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The Saco–Pettee Machine Shops is a historic factory complex at 156 Oak Street in the Newton Upper Falls area of Newton, Massachusetts.Although the area has an industrial history dating to the early 19th century, the oldest buildings in this complex, consisting of about thirteen brick buildings, were built in 1892.
Today, the shoals are protected as a National Historic Landmark and are maintained as part of Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park. [2] [3] Explorer James Robertson (later a founder of Nashville) identified the alluring flatlands at Sycamore Shoals, known as the Watauga Old Fields, in 1770, and led a group of colonists to the area shortly ...
Today, part of the site has been redeveloped as the Newton Marriott Hotel. [5] The remainder of the site, east of the hotel, is the Norumbega Park Conservation Area. [6] This park of 13 acres (5.3 ha) is owned by the City of Newton and is a popular jogging and dog-walking site with hills, meadows, woods, and access to the river. [7]
Shoals at Cedar Falls Park, Greenville County, South Carolina. Cedar Falls Park is a 90-acre (36 ha) recreation area in Upstate South Carolina where the Reedy River widens to 200 feet (61 m), cascading over rocks and boulders. The park is maintained by Greenville County Parks, Recreation, and Tourism. [1]
Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park is a state park located in Elizabethton, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.The park consists of 70 acres (28.3 ha) situated along the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River, a National Historic Landmark where a series of events critical to the establishment of the states of Tennessee and Kentucky, and the settlement of the Trans-Appalachian frontier in general ...
The Lloyd Shoals Dam was built in 1910 by Central Georgia Power Company, and electricity was originally generated for the city of Macon. Relative to others in the state, it is a smaller lake (about 4,750 acres (19.2 km 2 ) with 135 miles (217 km) of shoreline), which still generates electricity and provides a location for water sports , boating ...
President Wilson chose Muscle Shoals, Alabama as the site of the dam, which when completed in 1924, was named Wilson Dam. [4] The new plant would produce ammonium nitrate using the Haber process. It was soon discovered the Haber process would not produce the amount of nitrate needed, so another plant was built that employed the cyanamide ...
Factory Butte Landscape, with Factory Butte in the distance, September 2008. Factory Butte in Wayne County, Utah, is a 6,302-foot (1,921 m) summit in the Upper Blue Hills [1] in northern Wayne County, Utah, United States, [2] [3] about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Hanksville and about 14 miles (23 km) east of Capitol Reef National Park boundary.