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The park beside the Fairfax Stone is a clearing at the end of a road with a few picnic tables. Fairfax Stone Historical Monument, part of a four-acre West Virginia state park, is six miles north of Thomas, West Virginia. The site is sparsely developed, lacking any buildings or restroom facilities.
Stone State Park is a state park in Iowa, United States, located in the bluffs and ravines adjacent to the Big Sioux River. The park is located on the northwestern edge of Sioux City and consists of 1,069 acres (433 ha) in Woodbury and Plymouth Counties, and overlooks the South Dakota -Iowa border.
David Morgan (12 May 1721 – 19 May 1813), sometimes known as "The Great Indian Fighter", was a soldier, mountaineer, pioneer, and frontiersman in what is now the state of West Virginia. He was born in Christiana, New Castle, Delaware, the third child of Morgan Morgan and Catherine Garretson Morgan, traditionally stated to be the first white ...
Bobwhite State Park Wayne County: Allerton: Cold Springs State Park Cass County: Lewis: Crystal Lake State Park Hancock County: Crystal Lake: Eagle Lake State Park Hancock County: Britt: Echo Valley State Park Fayette County: West Union: Frank A. Gotch State Park Humboldt County: Dakota City: Heery Woods State Park Butler County: Clarksville ...
Grant County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,976. [1] Its county seat is Petersburg. [2] The county was created from Hardy County in 1866 and named for Civil War General and the 18th president of the United States Ulysses S. Grant.
The Potomac River runs 405 mi (652 km) from Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park in West Virginia on the Allegheny Plateau to Point Lookout, Maryland, and drains 14,679 sq mi (38,020 km 2). The length of the river from the junction of its North and South Branches to Point Lookout is 302 mi (486 km). [4]
The region's geologic setting and landscape history make the Potomac Highlands one of the most scenic areas within the central Appalachian Mountains.The eastern part of the region is within the Ridge and Valley physiographic province, where long, steep-sided mountain ridges alternate with parallel broad, flat valleys.
The Gerome Clark House is located east of Milford, Iowa, United States. New York native Gerome Clark settled in Dickinson County about 1867. As he and his sons cleared the land of glacial rock for plantings they collected the multi-colored rocks and boulders of various sizes. The house was built in two sections, and it was not completed until 1888.