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Great Pond and its surrounding mudflats were historically used by the people of St. Croix to fish, crab and gather salt. [3] The area has had human inhabitants in the area for centuries. Excavations have uncovered human remains in the Great Pond area from 300-700 A.D. as well as 700-900 A.D. [ 1 ] In the 18th century, a 430-acre (170 ha ...
Elechi Amadi MFR // ⓘ (12 May 1934 – 29 June 2016) was a Nigerian author and soldier. He was a former member of the Nigerian Armed Forces.He was an author of plays and novels that are generally about African village life, customs, beliefs, and religious practices prior to contact with the Western world.
Great Pond's waters flow out to the east through a Great Pond Storage Dam and a short section of Belgrade Stream, into Long Pond, near the village of Belgrade Lakes. The town of Rome is located at the north end of Great Pond. Most of Great Pond is located in the town of Belgrade. There are several islands in Great Pond, including Hoyt Island ...
Weedy North Pond covers the boundary of Smithfield to the east, Mercer to the northwest, and Rome to the southwest. It is the shallowest lake of the chain. North Pond tributaries include Sucker Brook and Clark Brook joining the overflow from East Pond, and Leech Brook, Bog Brook and Pattee Brook flowing into the north end of the pond.
Mullet Pond is a section of the Simpson Bay Lagoon which still contains a substantial portion of Red Mangroves Rhizophora mangle. It has been a protected Ramsar site since 2014. [1] [3] Studies have shown that land-based sewage wastewater entering the Lagoon has resulted in bacterial levels far exceeding acceptable norms.
Great Pond (Truro) is one of three ponds in Barnstable County that share the name. The others are located in Eastham and Provincetown. Great Pond in Truro is 17-acre natural kettle pond with an average depth of 14 feet (4.3 m) and a maximum depth of 35 feet (11 m). Transparency is very good, extending to 14 feet (4.3 m), and aquatic vegetation ...
As is often the case in the United States, the "law of great ponds" descended from early English common law.In 1890, Charles Doe, Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, described the development of the law of great ponds in Concord Mfg. Co. v. Robertson, a case concerning the rights of individuals to cut and remove ice from a pond adjacent to land they had leased, subsequently ...
Massacoe State Forest is a Connecticut state forest located in the town of Simsbury.The forest comprises two noncontiguous sections: the Great Pond Block, which encompasses 36-acre (15 ha) Great Pond, and the Massacoe Block, which lies next to Stratton Brook State Park. [4]