Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Trough is a narrow valley bounded by Mill Creek Mountain to its west and Sawmill Ridge (1,716 feet) to its east with the SBPR flowing in between them. The Trough's opening is located at the southern slopes of Mill Creek Mountain and Sawmill Ridge at McNeill in Hardy County. Mill Creek Mountain is made up of several steep ridges and knobs ...
Fivay existed as a company town for a lumber mill for less than a decade, and it started out being known as Five A’s. Its designation came from the owners of the sawmill, whose names all started with “A.” Martin Amorous, Preston Arkwright, Henry Atkinson, Gordon Abbott, and Charles Ayer.
Gibbs City is a ghost town in Michigan.It was founded as Atkinson in the late 19th century, centered on a sawmill on the Paint River.As the original village died, R. F. Gibbs built a new sawmill and the settlement grew to over 200 residents, having been renamed Gibbs City.
AOL latest headlines, entertainment, sports, articles for business, health and world news.
The area was first named the Charleston Forest Reserve in 1906.. Additional land was added in 1989 to bring the area up to the current 316,000+ acres (1,279 km 2).The area was designated as Spring Mountains National Recreation Area by the U.S. Congress in 1993.
Remains of north barracks, showing exposed interior fireplaces Fort Atkinson north barracks in 1912, after abandonment. The 1830 Treaty of Prairie du Chien, negotiated between the United States and various tribes, established the Neutral Ground: the tribes agreed to land cession of a 40-mile-wide (64 km) strip of land, two strips of land 20 miles (32 km) wide each on either side of the ...
Atkinson is a town in Pender County, North Carolina, United States. At the 2010 census, the town population was 299. It is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan ...
At McNeill, the South Branch flows into the Trough where it is bound to its west by Mill Creek Mountain (2,119 ft) and to its east by Sawmill Ridge (1,644 ft). This area is the habitat to bald eagles. The Trough passes into Hampshire County and ends at its confluence with Sawmill Run south of Glebe and Sector.