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The raft blocked the mouth of Twelve Mile Bayou, impeding settlement in the area west of Shreveport. There were many smaller logjams on the Red River. [2] The raft raised the banks of the river, creating bayous and several lakes. Called the Great Raft Lakes, these included Caddo and Cross Lakes, along the lower reaches of the Red River's ...
As a result of the success of his design, Shreve was ordered in 1832 by Secretary of War Lewis Cass to clear the Great Raft, 150 miles (240 km) of dead wood on the Red River. [2] Shreve successfully removed the Raft by 1839. [1] [2] [26] The area of the Red River where the Raft was most concentrated is today his namesake city of Shreveport. [1] [6]
The housing market saw its biggest slowdown during the month of August in five years. Forty-eight percent of homes on the market took 60 days or longer to be sold, per Redfin data.
The most famous natural wood raft is the Great Raft on the Red River in Louisiana, which prior to its removal in the 1830s affected between 390 and 480 km (240–300 mi) of the main channel. [3] It has been suggested that such extensive log rafts may have been common in Europe in prehistory. [4]
A 3M spokesman said this month that Wonewok is still for sale. In downtown Minneapolis, the Dayton's Project and IDS Center attracted some small retailers to sell goods to holiday shoppers this month.
In June 2011, Northland Properties placed a bid on the Sutton Place Hotel in Edmonton, and subsequently ended up purchasing it, along with the Sutton Place in Vancouver. [3] Sutton Place currently has hotels in Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax, and has the rental agent contract For their Hotel/Strata development at Revelstoke Mountain Resort in ...
Sun Communities is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that invests in manufactured housing communities, recreational vehicle communities, and marinas. As of June 30 2024, the company owned interests in 666 such properties in the United States, Canada, and the UK consisting of approximately 181,760 developed sites and over 48,140 wet slips and dry storage spaces.
The notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, which was converted in recent years into permanent supportive housing for the formerly homeless, has been listed for sale.