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Mount Batulao is an inactive stratovolcano in the Calabarzon region of the Philippines, located in northwest Batangas province along its border with Cavite. [1] [3] It is a dissected andesitic stratovolcano at the northwestern rim of the Taal Caldera which began to form in the late Pliocene period, about 3.4 million years ago. [4]
Mount Susong Dalaga, Doña Remedios Trinidad, Bulacan; Mount Susong Dalaga, also known as Breast Peak, in Tampakan, South Cotabato; Susong Dalaga Peak of Mount Batolusong, Tanay, Rizal; Manabu Peak, also known as Mount Dalaga or Mount Susong Dalaga, of the Malepunyo Mountain Range in between the provinces of Batangas, Laguna, and Quezon
There are more than 600 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Philadelphia, including 67 National Historic Landmarks. Northwest Philadelphia includes 80 of these properties and districts, including 6 National Historic Landmarks; the city's remaining properties and districts are listed elsewhere. One site is split between ...
Amada Restaurant - owned by Jose Garces, Philadelphia's newest Iron Chef; The Fountain Restaurant - the Four Season Hotel, rated #1 in the city by Zagat Survey; Geno's Steaks - of the "Geno's vs. Pat's" debate; McGillin's Olde Ale House - the oldest continuously operational tavern in Philadelphia; Morimoto - the original Iron Chef's restaurant
Northwest Philadelphia is known for its hilly terrain, especially in the western half between the Wissahickon and the Schuylkill River.This hilly terrain is a distinct characteristic of Manayunk and Roxborough, making them popular for any recreation that can use a good hill (such as sledding and soapbox derbies, or especially challenging sessions of running and biking).
Mount Moriah Cemetery was founded next to Cobbs Creek in 1855. The neighborhood near the cemetery is also known as Mount Moriah, part of which is in Elmwood Park . In 1669 Hans Månsson , a Swedish settler, received a patent for an 1,100-acre plantation along the Schuylkill River between the current location of 60th Street and Woodlands ...
May 11, 1976 (North Philadelphia Eastern banks of the Schuylkill River: Fairmount Park: First municipal waterworks in the United States. Designed in 1812 by Frederick Graff and built between 1819 and 1822, it operated until 1909.
Cresheim Creek before it meets Wissahickon Creek. Cresheim Creek is a creek in southeastern Pennsylvania.Rising at Wyndmoor in Springfield Township (in a park near the USDA's Agricultural Research Service Eastern Regional Research Center, adjacent to the border between Montgomery County and Northwest Philadelphia), it runs about 2.7 miles (4.3 km) southwest, passing through part of Northwest ...