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Montrose Point was man-made in the 1930s during the Montrose Harbor Extension. Alfred Caldwell developed plans for the planting of various flora on the Point, but these plans were never implemented. [2] During the Cold War, Montrose Point was a Nike missile site, site C-03, for the United States Army from Oct 1955 – June 1965. Honeysuckle ...
Wills Creek and Town Creek Watersheds in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Wills Creek drops off the Allegheny Mountains of southeastern Somerset County, Pennsylvania, beginning on the western slope of Savage Mountain [2] in Larimer Township. It flows into Northampton Township, passing through Mance, Philson Station, and Glencoe.
The highest point in Maryland east of the Appalachian Mountains, Dug Hill in northern Carroll County, at an elevation of just over 1100 feet (335 m), is a mile or two to the west of the ridge. The Patuxent and Patapsco rivers both have headwaters on the ridge. The South branch of the Patapsco's headwaters point is dubbed Parr's Spring, and is ...
The Northwest Branch underneath the Green and Yellow Lines of the Washington Metro near the West Hyattsville station The Northwest Branch at the Fall Line. Northwest Branch crosses the geological fall line between the Piedmont and Atlantic coastal plain regions, which forms a small waterfall on the stream 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of the Burnt Mills Dam parks. [7]
Chicago's present natural geography is a result of the large glaciers of the Ice Age, namely the Wisconsinan Glaciation that carved out the modern basin of Lake Michigan (which formed from the glacier's meltwater). The city of Chicago itself sits on the Chicago Plain, a flat plain that was once the bottom of ancestral Lake Chicago. This plain ...
A view of the memorial on the Midway to Thomas Masaryk by sculptor Albín Polášek, represented as a legendary Knight of Blaník Mountain. The word "plaisance" is both the French spelling of and a quaint obsolete spelling for "pleasance", itself an obscure word in this context meaning "a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water".
The Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District, which encompasses most of the Boulevard System, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. [14] The approved listing, stretches approximately 26 miles, including 8 parks, 19 boulevards, and 6 squares, as well as adjacent properties that preserve structures built from the 19th century to the 1940s.
Harold Washington Park is a small (10 acre) [1] park in the Chicago Park District located in the Hyde Park community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, US. In 1992, it was named for Harold Washington (1922–1987), the first African-American Chicago Mayor .