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Bourgmont, a fugitive from justice, became a coureur des bois for several years during his early career.. Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont (April 1679 – 1734) was a French explorer who documented his travels on the Missouri and Platte rivers in North America and made the first European maps of these areas in the early 18th century.
The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch , [ 5 ] it is the world's tallest arch [ 4 ] and Missouri's tallest accessible structure .
The arch was featured on the Missouri state quarter in 2003. In 2007 St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and former Missouri Senator John Danforth asked the National Park Service to create a more "active" use of the grounds of the memorial and model it on Millennium Park in Chicago including the possibility of restaurants, fountains, ice skating ...
The Findlay plunges under Ontario and reappears as the Algonquin Arch further north. [2] Petroleum was first discovered in a relatively low part of the arch, between the Jessamine and Nashville domes, the Cumberland Saddle, in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in 1829. The saddle and adjoining areas have been significant producers since drilling for ...
Alaska uses three-letter abbreviations for USGS map quadrangles in place of the county code. Arizona uses a five-part identifier based on USGS maps, specifying quadrangles, then rectangles within a quadrangle, a sequential number within the rectangle, and a code identifying the agency issuing the sequential number.
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Michigan, in the United States. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. A.
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River.
Detroit, c. 1837, after a sketch by Frederick Grain A map of Michigan by Henry Schenck Tanner, published in 1842, showing such county names as "Negwegon County," "Okkuddo County," and "Unwattin County," prior to an 1843 legislative action renaming sixteen counties in northern Michigan [40] Agriculture remained the main economic activity before ...