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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.
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.
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 ...
An 1831 map of Michigan by David H. Burr, showing boundaries of early counties Wayne County, Michigan , originally part of the vast Northwest Territory, was eventually whittled down into its current size by the separation of several tracts: Monroe in 1817, Michilimackinac County (later called Mackinac ) and Macomb counties in 1818, St. Clair ...
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 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. Some sources consider it the tallest human-made monument in the Western Hemisphere. [6]
Volcanic strata protrude at Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula [9]. Lake Superior occupies a basin created by the rift. [3] Near the present lake, rocks produced by the rift can be seen on the surface of Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, [9] northwest Wisconsin, [10] and on the North Shore of Superior in Minnesota and Ontario. [4]