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Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary Superintendent Billy Causey answers questions for a member of the public at an event in the late 1980s. Looe Key is a 5.8-square-mile (4.4 sq nmi; 15.0 km 2 ) coral reef in the Florida Reef system named for the British Royal Navy warship HMS Looe , which was wrecked on it in 1744 when it was a sandy island.
Nonetheless, Looe's main business today is tourism, with much of the town given over to hotels, guest houses and holiday homes, along with a large number of pubs, restaurants and beach equipment, ice cream and Cornish pasty vendors. Inland from Looe lie many camping and caravan sites, as well as the famous Woolly Monkey Sanctuary.
The Hotel Richmond was a historic hotel located in Richmond, Virginia. Constructed in phases between 1904 and 1911, it was a rare example of a Gilded Age hotel built by a woman, Adeline Detroit Wood Atkinson. Atkinson turned the facility into a popular meeting spot for Richmond-area politicians, and the hotel acted as the headquarters for ...
South of Liskeard, the Looe Valley Line railway follows the course of the East Looe River to Looe. The railway is so close to the river that flooding is a common occurrence. [3] The lowest stretch of the rivers combine to form the tidal harbour and estuary of Looe. The combined length of the two rivers (including the tidal confluence) is 30.48 ...
It has nine "misshapen" arches, [11] of which seven span the river, one is a dry arch on the East Looe side, and one at the West Looe side forms a pedestrian passage. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] The roadway had an original uniform width of 18 ft 2 in (5.54 m), [ 4 ] but underwent a programme of widening in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The RNLI withdrew services from Looe in 1930 on the grounds that the motor lifeboats at Fowey and Plymouth could cover the area. [ 4 ] From 1992, the RNLI stationed a lifeboat at Looe for the summer season and three years later the Spirit of the ROAC was housed in a temporary lifeboat house, provided by the East Looe Town Trust.
The Jefferson Hotel is a luxury hotel in Richmond, Virginia, United States, opened in 1895. In 1969, [ 5 ] it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The Jefferson is a member of Historic Hotels of America , the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation . [ 6 ]
The Looe Estuary (grid reference) is an estuary in the southeastern part of Cornwall in south-west England, which leads to the mouth of the River Looe in Looe Bay. The town of Looe sits on the west and east side of the estuary. The estuary is a ria and was formed around 12,000 years ago. [1]