The Red Flag Day procession was escorted by mounted Hereros in military-style uniforms.

Melchor de Torres/Hernando Gorjon (Los Tramojos, Azua, Dominican Republic). Partially visible, on upper left area of photo, the remains of what seems to have been a masonry-made stone ditch possibly bringing running water to propel a sixteenth-century mill, according to local oral tradition still carried on by a few local residents, after hundreds of years. The heavy tropical bush growth covering the structure in early 2010 hid the remains. (A zoom-in into the photograph will probably show details better.)

The expansion into the Huron Tract was the single greatest colonial expansion since the founding of Upper Canada. Beginning in 1827 this plaque marks the 100th Anniversary of the colonisation of the region and is located in Goderich, Ontario at the Terminus of the Huron Road; today is made up of Highway 24, 7, and 8.

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Gourds hanging from an arbor in a Colonial Williamsburg garden, Williamsburg, Virginia

See also:

Colonial Williamsburg Gardens, www.history.org/history/cwland/

Ingenio Cepi-Cepi de Diego Caballero (Near Carretera Sanchez, Azua Province, Dominican Republic). Surviving walls made of rubble masonry of what may have been the 'milling house' of a sixteenth-century 'ingenio' or sugar mill in one of the most important early colonial cane-sugar making region of the Americas. The wall's axis is north south, as the orientation of the building may have been. In early 2010 the entire area was covered with a thin but spine-filled bush that greatly prevented human access.

A Herero family participating in the Red Flag Day procession.

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Ingenio Boca de Nigua. View of the reconstruction of what seems to have been a line ('train') of burners on the main floor of the 'boiling house' of the sugar complex. These elaborately constructed brick-made openings therefore may have sustained the large metal cauldrons in which the canes' juice was subjected to a number of boilings until thick enough to be cooled and transferred to the 'purging house' for its slow crystallizing into sugar. Since the openings at the bottom of each burner go straight through the vaults that sustain the floor, they may have been heated from underneath, or maybe the openings were just made to allow the ashes fall down.

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The Friends of White Hill Mansion

217 Fourth St, Fieldsboro, NJ 08505

Situated on top of a bluff overlooking the Delaware River, White Hill Mansion is a location that has been ingrained in history since the beginning of our Nation. From a Lenape winter settlement to a hotbed of Revolutionary War activity to American inventors and innovators, White Hill offers a unique snapshot of the long span of our state and national history.

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Meet the 1st Battalion of New Jersey Volunteers The day features a battlefield encampment, military drills, colonial crafts and activities.

First surveyed in 1827 by the Canada Company, this 95-mile route became the road to travel between the two towns founded by the Company, Guelph and Goderich. Today the path is followed roughly by Highways 24, 7, and 8. A historical plaque at the Waterloo Regional Museum marks the importance of this early pioneer route.

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Hereros of Red and Green Flags meeting after the commemoration was over. Despite the threats traded between conflicting Herero factions, the comemoration took place peacefully with members and leadership of various factions in attendance.

Christ Church Burial Ground, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The church makes between $3,000-$5000 a year on coinage.

Ingenio de Diego Caballero de la Rosa (Boca de Nigua, San Cristobal). Location at which a large, vertical water wheel may have been mounted, perhaps propelled by water flowing and dropping off from the ditch visible on the lower right angle of the photo. The wheel would have had a long horizontal axis at its center that may have gone into the wall through a whole opened somewhere where the large, irregular opening stands today. This axis in turn --via a number of wooden gears located behind the wall (inside the milling 'house' or quarters), would have moved the milling rollers or 'exes' or 'mazas' that squeezed the canes inside the room. After hitting the wheel, the water was probably disposed off and chanelled out towards the left and into what seems to be the mouth of an underground water tunnel. By locating the milling house at what is obviously a lower level within the complex, the constructors seem to have taken advantage precisely of a slope in the terrain that would have increased the force of the water fall.

A procession of Hereros dressed in traditional military-style uniforms led by Uetuesapi Mungendje (center) and Keeper of the Holy Fire Chief Tjipene Keja (left). The red accents in the uniforms indicate membership in the Red Flag faction.

Upper Canada College was founded in 1829 by Sir John Colborne, then Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. A private school for the children of the Upper Class and designed to teach them to be the future leaders of the Province. The original campus sat here at the intersection of King and Simcoe. It would be in 1891 the school built a new campus in a rural area known as Deer Park, today on Lonsdale Road and has remained there ever since, though having to construct a new main building in 1958. Today a plaque is attached to the side of the Elephant and Castle Pub which was put up in 1929 at the 100th Anniversary of the School. Upper Canada College remains today Ontario's oldest fully independent school and the third oldest in all of Canada.

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A team of four RTBG staff visited Brickendon and assisted with arbor work and advice -

Ingenio de Diego Caballero de la Rosa (Boca de Nigua, San Cristobal). On the upper central and right area of photo, what seem to be the remains of one long wall of a large storage room to hold finished sugar or maybe the 'purging house' where recently-boiled cane syrup was let to crystallize into sugar in hundreds of clay forms. The milling house (and the boiling house) seem to have been located at a lower level down the slope visible on the middle ground of the photo, and it would have been a laborious process for the slaves the carrying of the syrup of the slope up into the storage or purging location. Yet this may have been the functional cost to pay (from the point of view of the owners of the sugar estate) in exchange for the advantage of enjoying the propelling force provided by a water current channeled down precisely from a higher location somewhere behind the forest seen on the far background on the upper left of the image.

Melchor de Torres/Hernando Gorjon (Los Tramojos, Azua, Dominican Republic). Partially visible, on upper left area of photo, the remains of what seems to have been a masonry-made stone ditch possibly bringing running water to propel a sixteenth-century mill, according to local oral tradition still carried on by a few local residents, after hundreds of years. The heavy tropical bush growth covering the structure in early 2010 hid the remains. (A zoom-in into the photograph will probably show details better.)

Ingenio Cepi-Cepi de Diego Caballero (Near Carretera Sánchez, Azua Province, Dominican Republic). Close up view of stone and mortar made structures superimposed to each other of what seems to have been an irrigation system of one of the early colonial cane-sugar mills of the Americas.

A procession of Hereros dressed in traditional military-style uniforms led by Uetuesapi Mungendje (center) and Keeper of the Holy Fire Chief Tjipene Keja (left). The red accents in the uniforms indicate membership in the Red Flag faction.

A procession of Hereros dressed in traditional military-style uniforms led by Uetuesapi Mungendje (center) and Keeper of the Holy Fire Chief Tjipene Keja (left). The red accents in the uniforms indicate membership in the Red Flag faction.

Ingenio Boca de Nigua. Close-up view of what seems to have been one in a chain or 'train' of burners that were used to heat the large cauldrons where the sugar-canes' juice was boiled. the intricacy of the brickwork is evident. Through the opening the walls of the basement or lower vault are visible.

Ruins of Mill of Hernando Gorjon/Melchor de Torres (Los Tramojos, Azua, Dominican Republic). Partially visible, on upper left area of photo, the remains of what seems to have been a masonry-made stone ditch possibly bringing running water to propel a sixteenth-century mill, according to local oral tradition still carried on by a few local residents, after hundreds of years. The heavy tropical bush growth covering the structure in early 2010 hid the remains. (A zoom-in into the photograph will probably show details better.)

Ingenio Cepi-Cepi de Diego Caballero (Near Carretera Sánchez, Azua Province, Dominican Republic). Close up view of remains of a stone and mortar made channel possibly related to the propelling of the milling machinery of this early colonial cane-sugar mills of the Americas.

Trinidad is a Cuban town of about 75,000 inhabitants in the province

central Sancti Spíritus. Together with the nearby Valle de los Ingenios is

listed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO since 1988.

Trindidad was founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1514 as

Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. It is one of the best preserved city of

the Caribbean, from the time when sugar was the main

Trade in these places. They own the remains of that period

colonial slavery, which flourished in Trinidad, to be the largest

attraction of visitors and the very reason of the prestigious

recognition that UNESCO has given the city and the whole area

surrounding most directly interested in the cane growing

sugar (Valle de los Ingenios). Today the primary entry

economy of these places is the processing

tobacco.

The oldest part of town is the best preserved and is the subject

sightseeing by organized tours. In contrast, other

areas outside the tourist part, also very central, pay

in a state of semi-neglect and are a reflection of a widespread unease in the

and cities across the country.

Outside the city is the famous Peninsula Ancon with a well known and

wide sandy beach (Playa Ancon) on which stands a complex

Tourism, one of the first born after the revolution of 1959.

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Trinidad è una città cubana di circa 75.000 abitanti della provincia centrale di Sancti Spíritus. Insieme alla vicina Valle de los Ingenios è un sito indicato come Patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO fin dal 1988.

Trindidad fu fondata da Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar nel 1514 con il nome di Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. È una delle città meglio conservate di tutti i Caraibi, dall'epoca nella quale lo zucchero era il principale commercio in questo luoghi. Sono proprio i resti di quel periodo coloniale e schiavista, nel quale fiorì Trinidad, ad essere la principale attrazione dei visitatori e il motivo stesso del prestigioso riconoscimento che l'UNESCO ha conferito alla città e a tutta l'area circostante più direttamente interessata alla coltivazione della canna da zucchero (la Valle de los Ingenios). Oggi la voce principale dell'economia di questi luoghi è costituita dalla lavorazione del tabacco.

La parte più vecchia della città è quella meglio preservata ed è oggetto di visite turistiche da parte di tour organizzati. Al contrario, diverse zone al di fuori della parte più turistica, anche molto centrali, versano in stato di semi-abbandono e sono lo specchio di un disagio diffuso nella città e in tutto il Paese.

Fuori dalla città c'è la famosa penisola di Ancón con una rinomata e ampia spiaggia di sabbia (Playa Ancón) sulla quale sorge un complesso turistico, fra i primi nati dopo la rivoluzione del 1959.

The Red Flag day is a powerful draw for many professional and amateur media artists, including tourists visiting Okahandja.

Ingenio Cepi-Cepi de Diego Caballero (Near Carretera Sánchez, Azua Province, Dominican Republic). View of stone and mortar made structures superimposed to each other, and possibly of different historical periods, of what seems to have been an irrigation system of one of the early colonial cane-sugar mills of the Americas.

first jail house in Washington County, Georgia and home to the jail house that once held Aaron Burr who fought a duel with Alexander Hamilton. Burr spent the night of July 14, 1804 in this jail.