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April 3, 1970. The Point of Rocks Stage Station is a former resting place at the meeting point of the Overland Trail and the Union Pacific Railroad in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA. It was built as a stop for the Overland Stage Line in the 1861 or 1862, equidistant between the earlier Black Buttes and Salt Wells stations, which were 28 miles ...
Red Rock Island. / 37.92917°N 122.43083°W / 37.92917; -122.43083. Red Rock Island (variously known as Moleta, [ 1] Molate Rock, [ 2] and Golden Rock[ 2]) is an uninhabited, 5.8-acre (2.3 ha) island in the San Francisco Bay located just south of the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge. [ 3] The property is the only privately owned island in ...
It opened in 1924 and was the go-to venue for rock bands in the 1960s before becoming known for Mexican dances in the 1980s. ... There’s new flooring in the entry and at the two bars, which have ...
The Chain of Rocks Bridge was privately built as a toll bridge in 1929 at a cost of $3 million and later turned over to the city of Madison, Illinois, the current owner of the bridge. Though engineers predicted ten fatalities during the creation of the bridge, only one worker was killed. In the late 1930s, Bypass US 66 was designated over this ...
Land's End is a popular venue for rock climbers. [10] The Longships, a group of rocky islets are just over 1 mile (1.6 km) offshore, and together with the Seven Stones Reef and the Isles of Scilly which lie about 28 miles (45 km) southwest – are part of the mythical lost land of Lyonesse, referred to in Arthurian literature.
Point of Rocks, Wyoming. / 41.67833°N 108.79139°W / 41.67833; -108.79139. Point of Rocks is an unincorporated community in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. As of the 2000 census, Point of Rocks had a total population of three, when it was a census-designated place (CDP).
Las Tinajas de Los Indios (The Jars of the Indians), later called "Indian Tanks", was as its name suggests, the site of an Indian encampment. The tops of the Point of Rocks, sandstone rock formations, have tinajas, ( jars in Spanish), natural basins that acted as reservoirs or cisterns to hold the water that collected during the winter rains ...
Point of Rocks is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Frederick County, Maryland.As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,466. [3]Point of Rocks is named for the striking rock formation on the adjacent Catoctin Mountain, which was formed by the Potomac River cutting through the ridge in a water gap, a typical formation in the Appalachian Mountains.