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Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Appomattox River Bridge: 1930 2005-07-27 Appomattox: Appomattox: Blackford Bridge: 1889 2010-06-24 Lebanon vicinity
Multiple varieties of equigranular nelsonite are present in the Roseland-Piney River district. [1] Ilmenite nelsonite: the most abundant variety, commonly occurs in marginal parts of the anorthosite and in surrounding rocks near the anorthosite contact. rutile nelsonite: occurs only within the anorthosite.
Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park is a West Virginia state park commemorating the Fairfax Stone, a surveyor's marker and boundary stone at the source of the North Branch of the Potomac River. The original stone was placed on October 23, 1746 [4] to settle a boundary dispute between Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and the ...
The estate was home to Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The centerpiece of Olana is an eclectic villa which overlooks parkland and a working farm designed by the artist. The residence has a wide view of the Hudson River Valley, the Catskill Mountains and the Taconic ...
The Hudson River Historic District roughly corresponds to the 40 estates established along the river on lands originally granted to the Livingston family.Portions, the Sixteen Mile District and Clermont Estates Historic District, were previously included in two other smaller districts that were later incorporated into the district.
The cliffs stretch north from Jersey City about 20 miles (32 km) to near Nyack, New York, and are visible at Haverstraw, New York. They rise nearly vertically from near the edge of the river, and are about 300 feet (90 m) high at Weehawken, increasing gradually to 540 feet (160 m) high near their northern terminus. [1]
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The Fairfax Line; Source: The Fairfax Line: Thomas Lewis's Journal of 1746; Footnotes and index by John Wayland, New Market, Virginia: The Henkel Press (1925 publication). The Fairfax Line was a surveyor's line run in 1746 to establish the limits of the "Northern Neck land grant" (also known as the "Fairfax Grant") in colonial Virginia.