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In 1841, California's first water-powered sawmill was built at the junction of Bean Creek and Zayante Creek by Peter Lassen, Isaac Graham, J. Majors, and F. Hoeger. Mount Hermon, known as "Tuxedo Junction" prior to 1906, was a stop on the South Coast Pacific Railroad from Alameda to Santa Cruz. [4] Hotel Tuxedo was on the property; the hotel ...
The southern slopes of Mount Hermon extend to the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights, where the Mount Hermon ski resort is located [6] with a top elevation of 2,040 m (6,690 ft). [7] A peak located about 11 kilometres (7 miles) south-southwest of Mount Hermon, known as Mitzpe Hashlagim , is the highest point in the entirety of Israel ...
Memorial plaque for the origin of the Student Volunteer Movement, July 1886, Northfield Mount Hermon School Conference memorial Arthur Tappan Pierson founder of SVM The social and religious milieu of the late nineteenth century was favorable in nearly all ways for the birth and growth of a movement such as the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions.
The community of Hermon was organized around the campus, named after the biblical Mount Hermon, [1] and largely populated by families whose children attended the school. [2] The school grew to become Los Angeles Pacific College in 1934, then closed in 1965 after the buildings were found to be too damaged to bring up to code.
In 2004, McAfee and his wife helped fund the construction of the 25,656 sq ft (2,383.5 m 2) Dr. Lapsley McAfee Fieldhouse and meadow at Mount Hermon. [14] Mount Hermon is a 100-year-old, 400-acre (1.6 km 2) Christian conference center located in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Northern California that has more than 60,000 visitors per year. [15]
Mount Hermon (2,814 metres or 9,232 feet high) was suggested by J. Lightfoot (1602–1675) and R. H. Fuller (1915–2007) [2] for two reasons: It is the highest site in the area [given that the Transfiguration took place on "a high mountain" (Matthew 17:1)], and it is located near Caesarea Philippi (Matthew 16:13), where the previous events reportedly took place.
Asilomar Conference Grounds is a conference center originally built for the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). It is located on the western tip of the Monterey Peninsula in Pacific Grove, California , near what was formerly known as Moss Beach.
The Temples of Mount Hermon are around thirty [1] Roman shrines and Roman temples that are dispersed around the slopes of Mount Hermon in Lebanon, Israel and Syria. [2][3] A few temples are built on former buildings of the Phoenician & Hellenistic era, but nearly all are considered to be of Roman construction and were largely abandoned during ...