the ruins were used for filming an episode of the popular British TV series, The Adventures of Robin Hood. A bungalow was built nearby in the 1960s, but the castle remains themselves have become increasingly ruinous and derelict.</p><br>
<p>Plans to use the site as part of a golf and hotel complex were first mooted in 1989. In 1998, further proposals came forward to build a large theme park, billed as the largest in Europe, around the ruins of Pencoed. The promoters of the scheme, which would have been known as Legend Court, withdrew the proposal after it failed to receive planning permission in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The site was put up for sale in 2001, and bought by farmer turned property developer Peter Morgan. In January 2016, it was alleged that Morgan strangled his girlfriend Georgina Symonds in a barn located on the castle site. He pleaded guilty to her manslaughter but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility as a result of his claimed Asperger syndrome. He was found guilty of murder on 21 December 2016, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>According to Newman, "the large and imposing Tudor mansion languishes as an unconsolidated ruin in a farmyard. To come upon it at the end of an inconsequential lane is quite a shock."</p><br>
<p>The tower is the earliest part of the building; it is built of Old Red Sandstone and is largely intact. The gatehouse is entirely of Tudor origin, and "on a much grander scale". It is rectangular in plan, of three storeys, with square turrets. The main range is largely intact, rising to three storeys and constructed of ashlar stone, similar to that of Raglan Castle, built around the same time. It has a battlemented parapet. The great hall has a central three-storey porch, with a two storey range on the south side and a three-storey building on the north side. There is also a three-storey northern parlour wing, which originally housed kitchens, and the remains of a south wing.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building is entirely ruined, apart from the rooms rebuilt for Lord Rhondda, and largely unsurveyed. Close to the house are the ruins of a 16th-century dovecote. There is also a continuous range of stone-built barns, probably of the 16th and 17th centuries.</p><br>
<p>Pencoed Castle was given Grade II* listed building status on 3 March 1952. The ruins are not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Ettington Park, Ettington, Warwickshire, England is a 19th-century country house with earlier origins. The historic home of the Shirley family, whose ownership dates from the time of the Domesday Book, the house was remodelled between 1858 and 1862 for Evelyn Shirley. Shirleys architect was John Prichard, although the involvement of Prichards long-time partner John Pollard Seddon is disputed. The Grade I listed building, described by Chris Pickford and Nikolaus Pevsner as "the most important and impressive High Victorian house in the county", is now an hotel.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site was occupied by a manor house for several centuries before the construction of the current building. Before the reign of Henry III, the nearby estate of Lower Ettington was the principal seat of the Ferrers family, who later moved their seat to Shirley, Derbyshire. In earlier centuries, the grounds were a deerpark. According to Alice Dryden,</p><br>
<p>Sir Ralph Shirley leased the manor in 1509 to John and Agnes Underhill, for a term of 80 years. His son, Francis, made another lease for a term of 100 years to the same family in 1541, the lease ending in 1641. During Francis Shirley&#39;s time the manor house may have been rebuilt, or at least modernised. The lease of Ettington came to an end in 1641 in the lifetime of Sir Charles Shirley, who entered into possession of it in 1642. Extensive repairs occurred under him; a large part of the building was taken down and a smaller one constructed with the original materials. About 1740, and again in 1767, additions were made by George Shirley. His grandson, Evelyn John Shirley, made alterations in 1824. It was restored by John Prichard for Evelyn Shirley in 1858–63, in the advanced Early English Style.</p><br>
<p>Now run as a hotel, it belongs to the Handpicked Hotels Group.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and description</h2><br>
<p>Ettington Park is located to the southwest of the village of Ettington, just north of the hamlet of Newbold on Stour. It is set in 40 acres, passed by the River Stour. Ettington Park is considered "the most important and impressive High Victorian house in the county".</p><br>
<p>The hall is an 1858–62 re-modelling of an earlier house, probably mid-17th-century with mid-18th-century additions. Pickford and Pevsner, in their 2016 Warwickshire are certain that the Victorian re-modelling was the sole work of John Prichard. Historic England considers that John Pollard Seddon, Prichard&#39;s long-time partner from 1852 to 1863, was also involved. In the late 20th century, further alterations and additions were carried out.</p><br>
<p>The house is constructed in yellow and grey banded limestone ashlar with a roof is made of stone slate. The style is Neo Gothic, the architectural historian Sir Charles Eastlake noting significant Ruskinian influences. Eastlake provides support for Pickford and Pevsner in attributing the house, called Eatington Park in the mid-19th century, solely to Prichard. The house is a E-shape plan, with two storeys and attics. The interior retains much of its original early and mid Victorian configuration and fittings. The Staircase Hall is of 1810–11, while the Library was decorated in 1820. The Long Gallery and the Great Drawing Room are part of Prichard&#39;s remodelling.</p><br>
<h2>Other</h2><br>
<p>Ettington Park was used for exterior shots of "Hill House" in the 1963 horror film The Haunting.</p><br>
<p>The hall is reputedly haunted.</p><br>
<p>Kewaunee County Sheriffs Residence and Jail is a building in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, located at 613 Dodge Street on the southeast corner of the courthouse square. It was built in 1876 as the sheriffs office, residence, and county jail. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>It is now used as the Kewaunee County Historical Society Jail Museum and features exhibits of local history.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The jail was built in the same block as an early 1858 jail. The block had been deeded to the county by two local property owners in support of community demand for a jail. The 1858 jail was burned by a prisoner in 1859, the jail relocated to another location between 1862 and 1876. That building was judged as unfit for occupation by 1874, the Residence and Jail building was authorized in 1875 and construction was completed by the next year. It was built next to a courthouse constructed on the block in 1873.</p><br>
<p>The residence portion of the building is two stories high and three bays wide. The jail is a one story wing, three bays long, attached at the rear of the residence on the west facing side. There are six cells in the jail, constructed of armor plate. They are in nearly original condition, though they have been modified with museum displays.</p><br>
<p>As was typical for rural sheriffs of that day, there was no formal law enforcement training. Once elected, the sheriff and his (almost all were men) family moved into the residence. The sheriff was responsible for guarding and maintaining the prisoners. Local lore holds that the sheriffs wife provided meals. Records show that most Kewaunee sheriffs prior to 1926 served only one two-year term, sheriffs from 1926 to 1945 served two or three terms. Aside from jail warden tasks, the sheriffs duties ran the gamut from felony investigations, fugitive arrests, and alcohol related issues, as well as driver&#39;s permits in later years.</p><br>
<p>The building served as the center of law enforcement for the county until 1945. It was converted to a local history museum in 1970. A 1902 replacement courthouse built at the location of the 1873 courthouse, and the present public safety building, occupy the rest of the block.</p><br>
<p>The Tug Ludington  is a World War II era tugboat built in 1943 at Jacobson Shipyard in Oyster Bay, New York. The USA Army designated the tug LT-4. The tug&#39;s armament consisted of two 50 caliber machine guns and participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, towing ammunition barges across the English Channel. After World War II, it joined the USA Army Transportation Corps until 1947 when the Corps of Engineers transferred the tug to Kewaunee, Wisconsin and then renamed it the Tug Ludington. It was used in the construction and maintenance of many harbors on the Great Lakes and now rests in Harbor Park in Downtown, Kewaunee and is open to visitors for tours. As the Major Wilbur Fr. Browder, the tug is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>Although the USA Navy had more large ships than the USA Army in World War II, the Army had a larger number of total ships, almost twice as many as the Navy, including several thousand harbor craft. Classified as a large tug (LT), the Browder was able to sail to England under its own power. Several hundred LTs were built during World War II but only a few unmodified vessels exist today. A sister tug, the LT-5 Major Elisha K. Enson, now the Nash, is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with a similar history.</p><br>
<p>The Browder was originally painted navy gray, but as the Ludington is now painted as it was in its second life as a construction and maintenance ship, in the colors of the Corps of Engineers, primarily black, silver, and red. The tug is 115 feet in length, with a 26 foot beam and 14 foot 3 inch draft. The tug was fitted for a crew of 24 in World War II, and 14 when operated by the Corps.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican parish church in Bathampton, Somerset, England. It was built in the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. The church stands between the River Avon and the Kennet and Avon Canal.</p><br>
<p>The tower was added in the 15th century. Restoration work took place in the 18th and 19th centuries. The church contains the Australia Chapel celebrating Admiral Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales who was buried in 1814. The churchyard contains several other significant tombs.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Bathampton with Claverton.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 13th century John Stafford, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the vicar of Bathampton.</p><br>
<p>The church has its origins in the 13th-century however during the 15th century it was altered with a chapel being added in 1500 and tower added in 1532. In the mid 18th century Ralph Allen added Gothic components after he acquired Bathampton Manor by marriage in 1731. The building was further restored and the north aisle built in 1858 by Henry Goodridge and the chancel was restored in 1882 by Charles Edward Davis.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The 3 stage west tower contains six bells, two of which date from the 1540s.</p><br>
<p>On either side of the main door are brass plaques which serve as War Memorials to those from the village who died in World War I and World War II. Next to the porch is a bowl dating from medieval times which was used as the font.</p><br>
<h2>Australia Chapel</h2><br>
<p>The "Australia Chapel" in the south aisle contains memorials to the Allen family and to Admiral Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales. Phillip was buried in the church after his death in 1814 and although it was unnoticed for many years, the grave was discovered in 1897 and the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes, had it restored. In 2007, Geoffrey Robertson QC alleged that Phillip&#39;s remains are no longer in St Nicholas Church, Bathampton and have been lost: "...Captain Arthur Phillip is not where the ledger stone says he is: it may be that he is buried somewhere outside, it may simply be that he is simply lost. But he is not where Australians have been led to believe that he now lies." The windows of the sanctuary carry the coat of arms of the Federal Government and the six Australian States.</p><br>
<h2>Churchyard</h2><br>
<p>Buried in the church yard is the body of the French aristocrat, Adolphe, Vicomte du Barry, a nephew-by-marriage and close personal friend of Madame du Barry, Louis XV&#39;s legendarily beautiful mistress. The Vicomte had been living in nearby Bath when he was killed in a duel with an Irish adventurer, Captain Rice.</p><br>
<p>Many of the other chest tombs in the churchyard have been designated as listed buildings.</p><br>
<p>Mau Mau Island, also called White Island, is a small uninhabited island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located between Gerritsen Creek and Mill Creek in Marine Park. Historically, the area around Mau Mau Island was a salt marsh with shifting topography. The island came into existence permanently after 1917, as dumping led to the current shoreline.</p><br>
<p>The area was uninhabited by European settlers until the last 1700&#39;s, when a mill and bridge were built. It was donated by the City of New York in the early 1930s, along with much of Marine Park, by Alfred Tredway White and Frederic Pratt with the requirement that it become parkland.</p><br>
<p>In the 1930s, sand excavated during construction of the Belt Parkway was added to the island. Subsequently, patches of asphalt were laid on top to prevent the sand from blowing onto the nearby Marine Park Golf Course.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, the New York City Parks Department began a restoration project on the island, with the goal of restoring salt marsh and bird habitat.</p><br>
<p>The South Marengo Historic District is a residential historic district located along South Marengo Avenue in Pasadena, California. The district consists of twelve Craftsman-style bungalows situated on the two blocks between Bellevue Drive and California Boulevard. The homes were built from 1901 to 1916, at the height of the bungalows popularity in Pasadena. Several prominent local architects designed the homes, including Louis B. Easton, planner of the homes at 530 and 540 South Marengo; Eastons work was featured in Gustav Stickley&#39;s magazine The Craftsman. Marengo Avenue was considered an upscale district of Pasadena at the time, partly due to its well-designed homes and partly due to the pepper trees planted along the street.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 2, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Kopili River is an interstate river in Northeast India that flows through the states of Meghalaya and Assam and is the largest south bank tributary of the Brahmaputra in Assam.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The Kopili originates in the Meghalaya plateau and flows through southern Assam before its confluence with the Brahmaputra. In Assam it drains the districts of Karbi Anglong, Dima Hasao, Kamrup and Nagaon. The river flows for a total length of 290 km and has a catchment area of 16,420 km&sup2;. It is noted for several spectacular waterfalls along its course which has several deep gorges and rapids in the 120 km of its flow before debouching into the plains at Nagaon district.</p><br>
<h2>Waterworks</h2><br>
<p>Completed in 1975, the Kopili Flow Irrigation Scheme in Kamrup district irrigates 1,300 hectare of land across 14 revenue villages and facilitates paddy cultivation. The Kopili Hydro Electric Project, located across the districts of North Cachar Hills in Assam and Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya and run by the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation, consists of the Khandong and Umrongso dams and their reservoirs and three power houses that have a total installed capacity of 275 MW.</p><br>
<h2>Environmental issues</h2><br>
<p>The Kopili has as many as 54 species of fish in it. Unscientific opencast coal mining in the Kopilis upper reaches in Meghalaya has led to acidification of the river which has in turn left part of the rivers course biologically dead, making the water unfit for human consumption and has led to frequent outages at the Kopili Hydro Electric Project&#39;s dams.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Paul W. and Eunice Greeley House is a historic residence in Winnetka, Illinois. Dr. Greeley was a major figure in the field of plastic surgery around World War II and later served as department chair at two universities. Designed by Frank Polito, and with a dining room probably designed by Fiske Kimball, the Classical Revival residence closely follows a Greek Revival design and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Paul W. Greeley, Jr. was born on July 10, 1902 in Waterman, Illinois. He grew up in DeKalb County, where his father began practicing medicine in 1905. Eunice Goebel was born in Palo Alto, California on April 9, 1904 She was the daughter of Julius Goebel, a prominent Germanic language scholar at Stanford University and co-founder of the Modern Language Association. Paul Greeley and Eunice Goebel wed in 1927 shortly after Greeley graduated from Northwestern University Medical School in Evanston, Illinois. By 1930, the couple were living in nearby Winnetka. Eunice became involved with local affairs, serving as Executive of the Winnetka Garden Club. In 1937, Dr. Greeley was named Professor and Chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Greeley received further training in Europe and enlisted as a Lt. Commander in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Corps in 1943. His skills were in high demand, as he was one of only two hundred plastic surgeons in the United States. Within the year, he was named Chief of Plastic Surgery at Naval Hospital Oakland in California. He served at the hospital until 1946, subsequently receiving a commendation from the Secretary of the Navy.</p><br>
<p>In 1957, he was named Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Rush Medical College. He was promoted to Rear Admiral of the Naval Reserve Medical Corps in 1961. They sold their Winnetka residence in the same year. Greeley retired in 1972 and moved with Eunice to La Jolla, California. Eunice died on June 4, 1978 and Dr. Greeley died on September 21, 1985. By the time of his death, Dr. Greeley had over 125 publications to his name on plastic and reconstructive surgery.</p><br>
<p>Although officially considered a Classical Revival house because of its era of construction, the plan for the residence closely resembles the Greek Revival style. The house closely resembles its original 1937 appearance. It is believed that Eunice&#39;s brother-in-law Fiske Kimball designed the dining room. The only significant change to its construction was the closing-in of the rear screen porch in 1974. On February 25, 2011, the house was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Milk Bottle Grocery, located at 2426 N. Classen Boulevard in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a grocery building with a large metal milk bottle atop its roof. The store was constructed in 1930, and the milk bottle was added in 1948. The bottle was designed to draw attention to the store, as the tall bottle would be visible to automobile traffic along Classen Boulevard, which was part of USA Route 66 at the time; it also served as an advertisement for the dairy industry. The store is also one of the few triangular buildings in Oklahoma City, as it occupies a corner lot in an area where Classen Boulevard cuts diagonally through the city&#39;s street grid. Due to its shape, the store was known as the Triangle Grocery from 1940 until 1948, when it became the Milk Bottle Grocery due to its new statue.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1998. The Saigon Baguette, a Vietnamese sandwich restaurant, occupied the space for several years. In August 2014 it was announced that the building would be restored to its original appearance.</p><br>
<p>The Oberlin LS&MS Station is a historic former train station in the city of Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Constructed shortly after the American Civil War, it has become an example of adaptive reuse, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The depot is a simple weatherboarded structure with a foundation of sandstone, designed in a mixture of the Gothic Revival and Italianate styles of architecture. It exemplifies train stations constructed during the middle of the 19th century: northern Ohio&#39;s earliest stations were often built in a form of Gothic Revival, while Italianate styling became much more popular following the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865. Few depots with this mix of styles survive, especially in Lorain County.</p><br>
<p>Oberlins first railroad was built by the Toledo, Norwalk, and Cleveland Railroad, which opened its line through the village in late 1852. Fifteen years later, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad erected the present structure along its east-west line on Oberlins southern side. From its earliest years, the rail line was a highly significant component of village life: Oberlin College students and other travellers had previously relied on weather-dependent Lake Erie transportation routes, so the all-weather railroad line provided an immense boost to the college and to the community in general. In 1914, the LS&MS became a part of the new New York Central Railroad, but the new larger railroad only operated the depot for a few decades; by the 1970s, the depot sat silent and unused. Rather than demolishing the depot, locals chose to preserve it: the land surrounding it was converted into a park, and the depot itself was renovated in order to ready it for use as the local Head Start offices.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Oberlin LS&MS Depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its architecture and its place in local history. Some changes were made when the depot was renovated for Head Start, but it retains its original appearance, aside from the absence of the rails that once sat next to it. As one of the areas least-changed historic railroad stations, it was deemed an important example of railroads changing architectural styles during the mid-19th century. It is one of twelve National Register-listed locations in and around Oberlin, and one of more than a hundred countywide.</p><br>
<p>Powhatan Courthouse Historic District is a county courthouse complex and national historic district located at Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. The district includes four contributing buildings. The Powhatan County Court House was built in 1848-1849, and is a stuccoed temple-form Greek Revival style building measuring approximately 40 feet by 54 feet. There is strong circumstantial evidence that it is the work of Alexander Jackson Davis. Associated with the courthouse are the contributing former clerks office, a "T"-shaped brick structure dated to the late-18th century; the early-19th century former jail; and Scotts or Powhatan Tavern, a large late-18th century tavern, a 2 1/2-story, brick structure.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>Ticlla or Qutuni , also called Tiklla  or Tiqlla , is a 5,897 m mountain in the Cordillera Central in the Andes of Peru. Strictly speaking the popular name Ticlla refers to a group of peaks of the Qutuni-Ticlla cirque. The highest mountain of the massif is named Qutuni. It lies in a sub-range of the Cordillera Central named Pichqa Waqra .</p><br>
<p>It is located in the Lima Region, Yauyos Province, on the border of the districts Ayaviri, Miraflores and Tanta. It lies on the southern border of the Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve. Ticlla is situated southeast Aqupallqa and the lake named Tikllaqucha, northeast of Wayna Qutuni ("young Qutuni") and north of Llunkuti and the lake named Waskaqucha. One of the nearest villages is Qutuni (Cutuni), situated west of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The Michaels Farm is a historic homestead in the northwestern part of the USA state of Ohio. Composed of simple vernacular structures and buildings with clear architectural stylistic influences, the farm has been home to members of the same families for nearly two hundred years, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The rich and productive soil of Liberty Township attracted numerous farmers from the earliest days of settlement, and the township was officially organized in 1832. Among the early villages in the township was a settlement known as Kansas, which was platted in early 1855. By this time, many families of pioneer settlers had become prosperous farmers. One of these prosperous farms was home to the family of John Michaels, who had been one of the first settlers in the area; he and his family occupied a farm located south of Kansas on a road that has since become State Route 635. Michaels had not been the original property owner: the land had been brought under cultivation by 1829, but he and his family first obtained the title in the 1830s. Michaels&#39; descendents and a related family named Dicken continuously owned and operated the property as a typical farm into the late twentieth century. Such an extended tenure has caused the property to portray changes in architectural tastes: the extant buildings date from a wide range of years and are examples of multiple architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>Nine buildings compose the farmstead: six historic buildings and three newer. The most prominent building is the 1870s brick farmhouse, an Italianate two-story structure with a hip roof supported by brackets and an ornamental cornice. Other buildings on the farm are older, including simpler frame barns with Greek Revival elements; even a privy survives to the present.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Michaels Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places; its historic buildings were named contributing properties, and the others were deemed non-contributing. It is the only federally designated historic site in Liberty Township, although more than forty other locations have been given this designation elsewhere in Seneca County. Key to its designation was the property&#39;s consistent history of use by the same families for more than a century and a half and the wide range of historic agricultural buildings that survived in good condition.</p><br>
<p>The lac aux Biscuits   is located in Haute-Batiscanie in the municipality of Lac-Édouard, Quebec, in La Tuque, in the administrative region of the Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The watershed discharge of "Lac aux Biscuits"  is 247 km², the sixth largest pool of Batiscanie.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>"Cookies lake" (lac aux Biscuits, in French) has a length of 2.4 km and a width of 0.8 km (until bottom of the large bay located north of the lake). Its mouth is located at the south-west of the lake and its waters discharge into a small river of 2.4 km, which drains into another lake that is part the Batiscan River.</p><br>
<p>"Cookies lake" is located at 5.6 km southeast of the village of Lac-Édouard, Quebec, at 48 km north-east of La Tuque. Its mouth is at 0.7 km northeast of Lac-à-la-Croix and north-east of "Club Triton" in the Seigneurie du Triton. Excluding the North bay, the shape of lake is akin to a growing open towards the southeast, surrounding the lake John-Bull, located close. The "Blueberries Island" (Île aux Bleuets) is located almost at the middle of the lake, opposite to the outlet of John-Bull lake.</p><br>
<p>"Cookies Lake" is fed in North-East by two rivers:</p><br>
<p>"Lake Cleveland" outlet (at North-East),</p><br>
<p>"Travers River" (in the East), which takes its source at "Travers Lake". The latter lake is especially powered by the "Lake of the Three Caribou" (west) and by the Gauthier Lake (in the East).</p><br>
<p>"Cookies Lake" is located at the extreme West of sub-watershed the same name. This sub-watershed covers 243.39 km&sup2; and fact part of the head the waters of the Batiscanie, Quebec, constituting the sub-basin the more north of the Batiscanie, Quebec. This sub-basin includes dozens of lakes such as Aberdeen (the level of water is to 430 m altitude), Witherbee, Cleveland, McMilen, Lispenard, of "Plan Perdu" (Lost Plan)... "Cookies Lake" is located entirely in a forest environment and is surrounded by high mountains on the northern side. Its surface is frozen normally from November to April. The level of water from "Cookies Lake" is in 348 m of altitude (compared to 363 m for the Lac-Édouard, Quebec). By the elevation of the sub-watershed of "Cookies Lake" upper waterbodies, is considered a second head of the Batiscan River.</p><br>
<h2>Toponymy</h2><br>
<p>The toponym "Cookies Lake" (Lac aux biscuits) was formalized as of December 5, 1968 in the Bank of place names of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The sector "Lac aux Biscuits" really started to be exploited thanks to railway built to the any late 19th century, connecting Hervey-Jonction, Quebec to Chambord, Quebec passing by the Lac-Édouard, Quebec. Travellers and forest workers used mostly the "Gare du Triton", located in the Lordship of Triton (Seigneurie-du-Triton). The "Cookies Lake" is especially characterized by forestry cuts conceded by the Government of Quebec, as well as hunting and fishing.</p><br>
<p>The W.R. Bunckley House is a historic house at 509 East Parker Street in Hamburg, Arkansas. It is the earliest and best preserved example of a Folk Victorian house in the community. It was built in 1903 for W. R. Bunckley, an American Civil War veteran who had married the daughter of David Watson, a successful local businessman whose grand mansion still stands nearby. This 1.5 story wood frame house is a rambling, asymmetrical vernacular expression of Queen Anne styling. The principal focus of this styling on the outside is the wraparound porch, which features detailed turned and jigsaw woodwork. Interior decorations, including turned woodwork and stained glass, are also well preserved.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Crossroads Fire Tower is a fire lookout tower at 2262 Arkansas Highway 133 North in Ashley County, Arkansas. The tallest tower of its type in Arkansas, it is located north of Crossett and west of Hamburg, which is just north of the junction of Highway 133 and Ashley County Highway 12. It was built by the Aermotor Company and installed by a Civilian Conservation Corps crew in 1935. When built it was 100 ft tall, but an additional 20 ft was added sometime between 1936 and 1943. The tower is of galvanized steel construction, although the staircase landings and treads are wooden. The tower has a viewing cabin at the top with adjustable glass panes.</p><br>
<p>The tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Longwood House is a historic home located at Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia, and functions as the home of the president of Longwood University. It is a 2 1/2-story, three bay, frame dwelling with a gable roof. It features Greek Revival style woodwork and Doric order porch. Longwood House has a central passage, double-pile plan. It has a two-story wing added about 1839, and a second wing added in the 1920s, when the property was purchased by Longwood University. The house is located next to the university golf course, and since 2006, athletic fields used by the Longwood Lancers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site of the home was originally owned by Scottish immigrant Peter Johnston, having purchased it in 1765. The property was later sold to Abraham B. Venable in 1811; following his death shortly thereafter in the Richmond Theatre fire, it was inherited by a relative, Samuel. The current house was built about 1815, and enlarged and remodeled about 1839. The site was the birthplace of two well-known Confederate officers: Johnstons grandson Joseph E. Johnston in 1807, and Samuel Venables grandson, Charles S. Venable, in 1827.</p><br>
<p>Longwood House was purchased by what was then the State Teachers College at Farmville in 1929. Twenty years later, the school renamed itself Longwood College after the house; the school then changed its name to Longwood University in 2002. It has been used as the home of the university president since 1969.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Worsham High School, also known as Worsham Elementary and High School and Worsham School, is a historic high school complex located near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia. It was built in 1927, and is a one- to two-story, banked brick building with a recessed, arched entrance showing influences from the Colonial Revival style. The school contains 12 classrooms on two floors arranged in a "U" around a central auditorium/classroom. Also on the property are the contributing agriculture building and cannery, both rectangular cinder block buildings built about 1927. In 1963-1964, the Worsham School was one of four County schools leased by the Prince Edward Free School system, a privately organized but federally supported organization providing free schooling for the African-American students of</p><br>
<p>Prince Edward County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Lydstep Palace is a ruinous medieval hall house in the Pembrokeshire village of Lydstep in south west Wales.</p><br>
<p>Believed to have been built in the late 14th century or 15th century, the building was constructed from limestone and built in two levels, the upper floor containing a hall and the lower floor consisting of several barrel vaulted rooms, likely cellars. The two floors were not connected internally, only by external stone stairs. Speculation as to the purpose of the house varies, some sources attribute the building as a court of the Manor of Manorbier and Penally, but it has also been referred to as a hunting lodge of the Bishop Gower of St. Davids.</p><br>
<p>The house was traditionally known as the Place of Arms, and it is speculated that this became mutated to the Palace of Arms, leading to its current name of the Palace. The building is also referred to as The Old Palace.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on May 14, 1970, given Grade I status, reserved for buildings of exceptional interest. The building is currently owned by Pembrokeshire County Council, who placed it up for sale in July 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Giles Gilbert House is a private house located at 306 N. Camburn Street in Stanton, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1984 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Giles Gilbert was born in Wyoming County, New York in 1840, the youngest of eight children born to Hiram and Maria Gilbert. He attended Genesee Conference Seminary and worked on his father&#39;s farm until the Civil War broke out, at which point he enlisted in the 17th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He served until 1863, after which he moved to Stanton and invested his savings in a mercantile business with Edwin K. Wood, another veteran of the 17th. The business soon became involved in lumbering, and eventually Gilbert bought out his partner in the lumbering operation, while Wood continued in the mercantile business.</p><br>
<p>In 1868, Gilbert married Frances Smith; the couple had three children. In 1877, he built this house for his own use, and lived there until 1882, when he moved to Mecosta, Michigan to continue lumbering.</p><br>
<p>His house in Stanton was later owned by James Willet, another prominent lumberman and mayor of Stanton, and by a succession of leading local merchants.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Giles Gilbert House is a 13-room, two-story Late Victorian house clad in clapboard and sitting on a cut fieldstone foundation. The relatively plain facade is decorated with typical Late Victorian elements, including decorated trusses and oculus windows in the gables; and a jerkin head roof, chamfered posts, decorative brackets, and scrolled woodwork on the entry porch.</p><br>
<p>The Greenville Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district located in Greenville, Michigan along Lafayette between Montcalm and Benton, along with the adjacent blocks of Montcalm, Grove, Cass, and Washington on either side. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1844, John and Deborah Green moved from Fulton County, New York to this site in Montcalm County. The Greens purchased a plot of land and built a dam and sawmill. More settlers quickly arrived, including a millwright, blacksmith, carpenter, and doctor (John Green&#39;s brother, Thomas), who all settled in Greenville in 1845. The first merchant arrived in 1846, and a small town grew from that location. John Green himself financed many of the early businesses, and the site soon became a commercial hub for the county. In 1853, John Green and Manning Rutan platted areas of Greenville that included Lafayette and surrounding streets. John Green died in 1855, but when the city was later chartered, it was officially named Greenville in his honor.</p><br>
<p>In the 1850s and 60s, Greenville&#39;s business district began developing along Lafayette between Washington and Cass. The commercial buildings of the time were a mixture of one- and two-story wooden structures, none of which survive today. In 1868, Greenville adopted a fire code prohibiting new wooden buildings. Coupled with the rise in population due to logging activities, this created a construction boom in commercial buildings along Lafayette, and by 1875, about twenty substantial brick commercial blocks had been constructed. The national economic downturn prevented more construction until the mid-1880s. At that time, a series of fires along Lafayette prompted a new wave of construction, and a dozen more buildings were constructed in the later 1880s and early 1890s.</p><br>
<p>Development in the early 1900s was slow, as buildings were replaced or lots infilled. Construction halted during the Great Depression, then picked up again after World War II before essentially ceasing in the mid-1960s.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The district contains 60 contributing buildings Most of the structures are commercial blocks located along Lafayette, housing businesses on the first floor and office space or social meeting spaces on the upper floors. The district also includes churches, houses, and a hotel.</p><br>
<p>The significant structures in the district include:</p><br>
<h3>Winter Inn (100 N. Lafayette)</h3><br>
<p>The Winter Inn was built in 1901-02 by Thomas B. Winter on a site that had previously hosted a string of hotel buildings. The Winter Inn has continued to serve as a hotel until the present day, and is significant as a still-functioning example of a modest, locally owned hotel of a type once common in small towns like Greenville. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h3>Grabill Block (226 S. Lafayette)</h3><br>
<p>Elliott F. Grabill was a Civil War veteran who settled in Greenville after the war. In 1866, he became the owner and editor of the Greenville Independent, and he constructed this building in the early 1880s. The Greenville Post Office was located in the building at the time Grabill was postmaster, and the Grabill ran the Independent out of this building well into the 20th century. The Grabill Block also housed a string of banks, starting with the First National Bank, which occupied part of the block starting in 1884, and then C. J. Church & Co. Bank and the Greenville State Bank, which occupied the same space until 1914.</p><br>
<h3>St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (305 S. Clay)</h3><br>
<p>St. Paul’s Episcopal Church began life as the Greenville First Congregational Church, constructed in 1855/56. In 1879, the Congregationalists began construction of a new and larger church, and sold their 1856 building to the Episcopal congregation, who moved it across the street to the present site. The steep pitch of the roof, pointed arches over the windows, and triangular caps on the doorways and belfry openings give the building a Gothic Revival appearance.</p><br>
<h3>Rider & Potter Block (301 S. Lafayette)</h3><br>
<p>In 1870-71, Myron Rider and Thomas J. Potter constructed this brick building. It has a unique set of oculus windows above the third story, giving the structure a commanding appearance. At 50 feet high, it is still the tallest building located along Lafayette.</p><br>
<h3>First Congregational Church (126 E. Cass)</h3><br>
<p>The Greenville First Congregational Church was organized in 1852. In 1855/56 the congregation constructed a wood frame church on the site of the present church. In 1879, this church was sold to the Episcopalians and moved across the street, where it now serves as St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The Congregationalists hired Elijah E. Myers to design a new church, which was built in 1879-80.</p><br>
<h3>Post Office Block (328-332 S. Lafayette)</h3><br>
<p>In 1869, Hiram B. Fargo and James W. Belknap constructed the first brick building in Greenville on the corner of Lafayette and Washington, known then as the "Fargo & Belknap Block". In 1871-72, two additional store buildings of the same exterior design were constructed directly north of the Fargo & Belknap Block; the three together became known as the "Post Office Block" due to the early location of the post office in the center building.</p><br>
<h3>Rutan Block (400-404 S. Lafayette)</h3><br>
<p>In the late 1860s, Greenville eliminated what once had been a small public square at the corner of Lafayette and Washington, deeding the lots back to the original owners. One of those was Manning Rutan, one of the original platters of Greenville. In 1873-74, Rutan constructed a building on the site. The building initially housed his hardware stora and a stove business owned by Rutan&#39;s son, and a Grange Hall on the third floor.</p><br>
<p>The Winter Inn is a hotel located at 100 N. Lafayette Street in Greenville, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The building is significant as a still-functioning example of a modest, locally owned hotel of a type once common in small towns like Greenville.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A string of different hotel buildings were constructed on this site beginning in 1850. These included two successive structures known as the Rossman House hotels, the Merritt House, and the Webster House (later renamed the Northern Hotel). The Northern House was destroyed by fire in 1900, and its owner, Thomas B. Winter, then constructed the present building in 1901-02. He added a rear wing containing a dance hall in 1902-03.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Winter Inn is a three-story, L-shaped red brick Late Victorian Vernacular hotel with a flat roof. The construction is generally utilitarian, with external decoration confined to brownstone beltcourses above the second and third story windows and a metal-bracketed cornice. Most windows are asymmetrically-arranged one-over-one sash windows, but three arched tripartite windows with leaded glass fanlights are arranged on the first floor. There is a double-door entrance at the canted corner.</p><br>
