Texas, Galveston County, Galveston
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Galveston is a narrow barrier island that hugs the upper Texas coast. This slender sliver of sand and beach hosts a precious diversity of wildlife, especially birds. Sandpipers, plovers, herons, egrets, waterfowl, gulls, terns, hawks, falcons, warblers, and vireos are examples of birds that congregate on the island in staggering numbers. As did John James Audubon when he visited the island in April 1837, one can still marvel over “the Snipes innumerable, the Blackbirds, the Gallinules, and the Curlews that surround us.”
When Audubon visited he found an island vegetated only with grasses, cacti, and dune and marsh plants. With settlement came trees and shrubs. Today the island supports not only birds typical of a barrier island but forest species as well.
Many of these forest birds are migrants that cross the Gulf of Mexico during spring and fall. These neotropical migrants depend on the island for food and shelter as they pass through during their seasonal journeys to the tropics in Central and South America. Birders from around the world travel to Galveston to witness this miracle of migration and the seasonal passage of hundreds of thousands of warblers, tanagers, orioles, and buntings.
Visit East End Lagoon Park and Nature Preserve, Corps Woods, and Galveston Island State Park to experience the spectacular birds of our island. Your first glimpse of a Roseate Spoonbill, Ruddy Turnstone, or Black-necked Stilt will be vividly etched in your memory, and the sight of a Painted Bunting singing from the top of a toothache tree will remain with you for a lifetime. Even a few minutes along the Galveston seawall can be rewarding with thousands of Laughing Gulls and Brown Pelicans swirling over the Gulf within arm’s reach, and you might spy a Peregrine Falcon swooping down from a nearby roost to snare an unsuspecting pigeon.
No day in Galveston is without birds. Each offers a new and exciting panoply of birdlife, each moment worthy of being experienced and cherished in its own right. Therefore we welcome you to return to our island again and again to experience its people, its beaches, its history, and, yes, its birds.
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Galveston is a narrow barrier island that hugs the upper Texas coast. This slender sliver of sand and beach hosts a precious diversity of wildlife, especially birds. Sandpipers, plovers, herons, egrets, waterfowl, gulls, terns, hawks, falcons, warblers, and vireos are examples of birds that congregate on the island in staggering numbers. As did John James Audubon when he visited the island in April 1837, one can still marvel over “the Snipes innumerable, the Blackbirds, the Gallinules, and the Curlews that surround us.”When Audubon visited he found an island vegetated only with grasses, cacti, and dune and marsh plants. With settlement came trees and shrubs. Today the island supports not only birds typical of a barrier island but forest species as well.
Many of these forest birds are migrants that cross the Gulf of Mexico during spring and fall. These neotropical migrants depend on the island for food and shelter as they pass through during their seasonal journeys to the tropics in Central and South America. Birders from around the world travel to Galveston to witness this miracle of migration and the seasonal passage of hundreds of thousands of warblers, tanagers, orioles, and buntings.
Visit East End Lagoon Park and Nature Preserve, Corps Woods, and Galveston Island State Park to experience the spectacular birds of our island. Your first glimpse of a Roseate Spoonbill, Ruddy Turnstone, or Black-necked Stilt will be vividly etched in your memory, and the sight of a Painted Bunting singing from the top of a toothache tree will remain with you for a lifetime. Even a few minutes along the Galveston seawall can be rewarding with thousands of Laughing Gulls and Brown Pelicans swirling over the Gulf within arm’s reach, and you might spy a Peregrine Falcon swooping down from a nearby roost to snare an unsuspecting pigeon.
No day in Galveston is without birds. Each offers a new and exciting panoply of birdlife, each moment worthy of being experienced and cherished in its own right. Therefore we welcome you to return to our island again and again to experience its people, its beaches, its history, and, yes, its birds.
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Charlotte was a transportation crossroads through which people and goods were moved. The area was served by three railroads: the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh, the New York Central, and the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburgh [Ogdensburg]. 
During Dunmore’s war (1774) and the
Revolutionary War
(1775–1783) conflicts
between Indians and colonists often intensified
as European powers encouraged Indians from
the Ohio region to attack frontier settlers.
Tensions also sometimes increased when settlers
moved into lands that were once Indian territory.
Nearby to the south, an early conflict occurred
in the upper Clinch River Valley, when Indians
attacked and killed John Henry, his wife and
their children on 8 Sept. 1774. Additional conflicts took place during this period, including a
March 1782, Indian attack on the house of
James Maxwell that killed two of his daughters.
The blast furnace was Charlotte's major manufacturing facility. It was in orderation from 1868 to 1927. Coal from Pennsylvania came in by rail. Heratite ore and limestone from Furnaceville arrived by barge. The furnace produced molten iron and the work was dirty, hot and dangerous. Many furnace workers lived across from the factory in company-built houses. 
Russell Fork originates at the confluence of a
number of small streams near Council
Virginia. Typical of the Appalachian Plateau,
the river valley is narrow and V-shaped. Flash
floods are not uncommon. Major tributaries
are McClure River and Russell-Prater Creek,
entering at Haysi, Virginia, and most notably
Pound River just north of Bartlick. Russell Fork
drains all of Dickenson and portions of Wise
and Buchanan counties in Virginia. The
drainage area above Elkhorn City, Kentucky,
just downstream from here, is 554 square miles.
1835 Highway Marker
Monuments were placed at one mile intervals starting from the State Housse in Hartford. Tollgates were located at these markers.
Originally built in 1857 with a single, central spire, the First Presbyterian Church was greatly enlarged and rededicated in 1899. Detroit architect Julius Hess redesigned the church, using the original sanctuary walls, and added a columned entrance portal and twin towers. The cupola-topped towers are reminiscent of English Baroque churches, yet the interior and overall design reflect Renaissance architecture. The rose window was made by Tiffany & Co. of New York.
In 1862 James J. Hinde and Jacob J. Dauch established a baling business to sell straw to paper mills, and in 1886 they became partners in a bankrupt mill on Pierce Street then known as the Sandusky Paper Company. Under their leadership the company pioneered the use of corrugated cardboard paper to produce items including shipping boxes, bottle wrappers, lamp chimneys, and store display stands. The company moved operations to the waterfront between Jackson and Decatur Streets in 1895, and opened a second paper mill on Mills Street in 1910. In 1914, their main factory was begun on the pier west of the Jackson St. slip and completed in 1916. By the 1950's Hinde and Dauch was the largest Sandusky based company with plants in both the U.S. and Canada and was known as the "Authority on Packaging" for cardboard shipping products. In 1933 the company entered a merger with the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, later known as Westvaco Corporation, and became their container division. After 1981 their main plant was operated by Displayco Midwest and then by Chesapeake Display and Packaging Co., until it was closed in 1997. In 1999, the City of Sandusky purchased the property and in 2003 partnered with Mid States Development Corporation to convert the factory into the Chesapeake Lofts condominiums, which opened in 2007. This marker is dedicated to the company that not only helped to provide a livelihood for so many of Sandusky’s residents, but also established our city as an early leader in the production of cardboard packaging products.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historical Places" by the United States Department of the Interior.
....had its origin in the Revolutionary War. Connecticut towns were burned in the historic raids of Benedict Arnold and British General Tyron. 500,000 acres in the Western Reserve were awarded by the Connecticut Assembly in 1792 to indemnify the fire-sufferers, therefore known as “The Firelands”: consisting of what is now Huron and Erie Counties, plus Ruggles and Danbury Townships. Originally part of Huron County, organized 1811, first courthouse at Fort Avery: County of Erie formed in 1838.
Birthplace of Thomas A. Edison, February 11, 1847. A Moravian village, Peguotting, 1804-1809. First permanent white settlers came in 1816. Milan village platted, 1817; incorporated February 23, 1833. Ships canal to lake completed July 4, 1839 made Milan leading wheat port, 1839-1864, second only to Odessa, Russia. Shipbuilding industry flourished, 1841-1867; 75 vessels built.
My recollections of Milan are somewhat scanty as I left the town when I was not quite seven years old. I remember the wheat elevators on the canal, and Gay shipyard; also the launching of new boats, on which occasion the piece of land called the "Hogback" would be filled with what seemed to me to be the entire population of the Town who came to witness the launching. 
Entering Cannonsburgh you cross Town Creek by way of an early
iron bridge. This is the first iron bridge ever constructed in
Rutherford County and it originally crossed Stewart Creek.
This structure was of frame construction and completed in 1884 during a period of extensive improvement at the Post. It supplanted the old log Commanding Officers Quarters which had been in use since 1850. 
This two story victorian house served as the Commanding Officer's quarters from 1884 until the post was abandoned in 1890. The luxury of the quarters and the list of V.I.P.'s who were entertained here suggest that the intended use of this building was as a guest house for visiting Army and civilian dignitaries. 
The decedents re-interred here in 1933 represent a very significant cross section of those individuals whose name and contributions will ever be associated with Fort Bridger's early day history. Of particular interest are...... 
In December, 1890, Ocala was host to a meeting of the National Farmers' Alliance. Sessions, attended by 88 delegates and hundreds of visitors, were held at the Opera House and the Semi-Tropical Exposition Building. A state-wide agricultural exposition was held in conjunction with the meeting. The delegates adopted the famous "Ocala Demands", a platform outlining political and economic reforms considered necessary by the Alliance.
Designated as a Public Square in the original Ocala plat of 1846, this location was the site of Marion County’s first permanent courthouse built in 1851. It was a two-story frame building of Colonial design. The second courthouse was erected on this site in 1884, a two-story brick cube. Public dissatisfaction caused a third courthouse with more adequate space to be built in 1906. It was of Roman design with a clock dome and veneered walls of Indiana sandstone. In 1965, when public efforts to save it failed, it was demolished. This site was given by Marion County to the City of Ocala in a property exchange, becoming a city park, thus retaining its function as a Public Square as planned by the city’s founders.
