Quebec, Vaudreuil-Soulanges RCM, Coteau-du-Lac
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The Canadian Parks service has a mission to preserve certain sites that bear witness to the history of our country and to the accomplishments of our ancestors. Of exceptional historic and archaeological importance, the Coteau-du-Lac National Historic Park is an example of the kind of site that must be protected. Its structural features and other remains are unique and non-renewable.
Abandoned in the middle of the 19th century, the canal at Coteau-du-Lac was excavated by archaeologists in the mid-1960s. Later, measures had to be taken to prevent the canal from deteriorating. In 1986 and 1987, the Canadian Parks Service took steps to protect the canal against the devastating effects of freezing and thawing. The work done at the time greatly modified the original appearance of the canal.
Protecting the Canal
The plan presented below shows the various measures taken in 1986 and 1987 to preserve the canal at Coteau-du-Lac. With its wooden sides and gravel bottom, the canal that you see today is quite different from the original construction.
The photograph gives you a good idea of what the canal looked like before the preservation work.
French:
Le Service canadien des parcs a pour mission de conserver certains lieux qui témoignent de l’histoire de notre pays et des réalisations de nos ancêtres. Le parc historique national de Coteau-du-lac est l’un de ces lieux privilégiés. Site historique et archéologique. exceptionnel, il renferme des vestiges rares, uniques et non renouvelables.
Abandonné au milieu du 19ᵉ siècle, le canal de Coteau-du-lac fut déblayé et fouillé par des archéologues au milieu des années 1960. Par la suite, il a fallu intervenir pour contrer sa dégradation. Ainsi, en 1986 et 1987, le Service canadien des parcs a éffectué divers travaux visant à protéger le canal contre l’action dévastatrice du gel et du dégel. Ces travaux ont cependant modifié sensiblement l’aspect originel du canal.
La protection du canal
Le plan presenté ci-dessous schématise les différentes interventions faites au canal de Coteau-du-lac en 1986 et 1987, dans le but d’en assurer la conservation. Avec ses parois de bois et son fond de gravier, tel que vous le voyez aujourd’hui , le canal diffère passablement de ce qu’il était auparavant.
Par ailleurs, la photo ci-contre, nous donne une bonne idée de ce qu’était le canal avant ces travaux.
(Forts, Castles • War of 1812 • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
English:The Canadian Parks service has a mission to preserve certain sites that bear witness to the history of our country and to the accomplishments of our ancestors. Of exceptional historic and archaeological importance, the Coteau-du-Lac National Historic Park is an example of the kind of site that must be protected. Its structural features and other remains are unique and non-renewable.
Abandoned in the middle of the 19th century, the canal at Coteau-du-Lac was excavated by archaeologists in the mid-1960s. Later, measures had to be taken to prevent the canal from deteriorating. In 1986 and 1987, the Canadian Parks Service took steps to protect the canal against the devastating effects of freezing and thawing. The work done at the time greatly modified the original appearance of the canal.
Protecting the Canal
The plan presented below shows the various measures taken in 1986 and 1987 to preserve the canal at Coteau-du-Lac. With its wooden sides and gravel bottom, the canal that you see today is quite different from the original construction.
The photograph gives you a good idea of what the canal looked like before the preservation work.
French:
Le Service canadien des parcs a pour mission de conserver certains lieux qui témoignent de l’histoire de notre pays et des réalisations de nos ancêtres. Le parc historique national de Coteau-du-lac est l’un de ces lieux privilégiés. Site historique et archéologique. exceptionnel, il renferme des vestiges rares, uniques et non renouvelables.
Abandonné au milieu du 19ᵉ siècle, le canal de Coteau-du-lac fut déblayé et fouillé par des archéologues au milieu des années 1960. Par la suite, il a fallu intervenir pour contrer sa dégradation. Ainsi, en 1986 et 1987, le Service canadien des parcs a éffectué divers travaux visant à protéger le canal contre l’action dévastatrice du gel et du dégel. Ces travaux ont cependant modifié sensiblement l’aspect originel du canal.
La protection du canal
Le plan presenté ci-dessous schématise les différentes interventions faites au canal de Coteau-du-lac en 1986 et 1987, dans le but d’en assurer la conservation. Avec ses parois de bois et son fond de gravier, tel que vous le voyez aujourd’hui , le canal diffère passablement de ce qu’il était auparavant.
Par ailleurs, la photo ci-contre, nous donne une bonne idée de ce qu’était le canal avant ces travaux.
(Forts, Castles • War of 1812 • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
In 1910 this was Camp 8 – the end of the road. From this uppermost camp a rough wagon track pushed one and one half miles up the river to where Southern California Edison Company constructed the intake for Kern River No. 3 Power Plant.
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On This Hill 
Judge John Louis Taylor Sneed (1820-1901) named this house which is built of native poplar and cypress. Only a few of this "Victorian piano-box" style, more common to middle-Tennessee, survive. E.A. Spottswood, Sr. sold this land to Levi Joy in 1869. Joy sold the property to Sneed, who was living at Maxwelton by 1874. Four generations of Judge Sneed's family have lived here in the Buntyn community. He compiled a notable judicial record in Memphis, Shelby County , and on the state Supreme Court. He also helped found (1887) and taught in the Memphis Law School. He was one of the founders of St. John's Episcopal Church and a trustee of the church property.
In 1870, Edward Shaw became the first Memphis black to run for U.S. Congress. Though he did not win, he was active in politics, serving on the County Commission, the City Council, and as Wharfmaster in the 1870s. In 1875, Shaw was editor of a black newspaper, The Memphis Planet, and, in 1880, he escorted General U.S. Grant, who was in Memphis to visit Beale Street Baptist Church and LeMoyne-Normal Institute.
Hollis Price was the first African-American president of LeMoyne College. In 1968, he guided the college's merger with Owen Junior College. Price was the president of the college for 27 years and upon his retirement became president emeritus. He was the first African-American national moderator of the United Church of Christ, the denomination's highest lay position. In 1975, Price was the first Black to receive the Brotherhood Award from the Memphis National Conference of Christians and Jews. He was among the first three Blacks inducted into the Memphis Rotary Club.
Founded by the American Missionary Association in 1868, Second Congregational Church was originally at 239 Orleans. It was a chapel for LeMoyne Normal Institute. The present church, designed and built by Black artisans, was completed in 1928. In 1982 the church was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Here was the farm of the Tillman Bettis family on the Memphis bluff after the 1818 treaty, even before the town was laid off. Mary Bettis was the first child born in the new settlement.
You are standing on the site of a cabin
built by John Keifer in 1824. John Keifer
(1802- 1863) and his wife Elizabeth Donnel
(1805- 1865), daughter of surveyor
Jonathan Donnel, resided here until 1830.
That year the family moved to another farm
closer to Springfield. John and Elizabeth’s
daughter, Caroline was born in the cabin in
1829. 
One hundred feet south of this
spot, James Demint, the founder of
Springfield, built the first cabin
in the city. In 1803 he completed
the first plat of the city.
Site of an early 19th Century Meeting House. In 1888 it became a Primitive Baptist Church under Pastor William M. Smoot. It was commonly known as Smootite Church.
Prince William County’s first Civilian Conservation Corps camp, part of the national public relief program during the great Depression, encompassed a 396-acre tract purchased by the Virginia Forest Service and the Federal government from Jane Herrell. Camp construction began with the erection of a fire tower after the first enrollees arrived on October 15, 1933. Army Captain T.H. May commanded the initial 80 officers and men that formed Company 299, 3rd Corps. Chief Warden James M. Russell of the Virginia Forest Service supervised the fire control and forestry work. While officially designated “Camp P-71,” a more fitting name, “Camp Recovery,” won adoption. With over 200 men from New York stationed at the camp, all buildings with the exception of the recreation hall were completed by March 1934. Civilian Conservation Corps occupation of Camp Recovery ended on May 5, 1937. No camp structures have survived.
Hurriedly built in two months by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) for $25,000 in 1936, this wooden, green painted and later termite-infested ballpark was the original home of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) San Diego Padres. The breeze that once carried baseballs from Lane Field onto Pacific Highway still blows in from San Diego Bay. Legend goes that left-handed hitting Ted Williams…or Max West, Jack Graham, Luke Easter…or George McDonald hit a home run that bounced into an open boxcar. The ball was later found 120 miles away in Los Angeles. This was the longest home run ever hit.
