Eden Gardens State Park History

Garden of the Gods is a state park in Colorado Springs, Colorado. My children asked me how it came by its name and for any of you who may not understand the reasoning behind its uncommon name, I will explain. The Garden of the Gods consists of rock formations that are stunningly beautiful and graceful against the deep Colorado blue sky. If you picture the Garden of the Gods from the sky, such as how a god would see it from the heavens you will begin to understand why it is called by its unique name. The garden has countless trails through the rocks with panoramic views of breathtakingly beautiful scenery. You can walk through the rocks, on trails the park has marked out for you all year round. The trails go for miles and miles through the historic garden while some extend out to a green valley of grass that offers shade trees and endless dirt paths. This valley is off to one side of the rock formations so it offers a view of each rock separately. The park offers guided horseback rides where anyone from a novice to an accomplished rider can enjoy the park 's views and a slightly faster pace. Trained guides offer not only the phenomenal tour of the state park, but also insightful historic information that any tourist will find interesting. In addition to walking trails and horseback riding, the park is a dreamland for rock climbers. With easy starter rocks that even a child can climb, it is outdoor fun for the whole family. There are also rocks towering over the park that

The builder of this seventeen room Greek revival mansion was Stephen S. Speakman. In the early 1840s, the elderly Speakman fell in love with a much younger woman, Sarah Bush, whose father owned a slave-holding plantation in Kentucky. Upon asking her hand in marriage, his bride-to-be refused to marry him unless he built her a southern plantation-style mansion. In 1845, with the use of his father-in-law’s slaves, Speakman erected his mansion on a five hundred acre plot next to Loughery Creek with every brick baked on site (Historical Marker Project).

In those ten days a palisade that secured seven acres of land with watch towers on each corner, store houses, and a church with a brick base was built. After all of these things were built, Dale finally decided it was time to build houses for the men, so he had them build three streets of houses. Dale also decided to build a suburb of sorts on the other side of the river. This suburb included palisades for security, five tiny houses, and a house for sick people called Mount Malady. There were also plans, made by the Virginia Company and King James, to build a college for the Indian children to train them as missionaries but the Indians did not want this for their

In the book A Land Remembered by Patrick Smith, the concept of appreciating nature resonates throughout the novel. The first character introduced, Solomon Maclvey, is the great grandson of one of the settlers of Southwest Florida. Solomon constantly expresses his disgust with how developed Miami has become, although it was his family that became wealthy from developing Florida. As Solomon looks upon Miami in A Land Remembered, “Then they came to the La Florida Hotel, sitting like a stuffed frog, rising boastfully above all of them, thirty stories, with the letters MCI blazoned across its top. The

The people of the community of Lake Windsor Downs forced the land to be something that it wasn't. Which caused chains of events of preventable problems they had to deal with. For instance, when Paul was first arriving at his new home in Tangerine, he describes it as,"...A place carpeted with green grass, with trees along both sides of the road and flower beds running down the middle... see the roofs of big expensive houses..."(Bloor ) Those who live in Lake Windsor Downs want to

The Estates Woodland and the Grand Estates Woodland, both arranged in Magnolia, Texas, are head assembles that offer the best comforts and phenomenal living spaces. Each unit joins stainless steel machines, first rate furniture and was manufactured with simply the best materials open. Other similar properties fuse the Towers of Seabrook, the Towers Woodland and the Mansions on the Park.

It’s the grassy greens, near the winding pebbly road I remember first. The long stalks of spinifex still line the edges, though now neatly trimmed all around. The uneven crunch-crunch-crunch of the gravel as I drive my sunny Porsche across town. Even in winter, bindies pepper the half soccer field, other foliage: a bush dotted with withered yellow berries and emerging saplings surround the patchy lawn like spectators. Smack bang in the middle, winter clawing its way in, stands a grandiose resilient oak, basking under the mild heat of the country sun, glorified as it houses two tombs. Its boughs stretch towards me invitingly and I smile…

This tree resides in Oregon’s Willamette Mission State Park, where in 1834 the first white settler arrived to teach Native Americans. With the Black Cottonwood nearby, the missionary expanded until the 1861 great flood devastated their farm. Unfazed, this robust Black Cottonwood simply kept growing. Today, it’s nearly 300 years old. This tree now revels in the peace and quiet of its bordering 1,600 acres of woodland.

This report from the Ohio Historical Society proposes a Historic Site Management Plan for Newark Earthworks State Memorial. It provides details on how to use this plan, its methodology, the publics and advisory panel input and its priorities. Further, this document included a detailed chronological account of prehistory occupancy and important date, as well as, historical ownership and occupancy of the Newark sites. Discussion of their management framework included management strategies, access to the sites, cultural preservation, treatment plan and also, an informational brochure and visitor’s facilities. The appendix of this report include among other things, a brief history of Newark earthwork, deeds and leases, and also recommendations from the advisory panel. I find this significant because it contains valuable historical records of occupation and ownership post the 17th-century, and absence of any records of prior occupation and ownership of the earlier Hopewell culture, that is thought to have built most of these earthworks. Although this source doesn’t answer the question who built these earthwork and why was it built, it gives account of a solid comprehensive timeline from post European contact to modern century that I find relevant to the Newark Great Oval

In Flannery O'Connor's short story "A View of the Woods", she tells the tale of a grandfather who is very close to his grandaughter. The grandpa's name is Mark Fortune and he had many kids, one of his daughters lives on his property. She married a man called "Pitts" who Mark Fortune is not very fond of, none the less he allows them to live on his land without paying any rent. This allows his favorite grandaughter, Mary Fortune to constantly hang out with him and learn from him. A key role in this story is the woods that surround Fortune's woods. Mark Fortune is not a man obsessed with progress as much as he wants convenience, to get this convenience he plans on selling his land to get businesses closer to his home. These woods have become well loved by his grandaughter who has grown up in

In order to best describe the cultural landscape of Stafford County and Fredericksburg city, one must analyze the historical conditions that shaped the modern landscape, which will provide insight into present-day demographics as well as future projections. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, settlements in Virginia rapidly spread westward from the Tidewater Region. Navigable rivers provided the means of movement, as settlers sailed into the Piedmont. While large plantations were initially established in a dispersed and decentralized pattern, several towns of small size began to prosper as sites of tobacco shipment inspection. The exploration of the Rappahannock River dates to 1608, when Captain John Smith visited the falls and encountered indigenous Native

One of the houses was Deep South looking; run down and bare of any organized growth, i.e. landscaping. It was just a large rectangle— greatly in need of paint and repair. And, this house just happened to be near the heart of The Town of Smithtown, right in the cross roads of the historic area of the celebrated main street. But, in hindsight, perhaps this dwelling was a part of that history—a reminder of the history that had its good and bad; the well to do and the have nots, with some of the have nots, not having because the haves didn’t want them to.

But Cade’s Cove is more than a wildlife playpen set up with Lincoln Log props. It had been a settlement two centuries ago, and the gristmill still runs. Pioneer babies are still buried behind the Missionary Baptist. We parked our bikes and wandered past the gristmill and the smoke house and the barn where an old tiller plow rusted. Could grandpa really remember? His grandpa used one, he said, and they used to hold corn huskings.

I haven’t always lived on Crown Point. Before that we lived on Southwell Road, in the house that was destroyed by a tornado. I remember the day I had to say goodbye to all of my friends at Emerson Williams School forever. The house on Crown Point is grey with black shutters and a stone front on the bottom of the house.When we first saw the house, the flowers planted near the windows waltzed in a gentle breeze. It looked like the perfect house for us to buy.

At first, Peter appears to see wondrous gardens as a call to adventure. While examining images of exotic destinations as a student at Oxford, his “entire being trembled with hunger… this was where [he] would find [his] paradise, [his] tropical Arcadia, [his] vision of perfection” (page 271). I believe that in his youth, Peter idealistically views these gardens as oases of beauty in the desert of human despair; he pursues them by fleeing his home and traveling thousands of miles in search of imagined paradise. Furthermore, Peter conceives of his destination as “Arcadia”, which I know to be a mythological sanctuary essentially synonymous with utopia and characterized by both elusiveness and a “vision of perfection”. However, Peter’s conception of gardens appears to shift towards the end of his life. Writing about his dream to construct the ultimate