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The Minidoka Relocation Center, 15 miles north of Twin Falls and 150 miles southeast of Boise, was also referred to as the Hunt Camp. Minidoka was considered a model environment because of its relatively peaceful atmosphere and population that got along well with the administration. Because it was not within the Western Defense Command restricted area, security was somewhat lighter than at most other camps. But when the internees first arrived, they were shocked to see the bleak landscape that was to be there home over the next three years.
Located on the Snake River Plain at an elevation of 4000 feet, the land is dotted with sagebrush and thin basaltic lava flows and cinder cones. The internees found the environment to be extremely harsh, with temperatures ranging from 30 degrees below zero to as high as 115 degrees. They also had to contend with blinding dust storms and ankle-deep mud after the rains.
Minidoka was in operation from August 10, 1942 to October 28, 1945. The reserve covered more than 33,000 acres of land in Jerome County. The camp’s peak population reached 9,397 by March 1, 1943, and it became Idaho's third largest city. Five miles of barbed wire fencing and eight watchtowers surrounded the administrative and residential areas, which were located in the west-central portion of the reserve.
Most of the people interned at Minidoka were from the Pacific Northwest: approximately 7,050 from Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Washington, 2,500 from Oregon and 150 from Alaska, including children or grandchildren of Eskimo women and Japanese men. They were temporarily housed at the Puyallup Fairgrounds in Washington, then sent by train to Idaho. In early 1943, all of the Bainbridge Island, Washington, residents interned at the Manzanar Relocation Center were transferred to Minidoka at their own request because of constant conflict with the internees from Terminal Island in Los Angeles.
The central camp consisted of 600 buildings on 950 acres. When the first internees arrived at Minidoka in August 1942, they moved into the crude barracks even though much of the camp was unfinished and there was no running water or sewage system. The Army insisted on having all Japanese removed from the West Coast at once, and they did not halt the evacuation until the camp could hold no more. The last group of 500 evacuees to arrive at the camp had to sleep in mess halls, laundry rooms, or any available bed space. Waiting in line for many daily functions, especially meals, was common.
The camp’s residential area encompassed 36 blocks and was one mile wide and three miles long. Each block included 12 tarpaper barracks, one dining hall, one laundry building with communal showers and toilets and a recreation hall. Immediately after arrival, the internees were instructed to see the camp physician, and then they received an apartment assignment. Apartments were of three sizes, and where possible, family groups or relatives were placed near each other. Efforts were later made to move people near their place of employment.
In the months following the 1955 flood a number of houses were relocated to a new subdivision at Telarah, enabling people to be free from the recurring fear of floods.
This relocation effort was made possible by the work and generosity The Lions Club of Maitland and with the assistance of other Lions Club nearby.
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Title: Relocating A People, ca. 1942
From: Record Group/Collection: 75
Record Hierarchy Level: Item
Scope and Content Note: This item is a brochure that explains the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens, and that encourages the employment of relocated individuals.
Reference Unit: National Archives at Laguna Niguel
Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/2641502
Repository Contact Information: NARA’s Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel) (NRHAL), 24000 Avila, 1st Floor East, Laguna Niguel, CA, 92677-3497.
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Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Relocated from its older location.
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In the months following the 1955 flood a number of houses were relocated to a new subdivision at Telarah, enabling people to be free from the recurring fear of floods.
This relocation effort was made possible by the work and generosity The Lions Club of Maitland and with the assistance of other Lions Club nearby.
Image courtesy of John Fraser
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Auckland’s Queen Street Railway Station opened on 30 November, 1885. It was the second to be built in Auckland and remained operational until the station was relocated in 1930. However, in 2003 the passenger rail hub returned to Queen Street, to what is now known as the Britomart Train Station.
The image above comes from the New Zealand Railways Publicity Photograph collection. Taken in 1904, it shows the Queen Street entrance and advertisement hoardings, looking out along the platforms and rail tracks.
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The Zelve Monastery is a Byzantine-era monastery that was carved into the rock in pre-iconoclastic times. It is part of the Zelve Open Air Museum, located between Ürgüp and Avanos.[1]
Remains
The remains of the Zelve monastery complex are located on the northern slopes of Aktepe, 1 km from Paşa Bağlari and 10 km out from Göreme on the Avanos road. Zelve does not have the rich frescoes of Göreme and other Cappadocian locations. Zelve is spread out over three valleys, of which two are connected by a tunnel. The complex contains innumerable rooms and passages which also house many pointed fairy chimneys with large stems, at about 40 feet above the valley floor.
The valley was a monastic retreat between the 9th and 13th centuries.[1] Christians moved to Zelve during the Persian and Arab invasions.[citation needed] The site was inhabited until 1952 when villagers were relocated to nearby Aktepe due to safety concerns.[1]
Cappadocia's first seminaries to train priests are located here at the monastery. Dating back to the early years of monastery life in Zelve is the Direkli Church (with the famed columns). Direkli is located at the bottom of the slope. The main decorations are iconoclastic-doctrine high relief crosses. The valley also contains the Balikli Kilise (Fish), Üzümlü Kilise (Grapes) churches and the now totally collapsed Geyikli Kilise (Deer church). These churches date to the pre-iconoclastic period.
The area was inhabited until 1952, when the last inhabitants moved to the new town Yeni Zelve ("New Zelve"), 2 km away. In 1967, Zelve was turned into an open-air museum.
The area also contains houses, a tunnel joining two of the valleys, a mill (without sails), and a small mosque. Several dovecotes are found in the valley.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelve_Monastery
CAPPADOCIA WORLD HERITAGE LIST :
whc.unesco.org/en/list/357
In a spectacular landscape, entirely sculpted by erosion, the Göreme valley and its surroundings contain rock-hewn sanctuaries that provide unique evidence of Byzantine art in the post-Iconoclastic period. Dwellings, troglodyte villages and underground towns – the remains of a traditional human habitat dating back to the 4th century – can also be seen there.
Brief synthesis
Located on the central Anatolia plateau within a volcanic landscape sculpted by erosion to form a succession of mountain ridges, valleys and pinnacles known as “fairy chimneys” or hoodoos, Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia cover the region between the cities of Nevşehir, Ürgüp and Avanos, the sites of Karain, Karlık, Yeşilöz, Soğanlı and the subterranean cities of Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu. The area is bounded on the south and east by ranges of extinct volcanoes with Erciyes Dağ (3916 m) at one end and Hasan Dağ (3253 m) at the other. The density of its rock-hewn cells, churches, troglodyte villages and subterranean cities within the rock formations make it one of the world's most striking and largest cave-dwelling complexes. Though interesting from a geological and ethnological point of view, the incomparable beauty of the decor of the Christian sanctuaries makes Cappadocia one of the leading examples of the post-iconoclastic Byzantine art period.
It is believed that the first signs of monastic activity in Cappadocia date back to the 4th century at which time small anchorite communities, acting on the teachings of Basileios the Great, Bishop of Kayseri, began inhabiting cells hewn in the rock. In later periods, in order to resist Arab invasions, they began banding together into troglodyte villages or subterranean towns such as Kaymakli or Derinkuyu which served as places of refuge.
Cappadocian monasticism was already well established in the iconoclastic period (725-842) as illustrated by the decoration of many sanctuaries which kept a strict minimum of symbols (most often sculpted or tempera painted crosses). However, after 842 many rupestral churches were dug in Cappadocia and richly decorated with brightly coloured figurative painting. Those in the Göreme Valley include Tokalı Kilise and El Nazar Kilise (10th century), St. Barbara Kilise and Saklı Kilise (11th century) and Elmalı Kilise and Karanlık Kilise (end of the 12th – beginning of the 13th century).
Criterion (i): Owing to their quality and density, the rupestral sanctuaries of Cappadocia constitute a unique artistic achievement offering irreplaceable testimony to the post-iconoclastic Byzantine art period.
Criterion (iii): The rupestral dwellings, villages, convents and churches retain the fossilized image of a province of the Byzantine Empire between the 4th century and the arrival of the Seljuk Turks (1071). Thus, they are the essential vestiges of a civilization which has disappeared.
Criterion (v): Cappadocia is an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement which has become vulnerable under the combined effects of natural erosion and, more recently, tourism.
Criterion (vii): In a spectacular landscape dramatically demonstrating erosional forces, the Göreme Valley and its surroundings provide a globally renowned and accessible display of hoodoo landforms and other erosional features, which are of great beauty, and which interact with the cultural elements of the landscape.
Integrity
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia, having been extensively used and modified by man for centuries, is a landscape of harmony combining human interaction and settlement with dramatic natural landforms. There has been some earthquake damage to some of the cones and the pillars, but this is seen as a naturally occurring phenomenon. Overuse by tourists and some vandalism have been reported and some incompatible structures have been introduced.
The erosional processes that formed the distinctive conical rock structures will continue to create new fairy chimneys and rock pillars, however due to the rate of this process, the natural values of the property may still be threatened by unsustainable use. The cultural features, including rock-hewn churches and related cultural structures, mainly at risk of being undermined by erosion and other negative natural processes coupled with mass tourism and development pressures, can never be replaced. threats Some of the churches mentioned by early scholars such as C. Texier, H.G. Rott and Guillaume de Jerphanion are no longer extant.
Authenticity
The property meets the conditions of authenticity as its values and their attributes, including its historical setting, form, design, material and workmanship adequately reflect the cultural and natural values recognized in the inscription criteria.
Given the technical difficulties of building in this region, where it is a matter of hewing out structures within the natural rock, creating architecture by the removal of material rather than by putting it together to form the elements of a building, the underlying morphological structure and the difficulties inherent in the handling of the material inhibited the creative impulses of the builders. This conditioning of human effort by natural conditions persisted almost unchanged through successive periods and civilizations, influencing the cultural attitudes and technical skills of each succeeding generation.
Protection and management requirements
The World Heritage property Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia is subject to legal protection in accordance with both the Protection of Cultural and Natural Resources Act No. 2863 and the National Parks Act No. 2873. The entire territory between the cities of Nevşehir, Ürgüp and Avanos is designated as a National Park under the Act No. 2873. In addition, natural, archaeological, urban, and mixed archaeological and natural conservation areas, two underground towns, five troglodyte villages, and more than 200 individual rock-hewn churches, some of which contain numerous frescoes, have been entered into the register of immovable monuments and sites according to the Act No. 2863.
Legal protection, management and monitoring of the Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia fall within the scope of national and regional governmental administrations. The Nevşehir and Kayseri Regional Conservation Councils are responsible for keeping the register of monuments and sites, including carrying out all tasks related to the legal protection of monuments and listed buildings and the approval to carry out any restoration-related works. They also evaluate regional and conservation area plans prepared by the responsible national and/or local (i.e. municipal) authorities.
Studies for revision and updating of the existing land use and conservation plan (Göreme National Park Long-term Development Plan) of 1981 were completed in 2003. The major planning decisions proposed were that natural conservation areas are to be protected as they were declared in 1976. Minor adjustments in the peripheral areas of settlements and spatial developments of towns located in the natural conservation sites including Göreme, Ortahisar, Çavuşin, Ürgüp and Mustafapaşa will be strictly controlled. In other words, the Plan proposes to confine the physical growth of these towns to recently established zones. Hotel developments will take into account the set limits for room capacities. Furthermore, the plan also suggested that local authorities should be advised to review land use decisions for areas that have been reserved for tourism developments in the town plans.
Preparation of conservation area plans for the urban and/or mixed urban-archaeological conservation sites within the historic sections of Göreme are in place and provide zoning criteria and the rules and guidelines to be used in the maintenance and restoration of listed buildings and other buildings which are not registered, but which are located within the historic zones. Similar planning studies for the towns of Ortahisar and Uçhisar are in place. Once finalised, a conservation area plan for the urban conservation area in Ürgüp will be in place. All relevant plans are kept up to date on a continuing basis.
Appropriate facilities aimed at improving the understanding of the World Heritage property have been completed for the subterranean towns of Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu, and are required for Göreme and Paşabağı.
Monuments in danger due to erosion, including the El Nazar, Elmalı, and Meryemana (Virgin Mary) churches, have been listed as monuments requiring priority action. Specific measures for their protection, restoration and maintenance are required at the site level.
While conservation plans and protection measures are in place for individual sites, it is recognised by the principal parties responsible for site management that an integrated Regional Plan for the Cappadocia Cultural and Tourism Conservation and Development Area is required to protect the World Heritage values of the property. Adequate financial, political and technical support is also required to secure the management of the property.
whc.unesco.org/en/list/357
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/cappadocia/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia
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The Minidoka Relocation Center, 15 miles north of Twin Falls and 150 miles southeast of Boise, was also referred to as the Hunt Camp. Minidoka was considered a model environment because of its relatively peaceful atmosphere and population that got along well with the administration. Because it was not within the Western Defense Command restricted area, security was somewhat lighter than at most other camps. But when the internees first arrived, they were shocked to see the bleak landscape that was to be there home over the next three years.
Located on the Snake River Plain at an elevation of 4000 feet, the land is dotted with sagebrush and thin basaltic lava flows and cinder cones. The internees found the environment to be extremely harsh, with temperatures ranging from 30 degrees below zero to as high as 115 degrees. They also had to contend with blinding dust storms and ankle-deep mud after the rains.
Minidoka was in operation from August 10, 1942 to October 28, 1945. The reserve covered more than 33,000 acres of land in Jerome County. The camp’s peak population reached 9,397 by March 1, 1943, and it became Idaho's third largest city. Five miles of barbed wire fencing and eight watchtowers surrounded the administrative and residential areas, which were located in the west-central portion of the reserve.
Most of the people interned at Minidoka were from the Pacific Northwest: approximately 7,050 from Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Washington, 2,500 from Oregon and 150 from Alaska, including children or grandchildren of Eskimo women and Japanese men. They were temporarily housed at the Puyallup Fairgrounds in Washington, then sent by train to Idaho. In early 1943, all of the Bainbridge Island, Washington, residents interned at the Manzanar Relocation Center were transferred to Minidoka at their own request because of constant conflict with the internees from Terminal Island in Los Angeles.
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The camp’s residential area encompassed 36 blocks and was one mile wide and three miles long. Each block included 12 tarpaper barracks, one dining hall, one laundry building with communal showers and toilets and a recreation hall. Immediately after arrival, the internees were instructed to see the camp physician, and then they received an apartment assignment. Apartments were of three sizes, and where possible, family groups or relatives were placed near each other. Efforts were later made to move people near their place of employment.
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Since Meadowbrook Elementary school had a Bogen Multicom 2000 system and the old model version of Thomas and friends which both MUST BE BANNED from schools, Meadowbrook Elementary School will get relocated in a new and better building with electric mechanical wall bells, a Rauland Telecenter system, green chalkboards, Disney Snow White and Pinocchio stuff, Corduroy the Bear with two buttons on his overalls, Jack and Jill posters, and Blue's Clues Steve notebooks, and Blue's Clues and You Josh notebooks for more school friendly and more school appropriate because I am saving other people from having the same emotional pain as I had and saving other people from those bad haunted freaky bell tones of Bogen Multicom 2000 systems and saving people from seeing the freaky spikey eyelashes, razor blade forehead wrinkles, and triangular eyes they used to have on Gordon's grumpy face in the old model version of Thomas and Friends which scares little kids real bad and is also not an appropriate face to be seen in schools as well. The original building of the school which was 2300 SW 46th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33317 will be converted into a natural indoor farm because we need more natural indoor farms in this world.
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The work continues with the relocation of the ancient monument of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain from it's present position near Amesbury to Wylye Down...
WILLIAMS, RICHARD SUGDEN, manufacturer of and dealer in musical instruments; b. 12 April 1834 in London, England, son of Richard Williams; m. 1854 Sarah Norris in Hamilton, Upper Canada, and they had three sons and a daughter; d. 24 Feb. 1906 in Toronto.
Richard Sugden Williams’s family immigrated to Hamilton in 1838. He may have received a common-school education before being apprenticed at age 11 to William Townsend of Toronto, a melodeon maker from New Hampshire who had settled there in the 1840s to build and sell this relatively novel reedorgan. Williams became “an expert in wood and brass work, and the making of the sounding parts,” a newspaper account said later about his training. His apprenticeship completed in 1849, he took over Townsend’s failed instrument business in Hamilton, where his employer had relocated. In 1854, with his wife, he moved back to Toronto.
Williams established a shop on Yonge Street to build melodeons, mandolins, and other instruments. In 1859 he moved to larger premises on Yonge and expanded production to include violins, banjos, and drums; he also dealt in other instruments. Two years later he moved again, to 143 Yonge, where the business would remain until after his death. Williams’s brother, William Hodgson, had joined him as an employee by 1861 and the business concentrated on manufacturing melodeons and on promotion. The enterprise, known as the Toronto Melodeon Manufactory, employed between 12 and 15 workers. “I combine all the improvements up to the present time,” Richard announced in an 1862 catalogue. “I voice and tune every instrument myself, at which I have had twelve years’ practical experience.” The catalogue suggested that, because the company was outside American jurisdiction, it could combine the best of the melodeon improvements patented in the United States. About this time Williams began to seek awards to help advertise his business. He received prizes, for example, at the provincial exhibitions of 1861–63 for his drums, melodeons, and harmoniums (a larger reed-organ).
In 1865 Williams built a second factory, on Hayter Street, which was enlarged three years later. In July 1869 he formed a partnership with his bookkeeper, William Norris, to manufacture and deal in organs, melodeons, and pianofortes under the name R. S. Williams and Company. By 1872 he had bought out Norris, built an addition to the second factory, installed a steam engine, and transferred all remaining manufacturing at the Yonge Street store to the enlarged buildings. At the same time he took his eldest son, Robert, into the business.
By 1873 W. H. Williams had left Canada and the Toronto operations were split into the Canada Organ and Piano Company, which continued production at Hayter Street, and the retail outlet on Yonge, which carried on as R. S. Williams and Company and was long identified by its eight-foot sign in the form of a fiddle. Lumber exporter Samuel Robert Briggs was president of the former with R. S. Williams as managing director. The new company failed within two years, causing Williams a large loss. However, by 1877 he had recovered sufficiently to move into a mansion on Wellesley Street at Sherbourne. In 1880 the factory was renamed R. S. Williams and Son, but it was operated solely by Robert, his father tending to the Yonge Street dealership and warehouse. About $35,000 was spent rebuilding the factory, which, under the 1879 tariff [see Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley*], enjoyed protection against imports of American musical instruments. By 1885, about 150 workers – who made up nearly 15 per cent of all factory workers making musical instruments in Canada – were producing about 20 pianos and 6 reedorgans each week as the firm concentrated on meeting demand for these instruments. In addition, a dealership was opened in London, Ont.
Attempts by labour leaders to organize the factory in the 1880s prompted Williams and his son to cast about for a location outside Toronto. In May 1888 ratepayers in nearby Oshawa voted in favour of granting Williams fixed taxation and an annual bonus for 20 years if he established his factory there. The company accepted, and by December 1888 it had bought and expanded the premises of a failed machinery manufacturer. Williams then formed a partnership with his son, in April 1889 under the name R. S. Williams and Son, and began production. “The unions made several attempts to bring their men under their control in Oshawa, but failed,” an inquiry reported in 1896. “They pay their men the highest wages and all are satisfied.”
In 1890 R. S. Williams and Son, with its Toronto outlet and Oshawa factory, was reorganized as a joint-stock company, R. S. Williams and Sons Company Limited, to include Williams’s other sons, Richard Sugden and Herbert DeMaine. A second reorganization, in 1902, segregated the Williams Piano Company Limited in Oshawa, owned and operated by Robert. About 250 workers were employed producing pipe-organs, player-pianos, grand pianos, and uprights, as well as other instruments. The Toronto dealership, which kept the name R. S. Williams and Sons, was run by Richard Jr as vice-president under his father; Herbert moved to Ottawa. By 1900 the Toronto firm was the sole distributor in Canada of Edison phonographs and records. Richard Sr retired in 1903 because of failing health, though he remained president.
In 1906, at age 71, Williams died of a stroke at his home. His funeral was held at St James’ Cathedral, which he had joined after many years as a member of St Peter’s Church (Anglican), and he was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. His estate was valued at almost $190,000; all stock and interest in R. S. Williams and Sons was bequeathed to his son Richard, who became president.
Throughout his adult life, Williams had been a collector of musical manuscripts, including scores and letters, and rare and unusual instruments, many of them displayed at his Yonge Street store. He also exhibited them in other places, such as the Toronto Mechanics’ Institute in 1861. The collection passed to and was augmented by Richard, an expert on violins, who in 1913 began donating pieces to the Royal Ontario Museum; it soon acquired a reputation among scholars as the largest and most valuable collection of its kind in Canada.
Williams, though trained as a craftsman, sought repeatedly to turn over manufacturing to partners and relatives, and thus free himself to deal in finished instruments. He experienced several set-backs before the 1870s, but he was by then well positioned to profit from the combination of strong domestic demand for keyboard instruments and the 1879 tariff. Steady profits provided him with the time and resources to expand a personal collection of instruments, which has become his most important legacy.
Moving house can be a stressful, time consuming and costly process, which begs the question why do so many people choose to do it? From lack of space to a new job, this article will serve to explain the top 10 reasons why people decide to pack everything in cardboard boxes and move…
1. Need more space
First time home buyers positioning themselves on the property ladder often outgrow their starter home and need to upsize to a larger house with plans to start a family.
2. Upgrade
Deciding whether to improve your property or move house entirely can be difficult. Becoming restless at home is a common problem, with many people getting itchy feet to upgrade to a bigger, more desirable home.
3. New job
A new job can mean relocating to a different area if the commuting distance is simply too long or travelling from your current home to your new job is completely unfeasible.
4. Empty nest
When the kids are all grown up and have moved out of the family home, many choose to downsize to a smaller home as they no longer need all the extra space.
5. Relationships
Choosing to move in with a partner is typically a significant stage in any relationship and is one of the main reasons people relocate. It can often mean that one will need to sell their house if both owned homes prior to the decision. On the other hand, break ups can also result in moving house, as one person’s income may not be able to support the price of the home or one individual may need to buy the other out.
6. Visit family more often
For many people, living closer to their family is very important and can be one of the key reasons people choose to move house. As the family unit extends to several generations, parents want to be nearer their children, and grandparents prefer to live nearer their children and grandchildren.
7. Catchment area for schools
More and more people are moving house to catchment areas where their children will be a higher priority for admission to their school of choice. Parents who are keen to send their child to a particular school may not fall within the specific catchment area in their current home, meaning many decide to relocate.
8. Change of scenery/lifestyle
Those feeling unsettled in their current home or searching for a fresh start are most likely to uproot and move to a different location. Whether you want to move from the bright lights of the city to the peaceful countryside or vice versa, many decide that a change of scenery is the ideal option for them.
9. Cost of running a house
A change of income or need to save money means many choose to relocate to an area where the running costs of a house are much lower. From the price of the house itself to rent or bills, the expense of owning and running a house can cause many to move to a different area.
10. Changes in the surrounding area
Since originally moving into your current home, the neighbourhood might have significantly deteriorated for economic, social or physical reasons. This might mean that you choose to relocate to an area where you feel much happier and more comfortable in your surroundings.
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