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 ...

Dry Land Farming

Volcanic activity to the south produced giant fissures or earth cracks throughout the Wupatki area in the Kaibab Limestone. This formation covers most of the western half of Wupatki National Monument. The Sinagua and Anasazi Indians who inhabited these ancient ...

Geneva Hotel

Site of Geneva Hotel Erected 1796 by Capt. Charles Williamson

Marker is at the intersection of Washington Street and Park Place, on the right when traveling east on Washington Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Medical College

Site of Geneva Medical College

Eliz. Blackwell received here in 1849 the first degree of M.D. ever conferred upon a woman.

Marker is on South Main Street (New York Route 14) ½ mile south of Hamilton St (U.S. 20), on ...

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, ...

Le Bassin Rond

[The Round Basin]

1861, le vignoble est en plein essor et avec lui le village dont la population a plus que doublé depuis le début de siècle.

Pour les 2700 habitants, deux fontaines publiques ne suffisent plus. Une troisième, par souscription, est ...

Le Domaine CASTRES

Une “campagne” au coeur du village. Malgré le patronage officiel de Rouget de Lisle, pour les gens du cru, le “plan de Castres” sert toujours à designer la place et tour le quartier.

[Translation by Google Translate (with modifications):

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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, ...

Brookhaven Historic District

Developed in 1910, the Brookhaven Historic District is the oldest planned golf course and country club residential community in Georgia. It consists of three separately platted subdivisions with similar street patterns, houses and landscape features that merged together to create ...