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The Big Duck is a duck-shaped building in Flanders, New York, 18 by 30 feet (5.5 by 9.1 m) and 20 feet (6.1 m) tall to the top of the head, enclosing 11 by 15 feet (3.4 by 4.6 m) of interior space. [1] The building was designed in 1931 by duck farmer Martin Maurer; shaped like a Pekin duck, it was intended as a farm shop as well as for publicity.
Big Duck Ranch, also known as the Maurer Duck Farm, is a historic ranch located in Flanders, Suffolk County, New York. It operated as a duck ranch and retail store that sold duck products from 1936 to 1984. The principal building on the site is the separately listed Big Duck. [2]
Built in 1931, Riverhead duck farmer Martin Maurer and his wife Jeule decided to construct a giant duck-shaped building to sell ducks they raised to passing motorists. The building is 30 feet from ...
Seven Oaks was established as a resort town in the late 1800s, located halfway up the San Bernardino’s to Big Bear. It was a frequent stop for burro riders using the burro trains up and down the Big Bear Valley Trail, developed by the Big Bear Valley Toll Road Company in 1888. [11]
Martin Murphy Jr. (1807–1884) founder of Murphy ranch and Sunnyvale, California Cosumnes River near Murphy Ranch. The Murphy ranch was owned by Martin Murphy Jr. (1807–1884), located north of the Cosumnes River in Elk Grove. Martin Murphy was in a wagon train that was the first to cross the Sierras in 1844. The wagon train was made up of ...
The Oasis at Death Valley, formerly called Furnace Creek Inn and Ranch Resort, is a luxury resort in Furnace Creek, on private land within the boundaries of California's Death Valley National Park. It is owned and operated by Xanterra Travel Collection .
Northstar was a former lumber site once owned by the Douglas Lumber Company of Truckee and was acquired by Fibreboard when they purchased Douglas in 1967. [1] Its original name was Timber Farm, but was changed to Northstar-at-Tahoe when the mountain opened 52 years ago in December 1972. [2]
Adobe Creek, historically San Antonio Creek, is a 14.2-mile-long (22.9 km) [5] northward-flowing stream originating on Black Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains.It courses through the cities of Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, and Palo Alto on its way to the Palo Alto Flood Basin and thence to southwestern San Francisco Bay in Santa Clara County, California, United States.