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Slover Mountain (Mount Slover, Marble Mountain) is a former [2] mountain in Colton, in southwestern San Bernardino County and the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Now a hill, it was surface mined for limestone in the 20th century. [2] The Colton Joint Unified School District's continuation high school is named after the mountain. [3]
The park was originally established in 1921 as the Mount Banahao Forest Reserve covering an area of 12,858 hectares (31,770 acres). [1] It was established through Proclamation No. 42 signed by Governor-General Leonard Wood for the reforestation, conservation and water protection of the area comprising mounts Banahao and San Cristobal.
Mount Ida is the highest mountain on the island of Crete is the sacred mountain of the Titaness Rhea, also known as the mother of the Greek Gods. It is also believed to be the cave where Greek God Zeus was born and raised. The other Mount Ida is located in Northwestern Anatolia alongside the ruins of Troy (in reference to the Hellenistic Period).
Mount San Cristobal is a potentially active stratovolcano at the boundary of the provinces of Laguna and Quezon on the island of Luzon, Philippines. The mountain rises to an elevation of 1,470 m (4,820 ft) above mean sea level [ 1 ] and is one of the volcanic features of Macolod Corridor .
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of California. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument is managed by a mosaic of entities, including the Bureau of Land Management (89,500 acres (362 km 2)), US Forest Service (65,000 acres (260 km 2)), Cahuilla peoples (19,800 acres (80 km 2)), California Department of Parks and Recreation (12,900 acres (52 km 2)), other State of ...
The northernmost portion of the Santa Cruz Mountains, north of Half Moon Bay Road (), is known as Montara Mountain; the middle portion is the Sierra Morena, which includes a summit called Sierra Morena, [3] and extends south to a gap at Lexington Reservoir; south of the gap, the mountain range is known as the Sierra Azul.
Don O'Neill was born in 1924 in Buffalo, New York.He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC in 1953, and was a practicing architect working in the Washington, DC and Riverside, California areas of the United States.