<p>The Morgan County Courthouse, located at 300 W. State St. in Jacksonville, is the county courthouse of Morgan County, Illinois. The courthouse, the third built in Morgan County, was constructed from 1868 to 1869. Chicago architect Gurdon P. Randall designed the courthouse in a combination of the Italianate and Second Empire styles. The design is considered unusual among county courthouses, as counties generally preferred more traditional designs. Randalls design features an arched loggia surrounding the buildings southern entrance, asymmetrical towers at the southern corners with mansard roofs and bracketed cornices, arched dormers within the towers&#39; mansards, and an assortment of round-head and bulls-eye windows. One of the towers houses a 4,000 lb bell, which was intended to be part of a clock that was never installed. A 9 ft statue of Lady Justice, carved from a single block of pine, originally topped the front entrance; however, after losing its arms around 1872, the statue disappeared in the early 1900s and was never recovered.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 19, 1986.</p><br>
<p>Stora Trutskär  is an island in the northwest of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Kalix archipelago. It has a beach area used or recreation, but is mostly covered by a nature reserve.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Stora Trutskär is located in the central part of Kalix archipelago about 5 km east of Storön.</p><br>
<p>It lies on the east side of the bay where the Kalix River enters the Bay of Bothnia, about 6 km southeast of Karlsborg.</p><br>
<p>In the northwest of the island there is a sandy beach and large sand dunes.</p><br>
<p>Stora Trutskär holds the clubhouse for the Kalix Sail and Motorboat Club (Kalix Segel och Motorbåtssällskap).</p><br>
<p>Facilities include a hosted cabin, playhouse and playground for children, outdoor grills and barbecue house.</p><br>
<h2>Nature reserve</h2><br>
<p>Since 1997 66 hectare of the island have been set aside as a nature reserve.</p><br>
<p>The reserve covers the entire island apart from the beach area in the northwest, as well as two reefs to the east of the island.</p><br>
<p>The forest has not been used for forestry, but people have extracted wood for home consumption.</p><br>
<p>The best woods are found in the center of the southern part of the island.</p><br>
<p>A large storm in 1982 threw down a lot of trees on the east side, and they have been replaced by brushwood.</p><br>
<p>There is a swath of limestone bedrock near the reserve. The lime from this rock gives calcareous soils that support a rich flora.</p><br>
<p>Visitors may camp and make a fire if they bring firewood, but not directly on the rocks.</p><br>
<p>They may hike, pick berries and mushrooms and fish, but must not harm plant or animal life.</p><br>
<p>The Island of the Cross  is located in the middle of the Batiscan River, at the northern edge of the eastern part of the Portneuf Wildlife Reserve, in the area designated "Miguick-Île à la Croix", the unincorporated Lac-Lapeyrère, Quebec territory, Portneuf Regional County Municipality, in the administrative area of the Capitale-Nationale, in the province of Quebec, Canada.</p><br>
<p>By 1888, near the Miguick River (Quebec), a quarry of granite began to be exploited, through the construction of the railway connecting the Lower Batiscanie and Upper Batiscanie.</p><br>
<h2>Toponymy</h2><br>
<p>The French toponym "Ïle-à-la-Croix" was officially recorded December 5, 1968 in the bank of place names at the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Quebec). Formerly, a cross was planted on the island as protection for travellers on the river regularly surreptitiously caused the drowning. The rapids upstream and downstream of the island are deemed dangerous for boats river. The cross also protect residents and seasonal workers fast river (upstream and downstream) and sometimes considerable floods accentuated the risk of injury or drowning.</p><br>
<p>In Judeo-Christian origin place name "Island of the Cross" is akin to the place name "Lac à la Croix" which is located at 9.3 km southern of Lac-Édouard. The Batiscan River, which rises in Lake Édouard flows into the "Lac à la croix". Fifty kilometres (following the route of the river) separate the mouth of the lake and the island at the cross.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The "Island of the Cross" (Île à la Croix) is located 63 km south of the village of Lac-Édouard in Upper-Batiscanie, 26 km north of the village of Notre-Dame-de-Montauban and 27 km (direct line) of the church of Rivière-à-Pierre.</p><br>
<p>The island is 1.5 km from Miguick hamlet, 4.5 km and from Linton 7 km, which is downstream from the mouth of the Jeannotte River.</p><br>
<p>The island is shaped like a foot (toes pointing to the southwest and the heel to the mouth of the Miguick River (Quebec)) with a length of one kilometre and a maximum width of 300 m. The altitude of the water upstream of the island is 246 m and 244 m downstream. "Island of the Cross" is the main island of a small archipelago that can be designated "archipelago Miguick" with 11 other islands including nine upstream. The last small island (altitude: 244 m) is located further downstream in front of the outlet of Lac de la Daraise (west side of the Batiscan River).</p><br>
<p>Highway 2 to the Portneuf Wildlife Reserve crosses the northern part of the island in the east-west direction to connect the two main sections of this provincial park, which is divided in two by the Batiscan River. This "Miguick-Île à la Croix" area comprises a small hamlet near the Canadian National Railway, on the east side of Batiscan River. The Via Rail passenger train stops if needed.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Its strategic geographic position in front of the mouth of Miguick River (Quebec) (east side of Batiscan River), ¨Île à la Croix served as resting place of Batiscan River during the Amerindian prehistory. In front of the island, the Miguick River (Quebec) mouth is very quiet and winding; it was particularly favorable for hunting moose and beavers.</p><br>
<p>This legendary island of Batiscanie, also served as a landmark on expeditions on the river. Among the early explorers French Canadian to visit the area of the island, there were fur traders who practiced trade, Catholic evangelists and explorers designated by the civil and religious authorities. Annually, at the end of spring, loggers went around the banks of the river, including the island to the Cross to return to the water the logs coming down the river to sawmills downstream, including Saint-Stanislas. Log drives ended in 1963 on Batiscan River. After the season of logs driving many workers became "cageux" (cage workers) for sawmills, others often went to work on farms in the Lower or Middle-Batiscanie.</p><br>
<p>In the 19th century, the government was granting logging on public lands more distant from the Lower Batiscanie. Prior to the 1888-1889 construction of the railway to Upper Batiscanie, every winter, ice roads were constructed on the Batiscan River by forest contractors to bring hundreds forest workers at a time, accompanied with their herds of horses (sometimes over 100 horses), their sleights, all required rigging and provisions for the use of forest sites in Middle or Upper Batiscanie Batiscanie. These men and their horses coming back down in the spring by the same ice roads before the great debacle. These ice roads should avoid areas where the ice was weak (especially in the rapids or falls) by clearing the pathways on the mainland. The construction of the railway along the Batiscan River and roads (public or private), have reduced the need to use these long ice roads. However, the ice roads continued to be appointed at various places for local needs to cross the river.</p><br>
<h2>Leisure</h2><br>
<p>The Island of the Cross is known for wild camping and various outdoor activities. The island turns to be a breakpoint or starting point for raids by boat down the river to Notre-Dame-de-Montauban. Many canoeists begin their expedition down the rapids of the Batiscan River from the Canadian National Railway iron bridge that spans the mouth of the Miguick River (Quebec), located just in front of the island.</p><br>
<p>The Jacksonville Historic District is a historic district encompassing 696 buildings in Jacksonville, Illinois. The buildings in the district were mainly constructed from 1829 to the 1930s and represent nearly every popular architectural style from the period. The Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne styles are especially prevalent in the district. The district includes the campuses of two prominent Jacksonville educational institutions: Illinois College and the Illinois School for the Deaf. Illinois College, the first college in Illinois to grant a degree, was founded in 1829; its first building, Beecher Hall, is the oldest building in the district. The Illinois School for the Deaf was established in 1839 by the Illinois Legislature for the education of hearing-impaired students. Aside from these two institutions, the majority of the district is residential and includes many of Jacksonville&#39;s most historically and architecturally significant homes. The district is considered to have retained its historic character well, as 650 of its buildings are considered contributing buildings and the number of recent buildings in the district has been called "remarkably low".</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Old House is the house of Hristić family which is located at Nikole Pašića 49, Tijabara, Pirot, built in 1848. and in 1953. it was protected by the state of Serbia, and in 1979 it becomes the monument of culture of exceptional Importance of Serbia. After that Old house became a museum. It represents the best preserved monument of traditional architecture from the mid-19th century in Pirot. It belonged to a respectable trader Hrista Jovanović.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to tradition, construction time lasted two years and the house was completed in 5. April 1848. This is confirmed with a text engraved on the floor of the house. For building the house, Mali Rista as he was called, needed a permission from the Turkish authorities, because he was going to build a big house with floors. Thus, on the outskirts of Pirot, was built one of the most luxurious houses that was not Turkish but Christian, at that time. Unfortunately, there is no information anywhere about the craftsmen who built it. And to this day it remains an enigma, who came up with the idea to build such a house - whether the Mali Rista who traveling the Ottoman Empire for its trading operations or extraordinary craftsmen who built into her blend of fantasy and architectural experience.</p><br>
<p>In this house lived Hrista Jovanović with his family, and later his successors, whose last name was Jovanović, overturned in Hristic. After World War II, the house changed its purpose because the Municipality of Pirot awarded the newly created National Museum in Pirot.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>House was built in the Balkan Oriental style, with all details in the house tell us. Characterised by the harmony of interior space and the luxury of the facade and roof at the same time. Half-timbering construction and master skills grants its astonishing ease, in other words its very light house in one hand and very big in other hand. It&#39;s basically symmetrical building type that almost square shaped, with cross-shaped hall. It consists of a basement, ground floor and first floor. The crown of the building makes it a unique solution to the gazebo roof construction. On the bright white facade main decorative elements are wooden window frames and wall corners are covered with decorated molded bars. From the porch to the ground floor hall is a main entrance, where on the left and right side are rooms for sleeping. In addition to the hall is a fireplace and behind it is a storage for flour and wood. Wooden steps lead to the second floor which leads into the spacious living room on the first floor, which is divided into:</p><br>
<p>a central section with shelves and a fireplace</p><br>
<p>veranda of the men&#39;s room,</p><br>
<p>women&#39;s room.</p><br>
<p>Around the hall rooms are arranged one after another, each with interesting name and different purpose: bedrooms, Kandil room, great room, safe room, and sar&#39;k room. The ground floor was used for the daily life of residents and upper first floor for the reception of prominent guests. From the second floor lead stairs to the platform which rises the view from the lookout on the roof. Roof has wide eaves, which are rimmed with shingles consisted of a wreath of tympanum above each window. The roof is covered with tiles. Unique solution for the roof makes the house special even for the Balkan region.</p><br>
<p>The interior is decorated with waterwheel engraved in wood. The best production quality of waterwheel is placed in the ground floor and it is assumed that it is work of masters from the famous Debar school.</p><br>
<h2>Trivia</h2><br>
<h3>Filmed movies</h3><br>
<p>Due to the fact that the house of Hrista Jovanović maintained the authentic look and atmosphere of the Serbian patriarchal home, it served to the film crew, with filming the movie "Zona Zamfirova", as a recording space. A good part of the movie was filmed in the old house for the reason that in the movie hadzi Zamfir lived there and the shooting had to be done there in a good part of the film. Also, in that house another cilt movie was filmed and its name is "Ivkova slava", where almost the entire course of the film takes place in the house and around the house in the courtyard.</p><br>
<h3>Hrista Jovanović - Mali Rista</h3><br>
<p>Hrista Jovanović better known as Čučuk Rista or Mali Rasta, in his lifetime was a prominent merchant in Pirot and throughout the Ottoman Empire. It was originally settled in the Zavoj village, submerged in the second half of the 19th century, and later he came down from the village and settled near Pirot in 1830. In the period when he lived in the Zavoj village, he was not a merchant but he became a merchant when he settled near Pirot and his progres and success in that was very fast. Based on his resourcefulness in that business he became Kalauz which means that his duty was to collect taxes in cattle and butter for Vidin pasha, and he became all that only after the proposal of the Çorbacı and Turkish authorities from Pirot in 1840. He worked for some time for Usein pasha on the area of Pirot district and after that he became independent. At that time, he gained an enviable wealth from commerce via Ottoman Empire. He traveled to Niš, Leskovac, Vidin, Sofia, Carigrad with purpose to sell his goods. In 1845. he gets a permission to buil a house and construction works was finished after 3 years in 1848. After that, this house was known as a quarters of Mali Rista, later better known as Old House. However, he vas voracious and sell over and over the same stuff to the Turkish army, and because of that he was expelled from Pirot by Sadrezam pasha. Exile was the final chapter of Mali Rista&#39;s life, and then was finished a story of respectable merchant Hrista Jovanović.</p><br>
<h4>Mali Rista's room</h4><br>
<p>In Pirot, an that time, Bulgarians were forced to obey to the Turkish authorities and so, Mali Rista decided to make some changes about that. He came to some idea to force Turkish authorities to obey to him, but how you asking? Mali Rista was a short man, in other hand like a dwarf, so he made one room in the Old house, just for him, with very low ceiling. In that room, where he was sleeping and receiving guests, the Turkish authorities, which was very tall, must to bend down and obay if they want to enter the room. On the question of the authorities "What is this all about", Mali Rista simply answered "I&#39;m a short man, so my room is smaller, it is made only for me", so they can not arrest him for disrespect. In that way, he made to force Turkish authorities to obay to him, which in that time was unthinkable.</p><br>
<p>Balthis House, also known as E.C. Balthis Blacksmith Shop Property and Balthis&#39; Old Stand, is a historic home located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1787, and is a two-story, five bay, timber frame vernacular Federal style dwelling. The original section is three bay and the house was expanded to its present size in the mid-19th century, at the same time as the addition of the two-story brick rear ell. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen dependency and playhouse / gazebo.</p><br>
<p>The house is now owned by the Warren Heritage Society and is open for tours.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It is located in the Front Royal Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Killahevlin is an historic home located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>It is a large -story, Queen Anne-style brick dwelling, built about 1905 for William E. Carson, president of the Riverton Lime Company.</p><br>
<p>Carson directed the formation of Virginias recreational parks system, established the states system of historical road markers, and was instrumental in the creation of the Shenandoah National Park and the Skyline Drive.</p><br>
<p>In 1906, at the age of 36, Carson married Agnes Holladay McCarthy in Richmond.</p><br>
<p>The upcoming marriage provided an impetus for the construction of the Riverton home where the couple would live for the next thirty-six years. The house was called "Killahevlin," after the Irish home of a boyhood friend where Carson had often visited. This estate has now grown into the famous Killyhevlin Lakeside Hotel in Enniskillen, Ireland.</p><br>
<p>Designed by the Washington, D.C., firm of A. B. Mullett and Co., Killahevlin is a distinctive Front Royal landmark. The modified Queen Anne style house contains fine early 20th-century interior woodwork and other arresting architectural detail.</p><br>
<p>Other trademark Mullet designs include Capitol Park Hotel, Hotel Harris, Farmers and Merchants Bank, and the Annex to the Union Trust Building—all in Washington; Visitation Monastery, Alta Vista, Maryland; and residences in Washington and the environs.</p><br>
<p>Carson&#39;s older brother, A. C. Carson, was generally known as Kit after the famous American frontiersman. Kit had studied law at the University of Virginia and, in 1893, had gone to work in the Winchester legal firm of Richard Evelyn Byrd.</p><br>
<p>For many years, the Carson family enjoyed a friendly and fruitful relationship with the Byrd’s and, through them, with Virginia&#39;s Democratic Party.</p><br>
<p>Will Carson served for thirty years on the Democratic State Central Committee (1910-1940), and his work with the Conservation and Development Commission was highly praised by the press and public, despite a controversy over his highly personalized management of its programs. He was mentioned as a possible candidate for the governorship in 1929 and again in 1933.</p><br>
<p>In 1933, as a memorial to their only son, who had died of pneumonia at the age of 17, the Carson’s donated 63 acres of land for a public golf and country club to the town. The Front Royal Golf Club still operates an 18-hole course initially built to Carson’s design.</p><br>
<p>Carson retired from the political arena to Killahevlin and died in 1942.</p><br>
<p>Also on the property are the contributing guesthouse/water tower and two gazebos. The house has in the past been operated as a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Warren County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse complex located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. It was built in 1935-1936, and is a two-story, stone faced concrete block, Colonial Revival style building. It consists of a central rectangular block with a pedimented gable roof and smaller flanking recessed wings. The central block is topped by a three-stage cupola with an open and domed belfry. Also on the property are the contributing brick clerk&#39;s office , brick jail , and two war memorials - a Confederate Monument, dedicated in 1911, and an obelisk honoring veterans of World Wars I and II.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It is located in the Front Royal Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Front Royal Historic District is a national historic district located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. The district encompasses approximately 470 contributing buildings and structures in the town of Front Royal. It has a mix of commercial, residential, industrial, religious and governmental buildings dating from the late-18th to mid-20th centuries. Notable buildings include the former Proctor-Biggs Mill , a former apple warehouse, Murphys Theater , Comptons Corner , first Bank of Warren, Trout Drugstore Building, second Bank of Warren building , Montview Hotel , Park Theater , the Henry Trout House , Mullen-Trout House , Giles-Cooke House , and the Dr. Manly Littleton Garrison . Located in the district and separately listed are the Balthis House and Warren County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Front Royal Recreational Park Historic District, also known as the Front Royal Country Club, is a national historic district located near Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. The district encompasses 3 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 3 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object near the town of Front Royal. The park was constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1938. The historic resources on the property include a garage, and greenskeeper&#39;s house, the golf course, the tennis courts, swimming pool, and original shelter, as well as a stone drinking fountain and a stone memorial marker. The property is operated as a public golf course by Warren County. The original clubhouse was lost in the flood of 1996 and rebuilt in 1998.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>FRONT ROYAL RECREATIONAL PARK HISTORIC DISTRICT, WARREN COUNTY, VA.jpgGarage in 2016</p><br>
<p>Getskär and Renskär are two islands in the north of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Kalix archipelago, that have become joined through uplift of the land due to post-glacial rebound and are now one.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Getskär and Renskär are in the small Storöns archipelago, part of the larger Kalix archipelago, which itself is part of the Norrbotten archipelago that encompasses all the Swedish islands in the north of the Bay of Bothnia. Until recently they were separate islands, but have been joined due to uplift.</p><br>
<p>As of 2013 there were no tour boats so a sail or power boat, or perhaps a canoe or kayak, would be needed to reach the island.</p><br>
<p>Getskär is about 1 km south of Rånön.</p><br>
<p>Other islands in the group are Hastaskäret and Berghamn.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island was once a major center for fishermen and seal hunters. There remain traces of simple dwellings, later fishermen&#39;s cottages and stone mounds on which nets would have been dried. There is a maze made out of boulders, whose purpose may have been to appease the gods and ensure a good catch of fish.</p><br>
<p>There is a small old fishing village from the late 18th century in the southeast.</p><br>
<p>There are also the remains of a chapel from this period that has been allowed to decay.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Getskär/Renskär is part of the Likskär nature reserve.</p><br>
<p>The port of Getskärsviken is well protected except from strong easterly winds.</p><br>
<p>The harbor depth is 3 m and has berths for fifteen boats.</p><br>
<p>There is a sandy beach in the southern part of the bay, a stone pier and a floating dock.</p><br>
<p>There are barbecues on the beach with seats, firewood storage, trails, restrooms, and a sauna.</p><br>
<p>Renskär forms the larger, southern part of the combined island.</p><br>
<p>A trail leads from the sandy beach to the old fishing village in the south, passing the maze and running along a rocky ridge before reaching the village.</p><br>
<p>The trail then leads back to the beach by another route.</p><br>
<p>The Moonlite Theatre, also known as the Moonlite Drive-In, is a historic drive-in theater located near Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. It was built in 1949. Remaining original building and structures include the 65-foot-tall screen tower and office wing, the ticket booth, the concession stand/projector booth building, and the neon-illuminated attraction board at the edge of the highway. The theatre includes 454 parking/viewing spaces designed as reverse-incline ramps.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, and was one of few drive-in theaters nationwide to be awarded that distinction.</p><br>
<p>The Moonlite closed in 2013 and was in danger of being lost due to neglect. Some renovation work was begun in late 2016 under an agreement establishing joint ownership of the theater and through monetary and labor contributions from private individuals. Although these were not yet complete, it re-opened and began showing its traditional week-end double features in October 2016.</p><br>
<p>As of March, 2017, the agreement that led to the renovations has come under dispute and a lawsuit has been filed. (Dark Side of the Moonlite: Lawsuit filed against owner of Moonlite Drive-in, BRISTOL HERALD COURIER Mar 24, 2017)</p><br>
<p>The future of the theater is in unclear and the owner has it listed for sale with an asking price of $1.25 million.</p><br>
<p>Abingdon Historic District is a national historic district located at Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. The district encompasses 145 contributing buildings, 2 contributing site, and 13 contributing structures in the town of Abingdon. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings dating from the late-18th century to the mid-20th century. Notable contributing resources include Sinking Spring Cemetery, William King High School , General Francis Preston House , Martha Washington Inn, Barter Theatre, the Virginia House, Alexander Findlay House , Gabriel Stickley House , Ann Berry House , Washington County Courthouse , Rev. Charles Cummings House , and James Fields House . Located in the district and separately listed are the Abingdon Bank and Dr. William H. Pitts House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, with a boundary increase in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Likskär is an island in the north of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Kalix archipelago, and a nature reserve that covers part of this and neighboring islands.</p><br>
<h2>Island</h2><br>
<p>Likskär is about 4 km southeast of the southern tip of Rånön, the largest island in the archipelago.</p><br>
<p>The nearest mainland port is Storön, Kalix.</p><br>
<p>Likskär island is rocky, and contains an old fishing village.</p><br>
<p>There is some sparse forest, but most of the island is covered with rocks.</p><br>
<p>The ground cover is rich in flora and supports diverse fauna.</p><br>
<p>There are many birds of different species.</p><br>
<p>Likskär is relatively new, as are the other islands in the region, having formed from post-glacial rebound after the last ice age and emerged from the sea after around 500 AD.</p><br>
<p>This process continues, with the land rising by about 85 cm per century. The existing islands expand and new islands slowly emerge.</p><br>
<p>As the islands emerge they are battered by waves and ice, forming large fields of rubble. The bedrock and the boulder beaches consist of granite with large eyes of feldspar.</p><br>
<p>The water is brackish, with salinity of only around 0.2%.</p><br>
<h2>Nature reserve</h2><br>
<h3>Islands</h3><br>
<p>The Likskär nature reserve, the only one in the Kalix archipelago, was established in 1969.</p><br>
<p>It includes 25 islands and smaller islets, and is part of the European Union&#39;s Natura 2000 network.</p><br>
<p>The largest island, Getskär-Renskär, is the most visited.</p><br>
<p>There are traces of old fishing villages, including simple dwellings and mounds for drying nets, and several mazes made of boulders on Likskär and Renskär.</p><br>
<p>Fishermen&#39;s houses on Renskär and Likskär are now used as holiday homes.</p><br>
<p>Visitors may camp in designated areas and make fires using wood that they bring.</p><br>
<p>Visitors may hike, pick berries and mushrooms and fish, but hunting and snowmobiling are prohibited.</p><br>
<p>During the bird breeding season of May June and July, boats must not come closer than 200 m to the islands of Ligogrunnan, Splitterören, Olnisbrottet, Mellangrundsbotten and nearby islets.</p><br>
<h3>Flora</h3><br>
<p>The oldest islands have dense forest cover. Newer ones may have stands of juniper, meadows or bare gravel.</p><br>
<p>Many of the beach plants of the Bothnian Bay are found in the nature reserve. These are hardy plants that can survive the scraping motion of the ice sheets that form in winter and advance as the ice expands, and can handle tides of brackish water that vary by up to 3 m.</p><br>
<p>Away from the shore there are meadows with plants such as eyebright and valerian, then shrubs like buckthorn, willow and bog myrtle, and then a border of alder surrounding spruce forests.</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<p>The varied vegetation supports a variety of birds and animals.</p><br>
<p>Elk are often found on Renskär-Getskär, and resident mammals include fox, squirrel, ermine and plentiful hares.</p><br>
<p>The Papilio machaon butterfly can sometimes be seen.</p><br>
<p>Characteristic birds on Renskär-Getskär include pine grosbeaks, black grouses, rock ptarmigans and capercaillies.</p><br>
<p>Likskär is relatively barren, but at Hedmarkerna there are willow ptarmigans, wheatears, Temminck&#39;s stints and turnstones.</p><br>
<p>Herring gulls, terns, guillemots and ruddy turnstones nest on Likskärsrevet and Ligogrunnan, and there are spotted redshanks on the smaller islands.</p><br>
<p>The Old Morrison Mill is a historic gristmill in Burnt Prairie, Illinois. The mill was originally constructed in 1859 in Enfield and was moved to Burnt Prairie in the late nineteenth century, replacing another mill built in 1820. The mill served as the farming communitys local grain processing facility, converting wheat to flour and corn to meal. While the mill was originally horse-powered, a wood-fueled boiler was installed in 1897; the boilers power source later changed to coal, a diesel engine, and ultimately electricity. Parkin and Martin owned the mill after its relocation to Burnt Prairie until brothers R.S. and Cal Morrison purchased it in 1897. R.S. Morrison died in 1931; his sons continued to operate the mill with Cal until 1963. The mill currently sits vacant and houses a variety of well-preserved milling tools and machinery.</p><br>
<p>The mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 11, 1984.</p><br>
<p>James Monroe Family Home Site, also known as James Monroes Birthplace, is a historic archaeological site located near Oak Grove and Colonial Beach, Westmoreland County, Virginia. The site includes the ruins of the Monroe Family Home and birthplace of President James Monroe , which were uncovered in 1976, by a team from the College of William & Mary. Monroe spent his entire youth working the farm until he left for his education at the College of William & Mary. The archaeological team uncovered a house foundation measuring 20 feet by 58 feet. The known 1845 etchings of the birth home indicate a small four room, rough cut wooden farm house with few outbuildings on a 500-acre farm filled with wetlands. The archaeological study clearly indicated that James Monroes beginnings were humble.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with a boundary increase in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Alexis Phelps House is a historic home located on the Mississippi River in Oquawka, Illinois, United States. The New England style house was built in 1832-1833 by Alexis Phelps, a fur trader and one of the first settlers of the region. Phelps, who was born in Palmyra, New York, settled on a piece of land known as Yellow Banks, which his brother Stephen had purchased in 1828. Alexis and Stephen Phelps founded Oquawka, which they named for the Native American name for Yellow Banks, in 1836. Stephen A. Douglas, who frequently presided over the Henderson County Circuit Court, stayed in the house during his visits to Oquawka. The house was also rumored to be a stop on the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1982. The Henderson County Historical Society rehabilitated the house in the 1980s, saving it from demolition. The historical society now leases the house for events.</p><br>
<p>The Pike-Sheldon House, located at 406 S. 3rd St. in Monmouth, Illinois, is a historic home and the birthplace of lawman Wyatt Earp. The house features an Upright and Wing plan with a Greek Revival design; its two-story upright section was constructed circa 1841, while its one-story wing was added circa 1868. The Upright and Wing plan was popular among houses built in the early settlement of the Midwest. The home&#39;s Greek Revival elements include a wide banded frieze, sash windows, and cornice returns. Wyatt Earp was born in the home in 1848, while his aunt was renting the house. The house is one of the oldest homes in Monmouth and one of only two Upright and Wing homes remaining in the city.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Wyatt Earp Birthplace Museum now occupies the house.</p><br>
<p>Halsön, or Halsögrund, is an island in the north of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Skellefteå archipelago.</p><br>
<p>It includes the formerly separate island of Granön, so is sometimes called Halsön-Granön.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Halsön is about 10 km south of Byske on the mainland, just west of the larger island of Romelsön.</p><br>
<p>Between 1870 and 1903 there was a steam sawmill on the island.</p><br>
<p>The Byske boat club has their clubhouse on the island. There is a marina with 30 berths, a sauna, and the clubhouse with a kitchen.</p><br>
<h2>Environment</h2><br>
<p>Halsön is covered by forest plantations, but has three bays of environmental interest.</p><br>
<p>Kvällsmålsviken is in the shoal area between Romelsön and Halsön, surrounded by fine meadows and coastal hardwood.</p><br>
<p>Granöviken also has coastal hardwood that has rich bird life. The bay at Furuskogen has valuable stonewort.</p><br>
<p>These flads are very productive due to naturally high levels of nutrients, ample light and relatively warm water, supporting rich fauna and flora.</p><br>
<p>They are important reproduction and nursery areas for fry and small fish, and provide nesting and rest areas for many bird species.</p><br>
<p>Some of the species in this environment, such as stoneworts, are also rare and in some cases threatened.</p><br>
<p>Halsön, or Halsö, is an island in the Bothnian Sea, in the Kvarken Archipelago of Finland. It is in the Korsnäs municipality.</p><br>
<p>The island is marshy and wooded. It is used in part for forestry, and has some vacation cabins. The west of the island is a protected nature reserve, with an unusual environment of flads and gloe lakes that provide refuges for fish and birds.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Korsnäs is the most western mainland municipality in Finland.</p><br>
<p>It has a long, rocky coastline along the Gulf of Bothnia.</p><br>
<p>The three largest islands are Halsön, Bredskäret and Södra Björkön, all used as important recreation areas for urban dwellers.</p><br>
<p>Halsön lies near the mainland to the south of Molpehällorna.</p><br>
<p>The archipelago, including Halson Island and the surrounding shallow sea, is characterized by an undulating moraine terrain with till surfaces rich in boulders. This is an effect of glaciation, where the granitic rocks were cracked by the ice and then transported by glaciers. Some very large boulders could have been carried to new locations by flowing glaciers or by floating icebergs.</p><br>
<p>WPD Finland Oy has stated plans to build a wind farm in public waters of the Korsnäs municipality.</p><br>
<p>The wind farm would be about 6 km from a conservation area on Halsön.</p><br>
<h2>Island</h2><br>
<p>Halsön island is 5 km north of the municipal center of Korsnäs.</p><br>
<p>It is 7.5 km from east to west, and 4.5 km from north to south.</p><br>
<p>The area is about 1,800 hectare.</p><br>
<p>Halsön is low-lying, with only a small part of the western end more than 10 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>About half of the island is over 5 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the island is mostly wet or marshland.</p><br>
<p>The western part of the island is a nature reserve. About 300 hectare in the east is used for forestry.</p><br>
<p>In the past the island was used for animal grazing. There are still some old barns, but they are badly decayed. There was a fishing village on the island up to the early 1900s, and there are the remains of several fish huts, docks, boat houses and storage pits. There are now a number of cottages on private land along the beach.</p><br>
<p>Until recently the island was extensively forested. The wood was hauled out using ice roads in the winter.</p><br>
<p>Reforestation was started with pine and spruce. Pine is the preferred tree for forestry and also for moose, who destroyed many of the young plants.</p><br>
<p>Spruce has been planted, but costs of forestry are high due to the difficulty of access to the island, and moose and deer continue to cause problems.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>Halsön is mostly forested.</p><br>
<p>There are some marshy areas where the ground is composed of a layer of peat moss.</p><br>
<p>Pines grow here with marsh ledum (rhododendron tomentosum), crowberry and heather.</p><br>
<p>Halsön also has many valuable flads and gloe lakes.</p><br>
<p>These are types of brackish lagoon typical of the flat land of the Finnish part of the Kvarken Archipelago.</p><br>
<p>A flad is a shallow bay where sea water only enters slowly, often obstructed by weeds and other water plants, and where fresh water dominates. As the land rises due to post-glacial rebound it becomes a gloe lake, receiving sea water only at high tide. Eventually the rising land turns the gloe lake into a freshwater lake.</p><br>
<p>The fine flads on Halsön are in various stages of development. They have abundant vegetation that gives shelter to fish fry and benthic invertebrates.</p><br>
<p>They are valuable habitats for spawning coastal fish such as northern pike, roach and perch.</p><br>
<p>Birds thrive in the shallow bays where they find plentiful food.</p><br>
<p>Species that have been observed include northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), greylag goose (Ansar anser), barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) and greater scaup (Aythya marila).</p><br>
<h2>Conservation</h2><br>
<p>The Kvarken archipelago, which includes Halsön and Molpehällor,</p><br>
<p>has been designated a Unesco World Heritage Site of outstanding natural significance.</p><br>
<p>A conservation area on Halsön is protected by the Nature Conservation Act under the national program for the protection of wetlands (1982).</p><br>
<p>The FENIKS III projects is seeking to develop tourism in the archipelago.</p><br>
<p>It includes maintenance and planning for the archipelago conservation areas to determine how the area can best be used for public recreation and tourism.</p><br>
<p>The project is financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the local municipalities.</p><br>
<p>The Babcock Building is an historic structure located off Bull St. in Columbia, South Carolina. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 30, 1981. The building is the second to house patients on the campus of South Carolina State Hospital, after the Mills Building proved to be insufficient in space to house its patients.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The first section of Babcock, was designed by George E. Walker in 1858. Walker died before the south wing was complete. The north wing was overseen by Gustavus T. Berg. The central portion, bearing the name and serving as the main entrance, was designed by architect Samuel Sloan. The structure was completed in 1885 after four building campaigns. Construction delays were the fault of funding and the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Through the years, additions were made to the building, including stairwells whose style and materials do not match that of the rest of the building. Several buildings were constructed directly adjacent to Babcock, but have since been removed.</p><br>
<h2>Style</h2><br>
<p>Following the Kirkbride Plan, Babcock was designed not to include subterranean housing of patients. Each wing of the structure is 3-4 stories with rooms broken up into manageable wards. For its time, the building was heavily fireproofed. It also utilized, for a time, gas lighting. The building does not completely comply with Kirkbride standards. Babcock does not have staggered blocks within its wings, as would be seen in a true Kirkbride. South Carolina Lunatic Asylum head physician Dr. Trezevant successfully argued that the staggering of blocks would not allow the ventilation needed for the warm southern climate. However, against Trezevant&#39;s wishes, the halls were built in a double-range, with rooms on either side of the hallway.</p><br>
<p>Babcock is noted as a particularly fine example of Italian Renaissance Revival architecture. Walker was previously known for his work in Romanesque and Gothic Revival. Though he died before even his own section was complete, his work became the basis for the rest of the buildings construction. Bergs Northern wing mirrors the design of the original in many ways.</p><br>
<p>Sloan&#39;s central section is crowned with a now iconic, twelve-sided cupola whose red domed roof can be seen from far across the city. This section also features the operating rooms, dormitories for staff, offices, and a chapel. Dining halls were added to the Eastern end of the central block in 1916.</p><br>
<h2>Historic uses</h2><br>
<p>Health care</p><br>
<p>Filming location for Chattahoochee</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<h3>Videos</h3><br>
<p>Brislington House  was built as a private lunatic asylum. When it opened in 1806 it was one of the first purpose-built asylums in England. It is situated on the Bath Road in Brislington, Bristol, although parts of the grounds cross the city boundary into the parish of Keynsham in Bath and North East Somerset.</p><br>
<p>The Palladian-fronted building was originally seven separate blocks into which patients were allocated depending on their class. The buildings, estate and therapeutic regime designed by Edward Long Fox were based on the principles of moral treatment that was fashionable at the time. Brislington House later influenced the design and construction of other asylums and influenced Acts of Parliament.</p><br>
<p>The house and ancillary structures are listed buildings that have now been converted into private residences. The original grounds are Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England and now include St. Brendan&#39;s Sixth Form College, sports pitches and some farmland. They are now included on the Heritage at Risk register.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The asylum was established by Edward Long Fox and considered state of the art when it opened in 1806, having been built on moral treatment ideas pioneered at the York Retreat, which had opened in 1796. Fox had an extensive private practice in Bristol and served as a physician at Bristol Infirmary before taking over a madhouse at Cleeve Hill in 1792. He had a range of different businesses locally and was able to pay £4,000 for the Brislington Estate. The site had previously been Brislington Common, which had been enclosed in 1780. The site, on the main road between Bristol and Bath, now the A4, enabled him to attract wealthy clients from both cities.</p><br>
<p>Fox divided the patients at Brislington House according to social class, 1st, 2nd and 3rd class ladies and gentlemen, who were housed in different blocks, as well as behavioural presentation. Fox insisted that patients should be separated from their families as they needed to move away from the conventional authority of the head of the household following the madness of King George III. It had erroneously been suggested that the king become a patient at Brislington House.</p><br>
<p>Each block had access to courtyards, known as airing courts, and the asylum was surrounded by extensive grounds. At the end of each courtyard were stone rooms used to house incontinent patients, who slept on straw beds. All buildings were made from stone and iron, avoiding the use of wood because of the potential fire hazard. Hot and cold plunge baths were also included, as Fox saw their use as an important part of treatment, which may have been related to his Quaker beliefs and John Wesley&#39;s advocacy of the practice. The total construction cost around £35,000. In addition to the wealthy private patients, paupers funded by parish funds were also admitted and kept in accommodation furthest from the central block, which was for the highest in society.</p><br>
<p>By 1844 there were 60 private patients. The building was refronted and a chapel added in 1851. The design of the buildings and the therapeutic regime were seen as models to be followed elsewhere, including at the General Lunatic Asylum of Nottingham at Sneinton, and the drafting of the 1808 County Asylums Act and Lunacy Act 1845.</p><br>
<p>The asylum continued to be owned and run by physicians from the Fox family until the Second World War. The asylum did not become part of the National Health Service when it was formed in 1948, being categorised as a "disclaimed hospital". In 1951 it was sold to the Royal United Hospital, who used it as a nurses&#39; home until the 1980s, when it became a care home for the elderly. In the 1990s it was converted into flats and its name changed to Long Fox Manor.</p><br>
<h3>Patients</h3><br>
<p>John Thomas Perceval, the son of Spencer Perceval, spent about a year at Brislington House, from 1831 until February 1832, and in recent years he has been hailed as a pioneer of the mental-health advocacy movement.</p><br>
<p>The artist Frank Miles was committed to Brislington House in 1887.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The front of the building is in the Palladian style, with a central block and two wings, all of which have slate roofs. The three-storey central block has a Doric porch and a nine-window range. The wings on either side have six-window ranges. On the southern end is an attached pavilion and on the northern end is the chapel, which contains a window from St Luke&#39;s Church, Brislington. The current layout was developed in the mid-19th century from the original separate blocks, which had been linked by a corridor at basement level.&lt</p><br>
<h2>Grounds</h2><br>
<p>The extensive grounds covered around 36 hectare with 2 hectare of kitchen gardens, 6 hectare of pleasure grounds and gardens, with the remaining 25 hectare being parkland, which is now largely covered with sports fields. They were laid out as part of the regimen of moral treatment that was in vogue when the asylum was built. They included pathways and walks including one along the cliff above the River Avon. There were also facilities for various recreational activities, including a bowling green and fives court, and later football and cricket pitches. The inclusion of a grotto and other eye-catching features, along with attractive views, may have been seen as therapeutic and based on the ideas of Archibald Alison as expressed in his work Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790). He based these on the principle of "association", which suggested that seeing objects of beauty could help to correct thought patterns.</p><br>
<p>There were several cottages on the estate, the first of which, The Beeches, was built for the Fox family. Swiss Cottage, which was built in 1819, was originally known as Carysfoot Cottage, when the Earl of Carysfort was a patient there. Lanesborough Cottage was built as accommodation for Lord Lanesborough. A garden alcove dating from around 1820 is a Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1950s The Beeches and a large part of the grounds were sold for the establishment of St. Brendan&#39;s Sixth Form College. The grounds, which are Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England, are now on the Heritage at Risk register of Historic England.</p><br>
<p>Bushfield, also known as Bushfield Manor, is a historic plantation house located at Mount Holly, Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was built in the 18th century, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick, center-passage, and single-pile dwelling. In 1916, noted architect Waddy Butler Wood renovated and enlarged the dwelling in the Colonial Revival style. It features a portico and lantern reflecting the propertys association with the family of George Washington. Also on the property are a contributing Bungalow-style Caretakers House, barn, silo, and cemetery. Bushfield was the homestead of John Bushrod and John Augustine Washington , brother to George Washington.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Newport Castle  is a castle located in Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales.</p><br>
<p>It is suggested that Newport Castle was founded by the first Lord Marcher of Kemes, Martin de Turribus in 1191 and rebuilt by his son William at the end of the 12th Century. None of this original castle survives, with the oldest remaining parts of the building thought to date to the late 13th century. The castle was captured by Llywelyn the Great in 1215 and Llywelyn the Last in 1257 but on both occasions was recaptured. Ownership of the castle was transferred to Lord Audley in 1324.</p><br>
<p>The castle suffered extensive damage during the Welsh Revolt at the start of the 15th century. The castle was temporarily transferred to the crown when the then Lord Audley, James, was executed for high treason and all his lands seized in 1497, but these were returned to his son in 1534. William Owen of Henllys bought the castle nine years later.</p><br>
<p>A three-storey private residence was built in 1859 on the site of the castles gate-house, as part of renovations carried out by the owner at the time, Sir Thomas Lloyd, during which one of the flanking towers of the gatehouse was demolished. Three other towers at the corners of the building remain, along with a curtain wall. A vaulted crypt adjoins the south-eastern tower.</p><br>
<p>The castle was listed with Grade I status on 16 January 1952. Today, the building remains in private ownership and is not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>John Fox Jr. House, also known as the John Fox Jr. Museum, is a historic home located at Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia. It is named for the American author John Fox Jr., who lived there from 1890 until 1919.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Fox Jr. first visited the Cumberland Gap area while a student at Harvard College. His two older brothers, James and Horace, owned coal mines in Jellico, Tennessee, and the three came to the area as speculators and mineral developers in 1888. While exploring the area for business, John Fox became more and more fascinated with the region and its people, eventually abandoning his real estate interests for his writing. Works like The Trail of the Lonesome Pine and The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come reflected both his interest as well as a general interest among American readers for the Appalachian people.</p><br>
<p>Despite his frequent travels, Fox had his productive writing period in the home on Shawnee Avenue and it is here that he wrote his most famous works. The original section of the Fox home was built in 1890, as a four room cottage. The house was subsequently expanded to a two-story, 20 room dwelling. The frame dwelling sits on a stone foundation.</p><br>
<p>Fritzi Scheff, a singer with the Metropolitan Opera, was fascinated by the region through reading Fox&#39;s stories. After divorcing her husband, she married Fox and came to live in the home with him; the two became local celebrities. However, she was disappointed to find Appalachian life less exciting than she anticipated and the two divorced in 1913.</p><br>
<h2>House today</h2><br>
<p>The house was opened as a museum in 1970 and is today operated by the Lonesome Pine Arts and Crafts Association. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The property remains furnished the way it was during the time of the Fox family&#39;s residence there.</p><br>
<p>Stonega Historic District is a national historic district located at Appalachia, Wise County, Virginia. The district encompasses 80 contributing buildings in the coal company town of Stonega. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings built after the towns&#39; founding in 1895. Notable buildings include the Catholic Church , Stonega Colored Methodist Church , Stonega Colored School / Community Building, Stonega Bath House , and Stonega Colored School.</p><br>
<p>Large homes were built for company doctors and less grand but almost as large was a house for the superintendent. Ten, Four and Seven car garages were also built for cars.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Omalos  is a small village in western Crete, in the Mousouroi unit of the Chania region. The Greek word Ομαλός means even, plain, regular, or smooth, referring to the plateau.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Omalos is situated at the northeastern corner of the Omalos Plateau (οροπέδιο του Ομαλού), 38 km south of Chania in the White Mountains (Lefka Ori). The plateau has an area of 15 km, and lies on the intersection of three districts, namely the Mousouroi unit of Platanias (previously Kydonia), Sfakia and East Selino. Although the settlement is in Mousouroi, most of the plateau lies in East Selino.</p><br>
<p>The plateau has three approaches, from the west, from the Chania-Sougia road, from the north at Omalos and from the south where one descends through the Samariá Gorge to the coast at Agia Roumeli on the Libyan Sea. Omalos itself is about 5 km from the entrance to the gorge at Xyloskalo, and derives most of its importance from its association with trekking. An old stone mule track connects Omalos with Agia Eirini to the west, from whence access to the next gorge to the west, the Agia Eirini Gorge is made.</p><br>
<p>The cooler climate and fertile soil lends itself to growing vegetables and fruit such as potatoes and apples, together with cereals. Small round stone houses (mitata) are used for making local cheese (graviera).</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Originally a lake, it is thought to have lost its waters through the Tzani Cave. The cave is found to the right of the winding road from Omalos, descending towards Chania, about 1.6 km from Omalos.</p><br>
<p>At Xyloskalo (1250m), two peaks rise - Gingilos (2080m) and Volakias (2116m), which legend associates with the throne of Zeus, who was born in Crete. Further west are Agathopi (1768m) and Psilafi (1984m), supposedly Zeus&#39; racing grounds, but now slalom ski racing.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the uprisings against the Ottoman Empire. the Turks rarely managed to penetrate the plateau. The name Omalos is said to have derived from a revolutionary song "Πότε θα κάνει ξαστεριά πότε θα Φλεβαρίσει να πάρω το τουφέκι μου...να κατεβώ στον Ομαλό"</p><br>
<p>The Tzani cave is named after Tzanis Markos a revolutionary chieftain in the early years of the Turkish invasion who made it his lair. He was nicknamed "Fobos" (fear). The cave is about 2.5 km long, and descends 241 metres. It is actually a covered gorge.</p><br>
<p>The Cretan revolutionary Hatzimichalis Giannaris (1833-1916) was born in nearby Lakkoi, and was prominent in the 1855-1869 conflicts, captured but escaped from prison in Chania and then exiled to Odessa. In 1912 he was elected to the Greek parliament. Although he died in Chania his wish was to be buried in Omalos, where by the Tzani cave stands a church dedicated to him.</p><br>
<p>During World War II the plateau was used as an airfield.</p><br>
<p>The William W. Kimball House is a private residence located at 1801 Prairie Avenue in the Near South Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 9, 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1890&ndash;92 for William Wallace Kimball, a piano manufacturer. Kimball reportedly spent $1,000,000 on the home. At the time, Prairie Avenue was known for its expensive homes designed in popular revival styles, and the district was home to many of Chicagos wealthiest residents. The Kimball House and the John J. Glessner House are the main two surviving examples of the districts homes of the late 1800s. The house now serves as the headquarters of the USA Soccer Federation.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Kimball house was designed by architect Solon Spencer Beman in the Châteauesque style. The houses design features a number of turrets with a variety of roof shapes, a limestone exterior, and an elliptical bow window topped by an ornamented gable facing Prairie Avenue. The design is considered a significant example of the Châteauesque style by architectural historians; John Drury called the house "Chicagos best Châteauesque design" in 1941, and Marcus Whiffen cited the house as a representative example of Châteauesque architecture in America.</p><br>
<p>Loretto is a historic home located at Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia. The original section was built in 1852, and is a two-story, single-pile, center-passage-plan dwelling that now forms the rear section of the house. The two-story, brick front section was added in the 1880s, and has a mansard roof in the Second Empire style. The interior has the Greek Revival style decorative details. A two-story front portico was added in 1911, a one-story rear brick ell was added in 1912, and a porte-cochère and pergola were added in 1927. Also on the property are the contributing log smokehouse , a double-pen, v-notched log slave quarters and kitchen , and a frame building known as the office.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Sanders Farm is a historic home and farm located at Max Meadows, Wythe County, Virginia. The Brick House was built about 1880, and is a two-story, "T"-shaped, Queen Anne style brick farmhouse. It features ornamental gables and porches. Also on the property are the contributing cold frame with a stepped front parapet , a vaulted stone spring house, a one-story brick servants quarters , a cinder block store with an upstairs apartment and an accompanying privy , a frame vehicle repair shop , a stone reservoir  two corn crib, a frame gambrel-roofed barn, a one-story tenant house , stone bridge abutments, and the site of the Hematite Iron Company Mine , a complex of rock formations and tram line beds.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Romelsön, is an island in the north of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Skellefteå archipelago.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Romelsön is the second largest island in the Skellefteå Municipality.</p><br>
<p>Despite its location, the island is owned by Piteå Municipality.</p><br>
<p>It is about 10 km south of Byske on the mainland, just east of the smaller island of Halsön.</p><br>
<p>The island is separated from the mainland by a narrow channel.</p><br>
<p>Because the land is rising due to post-glacial rebound the island is slowly growing and the channel becoming narrower.</p><br>
<p>Romelsön is 4.5 km long and 1.9 km wide. The highest elevation is about 30 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>The island is used as an outdoor recreation destination, accessible by boat. There are about ten cottages on the north side.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There is archaeological evidence that the island was an important fishing center in Viking times.</p><br>
<p>In 1890 a bronze object shaped like the head of an animal was found in a rubble field.</p><br>
<p>The find was not reported until 1952, and the exact site of the find was unknown, but it was thought to be a burial mound.</p><br>
<p>The object was the end of a strap fitting.</p><br>
<p>Based on similar objects found elsewhere that can be dated, the object is from the first half of the 11th century.</p><br>
<p>There is a maze from the same period.</p><br>
<p>The foundation of a house has been found that may have been used by fishermen, seal hunters and merchants around that time.</p><br>
<p>The island is mentioned in 1543 in the Jordabok (Land book) of King Gustav Vasa as "Rumholsöijarne", owned by the farmers of Ostvik.</p><br>
<p>Queen Christina (1626–1689) gave the island and fishing grounds to the burghers of Piteå in 1652.</p><br>
<p>In the 18th and 19th century the largest fishing village on the coast developed, but there were no more than 20 fishing cottages.</p><br>
<p>There were also boathouses and drying racks for fishing nets.</p><br>
<h2>Environment</h2><br>
<p>The environment is diverse. There are sparse pine forests, coastal spruce forest and small regions of spruce-dominated swamp forest, lakes and wetlands, meadows and sedge marshes. The island is fringed by sand beaches with dunes, shingle beaches and rocks.</p><br>
<p>Some of the shallow bays are flads evolving into gloe lakes.</p><br>
<p>The island is rich in bird species, including rare and endangered species.</p><br>
<p>Most of the island is used for commercial forestry, but there is a small strip of virgin forest along the south and southeast, mostly on rocky ground.</p><br>
<p>These are the oldest undisturbed forests in the Skellefteå archipelago and in Västerbotten County.</p><br>
<p>The old forest is sparse, made up of pines around 200–300 years old, with much dead wood.</p><br>
<p>The eastern part includes huge pines four hundred year old or more.</p><br>
<p>The old forest supports an impressive number of rare or regionally endangered species of fungi.</p><br>
<p>It is recognized as of high conservation value for the fungi, and to some extent for its vascular plants and birds.</p><br>
<p>As of 2003 there was no formal protection.</p><br>
<p>Foster Falls Historic District is a national historic district located near Max Meadows, Wythe County, Virginia. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures in the village of Foster Falls. They are primarily industrial and commercial buildings and structures built in the late-19th century. They include the iron furnace stack, the rail bed and frame railroad passenger station , a general store building, and a combination gristmill/sawmill. The district and includes the Foster Falls Hotel, a late-Victorian style brick building. The hotel property includes two brick dependencies associated with an orphanage that occupied the hotel building beginning in 1938. It now serves as the headquarters of the New River Trail State Park.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Wytheville Historic District is a national historic district located at Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia. The district encompasses 245 contributing buildings in the historic core of the town of Wytheville. They are primarily residential and commercial buildings and structures dating from about the 1830s to early 1940s. Notable buildings include the Fleming K. Rich House , Edith Bolling Galt Wilson Birthplace, Ephraim McGavock House , Holy Trinity Lutheran Church , Wytheville AM&O station , Wythe County Courthouse , George Wythe Hotel , Millwald Theatre , Trinkle Mansion, and Wytheville Municipal Building , The Haller-Gibboney Rock House and St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church are located in the district and listed separately.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Trollgarden is a glacial moraine in the municipality of Hjelmeland in Rogaland county, Norway. The moraine is a 5 m tall ridge of stones, rocks, and boulders that runs for about 2 km from the east side of the lake Kvivatnet across the moorland to the northern side of the mountain Brendeknuten in the Hjelmelandsheiane mountains. The name "Trollgarden" is translated to English as The Troll&#39;s stone fence since it looks like a rock wall that a troll may have built around its farm. The ridge sits about 8 km southeast of the village of Jøsenfjorden and about 25 km northeast of the village of Hjelmelandsvågen.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>In the old days, people thought it was magic powers such as trolls that had built the massive stone fence far into the Hjelmeland moors. The geological explanation is that, when the glacial ice retreated, the stones were deposited in the mountains. To see Trollgarden, one must hike for about two hours to reach the moraine. The 5 m tall ridge is clearly visible in the bare mountains, at an elevation of just over 800 m above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The geology of the Trollgarden area was thoroughly investigated and described by Professor Bjørn G. Andersen in his Master&#39;s thesis (1954) ”Om isens tilbaketrekking i området mellom Lysefjorden og Jøsenfjorden i Ryfylke” (On the glacial retreat in the area between the Lysefjorden and Jøsenfjorden in Ryfylke).</p><br>
<p>Belmont, also known as the Ficklin Mansion, is a historic home located at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built about 1820 for John Winn by Jefferson brick mason John Jordan. Originally it had a center pavilion with lower symmetrical side wings but a second story was added to the wings by John Winn&#39;s son Benjamin Bannister Winn about 1840. It is a brick dwelling showing both Greek Revival and Federal details as it was built during the transition between the two styles. It features pedimented portico supported by four square paneled columns resting on a raised brick base.</p><br>
<p>The 551-acre estate was sold at auction to Slaughter Ficklin in 1847 and he renamed it Belmont from the original Belle-mont and turned it into a renowned horse farm. In 1890 the estate was subdivided and is now the Belmont neighborhood of Charlottesville. The house has been divided into apartments.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Dingo Creek, a perennial stream of the Manning River catchment, is located in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Course and features</h2><br>
<p>The Dingo Creek rises below the Comboyne Plateau, about 1.6 km southwest of Mount Gibraltar within the Killabakh Nature Reserve, north of the town of. The river flows generally west to a point east of Tapin Tops National Park, then south, joined by the Bobin and Caparra creeks, before reaching its confluence with the Manning River, at Kilawarra, west of Wingham. The river descends 679 m over its 78 km course.</p><br>
<p>The Manning River eventually flows into the Tasman Sea through a minor delta east of Taree.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The traditional custodians of the land surrounding the Dingo Creek are the Australian Aboriginal Birpai people of the Bundjalung nation. The name of the creek is derived from the Aboriginal Kattang word tapin, meaning dingo, a subspecies of the grey wolf.</p><br>
<p>Björn is an island in the north of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Kalix archipelago, the centre of a nature reserve of the same name.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Björn is about 2 km east of Granön, and 4 km west of Seskarö.</p><br>
<p>The island is relatively new, formed through post-glacial rebound. It emerged from the sea about 500 years ago. The highest point is now about 5 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>The island has an area of 25 hectare.</p><br>
<p>There are traces of an abandoned fishing village on the southwest of the island, with the foundations of two houses, and an ancient maze to the east.</p><br>
<p>There is a dilapidated and uninhabited fishing cabin on the beach on the west side.</p><br>
<h2>Nature Reserve</h2><br>
<p>In 1969 the nearby wooded islets of the Björnrevet reef were declared a bird sanctuary. In 1997 Björn and the smaller islets of Björnrevet, Björngrundet and Malgrundet were made a state-owned nature reserve, the furthest east in the Kalix archipelago. It covers 342 hectare of which 28.2 hectare is land, including Björn island.</p><br>
<p>Bjorn is mostly covered by mature spruce, but in some of the drier parts pine dominates. In the centre of the south portion a large storm felled many trees in 1981-82. The Björnrevet islets are partly covered in deciduous forest, set aside as a bird sanctuary in 1969. They are used for breeding by terns, ducks, redshank and turnstone. Björngrundet has healthy hardwood forests. Malgrundet is an islet at the west end of the reserve dominated by juniper tree stands, with birch trees and a group of aspens.</p><br>
<p>St Magnus Bay is a large coastal feature in the north-west of Mainland Shetland, Scotland. Roughly circular in shape with a diameter of about 19 km, it is open to the North Atlantic Ocean to the west. The indented coastline to the north, south and east between Esha Ness in the north and the Ness of Melby in the south contains numerous bays, firths and voes and there are several islands around the perimeter. The waters of the bay are up to 165 m deep and may have been the site of a substantial meteor impact.</p><br>
<p>The geology of the area is complex and there are numerous caves and cliffs around the coastline, which has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The sheltered inner waters of the bay have provided a refuge for vessels in times of both peace and war. Shetland was part of the Scandinavian world from the late first millennium until 1469, when the islands became transferred to Scotland and as a result most of the place names around the bay and some of its present-day culture are of Norse origin.</p><br>
<h2>Inlets and islands</h2><br>
<p>The land that is furthest southwest in St Magnus Bay is Ve Skerries, a reef that is a hazard to shipping. 5 km southwest from there is the inhabited island of Papa Stour with its outliers Brei Holm, Fogla Skerry and Maiden Stack. Forewick Holm, and Holm of Melby lie in the Sound of Papa that separates Papa Stour from the mainland parish of Walls and Sandness. Further east is the narrow Voe of Snaraness and then West Burra Firth containing the ruins of the Broch of West Burrafirth on a small islet. North of West Burra Firth are Isle of West Burrafirth and The Heag. Further east still the isles of Vementry, Gruna and Linga lie at the head of the sinuous Brindister Voe, which itself subdivides into Mo Wick and The Vadills and then there are Voe of Clousta and North Voe of Clousta.</p><br>
<p>Cribba Sound and Uyea Sound separate Vementry from mainland Sandsting and to the north, across the strait of Swarbacks Minn, is Muckle Roe, the largest of the islands in St Magnus Bay at over 1,700 hectare. Further east and separated from the mainland by waters of The Rona, is Papa Little, lying in a "pivotal position" at the entrance to Aith Voe, which stretches south for 3 km to the sheltered hamlet of Aith in the southeast corner of the greater bay.</p><br>
<p>Further north are Gon Firth and Olna Firth, at the entrance to which is another and larger island called Linga. The village of Brae lies at the head of Busta Voe. The narrow Roe Sound separates Muckle Roe from mainland Delting and further north is the little voe of Minn, which narrows to only a few metres, then broadens again into a bay that contains the islet of Holm of Culsetter and ends at the narrow isthmus of Mavis Grind. This narrow neck of land joins the Northmavine peninsula to the rest of the Mainland Shetland and separates St Magnus Bay from Sullom Voe, an arm of the North Sea by only just over 90 m at its narrowest point.</p><br>
<p>The islands of Egilsay and The Hog lie at the entrance to Mangaster Voe and further north still are Isle of Gunnister and Isle of Nibon near Gunnister Voe. The most northerly waters of the bay are reached at the head of Ura Firth in Northmavine, of which Hamar Voe is an extension to the east. To the west is the 3.5 km long peninsula of Hillswick, which is "a headland shaped for all the world like a bunch of grapes hanging from a vine" and the tiny Isle of Westerhouse, then the bays of Sand Wick, Brae Wick and Tang Wick. Esha Ness Lighthouse is close to the north west extremity of the bay and to the south there are the islands of Dore Holm, Isle of Stenness and Skerry of Eshaness.</p><br>
<p>The power of the ocean storms is displayed at Grind o Da Navir, a large amphitheatre just north of the Eshaness light that opens out through a breach in the cliffs. Here, the waves have thrown rocks of up to 3 m high over 15 m above the sea.</p><br>
<p>Muckle Roe and Esha Ness are part of the Shetland National Scenic Area.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>For its size, Shetland has a complex geology. The base is a platform of Lewisian gneiss overlain with the East Mainland Succession of metamorphic rock, some of Dalriadan age. Basins of Old Red Sandstone and volcanic intrusions of a later date have formed in this metamorphic cover.</p><br>
<p>It has been suggested that St Magnus Bay may have formed as a meteor impact crater some 30 million years ago. Initially the idea was proposed by A. W. Sharp purely on the basis of the bay&#39;s circular shape and he estimated that the original crater had a diameter of 11 km. Subsequently bathymetric imaging suggests that there is an enclosing under sea ridge on the west side of the bay, although no conclusive evidence has yet been produced of such an event. The bay lies above a sedimentary basin, known as the St Magnus Bay Basin, which contains a thin sequence of sedimentary rocks of probable Permo-Triassic age. This was proven by a shallow borehole in the middle of the bay that encountered sandstone with thin conglomerate bands. The bay was thus probably created by glacial action, with the more resistant igneous rocks now forming the surrounding coastal areas.</p><br>
<p>Near the Walls Peninsula the basin floor consists mainly of metamorphic rocks of uncertain age. To the west of the St Magnus Bay Fault, the floor of the bay consists of Devonian age continental sediments and volcanic rocks, similar to those exposed on Esha Ness and Papa Stour.</p><br>
<p>Western Shetland is cut by the Walls Boundary Fault (an extension of the Great Glen Fault system) that passes north to south through Papa Little and the related St. Magnus Bay Fault that lies further west crossing the bay near Melby in the south and Brae Wick in the north. The fault shows mainly reverse movement, with the eastern side of the fault being upthrown. A significant amount of strike-slip movement is also indicated by the lack of metamorphism shown by the rocks to the west of the fault, where they are close to Devonian intrusions. The rocks on either side of the fault have moved 170 km relative to one another with the western section transposed northward.</p><br>
<p>West of the St. Magnus Bay Fault the rocks of Papa Stour and Esha Ness are Old Red Sandstone and lavas of Devonian age, which have produced spectacular cliffs at the latter location and numerous caves at the former and at nearby Brei Holm. Kirstan&#39;s Hole in the southwest of Papa Stour at has been described as the finest sea cave in Britain. Hole of Bordie further north penetrates the massive cliffs for nearly 1 km.</p><br>
<p>The southern shores of the bay are largely exposed Lewisian gneiss.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There are numerous prehistoric sites scattered about the margins of the bay. On Vementry for example, there are the well-preserved remains of a Neolithic heel-shaped cairn about 10 m in diameter and rising to over 1.5 m in height. The Maiden Stack or Frau Stack is a tiny stack off Papa Stour. It is so-called because of the tiny house at its top, which said to have been built in the 14th century by Lord Þorvald Þoresson, in order to "preserve" his daughter from men. Unfortunately for him, when she left, she was found to be pregnant. Brei Holm was a leper colony until the 18th century, although it has been suggested that many of the "lepers" there were suffering from a vitamin deficiency rather than leprosy.</p><br>
<p>The white, wood-clad, 33 bedroom St Magnus Bay Hotel was built at Hillswick in 1900 by the North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Steam Navigation Co., who operated ferries from mainland Scotland to Orkney and Shetland at the time. They made a success of the venture and the village became a resort even though roads had not yet reached there.</p><br>
<p>Swarbacks Minn was home to substantial naval operations during the First World War, and was the base for the 10th Cruiser Squadron of armed liners and destroyers that patrolled the northern seas. The RMS Oceanic, once the world&#39;s largest ship, sailed from here prior to being wrecked off Foula in 1914. In the 21st century these sheltered waters are the location of a substantial fish farming industry.</p><br>
<p>In 2008 Forewick Holm was declared by its occasional resident Stuart Hill (aka "Captain Calamity") to be the Crown Dependency of Forvik and thus an independently administered jurisdiction from the UK.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The name of the bay itself is a dedication to Magnus Erlendsson, the 11th century Earl of Orkney who was later canonised and most of the names of places in and around the bay have a Norse derivation.</p><br>
<p>Papa Stour means "large island of the priests" and forms a pair with Papa Little. Vementry is based on a personal name and is from Vémundar-øy meaning "Vemundr&#39;s isle". Muckle Roe is a combination of Scots and Norse, muckle meaning "big" in the former and "roe" coming from rauðoy, meaning "red island" in the latter, the Norse name having originally been rauðoy mikla. The red element is a reference to the colouring of its granite foundations. Linga means "heather isle".</p><br>
<p>Mavis Grind (Old Norse: Mæf eiðs grind) means "gate of the narrow isthmus". Melby may be from melbu, the "dwelling near the sandy beach". The recurring element "minn" is from the Old Norse mynni, "mouth" and "ness" means headland. Esha Ness is "the mare&#39;s headland" i.e. where they were kept apart from the stallions. Firth is cognate with fjord and a voe is a long narrow bay or inlet from vagr or vogr. The plural form vagar is the origin of "Walls", pronounced locally as "waas" and like Kirkwall in Orkney, cartographers may have assumed that because the sound of the Orcadian -waa element is similar to the Scots pronunciation of "wall" that it meant the same.</p><br>
<h2>Culture and the arts</h2><br>
<p>The Papa Stour sword dance may be of Norse origin and a description of the dance appears in The Pirate by Sir Walter Scott. Papa Stour is also the subject of Vagaland&#39;s poem Da Song o da Papa men.</p><br>
<p>The Saline County Poor Farm is a historic poor farm located at 1600 Feazel Road in Harrisburg, Illinois. The farm was founded in 1863 in accordance with an 1839 state law providing for each county to establish a poor farm or almshouse. After using a cheaply made log building to house the poor for several years, a permanent brick residence was constructed on the farm in 1877. The poor farm was designed to provide shelter for the countys impoverished residents under the condition that they work on the farm if able. During the late 1800s, this was the most common means of providing social relief for the poor in Illinois; by 1903, only two of the states 102 counties had not established a poor farm or almshouse. However, the county poor farms frequently suffered from substandard living conditions, and the Saline County farm was no exception. According to various state reports from the early 1900s, the buildings were not maintained properly, disease and bedbugs were rampant, official oversight was lacking, and inmates often refused to work.</p><br>
<p>During the Progressive Era, popular opinion shifted to support social welfare programs rather than poor farms as the preferred means of public social support, largely due to the living conditions on the farms. This shift was reflected in Illinois law; the state allowed counties to merge their poor farms in 1917, forced poor farms to change their names to county homes in 1919, and ultimately banned counties from placing healthy individuals in poor farms in 1948. Nevertheless, the Saline County Poor Farm never merged with another county and did not officially close until the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The poor farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 22, 2001. The listing also included the county&#39;s cemetery for the poor, which was located on the same property as the poor farm.</p><br>
<p>The Ficklin-Crawford Cottage was a historic house located at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built sometime between 1865 and 1886, and is a 1 1/2-story, three-bay, frame dwelling with Gothic Revival style decorative details. It has a steep bellcast gable roof with deeply projecting eaves. It originally stood on the southwest corner of Belmont Avenue and Castalia Street, and moved to its present site in 1929.</p><br>
<p>The house suffered a fire in October 1981, and the owners insurance deemed it a total loss. Despite the damage, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 21, 1982. However, on November 24 of the same year, the city government granted the owners request for permission to demolish the structure.</p><br>
<p>In 1735, Nicholas Meriwether obtained patents from King George III to approximately 19,000 acres in Albemarle County east of Charlottesville. One parcel of 1020 acres was located west of the Rivanna River, the area which now is the Locust Grove and Belmont neighborhoods. It became known as “The Farm” because it was the one cleared area in a virgin forest.</p><br>
<p>A main house and out buildings were built at “The Farm” on the hill facing the river to the east. The house burned after a couple of decades. Nicholas Lewis, grandson of Meriwether, inherited the property in 1762 and built another main house facing the river around 1770. Nicholas Lewis (1734-1808) was an Albemarle County landowner and friend of Thomas Jefferson. Lewis was also an officer in the American Revolution, a County magistrate, Surveyor, and Sheriff. After the death of Nicholas Meriwether, his grandfather, in 1744, Lewis inherited The Farm, 1,020 acres on both sides of the Rivanna River east of Charlottesville. The estate was the headquarters of British Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton, who occupied Charlottesville for a day in 1781 to pursue Jefferson and the rest of the Virginian legislators.</p><br>
<p>It was described as a place of beauty surrounded by a garden of roses, shrubs and fine fruit. It could have been built on or near the foundations for the first house. A listing in The Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia records from 1805 may describe the house. It was a wooden dwelling two stories high, 48 feet long and 22 feet wide. There is an active spring down the hill a couple of hundred yards to the south. All that remains is the kitchen or cook’s house. It now is in the middle of a middle class housing subdivision facing Twelfth Street. It is still surrounded by mature hardwood trees and retains its view of Monticello. Nicholas Lewis was buried on his property in a cemetery on a hilltop overlooking the river where his gravestone says January 19, 1734 to December 8, 1808.</p><br>
<p>The historic home listed as Lewis Farm, also known as The Farm and John A. G. Davis Farm, is located at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1826, and is a two-story brick dwelling with a low hipped roof and two large chimneys. On the front facade is a Tuscan order portico with a terrace above. The house was built by individuals who worked with Thomas Jefferson on building the University of Virginia. Its builder, John A. G. Davis, was law professor at the University of Virginia and was shot and killed outside Pavilion X by a student in 1840. During the American Civil War, Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer set up temporary headquarters at the house where he remained for three days.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Dabney-Thompson House is a historic home located at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1894, and is a two-story Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It is sheathed in weatherboard and features a steeply-pitched hipped roof with tall gables over all four projecting bays. The house has projecting eaves and verges and decoratively-sawn exposed rafter ends. It is pierced by three chimneys with corbelled caps. It was built by Richard Heath Dabney, Professor of History and later Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, father of Virginius Dabney . Dabney sold the house in 1907. The house is occupied by the Montessori School of Charlottesville.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Springwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Greenville, South Carolina, listed on the. It is the oldest municipal cemetery in the state and has approximately 7,700 marked, and 2,600 unmarked, graves.</p><br>
<p>The first burial in what today is Springwood Cemetery occurred in July 1812, after Elizabeth Blackburn Williams (1752-1812), the mother-in-law of prominent early Greenvillian Chancellor Waddy Thompson, expressed a desire to be buried in the family garden. Many other burials occurred in the area after Thompson sold 60 acres of his property to one Francis H. McLeod in 1817. In 1829 McLeod opened the private graveyard to the public, and in 1833, he conveyed a tract of land to the city for use as a cemetery. The city acquired additional acres during the 1870s, and the last five acres of the cemetery were purchased before 1944. Presumably the cemetery was named for a spring that was once included in, or was just beyond, its boundaries.</p><br>
<p>The 200-year-old cemetery includes "a comprehensive collection of gravemarker types," including field stones, raised masonry tombs topped with stone ledgers, Victorian monoliths, and Veterans Administration markers. Eighty unknown Confederate soldiers are buried near the entrance, presumably soldiers who died of wounds or disease after being removed to one of the two Greenville buildings used for hospitals during the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Springwood retains its rural cemetery design elements and the 1876 landscape planning of prominent New South architect G. L. Norrman. The entrance gate, built of Indiana limestone, was completed in 1914. Just outside the Main Street entrance, in its own pocket park, is a Confederate monument that from 1891 to 1923 stood in the middle of Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The northeast corner of the cemetery, which was used as a potter&#39;s field for African Americans and indigent whites has perhaps only a dozen remaining headstones, although the area is believed to contain hundreds of graves. In 1969 the City of Greenville extended Academy Street through this section and removed the remains of approximately 250 to 275 people.</p><br>
<p>Although burials continue, no new plots have been sold since the 1970s. The city of Greenville contributes to the maintenance of the cemetery, but there is no perpetual care fund, and the graves themselves remain private property. A "Friends of Springwood Cemetery" was formed in 2002 to raise awareness of cemetery needs.</p><br>
<h2>Notable Interments</h2><br>
<p>Martin Frederick Ansel, 89th Governor of South Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Charles R. Attwood, pediatrician, promoter of vegetarianism.</p><br>
<p>John Dickson Carr, mystery writer.</p><br>
<p>Charles E. Daniel, construction company executive and interim U. S. Senator.</p><br>
<p>John D. Hollingsworth, textile machinery executive and philanthropist.</p><br>
<p>Butch Lindley, NASCAR driver.</p><br>
<p>Basil Manly, Sr., Baptist clergyman and educator.</p><br>
<p>John J. McSwain, U. S. Representative.</p><br>
<p>Roger C. Peace, newspaper publisher and interim U. S. Senator.</p><br>
<p>Minshat Abu Omar  is an important archaeological site in Northern Egypt. It lies around 93.21 miles north-east of Cairo in the Nile delta. Minshat Abu Omar contains several cemeteries from protodynastic dynasties, as well as many burial sites that date back to the late Roman Era.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological history</h2><br>
<p>Organized excavations started in 1966, after some interesting artifacts appeared in several museums and were said to originate from that area. Originally, the area was examined to prove the correctness of the claims. After continuing findings, excavations ran from 1978 to 1991.</p><br>
<h2>The cemeteries</h2><br>
<p>The cemeteries were excavated mostly at the southern corner of the area. 420 tombs are dating back to the late Naqada III period up to the beginning of the 1st dynasty. 2630 tombs date back to the late Roman period. The early tombs, especially, are of great interest to Egyptologists, archaeologists and historians, because they come from different dynasties and show important developments in their architecture.</p><br>
<p>The protodynastic tombs were oval, 1.0 - 1.5m long and 1.5 - 2.0m deep. They contained simple pits, in which the deceased was laid down in a fetal pose, his head facing toward the west. Beside and around the deceased, several bowls and vases were placed; in some of the tombs, precious artifacts made of ivory and stone were found.</p><br>
<p>The early dynastic tombs changed quickly in architecture, now they had mud plastered inner walls and they were rectangular in shape. Their floors were covered and strengthened with reed mats, their ceilings made of reed and - in case of royal tombs - cedar wood. Royal tombs were now divided into two, four or six chambers and contained much more precious grave goods. Famous objects such as several cosmetic palettes, ivory bracelets with relief decoration and collars made of carnelian- and amethyst beads were found. Famous kings, whose name were found, are Scorpion II, Narmer and Aha.</p><br>
<p>The Roman period tombs are simple in their structure and design; they were oval or rectangular and contained coffins made of wood, ceramics and limestone. Children were buried in large amphorae. Some of the tombs contained coins and amulets.</p><br>
<h2>Evaluations</h2><br>
<p>The excavated cemeteries and nearby settlements, their grave goods and the geographical position of that area (at the easternmost border of early dynastic Egypt), lead archaeologists and Eyptologists to the conclusion that Minshat Abu Omar was an important economic and strategic place. Findings, which were of early Palestine origin, but found in several larger tombs at Minshat Abu Omar, prove that during the Naqada III period numerous items were already traded between Egypt and the levantine states; the trade economy flourished greatly. Artifacts and weapons with the names of Narmer, Aha and Djet were found in Israel, Jordan and even in Lebanon, which proves successful trading during the first dynasties.</p><br>
<p>Marshall-Rucker-Smith House is a historic home located at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1894, and is a two-story, nearly square, Queen Anne style brick dwelling. It has a three-story octagonal corner tower, a prominent front gable projection of the slate-shingled hip roof, a two-story rear wing, and multiple one-story porches. A two-story solarium and library wing were added about 1930. Also on the property is a contributing swimming pool  which is now used as a members-only neighborhood pool. In the mid-20th century, after the house had been made into apartments, future Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O&#39;Connor numbered among its residents.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It is located in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Montebello is a historic home located at Charlottesville, Virginia. The central section was built in 1819-1820, and consists of three-part facade, with a three bay, two-story central block with single-story flanking wings. The original section has a single pile, brick I-house plan with a central hall flanked by a room on each side. Also on the property is a contributing 1 1/2-story, brick, two-car garage . The house was built by John M. Perry, one of the workmen</p><br>
<p>who worked with Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and on his many building projects at the</p><br>
<p>University of Virginia. The University of Virginia purchased the house and property in 1963 and it currently serves as a residence for faculty.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Granön is an island and nature reserve in Lake Väsman, near Ludvika in Dalarna county, central Sweden.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Granön is one of the largest islands in Lake Väsman. It is small but quite hilly. The nearby islet of Grankavlen is also part of the nature reserve.</p><br>
<p>The island is accessible by boat in the summer. It has a mosaic forest that has not been affected by forest management for many years.</p><br>
<p>This includes plenty of dead wood and deciduous trees, valuable for bird life.</p><br>
<p>Some parts are dominated by pine or spruce. In the southwestern part there is aspen and birch, and some gray and black alder, and an unusual variety of elder.</p><br>
<p>Flora includes saplings, mosses, lichens and fungi.</p><br>
<p>Visitors to the reserve must be careful to cause minimal impact to the ground, rocks, dead wood or living things.</p><br>
<p>Flowers, mosses, lichens or wood fungi must not be picked or dug up.</p><br>
<p>No motor vehicles are allowed, or dogs off the leash.</p><br>
<p>Permission is required to collect plants, animals or natural objects, or to ring birds, for teaching or research purposes.</p><br>
<p>Recoleta, also known as Rothery, is a historic home located at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1940, and is a two- to three-story, "U"-shaped, Spanish Colonial Revival style dwelling. The house is constructed of stuccoed reinforced cinder block and has a red tile gable roof, arched openings, an exterior stair, a balcony, and steel-framed casement windows. The "U" contains a patio enclosed by a loggia with a garden front. Also on the property is a contributing garden enclosed by a cinder block wall built in 1946 that incorporates a fountain wall with a tile roof, circular lantern niches, and a patio. The house was built for University of Virginia music professor Harry Rogers Pratt and his wife, Agnes Edwards Rothery Pratt.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Lake Väsman is a lake in Ludvika Municipality in Dalarna County of Sweden, in the Norrström main basin.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Lake Väsman is 53 m deep, has an area of 39.1 km&sup2; and is 154 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>It is about 14 km long in a southeasterly direction, with a width of 1.5 to 6 km.</p><br>
<p>In the past these was steamboat traffic on the lake.</p><br>
<p>There is a major iron ore deposit below the lake, estimated at 640 million tonnes.</p><br>
<p>In 2011 the Nordic Iron Ore company said it would try to start mining.</p><br>
<h2>Basin</h2><br>
<p>Lake Väsman is included in the sub-basin called the outlet of Väsman. The average altitude is 209 m above sea level and the area is 136.46 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>Including the 53 catchment areas upstream, the accumulated area of the lake&#39;s basin is 1,147.86 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>Kolbäcksån, which drains the catchment, collects water from three rivers before reaching the sea after 260 km.</p><br>
<p>The catchment area consists mostly of forest (56%).</p><br>
<p>World War Memorial Building is a building designed by Lafaye & Lafaye in Columbia, South Carolina, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History and design</h2><br>
<p>The University of South Carolina Board of Trustees approved the building of a World War memorial in 1933. A design was brought forward the following year by Lafaye & Lafaye. J.J. McDevitt built the memorial in 1935. The cornerstone was laid by Wyndham Manning and contains a complete listing of all the South Carolina citizens involved in World War I. The memorial was dedicated on May 30, 1935.</p><br>
<p>The structure is modeled on a Roman or Greek temple. Construction is of granite and limestone. On the face of the entrance are six columns with three windows set between the central four columns. The building also features engravings over the entrance and on either side of the main doorway.</p><br>
<h2>Uses</h2><br>
<p>Aside from being a monument to South Carolinas veterans, the building was also meant to function as office space. The Historical Commission became the first tenant, but outgrew the space, as the second floor was designated as a chapel and its office space housed the American Legion Auxiliary. The Historical Commission began seeking a new building in 1947. In 1960, the structure began housing the University of South Carolinas International Studies department. 1971 saw the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Museum take up residence in the building. The Confederate Relic Room was housed here for three decades. Today, the building houses University of South Carolina Publications</p><br>
