<p>Ellerslie is a historic plantation house located near Linden, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1790, and is a 1 1/2-story, six bay by two bay, Georgian style frame dwelling with a two-story Greek Revival style addition. It features a wide shed porch with plastered cove ceiling.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ellerslie&#39;s founder, George Elliot, was born in Scotland in 1755. He immigrated to the American colonies around 1774 and soon entered the lumber business along the Cape Fear River Valley. After building Ellerslie sometime between 1790-1801, Elliot emerged as the largest landowner in his district and was an active political leader. In 1788 he represented Cumberland County at the Hillsborough Convention, which had been called to vote on the new United States Constitution.</p><br>
<p>Ellerslie’s location on the Lower Little River was important for community and commerce. The Little River and the Cape Fear River connected the Highland-Scot community with Wilmington, NC and closely linked the regions commercially. Additionally, the Elliot family cemetery was located where the Little River joins the Cape Fear River.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, the Ellerslie Plantation was used at separate times to quarter both Confederate and Union troops. Prior to the Battle of Averasborough, Federal troops under Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman raided Ellerslie. The encounter was recorded by resident and Civil War diarist Jane Evans Elliot:</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>John Newland Maffitt (privateer), the renowned Confederate blockade runner, spent part of his childhood on the Ellerslie Plantation after he was adopted around 1824 by his uncle Dr. William Maffitt, a respected Cumberland County physician. The Maffitt family home was on or near the Ellerslie estate. Contrary to some reports, Dr. Maffitt did not own the Ellerslie plantation.</p><br>
<p>Jane Evans Elliot (1820-1886), the Civil War memoirist, lived at Ellerslie after marrying Col. Alexander Elliot.</p><br>
<p>Henry Elliot, the Elliot Pecan&#39;s namesake, was raised at Ellerslie. He was the son of Col. Alexander Elliot and Jane Evans Elliot.</p><br>
<p>The Averitt House is a historic house in the rural central part of Miller County, Arkansas. It is a single-story log structure, located about 7 mi south of Texarkana on the west side of United States Route 71. It was built in 1931-33 by Tom Averitt, the local health inspector at the time, and is a locally unique example of rustic log architecture. It is roughly L-shaped, with a shed-roof porch on its northeastern facade. A single fieldstone chimney rises through the roof near the junction of the L. The walls are made of unfinished logs joined by saddle notches. The logs for its construction were supposedly taken by clearing the site on which it stands. Not far from the house stands a garage, also built by Averitt from logs.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Beech Street Brick Street is an historic section of the Beech Street roadway in Texarkana, Arkansas. It consists of a section of road, between 14th and 24th Streets, which was paved in brick c. 1904. It is a residential road located northeast of Texarkana&#39;s downtown, and is about 3,425 ft long and 23 ft wide. The bricks, which measure 4 by, are laid in a running bond pattern. The road section is a rare surviving example of the use of brick as a paving material, as most such roads have since been paved over with asphalt.</p><br>
<p>The road section was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It contributes to the historic significance of the Beech Street Historic District, which includes the residential properties on Beech Street and some adjacent roads.</p><br>
<p>The Monticello Courthouse Square Historic District is a historic district in downtown Monticello, Illinois. The district includes the historic commercial center of the city, the county seat of Piatt County, and is centered on the Piatt County Courthouse. 80 buildings are included in the district, 73 of which are considered contributing to its historic character. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Monticello was founded in 1837 as a commercial center for the future Piatt County, which was considered too far from Decatur to reasonably conduct trade there. The original town plat covers all but four blocks of the historic district, with the remainder coming from one of the citys first additions. When Piatt County was formed in 1841, Monticello was named the county seat, and its population and development both increased in the ensuing years. Merchant J.C. Johnson built the citys first brick building at 204-206 West Washington Street in 1856; the building is the oldest surviving structure in the district. In the same year, Monticello gained its own newspaper, the Monticello Times, and the county built a new courthouse. Development accelerated further after the Illinois Central Railroad and Chicago and Paducah Railroad began service to Monticello in the 1870s. The city received a major civic development in 1897, when the Town Hall and Opera House and the Allerton Library both opened in a new building. The third county courthouse, which still serves as the seat of county government, was built in 1903-04; by this point, the courthouse square had become the established center of local commerce.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Piatt County Courthouse, the focal point of the district, is a Classical Revival building designed by Urbana architect Joseph W. Royer. The three-story building is built with red brick and features limestone decorations. Each side of the building features an entrance pavilion. On the north and south sides, the pavilions are divided by Ionic pilasters topped by a belt course; the east and west pavilions are projecting and have two pilasters each. Triangular pediments with dentillated cornices top these two facades, and a balustrade encircles the roof of the building. The courthouse&#39;s corners, including those on the projecting pavilions, feature limestone quoins.</p><br>
<p>The Italianate style is most prevalent among the districts commercial buildings, as 25 buildings feature the style. The prevalence of the style is a reflection of the districts growth in the late 19th century, the peak of the style&#39;s popularity in America. Several of the Italianate buildings feature cast iron storefronts, a popular decorative feature for commercial buildings at the time. The district also features eighteen vernacular interpretations of the Commercial Style. The Romanesque Revival style makes a prominent appearance in the town hall and library building, which features a stone arched entrance and contrasting brickwork and stonework. Other styles featured in the district include the Gothic Revival style in the First Presbyterian Church; the Stick Style in the Wabash Depot; the Dutch Colonial Revival style in two houses; and the Streamline Moderne style in the Country Charm Dairy Bar.</p><br>
<p>The Berry House was constructed in 1908. It is significant both because of its association with James E. Berry, Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma from 1935 to 1955, but also because of its unique architectural style, described as “vaguely Italianate with a Midwestern feeling.” It is a two-story rectangular wood frame with lapped wood siding. The front door is flanked by glass sidelights; three Tuscan columns on the front support the upper story. A bay window occurs on each side of the structure. The roof, which is double-hipped, is set off by three low dormers, one on the front and one on each side. The interior has been remodeled only slightly, and includes egg and dart molding, in-laid oak doors, stained glass, and wooden wall paneling.</p><br>
<p>Brandon Mill is a historic textile mill complex, situated just west of the city of Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina. The mill was built during the early decades of the 20th century and is one example of the mills in the Greenville "Textile Crescent" that became central to the economic development of the South Carolina upstate during this period. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014, and the main mill has been converted into loft apartments.</p><br>
<p>The original building was planned in 1899 by J. Irving Westervelt (1862-1939), designed by Lockwood, Greene & Company of Providence, Rhode Island, and built by local construction engineer Jacob W. Cagle (1832-1910). Completed in January 1901, the mill was named Brandon, supposedly for a hamlet near Belfast that produced textiles. Employees were largely recruited from Appalachia and other rural areas in the southeastern United States. In five years, the mill expanded from 16,000 to 86,000 spindles, the work force from 150 to 420 employees, and the mill village from 66 to 420 homes. By 1918 the company sponsored a school, church, nursery, and community house with a dining room, library, showers, and nurse&#39;s station.</p><br>
<p>Baseball played by teams of mill employees became a popular sport during the first two decades of the century; and mill owners competed for the best players, hoping thereby to encourage employee pride and to control the leisure time of their "operatives" with a disciplined pastime. The most famous of the mill team players was Shoeless Joe Jackson (1888-1951), who began his career at Brandon Mill before eventually becoming one of professional baseball&#39;s greatest hitters.</p><br>
<p>Meeting with financial reverses, Brandon Mill went into receivership by 1913; and August W. Smith of Spartanburg became its second president. In 1919, the New York firm of Woodward, Baldwin & Co. gained a controlling interest, though local management remained unchanged. In the 1920s, the mill was substantially expanded under the direction of Joseph E. Sirrine (1872-1947), arguably the most prominent engineer in the region.</p><br>
<p>Even before the onset of the Great Depression, the textile industry had declined; and in an attempt to increase productivity, mill operators instituted the "stretch-out," a requirement that workers manage more machines. In March 1929, 1,200 workers struck Brandon Mill. Though owners and workers reached a compromise in May, the textile economy continued to deteriorate. In order to keep the mill open through the 1930s, August Smith cut hours and pay rather than eliminate jobs—a strategy that produced substantial loyalty to the mill during the general textile strike of 1934 when workers reportedly met organizers for the United Textile Workers of America with "picker sticks" and rifles and ordered them to keep going.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, Brandon Mill prospered with government orders for duck cloth, medical gauze, and uniform twill fabric. In December 1946, Abney Mills bought the assets of Brandon Corporation and began selling the mill village houses. Although textile mills remained reasonably prosperous during the 1950s and &#39;60s, textile manufacturers began offshoring—moving operations outside the United States to countries where labor costs were cheaper. Brandon Mill reduced its workforce in 1969, and the mill closed in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The main building was first sold for use as a warehouse, then in 2001 to Focus Golf to serve as a distribution center for Dunlop Sport. In 2014 real estate developer Pace Burt purchased the property and converted the main building into loft apartments. For tax purposes, Burt applied for National Register status, which was granted in September. In 2015 Burt donated one building in the complex to the Greenville Center for Creative Arts. The loft apartments opened for occupancy in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On April 22, 1889, when Stillwater, Oklahoma literally became a populous community in a single day, It was at least 20 miles from the nearest railroad track. Even before the run, the community had been designated as the county seat of the newly created Payne County, Oklahoma, effective on the day of the run. The Government Land Office for the Unassigned Lands, where participants in the run were required to register their land claims had also been established there.</p><br>
<p>Soon, a group of leading residents realized that it would be essential for Stillwater to be located on the railroad if it were to survive, let alone thrive. The need was accentuated after the Territorial legislature selected Stillwater as the site for the new Territorial Agricultural & Mechanical University. The legislators began considering selecting another city with better access to rail transportation.The Stillwater supporters began a campaign to get the Eastern Oklahoma Railway Company, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, to build a line to the town. By March 1900, the railway had been laid into town.</p><br>
<p>From 1915 until the end of World War II in 1945, both freight and passenger traffic grew substantially. By 1950, passenger demand decreased substantially, as potential riders switched to using their private automobiles. In 1953, the Santa Fe stopped offering passenger service to Stillwater. By 1958, long distance freight hauling had converted to road transport. Petroleum and its bulk derivatives increasingly moved through pipelines. In that year, the Santa Fe ceased moving freight to and from Stillwater, and closed the depot permanently.</p><br>
<h2>Building description</h2><br>
<p>The oldest section of the building is a 20 foot by 75 foot frame structure, that served as both freight office and passenger depot. On the east side, facing the railroad track, were four doors, two windows, plus a bay window with three glass panes, The exterior was covered with horizontal wood panels. The roof had three gables and wooden shingles, two brick chimneys, and valleys over the bay window.</p><br>
<p>The railroad constructed an adjoining depot building in 1915. This building was 100 feet by 20 feet, with exterior walls covered by red brick, with masonry and wood trim. The north end of the new structure was left open, serving as an open-air waiting room. The new structure also has a gable roof, covered with green-glazed terra cotta shingles, and eaves that extend beyond the walls.</p><br>
<p>Concurrently with the new construction, the 1900 building was modified by replacing the bay window with a double door, while the ticket window and door were covered with siding.</p><br>
<p>A brick sidewalk surrounds the entire building and extends 200 feet farther north. The bricks are the same as used for the walls of the 2015 structure.</p><br>
<p>The entire depot complex sits on a plot less than one acre in size. The street address is 400 East 10th Street.</p><br>
<h2>Present status</h2><br>
<p>Long-time Stillwater resident Leon Wood read an article in the Stillwater News-Press in 1991 reporting that the old station would soon be auctioned to the highest bidder. He recruited four other residents and persuaded them to help him raise funds to buy the property. They approached the city commissioners, asking them to buy the depot temporarily until they located someone who take permanent ownership and preserve the building. The city commission declined to make such an offer. The consortium secured a meeting with an official of BancFirst, and made the same proposal. The banker authorized a temporary loan that would meet their needs and told them to go ahead and submit a bid, which was accepted. Within two weeks, Wood and his consortium had met with officials of Kappa Kappa Psi (KKP) & Tau Beta Sigma (TBS). The former organization is a national band fraternity, while the latter is a national band sorority. The two organizations, which shared office space in a building on the OSU campus, were already searching for a site off campus for their national headquarters. Best of all, only minor internal remodeling was necessary to convert the station into suitable office space. A deal was quickly made that relieved Wood and his consortium of their financial obligation. KKP andTBS still occupy the old depot.</p><br>
<p>Isla Danzante, is an island in the Gulf of California east of the Baja California Peninsula. The island is uninhabited and is part of the Loreto Municipality.</p><br>
<h2>Biology</h2><br>
<p>Isla Danzante has 16 species of reptiles, including Aspidoscelis tigris (tiger whiptail), Bogertophis rosaliae (Baja California ratsnake), Callisaurus draconoides (zebra-tailed lizard), Chilomeniscus stramineus (variable sandsnake), Coleonyx variegatus (western banded gecko), Coluber fuliginosus (Baja California coachwhip), Crotalus ruber (red diamond rattlesnake), Hypsiglena ochrorhyncha (coast night snake), Hypsiglena slevini (Baja California night snake), Petrosaurus repens (short-nosed rock lizard), Phyllodactylus nocticolus (peninsular leaf-toed gecko), Rena humilis (western threadsnake), Sauromalus slevini (Slevin&#39;s chuckwalla), Trimorphodon lyrophanes (California lyresnake), Urosaurus nigricaudus (black-tailed brush lizard), and Uta stansburiana (common side-blotched lizard).</p><br>
<p>The Qeysarie bazaar or Soltani bazaar is a historical bazaar in Isfahan, Iran. The main commercial activities in the Qeysarie bazaar are carpet and kilim selling. The bazaar was one of the greatest and luxorious trading center in the safavid era. It was built in 1620 on the northern side of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. It connects the Naqsh-e Jahan Square to the Atiq square and seljukid part of Isfahan.</p><br>
<p>The Qeysarie bazaar includes these parts:</p><br>
<p>Orian bazaar</p><br>
<p>Harounie</p><br>
<p>Nimavard-e Golshan</p><br>
<p>Makhlas</p><br>
<p>Samavarsazha (Samovarmakers)</p><br>
<p>Maqsudbeyk</p><br>
<p>In the Qeysarie bazaar, there are many historical buildings such as Nimavar school, Sadr school, Khayyatha mosque, No mosque, Zolfaghar mosque, Shishe mosque and Jarchi mosque.</p><br>
<p>The Qeysarie gate is the main entrance of the bazaar.</p><br>
<p>The Overholser Mansion is a mansion in Oklahoma City built in 1903.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was built for Henry Overholser, considered to be the "father of Oklahoma City" by many, and his socialite wife Anna Murphy Overholser, and is considered to be Oklahoma City&#39;s first mansion. Overholser bought the land for the purpose of building a residence in 1901 and, when built, the mansion was located away from the city center and surrounded by farmland. Overholser died in 1916 and Mrs. Overholser remained in the mansion until transferring ownership to their daughter, Henry Ione Perry, in 1937. Upon her death, the ownership was then transferred to her husband, David Perry, in 1961, who then sold the mansion to the Oklahoma Chapter of American Institute of Architects and Historical Preservation, Inc. The mansion was then donated to the State of Oklahoma, and was then owned and managed by the Oklahoma Historical Society from 1983-2003, and is now managed by Preservation Oklahoma. The Overholser Mansion was restored in 2015 and is open for tours.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The 11,700 square-foot Châteauesque-styled mansion was designed by London-trained architect W. S. Matthews and built at a cost of $38,000. A carriage house accompanies the mansion and measures an additional 4,000 square feet. On the south facade, facing the Hales Mansion, is a porte-cochère. The mansion is constructed of brick and sandstone. Interior walls and ceilings were hand-painted and are illuminated by light fixtures imported from Italy. Original French stained-glass windows remain, and the floors are original English carpets and are accented by Belgian woodwork.</p><br>
<p>Lake Innisfree  is a man-made reservoir in New Rochelle, in Westchester County, New York, United States. The lake is located along the border of the neighboring town of Eastchester.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Constructed in 1894, the reservoir is impounded by the New Rochelle Reservoir #1 Dam on the Hutchinson River. The dam is masonry and of earthen construction, with a height of 34 feet and a length of 680 feet. The water surface covers an area of about 65 acres and the capacity is about 271,700,000 gallons. It has a maximum discharge of 744 cubic feet per second and drains an area of 2.2 square miles. The water from this reservoir flows by gravity to the southern, low level district of the city. There is a steel equalizing tank 34 feet high by 44 feet in diameter connected with this system on high ground 2 miles south of the dam.</p><br>
<p>The area surrounding the lake was once rolling woodland owned in large sections by farmers in the 1700-1800’s. The New Rochelle Water Company then bought up the land using it as a watershed for the lake served as the water supply source for Upper Rochelle during late 19th & early 20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>Bued River is a major river in the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It covers primarily the provinces of Benguet and Pangasinan, and a few parts of La Union. The river originates from the city of Baguio and joins with the Angalacan River in the municipality of Mangaldan, Pangasinan to form the Cayanga River.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The headwaters of Bued River are formed in the southeastern portion of Baguio City, where it covers 25 of its barangays.</p><br>
<p>It then traverses the municipality of Tuba along the foot of the Santo Tomas mountain range, where several tributary creeks join the river. The river enters the municipality of Sison upon reaching barangay Dungon, where the river begins to be heavily silted. A river dike has been constructed in the barangays of Artacho, Cauringan, Esperanza, and Poblacion Norte to prevent flowing into the town center. It enters the town of San Fabian upon reaching the barangay of Ambalangan-Dalin, then traverses the town of Pozorrubio, Pangasinan along barangay Balacag. It reaches San Jacinto along barangay Santa Cruz and enters the town of Mangaldan upon reaching the barangay of Biagtan, where it merges with the Angalacan River to form the Cayanga River, which empties into the Lingayen Gulf at the border between San Fabian and the city of Dagupan.</p><br>
<h2>Siltation</h2><br>
<p>Bued River is heavily silted, and is occasionally dredged. It has been the drainage of mine tailings from copper and gold mines in Tuba, Benguet. Landslides along Kennon Road, including quarrying and aggregates crushing plants in riversides release silt and sand into the river. The Agat Bridge, which serves as the highway boundary between the towns of Sison and Rosario, spans several hundred meters due to the widening of the river. The river overflows especially during strong rains and typhoons. A dike in Sison was constructed to prevent inflow into the other villages. The village of Binday in the town of San Fabian has constantly been eroded by the river since the 1970s.</p><br>
<h2>Cities and Municipalities</h2><br>
<p>Baguio City</p><br>
<p>Tuba, Benguet</p><br>
<p>Pugo, La Union</p><br>
<p>Rosario, La Union</p><br>
<p>Sison, Pangasinan</p><br>
<p>Pozorrubio, Pangasinan</p><br>
<p>San Jacinto, Pangasinan</p><br>
<p>Mangaldan, Pangasinan</p><br>
<p>Dagupan City, Pangasinan</p><br>
<p>The William Frick House  is a historic house located at 1016 South West Street in Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1903 by William Frick, owner of Stillwater&#39;s first feed store, the Frick House is one of the best remaining examples of turn of the century Victorian style cottages. It is a single-story cottage. Carpenter gothic trim and octagon cut fish-scale shingles decorate the gables. A curving porch extends the width of the front of the house. The porch is enhanced with turned posts, with supporting brackets, turned railing posts and spindle bands under the eaves. Asbestos shingles have been added to the roof, which is decorated with a dormer with small ventilating window. The woodwork of the window is cut in a quatrefoil pattern and the peak of the dormer is decorated with additional scrollwork.</p><br>
<p>The original section of the house, consisting of four rooms, has undergone very minimal alteration. Original wood paneling has been retained. The ceilings-have been lowered. The floor plan is original. In 1958, a four-room addition was added to the rear, consisting of two bedrooms, a living area, and a bath.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Neligh Mill is a water-powered flour mill in the city of Neligh in the northeastern part of the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. The mill was built in 1873 by John Neligh, the city&#39;s founder, to make use of water power from the Elkhorn River. It operated for nearly one hundred years until it closed in 1969.</p><br>
<p>The Nebraska State Historical Society maintains the mill complex and describes it as the only 19th-century mill in the state that still possesses all of the original equipment used when it was in operation. The mill is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John D. Neigh, founder of the Nebraska town of Neligh, began building the brick mill on the Elkhorn River in 1873. Another Neligh businessman, W. C. Gallaway, took over the mill and completed construction, including damming the Elkhorn River. A water turbine, which was positioned horizontally, powered the gear in the mill&#39;s basement. On August 29, 1874, the mill began operation, grinding wheat, corn, and buckwheat.</p><br>
<p>In 1886 the mill converted from stone mill burrs to modern steel rollers. It provided flour and meal for customers across Nebraska, as well as the War Department and Indian Bureau. Improvements in the mill&#39;s turbines allowed it to generate electrical power for the town, supplying it until 1925.</p><br>
<h2>Current Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Neligh Mill is now run by the Nebraska Historical Society as a museum commemorating the importance of flour mills to Nebraska and the West as a whole. Exhibits relating to the operation of the mill and its history are located in the original warehouse from 1866, as well as the 1915 addition where the power plant was once housed. The Society has restored the mill&#39;s office building, which has original furnishings. It reconstructed the 1919 flume to the south. The remnants of the dam that collected water for the mill are still visible on the Elkhorn River nearby.</p><br>
<p>Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Passenger Depot is a historic train station located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1890 by the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway, and is a two-story brick passenger depot with a deep hip roof in the Romanesque Revival style. The seven bay by two bay building features a rounded brick arch arcade. It operated as a passenger station until about 1900, after which it housed commercial enterprises.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Fayetteville Area Transportation Museum</h2><br>
<p>The building now houses the Fayetteville Area Transportation Museum, with displays about area transportation and local history, including a model train room and a recreated station agent’s office. The adjacent annex building includes vintage cars, a recreated 1920s gas station, a steam pump engine, exhibits on local law enforcement and fire department, farms life, Fort Bragg and Pope Army Air Field.</p><br>
<p>The Beezley Hills are a range of hills, about 5 mi north of Quincy in Grant County, Washington with a maximum elevation of 2,882 ft or 879.7 m.</p><br>
<p>The city of Ephrata, Washington, at the east end of the hills, was originally called Beezley Springs, named after horse rancher Frank Beezley.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The hills rise from the east bank of the Columbia River between Moses Coulee and Frenchman Gap. They extend about 40 km to Ephrata and are part of the geological formation known as the Yakima Fold Belt, a group of anticlines. The next member of the fold belt is the roughly parallel Frenchman Hills to the south. Between the two ridges, Interstate 90 and Washington State Route 28 run through the Quincy Basin (the latter less than 5 mi south of the Beezley Hills), a rich agricultural and vinicultural area (see Quincy-Columbia Basin Irrigation District).</p><br>
<p>Several springs occur on the lower slopes of the hills. In addition to Ephrata, formerly Beezley Springs (also spelled Beasley Springs), there are Baird Springs, Two Springs, and Willow Springs. The Grant County courthouse in Ephrata is geothermally heated from a hot spring.</p><br>
<p>Monument Hill is the highest point in the Beezley Hills and the second highest summit in Grant County at 2,882 ft or 879.7 m. The high point of Grant County is a 2,899 ft summit (47.3822&deg;N latitude, 119.8124&deg;W longitude) unofficially named, four miles north of Monument Hill and across Lynch Coulee from Monument Hill.</p><br>
<p>Beezley Hills formed the northern barrier to the ice age Missoula Floods that poured out through Quincy Basin and over Babcock Ridge to reach the sea.</p><br>
<h3>Recreation areas and preserves</h3><br>
<p>The Beezley Hills Recreation Area (47&deg; latitude, 19.103&deg; longitude, near Ephrata, Washington) has 20 mi of trails and opened in 2012. The Beezley Burn is an annual cross-country mountain bike competition that ran there for the eighth year in 2014. It starts and ends in Ephrata, with a course that extends about 500 ft up into the east end of the Beezley Hills.</p><br>
<p>An earlier footrace in 2000 was also called the Beezley Burn and followed a similar course.</p><br>
<p>The 4,788 acre is part of a larger, 30,000 acre Moses Coulee/Beezley Hills Nature Conservancy preserve. They are all part of a 400,000 acre functional shrub-steppe ecoregion, comparable in size to the island of Oahu.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Beezley Hills Preserve lies in or adjacent to the Channeled Scablands desert; northern Grant County receives 10 - of rain annually. The preserve contains many arid climate species.</p><br>
<h3>Cacti</h3><br>
<p>Flora in the Beezley Hills include Pediocactus simpsonii (hedgehog cactus) and Opuntia polyacantha (prickly pear). The latter was called "quite rare" in Washington by one author, who noted it was listed as nonexistent in the state by many authorities.</p><br>
<h3>Pygmy rabbit</h3><br>
<p>The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, listed as an endangered species in the United States, is endemic to the Columbia Basin. An active conservation and endangered species recovery program is under way with participation from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife and The Nature Conservancy, with the Beezley Hills designated a "recovery emphasis area" by FWS.</p><br>
<p>The Capitol, also known as The Capitol Department Store, is a historic department store building located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. The original store was established at this site in 1921, with an existing two-story building incorporated into it in 1936. In 1949, the existing building was doubled in size by a large rear addition. The most notable feature is the 60 ft wide Modern Movement storefront added in 1955. It features marble facing, a recessed storefront, a large convex full-height window in the second story, and large aluminum script lettering for The Capitol. The Capitol, the last department store remaining in downtown Fayetteville, closed in March 1990.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Boxwood Plantation Slave Quarter  is a historic building near Trinity, in Lawrence County, Alabama. The plantation was founded in late 1810s by Samuel Elliot, an Ulsterman who had originally settled in Middle Tennessee. Elliott and his son, Samuel Jr., built Boxwood into one of the largest plantations in the county, with $36,000 in real property and 92 slaves by 1860. Both the main plantation house and the slave quarters were built in the mid-1850s. Although the main house was demolished in the 1950s to make way for the widening of Highway 20, the slave quarter was remodeled and continued to serve as a house. The surrounding area continued to operate as a farm until 2010, when the land was purchased to construct an industrial park. The quarter is being preserved, and the later alterations have been removed, revealing the building&#39;s original form.</p><br>
<p>Unlike most contemporary plantations, Boxwood and its major dependencies were constructed of brick. The slave quarters are the only remnant of the several cotton plantations in northwest Morgan and northeast Lawrence counties, and one of only eight brick plantation quarters in Alabama. The double-pen building has two doors on the façade leading to separate rooms. Two windows on the rear of the house were converted to doors in the 1960s. A gable roof has chimneys in each end. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Fayetteville Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It encompasses 113 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, 1 contributing structure, and 2 contributing objects in the central business district of Fayetteville. The district includes commercial buildings, government and civic buildings, railroad-related structures, residential dwellings, churches and the Cross Creek Cemetery. They range in build date from the 1780s to 1949. The district includes the previously listed Liberty Row and Market House Square Historic District and 16 resources listed as part of the "Historic Resources of Fayetteville," a Multiple Resource Nomination.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Haymount District, also known as Haymount Historic District, is a national historic district located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It encompasses 60 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a primarily residential section of Fayetteville. The dwellings were built between about 1817 and 1950, and include notable examples of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style architecture. The earliest extant residence is the Robert Strange Town House , home of Senator Robert Strange . Another notable building is the Highsmith Memorial Hospital, designed by noted architect Charles C. Hartmann and completed in 1926. Also located in the district is the separately listed Edgar Allan Poe House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, with a boundary increase in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Courtland Historic District is a historic district in Courtland, Alabama. Courtland was founded in 1818 and incorporated the following year. Its location was chosen to be close to the Tennessee River to facilitate transportation, but also close to cotton plantations to the south. The town&#39;s founders envisioned becoming the county seat of the newly formed Lawrence County, but the title instead went to Moulton. Many of the earliest structures in Courtland were built of logs, and were later replaced with frame and brick buildings. Development plateaued by 1830, but received a slight bump from the Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad beginning in 1834. The oldest houses in the district date from this era, including the 1828 Federal-style John McMahon House and several I-houses.</p><br>
<p>The town saw a resurgence after the Civil War, with early construction including the Presbyterian church. Most of the commercial area around the public square was rebuilt in brick in the 1880s through the 1900s, while many older houses were replaced with Victorian examples around the same time. The Southern Railway built a depot in 1887 to replace the previous depot; it was converted to a library around 1980. In the 1920s, larger, older lots began to be subdivided and more modest bungalows were constructed.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1989 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The boundaries of the district were increased in 1998 to include buildings representing Courtland&#39;s working-class and post-World War II growth.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Holland House was a historic residence near Hillsboro, Alabama. The house was built around 1836 by Thomas Holland, a South Carolinian who had come to Lawrence County, Alabama, in 1823. Holland began his plantation with 40 acres  and built it to over 2100 acres  by 1849. The house was a full two-story dogtrot house constructed of logs, one of the only of its type in Alabama. The exterior had since been covered in clapboard, and the breezeway had been finished with vertical boards and a chair rail. Enclosed stairways in each lower room gave access to the upper floor; the central room over the dogtrot was only accessible from the eastern room. The house was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The house was destroyed by fire in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Ice House is a historic commercial building in Moulton, Alabama. It was built in 1946 at the beginning of Moultons post-World War II boom period. After the towns previous ice house on the courthouse square was demolished to make way for new construction, R. W. Carter built a new ice house one block from the square with state-of-the-art ice making equipment. The ice house operated until 1977, serving homes and businesses in and around Moulton, as well as customers including Legion Field in Birmingham and the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant across the Tennessee River. Today, the building houses an antique store, but the icemaking equipment is still intact. The building is a one-story, concrete block structure with a parapet roof. The façade has three original wood doors which originally enclosed the ice storage rooms, an entry door, and a window, all under a flat canopy. An office with two windows also projects from the façade. A concrete block residence constructed at the same time as the ice house sits behind the structure. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Jarvisburg Colored School is a historic school building for African-American students located at Jarvisburg, Currituck County, North Carolina. First built as a one-room school in 1868 on land donated by Mr. William Hunt Sr, an educated African American farmer in Currituck, His gift of land included property for a church. Replaced in the 1890s with a two-room building and again expanded in 1911 to its current size. It was in service from 1868 until 1950 when Currituck opened a Consolidated School and closed all the small African American county schools. The Jarvisburg Colored School is a two-story, frame building built of cypress wood with Queen Anne style design elements. It has a gable roof and features a pyramidal roofed bell tower with the original four foot</p><br>
<p>wooden spire. It last housed a school in 1950. Today, the Jarvisburg Colored School serves as a Museum to share the stories of former students and histories of all the Colored Schools in Currituck County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Moulton Courthouse Square Historic District is a historic district in Moulton, Alabama. Moultons development began in 1820, when it was chosen as the county seat of the newly formed Lawrence County. The first courthouse was a log structure; a log jail on the west side of the square operated until 1911, when it was replaced with the current, 3-story brick jail and courthouse annex. Due to its lack of rail and river connections, development around the square remained sparse. The log courthouse was replaced in 1860 with a two-story, square building with Classical Revival details. The cotton economy of Lawrence County rebounded after the Civil War with the construction of several cotton gins, though nearly all of the structures built along the square in the late 19th century were later razed and replaced. The oldest extant buildings in the district were built in 1911: the three-story courthouse annex, and the two-story, stone faced Citizens Bank building. The northern part of Market Street, on the west side of the square, were constructed during the early 1920s. Lawrence Countys economy received a boost from New Deal programs, most notably the Tennessee Valley Authoritys fertilizer program and construction of Wheeler Dam. Most of the square&#39;s buildings were constructed during the late 1930s and 1940s, in contrast to most historic downtowns around the South. The current courthouse was completed in 1936. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Overton Farm is a historic farm house near Hodges, Alabama. The farmstead was founded by Abner Overton, a traveling tobacco merchant from Raleigh, North Carolina. Overton purchased 160 acres  in a bend of Bear Creek in 1817. Overton constructed a one-room log cabin in 1819, and gradually added to the house until it consisted of five rooms. Only two rooms of the house remain, separated by a dogtrot breezeway. The original west room originally had a stone chimney in the gable end, but it is no longer standing. The farm was operated by the Overton family until 1946 and was purchased by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1969 as part of the land affected by the construction of Bear Creek Dam. The farm was restored by the Northwest Alabama State Junior College in the 1970s and used as an educational center until 2013. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Otis Theodore and Effiegene Locke Wingo House is a historic house at 510 West De Queen Avenue in De Queen, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, built in 1904 but altered significantly later. Originally Queen Anne in style, the house has irregular massing and a complex cross-gabled roof line. Its original Queen Anne porch was replaced c. 1920 by a Craftsman-style porch with heavy wooden columns set on concrete and brick piers. A later shed-roof porch wraps around the southern side of the building, and at the rear of the house a 1/2 story was added at a later date. The house is notable as the home of United States Congressman Otis Theodore Wingo, and his wife Effiegene Locke Wingo, who served out his final term after his death and then was elected to Congress in her own right.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Buhrman–Pharr Hardware Company Historic District encompasses a pair of brick commercial buildings on 3rd Street in Texarkana, Arkansas. The two four-story structures, located on the block between Laurel and Ash Streets, were built in 1914 and 1923 for the Buhrmann–Pharr Hardware Company, a significant force in the economic development of Texarkana for more than a century. The company was founded in the late 1880s by W. J. Buhrman and J. L. Chatfield, the interest of the latter being taken over by F. E. Pharr in 1908. Started as a modest retail establishment, the company grew to become one of the regions largest wholesale supplier of hardware and agricultural implements. These two buildings were built to address the companys growth in the first decades of the 20th century. The wholesale business was closed in 2001 and the retail establishment shut down two years later.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Rampurva capitals are the capitals of a pair of Ashoka Pillars discovered in by A.C.L. Carlleyle. The archaeological site is called Rampurva, and is located in the West Champaran district of the Indian state of Bihar, situated very close to the border with Nepal. The two capitals are in the Indian Museum in Kolkota.</p><br>
<h2>Buddhist signification</h2><br>
<p>Waddell in 1896 suggested that the death and parinirvana of Gautama Buddha was in the region of Rampurva: "I believe that Kusīnagara, where the Buddha died may be ultimately found to the North of Bettiah, and in the line of the Açōka pillars which lead hither from Patna (Pāțaliputra)." Modern scholarship, based on archaeological evidence, believes that the Buddha died in Kushinagar (Uttar Pradesh).</p><br>
<h2>Rampurava lion capital</h2><br>
<p>The lion pillar is inscribed with Edicts of Ashoka, Pillar Edicts I, II, III, IV, V, VI.</p><br>
<h2>Rampurva bull capital</h2><br>
<p>The Rampurva bull capital is noted as one of the seven remaining animal capitals from the Pillars of Ashoka. It is composed of a lotiform base, with an abacus decorated with floral designs, and the realistic depiction of a zebu bull.</p><br>
<p>The abacus in particular displays a strong influence of Greek art: it is composed of honeysuckles alternated with stylized palmettes and small rosettes. A similar kind of capital can be seen at the basis of the Sankassa elephant capital. A similar frieze is also visible on the Diamond throne built by Ashoka at Bodh Gaya. These design likely originated in Greek and Near-Eastern arts."Buddhist Architecture" by Huu Phuoc Le,</p><br>
<p>Grafikol, 2010, p.44</p><br>
<p>The bull is without inscriptions, presumably because its twin pillar, the Rampurava lion pillar already had them and therefore there was no need to repeat. It is thought that the bull symbol is not related to the bull Nandi of Hinduism, as Ashoka was quite ecclectic in his choice of animals for his pillars anyway: lions, elephants, camels, geese, and horses are known.</p><br>
<p>Rampurva bull excavation 1907.jpgRampurva bull excavation in 1907</p><br>
<p>Rampurva lion excavation 1907.jpgRampurva lion excavation in 1907</p><br>
<p>The Almont Apartments are historic apartment houses at 1439-43 and 1447-51 Blue Hill Avenue in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1926, they are well-preserved examples of Colonial Revival architecture, built during a period of growth fueled by the city&#39;s expanding streetcar network. The apartments were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Almont Apartments are located in central southern Mattapan, on the west side of Blue Hill Avenue, occupying the block between Almont and Tennis Streets. They are two three-story brick buildings with flat roofs and Colonial Revival styling. Each building is U-shaped, with a small courtyard at the rear of the building. Due to the angled entry of the side streets, each presents a stepped facade to the outer side, and a flat facade to the front. The facades are roughly divided into three sections, with outer and center sections projecting slightly, and the second and fourth sections housing the building entrances. The entrances are framed by cast concrete surrounds with bracketed pediments. Each building houses 24 units, each with one or two bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>These buildings were designed by Saul Moffie, a local architect, and built in 1926 to answer growing demand for housing in the area which had been fueled by the expansion of the streetcar network along Blue Hill Avenue. Most of the growth was in the Jewish population, which was migrating to the area from locations closer to Boston&#39;s financial district. This migration made Mattapan a major center of Jewish culture until the 1940s, when a further migration to Brookline and Newton led to its decline in that role. The Almont Apartments had predominantly Jewish-surnamed residents until about 1960.</p><br>
<p>The Ernest Gruening Cabin is a historic rural cabin in Juneau, Alaska, United States, and the centerpiece of Ernest Gruening State Historical Park. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure located 26 mi north of the city on the Glacier Highway. It is the only building associated with the life of Ernest Gruening, governor of the Alaska Territory 1939-53, other than the Alaska Governors Mansion. The cabin was built on land Gruening leased  from the United States Forest Service, and was built by local laborers including Gruenings son Hunt. The cabin measures 24 ft by 28 ft, with a gable roof and a large fieldstone chimney. Its exterior is finished in shiplap siding milled to resemble unfinished logs. The interior consists of a single large chamber, with a circular stairway leading to a sleeping loft above. The kitchen area is set apart from the rest of the space by different flooring, an alteration by Gruening&#39;s grandson. The property is now a state historic site.</p><br>
<p>The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Cherry Street Historic District is a historic district in Florence, Alabama. Florence was founded in 1818 and quickly prospered as a cotton shipping port on the Tennessee River, but did not see its greatest growth until the latter part of the 19th century. Spurred by industrial development from several mills and iron furnaces as well as the Florence Wagon Works, the demand for middle-class, suburban homes increased. Five houses in the district date from the late 1800s, but the majority were constructed from the late 1910s through the mid 1930s, when the city saw further growth fueled by the construction of Wilson Dam and a large potassium nitrate production plant. The earliest houses in the district are predominantly Queen Anne style, with late 1800s houses being mostly two stories and early 1900s houses mostly one story. During the second wave of construction between 1920 and 1938, most houses built were bungalows. Five apartment buildings were also built to house the influx of workers coming to the area, centered on North Cherry Street and East Tuscaloosa Street, which became known as "Angel Corner" after its developer, J. M. Angel. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Nos.33, 35 & 37 Clwyd Street, Ruthin is a C16 timber framed grade II building in Ruthin, Denbighshire, which was listed on 16 May 1978 by Cadw . Today, it is used as a hop.</p><br>
<p>Now a shopping precinct this building dates back to the 15th Century with examples of wattle and daub just inside the building on the right hand side. The building was remodelled in the early 19th century when it became the "Cross Key&#39;s Coaching Inn" serving the Ruthin to Chester route with a change of horses in Mold and last licensed in 1905. It later became a temperance commercial hotel and was home to one of the three Ruthin Friendly Societies which were groups of male workers of similar background who contributed small amounts of money on a weekly basis for insurance against injury and old age. At a later date it was the offices of Ruthin Rural District Council.</p><br>
<p>The official hangman, Sam Burrows, stayed here in 1824 for several nights to prepare for the execution of an Irish highwayman, John Connor.</p><br>
<p>Plas Coch  is a medieval Grade II Listed building in Ruthin, Denbighshire which received its listed status on 24 October 1950 by Cadw. It is of medieval origin and is a former C17 large town house. It was built in 1613 using red sandstone from the castle; it became home to the constable of the castle. The building is two-storey with attics and has four large window on each floor. In 1963 it became a banqueting hall owned by Rees Jones who used to trade at the village hall in Llanfair. It became the Conservative Club in 1977 and has been slightly altered, now offering all round facilities for functions.</p><br>
<p>It has been listed as being architecture of exceptional value for being a large early C17 town-house, unusual for its stone construction in this area.</p><br>
<p>The Ashdown Commercial Historic District encompasses part of the historic commercial heart of Ashdown, the county seat of Little River County, Arkansas. This area was developed primarily between 1905 and 1945, and represents the city&#39;s growth during that time as a cotton and lumber center. It covers a roughly two-block area bounded on the west by an alley west of East Main Street, on the north by Keller Street, on the east by Whitaker Street, and on the south by North Constitution Street . Prominent early buildings in the district include the R. M. Price Building , a large two-story brick building built 1905, the 1915 Dixie Theater, and the 1905 Little River News building at 45A E. Main Street. Stylistically distinctive is the 1947 Williams Theater at 360 Keller Street, which is the only Art Deco building in the area.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Windway is an historic residential property located north of Kohler, Wisconsin. It was built in 1937–1938 by Walter J. Kohler, Jr., future governor of Wisconsin and an executive of the Kohler Company.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kohler commissioned architect William Deknatel, who had been an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright in the early 1930s, to design the house.</p><br>
<p>Kohler died in 1976 and his second wife Charlotte died in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The home is currently owned by Windway Capital Corporation and is used as a residence for artists participating in the John Michael Kohler Arts Center residency program.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is an example of International Style of architecture. The house was designed to accommodate Mr. Kohler, his first wife Marie Celeste, their three children, and three servants.</p><br>
<p>The house is two levels roughly equal in area but with different, overlapping footprints. The first level is roughly "T&#39; shaped with the main section running east-west with a guest room, study, play room, and dining room. The kitchen and laundry rooms extend to the north and the living room extends to the south. The garage is also on the first level but is separated from the main house with a drive-through from the driveway to the court.</p><br>
<p>The second level is "L" shaped in plan with the one leg extending north over the driveway and above the garage and the other leg running to the east. The servants rooms were above the garage. One of the childrens bedrooms was above the drive-through with the remaining two childrens bedrooms located east-west in the south leg. The master bedroom suite was at the east end of the second floor. The second floor did not extend over the kitchen area or over the living room with a roof deck over the living room.</p><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>The house has a steel and concrete framework which supports the wood roof and floor decks. There are concrete-encased steel beams exposed above the roofline. One runs east-west above the second floor, two are above the section of the second floor that is above the drive-through, two run north-south above the first floor living room extension, and there are two each above the dining room and kitchen areas of the first floor. The exterior brick walls are primarily a veneer over the concrete except the north wall which is a load bearing masonry wall. The suspended roof construction allows a level interior ceiling and full height windows.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>All the wood on the exterior was originally tidewater red cypress. The brick is a "tan" colonial that varies in color from tan to a reddish-brown and was laid with a recessed header row. The original roof was a level tar and gravel construction designed to hold 2 inches of water to help with summer cooling. Two small raised pools are located at the south end of the living room and on the east side of the dining room.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The ceiling and most walls are sand-floated plaster. The chimney and other interior masonry used the same "tan" brick as the exterior. Wood in the main rooms on the first floor were red birch with white birch used in the bedrooms. The floors were primarily white maple except in the hallways which were originally concrete covered in linoleum. Some minor remodeling has occurred. The stairways and floors on the second level are currently carpeted and some of the rooms have been re-purposed to accommodate its use as an artists&#39; residency.</p><br>
<h2>Site and Landscape</h2><br>
<p>The house was placed on the edge of a bluff which drops about 40 feet to the east. To the west, a rise shelters the house so it is not visible from the road. The driveway rises gently from the road and then drops to pass through the first level and court area and then form a full loop back to the top of the hill. The landscape was kept very simple with open lawn areas surrounding the house and with remainder of the parcel originally a mixture of pasture and woodland, but now mostly wooded. A number of large mature trees sit close to the house and punctuate the lawn areas. The lawn area around the first floor is fairly level to south and west. An outdoor patio area has been added in the southwest corner. The ground to east of the house drops off rather steeply and the area closest to the house is terraced. The Pigeon River meanders through the 52 acre property, entering in the southwest corner, flowing roughly along the south border then turning north to bisect the property. At its closest point it passes within about 200 feet of the house.</p><br>
<p>Adi  is an Indonesian island.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Adi is located approximately 450 km south of the Equator in the Seram Sea off the western coast of New Guinea. It is severed from the Bomberai peninsula by Street Nautilus, the narrowest width of which is only 10 km. Adi marks the southern border of the Kamrau Bay; beyond lies the open Seram Sea.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island is about 158 km² in an elongated shape. From its most north-westerly point to Cape Watukebo in the south-east it measures roughly 44 km, with a maximum breadth from south-west to north-east of nearly 7 km. The highest point is in the north-west and approximately 200 m above sea level. The main settlement is the north-centrally located village of Manggawitu.</p><br>
<h2>Biology</h2><br>
<p>The natural vegetation on the island consists of tropical rain forest. The only indigenous mammal is the sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps). Adi is surrounded by coral reefs.</p><br>
<h2>Linguistics</h2><br>
<p>Though Indonesian is the official language, a creole Papuan variant of Malayan is generally spoken. Kowiai, a small austronesian language is in decline.</p><br>
<h2>Politically</h2><br>
<p>Adi is part of the Indonesian province West Papua (Indonesian: Papua Barat) and within it of the regency Kaimana. It is part of the disputed territory claimed by the indigenous population as organized in the Free Papua Movement (OPM).</p><br>
<p>The Selph Building is one of the first commercial buildings to be built in the downtown area of Stillwater, Oklahoma.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The structure was built in 1913, and was originally designed to house a physicians&#39;s office on its second floor. The first floor was used for various commercial enterprises including a shoe repair shop and cafe. The Selph was one of the first buildings to provide for a public restroom.</p><br>
<p>The Selph is an 18 foot storefront, 85 ft deep on the first floor, with a second floor 30 ft deep. The building is of red brick with limestone trim. On the south facade there is a brick outhouse. Other nearby historic buildings include the Santa Fe Depot, the Citizens Bank Building, the Hoke Building, the Walker Building, and the Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Mid-Town Historic District is state and federal historic district in the central business district of Elizabeth, in Union County, New Jersey. It encompasses</p><br>
<p>2-210 and 1-233 Broad St. 251-339 North Broad Street; 1190-1214 and 1201-1217 East Grand St. 1125-1169 and 1140-1170 East Jersey Street, and parts of Dickinson Street, Commerce Place, Elizabeth Avenue, and Martin Luther King Plaza. Contributing properties include the Elizabeth Public Library, the Ritz Theatre and the individually listed First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>Elizabeth is the fourth largest city by population in New Jersey and the seat of Union County. Located 5 miles south of Newark, Elizabeth has never developed a sizeable skyline, though mid-rises built before and during the Great Depression characterize the Mid-Town Historic District in the core of the city&#39;s central business district.</p><br>
<p>The McWain-Hall House is a historic house on McWain Hill Road in Waterford, Maine. It is a typical vernacular Federal-style farmhouse, which is not only one of the oldest houses in the area, but is also locally significant as the home of David McWain , one of the town&#39;s first settlers. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is a large 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, whose main block is four bays wide and two rooms deep, with a large central chimney. The bays on the front facade are irregularly spaced: the main entrance is centered, with two sash windows on the south (right) side and one on the north, while the second level has four windows spaced above the first floor door and windows. A two-story ell extends to the rear of the main block which is said to be a late 19th-century replacement for an earlier ell. A shed-roof porch supported by square posts runs along the south facade of the ell. The ell is further connected to a barn whose construction suggests significant age.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the main block begins with a small vestibule area which has a narrow stair rising to the second floor. The main hall is to the right and the parlor to the left. The original kitchen occupies a space behind the central chimney, with smaller pantry rooms on either side. Decoration in the front rooms includes relatively modest vernacular paneling. The upstairs presently has three rooms, two in front and a single large one in the back, although there is evidence that the room configuration has changed over the years.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The town of Waterford was surveyed in 1774 and incorporated in 1797. David McWain, a native of Bolton, Massachusetts, is said to have arrived in the area in 1775, having purchased a parcel of land. He established a permanent residence in 1777, and bought this property in 1796. He farmed the land, owned a dairy herd, and raised pigs. A bachelor, he willed the land to his nephew David, who took over the land in 1825. His heirs sold the property in 1874 to Soloman Hall, in whose family it remained until 1928.</p><br>
<p>Kirikongo is an archaeological site located in the Mouhoun Bend region of Burkina Faso. The importance of Kirikongo and investigations of other sites in the Mouhoun River drainage system is that the system remains relatively unexplored and was inhabited by the ancestors of the Bwa. Additionally, the area represents a zone of punctuated assimilation and adoption of animal husbandry and agriculture during the occupations at Kirikongo. The site consists of several mounds that each represented a household.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology of the Mouhoun Bend</h2><br>
<p>The Mouhoun Bend is important archaeologically for its presence along the transition between Holocene forest and the margins of the savanna throughout time. From an agricultural perspective, this region is located along an area with intensive use of tubers in the forests to the south and west and cereals in the savanna margins to the north and east. Major occupations in the Mouhoun Bend range from 700 BC to AD 1600. From a cultural perspective, Later Stone Age and Early Iron Age occupations in the Mouhoun Bend are associated with the Kintampo Complex to the south As a product of historical seclusion from state-level societies that developed in western Africa during the Late Iron Age and a lack of contemporary interest by archaeologists, archaeological sites in the Mouhoun Bend have remained greatly underinvestigated. Archaeological investigations that have taken place, though, have focused almost entirely on creating chronological timelines and basic economic transitions.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological deposits at Kirikongo and interpretations</h2><br>
<p>The village site of Kirikongo was occupied during the Iron Age, from around AD 100 to 1700. The site consists of thirteen mounds interspersed over a thirty-seven hectare area. The majority of the mounds are centered in a village center, with the remainder clustered in a greater spread. Characteristic of other Iron Age sites, archaeological deposits at Kirikongo are indicative of iron smelting and production of ground stone for agricultural processing.</p><br>
<p>Kirikongo may represent one of many dispersed household clusters throughout the Upper Volta river system. The earliest occupations at Kirikongo have been dated to around AD 100 and consist of a single household. By AD 500, there were several households present at the site—indicative of population increase and cultural continuity. These households were constructed out of earthen materials with clay floors. The households were generally equal in status in AD 500, but over the years, the society stratified based on family lineage demonstrated by differences in settlement organization. During this period, housing structures changed from a construction from earthen materials to the use of brick architecture. Around AD 1100 a more complex structure, with status based on a mix of lineage, heads of households, and skilled professionals emerged. The presence of cattle at Kirikongo provides data that supports cultural developments at Jenne-Jeno as part of a migration of ancestral Bwa peoples.</p><br>
<p>Architectural features of note at Kirikongo include ritualized architecture indicative of an ancestor house where goods were collected and stored and ritual animal sacrifice occurred—evidenced by faunal remains. Another unique aspect of Kirikongo is evidence for a shift in the production of ceramics. Around AD 1100, ceramic production seems to have shifted from an unspecialized to a specialized sequence based on a loss of high localized variability. In addition to ceramic and architectural data, bioarchaeological analysis has provided strong indications in transitions towards social inequality by AD 1100. The most significant evidence is the presence of a system of restricted access and practice of burial actions. Subsistence remains demonstrate an economy that emphasized localized opportunistic hunting, presence of certain domesticates, and cultivation of plants.</p><br>
<h2>Significance of Kirikongo</h2><br>
<p>In comparison to other archaeologically-known settlements in western Africa, Kirikongo has scant evidence for long-distance trade. This evidence contrasts with that from northern Burkina Faso and the known trade interactions with Saharan and coastal populations. Cattle adoption at Kirikongo is argued to have occurred relatively early and perhaps demonstrates a trend of adoption across sub-Saharan western Africa around the same time. Additionally, ceramic assemblages at Kirikongo are indicative of the potential for regional interaction with the Kintampo Complex and cultural development out of pre-existing populations. In fact, Kirikongo may represent merely one of many homestead farming settlements located throughout the Mouhoun Bend and surrounding region during the late Iron Age. Changes in homestead structure from reciprocal to group formalized in intergroup dynamics characterize the region&#39;s occupations post-AD 500.</p><br>
<p>The Ebenezer Campground is a historic Methodist summer camp meeting site in rural Howard County, Arkansas. Established in 1854, it is one of the oldest camp meeting sites in Arkansas. It is located in a forest clearing off Arkansas Highway 4 north of Center Point. It has six major structures: a tabernacle, three dormitories, and two ministers cabins. Although all of these structures were built in the 1940s or later, they were built using construction methods reminiscent of previous structures at the camp, and are roughly in the same locations. The tabernacle is a large open structure with a tin roof supported by square posts. The ministers cabins are modest one-room cabins finished with vertical pine boards. The dormitories are long rectangular structures subdivided into areas called "tents". Each "tent" consists of four rooms separated by a breezeway. Three of these rooms serve as bedrooms, while the fourth, which is open on two sides, serves as a dining area. Attached to each "tent" is a shed-roofed kitchen and cooking area. The dormitories have no windows, only openings cut into the horizontal clapboard siding to provide light and ventilation.</p><br>
<p>The first camp meeting was established in the Center Point area in 1837, but was soon destroyed in windstorm. A second site, established in 1853, was destroyed by fire, and the camp was established at the present site thereafter. It was destroyed by Union Army forces in the American Civil War, the tabernacle was destroyed by wind in 1942, and four of the buildings burned in 1966. After each of these events the buildings affected were rebuilt using traditional frontier techniques.</p><br>
<p>The camp was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Womack–Parker House is a historic house off Arkansas Highway 4 in Nashville, Arkansas. The house is notable for its age, its association with one of Nashville&#39;s leading businessmen, and for its distinctive architecture. The house is a single block of wood frame construction with a central hall plan. It has porches with decorative jigsaw woodwork on three sides. Its construction date is uncertain, but it was purchased in 1878 by David Womack and extensively altered. Womack arrived in Howard County in 1849, and operated a highly successful array of businesses, including a lumber mill , and a cotton gin. The property on which the house stands also includes a variety of 19th-century log structures.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Old Corinth Cemetery is a historic cemetery in rural Howard County, Arkansas. It is small, just 0.17 acre, and is located about 5 mi north of Nashville on Arkansas Highway 26. The cemetery is the only surviving element of the community of Corinth. Originally known as Wilton, the area was settled in the 1840s, with a post office established in 1849. The town was renamed Corinth in 1885, after the local church  which stood next to the cemetery. The area&#39;s population declined in the early 20th century, and the town was entirely taken over by peach orchards, leaving only the cemetery behind. The last burial was in 2000, although the majority of burials predate 1961.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Glur&#39;s Tavern is a drinking establishment built in 1876 in the city of Columbus, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. It is said to be the oldest continuously operated tavern west of the Mississippi. It was patronized by "Buffalo Bill" Cody during a visit to Columbus.</p><br>
<p>The tavern is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>"The tavern is a worn, white clapboard structure that looks untouched by time and remodeling experts, wrote Tim Carman recently in the Washington City Paper. "Theres even an old "SALOON" sign hanging over the front-porch entrance."</p><br>
<p>Local legend says that Buffalo Bill paid his bill at Glur’s Tavern in May 1883 with a $1,000 bill after a funeral in Columbus for Major Frank North. North was the former leader of the Pawnee Indian Scouts and a close friend of Buffalo Bill’s who managed the Native American participants in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. The showman’s entourage came to Columbus for the funeral and rehearsals at the local fairgrounds.</p><br>
<p>Village Number 1, also known as The Village and Nitrate Plant Number 1 Reservation Subdivision, is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, in the United States.</p><br>
<p>Village Number 1 has been noted for its unusual place name.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Defense Act, which authorized the construction of two nitrate-manufacturing plants and a dam to provide them hydropower. President Wilson chose Muscle Shoals, Alabama as the site of the dam, which when completed in 1924, was named Wilson Dam. The new plant would produce ammonium nitrate using the Haber process. It was soon discovered the Haber process would not produce the amount of nitrate needed, so another plant was built that employed the cyanamide process.</p><br>
<p>The New York City architect, Harold Caparn, who helped expand the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, was chosen as chief architect of an industrial village that would house supervisors and workers for the Nitrate Plant No. 1. Construction of the village began in the latter half of 1918. The village was designed in the pattern of a handbell, with houses surrounding the handle, body, and clapper, and a school at the base. At its completion, the village contained 112 residential structures, 2 school buildings, and one large apartment building that housed unmarried officers.</p><br>
<p>World War I ended on November 11, 1918, and with it, the production of ammounium nitrate was not needed. The plant was closed, and the newly built houses stood unoccupied. In 1921, Henry Ford offered to buy the plants and village with plans to develop it into an industrial complex. Until 1933, only a small number of the houses were occupied, all by Alabama Power Company workers. Senator George W. Norris thought the site should be utilized for public use, and in May 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt formed the Tennessee Valley Authority. The industrial complex would be used for fertilizer production and as a development center. In 1949, the streets, playgrounds, and school were deeded to the city of Sheffield by the TVA and the houses were auctioned to the public.</p><br>
<p>The College Place Historic District is a historic district in Florence, Alabama. The area was the site of a Confederate fortification during the Civil War. In 1882 the land was purchased by Judge J. J. Mitchell and used as pasture land; Mitchell&#39;s house sits on Wood Avenue to the east of the district. The property began to be sold off in the 1900s, with the oldest house in the district dating to 1907. Construction in the district accelerated in the mid- to late-1920s, with many professionals including physicians, merchants, scientists, and attorneys building homes in the neighborhood. Styles represented include Mission Revival, Georgian Revival, and bungalows. The district rises on a slight slope above the campus of the University of North Alabama, and has vistas of the campus including Wesleyan Hall. The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1992 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1995; the boundaries were extended in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Ibalon or Ibalong, is an ancient settlement currently located in present-day Magallanes, Sorsogon, Philippines, renowned as the first Spanish settlement in the island of Luzon. At some point, the name Ibalong has been used by the Spanish to refer to the entire Bicol Peninsula, and to some extent the entire island of Luzon.</p><br>
<p>The epic of Ibalong, however, is currently celebrated in Legazpi City in Albay. The Ibalong Festival celebrates the epic story of the town of Ibalong with three legendary heroes, namely Baltog, Handyong, Bantong and other ancient heroes. People parade in the streets wearing masks and costumes to imitate the appearances of the heroes and the villains, portraying the classic battles that made their way into the history of Bicol. The Ibalong Festival aims to express warmth and goodwill to all people; visitors and tourists are encouraged to celebrate with the Bicolanos.</p><br>
<p>Barton Creek is the name of a small river and the area it flows through in Cayo District, Belize. The river is a right tributary of Belize River. In the area with this name there are two Mennonite settlements: Lower and Upper Barton Creek. Both are settlements of very conservative Mennonites in Belize. Also Barton Creek Cave is located there.</p><br>
<h2>Upper Barton Creek</h2><br>
<p>Upper Barton Creek is a unique settlement of reformers from different Anabaptist backgrounds, who wanted to create a Mennonite community free of modernistic trends and in nonconformity to the world to live a simple Christian life. It was established in 1969 by Plautdietsch speaking "Russian" Mennonites. Following their Ordnung the Mennonites of Upper Barton Creek do not own any equipment with motors, including cars, nor do they use electricity. They farm with horses and both men and women wear plain dress similar to Old Order Mennonites and Amish with men wearing beards. The Mennonites of Upper Barton Creek are counted to the Noah Hoover group, which originally is from central Pennsylvania. In 2010 it had a population of 380.</p><br>
<h2>Lower Barton Creek</h2><br>
<p>Lower Barton Creek is a small village, that was founded in 1970 by Mennonites from Shipyard in Belize. It is home of the most conservative German speaking "Russian Mennonites" in Belize. It is similar to conservative Mennonite settlements in Bolivia. It had a population of about 150 in 1980, about 200 in 1985 and only about 100 in 1989, after many inhabitants left for Mennonite colonies in Paraguay, Bolivia and elsewhere. Its population stood at 193 in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Barton Creek Cave</h2><br>
<p>Barton Creek Cave is a natural cave, known as both an archaeological site and as a tourist destination.</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>Carel Roessingh and Tanja Plasil (Editors): Between Horse & Buggy and Four-Wheel Drive: Change and Diversity Among Mennonite Settlements in Belize, Central America, Amsterdam 2009.</p><br>
<p>Dale J. Nippert: Agricultural Colonization: The Mennonites of Upper Barton Creek, Belize, Memphis 1994.</p><br>
<p>Helmut Schneider: Tradition und Veränderung in Belize (Mittelamerika): ein soziologischer Vergleich der Gemeinden San Ignacio und Upper Barton Creek, Berlin 1990.</p><br>
<p>Mattie Midgett Store and House, also known as Nellie Myrtle Pridgen&#39;s Beachcomber Museum, is a historic home and general store located at Nags Head, Dare County, North Carolina. The store was built in 1914, and the house in 1933. The store is a two-story frame Outer Banks Shingle Style building with a hipped shingle roof. A one-story, hipped-roof, one-room addition was built in 1944. The store was moved to its present site in 1932. The house is a two-story, T -shaped, single-pile frame dwelling with steeply pitched gable roofs.</p><br>
<p>The store houses the Outer Banks Beachcomber Museum, which features a collection of beach glass, feathers, shells, sand, bricks and bottles found on area beaches.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
