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The church in early 2013. Rockland Community Church and Cemetery (also known as Old Rockland Church; Rockland Memorial Community Church; United Brethren Church; Mt. Zion Church) is a historic church building at 24225 Rockland Road in Golden, Colorado. It was built in 1879, dedicated on January 10, 1880, and was added to the National Register of ...
Type of rock. batholith and igneous. The Sierra Nevada (/ siˌɛrə nɪˈvædə, - ˈvɑːd -/ see-ERR-ə nih-VA (H)D-ə) [6][a] is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies ...
Rockland, Nevada. Coordinates: 38°39′1″N 119°5′34″W. Rockland is a ghost town in Lyon County, Nevada, in the United States. The town that grew up around the mine was named Rockland, probably for the rocky cliffs that surrounded the area. [1]
Sonora Pass. Sonora Pass (el. 9,624 ft. / 2,933 m.) is a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada in California. It is the second-highest pass with a road in California and in the Sierra Nevada. [2] It is 321 feet (98 m) lower than Tioga Pass to the south. [3] State Route 108 traverses the pass, as does the Pacific Crest Trail.
Thousand Island Lake is a large alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada, within the Ansel Adams Wilderness in eastern Madera County, California. The lake is named for the many small rocky islands that dot its surface. Theodore Solomons probably established the 'Thousand Island' name, as this appears on his 1896 map. John Muir called it by " Islet Lake."
72.55% [1] The ecology of the Sierra Nevada, located in the U.S. states of California and Nevada, is diverse and complex. The combination of climate, topography, moisture, and soils influences the distribution of ecological communities across an elevation gradient from 500 to 14,500 feet (200 to 4,400 m).
Robbie Alonzo, left, and Alice Vasquez place flowers at the Rockland County 9/11 Memorial during the 23rd memorial commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at Haverstraw Bay Park in ...
The Minarets are a series of jagged peaks located in the Ritter Range, a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada in the state of California. They are easily viewed from Minaret Summit, which is accessible by auto. Collectively, they form an arête, and are a prominent feature in the Ansel Adams Wilderness which was known as the Minaret Wilderness until ...