A Legacy of the Past

Box Canyon and Lomaki ruins are a short 15-minute walk from here, along the edges of ancient earthcracks. The 1/4-mile trail will take you back in time over 800 years to the remnants of this once-thriving community. You will see ...

Fay and Bowen Engine Company

Known for its boats, the Fay & Bowen Engine Company built quality pleasure craft and marine and industrial engines near this site from 1904 to 1929. Fay & Bowen sold launches and runabouts worldwide that earned them the reputation - ...

Ancient Landscapes

Eight hundred years ago, a savannah-like grassland covered much of this high desert with abundant grasses. The residents would have collected and burned much of the nearby fuel, necessitating long walks to adjacent areas to gather wood. Sparse annual rainfall ...

Pathmark Geneva

Seneca Lake

The deepest of the eleven Finger Lakes, Seneca Lake measures 36 miles long, an average of three miles wide, and 618 feet deep at the deepest point. Because of its depth, the lake has frozen completely only four ...

Sweet Water Spring

The Sweet Water Spring was discovered in the late 1880s when the Patterson Lumber Company, blasting to create a logging road over South Mountain, ruptured an underground vein that produced an abundance of free-flowing water. Work crews enjoyed the sweet, ...

Ski Jumping

at Allegany State Park

This is the site of Allegany State Park's 30-meter and 50-meter ski jumps. The two jumps and the park;s ski slopes at Bova were Depression-era projects constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps and New York State's ...

Porte de Béziers

[The Bezier Gate]

L’enceinte du XIVème siècle, ponctuée de tours de diverses formes, disposait de cinq ports dont certaines avec « tour et maison attenante ».

En 1775, les portes dites de Carcassonne, de Saïsses et de Béziers sont remises en état ...

Les Remparts

[The Ramparts]

Capestang a connu plusieurs enceintes successives pour accompangner sa croissance durant le Bas Moyen Age. Ce vestige appartient à la dernière, construite à la demande de l’archevêque de Narbonne en 1356, en pleine guerre de Cent Ans. L’année précédente, ...

The Philadelphia Zoo

“America’s First Zoo.”

Chartered 1859 as the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. A wildlife refuge and a zoological garden, the zoo has long been committed to fulfilling its public mission: conservation, research, education, recreation.

Marker is on Zoological Street, on the ...

Warren County Patriots

This monument is dedicated to those

Patriots laid to rest in Warren County

Indiana whose Service and Sacrifice

helped form our Nation during the

American Revolution

[ Row One ]

Humphrey Beckett ? Richard Biddlecomb ? George Dixon ? Peter Dixon ? ...