West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.
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A former railroad corridor, the West Bloomfield Trail Network stretches 4.25 miles through West Bloomfield, Orchard Lake, Keego Harbor and Sylvan Lake. The West Bloomfield Parks and Recreation Commission bought it from the . . .
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A former railroad corridor, the West Bloomfield Trail Network stretches 4.25 miles through West Bloomfield, Orchard Lake, Keego Harbor and Sylvan Lake. The West Bloomfield Parks and Recreation Commission bought it from the . . . (Environment • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Great blue herons are the official bird of West Bloomfield and it's easy to see why with their majestic appearance, great size and frequent sightings within our township. Also, for several years, the nature preserve you are . . . 
This building was completed in 1913 to house the Addison State Bank, which had been organized the previous year to serve the new railroad community of Addison. After the bank's demise in 1926, the brick commercial structure . . . 
Saturn V, the United States’ largest and most powerful launch vehicle, was designed to hurl American astronauts in an Apollo capsule to the Moon. Composed of three stages and an instrument unit, the Saturn V, which stood 111 . . . 
CSA Gen. J.H. Morgan's cavalry on first Kentucky raid, returning from Cynthiana, burned Dix River bridge above here and camped on July 20, 1862. Burned 120 USA wagons here and at Somerset. See map on other side. After . . . 
Long Hunters, led by Elisha Walden, first recorded the beautiful orchard of crab apple trees in 1763. Soon, the long hunter's trail from Cumberland Gap to Crab Orchard, as it became known, carried a swelling tide of . . . 
Christmas Tree Ship The Rouse Simmons was one of the last schooners on the Great Lakes. Built in 1868 to carry lumber, the three-masted vessel became Chicago's "Christmas Tree Ship" when Herman Schuenemann purchased an . . . 
Der grosse Mathematiker und Logiker Kurt Gödel 1906 - 1978 hatte hier seinen letzen Wohnsitz vom 9.11.1939 bid zum 10.1.1940 bevor er Wien für immer verliess [English translation:] The great mathematician and logician, . . . 
Mile 765.0 from San Francisco This site was christened Victory on April 28, 1869 when Central Pacific Workers rested for lunch after laying six miles of track during the famous laying of ten miles of track in a day. The . . . 
On the afternoon of Friday June 23, 1972 the Susquehanna River swollen by flood waters of unprecedented height broke through the dike at a point 120 yards south of this site. The swirling water gouged a four acre chasm out . . . 
Mile 762.7 from San Francisco Information about this siding is limited to ambiguous notations amending Central Pacific RR survey plats and profiles. Onsite investigations have revealed no evidence of occupation.
"We now skirted the north end of the lake, sometimes traveling in a valley and again along the shore of the lake where the mountains jutted down nearly to its shores." -- Nicholas "Cheyenne" Dawson, narrative, August 26, 1841
De Amsterdamse Hortus Botanicus werd in 1638 opgericht als medicinale kruidentuin voor artsen en apothekers. Het is een van de oudste botanische tuinen ter wereld. De Oranjerie is een rijksmonument. Al in 1715 werden op deze . . . 
Mile 748.6 from San Francisco Monument was little more than a siding and wye for the railroad, with little evidence remaining today of the railroad era. Its name came from Monument Point, a prominent landform visible from . . . 
This monument erected by Wyoming Seminary in memory of four presidents of the school whose grave sites were lost in the flood of June 23, 1972 Rev. Reuben Nelson President 1844 - 1862 1863 - 1872 Rev. Young C. Smith . . . 
Mile 746.6 from San Francisco Ten-Mile was part of the long, circuitous route around the northern edge of the Great Salt Lake. Dry, inhospitable geography and steep railroad grades requiring helper locomotives in several . . . 
From this point the line extended about 400 yards Northeast, thence East about a mile. It extended about a half mile South from here.
Maj. Gen Walker, with Waul's and Surry's brigades, passed here parallel to the road during a charge that turned the Federal left flank and gained a position on the road in rear of Federal line.
Randal's Brigade of Walker's Texas Infantry Div. charged across this area traveling parallel to the road, supporting Mouton's Division which made the first charge on Randal's left.
Here the Federal line extending from the South turned East along a rail fence forming a V. General Mouton's Division charged this line in the bloodiest part of battle. In this, the first Confederate charge, General Mouton . . . 
