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Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty-six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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This is a real oddball plant i was fortunate to get a shot of on the weekend. I love the weird and wonderful . Have a great week ahead .
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Here I love the bow
See me walk on down to
Adorn myself, it's a new song glory
Cos. see me, what do you think of now? -----blur
Gull Wing Bridge is a road bridge being built to span Lake Lothing in the town of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, which is claimed to be (once completed) the largest rolling bascule bridge in the world lifted using hydraulic cylinders. The bridge is planned to be completed and open to traffic mid 2024.
With only 37 days remaining until the big grand opening on April 26th, contractors rush to complete Utah Transit Authority's Salt Lake Central commuter rail station at 3rd South and 6th West on March 20, 2008.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty-six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Now nearing completion, the final shaping is done, including making sure the bottom is flat. He has started a torch going, and will attach another stick to the bottom. Then the neck is severed, and the opening widened so it becomes a glass. Then another artisan attaches a ribbon of glass for the handle. On another worktable, he separates the stick and cleans up the sharp edge. Then it cools overnight, resulting in the next photo.
I love these abandoned furniture/appliance finds. Mind you, I think that it's horrible that people dump their old crap like this. But in rural America, THIS is our "art in public places!" ;)
BTW, this shot completes another one:
The pier was constructed between 1912 and 1915 by the Melbourne Harbour Trust to supplement the adjacent Station Pier (originally the 'Railway Pier'). From completion in 1915 until 1969 it was also a major arrival point for new migrants, particularly during the post-war period. In addition to a pier, there was a gatehouse and barriers, terminal building, amenities rooms, goods lockers, ablution blocks, railway sidings and passenger gangways.
From opening the pier was linked by rail to the Port Melbourne railway line, via double lines branching from the Melbourne side of Graham station. Eight railway tracks ran onto the bridge, four along either face. A passenger rail service was provided to the pier from 30 May 1921 operated by suburban electric trains. Provided when ships were docked at the pier, it was usually operated by a single double ended 'swing door' motor car until ended in November 1930, as it was not financially rewarding to the Victorian Railways. The overhead wiring was removed on 17 August 1953 and the line singled and worked as a siding from 21 March 1961.
With the containerisation boom the pier became unused, being closed to public access in the early 1990s due to the poor timber condition, and squatters caused a fire in the late 1990s that destroyed the store structures. In the three years to 2004, 14 fires occurred. April 2006, with the first 196 metres of the Pier fully restored, The pier reopened to the public in December 2011. Source Wikipedia.
X1001 "Yalagonga" repaint nearing completion at the Rail Transport Museum, Bassendean on 28 October 1989. Photo: Phil Melling.
This is the 3rd and last photo of the series that I took last summer at the Edro III shipwreck in Pegeia (or Peyia), Cyprus. In case you are interested, the two previous photos are Rusty Calmness and Monochrome
I was lucky enough to get a beautiful sunset with some interesting clouds in the sky. I was waiting for the sun to hide behind the clouds, but there were a lot of people at the site while I was taking the shot. Therefore I decided to lower both the highlights and shadows in post-processing, to create silhouettes of the ship and the remaining foreground features on the right.
The estimated completion date of the Howard Street tunnel project came out recently, we have just mere weeks until CSX will be back to normal. One thing that I overlooked quite a bit over these past few months was the reroutes over NS that bypassed the tunnel. I've done my best over the past few months to get some coverage of them on the Lurgan branch and other segments between Philly and Cherry Run. Today M405 was tasked with picking up a shopped car off a RIP track in Chambersburg on foreign rails. After going to get it, it was discovered the brakes were seized. Thus it was left there and it pushed the 405's arrival into Hagerstown just after sunset. With wanning light of these wanning reroutes, I parked my booty under a tree and waited in the cool September evening air. The train skirted by, into the evening, just as this interesting period in CSX history is going...
CSX M405 Chambersburg, PA
Taken 8 days before the first day of public services on the Manchester Metrolink, the paving of the Metrolink track nears completion between Aytoun Street and London Road (A6) where the Metrolink enters the Piccadilly Station undercroft.
28th March 1992
Raphael (1483-1520) and workshop (Giulio Romano - Giovanni da Udine (for floral frescoes and festoons) - Raffaelino del Colle - Giovan Francesco Penni) - Loggia di Amore e Psiche (about 1518) - Villa Farnesina - Rome
La Loggia, situata nel piano terreno e composta da cinque archi che sono attualmente chiusi da vetrate protettive, prende il nome dalla decorazione ad affresco dipinta nel 1518 sulla volta dalla scuola di Raffaello su disegni del maestro, dove si raffigurarono episodi ispirati all’Asino d’oro di Apuleio, della favola di di Amore e Psiche, già impiegata nel Quattrocento per immagini di argomento nuziale.
La loggia serviva da palcoscenico per le feste e le rappresentazioni teatrali organizzate dal proprietario.
Per dare un carattere festoso e spettacolare all’ambiente, Raffaello trasformò la volta della Loggia d’ingresso in una pergola, come se i pergolati e i padiglioni del giardino si fossero prolungati all’interno della Villa in ricchi festoni. Al centro due finti arazzi : il sontuoso Convito degli Dei, in cui la fanciulla ingiustamente perseguitata viene infine accolta nel consesso divino, e Le nozze di Amore e Psiche, culmine simbolico dell’intero ciclo.
Tuttavia, è da ricordare che l’impianto generale dell’affresco e l’ideazione delle singole scene e figure si devono alla geniale intuizione di Raffaello, ma agli affreschi lavorarono spesso numerosi artefici della sua bottega, tra cui Giovan Francesco Penni, Giulio Romano e Giovanni da Udine, autore, in particolare, dell’esuberante trionfo dei festoni di fiori e frutta.
The Loggia takes its name from the decoration frescoed on the vault by Raphael and his workshop in 1518. The frescos represent episodes from the fable of Psyche, narrated in Apuleiu’s Golden Ass, which had already been used in the fifteenth century for nuptial imagery.
The loggia was also used as a stage for celebrations and theatrical performances organised by Agostino himself.
To give the space a festive and theatrical feel to it, Raphael also transformed the vault of the Loggia into a pergola, adorned with magnificent hanging festoons, as though the greenery of the gardens had invaded the Villa itself. In the centre he designed two fictive tapestries which depict the concluding scenes: the splendid Council of the Gods, where the unjustly persecuted girl is finally received by the gods with divine complacence, and the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, the symbolic culmination of the entire cycle.
However, although the general layout of the cycle and planning of the individual scenes and figures are attributed to the intuitive genius of Raphael (proven by a number of autographic sketches), the actual completion of the designs into frescos was carried out by his numerous workshop assistants, including Giovanni Francesco Penni, Giulio Romano and Giovanni da Udine. The latter, in particular, was the creator of the exuberant triumphal festoons.
Located in the right transept, it is the mausoleum which was to be the tomb of Pope Julius II. Michelangelo was commissioned in 1505, the factory was interrupted several times and completion took place in 1545, thirty years after the death of Julius II.
The final version, after the project had the sixth amendment, was seven statues including the famous Moses by Michelangelo.
The sarcophagus, which was to contain the body of Julius II, is located above the Moses. On the lid, a large statue of the Pope lying on its side. Recent studies attribute it to Michelangelo's hand.
The Rachel (Contemplative Life), is positioned at the right hand of Moses while Lia (Active Living) to the left. Both by Michelangelo and completed by Raffaele Sinibaldi said Raffaello da Montelupo
The "Sibilla", at the right hand of the statue of Julius II, and the "Prophet" to the right, are the work of Raffaello da Montelupo.
"Madonna and Child" placed in the middle at the top, is the work of Domenico Fancelli said Scherano from Settignano
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Situato nel braccio del transetto destro, si trova il Mausoleo che doveva essere la tomba di Papa Giulio II. Fu commissionato a Michelangelo nel 1505, la fabbrica fu interrotta diverse volte e il completamento avvenne nel 1545, trentadue anni dopo la morte di Giulio II.
La versione definitiva, dopo che il progetto ebbe la sesta modifica, fu di sette statue tra cui il famoso Mosè di Michelangelo.
Il sarcofago che doveva contenere il corpo di Giulio II, è posto sopra al Mosè. Sopra il coperchio, una grande statua che rappresenta il Papa sdraiato su un fianco. Studi recenti attribuiscono l'opera alla mano di Michelangelo.
La Rachele ( Vita contemplativa), è posizionata alla destra del Mosè mentre la Lia (Vita attiva) alla sinistra. Entrambe eseguite da Michelangelo e completate da Raffaele Sinibaldi detto Raffaello da Montelupo
La "Sibilla", alla destra della statua di Giulio II, e Il "Profeta" alla destra, sono opera di Raffaello da Montelupo.
La "Madonna col Bambino" posizionata al centro in alto, è opera di Domenico Fancelli detto Scherano da Settignano
This photograph continues my social history project documenting both the mundane and the interesting in the City of Fremantle and surrounding areas through the medium of Waymarking. See www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMGN3Y_1887_Fremantle_Town_Ha... for the related waymark.
The Fremantle Town Hall is a two storey stuccoed brick and stone building in the Victorian Free Classical style, designed by Grainger and D'Ebro. It is triangular in shape, and sited at the junction of William and High Streets, overlooking St. John's (formerly King's) Square. A prominent feature is the 90 feet high clock tower at the apex of the plan, the focus of this photo.
The Town Hall was opened on the 22nd June, 1887, to coincide with the celebration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. A grand opening ceremony was held, followed by a day of sport and a grand ball in the evening.10 On the following evening there was a children's fancy dress ball, which was marred by the murder of Councillor Snook by William Conroy, landlord of the Victoria Hotel. Subsequently, Conroy was hung at Perth Gaol, the last person to do so.
To learn more about the history of the Fremantle Town Hall I encourage you visit the Heritage Council link below.
The most recent history in the life of the Fremantle Town Hall as seen its <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-26/fremantle-town-hall-reopens-after-restoration-project/8558858">restoration in 2017 at a cost of some $3.1 million</a>. This photo was taken after the completion of the restoration.
Reference:
Heritage Council (n.d.). Fremantle Town Hall. Retrieved from inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au/Admin/api/file/8498da2b-2...
True end is not in reaching of the limit, but in a completion that is limitless...
- Rabindranath Tagore
Commentary.
This Benedictine Monastery and Abbey Church,
founded as early as 1018, reputedly by King Cnut,
served under Savignac and later Cistercian rule in medieval times.
It suffered the consequences of religious persecution in the 16th. Century, when the Dissolution of the Monasteries, by direction of King Henry VIII, saw it ransacked and ultimately demolished.
The site was bought by French Benedictine monks in the nineteenth century and dedicated to St. Mary. Not until 1907 did a re-build commence followed by consecration in 1932 and completion in 1938.
Prayer and worship is only one part of a monk’s daily life.
What always strikes me is how active they are in supporting their community and earning their keep.
Vegetables, honey, beeswax, pigs, cattle, wine, fudge, publications and many other products are sold near and far.
Monks built the building, help to maintain it,
designed stained-glass windows for new chapels,
farm the land, tend the gardens and benefit from the thousands of paying visitors that come to enjoy, this thriving, yet spiritually uplifting and inspirational place.
Indeed, healthy income enables continuous development.
For example a magnificent new pipe-organ, sourced from Italy, was successfully installed in 2017.
The vibrant, ongoing work of this highly committed
and faithful community is complemented by the incredible beauty of its setting.
Nestling as it does on the edge of Dartmoor,
in the exquisite Dart Valley, where it is, and what it does, evokes the peace, solace, tranquillity of the spirit of God, to his honour and glory.
A thousand years, 1018-2018 is only the beginning!
PUGET SOUND (Jan. 29, 2018) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) transits Puget Sound as it returns to Naval Base Kitsap - Bremerton. John C. Stennis is returning to homeport after the completion of a two-week underway where the ship's crew conducted training to prepare for its next scheduled deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class David A. Brandenburg/Released)
The Bassett Creek Valley Light Rail Transit (LRT) Station in Minneapolis, photographed in March 2024, is part of the Southwest LRT Green Line Extension project.
Prospect Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after their completion of Manhattan's Central Park. Main attractions of the park include the 90-acre (36 ha) Long Meadow; the Picnic House; Litchfield Villa, the pre-existing home of Edwin Clark Litchfield, an early developer of the neighborhood and a former owner of a southern section of the Park;[5] Prospect Park Zoo; a large nature conservancy managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society; The Boathouse, housing a visitors center and the first urban Audubon Center;[6] Brooklyn's only lake, covering 60 acres (24 ha); the Prospect Park Bandshell that hosts free outdoor concerts in the summertime. The park also has sports facilities including seven baseball fields in the Long Meadow, and the Prospect Park Tennis Center, basketball courts, baseball fields, soccer fields, and the New York Pétanque Club in the Parade Ground. There is also a private Society of Friends cemetery on Quaker Hill near the ball fields, where actor Montgomery Clift is interred. (wikipedia.com)
Nearly 120 years after the line's completion, two SD70MACs relegated to local work, creep along the original Burlington & Missouri River right of way to Cody. The train has just left Frannie yard with a massive cut of cars for this usually slow branch line. Looming in the background are the Pryor Mountains, the mountain range sandwiched between Billings, MT and Lovell, WY that this railroad's original routing traversed.
A little history lesson to go with this subpar photo:
In 1900, construction of the rail line between Toluca, MT and Cody, WY began, being completed in 1901 with the first train arriving in Cody on November 11th of that year. The branch was the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad's (part of the Burlington companies, and was eventually merged into the CB&Q) line to Cody was an attempt to reach Yellowstone National Park after the Northern Pacific completed their Yellowstone Park Branch in 1883. Choosing to find a more profitable pathway to the park, and with help from powerful influences like Buffalo Bill Cody, the alignment over the Pryor Mountains was chosen.
Splitting off from the mainline to Billings at Toluca, the Cody Branch pointed West to Coburn, where travelers from Billings would usually make the connection with the railroad, then dives south into the Pryor mountains. South of the town of Pryor, the trains would tackle challenging grades, curvature, and a single tunnel. Trains traversed the mountains slowly, often becoming "lost" when becoming disabled or delayed between the huge gaps in telegraph stations or manned section houses.
In the years following the opening of the line, the CB&Q build north from Frannie to Fromberg, MT and tied into the Northern Pacific's branch to Bridger.
Following the completion of the Fromberg line, burdened with the obstacles of the Pryor Mountain route, the CB&Q chose to re-route all trains to Cody over the Northern Pacific via Billings and Laurel. The decision to quickly abandon the Pryor mountains over the course of a single weekend came when the Native Americans who heavily relied on the railroad sought an injunction to the abandonment. The CB&Q ripped up most of the railroad on a Sunday while no judge was available to weigh in on the matter.
The Pryor Mountains would see only 10 years of railroad traffic, being quickly forgotten for the faster and more profitable route via the Northern Pacific (who'd eventually give the branch between Fromberg and Laurel, MT to the CB&Q outright). After 1905, the Burlington's new paper company "The Big Horn Railroad Company" was building south towards Casper, WY. Following James Hill's purchase of the Colorado & Southern, the CB&Q finished connecting the line from Frannie (which had terminated at Kirby, WY) to the C&S, creating a through-route to Denver and points south. Today that routing is still an important connection in BNSF's empire while the line to Cody, the reason for rails being laid in the Bighorn Basin, remains only as a small and often-overlooked branch. The Burlington's investment to rail and subsequent irrigation systems within the basin are directly responsible for the region's growth and success.
Frannie, WY
May 27th, 2021
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