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    Mill Point Settlement Site is a heritage-listed former settlement at Elanda Point at Lake Cootharaba in Como, Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia. It...
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    operation at Elandra Point and a company town developed around it. Today the Mill Point Settlement Site is a heritage-listed archeological site. The lake is a...
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    Poverty Point State Historic Site/Poverty Point National Monument (French: Pointe de Pauvreté; 16 WC 5) is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the...
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  • 0 km) northeast of Hillsboro. Mill Point was so named on account of there being several mills near the original town site. William Luther Pierce, white...
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    station settlement was established in 1838, it is unclear where the earliest burials in the settlement would have occurred. Certainly the site had been...
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    Como has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Elanda Point on Lake Cootharaba: Mill Point Settlement Site (26°14′52″S 153°00′00″E / 26.2478°S...
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    as The Miami River Circle, Brickell Point, or The Miami Circle at Brickell Point Site, is an archaeological site in Brickell, Miami, Florida. It consists...
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    Tramway Mill Point Settlement Site Stannary Hills Tramways Munro Tramway Sugar cane tramways were usually developed in conjunction with sugar mills as the...
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    towns in Britain, and in Australia, set aside land on the outskirts of settlement as public cemeteries. This was thought to be healthier and provided a...
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    of the nineteenth century. The first cemetery serving the small penal settlement that was Brisbane between 1825 and 1842 was located on the (present day)...
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    Isle of the Dead also attract visitors. Point Puer, across the harbour from the main settlement, was the site of the first boys' reformatory in the British...
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    archaeological sites located within park boundaries were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The Bald Point Site (Smithsonian trinomial:...
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  • a parish when Abbot Claude Trouvé built a church. The settlement eventually extended up to Mill Creek, Petitcodiac, Memramcook, and the Shepody Rivers...
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  • Cemetery and Kangaroo Point Cemetery. Balmoral Park was originally surveyed in 1864. In 1869, 55 acres were gazetted for the Kangaroo Point cemetery. The cemetery...
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    Command (NORAD).: 16  There are 13 long range sites and 36 short range sites. In Canada, the station sites are owned or leased by the Government of Canada...
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    southern Sonoma County. More than 600 village sites have been identified, including 14 sites in the Mill Valley area. Nearby archaeological discoveries...
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    convict-era watermills, the Brisbane Mill on the Williams Creek at Creekwood Reserve, Voyager Point and the Woronora Mill on the Woronora River at Barden Ridge...
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    reports from Mormon dissenters led to the attack of Hawn's Mill. Those Hawn's Mill settlement dissenters were Robert White, George Miller, and Sardis Smith...
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    095 Hastings Mill was a sawmill on the south shore of Burrard Inlet and was the first commercial operation around which the settlement that would become...
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    European-American settlement of this area did not begin until decades after the American Revolutionary War. James Mills built the first cabin on the site in 1819...
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    descriptions of the lives of soldiers, the houses at the settlement, Fort St. Frédéric, the wind-mill, and the plants, animals, and minerals of the area. In...
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    on Dover Point, near the confluence of the Bellamy and Piscataqua rivers. This first settlement makes Dover the oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire...
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    uranium mill spill occurred in the U.S. state of New Mexico on July 16, 1979, when United Nuclear Corporation's tailings disposal pond at its uranium mill in...
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    run a ferry across the Missouri River. Point du Sable's successful role in developing the Chicago River settlement was little recognized until the mid-20th...
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    New Lanark (category World Heritage Sites in Scotland)
    World Heritage Sites in Scotland and an Anchor Point of ERIH – the European Route of Industrial Heritage. The New Lanark cotton mills were founded in...
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  • historical black settlement. Built in 1845 by Edward Bullock, the mill is run by water power supplied by a dam on the river. The first mill on the site was built...
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    place Gissinausebing, which means "cold water." They built a grist mill on the site in 1833, which the Native people owned until 1849. In 1835 a post office...
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    Butte Creek Mill. In 2018, Actor Patrick Duffy, a longtime Eagle Point resident signed-on as the Advisory Director for the Butte Creek Mill Foundation...
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    warships. The fort is now protected as Fort Point National Historic Site, a United States National Historic Site administered by the National Park Service...
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    its settlement in the late 1700s, Bellamys Mill would have been situated among thick forest with small spring-fed streams whereas currently, the site now...
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