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Starkey Wilderness Preserve is a public recreation and nature conservation area located in Pasco County, Florida. The park includes a system of hiking, bicycling, and equestrian trails, cabins and primitive camping sites, and picnic areas. It is named after Jay B. Starkey, a cattle rancher who bought the property in 1937 and later donated ...
The Battle of Powder River, also known as the Reynolds Battle, occurred on March 17, 1876, in Montana Territory, United States, as part of the Big Horn Expedition. The attack on a Northern Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota Indian encampment by Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds initiated the Great Sioux War of 1876. Although destroying a large amount of ...
The Ozette Native American Village Archeological Site is the site of an archaeological excavation on the Olympic Peninsula near Neah Bay, Washington, United States. The site was a village occupied by the Ozette Makah people until a mudslide inundated the site around the year 1750. [3] It is located in the now unpopulated Ozette Indian Reservation .
Clark Reservation State Park is a state park in Onondaga County, New York. The park is in Jamesville, NY, in the Town of DeWitt, south of Syracuse. It was the site of a large waterfall formed by melting glacial ice at the end of the last Ice Age; the plunge basin at the base of the old falls is now a small lake. James Macfarlane described the ...
Starkey is an unincorporated community in Union County, Oregon, United States, about 26 miles southwest of La Grande. It is about two miles south of Oregon Route 244 in the Blue Mountains . Starkey post office was established in 1879 and named after the first postmaster, John Starkey, who settled in the area in the 1870s. [2]
Tenkiller State Park. / 35.6000951°N 95.0327332°W / 35.6000951; -95.0327332. Tenkiller State Park is a 1,190-acre (4.8 km 2) Oklahoma state park located in northwestern Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, near the towns of Vian, Oklahoma and Gore, Oklahoma. [3] Larger towns nearby include Sallisaw, Gore , and Webbers Falls, Oklahoma.
Shelter Cove, California. / 40.03056°N 124.07306°W / 40.03056; -124.07306. Shelter Cove is a census-designated place [3] in Humboldt County, California. [2] It lies at an elevation of 138 feet (42 m). [2] Shelter Cove is on California's Lost Coast where the King Range meets the Pacific Ocean. A nine-hole golf course surrounds the one ...
History. Previously owned by the Whitin Machine Works, Purgatory Chasm was declared a state park in 1919. [1] The reservation is notable for its .25-mile-long (400 m), 70-foot-deep (21 m) chasm of granite bedrock with abrupt precipices and caves. Various theories have been proposed to account for the creation of the chasm.