Ute Ulay Mine and Henson Town Site

  Ute Ulay Mine and Henson Town Site The Ute and Ulay mines were some of the best known silver and lead producers in Colorado. Between 1874 and 1903, the mines were responsible for 12 million worth of minerals which today would amount to more than 280 million in value.

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Horseshoe Bend

  Horseshoe Bend Horseshoe Bend is a horseshoe-shaped incised meander of the Colorado River located near the town of Page, Arizona, United States. It is also referred to as the “east rim of the Grand Canyon.” Below the rim, the Colorado River makes a wide sweep around a sandstone escarpment.

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Platte River Sandhill Cranes

  Platte River Sandhill Cranes For eight weeks from late February to early April, the fascinating Sandhill Crane Spring Migration happens in the heart of Nebraska. More than 80 percent of the world’s Sandhill Crane population converge on Nebraska’s Platte River. The Sandhill Cranes fly from southern wintering grounds to

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Kidder Covered Bridge

  Kidder Covered Bridge The Kidder Covered Bridge carries Kidder Hill Road across the South Branch Saxtons River, just south of the village center of Grafton, Vermont. The bridge was built about 1870, and is Grafton’s last surviving 19th-century covered bridge. It is the shortest historic covered bridge in Windham

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Motif No. 1 Rockport Harbor

  Motif No. 1 Rockport Harbor   Motif Number 1, located on Bradley Wharf in the harbor town of Rockport, Massachusetts, is a replica of a former fishing shack well known to students of art and art history as “the most often-painted building in America.” The original structure was built

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Fort Donelson National Battlefield

  Fort Donelson National Battlefield Fort Donelson National Battlefield preserves Fort Donelson and Fort Heiman, two sites of the American Civil War Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, in which Union Army Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote captured three Confederate forts and opened two rivers,

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November 2020 Newsletter

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St. Simons Island Lighthouse

  St. Simons Island Lighthouse The St. Simons Island Light is a lighthouse on the southern tip of St. Simons Island, Georgia, United States. It guides ships into St. Simons Sound and warns of the many sandbars in the area. The U.S. government constructed a new lighthouse to replace the

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