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Shouldice Hospital (formerly Shouldice Hernia Centre) is a private hospital located in Markham, Ontario, Canada, at 7750 Bayview Avenue in the Thornhill district. [1] The hospital specializes in hernia care. Its location is the former estate of George McCullagh, a publisher who created The Globe and Mail newspaper in 1936. [2]
Location of the Onondaga limestone outcrop in New York State, USA and Ontario, Canada The Onondaga Limestone is a group of hard limestones and dolomites of Devonian age that forms geographic features in some areas in which it outcrops ; in others, especially its Southern Ontario portion, the formation can be less prominent as a local surface ...
The exterior walls are built primarily of small, red, oval, lake washed cobbles. Also on the property is a smokehouse built of both red, lake washed cobbles and irregular field cobbles. They are among the approximately 101 cobblestone buildings in Ontario County and 26 in the village and town of Phelps. [2]
The lighthouse has been replaced by a modern skeleton tower. The lighthouse tower is a square, pyramidal cast iron tower on a concrete and stone pier. It is white with red trim. There is a 2 1 ⁄ 2 story limestone keepers quarters that was built in 1871, which is currently used as a museum. The lighthouse is owned by the Village of Sodus Point ...
Stony Island is an island in the eastern end of Lake Ontario. [1] [2] It is located in Jefferson County, New York. The island covers 1,536 acres (6.22 km 2). [3] Originally, the island was covered by large cedar trees. It was cleared for farming in the 19th century but is now largely wooded again.
The Cobblestone Historic District is located along state highway NY 104 (Ridge Road) in Childs, New York, United States.It comprises three buildings that exemplify the cobblestone architecture developed to a high degree in the regions of upstate New York near Lake Ontario and exported to other areas with settlers.
[2] Cobblestone architecture was used in the northeastern United States, especially antebellum Western New York, Central New York, and the northern Finger Lakes. Masons who built the Erie Canal during 1817-1825 started building cobblestone structures about the time the canal was finished. The stones used in the construction were typically of a ...
The Potsdam Sandstone, more formally known as the Potsdam Group, is a geologic unit of mid-to-late Cambrian age found in Northern New York and northern Vermont and Quebec and Ontario. A well-cemented sandstone of nearly pure quartz, in the 19th century it was widely used in construction and in refractory linings for iron furnaces. [8]