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Shady Dale Bank and Old Stagecoach Stop...

January 12, 2024

On the backroads of Georgia in Northeastern Jasper County lies the small town of Shady Dale. If you blink you could miss it. On the tiny town’s Main street, you will find an old building that was once the bank in the 1900s. The Bank of Shady Dale began operating in 1907 with a start-up of $25,000, and ceased operations and liquidated all assets in 1921. The building has also been used as the town’s post office and library,...

Flying Circuses Led to the First Aerial...

January 12, 2024

On September 8, 1785, Thomas Baldwin saw something nobody had ever seen before: the English city of Chester and its surroundings from above. And then he did something nobody had ever done before: He produced maps of what he saw—the very first aerial maps in history. They’re included in Airopaidia, a curious book that devotes hundreds of pages to Baldwin’s one and only balloon trip. People have been flying planes for 117 years. But the history of human flight...

Kiskatinaw Bridge in Parkland, British Columbia

January 12, 2024

The first curved wooden bridge in Canada still stands near Kiskatinaw Provincial Park. It was built in 1942-1943 by the U.S. Public Roads Administration during the construction of the Alaska-Canada Highway. Due to a large change in grade between the span the bridge covers, the bridge needed to curve nearly 90 degrees. Kiskatinaw Bridge is a curved, timber-truss structure with high banks that extends 162 meters (534 feet). Because of weight limits that prevented some of the larger trucks that regularly used...

Casa da Moeda in Panaji, India

January 12, 2024

In the square near Panaji Head Post Office, there are a lot of old Portuguese Era buildings. Also known as Tobacco Square in the Bairro do Sao Tome, the location of the area was historically extremely significant and many important buildings came up here. One such building is the Casa da Moeda which means House of Coins. This building functioned as the Mint of Goa from 1834-1841. During that era, the then Portuguese Viceroy of Goa, Dom Manuel de...

Lahontan Dam and the Newlands Project in...

January 12, 2024

In the late 19th and well into the 20th centuries, reclamation (the construction of water storage and distribution structures to irrigate farmland) was the subject of a great deal of enthusiasm among a segment of population in the U.S. West. Motivations ranged from notions of “making the desert bloom” to pragmatic ideas of fostering economic development to promoters seeking to add value to lands they had acquired. Francis G. Newlands, at the time a Congressman from Nevada, was one...

Gastro Obscura's 13 Essential Places to Visit...

January 12, 2024

Yes, Paris is the City of Light, and a city that actually, really delivers on all the cliches. But it’s also a big, bustling, intimidating metropolis with all the good and bad, overhyped and the forgotten, the classic and the cutting edge that comes with this. And as with any big, bustling, intimidating metropolis, it helps to have a guide. Rather than put together yet another Paris best list, we’ve assembled some of the restaurants, stalls, bakeries, markets, producers,...

Museo Municipal de Villa Hayes in Villa...

January 12, 2024

Rutherford B. Hayes was born in the city of Delaware, Ohio, where his birthplace is now the site of a British Petroleum gas station. Though the 19th U.S. President is not terribly well-remembered or celebrated in his home country, his legacy is celebrated in another part of the world, which may be surprising: Paraguay. The Villa Hayes Municipal Museum celebrates his foundational role in the country’s history. It is impossible to reflect on Paraguay’s history without acknowledging the Paraguayan War, also...

5 of Our Favorite Podcast Episodes About...

January 12, 2024

It’s to be expected that wildlife carves out special niches in the strange, evolving world we’ve made for them, but creatures big and small continue to surprise with their adaptability. We’ve visited this idea several times on The Atlas Obscura Podcast, so this week we took a look back at some of favorite stories in this specific, fascinating little genre, from the South American spiders that made a home in a Scandinavian museum, to the bats that play a...

One Man's Fight to Preserve Pakistan's Perfect...

January 12, 2024

In 2000, a Japanese tourist walked into Syed Israr Hussain’s guest house in Minapin, Pakistan. While most visitors come to the village, nestled in the Nagar Valley below Rakaposhi mountain in the Karakoram range, to hike or summit the peak, this tourist had a different agenda. The tourist asked—no, “he demanded,” remembers Hussain—to be served a very specific meal. He had fond memories of a delicious chicken stew he had eaten when he visited the village 30 years earlier....

Maria of the Ant Village in Tokyo,...

January 12, 2024

Much of Tokyo was left in ruins after World War II. The city’s poor lived from hand to mouth as scavengers and ragpickers called bataya, who in 1950 established their own neighborhood nicknamed the “Ant Village” around Kototoi Bridge. As the government worked to rebuild and redevelop the city, the bataya community of the Ant Village faced the constant threat of eviction. To buy some time, its central figure, essayist Touru Matsui made up a plan to found a church for...

7 Wild Stories From the Prohibition Era

January 12, 2024

The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect at midnight on January 17, 1920. For 13 years, until the ratification of the 21st Amendment in December 1933, the country was officially dry—but the legacy of the Prohibition Era is less its propriety and more its flamboyant underground drinking culture, a scene populated in the public imagination by daring bootleggers, classy speakeasies, hot jazz, and cool flappers. From a century of distance, the stories of the 1920s...

A Guide to Marketing Hotel Sustainability

January 12, 2024

Today’s travelers aren’t just better-educated and better-informed, they’re more concerned than ever about adopting responsible practices around their journeys. The upshot is that these savvy travelers actively seek experiences and accommodations that align with their values — especially concerning environmental and sustainability practices. Reasons Behind the Popularity of Sustainable Travel There are compelling reasons behind The post A Guide to Marketing Hotel Sustainability appeared first on Revfine.com.

A Murderous Gravestone Grudge Carved a New...

January 11, 2024

Up a gravel road running behind the Nelson’s Chapel church in Lenoir, North Carolina, sits a small cemetery. For about 50 years, one of the stones, marking the grave of twenty-five-year-old Lawrence Nelson, had a remarkable inscription beneath his name: “Murdered and robbed by Hamp Kendall and John Vickers, Sept. 25, 1906.” It’s not every day that a tombstone accuses people of murder. Hamp Kendall and John Vickers had initially been imprisoned for Nelson’s killing—but it turns out both...

Fort De Soto Park in Tierra Verde,...

January 11, 2024

Fort De Soto Park spans over 1,000 acres of five interconnected islands that create a bayou between the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay. It’s the largest park in the county and it offers beautiful beaches and outdoor activities from camping to kayaking to wildlife watching. But there’s also a deep history here, which is reflected in the park’s name. At the end of the 19th century, with the start of the Spanish–American War, there were calls for increased coastal...

Heritage Village in Largo, Florida

January 11, 2024

Located next to the Florida Botanical Gardens, Heritage Village is a living history complex made up of several different real-life sites, from an old service station and garage to a school, barn, log cabin, caboose, and church, featuring hundreds of historic artifacts. Follow the Shirley McPherson nature trail throughout the village grounds, then buy a bottle of Coke from a vintage fridge at the H.C. Smith General Store. This grocery store and meat market, dating to 1915, originally stood...

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