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January 2nd, 2023

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

#photography #harpers ferry #west virginia #harpers ferry national historic park #national historic park #national park service #nps #blue ridge mountains #appalachain mountians #appalachain trail #creek #waterfall #nature #landscape #winter #fall

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Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, Hawaii

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#50 nifty 2022 #Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau #national historic park #hawaii

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The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park🏞️ serves as a live example of both the region's scenic splendor 😯and the skill of its builders👷🏻

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Thomas Alva Edison’s Glenmont Estate Tour

Thomas Alva Edison’s Glenmont Estate Tour

December 31st, 2022 – Wrapping up the year 2022 with an enriching experience offered by Northern NJ Mensa chapter. Amogh gleaned about Thomas Alva Edison’s life and inventions, whilst touring the renowned scientist’s Glenmont Estate in West Orange, NJ, encompassing his house, laboratory, garage and his grave. The National Park Service has done a phenomenal job in preserving this heritage site…

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Harpers Ferry West Virginia

As always, I hope you find these photos and descriptions informative and enjoyable. Till next time, stay Younique!

Historic National Park. Where two rivers meet, and three states border it. Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. The Point at Harpers Ferry West Virginia. You can walk onto the train trestle and into the mountain. Confluence. This is where two rivers meet. The Potomac from the Indian word meaning River of Swans and the Shenandoah River. The gap was caused by erosion of the Blue Ridge mountains…

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#architecture #bridges #Civil War #confluence #history #Maryland #National Historic Park #Nature #Potomac #rivers #Shenadoah #small towns #Stonewall Jackson #Virginia #West Virginia

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hiram caldwell house, cataloochee valley built 1903

#north carolina #appalachain mountains #appalachia #great smoky mountains #appalachian gothic #southern gothic #north carolina gothic #abandoned #rural gothic #historical structure #old house #national park #cataloochee valley #rural america #regional #western north carolina #photographers on tumblr

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Mount Rainier National Park Archives Photo of the Paradise Ranger Station with the park’s first naturalist, Ranger Floyd Schmoe, in the 1920s.

The Paradise Ranger Station was constructed in 1921 and was the first government-built structure of its kind at Mount Rainier. Built by the National Park Service in the Rustic style, its steeply pitched roof was designed to withstand the excessive amounts of snowfall at Paradise. The front has a full width 1-story stone porch accessed by stone steps, which descend directly onto the sidewalk. The NPS Rustic style uses native materials like wood and stone to minimize contrast from the natural setting. Shrubs and trees were also planted around the ranger station to better help it blend with the environment and not detract from the visitors’ experience of nature. The Paradise Ranger Station is part of the Mount Rainier Historic Landmark District.

NPS Photo of the ranger station in 1984 (left). Mount Rainier National Park Archives Photo courtesy Val Lou photo of the Paradise Ranger Station in the 1990s (right).

The first floor of the ranger station was originally used as an information and checking station, with living quarters in the second story. The information center has since moved to the Climbing Guide House behind the ranger station, but the Paradise Ranger Station still serves as office space for rangers today. Have you noticed this building when visiting Paradise?

#Historic Mount Rainier #mount rainier national park #Paradise Ranger Station #Paradise #National Historic Landmark District #historic building #ranger station #NPS Rustic #architecture

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Native Tribe To Get Back Land 160 Years After Largest Mass Hanging In US History

Upper Sioux Agency state park in Minnesota, where bodies of those killed after US-Dakota war are buried, to be transferred

— Associated Press | Sunday 3 September, 2023

The Upper Sioux Agency State Park near Granite Falls, Minnesota. Photograph: Trisha Ahmed/AP

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back.

The state is taking the rare step of transferring the park with a fraught history back to a Dakota tribe, trying to make amends for events that led to a war and the largest mass hanging in US history.

“It’s a place of holocaust. Our people starved to death there,” said Kevin Jensvold, chairman of the Upper Sioux Community, a small tribe with about 550 members just outside the park.

The Upper Sioux Agency state park in south-western Minnesota spans a little more than 2 sq miles (about 5 sq km) and includes the ruins of a federal complex where officers withheld supplies from Dakota people, leading to starvation and deaths.

Decades of tension exploded into the US-Dakota war of 1862 between settler-colonists and a faction of Dakota people, according to the Minnesota Historical Society. After the US won the war, the government hanged more people than in any other execution in the nation. A memorial honors the 38 Dakota men killed in Mankato, 110 miles (177km) from the park.

Jensvold said he has spent 18 years asking the state to return the park to his tribe. He began when a tribal elder told him it was unjust Dakota people at the time needed to pay a state fee for each visit to the graves of their ancestors there.

Native American tribe in Maine buys back Island taken 160 years ago! The Passamaquoddy’s purchase of Pine Island for $355,000 is the latest in a series of successful ‘land back’ campaigns for indigenous people in the US. Pine Island. Photograph: Courtesy the writer, Alice Hutton. Friday 4 June, 2021

Lawmakers finally authorized the transfer this year when Democrats took control of the house, senate and governor’s office for the first time in nearly a decade, said State Senator Mary Kunesh, a Democrat and descendant of the Standing Rock Nation.

Tribes speaking out about injustices have helped more people understand how lands were taken and treaties were often not upheld, Kunesh said, adding that people seem more interested now in “doing the right thing and getting lands back to tribes”.

But the transfer also would mean fewer tourists and less money for the nearby town of Granite Falls, said Mayor Dave Smiglewski. He and other opponents say recreational land and historic sites should be publicly owned, not given to a few people, though lawmakers set aside funding for the state to buy land to replace losses in the transfer.

The park is dotted with hiking trails, campsites, picnic tables, fishing access, snowmobiling and horseback riding routes and tall grasses with wildflowers that dance in hot summer winds.

“People that want to make things right with history’s injustices are compelled often to support action like this without thinking about other ramifications,” Smiglewski said. “A number, if not a majority, of state parks have similar sacred meaning to Indigenous tribes. So where would it stop?”

In recent years, some tribes in the US, Canada and Australia have gotten their rights to ancestral lands restored with the growth of the Land Back movement, which seeks to return lands to Indigenous people.

‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo 🦬! Matt Krupnick in Wolakota Buffalo Range, South Dakota. Sunday 20 February, 2022. The Wolakota Buffalo Range in South Dakota has swelled to 750 bison with a goal of reaching 1,200. Photograph: Matt Krupnick

A National Park has never been transferred from the US government to a tribal nation, but a handful are Co-managed with Tribes, including Grand Portage National Nonument in northern Minnesota, Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona and Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles of the National Park Service said.

This will be the first time Minnesota transfers a state park to a Native American community, said Ann Pierce, director of Minnesota State Parks and trails at the natural resources department.

Minnesota’s transfer, expected to take years to finish, is tucked into several large bills covering several issues. The bills allocate more than $6m to facilitate the transfer by 2033. The money can be used to buy land with recreational opportunities and pay for appraisals, road and bridge demolition and other engineering.

Chris Swedzinski and Gary Dahms, the Republican lawmakers representing the portion of the state encompassing the park, declined through their aides to comment about their stances on the transfer.

— The Guardian USA

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Bald eagle carrying a fox and a rabbit, San Juan Island National Historical Park, Washington, 2018 - by Kevin Ebi, American

#Kevin Ebi #Washington #San Juan Island National Historical Park #bald eagle #fox #rabbit

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#chaco culture national historical park #chaco canyon #archaeology #anthropology #history #Indians #american indians #native Americans #anasazi #Chaco #ancestral puebloans #adventure #travel #my photo #southwest #desert #new mexico

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January 2, 2023

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

#photography #harpers ferry #west virginia #harpers ferry national historic park #national historic park #national park service #nps #bridge #stone bridge #old bridge #river #winter #outdoors #nature

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This is amazing. Mark is the proud custodian of a 300+ year old cottage in Snowdonia National Park, Wales. It was the accommodation for the miller, back when there was a working corn mill adjacent and he purchased it in 2018, from an elderly couple who just used it as their holiday home.

Now it's a peaceful refuge for him and his beloved dog, Archie.

Cozy dining area.

Here are his before & after pics. The kitchen before was kinda cute and hobbity.

The kitchen after. 

The sitting room before.

And, after.

The bathroom during reno.

And, the bathroom now.

He cleaned up this area and made a little garden. 

Isn’t that cute?

In the area outside this door.

He cleared out and made a lovely sitting area.

There’s an aquatic meadow with 3 ponds.

It sits in around 3 acres of mixed grounds, with sloping ancient woodland, rough "lawns" (that he doesn't mow...ever).

Sunken garden and other garden "rooms."

Didn’t this one come out like an Alice in Wonderland garden?

This came out beautifully- an old storage area.

He cleaned it out and enclosed it.

Now, it’s a private patio. Is he a lucky guy or what, to live here?

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#stone cottage wales #hobbity cottage wales #historic cottage wales #historic miller's cottage wales #snowdonia national park wales

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Jack Ellis Haynes (1884-1962), was the official photographer and concessionaire of Yellowstone National Park.

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Between the Tidal Basin and the Lincoln Memorial is the D.C. War Memorial. It was built in 1931, a few years before WWII, and dedicated to soldiers from D.C. that were lost in WWI.

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[souplover-69]

“This house was completed in 1903 taking 5 years to build. The boards are of yellow poplar; they were sawn and dried on site. The doors, windows, etc. were bought in Waynesville.

A halltree with attached chair sat on the left of this hall. Hiram and Elizabeth Caldwell had 5 children; 1 girl and 4 boys [1 boy died young].”

#north carolina #mine #appalachain mountains #appalachia #appalachian gothic #cataloochee valley #great smoky mountains #north carolina gothic #national park #historical structure #old house #woods #southern gothic #rural america #ruralcore #small town gothic #western north carolina #carolina gothic #explore #wood walls #wood flooring #fire place #photographers on tumblr #photography #old north carolina #early 1900s #architecture #old architecture

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NPS Photo of Mount Rainier with a portion of Mowich Lake Road viewed from Tolmie Peak in 1961 (Eunice Lake is in the foreground with Mowich Lake in the distance).

Mowich Lake Road, like other park roads, was initially planned as part of an “around-the-mountain” road system. Mowich Lake Road starts in the northwest corner of the park and was intended to connect to Westside Road, which starts from the southwest corner. The two roads were never completed due to budget constraints and the rugged topography of the mountain. Constructed from 1929-1934, Mowich Lake Road remains a six-mile long spur road (reached via SR165) and is a discontiguous portion of the Mount Rainier National Historic District. Original features along the road include one stone retaining wall and 39 rustic culverts with mortared stone headwalls.

Mount Rainier National Park Archives Photo of the Mowich Entrance Dedication in 1933.

Mowich Lake Road was dedicated in 1933 at the Mowich Lake Entrance (now at Paul Peak Trailhead). At the dedication, a log memorial was constructed in honor of Dr. William Fraser Tolmie who visited Mount Rainier a hundred years earlier in 1833 on a botanizing trip. The log memorial was intended to be incorporated into an entrance arch. The arch was never completed and the memorial no longer exists. Footage of the Mowich Lake Road dedication event can be viewed at: https://go.nps.gov/MMem-MowichDedication

NPS Photo of the current Mowich Lake Road Entrance at Paul Peak Trailhead, 8/17/23.

While dedicated in 1933, delays due to construction and then WWII limited access and Mowich Lake Road did not open to vehicle traffic until July 1955. Have you traveled the historic Mowich Lake Road?

#Historic Mount Rainier #mount rainier national park #Mowich Lake #Mowich Lake Road #Paul Peak #Paul Peak Trailhead #historic road #national historic landmark district #history