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The abundant artesian spring water discovered at Las Vegas shortened the Spanish Trail to Los Angeles. About 14 years later after Rivera's discovery, John C. Frémont led an expedition west and camped at Las Vegas Springs on May 13, 1844. The Rafael Rivera Park, Community Center and Rafael Rivera, a street, are named after him.
Rhea Springs was a community once located along the Piney River in Rhea County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Originally established in the 19th century as a health resort, the community was inundated when the completion of Watts Bar Dam by the Tennessee Valley Authority flooded the lower Piney Valley in 1942.
Armijo's group blazed a trade route using a network of indigenous routes, incorporating parts of Jedediah Smith's routes of 1826 and 1827, and Rafael Rivera's route of 1828 to the San Gabriel Mission through the Mojave along the Mojave River. Armijo documented his route in a report to the governor, and this was published by the Mexican ...
Lea Springs was the site of a historic mansion of the same name. It was built by slaves in 1819 for Pryor Lea, who grew up in nearby Richland. [4] Lea became a politician in Tennessee and Texas, and he was a founding trustee of the University of Mississippi. [4] He died in 1879, and the house was remodeled as a resort in the 1880s. [4]
Only place in the world where Nesticus furtivus (also known as the Crystal Caverns Cave Spider) is found. [15] Ruby Falls: Hamilton County: 700 feet (210 m) 1928 Contains tallest and deepest subterranean waterfall open to the public in the United States at 145 feet (44 m) tall. [16] Connected to Lookout Mountain Caverns. Rumbling Falls Cave ...
A Google Maps alert that says Interstate 40 at the Tennessee-North Carolina border will be closed until September 2025 is not the definitive date, Tennessee Department of Transportation spokesman ...
Fewkes Group Archaeological Site , also known as the Boiling Springs Site, [1] is a pre American history Native American archaeological site located in the city of Brentwood, in Williamson County, Tennessee. It is in Primm Historic Park on the grounds of Boiling Spring Academy, a historic schoolhouse established in 1830.
Spaghetti models of the projected path of Rafael show some possibility of it impacting Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and parts of Tennessee, but the National Weather Service has not released any ...