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Croton alabamensis was discovered in July 1877 by state geologist Eugene Allen Smith on limestone bluffs at Pratt's Ferry near Centreville, Alabama during a geological survey. Specimens of the plant were sent to botanist and pharmacist Charles T. Mohr , who then passed them to botanist Alvan Wentworth Chapman .
Welwyn Preserve County Park is a 204-acre (0.83 km 2) public nature reserve in Glen Cove, on the North Shore of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. Welwyn Preserve was originally Welwyn Estate, the estate of the industrialist Harold I. Pratt. The main house, Welwyn, was one of the Gold Coast Mansions.
Mr. Pratt is the source of the town's name. Mr. Pratt operated Pratt's Ferry close to where modern day Highway 270 crosses the Saline River and served as the postmaster for Lost Creek Post Office in 1846. [5] Mr. Pratt founded Philadelphia Baptist Church soon after settling in the area south of the modern day city limits.
EPA divers work to remove abandoned fishing gear from Puget Sound Trees falling off of cliffside at Whatcom County-managed Point Whitehorn Marine Reserve. There are county, state and federal marine protected areas off the coast of Washington.
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Lyons Ferry State Park is a public recreation area located near the confluence of the Snake and Palouse rivers, seven miles (11 km) northwest of Starbuck, Washington.The state park is on Route 261, abreast of Lake Herbert G. West, a reservoir on the Snake River created with the construction in the 1960s of the Lower Monumental Dam some 17 miles (27 km) downstream.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, originally Harpers Ferry National Monument, is located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The park includes the historic center of Harpers Ferry, notable as a key 19th-century industrial area and as the scene of John Brown's failed ...