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Mather Lodge is a historic park facility at Petit Jean State Park in Conway County, Arkansas. It is the centerpiece of the park's developed infrastructure, providing lodging, a meeting and function space, and a restaurant for park visitors. The lodge was built in 1935 by a crew of the Civilian Conservation Corps, and is one of the fine examples ...
A 24-room historic lodge called Mather Lodge sits on the edge of a bluff of a deep forested canyon. In addition to the lodge there are 32 cabins and 127 campsites available for park visitors. The canyon and bluffs were created by Cedar Creek, which cascades into the canyon in an impressive 95-foot (29 m) waterfall.
The Grand Jury recommended that efforts be made to make Camp Mather even more profitable for the Recreation and Parks Department. [14] In 2003, Friends of Camp Mather (FoCM) was founded as a not-for-profit organization to support the camp. Camps 1 to 9 were relocated between the summers of 2018 and 2019. Camp Mather Campsite Number 6 in 2012
Public Welfare Medal (1930) Stephen Tyng Mather (July 4, 1867 – January 22, 1930) [3] was an American industrialist and conservationist who was the first director of the National Park Service. As president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company he became a millionaire. With his friend the journalist Robert Sterling Yard, Mather led a ...
May 28, 1987 [2] The Ahwahnee is a grand hotel [3] in Yosemite National Park, California, on the floor of Yosemite Valley. It was built by the Yosemite Park and Curry Company and opened for business in 1927. The hotel is constructed of steel, stone, concrete, wood, and glass, and is a premier example of National Park Service rustic architecture.
Arts and Crafts movement, Adirondack Architecture. National Park Service rustic – sometimes colloquially called Parkitecture – is a style of architecture that developed in the early and middle 20th century in the United States National Park Service (NPS) through its efforts to create buildings that harmonized with the natural environment.
Boylan-Haven-Mather Academy, more familiarly known as “Mather Academy,” was a private African American boarding school in Camden, South Carolina.Its name reflects four schools founded and merged in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida by the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to educate former slaves and their descendants.
Hannah Mather born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on June 27, 1752.She was the daughter of Samuel Mather, a Congregationalist minister, and Hannah Hutchinson. [2] She was a descendant of the Mather dynasty founded in New England by Richard Mather (1596–1669), through his son Increase Mather (1639–1723) and his grandson Cotton Mather (1663-1728), [3] all prominent Puritan ministers involved in ...