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The four-masted barque Moshulu. Moshulu was made famous by the books of Eric Newby.At the age of 18 he was apprenticed aboard the Moshulu, joining the ship in Belfast in 1938 and sailing to Port Lincoln in Australia with a load of ballast stone in 82 days, a good passage for a windjammer.
Cameron Mitchell is president and founder of Cameron Mitchell Restaurants. He gained notoriety in the restaurant industry in 2008, when two of the company's concepts: Mitchell's/Columbus Fish Market and Mitchell's/Cameron's Steakhouse—a total of 22 units—sold to Ruth's Hospitality Group for $92 million. [30]
Portions of East and West Main, North and South Rebecca, North and South Isabella, Pittsburgh, Butler, and State Streets 40°45′00″N 79°49′08″W / 40.75°N 79.818889°W / 40.75; -79.818889 ( Saxonburg Historic
[16] [12] [13] [17] Also, nails and 72 tons of steel, by some counts, went into the construction of the expanded 5-floor-hotel, coupled with water piped from half-a-mile away. While Franci and Rosso did manual work to build the expanded hotel, they had a crew which helped them with the laborious process of construction. [18]
The Fairmount Water Works was initially constructed between 1812 and 1815 on the east bank of the Schuylkill River.The Water Works initially consisted of a 3 million US gallons (11,000,000 L) earthen reservoir atop Faire Mount at the present site of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a pump house with two steam engines to pump water.
The unincorporated town of Lyndora, which has its own post office (zip code 16045), is located within Butler Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 21.7 square miles (56.3 km 2), of which 21.6 square miles (56.0 km 2) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km 2), or 0.58%, is water. [6]
A floating restaurant is a vessel, usually a large steel barge or hulk, used as a restaurant on water. The Jumbo Kingdom, formerly located at Aberdeen in Hong Kong, was at one time the world's largest floating restaurant, until it sank at sea in 2022. [1] Sometimes retired ships are given a second lease on life as floating restaurants.
Boathouse Row is a historic site which is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the east bank of the Schuylkill River just north of the Fairmount Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It consists of a row of fifteen boathouses housing social and rowing clubs and their racing shells .