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- Don’t erase industrial heritage, embrace it!
- Dawn-to-dusk-to-dawn city/town names
- The worst failures of American urban planning
- Worlds largest “ton” suffix cities
- Iconic ironmaking furnace stacks of stone
- Once roaring iron furnace or iron forge named towns
- Tuesday tunes: Male solo artists who belong in the Rock Hall of Fame
- Favorite historic trails to hike or bike
- Tuesday Tunes: Women who Belong in the Rock Hall of Fame
- Working list – America’s tallest and grandest mesas
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Category Archives: archaeology
Don’t erase industrial heritage, embrace it!
In many post-industrial American cities, the legacy of their manufacturing might is too often gradually rusting away or being erased from memory in the hopes that new developments will somehow rekindle a once proud past. As a result, significant aspects … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, archaeology, architecture, art, cities, civics, culture, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, environment, Food, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, industry, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, Passenger rail, placemaking, planning, rail, Railroads, recreation, revitalization, rivers/watersheds, skylines, spatial design, sustainability, technology, third places, tourism, trails, transportation, Travel, urban design, walking
Tagged adaptive reuse, Bethlehem, Birmingham, cities, Gas Works Park, indiustry, industrial archaeology, Marquette, Mill Ruins Park, Minneapolis, Ore Dock Boteco Center, Scranton, Seattle, Slodd Furnaces, Steamtown, Steel Stacks
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Iconic ironmaking furnace stacks of stone
The following list and accompanying photographs identify those iconic ironmaking blast furnace stacks that remain standing in the United States. Most of these monumental structures were built between the 1770s and 1880s. The quality of their construction (mostly with a … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, architecture, art, business, cities, commerce, economic development, geography, Geology, historic preservation, history, industry, infrastructure, Labor, land use, Maps, Mining, place names, placemaking, product design, revitalization, topography, toponymy, tourism, Trade, Travel
Tagged blast furnace, bloomery, industry, iron, iron furnaces, smelters, stacks, stone stacks
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Once roaring iron furnace or iron forge named towns
The following list identifies villages, hamlets, and communities named for local iron furnaces and forges that operated during the 18th and 19th centuries. There were a number of other furnaces and forges, but their either wasn’t an adjacent community or … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, architecture, cities, commerce, geography, historic preservation, history, land use, place names, planning, Statistics, topography, toponymy, tourism, Travel
Tagged Bessemer process, forges, furnaces, history, industry, iron, iron furnaces, iron ore
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Favorite historic trails to hike or bike
Presented below are my eleven favorite “historic” hiking and biking trails that have been visited thus far in the United States. The Iron Ore Heritage Trail in Marquette County, Michigan is my personal favorite, though each of these trails are … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, archaeology, art, bicycling, Biking, cities, culture, fun, geography, Geology, health, hiking, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, placemaking, planning, recreation, revitalization, third places, topography, tourism, trails, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, water trails
Tagged biking, canals, heritage trails, hiking, historic trails, history, missions, trails, walking
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Working list – America’s tallest and grandest mesas
The following is a working list that will be updated from time to time until complete. Those mesas shown in bold are the tallest in that state. Most data remaining to be added are from Arizona and New Mexico. Mesa … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, environment, geography, Geology, Native Americans, nature, recreation, Statistics, topography, trails, Travel, Wildlife
Tagged flat tops, geography, geology, mesas, table mountains, terrain, topography
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Favorite historic mining towns visited to date
Favorite historic mining towns are presented in alphabetical order after the top three, which are immediately below. The list does not include historic mining towns that are now ghost towns. Here are the top three favorites to date: Marquette, Michigan … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, archaeology, architecture, art, branding, business, cities, culture, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, environment, fun, geography, Geology, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, marketing, Mining, placemaking, planning, recreation, revitalization, spatial design, third places, topography, tourism, trails, Travel, urban planning
Tagged archaeology, architecture, art, culture, mining, towns
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Ten+ planning lessons from “remarqable” Marquette, Michigan
Before going through the twelve planning lessons listed below, it must be noted that for many years, Marquette has been at the top of my list of favorite cities in Michigan, as well as the at the top of my … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, archaeology, architecture, bicycling, Biking, branding, cities, civics, colleges, commerce, culture, diversity, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, environment, fun, geography, Geology, Great Lakes, hiking, historic preservation, history, immigration, infrastructure, land use, Mining, nature, new urbanism, place names, placemaking, planning, Railroads, recreation, revitalization, shipping, skylines, spatial design, sustainability, third places, topography, tourism, Trade, traffic, trails, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, water trails, zoning
Tagged architecture, bicycling, cities, culture, fun, geography, infrastructure, Iron Ore Heritage Trail, land use, Marquette, Michigan, mining, planning, tourism, transportation
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Scenic views from Michigan’s U.P.
These images are from in and around Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. More to come.
Posted in archaeology, architecture, Cities, culture, Environment, fun, geography, Geology, Great Lakes, hiking, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, Nature, placemaking, planning, recreation, shipwrecks, topography, tourism, Transportation, Travel, underwater preserves
Tagged Pictured Rocks, Upper Peninsula
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Everyone loves an adorable tugboat!
From Canada to Australia, from Russia to the United Kingdom, and from South Africa to the USA, the entire world loves an adorable tugboat. The varied images of youth-oriented book covers, animated television series, poems, and motion pictures provided below … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, art, book reviews, books, Canada, civility, Communications, culture, education, entertainment, environment, fun, geography, Great Lakes, historic preservation, history, humanity, infrastructure, Language, movies, pictures, planning, Poem, rivers/watersheds, Russia, shipping, Television, tourism, Trade, traffic, transportation, Travel, tugboats, UK, underwater preserves, urban planning, water trails
Tagged Alice, Annie, Bill, books, Chubby, Doug, Hercules, love, Mavis, Mickey, Mighty, movies, Noah, Pip, poems, Pug, Sam, Scout, Scuffy, ships, Spike, Tambov, Tank, Tessie, Theodore, Timmy, Toby, Tommy, Toot, Tough, Tubby, Tuffy, tugboats, Tugga, tugs, TV, Walter
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Our quest for the “Metropolis” under East Bay waters
Since moving to Michigan 27 years ago, I have been intrigued by the history and lore of the Great Lakes. This includes the lighthouses, sand dunes, ore docks, freighters, bridges, geology, and many other facets of this vast waterborne … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, culture, fun, geography, Great Lakes, historic preservation, history, Maps, nature, North America, pictures, recreation, shipping, shipwrecks, technology, topography, tourism, transportation, Travel, water trails
Tagged archaeology, East Bay, Grand Traverse Bay, Great Lakes, historic preservation, kayak, Lake Michigan, maritime, Metropolis, Michigan, nautical, Old Mission Peninsula, Peck & Masters Shipyard, schooners, shipwrecks, two-masted lake schooners, underwater preserves, zodiac
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