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The function of the "beehive" coke ovens was to purify coal and turn it into coke. The coke was burned in furnaces that produced iron and steel. The site, also known as Cherry Valley Coke Ovens Arboretum, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. An Ohio Historical Marker was added in 1999.
The Beehive is a mountain located in Banff National Park of Alberta, Canada. It was named by J. Willoughby Astley in 1890 because the mountain resembles a beehive . [ 1 ] The mountain is also known as the Big Beehive as there is a smaller beehive shaped mountain nearby called the Little Beehive .
A clochán (plural clocháin) or beehive hut is a dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly associated with the south-western Irish seaboard. The precise construction date of most of these structures is unknown with the buildings belonging to a long-established Celtic tradition, though there is at present no direct evidence to date the ...
Cabin Creek is a 11.0-mile-long (17.7 km) [1] tributary of the Susquehanna River in York County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Cabin Creek joins the Susquehanna near the outskirts of East Prospect borough.
At the top of Lapham Peak is a wooden observation tower that is 45 feet (14 m) high and offers a dynamic view of southeastern Wisconsin and the northern edge of Illinois. The Waukesha County Historical Society named the peak in memory of Increase A. Lapham to honor his efforts in scientific study and his founding of the United States Weather ...
Sugar Creek Conservation Area: The area is mainly forest with old fields and cropland. Facilities/features: hiking trail, designated multi-use trail (permit required for groups of 10 or more riders), and intermittent streams (Sugar Creek, Elm Creek). 2,590 acres 1,050 ha: Adair
In the 19th century, it was the home of several families free African Americans, part of the Cabin Creek Settlement. The name derives from Robert Scott, who was born enslaved in Guilford County, North Carolina in 1770. After gaining his freedom, he moved in 1821 to Wayne County, Indiana, then in 1832 to what would become known as Scott's Corner ...
Blue Mound State Park is a state park in Wisconsin, United States, located atop the largest hill in the southern half of the state, near the village of Blue Mounds.The 1,153-acre (467 ha) park features a pair of observation towers affording views of the Wisconsin River valley and Baraboo Range to the north, the mounds, buttes, and rolling forests of the Driftless Area to the south and west ...