In this part of the series, I will follow the Lake Erie shoreline west from the Buffalo-area to Downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and in the next part of the series I will pick up the journey in West Cleveland and continue going around the entire lakeshore.

So far I have looked in-depth at cities and places all around the shores of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Ontario, paying particular attention to lighthouses; railroad and streetcar history; waterfalls, wetlands and dunes; interstates and highways; golf courses, airports and race tracks; major corporate players; mines and mining; labor relations; and many other things.

As a way of focusing my research, I will specifically follow the location of lighthouses and waterfalls around Lake Erie as I have been doing in this series as this particular focus has yielded a great deal of information as to what I believe happened here and our hidden history.

I believe there was a highly-sophisticated and highly-controlled hydrological and electrical system throughout the Great Lakes Region that was an integral part of the Earth’s original free energy grid system, and as we go through the information available to find along the way, I will continue to show you exactly why I think the Great Lakes were formed from tremendous amounts of water from the outflow of the waterfalls and the interconnected hydrological system when the original energy grid was destroyed and as quickly as possible, was replaced by nonrenewable energy resources that exist in limited supplies.

I believe the destruction of this energy grid was a worldwide event, and that the surface of the Earth was subsequently destroyed around its key infrastructure, which besides waterfalls, included components like lighthouses, rail infrastructure, canals, and what we know of as “forts,” and turned the landscape we see today into lakes, dunes, deserts, swamps, bogs, or causing the land to shear off and/or become submerged.

I have finally arrived at Lake Erie, the last of the five Great Lakes of North America for me to take a look at.

Like Lake Ontario, Lake Huron and Lake Superior, Lake Erie is located on the International Boundary between Canada and the United States.

The Canadian Province of Ontario occupies most of its northern-shore, along witht the States of Michigan on the northwestern- and Ohio on the western-shore; Ohio and Pennsylvaniaon the southern-shore, and New York on the southern and southeastern-shore.

Lake Erie is the fourth-largest Great Lake by surface volume, but the shallowest and smallest by volume of the five lakes.

Lake Erie has an average depth of 63-feet, or 19-meters, and is divided into three basins.

The Western Basin, and Lake St. Clair in the Detroit-Windsor area connected to Lake Erie by the Detroit River, are quite shallow, with depths , throughout ranging from 0- to -10-meters, or 33-feet.

The Central Basin is somewhat deeper, with depths ranging from 0- to 25-meters, or 0 – 82-feet.

The Eastern Basin is the deepest, with depths ranging from 0- to 64-meters, or 0- to 210-feet, where the deepest point of Lake Eriemarked by an “X” circled in red, making it the only Great Lake whose deepest point is above sea-level.

The depth contrast of the shallow western-end and the deep eastern-end causes water to pile-up when strong winds push the lake-water east or west.

This results in a phenomenon known as a “seiche,” which happens strong winds push the lake water east or west, causing the water to pile up, or drain, and which Lake Erie is more prone to than the other Great Lakes.

A “seiche” is the name for a standing wave in an enclosed, or partially-enclosed, body of water.

The seiches of Lake Erie are known to drain water out of one end of the lake and cause extreme flooding at the other end.

Lake Erie also has the shortest average water residence time of the Great Lakes at 2.7-years, meaning the average time that water spends in a particular lake.

Lake Erie is also the warmest of the Great Lakes because it is the shallowest, and frequently reaches peak water temperatures in the 70 to 80-degree Fahrenheit-range, or upper 20-degree-Celsius-range, in the summer months of July and August, and more during heat waves.

The Lake Erie Region is known as the “Thunderstorm Capital of Canada” as well, with impressive displays of lightning.

The relatively shallow waters found throughout the Great Lakes are notorious for shipwrecks, with an estimated somewhere between 6,000 to 10,000 ships and somewhere around 30,000 lives lost.

The reasons we are given for the high number of shipwrecks consist of things like severe weather, heavy cargo and navigational challenges.

Lake Erie has one of the highest concentrations of shipwrecks anywhere on Earth, with an estimated 2,000 sunken vessels and only 400 of those have been discovered.

There are over 50 lighthouses around the shores of Lake Erie, most of which I will be including in this journey.

I already looked at the lighthouses shown here that go up the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, and St. Clair River to the southern tip of Lake Huron in Part 3 of the series on the Michigan-side of Lake Huron.

While all of the Great Lakes have lighthouses, it is interesting to note that one of Michigan’s nicknames is “The Lighthouse State,” as it has more lighthouses than any other state.

The State of Michigan is surrounded by four-out-of-the-five Great Lakes.

Generally-speaking, Lake Superior is on the northern-side of Michigan, bordering the state’s Upper Peninsula; Lake Michigan is on the western-side; Lake Huron on the eastern-side; and Lake Erie on the southeastern-side.

In our historical narrative, we are told Europeans started entering the Niagara River-area between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie in the 17th-century, with Frenchman Robert de la Salle given the credit for building Fort Conti at the mouth of the Niagara River in 1679, as a base for exploring for the Northwest Passage to Japan and China to extend France’s trade.

The location we are given for Fort Conti is Old Fort Niagara where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario.

Robert de la Salle was accompanied by Belgian priest, missionary, and explorer of the North American interior, Franciscan Father Louis Hennepin, said to have been the first European to see the Niagara Falls.

Father Hennepin was a contemporary of the French Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette, who explored all over Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Green Bay in our historical narrative.

While the Franciscans were members of related-religious orders said to have been founded by the highly-venerated and gentle St. Francis of Assisi in 1209, the Patron Saint of Animals, the Environment and Italy…

…I think the Franciscans played a similar role as the Jesuits with regards to what took place here in subverting the indigenous peoples and real history of the Americas.

The Franciscans were called the vanguard of missionary activity in the New World, but I definitely think they were also an active part of the cover-up and subversion of the original advanced civilization and its people here and in other parts of the world.

Let’s find out what a close look around Lake Erie tells us about this civilization that is missing from our collective awareness and our history books.

The first place I am going to look at on Lake Erie is Buffalo, New York’s second-largest city, and the county seat of Erie County.

Buffalo serves as a major gateway for travel and commerce across the Canadian border, forming part of the bi-national Buffalo-Niagara Region and Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area.

Niagara Falls, just to the north of Buffalo, is at the International Boundary between the United States and Canada, with the city of Niagara Falls in New York on one side, and the city of Niagara Falls in Ontario on the other.

Grand Island is situated in-between the Niagara Falls-area and the Buffalo-area.

It is the largest Island in the Niagara River in New York, and I looked at Grand Island in-depth in Part 5 of this series.

These are some of the places I am going to be looking at in the Buffalo-area, including places like the Black Rock Lock; the Peace Bridge; Delaware Park and the Martin House attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright, the Buffalo River; the three lighthouses in Buffalo; some of the canals in Buffalo; the Caz Creek Waterfalls, the Tifft Nature Preserve; Highmark Stadium; and a few other places as well.

Interstate-190 connects Interstate-90 in Buffalo with the International Border at Lewiston, where it crosses the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge and from there becomes Ontario Highway 405.

Interesting to note that parts of Interstate 190 were built along the Rights-of-Way of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Erie Canal.

Heading north out of Buffalo, Interstate-190 follows the eastern edge of the Black Rock Channel.

The Black Rock Channel is 3.5-miles, or 5.6-kilometers, -long, and extends from Buffalo Harbor to the Black Rock Lock.

The Black Rock Lock allows vessels to bypass rapids on the Niagara River at the outlet of Lake Erie.

We are told it was the first lock was constructed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1833 for the Erie Canal, and that it was enlarged in 1913.

The Tonawanda Channel, in the Niagara River on the eastern-side of Grand Island, is dredged and maintained to allow boat traffic to enter the canal system from the Niagara River or vice versa, and is the western terminus of the modern Erie Canal, as well as connecting the cities of Tonawanda and North Tonawanda in New York.

The Erie Canal in New York State runs for 351-miles, or 565-kilometers, between Lake Erie at Buffalo to the Hudson River near Albany.

It was said to have been constructed starting on July 4th of 1817 and first opened on October 26th of 1825.

In our historical narrative, the opening of the Erie Canal made it the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic region to the Great Lakes, and accelerated the settlement of the Great Lakes region, the westward expansion of the United States as it greatly reduced the cost of transporting people and goods across the Appalachian mountains.

According to what we have been told, the Erie Canal was built during the American Canal Age.

We are told the American Canal Age was between 1790 and 1855, and started in Pennsylvania, where the first legislation surveying canals was first passed in 1762.

We are told that the “Main Line of Public Works” was passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1826, and that it funded the construction of various transportation systems, including canal, road, and railroad.

We are told the lower section of the Lehigh Canal was built between Easton, Pennsylvania and Mauch Chunk, now known as Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, with construction said to have been started in 1818, and completed in 1838.

This map also has a caption at the bottom that says this was the original Lehigh Valley Railroad line as well, which was said to have opened in 1855.

This would be connected to the same Lehigh Valley Railway that I mentioned that parts of Interstate-190 were built along the Rights-of-Way for, along with the Erie Canal.

The Lehigh Gorge is part of the historic Lehigh Valley Railway, and what’s left is operates as a Scenic Railway, and today otherwise its abandoned railroad tracks are a recreational rail-trail.

It is one of many places I know of off the top of my head featuring the co-location of S-shaped river bends, railroads, canals, gorges, and waterfalls.

The Lehigh Gorge is described as a “steep-walled gorge carved by a river, thick vegetation, rock-outcroppings, and waterfalls characterize the state park.”

The Lehigh Gorge Trail follows more than 20-miles, or 32-kilometers of the Delaware and Lehigh Trail, part of the larger Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor.

The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor preserves the historic pathway that carried coal and iron ore from Wilkes-Barre to Philadelphia.

The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor was also known as the “Anthracite Region” where the story of “where America was built” began.

Anthracite coal is the purest form of coal.

We are told that the demand for anthracite coal increased in the 1820s and 1830s as coal-power replaced water power, and with the growth of the iron industry in Pennsylvania.

In Part 5 of this series on the New York-side of Lake Ontario, I found the Black Diamond Trail, a rail-trail found at Taughannock Falls State Park that was once part of the Lehigh Valley Railroad route whose Black Diamond Express once ran between Buffalo and New York City.

The term “Black Diamond” was a nickname for anthracite coal, which was a high-quality, dense, and hard coal, and a key energy source during the time we know of in our history as the Industrial Revolution.

Taughannock Falls, at 215-feet, or 66-meters, -tall, is the tallest, single-drop waterfall in the United States.

I have long suspected that waterfalls are infrastructure of some kind, and not created by natural forces over a vast periods of geological time as we have always been taught, and this journey around all of the Great Lakes has brought forward many connections to waterfalls, railroads and canals that have deliberately been obscured so that we would not know about them.

Back in Buffalo,we find the International Railway Bridge and the Peace Bridge connecting Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ontario.

First, the International Railway Bridge.

A steel-truss swing bridge, it is said to be oldest bridge at this location.

We are told it was originally been constructed between 1870 and 1873 for the International Bridge Company to provide an American link to connect the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada with American lines and designed and built by Sir Casimir Gzowski, and we are told that it was later strengthened in 1901.

It was a crucial trade link in the 19th-century and is still in use for freight traffic by the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways today.

Sir Casimir Gzowski was a Polish-born Canadian civil engineer and political figure known for his work on a wide variety of Canadian Railways in our historical narrative, including, but not limited to, the New York and Erie Railway; the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railway; and sections of the Grand Trunk Railway.

He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1897.

On the American mainland, Canadian rail traffic is received by the Black Rock Railyard.

The railyard is surrounded by old residential neighborhoods and some abandoned industrial facilities.

Most of the rail-bed in the yard has been ripped up.

Interstate-190 is to the south of the railyard, as well as Scajaquada Creek, which I am certain is a covered-up canal and which empties into the Niagara River through the Black Rock Channel.

We are told the Railyard was built as the northern terminus of the Buffalo and Black Rock Railroad, a horse-powered line from downtown Buffalo.

Just to be clear, I believe all rail infrastructure everywhere was a pre-existing part of the destroyed free-energy grid system, and that it was brought back on-line initially by horse- and mule-power until other technology was developed for power.

The former CN Railyard in Fort Erie for interchange on the other side of the International Railroad Bridge was closed, and was turned into the Niagara Railway Museum.

Everything thing else that was once there, including the Roundhouse, was removed.

With regards to the Peace Bridge, we are told the idea of a bridge joining the United States and Canada was discussed as early as 1853, though actual construction of the bridge didn’t start until August 17th of 1925, and first opened on June 1st of 1927.

Typically we don’t ask questions about what we are told, because why on Earth would we be lied to, but consider if what we have been told about the construction is consistent with the engineering required to build these massive bridges.

The previously-mentioned Scajaquada Creek is connected to Buffalo’s Delaware Park.

There is a bike path that follows this creek’s northern shore almost all the way from Delaware Park to the Black Rock Channel and the Niagara River.

Scajaquada Creek starts in the Town of Lancaster, New York, which is 14-miles, or 23-kilometers, east of Buffalo, and passes through the the Town of Cheektowaga before being diverted into an underground culvert said to have been constructed in the 1920s.

We are told the creek was seen as a nuisance because people were using it as a public sewer and the only way the people of Buffalo thought would  make the east-side of Buffalo more livable was to bury it where it cut across the city.

The creek travels for approximately 4-miles, or 6-kilometers, under Buffalo, before emerging from the underground at Forest Lawn Cemetery, which is next to Delaware Park.

In our historical narrative, Forest Lawn Cemetery was an historic rural cemetery that was founded in 1849, and the burial place of many historical figures including the 13th-U. S. President Millard Fillmore and his wife Abigail, among many others.

Also known as the “Rural Cemetery Movement,” these were said to have been a style of cemetery that became popular in the mid-19th-century in both the United States and Europe due to the overcrowding and health concerns of urban cemeteries.

They were typically built, we are told, around 5-miles, or 8-kilometers, outside the city in order to both be: 1) separate from the cities; and 2) close enough for visitors.

Not only that, the “Rural Cemeteries” were beautifully landscaped, containing elaborate memorials and mausoleums, and were places that the general public could go for outdoor recreation around art and sculptures, which previously had only been available to the wealthy.

We are told their popularity decreased, however, towards the end of the 19th-century due to: 1) the high cost of maintenance; 2) the development of true public parks; and 3) the perceived disorderliness of appearance due to independent ownership of family burial plots and different grave markers.

Scajaquada Creek passes over Serenity Falls in the Forest Lawn Cemetery on its way to Delaware Park.

Delaware Park was considered the centerpiece of the Buffalo Olmsted Park System, New York’s oldest system of paths and pathways, which included six parks, seven parkways, eight landscaped circles, and other public spaces, said to have been designed with Calvert Vaux between 1868 and 1876.

This famous duo of landscape architects also received credit for the design of Central Park in New York City in our historical narrative.

According to the notation on the bottom of this image of his map of the Buffalo Park System, Olmsted proclaimed that “Buffalo was the best planned city in the United States…if not the world.”

Delaware Park was so-named because of its proximity to Delaware Avenue, where the Historic District there is noteworthy for being the location of Buffalo’s Mansion Row, also nicknamed the “Millionaires’ Mile.”

At one time in our history, Buffalo had more millionaires per capita than any city in America.

We are told the mansions here were built between about 1890 and World War I, which took place between 1914 and 1918.

We are told that Olmsted dammed Scajaquada Creek to create what is called Hoyt Lake today, and that was a feature during the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.

I have believed that Frederick Law Olmsted was a major player in the reset of our history for quite some time, and his name and attributed works have been showing up all around the Great Lakes in this series.

In our historical narrative, Frederick Law Olmsted was a journalist before becoming a prolific and celebrated landscape architect, and said to have gotten his start teaming up with Calvert Vaux in the design and creation of Central Park in New York City.

Olmsted and his firm was credited altogether with some 500 design projects, including, but not limited to, 100 public parks, 200 private estates, 50 residential communities, and 40 academic campus designs.

I talked about his role in-depth in this post “The Life & Times of Frederick Law Olmsted – A Retrospective of Reset History.”

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is an art museum on the western edge of the park, overlooking Hoyt Lake and Scajaquada Creek.

Though we are told it was originally intended to be used as the Fine Arts Pavilion for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, it was not completed in time because of construction delays.

It was first opened to the public in 1905 as the Albright Art Gallery.

The Buffalo History Museum is located at the northwestern corner of Delaware Park, and this building was said to have been designed and constructed for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, and the Exposition’s sole-surviving permanent structure.

Buffalo State University is situated between Delaware Park and the Black Rock Channel on Scajaquada Creek.

It was first established in 1871 as the Buffalo Normal School to train teachers.

The Richardson-Olmsted Complex is adjacent to the campus of Buffalo State University and Delaware Park.

We are told that the Richardson-Olmsted Complex is in the architectural-style called Richardsonian Romanesque, after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, who first used elements of this style in what was originally the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane which he was said to have designed in 1870, and for which Frederick Law Olmsted was the landscape architect.

The Kirkbride Plan treatment for people with mental illsness was implemented here.

In 1854, Dr. Thomas S. Kirkbride first published what was considered the source book in the 19th-century for Psychiatric Directives entitled “On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane, ” with some remarks on insanity and its treatment.

We are told that throughout the 19th-century, numerous psychiatric hospitals were designed and constructed according to the Kirkbride Plan across the U. S. and while numerous Kirkbride structures still exist, many have been demolished, partially-demolished, or repurposed.

The Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane was closed for that purpose in the 1970s, and became known as the Richardson-Olmsted Complex, it was repurposed as a hotel which opened in 2023.

It is considered one of the most haunted places in Buffalo, if not western New York.

Richardsonian Romanesque is described as a “free-revival style, incorporating 11th- and 12th-century southern French, Spanish, Italian Romanesque characteristics.”

Henry Hobson Richardson had a relatively short career, and didn’t even complete his architecture school training in Paris because he lost family backing because of the American Civil War, yet somehow by the time he died at a relatively young age of 47, he left behind a legacy of mind-blowingly ornate architecture!

Next, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House is just to the east of Delaware Park on the other side of Buffalo State University and the Richardson-Olmsted Complex, in the Parkside East Historic District.

The design of the Darwin D. Martin House was attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright and said to have been built between 1903 – 1905.

It was said to be one of his most important projects in the Prairie School Architectural-style, which was characterized by horizontal lines, flat rooves, and broad, over-hanging eaves meant to evoke the vast, tree-less expanses of the American Prairie.

But when I look at the Martin House, I see an uneven appearance throughout the lay-out of the house and ground-floor windows, which are classic indicators of what is called the mud flood, like there is more to the building underneath the ground.

Like the Royal Opera House in Valletta, Malta, said to have been designed by the English architect Edward Middleton Barry in 1866, with windows and columns that are not level with the sloping street beside it…

…the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, the home of the “Grand Ole Opry” from 1943 to 1974…

…and this photo taken of a street block in Kars, Armenia, to name a few of countless examples found all over the surface of the Earth.

Frank Lloyd Wright was credited with designing over 1,000 structures in a creative period spanning 70-years.

Back in 2021, I looked at Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted and Henry Hobson Richardson, as well as two other iconic Civil Engineer bridge-builders, Ralph Modjeski and John Augustus Roebling, that were all credited with the same kind of prodigious output and all occupy a prominent place in our historical narrative to explain how our infrastructure came into existence.

I think these men and many others, including the previously-mentioned Sir Casimir Gzowski, were elevated in stature and ability to provide the explanation for how previously-existing architecture and infrastructure came into existence after something very unnatural happened here in the last 200 – 300 years, wiping the builders of the original advanced civilization off the face of the Earth and from our collective memory.

Next I am going to head south to central and southern Buffalo and take a look at the Buffalo City Hall; the Buffalo River; the three lighthouses in Buffalo; some of the canals in Buffalo; the Caz Creek Waterfalls, the Tifft Nature Preserve; the Highmark Stadium; and the CSX Intermodal Terminal in Blasdell.

First, the Buffalo City Hall.

The Buffalo City Hall is the seat of the city’s government, and said to have been designed in the Art Deco architectural-style designed and built by the John W. Cowper Company between September of 1929 and November of 1931, which would have been during the Great Depression.

It is located at 65 Niagara Square, which is a square said to be in the original 1805 radial street pattern designed by Joseph Ellicott for the village of New Amsterdam from which eight streets radiated from this central hub.

I found a similar street lay-out when I was looking at Goderich on the Ontario-side of Lake Huron.

Today’s Courthouse Park is marked “Market Place” on the street plan of Goderich, centrally-placed in a geometric configuration also where eight streets radiate from it.

Courthouse Park in Goderich brought to mind the “Place de L’Etoile” in Paris, which has the Arch de Triomphe sitting in the center of twelve radiating streets.

A viewer brought the murals in the lobby of the Buffalo City Hall to my attention.

She said there are six pieces, circa 1931, and that the architecture of the Buffalo City Hall to her has never really synchronized with these murals, and that the depictions in the murals as rather unsettling and shocking with a lot of detail to absorb.

The murals were attributed to William de Leftwich Dodge, a New York City artist.

Next, the Buffalo River.

The Buffalo River was the western terminus of the Erie Canal starting in 1825, and later became an industrial use area with things like grain elevators, steel mills and chemical production.

The transportation and industrial uses of the river greatly declined when shipping began to by-pass the Erie Canal in the 1950s, and many adjacent mills and factories were abandoned.

The Buffalo Ship Canal is a federal navigation channel maintained by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, at a depth of 23-feet, or 7-meters below-lake-level by dredging to allow for the passage of high vessels.

The Buffalo Main Lighthouse was located at the entrance to both the Erie Canal and the Buffalo River.

The Buffalo Main Lighthouse was said to have been established and lit in 1833 and deactivated in 1914.

It was constructed out of limestone and cast iron.

These days it is an outdoor museum.

The third-order fresnel lens of the lighthouse is on-display at the Buffalo History Museum.

A third-order fresnel lens is a high-intensity, beehive-shaped glass apparatus used to focus light from a central source in a powerful-beam.

Very few of these original fresnel-lens’ remain in lighthouses.

One that comes to mind that still has one from doing this research on the Great Lakes is the Tibbetts Point Lighthouse at the entrance of the St. Lawrence Waterway in Cape Vincent, New York.

It uses the only classic fresnel lens still in operation on Lake Ontario.

Only 70 such lenses are still operational in the United States, with 16 of them being on the Great Lakes.

The Tibbetts Point Lighthouse is on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, a National Scenic Byway of roads and highways that runs for 518-miles, or 834-kilometers, along Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and the St. Lawrence River.

I first became aware of the existence of the Seaway Trail when I was looking at the Charlotte-Genessee Lighthouse on the southern-shore of Lake Ontario near Rochester, New York.

The Seaway Trail runs along the southern shore of Lake Erie that I will be taking a close look at in this post.

Interesting to note the Buffalo Main Lighthouse is located near where the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, as part of New York State Route 5, crosses over the Skyway Bridge.

More to come later on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail.

The Horseshoe Reef Lighthouse is next.

Horseshoe Reef, considered to be an underwater hazard, was one-acre of territory ceded by Great Britain to the United States in 1850 and an American enclave on the Canadian-side of the water border.

The building of a lighthouse there was said to be a contingency agreed upon for the transfer of the land, and with Congressional approval coming in 1851 in our narrative.

First lighting of it was achieved in 1856, and operation ceased sometime around 1920.

It has been left in an abandoned and rotting state ever since.

The Buffalo Intake Crib is near the Horseshoe Reef Lighthouse.

The Buffalo Water Intake Crib was said to have been built in 1907.

It has 20-foot, or 6-meter walls beneath the surface of the water and is one of the key water intake locations in the State of New York.

It is described as a round, red-roofed structure sitting on a concrete crib, feeding water via gravity through tunnels deep in the bedrock, and supplies Buffalo with approximately 125-million gallons, or 473,176,473-liters, of water each day.

The Buffalo South Entrance Southside Lighthouse was located at Stony Point at the entrance to Buffalo Harbor.

It was said to have been established in 1903 and operational until it was deactivated in 1993, and replaced by a modern post light.

All that’s left of the lighthouse today is the cast-iron, three-story light-tower and its lantern.

The Buffalo South Entrance Southside Lighthouse was in close proximity to the Tifft Nature Preserve; the Union Canal; the Lackawanna Canal; what is called Iron City; the Caz Creek Waterfalls and the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens.

The Tifft Nature Preserve is just a 5-minute drive from downtown Buffalo and is one of the largest municipal nature preserves in New York State, at 264-acres, or 107-hectares.

Its history goes something like this.

In 1858, 600-acres, or 243-hectores, of land here was purchased by George Washington Tifft, and he started a large dairy farm.

It was in the Tifft family until 1883.

Then in 1900, the land became a trans-shipment center for coal and iron, with twelve shipping lanes and docked 83 vessels, and this ended in 1912 with the passage of the Panama Canal Act in 1912, which forced the separation of rail and shipping interests.

Afterwards, the land became an unofficial dump, and was purchased by the City of Buffalo to became a landfill site in the 1970s.

Then in 1976, following public outcry, a non-profit was organized with city-support; a visitor center completed in 1978; and it was merged with the Buffalo Museum of Science in 1982.

In 1983, the preserve was temporarily closed for the removal of hazardous waste.

Public access is provided by 5-miles, or 8-kilometers, of nature trails and three boardwalks with viewing blinds in or next to the cattail marsh.

Wetlands, including marshes and swamps, are on my radar for being destroyed land.

I have been finding them all around the Great Lakes and in many places along leylines I have tracked in past research, and we will see more examples before the end of this post.

Technically located in Buffalo, the Union Canal is the city’s boundary with the city of Lackawanna.

It was said to have been dug by the Goodyears in order for lake freighters to access the Susquehanna Iron Company and Pennsylvania Railroad’s Ore Docks.

The Susquehanna Plant changed hands and was owned by Hanna Furnace for quite some time.

Bethlehem Steel operated the short section of dock from Route 5 to the Harbor.

The area underwent major rehabilitation and remediation, and today the Union Canal is the centerpiece of the Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park, and is a popular spot for fishing.

The nearby Lackawanna Canal runs along what used to be the Bethlehem Steel Plant property, and was used as a commercial service canal tied to industrial and port activity.

Today its main role is commercial navigation to support bulk cargo movement into and out of the Port of Buffalo.

Today, there is place marked “Iron City” just to the south of the former lighthouse at South Point, and west of the Lackawanna Canal.

It is a supplier of aggregate materials, which are inert, granular materials like sand, gravel and crushed stone, and used in concrete, mortar and asphalt to provide bulk, strength and stability.

I have have looked at numerous aggregate-supply companies around the Great Lakes and suspect there is more to the story than what they are telling us about what the source of the materials actually is, like perhaps unidentified masonry structures or something along those lines.

The city of Lackawanna was founded in 1909 after the Lackawanna Steel Company moved its steel plant here from Scranton, Pennsylvania.

During the early 20th-century, the Lackawanna Steel Plant was the largest in the world.

Lackawanna Steel Company was said to have been established in 1840 by the Scranton brothers in the Lackawanna Valley in Pennsylvania, which was rich in anthracite coal and iron deposits.

The Scranton brothers were credited with developing the steel-making techology to mass produce the rails needed for railroad construction, and the town of Scranton was said to develop around the company’s original location.

The Bethlehem Steel Company acquired the Lackawanna Steel Company in 1922.

At its peak, the company employed 20,000 people and attracted immigrants from all over the world to come to work there.

In the second-half of the 20th-century, with industrial restructuring and high-city taxes, the steel plant declined in business and eventually closed in 1983.

This brownfield site has undergone redevelopment for other uses though opponents of this say that the brownfields still contain hazardous contaminants.

A brownfield site is defined as an abandoned or underused property whose expansion, redevelopment or reuse is complicated by the actual or perceived presence of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants.

The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad connected Buffalo with Hoboken, New Jersey, and by ferry with New York City.

One of the New York area’s major transportation hubs, the terminal at Hoboken was said to have been constructed by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1907, and combined railroad, ferry, subway, streetcar and pedestrian services.

It is still in use today as a transportation hub for commuter rail, ferry, and bus services.

We are told that numerous electric streetcar lines originated and ended at the station until the completion of “Bustitution” in August of 1949, at which time they were replaced by buses.

This railroad was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1853 to provide a way to transport anthracite coal from the coal region in northeast Pennsylvania to larger coal markets in New York City and Buffalo.

Today, this part of northeastern Pennsylvania known as the “Coal Region” is considered one of the largest concentrations of disturbed terrain in the world, with billions of tons of debris found in the landscape of abandoned strip mines and this region has among the highest poverty and unemployment rates in the United States with job loss from the decrease in coal mining and the out-migration of people because of it.

The Buffalo Central Terminal was attributed to Fellheimer and Wagner in the historical narrative, with its construction starting in 1925, and operating as an active station from 1929 to 1979.

Fellheimer and Wagner were a prominent New York architectural firm credited with designing iconic Beaux-Arts and Art Deco Railroad Stations.

It was abandoned for years, and now owned by a non-profit preservation group working on restoring and repurposing the complex.

Back in South Buffalo and Lackawanna, it is interesting to note that the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens are located just to the east of this former heavily industrialized area, across where the Great Lakes Seaway Trail and the still-used railroad tracks pass through the area.

I found the same juxtaposition in Hamilton, Ontario, with the Royal Botanical Gardens spread across one-side of Hamilton Harbor, and the Bayfront Industrial Area on the other side, which includes major steel producers and Canada’s largest Great Lakes port with marine, rail and road connections.

A juxtaposition is defined as two things being seen or placed together with contrasting effect.

The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens are botanical gardens in South Park in Buffalo.

They were said to have been designed by Frederick Law Olmsted; glass-house architects Lord & Burnham; and botanist and plant explorer John F. Cowell.

Firstly, the Cazenovia Park – South Park System is described as an historic park system in South Buffalo said to have been designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as an interconnected set of parkways and parks inspired by the parkland, boulevards and squares of Paris, France.

We are told that Olmsted’s final design of South Park included a conservatory and formal gardens surrounding it.

While South Park was under construction, in our historical narrative, Lord & Burnham was designing the South Park Conservatory, which we are told was modelled after glass conservatories in England and built by the Buffalo construction company George P. Wurtz & Son for the cost of $130,000.

When it opened in 1900, it was said to be the ninth-largest public greenhouse in the world and the third-largest in the United States.

We are told that In 1894, Professor John F. Cowell was appointed the first director of the Conservatory and to oversee plantings in the South Park.

In his day, he was considered a genius in botany and horticulture and that he gathered plants, trees and flowers everywhere in the world, and that during the 1901 Pan American Exposition, throngs of visitors travelled south by trolley to see the exotic varieties of plant life on display at the Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.

Next I am going to take a look at Cazenovia Park, and what’s found there.

Like the previously-mentioned Cazenovia Creek Waterfalls are in Cazenovia Park.

Also called the Caz Creek Waterfalls, they are described as a series of V-shaped ledges totalling 4 to 5 -feet. or 1 to 1.5-meters, in height.

Other significant features of today of Cazenovia Park include the Casino, baseball diamonds, and a 9-hole public golf course.

The Cazenovia Casino was said to have been designed by the Buffalo architectural firm of Esenwein and Johnson and completed in 1912.

In this case the meaning of the word “Casino” pertained to a public place used for gatherings and recreation and not used for gambling.

It had bathrooms, locker rooms, an ice cream parlor, and enough lights to allow night-skating in the winter-time.

Baseball has been a part of the history of Cazenovia Park for over a century and it is one of Buffalo’s key amateur baseball hubs.

The Cazenovia Park also has one of three 9-hole public golf courses in the Buffalo-Olmsted Park System.

The other two are at Delaware Park and South Park.

Next, I am going to take a look at the CSX Intermodal Terminal in Blasdell; the Highmark Stadium; and the Owens Falls Sanctuary.

First, the CSX Intermodal Terminal in Blasdell.

Since opening in 2008, the CSX Intermodal Terminal is a major regional hub linking the Buffalo-area with Philadelphia and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

It’s a key facility for moving freight from rail-to-truck, focusing on containers.

Blasdell grew as a railroad town around the Erie Railroad, and was first incorporated as a village in 1898.

It was named after Herman Blasdell, the first station master of the Erie and Pennsylvania Railroad Depot.

Blasdell was at a junction point for connecting lines like the Erie Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad.

The Highmark Stadium is in-between the CSX Intermodal location in Blasdell and the Owens Falls Sanctuary in East Aurora, New York.

Highmark Stadium is the home venue of the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills.

Also known in the past as the Rich Stadium; the Ralph Wilson Stadium; the New Era Field; and the Bills Stadium, the last major league football game was played here just this past January 4th of 2026 in its last season game against the New York Jets.

Interestingly, the Buffalo Bills played against the New York Jets in the first game played here on September 30th of 1973.

This Highmark Stadium is scheduled for demolition in March of 2027 because of the construction of a new Highmark stadium across the street from the old stadium that is expected to be ready in time for the 2026 NFL Season.

The original stadium for the Buffalo Bills, along with other Buffalo sports’ teams, was the War Memorial Stadium in East Buffalo, said to have been constructed as a Works Progress Administration project in 1937, one of the New Deal Era programs of President Roosevelt during the Great Depression.

It also had a race track and hosted several NASCAR events.

It was demolished in 1989, and replaced with the Johnnie B. Wiley Amateur Athletic Sports Pavilion, which retained entrances from the original War Memorial Stadium.

Highmark Stadium is in Orchard Park, New York, one of Erie County’s earliest settlements.

It was known for its abundant fruit orchards.

Most of the orchards here were gradually replaced by suburban development, and today it is best known for being the suburban community that is home to the Buffalo Bills.

I have been finding fertile agricultural lands throughout this Great Lakes region, including but not limited to, orchards and vineyards in the Niagara region in the last part of the series on the Ontario-side of Lake Ontario.

There was a significant historical rail presence all throughout this region.

I suspect the agricultural productivity of this region to be in part due to a connection from the original energy grid system between the railroad, hydroelectric system, and all kinds of agricultural activity, functioning as the original electroculture, today a gardening practice that harnesses atmospheric electricity using copper wires or antennas.

I consistently find historic railway and hydroelectric connections through areas known for high-yield and high-quality agricultural production.

Including Orchard Park.

We are told that the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway built a new train depot in Orchard Park that was first opened to the public in 1912.

We are told the Orchard Park Depot was an exact replica of the Auburndale Train Station in Massachusetts that Henry Hobson Richardson was credited with circa 1884.

We are told that in the 1880s, Buffalo was a rapidly growing lake port with freight interchanges between lake freighters and railroads and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway was first completed between those three cities in 1883.

It hauled freight like coal from the rich mines in Pennsylvania to the lake ports, but also products like oil, steel, lumber and agricultural produce, as well as providing the most modern available passenger service of the time.

Passenger service continued through the Orchard Park Depot until October of 1955, and freight service ended through there in May of 1977.

Most of the railroad track has been removed, but the Orchard Park Train Depot still remains as an historic building that is used as a community event venue.

The Eternal Flame Falls are in Orchard Park at the Shale Creek Preserve in Chestnut Ridge Park.

The Eternal Flame Falls on Shale Creek are approximately 35-feet, or 11-meters, in height, with a flame in the grotto at the base of the falls.

Natural gases of methane and propane come from a hydrocarbon seep here, with an estimated 2.2 lbs, or 1 kg, of methane emitted here per day.

The flame behind the waterfalls is visible year-round, which needs to be re-lit from time-to-time.

Chestnut Ridge Park where the Eternal Flame Falls are located was so-named for chestnut trees on its hills.

The Chestnut Ridge property was acquired by Erie County in 1926, and was one of the county’s first parks.

We are told the Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved the park’s facilities and landscape throughout the 1930s.

For example, the WPA was credited with building the park’s amphitheater between 1935 and 1936.

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra has held summer concerts here.

Besides the Eternal Flame Falls, there are other interesting sights found in the park, like these old stone structures.

There’s a lot more to find here at Chestnut Ridge, but this gives you the idea.

The Owens Falls Sanctuary is to the east of Orchard Park and the Eternal Flame Falls in Chestnut Ridge Park, and Colden Falls to the southeast.

The Owens Falls Sanctuary is in East Aurora, New York.

The Owens Falls consist of an upper and lower waterfall through a 100-foot, or 30-meter, deep gorge on an unnamed creek that is a tributary to the East Branch of Cazenovia Creek.

The 57-acre, or 23-hectare, property that is the sanctuary today had been listed for sale for potential development, but with substantial community support, the Land Conservancy successfully turned it into protected land.

East Aurora is the home to the Roycroft Campus, a reformist community of craft workers and artisans that was founded in 1895.

Colden Falls, which are located to the southwest of Owens Falls and the southeast of the Eternal Flame Falls, are on the west branch of Cazenovia Creek in the Village of Colden.

The Colden Falls flow over a 15-foot, or 5-meter, cascade a long an S-shaped bend in the creek.

The falls are viewable from the Boston Colden Road Bridge near the road which goes to the Kissing Bridge Ski Resort in Glenwood, New York.

The Kissing Bridge Ski Resort features a 550- to 600-foot, or 168- to 183-meter, vertical drop across 39 slopes.

Just wondering if there might be infrastructure with steep vertical walls underneath the ski slopes, like as seen with these two massive masonry structures in Ollantaytambo, Peru

I wonder the same thing about what’s beneath sand dunes, like the Moreeb Dune, the tallest dune in the United Arab Emirates and one of the highest sand hills in the world at 984-feet, or 300-meters, high, with a 50-degree angle from the ground to the top.

Among other things, it is popular for organized car-racing, and other vehicular activities.

Must have a pretty hard surface underneath all of the sand!

This is part of what is known as the “Empty Quarter, the largest desert in the world that encompasses most of the southern-third of the Arabian peninsula…

…and somewhere in the Empty Quarter is believed to be the location of the lost city of “Iram of the Pillars.”

Its location has been searched for over the years and no place has ever been conclusively identified as such.

It intriguingly has the nickname of “Atlantis of the Sands.”

Also, in the process of oil and gas exploration in the Empty Quarter, giant skeletons apparently have turned up from time to time, though you find things like this fact-checked and flagged as hoaxes.

Like for some reason they really don’t want us to know giants existed upon the Earth once upon a time.

Back in Colden, the previously-seen Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway operated a line which passed through Colden, with records indicating that it ran under the previously-seen Boston Colden Road Bridge next to the Colden Falls.

The tracks were active in the vicinity of Richmond Hills and near the Kissing Bridge area.

I am bringing attention to this because I am certain after years of researching this subject that there is a connection between railroads and waterfalls on the Earth’s original energy grid.

The first time I looked into this subject in-depth was in the summer of 2023 in my blog post “Of Railroads and Waterfalls and Other Physical Infrastructure of the Earth’s Grid System” where I looked at a number of examples from across the United States, and I found the same patterns and configurations of railroads, waterfalls, gorges, rapids, bridges, canals, dams, reservoirs and hydroelectric facilities, along with lighthouses and star forts, and in the years since then, I continue to encounter the same findings everywhere, including in this Great Lakes series among many other places in the world.

Now I am going to focus my attention on the south shore of Lake Erie in the area just to the southwest of Blasdell, and take a look at the following places – the Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center, and the two country clubs near it – Wanakah and Cloverpark; Frank Lloyd Wright’s Graycliff; Eighteenmile Creek and Park; the Hobuck Flats and the Sturgeon Point Historical Lighthouse.

First, the Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center.

The Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center in Hamburg, New York, is right on the shore of Lake Erie.

As a matter of fact, it looks like it is practically in Lake Erie.

The center is housed in the former Wanakah Water Works building, said to have been built in 1910 and served as a water pumping station until 1990.

The building was repurposed and opened as the Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center in 1995.

The center offers information on local attractions and accommodations, as well as having things like an education center with exhibits.

Wanakah Beach runs along the lakeshore here.

It is described as a scenic rocky beach that is known for its beach glass and sunsets.

The Wanakah Country Club and the Cloverbank Country Club are nearby as well.

The Wanakah Country Club is a private club that was founded in 1899 by several prominent Buffalo businessmen as the Wanakah Golf Club, and rechartered as the country club in 1913.

It is right on the shore of Lake Erie.

The Wanakah Country Club is in- between New York Route 5, otherwise known as the Seaway Trail, and the railroad tracks going through the area, and the Cloverbank Country Club is on the other side of the tracks from it.

The Cloverbank Country Club is also a private club.

It was established in 1958 as the Bethlehem Management Club for Bethlehem Steel employees and their families, and has changed ownership several times since then.

I have been talking throughout this series, and in other places before that, about golf courses being cover-ups of mound, or earthwork, sites and part of the original energy grid.

 Just carve out the top of a mound, and voila, you have a bunker.

The term “Links” is another name used for golf courses.

I think this name tells us their actual purpose in the Earth’s grid system, perhaps as “links” or “linkages” of the circuitry of electrical and magnetic components.

I have been finding golf courses throughout this series, like along the shoreline of Lake Huron like these examples…

…and like this example on both sides of the Niagara River on Lake Ontario.

As I mentioned previously, the Seaway Trail is a National Scenic Byway of roads and highways that runs for 518-miles, or 834-kilometers, along Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and the St. Lawrence River.

While the Seaway Trail starts to the southwest at US-20 at the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, it quickly becomes Pennsylvania Route 5, and continues in New York as New York Route 5 through Buffalo.

US-20 is a major east-west highway that runs all the way across the continent, and runs along the southern shores of both Lake Erie and Lake Michigan, starting at Route 2 at Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts, and ending at US 101 in Newport, Oregon.

Interstate-90 from Logan International Airport in Boston runs roughly parallel to US-20 until Rockford, Illinois, where I-90 heads northwest towards Seattle and US-20 heads northwest to Newport, Oregon.

The Lake Shore Line runs a similar route together from Boston to Chicago, along with US-20 and Interstate-90.

The Lake Shore Line is operated today by Amtrak as the “Lake Shore Limited” and is an overnight passenger train.

The central segment of the route runs along the southern shore of Lake Erie.

Now, I will take a look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Graycliff.

We are told the Graycliff Estate was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and built between 1926 and 1931 in the hamlet of Derby as a summer residence for Isabelle Reidpath Martin, and her husband Darwin D. Martin, the Buffalo entrepreneur whose Martin House we saw earlier near Delaware Park that was also said to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

It is situated atop a high, gray-limestone cliff overlooking Lake Erie.

We are told that Graycliff was designed in Wright’s Organic architectural-style, which is described as a philosophy of architecture that promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world.

These days it is an historic house museum and hosts a market on certain Thursdays in the summer months.

It is interesting to note that Frank Lloyd Wright attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1886 when he was admitted as a special student and worked under civil engineering Professor Allan D. Conover, though he left the university soon, and without taking a degree.

Much later in his life, the University of Wisconsin-Madison granted him an honorary doctorate in 1955.

After leaving the university, we find Frank Lloyd Wright landing in Chicago in 1887 looking for a job, where we are told architectural work was plentiful as a result of the 1871 Great Fire of Chicago.

In 1888, Frank Lloyd Wright became apprenticed to the firm of Adler & Sullivan, where prominent Chicago architect Louis Sullivan, called the “Father of Skyscrapers” and the “Father of Modernism,” took Wright under his wing.

The firm of Adler & Sullivan, and primarily Louis Sullivan, was credited with designing the Transportation Building for the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Henry Hobson Richardson form what is called the “Recognized Trinity of American Architecture.”

Next up, Eighteenmile Creek and Conservation Park, and Hobuck Flats.

The S-shaped Eighteenmile Creek is so-named for being 18-miles south of the Niagara River in Buffalo, which is 29-kilometers, and is Lake Erie’s second-largest tributary, after the Maumee River, the entrance to which is in Toledo.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Graycliff Estate is located right next to the entrance to the Eighteenmile Creek on Lake Erie.

The Eighteenmile Creek Conservation Park is located on the southern edge of the town of Hamburg, in-between the north fork and the south fork of the Eighteenmile Creek before it becomes one creek going into Lake Erie, and to the east of NY-5, the railroad tracks, US-20 and I-90 which all occupy a narrow stretch of land near the shore of Lake Erie.

The Eighteenmile Creek Conservation Park, a recreational area for hiking, fishing, and wildlife viewing, is described by things like having difficult access and hard to find with little signage apart from the parking area and limited trail signage.

The parking area here is surrounded by megalithic stone blocks.

I had the same experience when I was looking for the Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area in Tulsa, Oklahoma, many years ago when i was first waking up to all this.

It was on the map but hard to find with little signage apart from the parking area and limited trail signage.

The parking lot for Turkey Mountain was also surrounded by megalithic stone blocks, and they were the size of VW buses!!!

The Eighteenmile Creek Conservation Park is notable for having a 60-foot, or 18-kilometer, -deep gorge…

…and two waterfalls.

At the top of the gorge, the hiking trail between the north fork and south fork of the Eighteenmile Creek is flat.

I do suspect there was a railroad track through here at one time because of the correlation I have found between railroads, gorges, and waterfalls, and how so many former railroad lines have been turned into rail-trails.

Also seeing the electrical utility pole on the trail here is a sign to me that there was once a railroad here.

But that information is really hard to find because it’s pretty much been scrubbed if there was one here.

This brings me to the Hobuck Flats.

The Hobuck Flats is a roughly 26-acre, or 10.5-hectare, undeveloped scenic natural area on Eighteenmile Creek to the west of US-20 and I-90 as it heads towards Lake Erie as one waterway.

There is a short hiking trail at Hobuck Flats that leads to Buttermilk Falls on an S-shaped bend of Eighteenmile Creek.

This immediately brings to mind a location on the New River in West Virginia’s New River Gorge, which is one place I know of that still has an active railroad line running along the New River.

There are waterfalls and hydro-electric projects found on the New River as it winds its way through the New River Gorge.

I was able to find several waterfalls here that are accessible by road, and reference to over 100 others.

The first two waterfalls I found that are accessible by road are the Kanawha Falls and Cathedral Falls.

They are directly across from each other on a river-bend, and they both have hydro projects next to them.

There is no doubt in my mind that there was an energy-generating connection for the original civilization between the railroad, s-shaped river bends, hydro-electricity generation, waterfalls and gorges, and that it was deliberately replaced by nonrenewable energy resources like coal.

We are told that after the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway opened up this rugged wilderness in 1873, coal was carried out of the New River Gorge to the ports in Virginia and to cities in the Midwest.

The C & O Railway was formed in 1869 from several smaller Virginia Railroads under the guidance of of Collis P. Huntington, in order to connect the coal reserves of West Virginia with the new coal piers that were built in Hampton Roads and Newport News, Virginia, and first opened in 1873, forging a rail link to places like Chicago in the Midwest.

Collis P. Huntington was one of the Big Four of western railroading, along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker.

Then in 1888, Huntington lost control of the railroad to J. P. Morgan, an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street during the Gilded Age between 1877 and 1900, and William K. Vanderbilt, who managed the Vanderbilt family’s railroad investments.

William K. Vanderbilt was was the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the richest Americans in history, who was an American magnate, and who built his family’s fortune in shipping and railroads.

The process continued on for the C & O Railroad to consolidate and merge railroads, and, for example, to gain access to productive coal fields throughout the region, through the 1920s.

According to CNN Business, Cornelius Vanderbilt was the second-richest American in history, with an adjusted wealth of $205-billion.

It is definitely interesting to note that there is an old abandoned steel-truss railroad bridge back at Hobuck Flats…with megalithic stone blocks here as well.

Though interestingly they don’t call it an old railroad bridge, which is what I think it is.

They call it the old “Versailles Road Plank Bridge.”

The Versailles Plank Road is today’s County Route 41 beginning in the town of Brant on the southern end to Evans on the northern end.

Here’s what we are told in our narrative about “plank roads.”

The “Plank Road Boom” lasted in the United States from 1844 to the mid-1850s, with more than 10,000-miles, or 16,000-kilometers, of plank roads built across the country.

Newspapers and Magazines of the time, including the New York Tribune and Scientific American, extolled plank roads as being easy to construct and a way to transform the rural transit trade of the country.

As we see in these photos, plank roads are crossing over landscapes covered in sand and dunes, but I think they were a cover-up explanation for the pre-existing railroad tracks of railroad lines that were part of the energy grid that was deliberately destroyed, creating among many other things, deserts, dunes, swamps and bogs.

This steel truss pedestrian bridge in downtown Prescott in Arizona where I live is next to the Hilton Garden Inn located at the intersection of Sheldon Street and South Montezuma Street, and was actually called the “Granite Creek Railroad Bridge.”

The bridge was said to have been first constructed in 1893 and reconstructed in 1910, as part of the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway going through downtown Prescott on Sheldon Street near this location.

The original train depot was directly across the street from the railroad bridge, which is today a real estate office at a shopping center called “Marketplace Depot,” with the line having been abandoned in 1984, and the tracks removed for good by 1992.

When I was looking at Google Earth around the areas on Eighteenmile Creek that I have been looking at, there are some things that popped out at me, primarily the presence of elliptical shapes and an airport in close proximity to each other in-between Hobuck Flats and the Eighteenmile Conservation Park, as well as close to I-90 and US-20.

I consistently find airports and elliptical shapes in close proximity to each other, and have found many examples throughout this series and in other work that I have done.

In most cases the elliptical shapes, which I believe were circuits on the original energy grid, are now typically race-tracks, in particular horse and/or auto racing, another name for which is “racing circuit.”

In these cases, I can find nothing to indicate what the ellipses are being used for, if anything, but they both have the same elliptical shape of being long and narrow.

I did find another faint elliptical shape in the landscape in-between I-90 and US-20, and in-between Hobuck Flats and the elliptical shape adjacent to the Hamburg Airport.

The Sturgeon Point Historical Lighthouse is near the shore of Lake Erie to the southwest of the Hamburg area that I have been looking at.

This is what I was able to find out about it.

The Sturgeon Point Historical Lighthouse is a small lighthouse that was built in 1924 to mark a subdivision near Sturgeon Point on Lake Erie.

It was moved to Derby, New York, at the entrance to the water treatment plant and is now land-locked.

The Erie County Water Treatment Plant at Sturgeon Point is a major drinking water facility.

It draws raw water from Lake Erie and treats it so it can be distributed as drinking water to the area served by the Erie County Water Authority system.

Polyaluminum Chloride is used as the chemical agent by which the lake water is treated so it can be safely filtered out as drinking water.

These locations I have just been looking at in Derby are a short distance to the west off of NY-5, the Seaway Trail.

Next I am going to head south of the Sturgeon Point Historical Lighthouse area, and take a look at the Dunkirk Lighthouse; the Shorewood Country Club; The Vineyards Golf Course; Lake Erie State Park; Shumla Falls; Arkwright Falls, Burr Falls and the community of Lily Dale, and to the east of this area, the Zoar Valley Multiple Use Area; the Gossamer Cascade Waterfall; the Stoney Pitcher Falls and Linda’s Falls.

First, the Dunkirk Lighthouse.

The Dunkirk Lighthouse, also known as the Point Gratiot Lighthouse, is still an active lighthouse.

We are told that it first established in 1826; that the original lighthouse needed to be rebuilt because it was falling into disrepair; and that the current tower was first lit in 1875.

Like the previously-mentioned Tibbetts Point Lighthouse at Cape Vincent, New York, at the entrance to the St. Lawrence Waterway on Lake Ontario, the Dunkirk Lighthouse is one of the only 16 lighthouses on the Great Lakes that has its original third-order fresnel lens.

The third-order fresnel lens at the Dunkirk Lighthouse is currently valued at USD $1.5-million.

The Shorewood Country Club is just down the Lake Erie shore from the Dunkirk Lighthouse, just west of NY-5 and the railroad tracks.

The Shorewood Country Club is a semi-private club that was first established in 1918, and offers a variety of amenities besides the golf course, including social events and weddings.

It is known for its panoramic views of Lake Erie.

The Fredonia Wastewater Treatment Plant is adjacent to the Shorewood Country Club.

As a wastewater treatment plant, this is a location where previously-used water from homes, businesses and industries has pollutants removed chemically so that it can be reused and returned to the water distribution system.

The almost 100-year-old facility here is addressing critical, aging infrastructure and has been experiencing significant, recurring failures.

Discussions are underway regarding rehabbing the plant or decommissioning it.

I came across the Clarkson Wastewater Treatment Plant on Lake Ontario in Mississauga near Toronto in the last part of this series.

It is important to note that Wastewater Treatment Plants even without infrastructure problems are a major source of things like bioaerosols, which may constitute a health risk for workers and people living in the surrounding area.

Bioaerosols contain different microorganisms that can cause diseases and allergies.

I found more interesting shapes in the landscape at the State University of New York (SUNY) Fredonia and Chautauqua County Fairgrounds, just a short-distance to the east of the Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Shorewood Country Club.

The SUNY Fredonia location has a perfect circle on its campus, the there is another elliptical shape at the neighboring fairgrounds, which are separated by I-90.

The perfectly circular shape brought to mind the shape of a particle accelerator, like the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, the particle accelerator that is 40-feet, or 12-meters, below the football field on the Cornell University Campus in Ithaca, New York.

While I can’t find a direct reference to a particle accelerator at SUNY Fredonia, I did find some intriguing connections.

The Physics Department utillizes what is called a “Bubble Chamber” to analyze particle interactions.

A “Bubble Chamber” is a charged particle detector that uses a superheated liquid to visualize the paths of charged subatomic particles.

Researchers at SUNY Fredonia are said to focus on analyzing data from major national and international accelerators, like CERN, for researching high-energy experiments.

Ithaca, the location of Cornell University, is located at the southern end of Cayuga Lake, the longest and second largest of the Finger Lakes in New York State, after Seneca Lake.

In our historical narrative, European settlement of Ithaca began in 1800, and in the 19th-century, it became a transshipping point for things like salt and gypsum.

The town of Ithaca was organized and incorporated in 1821, and in 1834, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad’s first horse-drawn trains began service.

The Ithaca and Owego Railroad was reorganized as the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad in 1842.

In 1956, this railroad’s physical right-of-way was completely abandoned, and later incorporated into the South Hill Recreation Way in Ithaca.

Ithaca Falls is located in downtown Ithaca in a gorge on Fall Creek, and is 150-feet, or 46-meters, -high.

Fall Creek makes its way through the campus of Cornell University.

Beebe Lake and Triphammer Falls on campus are some of its notable features.

Beebe Lake is a reservoir that we are told was on land that was once forested swamp, and needs to be dredged every ten years to keep it from returning to wetlands.

The Triphammer Falls Hydroelectric Plant on the Cornell University Campus, pictured on the lower right, was said to have been established in the 1880s with the present structure dating to 1902.

It powered the campus until the 1950s, and then was restarted in the 1970s and continues to operate today.

The Finger Lakes Region, especially around Seneca Lake and Cayuga lake, is an American Viticultural Area known for its grape-growing, and accounts for about 80% of New York State’s wine-production.

The Chautauqua County Fairgrounds just across I-90 from SUNY at Fredonia, is in Dunkirk.

The elliptical track at the fairgrounds during fair week is used for harness horse-racing; demolition derby and Figure-8 racing; tractor pulls and specialty motorsports; and livestock showing.

I looked and found the Chautauqua County Jamestown Airport in a linear alignment to the northeast of the elliptical track at the fairgrounds.

It is mostly used for general aviation, and houses the Great Lakes Flight Center, which offers things like flight-training and aircraft rentals.

For examples of similarities in other places, this is a Google Earth screenshot showing the angular relationships between the Saratoga Race Course, and just a portion of the large number of airparks, airfields, and airstrips in this part of New York State.

The Saratoga Race Course is a thoroughbred horse racing track in Saratoga Springs, New York. It is one of the oldest sporting venues in the United States, having opened on August 3rd of 1863 (which would have been in the middle of the American Civil War).

The Saratoga Race Course has been in use pretty much continuously since it first opened.

This linear relationship between racetracks and airports shows up everywhere, like for another example, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where the Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort, a thoroughbred horse-racing track that first opened in February of 1905, is near, and in an angular relationship to, the Memorial Field Airport.

These are just a few of countless examples.

Now moving to the south of SUNY Fredonia, we come to The Vineyards Golf Course; Lake Erie State Park; Shumla Falls; Arkwright Falls; Burr Falls; and the community of Lily Dale.

First, The Vineyards Golf Course.

The Vineyards Golf Course is situated in-between I-90 and US-20, and is the short distance of 2.6-miles, or 4.25-kilometers, to the southwest of SUNY Fredonia.

The Vineyards Golf Course is a public, 18-hole golf course nestled among willows, pear trees, apple trees, and maple trees with views of local vineyards.

We are currently in the Lake Erie American Viticultural Area (AVA), a 53-mile, or 85-kilometer, -long grape-growing region covering 2.2-million-acres, or 890,000-hectares, along the southern-shore of Lake Erie, stretching from Toledo, Ohio, to Buffalo, New York.

It is the largest AVA east of the Rockies, and known for its unique “lake effect” climate that is ideal for the growing of concord grapes, among other varieties, as the shallow lake moderates temperatures from harsh winters, protecting the vines and extending the growing season.

Like I said back in Orchard Park, where Highmark Stadium is located, I have been finding fertile agricultural lands throughout this Great Lakes region, including but not limited to, orchards and vineyards in the Niagara region in the last part of the series on the Ontario-side of Lake Ontario, and there was a significant historical rail presence all throughout this region.

I suspect the agricultural productivity of this region to be in part due to a connection from the original energy grid system between the railroad, hydroelectric system, and all kinds of agricultural activity, functioning as the original electroculture.

Chautauqua County’s Lake Erie State Park is in Brocton, New York.

It has facilities for camping, hiking, cross-country skiing, bird-watching, fishing, and other recreational activities.

It is the location of Lake Erie Beach, where there are megalithic stone blocks on the lake shore.

Lake Erie State Park is the location of the “Shipwreck Bluff” Disc Golf Course, an 18-hole disc golf course on a high bluff overlooking Lake Erie.

It received the name “Shipwreck Bluff” because of the high concentration of historic shipwrecks in the area, often exposed or found near the shore, and the region is known for its dangerous and shallow waters, prone to high waves and powerful winds.

Lake Erie State Park is on the Seaway Trail, and the other places I want to look at – Burr Falls, Lily Dale, Shumla Falls and Arkwright Falls – are across I-90 and US-20 from there, and Burr Falls is the first place we come to.

In looking into the general area of Burr Falls, I found the Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility; the Brocton Arch; and The College Lodge.

The Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility is in-between I-90 and the railroad tracks, not far from Lake Erie State Park.

It is not unusual to find prisons, and homeless shelters for that matter, near railroad tracks, and I believe this is noteworthy because railroads were part of the original energy grid and I don’t believe placement of these types of facilities occur randomly.

The Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility is a medium-security prison for non-violent offenders.

It is a six-month program set-up by the State of New York that is structured like a military boot-camp intended to shock an offender into changing poor behavioral patterns.

The Brocton Arch is a free-standing steel arch said to have been erected in 1913 to celebrate the centennial of the nearby Town of Portland.

It is a double-span, four-way street arch over US-20, which is also Brocton’s Main Street, and believed to be the only one remaining of its kind in the United States.

It was said to have been constructed high and wide enough to allow the interurban cars on the tracks of the Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Company to travel beneath it.

The Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Company interurban line between Buffalo, New York, and Erie Pennsylvania, was in operation between 1906 and 1924, at which time it was replaced by buses and cars.

Interurbans functioned as streetcars between cities and were worldwide, and made to go away for the most part a long time ago.

Just a few remain in operation compared to what there once was, like this one on the Isle of Man in the United Kingdom, which is an interurban that connects the island’s capital Douglas with Laxey in the east and Ramsey in the north.

John D. Rockefeller, one of the founders of Standard Oil in 1870, became the wealthiest American of all time, as seen in this #1 ranking by CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $253-billion.

Rockefeller’s wealth soared as kerosene and gasoline grew in importance, and at his peak, he controlled 90% of all oil.

Henry Ford, who introduced and refined the assembly line for the mass production of new cars, was the 13th-wealthiest American of all-time according to CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $67.2-billion.

The College Lodge near Burr Falls is a conference and events center in the woods operated by the Faculty Student Association of SUNY Fredonia, with a number of recreational trails.

One of the trails you can hike on there leads to a place that is called simply “The Ruins.”

The explanation given about “The Ruins” is that it was once a sawmill from one of the first settlers of the area.

The College Lodge came up because it is a short drive to the Burr Falls, which is hard to find information on.

The community of Lily Dale is a short-distance to the east of these two locations.

Lily Dale is the world’s largest center for the Spiritualist Movement.

It was founded in 1879 as a summer camp for mediums, healers and lecturers.

It hosts thousands of visitors annually for readings, workshops and medium services.

Shumla Falls and Arkwright Falls are relatively close to each other and both are located a short distance to the northeast of Lily Dale.

Shumla Falls and Arkwright Falls are at different locations on Canadaway Creek on private property in Chautauqua County.

The area is known for its steep, scenic gorges.

I can only find a photo of Arkwright Falls, and from what I can tell looking for images, there are numerous waterfalls in Chautauqua County.

The same is true of neighboring Cattaraugus County in western New York.

In Cattaraugus County further east, we find places like the Zoar Valley Multiple Use Area with the Gossamer Cascade Waterfall; the Stoney Pitcher Falls; Linda’s Falls; and the Bridal Falls in Allegheny State Park.

The Zoar Valley is an area of deep gorges along the main and south branches of Cattaraugus Creek in western New York, on the border of Cattaraugus County and Erie County, roughly between the villages of Gowanda to the west and Springville to the east.

The core area at the confluence of these two branches of Cattaraugus Creek is protected as the Zoar Valley Multiple Use Area, a conservation area located in the towns of Otto, Collins and Persia, and open to the public for a variety of recreational purposes.

The Zoar Valley area has over twenty waterfalls, though most are harder to get to than others.

More accessible ones include the Gossamer Cascade that I have already mentioned, which is 130-feet, or 40-meters, – high…

…and the Buff Cascade Falls, at 120-feet, or 61-meters, – high.

Canyon depths along the Cattaraugus Creek range up to 380-feet, or 120-meters, on the South Branch, and up to 480-feet, or 150-meters on the Main Branch, with several nearly vertical rock faces.

The Zoar Valley Unique Area hosts the tallest forest in the northeastern United States, which are said to be remnants of the region’s old-growth forests, and was designated as a unique area for protection from logging and development.

I looked to see what I could find out about a railroad history on Cattaraugus Creek, and these are the kinds of things I was able to find.

Like the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad.

First incorporated in 1872, it spanned roughly 75-miles, or 121-kilometers, from Buffalo to Jamestown, passing through communities like Hamburg, Eden and Gowanda, and became the Buffalo and Southwestern Railroad in 1877.

The line peaked in the 1920s with daily passenger and freight trains, but passenger service ended in 1952.

After various mergers, the freight service ended for all intents and purposes around 1976.

All that remains today of it is the short-line Buffalo Southern Railroad for freight…

…and the Buffalo, Cattaraugus and Jamestown Scenic Railway based in Hamburg for tourist excursions and has a museum.

This bridge over Cattaraugus Creek on one-side of the Zoar Valley Multiple Use Area at Gowanda was said to have been built for it during the 1870s.

This historical structure has been replaced with another bridge.

At Springville, on the other side of the Zoar Valley Multiple Use Area, there was a railroad trestle crossing Cattaraugus Creek.

The historic railroad trestle still stands as the Cascade Bridge, and is currently part of the Erie Cattaraugus Rail-Trail Project, which aims to make it a key feature of a regional rail-trail network.

The Erie Cattaraugus Rail-Trail Project is over 27-miles, or 43-miles, of railroad right-of-way connecting Orchard Park, Aurora, West Falls, Colden, East Concord, Springville, and West Valley.

I am sure there is more railroad history to find, and it takes a lot of digging to find it.

But this gives you the idea that there was a connection between these creeks, railroads, gorges, and waterfalls, and that a once-extensive railroad network has been removed and its history obscured and hard-to-find.

Next, the Stoney Pitcher Falls are in Mansfield, New York, but I can’t find out much about them except that they are on the map.

I did, however, find some interesting things nearby, in particular Rock City State Park and US-219.

Rock City State Park is noteworthy because it is named for its “Little Rock City” rock formations.

Here huge rock formations form passages that look like a city of rocks, with massive conglomerate formations that look like houses and others creating narrow streets and corridors.

The reason given for its existence is that over thousands of years, erosion and soil movement created the giant blocks and maze-like passageways.

These rock cities in state parks figured prominently in the research I did a couple of years back for “On the Trail of Giants in Appalachia and Beyond,” and US-219 figured prominently in this same post.

So I am going to feature a rock city in Beartown State Park on US-219 in West Virginia, but there are many, many examples to choose from of exactly the same thing found in state parks across the region and the country.

The rock formations at Beartown State Park in West Virginia are described as having “unusual rocky formations, massive boulders, overhanging cliffs, and deep crevices,” with the deep crevices having a regular criss-crossed pattern making them appear like the streets of a town.

US Route 219 is a spur of US Route 19.

It is 535-miles, or 861-kilometers, -long, and runs from West Seneca, New York, at the eastern end of Lake Erie south of Buffalo, and ends at Bluefield, Virginia, right across the state border from Bluefield, West Virginia

As mentioned, these two highways meet at Bluefield in Virginia, of which there is one city on either side of the West Virginia/Virginia border with that name.

The land beneath the two Bluefields contains the richest deposit of bituminous coal in the world, known as the “Pocahontas Coalfield,” or the “Flat-Top Pocahontas Coalfield,” named after the Flat Top Mountain on US-19 in West Virginia, and Pocahontas, Virginia, where the first coal-seam here was discovered.

The Pocahontas Coalfield started to be mined in 1882.

Bituminous coal is a middle ranking coal that has less carbon than the highly-ranked anthracite coal from Pennsylvania seen earlier, but still widely used for industrial purposes.

In West Virginia, US-219 is said to follow what was known as the “Seneca Trail,” a network of trails of “unknown age” used by indigenous Americans for commerce, trading and communication.

The “Seneca Trail” ran through the Appalachian Valley from what was to become Upper New York State, and went well into Alabama, though they are described to us in our historical narrative strictly as “footpaths.”

What we are told is that by the time the land was settled by Europeans starting in the 18th-century, it was largely abandoned by its previous inhabitants.

US-219 is a highway corridor that links places like the bogs of Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania near Penn State University and State College and the bogs of Cranberry Glades in West Virginia, near White Sulphur Springs and the Greenbrier Resort. 

Both of these boggy lands are located in close proximity to former railroad infrastructure, with the Snowshoe Rail-to-Trails at Moshannon Creek , and the Greenbrier Rail-to-Trails running along US-219 and the Greenbrier River near Cranberry Glades.

Like I have been saying, I believe the destruction of the original energy grid destroyed the land around key infrastructure, causing swamps and bogs, deserts and dunes, or causing landmass to shear off and/or become submerged.

The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, was at one time a Presidential getaway, with President Eisenhower the last President in office to have stayed there, with 27 presidents having stayed at the hotel before him.

A top-secret, super-sized underground bunker was said to have been constructed there in the 1950s during the Eisenhower Administration to serve as a relocation point for the U. S. Congress in the event of a nuclear war, but when the secret came out in 1992 in a newspaper article, it was decommissioned.

It was kept stocked with supplies for thirty-years but never used as an emergency location.

In 1995, the government ended the lease agreement with the Greenbrier, and it was opened to the public for tours, which it offers to this day.

Salamanca in Cattaraugus County in New York, near Rock City State Park and on US-219, is within the Allegany Indian Reservation, one of two governed by the Seneca Nation of Indians New York, a federally-recognized tribe in western New York.

Almost the entire city of Salamanca is on Seneca Nation land.

The other is the Cattaraugus Reservation which stretches inward from Lake Erie along Cattaraugus Creek.

There is a third, the Oil Springs Reservation, but it is mostly unpopulated.

In our historical narrative, the Seneca were the “Keeper of the Western Door” of the Iroquois Confederacy, also known as the Haudenosaunee.

The Seneca were among the first five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, along with the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga.

The Haudenosaunee are a Confederacy bound by the Great Law of Peace, a constitution that established a representative government and is still in use today.

The Tuscarora were accepted into the Confederacy in 1722, and became known as the “Six Nations.”

In the 21st-century, more than 10,000 Seneca have three federally-recognized tribes, which are the Seneca Nation of New York and the the Tonawanda Seneca Nation in New York, and the Seneca-Cayuga Nation in Oklahoma, where their ancestors were relocated from Ohio during the Indian Removals in our historical narrative in the period of time between 1830 and 1847.

Federally-recognized tribes have a government-to-government relationship with the United States government, including tribal sovereignty and eligibility for federal benefits.

Salamanca was an historic railroad town that was a major hub for the Erie Railroad; the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway (BR & P); and the Pennsylvania Railroad facilitating passenger and freight service in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.

There were two roundhouses here at one time that are long-gone – one for the Erie Railroad and one for the BR & P Railway.

This Salamanca Station was said to have been built in 1851 by the Erie Railroad.

Train service at the station stopped on January 6th of 1970.

It was abandoned and had several fires over the years, and burned down completely in 2014.

The BR & P Railway Station across the street from the burned-down train station was a railroad museum until it closed last year and is looking for a new home.

Salamanca is adjacent to Allegany State Park, where the Bridal Falls are located.

Allegany State Park itself is New York’s largest state park, with over 65,000-acres of forests, mountains and lakes.

The park is divided into two sections – the Red House Area and the Quaker Lake Area.

The Red House Area is in the northeastern half of the park, and attractions include the Bridal Falls; and the Stone Tower.

Bridal Falls is located south of Red House Lake, and is easily accessible by road and hiking trail.

We are told the Stone Tower was constructed as an observation tower in 1934 offering panoramic views of the surrounding area, and is also one of the prime locations for star-gazing in the park.

There were several historic rail-lines operating through what is now Allegany State Park from the 1880s to the early 20th-century before the park was established in 1921.

Like the Allegheny & Kinzua (A & K) Railroad that operated between 1889 and 1898 in Pennsylvania and New York, specifically within areas that became Allegany State Park.

It was a logging railroad to move vast quantities of timber to meet high-demand before the land was repurposed.

Remains of the track and a stone culvert can still be found near the Blacksnake Mountain Trail in Allegany State Park.

Linda’s Falls is to the northwest of the Salamanca-area that I have been looking at in this part of Cattaraugus County.

Linda’s Falls are just off of County High 6 in Cattaraugus, New York.

They are a short distance from the ShineOn Valley, a 75-acre campground on the Amish Trail in Leon, New York,

Leon is the largest Old Order Amish community in the United States, where the Amish live without things like electricity, phones, and cars, instead travelling by horse-drawn buggies and known for their quilts, furniture, and self-reliant, farm-based lifestyle.

Next, I am going to take a look at the next section of the shore of Lake Erie just south of Dunkirk and Fredonia, and take a look at the Barcelona Lighthouse and Barcelona Harbor Beach; the Glen Mills Falls; Fitch’s Falls; the Chautauqua Gorge State Forest, and on Lake Chautauqua, the Chautauqua Institution; Miller Bell Tower and the Midway Amusement Park.

We are still in Chautauqua County, the westernmost county in New York State.

First, the Barcelona Lighthouse in Westfield, New York.

It is 40-feet, or 12-meters, tall, and was said to have been finished in 1829.

We are told it was the first natural gas lighthouse in the world, and in the Federal Lighthouse Service until 1859, so for only 30-years.

It was privately held through various owners until 2007, at which time it was acquired by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation, and is open to the public.

The Barcelona Harbor Beach and lighthouse are located on the Seaway Trail.

The beach is known for its sunsets and beach glass, and the harbor provides access to deep water fishing, and the Barcelona-area was a hub for commercial fishing in its history, which at its height, often took in 140-million pounds, or almost 6.5-million kilograms, of fish in a year.

There’s about 1/4-mile, or almost .5-kilometers, of the beach back by a rocky cliff, and there several waterfalls collectively known as “Barcelona Falls” that pour off the cliff onto the beach depending on the season.

Westfield was a hub for trains in the area, and its station, an art gallery today, was a connection for both the New York Central Railroad and the Jamestown, Westfield, and Northwestern Railroad.

In 1903, Westfield became the end destination of a trolley line that was said to have been built by the Jamestown, Westfield, and Northwestern Railroad.

The residents of Westfield could take a trolley to Jamestown, with stops in-between at places like Mayville, Hartfield and Lakewood, and would arrive in Jamestown in about an hour, with the trolley reaching speeds of 50-to-60-miles/hour, or 80-to-97-kilometers/hour, in the early 1900s.

In 1909, the line was extended to Barcelona, and 18-round trips per day were made between Westfield and Jamestown.

The interurban trolley lasted until the end of Novemeber in 1947, and the New York Central Railroad stopped major passenger service along Lake Erie through here in 1967, before it merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad to form the Penn Central Transportation Company in 1968.

Passenger service at smaller stations like Westfield was discontinued as part of a massive reduction in passenger rail, paving the way for Amtrak to take over national passenger operations in 1971.

The Glen Mills Falls, Fitch’s Falls, and the Chautauqua Gorge State Forest are just to the south of Westfield.

The Glen Mills Falls is located on Little Chautauqua Creek in Westfield, New York.

From what I could find out, there is an old trolley bridge at this location.

It was also the historic location of Glen Mills, a 19th-century mill site and small industrial area.

The nearby Fitch’s Falls are also on Little Chautauqua Creek in Westfield, New York, and within hiking distance of the Glen Mills Falls.

Fitch’s Falls are in the Chautauqua Creek Gorge and that it’s name likely came from an early family or landowner in the area.

There is also old rail infrastructure at this location, as well as remnants of an industrial past as the falls along here were used to power mills in the area.

The Chautauqua Gorge State Forest is a multi-use recreational area located between Mayville and Westfield in Chautauqua County.

The forest borders the steep gorges of Chautauqua Creek.

The Fred J. Cusimano Overland Trail runs through the forest, which is a 24-mile, or 7-kilometer, -long hiking trail that connects the southside of Chautauqua Gorge with the Town of Harmony on the New York-Pennsylvania border.

This trail connects to the Chautauqua County Rails-to-Trails System.

Over on Lake Chautauqua, I am going to take a look at the Chautauqua Institution; the Miller Bell Tower and the Midway Amusement Park.

The City of Jamestown is on the southern end of Lake Chautauqua.

The Chautauqua Institution was established in 1874, and still operates today as an education and summer resort for adults and youth.

The Chautauqua Institution was founded in 1874 to teach Sunday School teachers.

The teachers would arrive via steamboat on Chautauqua Lake and disembark at Palestine Park, and begin a course of bible study that used the park to teach the geography of the Holy Land.

The Chautauqua Institution has expanded its season length over the years and offers programs in education, religion, and the arts, including dance and music.

The Miller Bell Tower at the Chautauqua Institution was dedicated in August of 1911 as a memorial to one of the Chautauqua Institution’s founders, Lewis Miller.

It is 18-feet square and 75-feet tall, or 5.5-meters square and 23-meters tall, and said to be a campanile constructed in the north Italianate-style.

The Westminster Chimes play every quarter-hour between 8 am and 10 pm daily.

Same idea with the Ames Campanile at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

The Ames Campanile is a major symbol of Iowa State University.

As a matter of fact, the Ames Campanile is represented on what is described as the mace, that is probably as tall as, or taller, than the Chief Faculty Marshal that carries it at the head of academic processions, and on the presidential chain symbolizing the authority of the Univerity’s President.

The Ames Campanile was said to have been constructed in 1897 as a memorial to the first Dean of Women, Margaret MacDonald Stanton.

The Campanile houses the Stanton Memorial Carillon, which also plays “Westminster Quarters” every quarter-hour.

Just like what we are seeing with lighthouses and the railroads, what we are told about when these things came into existence…and in so many cases left existence…just doesn’t make sense.

I believe the purpose of these massive bell-towers reaching up to the clouds for the original civilization was that they were musical generators of healing and harmonious frequencies for the benefit and balance of all of Creation.

The current musical scale is not tuned into the solfeggio frequencies, and the results of this are believed to negatively affect our thinking skills and emotional states, thereby lowering our consciounsess in yet another way.

Next, the Midway State Park is directly across Chautauqua Lake from the Chautauqua Institution and its campanile.

In our historical narrative, the Midway State Park in Maple Springs was established in 1898 by the Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway as a picnic ground.

It is recognized as the 15th-oldest continually operating amusement park in the United States and the fifth-oldest remaining trolley park of thirteen still operating in the United States.

These days, park-goers can do things like ride on the vintage carousel; play a game of miniature golf; ride the tilt-a-whirl and go-karts; and there are kiddie rides for the children.

Jamestown at the southern end of Chautauqua Lake was, among other things a railroad hub in the 19th and 20th-centuries, served primarily by the Erie Railroad.

The Erie Railroad’s main-line ran through Jamestown, and connected New York City to Chicago.

The railroad carried passengers, mail and industrial freight, helping Jamestown grow into a regional manufacturing center, in particular furniture manufacturing.

We are told the historic Jamestown Station, the most recent of several previous train stations, was built by the Erie Railroad between 1931 and 1932, in the middle of the Great Depression, as a replacement for the previous one.

It stopped being used for passenger service in January of 1970.

These days it is part of the National Comedy Center, an American museum dedicated to comedy as Jamestown was Lucille Ball’s hometown.

There was also the Buffalo-Jamestown Railroad, which was said to have been built between 1872 and 1875 between the two cities.

It became part of the Buffalo and South Western Railroad, and eventually absorbed into the Erie Railroad system.

It was important for shipping furniture and other manufactured goods, and bringing workers and travellers between Jamestown and the Greater Buffalo region.

Railroads still exist in the area, but primarily for freight, with the Western New York and Pennsylvania Short-Line Railroad operating freight transport on former Erie Railroad lines, and there is no Amtrak service in Jamestown, though bus links the city to Buffalo’s rail station.

As mentioned previously, Jamestown had an electrified interurban railway, among several in the area.

The Jamestown, Westfield and Northwestern Railroad operated between 1914 and 1950, and was nicknamed the “Chautauqua Lake Route.”

It was used for passenger service, freight transfer to the Erie and New York Central Railroads, and service for factories in Jamestown.

Passenger service ended in 1947, and the line closed completely in 1950.

Jamestown also had streetcars, with horse-drawn streetcars appearing in 1884.

Electric streetcar service began in 1891, making Jamestown one of the earlier cities to electrify its streetcar system.

The Jamestown Street Railway service officially ended during the month of January in 1938, when the last streetcar routes were discontinued and replaced by buses, with interurban passenger service from Westfield continuing until 1947.

Jamestown’s rail history reflects the broader story of American railroading that we have been seeing of rapid-growth in the 19th-century; peak influence in the early 20th-century, and decline in the years preceding and following World War II, in the 1930s and 1940s, again for given reasons like increased automobile ownership; expansion of bus service; and better roads and highways.

Panama Rocks Scenic Park is to the south of the Chautauqua-area, and to the southwest of Jamestown.

The Panama Rocks Scenic Park, like the previously-seen Rock City State Park, looks like a city of rocks, with massive conglomerate formations that look like houses and others creating narrow streets and corridors.

Described as extending about a half-mile, or almost a kilometer through an ancient forest, rhe rock formations are upwards of 60-feet, or almost 20-meters, in height.

Next we enter Pennsylvania from New York, and first come to what is known as the North East Winery region, which is centered around the town of North East, Pennsylvania, and then come to what is found around Erie, the largest city in northwestern Pennsylvania near the state’s border with Ohio.

First, North East, Pennsylvania, is in the heart of the Lake Erie American Viticultural Area mentioned previously at The Vineyards Golf Course in Fredonia.

It is in the northeastern part of Erie County, and is one of the most concentrated wine regions in the eastern United States.

The wine country around North East has over 30,000 acres, or 12,141-hectares, of vineyards and over 20 wineries.

At one time having grown primarily concord grapes for juice companies like Welch’s, many have switched to wine grapes, and today the region produces everything from dry European-style wines, to sweet native grape wines and ice wines.

North East and the surrounding vineyards and wine cellars shown here are located between the Seaway Trail running along the shore of Lake Erie; US-20; the still-operating railroad tracks running through the area; and I-90.

North East has a rich railroad history because it is situated directly on one of the most important rail corridors in the United States, which is the main route along the south shore of Lake Erie between Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo and New York City.

The railroad arrived in North East in the early 1850s when a line was completed that connected Buffalo with Cleveland, with one of the key companies being the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad (CP & A), also known by the corporate name of the Cleveland and Erie Railroad, which first opened in 1852 and operated until 1869.

It completed the rail-link between Buffalo and Chicago with connection to the Buffalo and State Line Railroad, and one of the first continuous rail routes across the region.

This was notated as a timetable for the Cleveland and Erie Railroad in 1853.

In 1869, these lines were consolidated into the Lakeshore and Michigan Southern Railway, and this railroad ran directly through North East as part of its main east-west trunk line.

When the railroad consolidated in the early 20th-century, the line through North East became part of the New York Central Railroad on the line called the “Water Level Route” because it ran mostly flat along Lake Erie, making for faster passenger and freight trains, and because of this, the small town of North East saw constant heavy rail traffic, which helped make it a major grape-growing region as refrigerated rail-cars were used to ship its grapes to large eastern cities.

Today, the former Railroad Depot for the New York Central line is a museum and preserves locomotives, rail-cars and artifacts from the regional railroads.

It is located beside the modern main-line, which is operated mainly by CSX for freight transportation on one of the busiest freight corridors in the eastern United States.

Like I mentioned previously, Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited runs overnight passenger service along the southern shore of Lake Erie, and it uses the “Water Level Route” main-line.

Next, we are heading into the area around Erie, Pennsylvania,

Erie is located just about right in-between Cleveland, Ohio, which is 90-miles, or 140-kilometers, southwest of Erie, and Buffalo, New York, 80-miles, or 130-kilometers, northeast, on the southern shore of Lake Erie.

The first places I am going to take a look at in Erie are the Wintergreen Gorge; Presque Isle State Park and Lighthouses; the former Erie Waterworks area; Waldameer Park and Water World; and Union Station.

First, the Wintergreen Gorge.

The Wintergreen Gorge is a 6-mile, or almost 10-kilometer, -long canyon on Fourmile Creek.

It is 250-feet, or 23-meters, deep at its highest point.

There are six waterfalls through 3/4-mile, or a little over a kilometer, -long Wintergreen Gorge.

Most of the waterfalls range from 10- to 20-feet, or 3- to 6-meter, drops or stepped cascades.

We are told that while there was a railroad associated with Wintergreen Gorge, it did not run directly through the bottom of the gorge, but rather was connected to small industrial and logging railroad spurs in the surrounding area in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, tied to the region’s lumber and quarry activity.

Local historians and hikers have reported seeing old rail-beds, stone retaining walls, and unusual straight embankments in the woods.

Next, Presque Isle State Park is an arching peninsula that juts into Lake Erie, 4-miles, or 6-kilometers, west of the city of Erie.

We are told the French were the first Europeans to arrive in the area, which had been inhabited historically by the indigenous Erie people, and that the French were the ones to construct Fort Presque Isle near Erie in 1753 to protect the northern terminus of the Venango Path, the year before the beginning of the French and Indian Wars in 1754, which lasted until 1763.

It was abandoned only six-years later in our narrative.

Also in our narrative, the Venango Path was a Native American trail between Presque Isle at present-day Erie, Pennsylvania and present-day Pittsburgh.

The French were also said to have built Fort Le Boeuf that same year, in 1754, with the reason given to guard the road into the Ohio Valley, and it was also abandoned at the same time as Fort Presque Isle.

Historical markers and a museum are all that’s left to remember it by.

Fort LeBoeuf was in today’s Waterford, Pennsylvania, 15-miles, or 24-kilometers, south of Erie on US-19.

Fort Machault was also included in this line of fortifications the French were said to have built around the same time-period, and also abandoned by the French in 1759.

It was located in present-day Franklin, Pennsylvania on the Allegheny River.

The last fort said to have been built by the French in 1754 in this line of so-called fortifications was Fort Duquesne, situated between the Forks of the Ohio in present-day Pittsburgh, where the Allegheny meets the Monongahela to form the Ohio River.

Fort Duquesne was considered strategically important for controlling the Ohio Country for both settlement and trade.

The French were said to have destroyed the fort later in the French and Indian Wars, and the site was taken over by the British, who were said to have built Fort Pitt, eventually taken over by the Americans and the area became known as Pittsburgh.

I believe these so-called fortifications were actually batteries on the original energy grid, which are found all over the surface of the Earth, and found close together, paired together, or even clusters of them found in the same location.

One definition is a device that produces electricity that may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series, as well as a battery source of energy which provides a push, or a voltage, of energy to get the current flowing in a circuit. 

Another meaning of the word battery is the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target.

I believe they were repurposed as forts for them to appear to have a strictly military function as the explanation for why they were built, and in countless cases, why they were destroyed.

Back in Erie, Pennsylvania, in our historical narrative, Presque Isle served as a base for Commodore Oliver Perry’s fleet during the War of 1812, and we are told played a part in the victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Erie.

The Perry Monument on one of Presque Isle’s southern tips was so-named to commemorate this victory.

This monument is an obelisk situated on a circular area and what appears to be artificially-shaped land-form.

I typically find obelisks as commemorative monuments, like the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston, Massachusetts…

…the Sergeant Floyd Monument in Sioux City, Iowa, said to have been erected to commemorate the only death that was said to have occurred during the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804…

…Speke’s Monument, located in the Kensington Gardens in London, a red granite obelisk dedicated to John Hanning Speke, the explorer who “discovered” Lake Victoria and led expeditions to the source of the Nile…

…and the obelisk at Jefferson Davis State Park in Kentucky at the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.

This obelisk is the fourth-tallest monument in the United States; the tallest, unreinforced concrete structure in the world, and the world’s tallest concrete obelisk.

Presque Isle State Park has an interesting and distinct shape.

It is described as a sandy peninsula, with six distinct ecological zones: Lake Erie, the Bay, and the shoreline; sand plain and new ponds; dunes and ridges; old ponds and marshes; thicket and sub-climax forest; and climax forest.

There are three lighthouses in the Presque Isle State Park – the Presque Isle Lighthouse on the north-side; the North Pier Lighthouse on the east-side; and a small lighthouse across from the former Erie Waterworks Area on the west-side.

We are told that the Presque Isle Lighthouse on the north-side we see today was constructed between 1872 and 1873, and is five courses of bricks thick.

The tower is square on the outside, and circular on the inside, with a spiral staircase.

The North Pier Lighthouse was said to have been built in 1858, and guides vessels into Presque Isle Bay from Lake Erie.

It is the only surviving example of this wrought-iron square design in the United States.

It was said to have been forged in France and assembled on site in Erie.

The lighthouse on the grounds of the former Erie Waterworks on the west-side was known officially as the “Waterworks Steel Intake Tower.”

It was said to have been built in 1906 to manage the municipal water intake pipe for the City of Erie.

It was restored in 2018, and the former waterworks has become a recreational area with water taxi service, picnic pavilions and playground equipment.

There’s a fourth lighthouse, the Erie Land Lighthouse, just to the southeast of Presque Isle State Park, and a few blocks north of the Seaway Trail, and east of the downtown area.

The Erie Land Lighthouse, also known as the Old Presque Isle Lighthouse, is located in Lighthouse Park on the bluffs overlooking Lake Erie.

The lighthouse there today was said to have been built in 1867, and permanently decommissioned in 1899.

It is owned by the State of Pennsylvania and open to the public for seasonal tours.

Waldemeer Park & Water World is in Erie, at the entrance to Presque Isle State park and located on the Seaway Trail.

It is billed, like Midway State Park on Chautauqua Lake, as one of only thirteen of the original trolley parks still operating as an amusement park in the United States, though what we see today is not what it used to be!

Waldemeer Park was first leased as a trolley park in 1896 by the Erie Electric Motor Company, and is the fourth-oldest amusement park in Pennsylvania, and the tenth-oldest in the United States.

Waldemeer has operated continuously since then under different owners, but the trolleys of the park are long-gone.

Trolley parks were said to have started in the United States in the 19th-century as picnic and recreation areas at the ends of streetcar lines, and were precursors to today’s amusement parks.

They were said to have been created by streetcar companies for reasons like giving people a reason to use their services on weekends.

By 1919, there were estimated to be between 1,500 and 2,000 such parks. 

But like what we have already seen, these magnificent trolley parks went the way of the dinosaur too, along with countless electric streetcar lines, interurbans and railroad lines

I have come to believe that they were somehow involved with recharging the Earth’s energy grid for the original civilization in a really fun way, as they were located at the end terminals of streetcar lines, and were just utilized by the bringers-in of the world’s new system for a short time until they were no longer needed, or just plain inconvenient to the new narrative.

And there were lots of them throughout the Great Lakes region as we have already seen in this series, and will continue to see.

Erie was also an important railroad hub during the mid-19th-century.

We are told the first railroad station in Erie was established in 1851, and replaced in 1866 by the Romanesque Revival Union Depot seen on the left, which was demolished in 1925.

The current Art Deco Union Station in Erie on the right was said to have opened in 1927, and designed by Fellheimer and Wagner, an architectural firm credited with a bunch of railroad stations between 1923 and 1940.

Still in use as part of Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited route,  Erie is the only passenger stop in Pennsylvania.

The station’s ground floor is commercial space today, including a brew pub.

The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad was said to have been incorporated on April 1st of 1858, with operations starting in March of 1860.

Then on April 1st of 1870, the Pennsylvania Railroad took-over operations.

It was an 83-mile, or 134-kilometer, -long railroad between Girard just west of Erie, and points south around the Pittsburgh area.

This is an except from a book on the “History of Erie County.”

It makes reference to the following finds in “Chapter 5:”

“When the link of the Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad from the dock at Erie was in the process of construction, the laborers dug into a great mass of bones at the cross of the public road which runs by the rolling mill. From the promiscuous way in which they were thrown together, it is surmised that a terrible battle must of have taken place in the vicinity on some day so far distant that not even a tradition of the event has been preserved…” and that “…at a later date, when the roadway of the Philadelphia & Erie Road…was being widened, another deposit of bones was dug up and summarily disposed of as before. Among the skeletons was one of a giant….”

This newspaper article references Beaver Falls at the beginning about two skeletons of gigantic size that were found while workmen were “digging a ditch from the new shovel works to the river at Aliquippa.”

The area around Beaver Falls and Aliquippa were also on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad line.

There was also an historic trolley park at Aliquippa, where giant skeletons were found.

One of Pittsburgh’s first amusement parks, it was said to have been established sometime in the 1880s by the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad as a way to bolster ridership, but by 1905 had fallen into disrepair, and the land was purchased by the “Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation” that year to construct the “Aliquippa Works.”

Today, it looks like what was the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie line followed what is now Pennsylvania State Route 18 going south out of Girard, through these same two towns of Beaver Falls and Aliquippa on its way to Pittsburgh; US-19 is just east of there, going south from Erie on its way to Pittsburgh; and Pennsylvania State Route 8 leaves Erie and heads south through Titusville on its way to the greater Pittsburgh area, which is 128-miles, or 206-kilometers, south of Erie.

Titusville was where the petroleum industry in the United States began in earnest in 1859 when Edwin Drake found oil on a piece of leased-land near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in what is now called Oil Creek State Park.

For this reason, Titusville is called the Birthplace of the Oil Industry, and for a number of years this part of Pennsylvania was the leading oil-producing region in the world.

Today, not surprisingly, the Oil Creek State Park Trail runs on the bed of the first railroad line to reach Titusville, the Oil Creek Railroad.

Samuel Kier had established America’s first oil refinery in Pittsburgh in 1854 for making lamp oil, just five-years before oil was “found” in Titusville.

So it certainly appears like the petroleum industry was developed in the 1850s in order to provide a replacement energy technology for the free energy technology of the original civilization.

Roughly a decade after the birth of the oil Industry at Titusville, the Standard Oil Company was founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller, along with Henry Flagler, an American Industrialist and major developer in the state of Florida, which was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company.

Oil was used in the form of kerosene throughout the country as a light source and heat source until the introduction of electricity, and as a fuel source for the automobile, with the first gas-powered automobile having been patented by Karl Benz in 1886.

There are three waterfalls between Titusville and Oil Creek State Park: the Boughton Falls; Plum Dungeon Falls; and the Pioneer Falls.

All three waterfalls are in Oil Creek State Park in Venango County.

Boughton Falls is located on the northern end of Oil Creek State Park.

It has a 35-foot, or 11-meter, -drop , and accessible from the Oil Creek Trail.

The Boughton Falls are on what is called “Boughton Run,” which empties into Oil Creek, but are not considered to be on Oil Creek itself.

The Plum Dungeon Falls with a height of 60-feet, or 18-meters, are a seasonal waterfall that can really only be seen from a distance.

The Plum Dungeon Falls are located in the northeastern part of Oil Creek State Park on Gerard Trail, a 36-mile or 58-kilometer, – long hiking trail that encircles the park.

The trail from there that leads to the falls is accessed by crossing the Historic Miller Farm Iron Bridge.

The Miller Falls Road Iron Bridge in Oil Creek State Park was said to have been constructed in 1888 by the Massillon Bridge Company of Massillon, Ohio.

It is considered to be one of the most beautiful bridges in Venango County and an example of a steel truss bridge.

We are told it was set to be demolished but was rehabilitated instead.

The Pioneer Falls are also on the Gerard Trail in Oil Creek State Park and accessed from Pioneer Road.

They are described as a seasonal cascade waterfall on what is called Pioneer Run with a height of 15- to 20-feet, or 5- to 6-meters, that also flows into Oil Creek.

The valley around Pioneer Run was heavily drilled during the first oil boom in the 1860s.

The nearby ghost town of Pioneer is called a short-lived oil boom settlement that was located near the mouth of Pioneer Run.

It was formed after oil was discovered here in 1859 and between 1862 and 1865, major wells were drilled here, reportedly producing 2,500 barrels of oil per day.

In its hey-day, there was even a railroad station here, but by the 1870s, oil production had dropped and the town was abandoned.

The Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad these days is a 16.5-mile, or 27-kilometer, -long or tourist railroad that runds from Titusville to Rynd Farm north of Oil City at the southern end of Oil Creek State Park on tracks that were originally part of the mainline of the Buffalo, New York, and Philadelphia Railroad in the 1880s.

After mergers over the years, it became Penn Central in 1968, and after Penn Central went bankrupt in 1976, and was absorbed into Conrail.

In 1986, it was acquired from Conrail by the Oil Creek Railway Historical Society and tourist trains started running in July of that year, and freight operations began in September.

Hector Falls is located northeast of Titusville and West Hickory.

Hector Falls in the Allegheny State Forest in Pennsylvania are described as flowing from a height of 22-feet, or 6.71-meters, from a “rectangular-shaped” rock-face, in the middle of what looks exactly like a wall.

More of the same kind of thing that we saw at the Panama Rocks Scenic Area and Rock City State Park is found throughout the Allegheny National Forest, like what looks like a “rock city” on the popular “Minister Creek Trail.”

The “Minister Creek Trail” is 6.6-miles, or 10.6-kilometers, -long, and is popular for hiking and backpacking.

Next, I am going to turn my attention to West Hickory, where the tallest recorded skeleton in North America was found, at 18-feet, 5.5-meters.

West Hickory is 14-miles, or 23-kilometers southeast of Titusville; 12-miles, or 20-kilometers, east of Oil Creek State Park, in Oil City; and 21-miles, or 34-kilometers, from Sheffield, Pennsylvania, where Hector Falls and the Minister Creek Trail are nearby in the Allegheny National Forest.

Here is an article from the “Oil City Times” that was in the “Marysville Tribune” of Marysville, Ohio, dated January 26th of 1870.

At the top of the article, it referenced the “Cardiff Giant Outdone” and the alleged discovery of the skeleton of a giant in the oil regions.

So first I looked up the “Cardiff Giant” to find out more about it.

What we are about the “Cardiff Giant” is that it was one of the most famous archaeological hoaxes of all time.

In October of 1869 in Cardiff, New York, workers digging a well behind the barn of William “Stub” Newell, uncovered a 10-foot, or almost 3-meter, -tall, 3,000-pound, or 1,371-kilogram, petrified giant man.

Subsequently, Newell covered the giant with a tent and turned it into a local attraction, drawing a lot of attention from visitors.

The fraud was said to have been perpetrated by a New York tobacconist named George Hull, who wanted to fool people as to how easy it would be to create a giant.

The narrative says that in 1868, only three-years after the end of the American Civil War, Hull hired men to quarry a ginormous block of gypsum from Fort Dodge, Iowa, and had it shipped to Chicago to have it sculpted into a giant.

Then Hull had it shipped to the farm of his cousin William Newell in New York in November of 1868, where it was buried in a hole. Then, after almost a year had passed, Newell hired to men to dig the “well” where they found the giant.

The “Cardiff Giant” in short-time was sold to a syndicate, who moved it to Syracuse, New York, for exhibition.

By December of 1869, the “Cardiff Giant” was said to have been exposed as a fraud.

I found out about the Taughannock Giant when I was looking into the Taughannock Falls State Park in the Finger Lakes region in Part 5 of this series on the New York-side of Lake Ontario.

Workmen widening a carriage road near the Taughannock House Hotel in July of 1879 uncovered of the petrified body of a 7-foot, or over 2-meter, -tall man.

We are told that over 5,000 people paid a small admission fee to see the 800-pound, or 363-kilogram, giant, but that after a short time, it was revealed to be a hoax perpetrated by the hotel’s owner and two of his associates.

The original giant was said to be damaged and lost, but local artists constructed a replica for the Tompkins Center for History and Culture in 2019.

So, now let’s see what the 1870 newspaper article has to say with regards to the giant that was found at West Hickory.

Two men excavating near West Hickory in preparation for erecting a derrick first exhumed an enormous rusty helmet of iron…

…and then they unearthed a 9-foot, or almost 3-meter, – long sword.

So they made the hole bigger, and soon came upon the bones of two enormous feet.

After a few hours, they unearthed the well-preserved skeleton of an enormous human.

The bones of the skeleton were described as “remarkably white;” the double- teeth all in place, of extraordinary-size; and that when the giant was alive, he must have stood 18-feet, or 5.5-meters, in stockings.

The relics were being viewed in nearby Tionesta before being sent on to New York.

And lastly, the bones were said to have been found about 12-feet, or 3.5-meters, below the surface of a mound, and the mound was not more than 3-feet, or less than a meter, above the level of the ground around it.

So to put that into visual perspective, this garage has 12-foot, or 3.5-meter, – high walls, so the giant’s bones were found that far below the surface of a mound, which was another 3-feet, or almost 1-meter, higher than the ground.

Next I am going to look at the Erie Bluffs State Park and Howard Falls just to the southwest of Erie, Pennsylvania, and then head south to Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania.

This is all right before we reach the Pennsylvania – Ohio State Line.

The Erie Bluffs State Park is the largest stretch of undeveloped land overlooking Lake Erie in Pennsylvania.

It is just west of Lake City, and north of the Seaway Trail and the railroad tracks.

Within the 587-acre, or 238-hectare, state park, there are things like bluffs up to 90-feet, or 27-meters, – tall, and patches of old-growth forest.

With almost 4-minutes of totality, the Erie Bluffs State Park was one of four state parks in Pennsylvania that were in the Path of Totality for the Annular Solar Eclipse of April 8th of 2024, the other three state parks being Presque Isle; Pymatuning; and Maurice K. Goddard.

Total solar eclipses occur when the moon completely blocks the view of the sun, and are only visible along a narrow track of the Earth’s surface.

For a few moments during totality, when the moon completely covers the sun, the day becomes night, the horizon displays the colors of sunset, and the heavenly bodies usually seen only at night appear.

There were two total solar eclipses occuring in the United States in a seven year time-frame, with the first one occurring on August 21st of 2017.

The 2017 eclipse traveled from northwest to southeast and the 2024 eclipse travelled from southwest to northeast, and their paths crossed each other in Carbondale, Illinois.

The 2024 Eclipse passed through or near nine cities named Salem.

The 2017 Eclipse passed through seven cities named Salem.

Just a coincidence…or did the builders of this ancient advanced civilization know exactly where they were in place, time and space?

The Giant City State Park, located just south of Carbondale in Makanda, Illinois, and another massive “rock city,” experienced the longest period of totality during the 2017 eclipse, at 2-minutes, and 40-seconds, and was also in the path of totality in 2024 for almost 4-minutes, though did not have the longest period, which was in Nazas, Mexico.

Here is another clipping from a publication on the subject of giants.

Talking about the Great Lake Region, it says “Long Before the Indians…it is believed to have been inhabited by a superior people – of whom not even a tradition remans – whose only monuments are earthworks and tumuli (another word for burial mounds), scattered here and there, in some places containing bones from men of gigantic size.”

It goes on to say further “Mounds and relics from these “Mound Builders” were formerly abundant throughout the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, especially in this section. If a separate race from the Indians, when and by what agency they were destroyed will probably remain a mystery as deep as that of the lost island “Atlantis.”

So this acknowledges the presence of giants here who were Mound Builders, but shrouds what happened to them in mystery, just like the lost Atlantis, saying we don’t know who they were, or really anything about them, except that they were a superior people.

It is interesting to note that researchers have long suspected the Smithsonian to have played a role in the cover-up of giants.

Back in the day, giant skeletons were displayed in public places and mentioned in newspaper articles, but all that went away

On the one-hand, there are reports that the Smithsonian admitted to the destruction of thousands of giant human skeletons in the early 1900 as the result of a U. S. Supreme Court ruling, and on the other hand, there are fact-checkers vigorously debunking this as a satirical claim and false.

Why is there such a contradiction of information, and vehement denial on the subject of giant skeletons, when there were historical records of their existence?

The existence of giants are pushed way back in time in our historical narrative, with what happened to them being a mystery.

I think the giants were buried right where they stood when whatever destroyed the energy grid took place.

Yes, they were reported to be found at mounds, but they were also randomly uncovered when people were digging.

A sudden cataclysmic event, creating swamps, deserts, and even submerging entire landmasses around the Earth, would account for how a highly advanced worldwide civilization of giants could be wiped from the face of the Earth and erased from our collective memory.

The next place I want to take a look at is the Howard Falls in Girard, the largest falls in Erie County, Pennsylvania.

It is in the Falls Run Gorge, and is described as cascading over a large, rock outcropping, approximately 33-feet, or 10-meters, -wide and 40-feet, or 12-meters, -high.

The land that the falls occupy has been privately-owned by the Howard family for 180-years, and while not open to the public to see close-up, they are viewable from the public Falls Road.

The Falls are close to the Howard Quarry in Girard, an inactive stone quarry operated by the Howard family starting in 1839.

The Howard Quarry was said to have provided the local hard sandstone for the Erie County Courthouse in Erie, the west wing of which was said to have been constructed between 1852 and 1853.

The matching east wing was said to have been constructed in 1930, during the Great Depression.

Next, I am heading down to Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, because I know there was an historical trolley park there.

The historic Exposition Park was founded there in 1892 by Colonel Frank Mantor, owner of the Conneaut Lake Exposition Company, with a stated purpose of being a permanent fairground and exposition for livestock, machinery, and industrial products.

Ownership of the park transferred to the railroad in 1901, and in 1907 trolley service was said to have been extended to the park.

Then the following year, in 1908, Many of the park’s original buildings were lost in a fire.

We are told that while arson was suspected as a cause of the fire at the time, it was never proven.

An amusement park at Conneaut Lake has existed under various ownership over the years, but as of the 2020s it is no longer a full-scale amusement park, but instead a partial event venue with remnants of the park.

Now I am going to head back to the Lake Erie shore where we cross the state-line and go into Ohio from Pennsylvania.

The first cities we come to are Conneaut and Ashtabula, both of which have lighthouses.

First, Conneaut.

Conneaut is the northernmost city in Ohio at the entrance on Lake Erie of Conneaut Creek.

We are told the land was first surveyed by the Connecticut Land Company in 1796, and the first permanent settlement was in 1798.

The Connecticut Land Company was a land speculation company that formed in the late 18th-century to survey and encourage settlement in the eastern parts of the newly chartered “Connecticut Western Reserve” of the former “Ohio Country,” which was part of the highly-prized “Northwest Territory.”

The Connecticut Land Company purchased 3-million-acres, or 12,000-kilometers-squared, of the western reserve in Northeast Ohio, in 1795, and settlers demanded that the land be surveyed prior to settlement per the Land Ordinance of 1785, in which was a standardized system by which settlers could purchase title to farmland in the West.

This is what we are told in our historical narrative.

The Northwest Indian War took place in this region between 1786 and 1795 between the United States and the Northwestern Confederacy, consisting of Native Americans of the Great Lakes area.

The Territory had been granted to the United States by Great Britain as part of the 1783 Treaty of Paris at the end of the Revolutionary War.

The area had previously been prohibited to new settlements, and was inhabited by numerous Native American peoples.

The British maintained a military presence and supported the Native American military campaign.

While the Northwestern Confederacy had some early victories, they were ultimately defeated, with the final battle being the “Battle of Fallen Timbers” in August of 1794 in Maumee, Ohio, which took place after General Anthony Wayne’s Army had destroyed every Native American settlement on its way to the battle.

Outcomes were the 1794 Jay Treaty, named for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay, the main negotiator with Great Britain.

As a result, the British withdrew from the Northwest Territory, but it laid the groundwork for later conflicts.

The 1795 Greenville Treaty that followed forced the displacement of Native Americans from most of Ohio, in return for cash and promises of fair treatment, and the land was opened for settlement.

The Conneaut West Breakwater Lighthouse is the only lighthouse here now.

It was said to have been completed in 1936 to replace one that had been built on the breakwater in 1920, which had to be demolished because of major changes to the breakwater.

It is a 60-feet, or 18-meters, -tall steel tower said to have been constructed in the Art Moderne-style, a design-style of the 1930s and 1940s said to have evolved from Art Deco of the 1920s.

We are told that the first lighthouse was built in Conneaut in 1835 and that as its importance as a shipping port grew, it had multiple lighthouses and pierhead beacons.

Starting in 1869, what became the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (BLE) ran from Conneaut, Ohio, to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, and in 2004, it came under the ownership of the Canadian National Railway as part of their purchase of the Great Lakes Transportation” holding company.

Today the former railroad runs as their “Bessemer Subdivision,” though it still does business as BLE.

Iron ore that comes from the Iron Ranges in northeastern Minnesota on the western-side of Lake Superior is still shipped via BLE trains to steel mills in the Pittsburgh region, mainly US Steel’s Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, Pennsylvania, one of the last still operating from the earliest days of the American Steel Industry.

The BLE was formed out of a series of small predecessor railroad companies operating in the area.

The Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company was founded in 1897 by Andrew Carnegie to haul iron ore and other products from Conneaut to Carnegie Steel Company plants in Pittsburgh and the surrounding region, which hauled coal north on the return trip.

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant to America, who came to Pittsburgh in 1848 with his parents at the age of 12, got his start as a telegrapher, and who by the 1860s, had investments in such things as railroads, bridges and oil derricks, and ultimately worked his way into being a major player in Pittsburgh’s steel industry.

His first steel mill, operational by 1874, was the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, named after the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

They subsequently acquired other steel mills, and in 1892, the Carnegie Steel Company was formed, and in 1897, Charles M. Schwab became President of the Carnegie Steel Company.

In 1901, Charles M. Schwab helped negotiate the sale of Carnegie Steel with a merger involving it with Elbert Gary’s Federal Steel Company, and William Henry Moore’s National Steel Company to a group of New York City Financiers led by J. P. Morgan.

After the sale of Carnegie Steel, Andrew Carnegie surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American at the time, and Charles M. Schwab became the first President of the newly minted U. S. Steel Company.

Andrew Carnegie was ranked as the 6th-richest American of all-time by CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $101-billion.

The Bear Creek and Lulu Waterfalls are to the south of, and in-between, Conneaut and Ashtabula on either side of I-90.

The Bear Creek Waterfall on Bear Creek is in a gorge area near State Road in Kingsville, Ohio, and Bear Creek is a tributary to the Lake Erie watershed.

It is a seasonal waterfall with reported heights varying between 15- and 100-feet, or 4.5- to 30.5-meters, depending on the specific ledge and waterfall.

They are easily visible from the State Road covered bridge.

The State Road covered bridge is one 17 drivable covered bridges in Ashtabula County.

It is called a single-span lattice truss design made from 97,000-feet, or 30,000-meters, of southern pine and oak wood.

This bridge was dedicated in 1983, and was said to have replaced a previous bridge dating from 1831 that stood until 1898.

The Lulu Falls on the other side of I-90 are also in Kingsville.

It is a 25-foot, or 8-meter, -tall waterfall on an unnamed tributary of Conneaut Creek.

It was a popular picnic spot in the 1800s, and supposedly received its name from a young woman who liked the name of a friend.

Like we saw back in Buffalo, where the Scajaquada Creek passes over Serenity Falls in the Forest Lawn Cemetery on its way to Delaware Park, the Victorian-era Lulu Falls Cemetery is near the waterfall here in Kingsville, Ohio.

Now we come to Ashtabula, which is another port city like Conneaut important to iron ore and coal since the late 19th-century, and was integral to the steel-manufacturing that developed around the Great Lakes, with most of the historic steel manufacturing having moved offshore, and with industrial jobs declining since the 1960s, it is considered part of a large historical manufacturing region called the “Rust Belt.”

While the Port of Ashtabula is still a hub for industrial material shipping on Lake Erie, including coal, the historic Ashtabula coal ramp and pier is no longer in use, with its operations handling bituminous coal ending in 2016.

The related coal-fired Ashtabula Generating Station closed in 2015, and the site is abandoned, with portions slated for demolition.

We are told in our historical narrative that railroad construction connected its port to a national network, and Ashtabula is known for the “Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster,” also known as the “Ashtabula Horror,” one of the nation’s most notorious rail accidents that took place on December 29th of 1876.

It involved the collapsing of the Ashtabula River bridge when a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway train was crossing it, dropping a locomotive and eleven passenger cars onto the frozen river 150-feet, or 46-meters, below it, which also started a fire from the railroad car stoves.

Of the 159 people on board, 92 people were killed, and 64 people injured.

There was also a historical rail ferry that operated carrying coal and iron ore railway cars from Ashtabula to Port Burwell, Ontario, which ran from 1906 until it sank after it collided with a steamer in September of 1959.

There was an interurban line that was completed in 1901 that connected Ashtabula to Painesville, which connected it to the Cleveland, Painesville, and Eastern interurban system, which stopped operating on May 20th of 1926, for the given reason of competition from cars and buses.

The Ashtabula Lighthouse is located at the end of the west breakwater at the entrance to the busy commercial port of Ashtabula.

The current lighthouse was said to have been built in 1905, replacing earlier lighthouses that were built from the 1830s to the 1850s.

Though still an active lighthouse, in 1982 the lighthouse passed into private hands, and it was opened as a museum in 1984.

The fresnel lens was replaced by a modern beacon, and was given to the museum in 1995.

The next places we come to going down the Lake Erie shoreline from Ashtabula are just east of Cleveland.

I am going to look at the Geneva Beacon Lighthouse, the Erie Shores Golf Course and Madison Country Club; the Perry Nuclear Power Plant; Lake Erie Bluffs; Paine Falls; and the Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light.

First, the Geneva Beacon Lighthouse.

The Geneva Beacon Lighthouse is located at the Geneva State Park Marina in Geneva in northwestern Ashtabula County.

It serves recreational boat traffic for the marina as opposed to the industrial ports we have just seen in Conneaut and Ashtabula

The date given for its construction is 1980, and it is a 55-foot, or 17-meter, -tall steel structure.

The next places we come to are the Erie Shores Golf Course and the Madison Country Club, which are relatively close together, and in-between the shore of Lake Erie, US-20; I-90; the railroad tracks; and the S-shaped Grand River.

The Grand River is one of the most important waterways in northeastern Ohio, and one of the largest rivers on Ohio that flows directly into Lake Erie.

It was a key route for settlers moving into the Connecticut Western Reserve in the early 1800s.

The Perry Nuclear Power Plant and the Lake Erie Bluffs come next.

The Perry Nuclear Power Plant is situated on Lake Erie, and is 40-miles, or 64-kilometers, northeast of Cleveland.

There is a land on the grounds of the Perry plant that were designated as an urban wildlife sanctuary in 1993, where there are trees, shrubs, streams, ponds, and wetlands that are habitat for species herons, kingfishers, ducks, geese, and endangered spotted turtles, as well as the rare crane-fly orchid.

Perry is the fourth nuclear power plant that I have come across while doing this Great Lakes series, and all have been right on the lakeshore of their respective Great Lakes.

They were the Darlington Nuclear Power Station in Bowmanville, Ontario, on Lake Ontario; the Nine-Mile Point Nuclear Power Station in near Oswego, New York, on Lake Ontario; and the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant in Kincardine, Ontario, on Lake Huron.

The Lake Erie Bluffs is a 670-acre, or 271-hectare, park managed by Lake Metroparks, a public park system in Lake County, Ohio, that manages a large network of natural areas, parks and recreational facilities.

The Lake Erie Bluffs Park has a mix of up to 40-foot, or 12-meter, -high bluffs on the beach; a significant amount of wetland; and a sandy and cobbled beach along 9,000-feet, or 2,743-meters, of shoreline.

I’ll insert here my belief that all the bluffs and cliffs we are seeing is where land was previously, and it sheared off and is now below the surface of the water.

When the word “sheer” is used to refer to a cliff, it means a high area of land with a very steep side.

One of the meanings of the word “shear” spelled with an “a” is to break off, or be cut off, sharply.

A synonym of the word for “sheer cliff” is “bluff.”

Another meaning of the word “bluff” is a deception, or an attempt to deceive.

There are countless examples to choose from, but here are examples of sheared-off, unstable-eroded-looking landscape seen on this stretch of coastal road beside the Southern California Bight on the left, and the Aquinnah Cliffs on Martha’s Vineyard, which is also where the headquarters of the Wampanoag Tribe of Martha’s Vineyard is located on their historical land.

This type of thing is found all over the Earth, like the sheer cliffs of Iran’s Hengam Island’s coastline on the left, compared for similarity of appearance with the sheer white cliffs of Dover on the coast of southern England on the top right, and the cliffs along the southern coast of Australia in Victoria State where the Great Ocean Road runs for a long distance next to a sheer cliff.

Next, the Paine Falls are to the south of the nuclear power plant and the Lake Erie Bluffs Park, right next to I-90.

They are located in Paine Falls Park, which is also managed by Lake Metroparks.

Paine Falls is one of the many waterfalls that can be found in the Cleveland area.

It is a 25-foot, or 8-meter, -tall waterfall on the Grand River where there is a gorge.

Railroad history on the Grand River was centered around Lake County, and particularly Painesville, where the railroad supported regional industry and shipping.

Key railroad infrastructure included the Baltimore and Ohio (B & O) Railroad lines that were established in the late 1880s, including significant bridge structures.

The Grand River Railway was revived as a short-line in 2016 to support Lake County industry by hauling salt from the Morton Salt Mine to a CSX Interchange after CSX closed the line in 2002.

Historically, the railroad along the Grand River was defined by its role as a vital industrial corridor, connecting the inland steel mills of Youngstown, Ohio, with the shipping docks of Fairport Harbor.

Painesville, the county seat of Lake County, was historically part of the Connecticut Western Reserve.

It was named after General Edward Paine, an officer in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, who was one of the first settlers of the Western Reserve.

With its location on key roads and railroads, Painesville became a broader part of the industrial network of northeast Ohio, and became a serious manufacturing center in the late 1800s and early 1900s, with key sectors being metal fabrication and machining; chemical production; electrical components; and plastics and industrial materials.

One of many was the Industrial Rayon Corporation Plant in Painesville.

It was a major employer from 1938 until its closure in 1980, at which time the site was abandoned.

It produced 12.5-million pounds of viscose rayon every year for textiles and tire-cord, clothing, and parachutes, and was known for demanding, high-temperature chemical preocesses.

There are two lighthouses in Painesville that I would like to mention – the Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Lighthouse and the Fairport Harbor Lighthouse.

The Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Lighthouse is near the entrance to the Grand River at the end of the breakwater at Headlands Beach State Park.

We are told that it was built in 1925 to replace the Fairport Harbor Lighthouse.

It is an automated lighthouse , and while the lighthouse itself is closed to the public, the public can walk up to it on the breakwater from the state park and view it from the outside.

The original Fairport Harbor Lighthouse still stands, but these days is a maritime museum.

It is located at the intersection of Second and High Streets in the village of Fairport Harbor.

It was said to have been constructed in 1871.

Like what we saw back at the Ashtabula Lighthouse and Maritime Museum, the fresnel lens that was from Fairport Harbor Lighthouse is also on display in the maritime museum here at the same location.

From the Painesville area we are next entering Cleveland, the largest city on Lake Erie, and the second-largest in Ohio after Columbus, the state capital.

The places I am going to take a look at first here are the Coulby Lighthouse; the Beachland Ballroom & Tavern, near the location of the historical Euclid Beach Park; Rockefeller Park; the Cleveland East Entrance Lighthouse; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Garfield Monument; and the Rockefeller Obelisk.

First, the Coulby Lighthouse.

The Coulby Lighthouse is in Wickliffe on the outskirts of Cleveland.

From what I could find out, it was called a folly that is part of Coulby Park.

A folly is defined as a decorative building that doesn’t serve much of a purpose, even if it is meant to look like it does.

British-born Harry C. Coulby was known as the “Czar of the Great Lakes.”

He was partner in Pickland Mathers & Company, a shipping and iron ore mining company with a fleet of boats on Lake Erie that shipped iron ore from Minnesota to steel mills all over the Great Lakes.

Coulby was the first elected mayor of Wickliffe from 1916 to 1921, and his former mansion, known as “Coulallenby,” is the City Hall of Wickliffe these days.

Next stop, the Beachland Ballroom & Tavern.

It is a popular music venue and tavern that got its start in 1950 as the “Croatian Liberty Home,” a center for social activities for the local immigrant community, with the original structure including the ballroom and tavern, with more bar facilities added later.

The ballroom floor is a vintage, well-maintained, hardwood floor.

This location got my attention because I have had occasion to research historic dance halls with amazing hardwood floors that have long been demolished and replaced by housing.

Like the Cloudland Dance Hall in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Cloudland was used as a Ballroom and Dance Hall, and during the 40’s was especially popular in the local scene.

The viewer who told me about it said that the Cloudland hardwood dance floor was naturally-sprung, and when the dancers were pumping, the floor could bounce around nine inches.  

The Cloudland Ballroom and Dance Hall itself was demolished by a developer in November of 1982, and the Cloudland Apartments occupy the former location of this iconic landmark.

Another one was the Kings Hall in Aberystwyth, Wales.

It also had a great hardwood floor on which to dance, and said to have been built in the Art Deco Architecture style in 1934 (which would have been between World War I and World War II).

Major band concerts were also held there, like Led Zeppelin in January of 1973 during their Strange Affinity British Tour in 1972 and 1973.

The King’s Hall was demolished in 1989, for the given reason of apparent structural weaknesses and disrepair, and replaced by the King’s Hall residential flats and commercial units.

The Beachland Ballroom and Tavern is located near the location of what was the Euclid Beach Park, another historical trolley park.

The Euclid Beach Park was located on the southern shore of Lake Erie in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood.

It operated as a trolley amusement park until 1963 when daily streetcar service from Public Square ended, and continued as an amusement park until 1969 when it closed for good.

Remnants of the Euclid Beach Park include the arched main gate, which still stands, and having been declared a Cleveland Landmark, it is protected from demolition.

It was moved in January of 2025 from the roadway to an adjacent lot to be made the centerpiece of a park.

Another remnant is a carousel that was sold at auction after the park closed in 1969 and moved to another park in Maine, but efforts were made to get it back, and it finally returned home to Cleveland in 2014 where it is at the Cleveland History Center in University Circle.

Next down the lakeshore from here we come to Rockefeller Park and the Cleveland East Entrance Lighthouse.

Rockefeller Park was named in honor of Standard Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, who donated land for the park.

Rockefeller Park stretches for 2-miles, or 3-kilometers, along Doan Brook, and runs a northwesterly path between Shaker Heights and goes in-between the University Circle neighborhood and ends at Gordon Park on the city’s lakefront.

It is immediately adjacent to Wade Park to the southeast; and across Euclid Avenue on its northwest border.

It is the largest park within city limits and was first opened to the public in 1897.

The greenhouse at Rockefeller Park first opened in 1905, and is a city-owned botanical garden and greenhouse, and hosts a diverse selection of indoor and outdoor gardens.

Also, the Cultural Gardens are a collection of gardens at Rockefeller Park that commemorate many of the ethnic groups who have enriched Cleveland and the United States.

The Cleveland East Entrance Lighthouse is located on a breakwaer at the entrance of the Cuyahoga River and Cleveland Harbor, and we are told has existed there since 1915.

It is still active and maintained as a navigational aid by the U. S. Coast Guard.

To the southeast of here we come to the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Garfield Monument and the Rockefeller Obelisk.

The Cleveland Museum of Art was said to have been established on the southern edge of Wade Park and first opened in 1916.

We are told the original neoclassical building of white Georgian marble was designed by a local architectural firm.

So many buildings like these are proportionally much larger than the people who come to visit them.

The nearby Garfield Monument is the final resting place of the assassinated American President James A. Garfield, who was shot in Washington, DC, on july 2nd of 1881 and died a couple of months later on September 19th of 1881.

It is a mausoleum in Lake View Cemetery that was said to have been constructed starting in 1885 and dedicated in 1890, and exhibits a combination of Byzantine, Gothic and Romanesque Revival architectural-styles.

The Rockefeller Obelisk is also in the Lake View Cemetery, which is on Euclid Avenue.

It is almost 70-feet, or 21-meters, -high obelisk and marks the final resting place of John D. Rockefeller, along with his wife and mother.

The years between 1873-1930s were known as Cleveland’s Gilded Age, when nearly half of the world’s millionaires lived in Cleveland. 

Euclid Avenue was known as Millionaire’s Row, and it was home to some of the nation’s most powerful industrialist’s, including John D. Rockefeller and Samuel Mather, a co-founder of Pickands Mather and Company, the shipping and iron mining company mentioned previously in association with Harry Coulby back in Wickliffe, which was also a popular place for the millionaires to have summer homes.

The Rockefeller Mansion in Cleveland was located at Euclid Avenue and East 40th Street, that he was said to have purchased in 1868 and where his children were born.

This mansion on Euclid Avenue was demolished in 1938, and where it was located is now part of an inter-belt highway.

The Rudd-Rockefeller House on Euclid Avenue was purchased by Mary Ann Rockefeller, the sister of John D. Rockefeller, and her husband, William Cullen Rudd, in 1905, and remained in their family until 1966.

It is currently being restored with plans for it to become a museum.

The 45-room Samuel Mather Mansion at 2605 Euclid Avenue was said to have been built between 1906 and 1910, and one of the last surviving mansions on Euclid Avenue.

The home has been owned by Cleveland State University since 1967.

This brings me to the downtown Cleveland area.

The places I am going to highlight here are the Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport; Huntington Bank Field; the present train station and former Union Depot locations; Lighthouse Park; the Cleveland East Breakwater Lighthouse and Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead lighthouse; the Cargill Salt Mine and C & P Ore Docks on Whiskey Island, and on or near the Cuyahoga River, the Rockefeller Building; the former Cleveland Union Terminal; Rocket Arena & Progressive Field; Westside Market; Cleveland Velodrome; and one of several Ohio & Erie Canal Parks.

First, the Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport.

Also called the Downtown Airport, it is located directly on Lake Erie.

It is a general aviation airport just north of Cleveland’s Central Business District close to major attractions and hotels in the city.

Interestingly, it is also known as the “Landfill Airport” for the given reason that during the Great Depression in the 1930s, the land it is situated on was used as a dumping site for the city’s waste.

Then we are told after it opened in 1947, the airport’s runways were expanded using dredged material from the Cuyahoga River to create solid land for the runways.

Next up is Huntington Bank Field adjacent to the Downtown Airport.

Huntington Bank Field is currently the home stadium of the National Football League’s Cleveland Browns, as well as serving as a large event venue for the community like other sporting events and concerts.

It also sits on the old landfill and dump site.

The stadium is next to the former Union Depot site and current Cleveland Train Station for Amtrak passenger service, and Lighthouse Park as well.

The former Cleveland Union Depot was said to have been built in 1866.

This picture was notated as having been taken in 1867, which would have been only two years after the end of the American Civil War in our historical narrative.

The Cleveland Union Depot was used by multiple railroads over the years.

The Pennsylvania Railroad was the only railroad still using this depot after 1930, when the Cleveland Union Terminal first opened for use in a different location, which we will come to shortly.

The Cleveland Union Depot building was demolished in 1959, six-years after the Pennsylvania Railroad stopped using it in 1953.

The Cleveland Union Depot was located where the parking lot nicknamed “the Pit” at the Huntington Bank Stadium is today, which is frequently used for tailgating during the Browns’ football games.

The nearby Cleveland Train Station, known as the Cleveland Lakefront Station, in front of the stadium not far from the former Union Depot site, has been used by Amtrak since 1977.

It serves Lakeshore Limited passenger train from New York & Boston to Chicago; the Floridian line from Chicago to Miami, and the local Rapid Transit Waterfront Line.

The nearby Lighthouse Park was the former location of the Cleveland Harbor Lighthouse.

The construction of the original Cleveland Harbor Lighthouse was said to have been completed in 1830 on a bluff at the end of what is now West 9th Street.

This area was a significant bluff in the 1820s and 1830s, but it has since been altered by industrial expansion in the Flats and the construction of the Main Avenue Bridge.

Then we are told the lighthouse tower was rebuilt in 1872, but that by 1894, only 22-years later, this lighthouse was decommissioned.

Then this structure remained until around 1937, when we are told the Main Avenue Bridge was built.

All that remains of this lighthouse are its wall and steps in Lighthouse Park. which features things like built-in seating, bench swings, electrical hook-ups for device charging, and a light-bar feature.

Next, the Cleveland East Breakwater Lighthouse and Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead lighthouses are located close to each other at the main entrance to Cleveland Harbor.

The present Cleveland East Breakwater Lighthouse was said to have been built in 1910, and that it was automated in 1959.

It is still an active navigational aid and not open to the public.

Interesting to note the megalithic stone wall next to the lighthouse.

The Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse was said to have been built around the same time as the East Breakwater Lighthouse.

While it still functions as a navigational aid for maritime safety, the Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse was purchased privately for almost $500,000 at a U. S. General Services auction in 2023.

Now I am going to take a look at Whiskey Island situated on the west-side of the entrance to the Cuyahoga River, and in particular, the C & P Ore Docks and the Cargill Salt Mine.

In our historical narrative, Whiskey Island was the first piece of solid land in the swamps that lined the entrance to the Cuyahoga River when Moses Cleaveland surveyed the area in 1796 for the Connecticut Western Reserve.

The first permanent settler of Cleveland, Lorenzo Carter, built his family farm on Whiskey Island, which got its name for a distillery built on the site in the 1830s.

We are told that starting with the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal in 1825, the area was settled largely by Irish immigrants.

Then in 1831, investors from Buffalo and Brooklyn purchased the Carter farm and divided its 80-acres into allotments along 22 streets, and manufacturing plants and docks were constructed.

We are told the C & P Ore Docks were built by the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad in the late 1800s, and used until they were abandoned in the 1990s.

At their peak, they handled millions of tons of iron ore every year.

The four towering Hulett Iron Ore Unloaders have been removed.

Two were removed and scrapped in 2000, and the remaining two were removed in 2024 and then scrapped.

There are some remnants of ore dock infrastructure that exist and in-use as part of the bulk terminals of the working industrial waterfront.

The Cargill Salt Mine in downtown Cleveland on Whiskey Island is one of the largest salt mines in the world, and one of two salt mines in Ohio, the other being the Morton Salt Mine in Fairport Harbor.

The Cargill Salt Mine is located 1,800-feet, or 549-meters, beneath Lake Erie and is accessed by way of Whiskey Island.

It extends roughly 4-miles under Lake Erie, or around 6-kilometers, and covers about 16-square-miles, or 41-square-kilometers.

It is a massive 24/7 salt-mining operation that produces an estimated 2.6-million to 3.5-million tons of rock salt per year, that we are told is used in large part for de-icing roads in the Great Lakes Region in the winter months.

I found the massive salt mine in Goderich when I was looking at the Ontario-side of Lake Huron in Part 4 of this series.

Goderich has significant salt mining operations at the Goderich Salt Mine, considered the largest underground salt mine in the world, and has been in operation since 1959.

The Goderich Salt Mine has a production capacity of 9-million-tons per year, and produces 7,250,000-tons per year.

It is 1,800-feet, or 549-meters, under Lake Huron, the same distance that the Cargill Salt Mine is under Lake Erie.

To put this into perspective, these mines are as deep as the 1,815-foot, or 553-meter, CN Tower in Toronto is tall.

As I mentioned, Whiskey Island is situated next to the entrance of the Cuyahoga River.

The Cuyahoga River was crucial to the industrial development of northeast Ohio, particularly Cleveland and Akron, by transporting raw materials like iron ore and coal, and powering the growth of steel, rubber, and manufacturing industries.

Cleveland became one of America’s key manufacturing centers in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries.

Where it was located on Lake Erie made it perfect for shipping raw materials like iron ore and coal, and oil-refining and steel- and machinery-manufacturing boomed here.

Cleveland was where John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in 1870, which transformed the city into a major oil refining hub.

The intense industrial use of the Cuyahoga River caused extreme pollution, and the river caught fire thirteen times in our history between 1868 and 1969.

The 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River led to the creation of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972 which mandated industrial pollution control and provided investments for modernizing sewage infrastructure.

In today’s world, the Cuyahoga River has shifted to a center for recreation and tourism, though it is still a working waterway for large freighters to transport raw materials to the factories that remain.

Next I am going to look at the following places on or near the Cuyahoga River, including the location of the former Cleveland Union Terminal; the Rockefeller Building; Rocket Arena & Progressive Field; the Westside Market; the Cleveland Velodrome; and one of several Ohio & Erie Canal Parks.

First a few things about the historic Cleveland Union Terminal.

The Cleveland Union Terminal was described as a monumental 1920s project that turned Cleveland’s Public Square into a major transportation and commercial hub anchored by the 52-story Terminal Tower.

It was said to have been constructed between 1923 and 1930.

The Terminal Tower was the tallest building in the world outside New York City, and designed to be a city inside the city, featuring shops, hotels, and a post office in addition to the train station.

When the Cleveland Union Terminal Station opened in 1930, it was one of the busiest rail hubs in the country.

Then we are told that by the 1960s and 1970s, passenger rail travel declined sharply due to cars and air travel.

As previously mentioned, Amtrak took over passenger rail service in 1971 and continued to use the Cleveland Unon Terminal Station for passenger service until 1977, when it moved over to the Cleveland Lakefront Station and that marked the end of rail service here.

Today the Terminal Tower is part of the Tower City Center, and offers shopping, dining, entertainment, office space and local RTA Rapid Transit lines still operate out of this location.

The Rockefeller building is on the other side of the street from the Tower Terminal Complex.

The Rockefeller Building was said to have been built between 1903 and 1905 at the corner of West 6th and Superior Avenue, and displays the Rockefeller name on the side of the building since it was built.

As we have already seen, John D. Rockefeller’s companies were instrumental in turning Cleveland into an industrial powerhouse.

The Rockefeller Building is an entry point into the popular Warehouse District, first a historic residential area, and then the center of Cleveland’s wholesale commercial area.

These days it is a popular hotspot with things like bars, nightclubs, shops, restaurants and apartments.

The Rocket Arena and Progressive Field are directly to the east of Tower Center City and the Rockefeller Building.

The Rocket Arena is the home venue of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers and the NHL’s Cleveland Monsters, as well as being a multi-purpose venue for other sports’ teams and community events.

Progressive Field is the home venue of the MLB’s Cleveland Guardians, a team that used to be known as the Cleveland Indians.

What I find interesting is that I have found that in city after city, major league sporting venues like the three I’ve looked at in Cleveland -the Huntington Bank Field, Rocket Arena & Progressive Field – are found near railroad yards and tracks or former railroad tracks.

Like Baltimore.

Camden Yards was previously a yard for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and was converted into today’s Oriole Park for the Baltimore Major League Baseball Team, first opening in April of 1992…

…and the M & T Bank Stadium, the home of the National Football League’s Baltimore Ravens, is located next to Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and first opened in September of 1998.

There are still railyards fairly close to this location today.

There are countless examples to choose from, but this gives you the idea. 

I think this finding is significant and not random, and believe it’s about energy transference.

From what I am seeing in my research, the railroads were an important component for the transference of free energy on the original grid system, and I think that has been replaced by the harvesting of human energy without our awareness since everything is on or near existing and former railroad tracks, from sporting venues like these to our roadways and highways.

The last three places I want to look at before I end this post are the West Side Market; the Cleveland Velodrome; and one of the Ohio & Erie Canal Reservations on the Cuyahoga River, which are park areas.

First, the West Side Market.

The West Side Market is an historic public market owned by the City of Cleveland that has been continuously operating since it first opened in 1912, and has hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.

Besides its huge variety of vendors and cultural diversity, the West Side Market building is famous for its vaulted ceiling, and 137-foot, or 42-meter, -tall clocktower.

We are told this building was built specifically for the purposes of being a marketplace, but it definitely has features that remind me of a train station, like the previously seen Terminal Tower of the original Cleveland Union Terminal Station that is now Tower City Center.

Next up, the Cleveland Velodrome.

Velodromes are arenas for track cycling, so the Cleveland Velodrome is an outdoor bicycle racing track used for track cycling.

It opened in August of 2012 and is the only velodrome in Ohio.

It features a 545-foot, or 166-meter, steep, wooden track with very steep, banked turns.

We are told the first velodromes were constructed in the late 1870s, with the oldest being the Preston Park Velodrome in Brighton, England, said to have been built by the British Army in 1877.

These velodromes bring to mind an historic structure that I found out about when I looked into West Baden Springs in French Lick, Indiana.

The hotel for the resort was said to have been built in 1901 in the Moorish architectural style, and from 1902 to 1913, was said to have the largest dome in the World.

Along with having a trolley system…

…it had the largest bicycle track in the country, which was a covered double- decker.

The double-decker bicycle track, however, was said to have been nearly demolished by a windstorm that blew through the area on July 25th of 1925…

…and when the owner received an insurance check for $100,000, he tore the rest of the structure down, and it was gone by the fall of 1925.

The last place I want to look before I end this post is the Ohio and Erie Canal Reservation, which is a 325-acre, or 132-hectare, park administered by Cleveland Metroparks.

It features a 7.2-mile, or 12-kilometer, trail, on the historic Ohio and Erie Canal, and runs between Harvard Avenue in Cleveland and Rockside Road in Valley View.

First, some background information on what we are told about the Ohio and Erie Canal.

The 308-mile, or 496-kilometer, -long canal was said to have been constructed, from 1825 to 1832 to connect Lake Erie at Cleveland with Portsmouth on the Ohio River, and that it only carried freight from 1827 to 1861, when the construction of railroads ended demand.

The year of 1861 was also the first year of the American Civil War, which ended in 1865.

Then from 1862 to 1913, the canal served as a water source for industries and towns.

In 1913, much of the canal system was abandoned after important parts of it were badly flooded.

The canal was said to have been dug manually largely by Irish immigrants, who used picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows, and using horses, oxen and dynamite to clear trees and blast through rock.

Now I would like to share with you what I found when I took a look around to see what is found on or near this Cleveland Metropark recreational parkland.

In-between the Harvard Avenue Trailhead access to the Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation to the South; the house from the movie “A Christmas Story” to the west; and the Cleveland Velodrome to the East, I found places like, but not limited to, the CSX Clark Avenue railyards; Norfolk Southern Railyards; the Cleveland Cliffs Cleveland Works, a steel manufacturer, and its railway; and Industrial Valley.

Industrial Valley, often referred to as “The Flats,” or the “Cuyahoga Valley Neighborhood,” is a heavily industrialized district along the banks of the Cuyahoga River south of downtown Cleveland.

It is a hub for heavy industry, which includes, besides the Cleveland Cliffs steel manufacturer, chemical manufacturers, petroleum terminals, and scrap metal recycling centers.

It is also the location where John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870, cementing Cleveland’s status as an industrial powerhouse.

As we go down along the Ohio and Erie Reservation towards where it ends at Rockside Road in Valley View, we find more of the same kinds of things, like Charter Steel; storage facilities for BP Pipelines North America, which manages over 3,299-miles, or 6,150-kilometers, of pipelines transporting crude oil, natural gas and refined products; the large Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant, and countless other industrial and commercial locations in the surrounding area.

There’s loads to unpack here at this location alone, but I would like to leave this thought for your consideration about this industrializing after finding here as well as many other places throughout this series.

Along with rewiring the original free energy grid, which was for the good of all, into what is known as the Matrix, an energy-harvesting system designed to benefit the very few, this industrial rewiring process process has transformed and inverted the original regenerative and free energy grid circuitry into an extractive energy system, and this is being done right in front of our eyes, but without our knowledge or consent as to what is actually taking place here.

I am going to end this post here, and pick it up in west Cleveland in the next part of the series as I continue to work my way around Lake Erie to the end of this series on the Great Lakes at Fort Erie in Ontario, across the Niagara River from Buffalo, New York.

I decided to dust-off research I have done over the last eight years concerning Iran and the surrounding region with the world events taking place right now.

The research I am sharing with you here comes primarily from tracking leylines through here, as well as research I have done on our modern history, including, among many other things, the role the British East India Company played in the history of this part of the world.

What comes to the surface throughout this post is that there is much that we don’t know about Iran, the greater region, and evidence for how it ties into the existence of a worldwide, interconnected civilization that has been completely hidden from our awareness.

Persia, today’s Iran, historically was part of the vast Persian Empire, which in more ancient times, from what we are told, included all of the following present-day countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.

On the Nowruz, or New Year, of 1935, the Shah of Iran at the time, Reza Shah Pahlavi, asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran in formal correspondence.

This also changed the usage of the country’s national identity from Persian to Iranian.

During World War II, which took place between 1939 and 1945, the first Big Three wartime conference, the Tehran Conference was held in November of 1943, in which the Allies committed to open a second front against Nazi Germany, and took place two years after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August of 1941.

Reza Shah Pahlavi was deposed in September of 1941 as a result of the British and Soviet Invasion of Iran during World War II because he was seen as a German ally even though Iran had maintained neutrality in the conflict, and the invasion took place purportedly to secure Iran’s oil fields and ensure Allied supply lines along the Persian Corridor.

Reza Shah Pahlavi was later replaced as Shah by his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was the last Shah, or Emperor, of Iran.

The coronation took place in 1967 at Tehran’s Golestan Palace, where along with the Shah, his wife Farah was crowned Empress, and his son, Reza Pahlavi, was named Crown Prince, at the age of 6.

Golestan Palace is the former royal complex, and said to be one of the oldest historic monuments in Tehran.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013, it is noteworthy for many reasons, including spectacular mirror mosaics and tile-work.

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown as Iran’s Head-of-State on February 11, 1979.

The Iranian Revolution involved a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi Dynasty and led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the Islamic Republic of Iran, and what is called a unitary theocratic-republican authoritarian presidential system subject to a Supreme Leader, or Grand Ayatollah, initially by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, an Islamist who was the leader of one of the rebel factions.

The revolution was supported by various Islamist and leftist organizations, as well as student movements.

One of the events taking place in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, which I remember well because I was in 10th-grade at the time, was the Iran Hostage Crisis from 1979 to 1981, in which there were 66 American diplomats and citizens taken captive in Tehran beginning on November 4th of 1979, when Iranian militants and students stormed the U. S. Embassy.

The Iranian Hostage Crisis severely impacted the Presidency of Jimmy Carter, and included a failed rescue attempt known by the cover-name Operation Eagle Claw, in which 8 servicemembers were killed in April of 1980.

On January 19th of 1981, Iran and the United States signed an agreement to release the remaining 52 Iranian hostages after 14-months, or 444-days, of captivity, of which the release took place on the following day, minutes after the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States.

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi died in exile in Egypt in 1980.

Reza Pahlavi and his mother Farah, who have been living in exile throughout this time, are still very much alive today.

Things changed considerably for the people in what became the Islamic Republic of Iran after 1979.

This revolution took place in a country that was experiencing prosperity and produced profound change at great speed, and replaced a pro-western, secular monarchy with an anti-western, Islamic Republic.

These pictures were before the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran…

…and this picture of the citizenry was taken in 2012.

So what has been going on here?

How did Islam in Persia AKA Iran morph from the Sufi Islam of Rumi, a 13th-century Persian…

…who was an Islamic, scholar, theologian, mystic and poet.

Who were the Sufis?

They were mystics, and practitioners of the inward dimension of Islam.

Sufism emphasizes personal experience with the Divine, and concentrating one’s energy on spiritual development rather than focusing on the teachings of human religious scholars.

Rumi established the Mevlevi Order in Konya, Turkey, otherwise known as Whirling Dervishes,  who practice a spinning dance used to connect with the Divine.

How did the Sufi Islam of Rumi morph into the radical fundamentalist Islam that came into power in Iran?

And I think what happened to Iran with the imposition of the Islamic Republic of Iran was the blueprint for the globalist Marxist-Islamist takeover of the western world.

I think it has something to do with this quote from Albert Pike, described as an American author, poet, orator and prominent member of the Freemasons.

The military blueprint for three world wars were said to have been contained a letter written by Albert Pike, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, to the leader of the Bavarian Order of the Illuminati, Giuseppe Mazzini, in 1871.

So let’s go back in time through the history of the region to see what is discoverable, both that which is not readily available to find except through pattern recognition and intuition, and that which is found in the historical narrative we’ve been given.

There is information available to find through pattern recognition, but it ends up being a jumble of puzzle pieces that hint at larger connections but do not present a clear picture.

Like when I found the Tomb of Aurangzeb in Khuldabad in India when tracking a long-distance leyline back in April of 2020.

Aurangzeb was considered the last of the strong Mughal Emperors, and who died in 1707.

Aurangzeb means “Ornament of the Throne” in Persian.

What?! A Persian name for the ruler of the Mughal Empire of the Indian subcontinent?

His burial site is located on at the complex of the dargah, or shrine, of Sheikh Zainuddin, a Sufi saint of the Dahkan, also known as Deccan, of India, and the spiritual and religious teacher of Aurangzeb.

As a matter of fact, Khuldabad is popularly known as the “Valley of Saints” because several Sufi saints resided there in the 14th-century.

The last Mughal Emperor in India, Bahadur Shah Zafar, also a devout Sufi, was deposed by the British East India Company in 1858, and exiled to Rangoon in Burma.

Through the Government of India Act of 1858, the British Crown assumed direct control of the British East India Company-held territories in India in the form of the new British Raj.

The Criminal Tribes Act was first passed by the British Colonial Government in 1871.

It criminalized entire communities by designating them as habitual criminals, and restrictions on their movements imposed, including men having to report to the police once per week.

In 1876, Queen Victoria assumed the title of Empress of India.

King-Emperor and Queen-Empress were the titles used by the British monarchs in India between 1876 and 1948.

The “Khorasan” was a historical region comprised of land in present-day Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikstan.

Khorasan is said to mean something along the lines of “Land of the Sun,” or “Where the Sun Arrives from” in Persian.

I found the same idea in Turkey, which was known historically as Anatolia.

The meaning of Anatolia is also something along the lines of “Rising Sun” in ancient Greek.

Also, the “Land of the Rising Sun” is a popular nickname for the country of Japan.

So what this tells me is that the whole concept of the sun always rising on the empires of the ancient advanced civilization was embedded in language and collective awareness.

In similar fashion, we learned that the “Sun never set on the British Empire.”

We are told that between the 18th- and 20th-centuries, Britain acquired more and more territories, making it the largest empire in history.

When I saw the Persian name of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, I vaguely recollected something about the Aryans. It rang the bell of a distant memory.

In looking up definitions of Aryan, here is what I am finding:

The Aryans brought Hindu religious thought to India;

The term was used by the Indo-Aryan people of the Vedic period in Ancient India as a religious label for themselves;

The Iranian people used the term as an ethnic label for themselves in the Avesta scriptures, the religious texts of Zoroastrianism, and the word “Aryan” forms the source of the country name Iran;

The definition of an Aryan, described by the Nazi Germans as a member of the Master Race, was not Jewish and had nordic features.

What exactly was the Nazi obsession with creating a Master Race all about anyway?

Was this actually a desire to re-create the original Master Builder Race?

Giant human beings who, among many other things, were capable of carving massive infrastructure right out of rock like it was no big deal?

Which brings me to the question: Who were the People of Ar?

Mt. Ararat, the legendary landing place of Noah’s Ark, was located in the historical Armenia, though now is within the boundaries of modern Turkey.

The Sumerians called Ararat “Arrata,” and they tell of this land of their ancestors in the Armenian Highlands in their epic poem of Gilgamesh.

Compare the reed boat pictured here on the left with the Sumerian Gilgamesh with an ancient Egyptian boat, in the middle with a reed boat on Lake Chad in Africa; on the right with a reed boat on Lake Titicaca in Peru.

As a matter of fact, Arrata is said to be now recognized as the world’s most ancient, known civilization, dating back to 22,000 BCE, developing in the steppes north of the Black Sea, in modern Ukraine and believed to spread out from there to India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Western China, and across Europe.

I found out that ancient India was known as Bharata Varsha at one time…or does the term Bharata Varsha refer to the entire earth?

Where else can I find “Ars?”

Tartary, or Tartaria, a historical region in northern and Central Asia…

…the Barbary Coast, or Barbaria, the name given to a vast region stretching from the Nile River Delta, across Northern Africa, to the Canary Islands…

…Gandhara, an ancient Buddhist Kingdom primarily in what is now Pakistan, and part of the Kushan Empire…

…Kumari Kandam, a lost continent in the Indian Ocean…

…Arabia…

…Arizona in the United States, with its flag on the top, compared with the flag of Tibet on the bottom, both looking very much like sunrays in the background…

…and Arkansas in the United States.

It’s interesting to note that the same winged lion symbolism holding a sword that served as Iran’s official emblem until the 1979 Iranian Revolution…

…is found on the remnants of the former Reynolds-Davis Wholesale Grocery Store in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the building for which was said to have been built in 1882 and the oldest building in the downtown historic district.

It was destroyed by a tornado in 1996.

The previously-mentioned Albert Pike made his home in Fort Smith in 1832.

Albert Pike in his day was the most powerful Freemason in the world when he became the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction in 1858, the same year that the Government of India Act enabled the British Crown to assume direct control of the British East India Company-held territories in India.

Along with holding the position of Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction, he held the position of Grand Master of the Central Directory in Washington, DC, and Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry.

I believe the identity of the Earth’s original people and worldwide energy grid system were deliberately hijacked by dark beings with a negative agenda, who definitely don’t want us to wake up to our true history and who we really are.

Here’s the thing.

By Universal Law, we have to give our consent for what they have done here, and the only way they can accomplish this consent is by outright lies, deception and duplicity because if people knew the true agenda of these controllers, the majority of Humanity would never, ever, ever accept anything that has taken place here.

They wanted to rule over it all, take all wealth for themselves, and control the destiny of Humanity for their own benefit, not ours. And more and more people are waking up to this every day ~ we do not consent…and we never consented!

Now I am going to go back aways in time to see what our historical narrative tells us about this part of the world, with examples from the Strait of Hormuz, the historical Persia, Khorasan and Mughal Empire presented from my past research on leylines through this region.

I am going to start at what the historical narrative tells us about the Strait of Hormuz, which I found tracking a long-distance leyline through here from Amsterdam Island.

First, thing to mention is the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494.

This Treaty divided the newly “discovered” lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire (Crown of Castile), along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands, off the West Coast of Africa, one year after Pope Alexander VI had issued the Inter Cetera Bull in 1493, which essentially authorized the grab of the lands of the original civilization.

A “Papal Bull” is an official papal letter or document, named after the leaden seal used to authenticate it, and they figure prominently in the historical narrative we have been given.

Thirty-five-years later, the Treaty of Zaragoza was signed, which specified the Antimeridian to the line of demarcation specified by the Treaty of Tordesillas, defining the areas of Spanish and Portuguese influence in Asia, and used as the means to justify the colonization of the world by the Spanish and Portuguese.

We are told that in 1497, Europeans landed in the region for the first time in the form of the Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama. 

I personally have a lot of questions about the veracity of what our historical narrative tells us about the history of this time period because of the number of early Portuguese explorers, for example, that I came across that had their first biographies written by German and English Biographers in the 19th-century.

Whatever the case may be, we are told the European invasion began in 1508, starting with the Portuguese sending seven warships to protect their interests there. 

This is an etching showing what Hormuz City looked like in 1522.

This is said to be the old Portuguese fort on Hormuz Island, and was supposedly built after the Portuguese Duke Afonso de Albuquerque captured the island in 1507, and it became part of the greater Portuguese Empire.

Duke Afonso de Albuquerque has gone down in our history as a great Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman.

He was Viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515.

Among other goals of conquest, he sought to secure the spice trade for the Portuguese Empire, which include control of Malacca in the Spice Islands; Goa in India: Hormuz in the Strait of Hormuz; and the port city of Aden in Yemen on the Gulf of Aden near the Red Sea.

Here is a photo of the vaulted arches of the Portuguese fort on Hormuz Island on the left; compared with the vaulted arches of the Seville Cathedral in the capital of Moorish Spain, in the middle; and on the top right is the “Spanish Gothic” architecture at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania that was torn down about 15-years ago, with its vaulted ceiling, and five-lobed Moorish arches; and the vaulted archways at Ft. Pulaski in Savannah, Georgia, on the bottom right.

While we are taught all of these architectural similarities were occurring at different times across countries and continents during centuries when, according to what we are also taught in history class, transportation was limited and communication was regional. 

In 1622, the British helped the Persian Emperor, Shah Abbas, in expelling the Portuguese from Hormuz Island in 1622.

In return, the East India Company was allowed to establish a trading post in Bandar-e-Abbas on the southern coast of what is known as Iran today.

We are told that as a result of a series of Royal Charters granted by King Charles II, starting in 1661, the East India Company was granted the rights to autonomous territorial acquisitions; to mint money; to command fortresses and troops and form alliances; to make war and peace; and to exercise both civil and criminal jurisdiction over the acquired areas.

The British interest in the Persian Gulf increased as India’s importance in the British imperial system increased in the 18th- and 19th-centuries.

The “Persian Gulf Residency” was a sub-division of the British Empire from 1822 to 1971, during which time the United Kingdom maintained varying degrees of economic and political control over several states in the Persian Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates, and at different times, over the southern portions of Persia (Iran), Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar, known collectively as the “Trucial States,” the name given to a group in southeastern Arabia who had signed protective treaties, or “truces” with the British between 1820 and 1892.

The Strait of Hormuz is the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open Ocean. 

The Musandam Peninsula is on the south coast of the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran is on the north coast of it.

The governance of Musandam Peninsula is shared by the countries of the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

The Tell of Kush is an archeological site in the Musandam Peninsula, and situated on an important trade route.

It won’t be the last time was see a “Kush” on these alignments as I go through what I found this part of the world.

Telegraph Island in the Strait of Hormuz is located in what was named the Elphinstone Inlet for the East India Company’s then-Governor of Bombay, Mountstuart Elphinstone, and was the location of a telegraph repeater station built by the British there in 1864, only to be abandoned in the mid-1870s , and remains deserted to this day.

We are told that the slang term in English “going ’round the bend,” meaning a feeling of exasperation, came from the telegraph workers who were stationed there, with its heat, rocks, and isolated location.

The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s biggest oil transit waterway “chokepoint.”

At least 20% of the world’s petroleum passes through here, and one-third of the world’s liquefied natural gas, and is a highly important strategic location for international trade.

Not surprisingly, this is a tense area, to say the least!

The Strait of Hormuz has been site of many military conflicts and attacks over the years, including but not limited to the 1984 Tanker War that took place during the Iran-Iraq War when Iraq attacked the oil terminals and tankers on Iran’s Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, said to have been done to provoke Iran into retaliating with extreme measures, and lasted for several years.

The islands of the Strait of Hormuz are windows to a hidden history.

Like the small island of Abu Musa.

The island of  Abu Musa is contested between the United Arab Emirates and Iran.  

It has been administered by Iran as part of the Hormozgan Province since 1971.

It is the furthest Island from the Iranian coast, and is strategically important as it sits near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, and because of sea-depth, ships and oil tankers must pass between Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunb islands, also administered by Iran, on their way through.

The size of Abu Musa is 4.9-square-miles, or 12.8-kilometers-squared.

Abu Musa City is the largest settlement on the island, with a population of somewhere around 2,000 people.

Between 1908 and 1968, the British controlled the Abu Musa, along with other islands in the Persian Gulf.

There are iron oxide deposits on Abu Musa.

The British interest in the Persian Gulf had increased as India’s importance in the British imperial system increased in the 18th- and 19th-centuries, and the East India Company became responsible for conducting British foreign policy in the Persian Gulf as the Crown’s regional agent.

The East India Company established their Residency at Bushehr, on the Persian Gulf, and another one later at Basar,

In 1822, the Bushehr and Basar Residencies were combined, and Bushehr became the headquarters for the new “British Resident of the Persian Gulf” of the British Colonial Residency.

A “Chief Political Officer” was the “Chief Executive Officer,” and was subordinate to the “Governor of Bombay until 1873, at which time this position became subordinate to the Governor-General of India until 1947, when India was granted its independence from Great Britain, at which time the responsibility was tranferred to the British Foreign Office.

The British terminated its protectorate and military presence in the Persian Gulf in December of 1971.

Now to apply this history back to the small, disputed island of Abu Musa.

Before 1908, the island had been under the rule of the Sheikh of Sharjah, now one of the United Arab Emirates but which had been one of the British “Trucial States.”

After the Sheikh had cancelled a 1906 mining concession he had awarded to three Arabs, for them to mine the red iron oxide deposits on Abu Musa because they turned around and offered to sell the extracted iron oxide to a German company, the British helped him expel the workers from the island but by 1908, the British came into control of the island.

In 1968, Britain announced it would be ending its military and administrative positions in the Persian Gulf.

Two days before the official establishment of the United Arab Emirates, on November 30th of 1971, the Sheikh of the Emirate of Sharjah signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.

This MOU allowed Sharjah to have a police station on the island, and allowed Iran to station troops there, and divided the island’s energy resources between the two. This was supposed to preventing Iran from invading and taking over Abu Musa like it had the Greater and Lesser Tunb islands, two other disputed islands between the two coutnries.

However, on the same day of November 30th of 1971, a day before the British officially left the region, Iran moved its troops in and took over with the help of the Sheikh’s brother, and the dispute has existed ever since.

Now, I am going to turn my attention to the large island of Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz.

It is the largest island in Iran, and one of the largest islands in the world.  

An important trading center at one time, it is situated just a short distance off the coast of Iran. 

Qeshm Island on the top, like the Hawaiian Island of Molokai pictured below it, looks remarkably like the shape of…well…a dolphin… including land shaped like flukes and flippers.

Not only do both of these islands look like dolphins, they both have a large population of sea animals in their waters, including large sea turtles and cetaceans like whales and dolphins.

Well, you might expect that in the Hawaiian Islands, but in Iran? 

In the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s biggest oil transit waterway “chokepoint?”

As a matter of fact, Qeshm has the earth’s largest mammal, the blue whale, swimming in its waters…

…as well as sea turtles and pods of dolphins that are also found in the waters around Qeshm.

The whole island of Qeshm was designated as a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2017.

Qeshm is called the Island of Seven Wonders, and some of these wonders include places like…

…the Namakdan Salt Cave Complex on Qeshm, considered to be one of the world’s largest salt cave systems, if not the largest.

The cave system is said to be a 4-mile-, or 6.5-kilometer-, -long labyrinth, most of which is closed to the public.

This location is said to be therapeutic for treating asthma and other respiratory ailments.

Another wonder on Qeshm is the Valley of the Stars, or Stars Valley, called one of the most amazing natural sites in the world. 

But is it natural, or could that possibly be melted ancient masonry?

This view of the Valley of the Stars on Qeshm Island on the top left has a similar appearance to what’s found at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah on the bottom left, and to Red Rock State Park in California on the right.

Another of the wonders on Qeshm is found at Chahkooh Canyon.

Here here we find what is described as the intersection of two vertical canyons.

The color of the water in this view of Chakooh Canyon location on Qeshm Island on the left reminded me of the Emerald Pool in Guadelupe Canyon in Baja California, Mexico, on the right, a place that I found tracking a different long-distance alignment.

What is called the old Portuguese Castle, or Fort, on Qeshm was also said to have been built by the Portuguese under Afonso de Albuquerque in 1507 in order to manage an unforeseen insurgency by the locals, and mainly used as a warehouse for guns and artillery.

Next, the island of Hengam is located just south of Qeshm, holding the position of what looks like a flipper that broke off from the main body of the dolphin-shaped island.

Hengam is called the “Island (or Home) of the Dolphins.”

Hengam is also known for its glowing blue sea from phytoplankton at night when the water is calm and windless.

Hengam also has an intriguing-looking coast.

So, for purposes of comparison, here is a view of sheer cliffs along Hengam Island’s coastline on the left, compared for similarity of appearance with the sheer white cliffs of Dover on the coast of southern England on the top right, and the cliffs along the southern coast of Australia in Victoria State where the Great Ocean Road runs for a long distance next to a sheer cliff, and showing the location of the 12 Apostles, then name given to what are called “limestone stacks” in the water off Port Campbell.

When the word “sheer” is used to refer to a cliff, it means a high area of land with a very steep side.

One of the meanings of the word “shear” spelled with an “a” is to break off, or be cut off, sharply.

A synonym of the word for “sheer cliff” is “bluff.”

Another meaning of the word “bluff” is a deception, or an attempt to deceive.

Heading up this same long-distance circle alignment that started at Amsterdam Island, a tiny dot in the South Indian Ocean…

…I looked at what is found along the way from Bandar-e-Abbas in Iran to Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan after I left the Strait of Hormuz, and I did this back in December of 2018.

Hormozgan Province, of which Bandar-e-Abbas is a part, has 13 major cities, and 13 counties.

The people of this region are called Bandari. 

This province is also known as Iran’s Black South.   

The flavor of the traditional ceremonies and music in this part of Iran is considered African.

Moving along the circle alignment from Bandar-e-Abbas, we find the city of Kerman, the capital of Iran’s Kerman Province. 

It is one of Iran’s oldest cities.

This is the Arg-e-bam Castle, or Bam Citadel, in Kerman Province. 

It is called the largest adobe building in the world, and is a UNESCO World Heritage site believed to go back to the 6th-century BC. 

An earthquake in 2003 destroyed much of it.

Compare it in style to the Grand Mosque of Djenne, in Mali, also an example of adobe architecture and also one of the world’s largest mud-brick buildings.

Djenne is not far from the home of the Dogon, Bandiagara Escarpment, with its adobe dwelling on the left, which just happens to look a lot like Mesa Verde in Colorado on the right.

This is Itchan Kala, the inner walled town of Khiva in Uzbekistan with its adobe walls.. 

It has been a World Heritage Site since 1990.

An ancient building material, adobe bricks are made from clay, sand and straw, and molded and sun-dried rather than fired in a kiln.

And before I move on from this subject, I just want to share the astonishing similarity in appearance between the adobe buildings of Ait Ben Haddou in Morocco’s Ouarzazate province on the left, and this view of what would be considered more modern constructions in the  city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands on the right.

Back in Kerman, this is the Bazaar-e-Sartasari, one of the oldest trading centers in Iran, on the left, with a comparison for similarity of appearance with Fort Pulaski on Tybee Island, one of Georgia’s Sea Islands near Savannah, on the right.

Next in Kerman is the Hammam-e-Ganjali, an historic bathhouse said to have been built in 1631.  It is now a museum. 

Same idea with the Hammam-e-Vakil, a bath in the same complex, that has been converted into a teahouse.

Leaving Kerman, next on the alignment we come to the Lakes of Hamun, which is on the border of Iran and Afghanistan in the Sistan Basin, largely fed by the Helmand River and seasonal meltwater.

They consist of three shallow, interconnected seasonal freshwater lakes and wetlands – Lakes Helmand, Sabari, and Puzak – known collectively as Lake Hamun.

They are not permanent seasonal lakes, but rather considered the largest body of freshwater on the Iranian Plateau that dry up completely during drought periods.

Mount Khajen, or Khajen Mountain, is in the Hamun Lake area on the alignment.

Mount Khajen is described as a flat-topped basalt mountain, but this is a land-form that I would now identify as a giant tree stump.

The ruins of a citadel complex, Rostam Castle, is located on Mount Khajen. 

It is an important archeological site. 

This area was also part of a southern branch of the Great Silk Road, part of an ancient network of trade routes that connected East and West.

There is a Zoroastrian fire temple within the remnants of the complex.

 Not only that, in legend Lake Hamun is considered to be the “Keeper of Zoroaster’s seed.” 

This means Zoroastrians believe that when the final renovation of the world is near, maidens will enter the lake, and give birth to the Saoshyans, the saviors of mankind.

In Zoroastrianism, fire is symbolic of Purity and Divine Light.

Zoroastrianism is one of the world’s oldest, continously practiced religions, and believed to have originated around 3,500-years-ago in Persia, and named for its founder, the prophet Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra.

It is a monotheistic faith that centers on the worship of one Creator God, Ahura Mazda, and the belief that the world is a battleground between Ahura Mazda and the destructive spirit, Angra Mainyu.

Thus, Zoroastrianism emphasizes a dualistic struggle between good and evil, and encourages followers to live by “Good thoughts, good words, good deeds.”

The Se Kuheh Castle is also in nearby Hamun County.

We are currently looking in the Sistan-Balochistan Province of Iran.

It is a massive adobe brick structure described as having two main parts – a citadel and a tower.

It was said to have been built during the Qajar Dynasty, which ruled between 1789 and 1925.

When I look at Se kuheh, it’s appearance reminds me of Gamsutl, pictured on the right.

One of the oldest settlements in Dagestan, it is said to be anywhere between 2,000 to 5,000-years-old, and was inhabited until 2015 when the last remaining resident passed away.

Dagestan is a Republic of Russia in the northern Caucasus Mountains, directly between the Republic of Chechnya to the west and the Caspian Sea to the East.

Dagestan is one of the most linguistically and ethnically diverse places in the world, with fourteen official languages, and with altogether more than 30 ethnic groups living there.

Gamsutl was an Avar village.

The Avars are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group that forms the largest in Dagestan, and they traditionally live there in villages that are higher up in elevation.

“Avaria” was the historical name of the region of the “Avar Khanate,” which controlled the mountainous parts of Dagestan from the early 13th- to the 19th-centuries, until the Russian Empire annexed the North Caucasus region by ultimately defeating the Azars in the Caucasian War that lasted from 1817 to 1864.

And how close in sound are “Avaria” in the North Caucasus mountains and “Bavaria” in southern Germany?

There is also a similarity in appearance today between Se Kuheh in Iran; the abandoned Azar village of Gamsutl in Dagestan; and the Tuzigoot National Monument in Clarkdale, Arizona, near where I live.

Next on this alignment we come to Farah in Afghanistan. 

It is part of the sparsely populated Farah Province, which is mostly comprised of rural tribal groups. 

This is the Citadel at Farah, said to have been built as part of a network of fortresses by Alexander the Great when the history books tell us he took possession of the land in 330 B.C. 

The city of Farah is believed to be over 3,000 years old, and one of the ancient places of the Persian Kings.

The population of Farah province is predominantly Pashtun.

The Pashtun are a tribal nation of millions of Afghani and Pakistani Muslims who have a strong oral tradition that they are descendants of lost Tribes of Israel, and they refer to themselves as Bani Israel. 

More on the Pashtun to come shortly in this post.

Farah also belongs culturally and historically to Sistan Province in Iran, and the Greater Khorasan in the northeast part of the historical Persian Empire.

Next on this alignment is Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. 

It is the third largest city in Afghanistan, and the capital of the Balkh Province. 

This region is also part of the Greater Khorasan of the historical Persian Empire.

This is the Citadel in the ancient city of Balkh. 

Balkh was a major center of Zoroastrianism and Buddhism in northern Afghanistan. 

It is a short distance northwest of Mazar-e-Sharif. 

It was also known as Bactra, the capital of ancient Bactria. 

Our history books convey to us that Alexander the Great captured the city in 330 BC, and the hordes of Genghis Khan completely destroyed it in 1220 AD. 

It is interesting to note that modern Balkh is a geometrically perfect circle with streets radiating out from the center of the circle.

I’ve seen that same kind of perfect geometric lay-out in Paris, France, and Goderich, Ontario, with streets radiating out from a central point.

The Hindu Kush is just south of Balkh. 

The Hindu Kush is a 500-mile, or 800-kilometer, -long mountain range in Central and South Asia, in-between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

And there’s a reference to “Kush” again.

There are many who believe that there is a connection between Balkh, the Hindu Kush, and Shambhala. 

Zoroastrians, for example, identified the Hindu Kush as the High Hara, or the geographic center of the universe around which the stars and the planets revolve, and the home of the “Masters of the Heart.”

There is a strong history of Buddhism in this part of the world as well. 

In Balkh, there are stupas over the remains of the first lay disciples of the Buddha – Trapusa and Bahalika. 

The city of Balkh was said to have derived its name from Bahalika. 

This Buddhist stupa near Balkh sits on top of the Takht-e-Rustam, the throne of the hero of the world.

The Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan is south of Mazar-e-Sharif in Central Afghanistan, not far from Kabul, the country’s capital.

There were two colossal statues of Buddha there, carved into the sandstone.

Both statues were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.  

I firmly believe there would be no mysteries in history if we had been taught the true history, about an ancient advanced worldwide civilization that was all about Harmony, Balance, Beauty, Sacred Geometry and Unity with each other and the Universe, and connecting with One’s Higher Self. 

This is one example of many of how dark forces have been hell-bent on physically destroying this civilization, and its memory and legacy. 

Now I am going to come into modern Iran from another direction, starting in Lahore, Pakistan.

This research is from “The Relationship Between Sacred Geometry, Ley-lines, and Places in Alignment,” which was a 23-part series I did back in 2019 and 2020, of an alignment that started in San Francisco, California.

Lahore is the capital city of the Punjab Province of Pakistan.

The Punjab is a historical region of South Asia, in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, and was the cradle of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, which was largely in modern Pakistan.

The Indus Valley Civilization flourished in the basins of the Indus River, which originates on the Tibetan Plateau near Mount Kailash, and ultimately flows along the entire length of Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.

The ancient civilization that flourished here was also known as the Harappan Civilization, after Harappa considered the type, or model, site of the civilization.

Mohenjo-Daro was one of the largest cities of the ancient Harappan civilization of the Indus River Valley, and is a UNESCO World Heritage site, said to have been built starting in 2500 BC and one of the world’s earliest major cities.

The Harappan Civilization was well-known for its urban-planning, baked-brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water-supply systems, clusters of large, non-residential buildings, and metallurgy.

I even read where they even had street-lights, and extremely accurate systems of weights and measures.

The Great Exhibition of the Works of All Nations, held in the Crystal Palace In London in 1851 was also known as “The Great Shalimar,” which was a reference to the Mughal Garden complex in Lahore, where you see the eight-pointed star and similar design-patterns found at the Lahore Gardens on the left are also on the Great Exhibition brochure on the right.

I think these design patterns with eight-pointed stars were a significant symbol for the ancient advanced worldwide civilization, because I find them everywhere, including, but far from being limited to, the Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the Old City, forms the historic core of Lahore, and was the capital of the Mughal Empire at one time.

Here’s a view of the Walled City of Lahore on the left showing what looks to be very similar to a star city configuration, like the example of the Imperial City of Hue in Viet Nam on the right.

Lahore Fort passed to British Colonialists when they annexed the Punjab region following their victory over the short-lived Sikh Empire, which lasted from 1799 to 1849, and which had replaced the Mughal Empire here, in the Battle of Gujrat in February of 1849.

The Battle of Gujrat was part of the Second Anglo-Sikh War, a military conflict between the Sikhs and the British East India Company that took place in 1848 and 1849.

Moving along the alignment, Faisalabad is next, the second-largest city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, after Lahore.

We are told that historically it was one of the first planned cities in British India.

It is a major industrial and distribution center because of its central location in the region, and connecting roads, rail and air transportation, as well as a major center of industry, with major engineering works, like the Faisalabad steam-powered grid station, and mill-works of all kinds.

There are also canals in Faisalabad.

These pictures are associated with Citi Housing of Faisalabad, described as a high-end housing society with a gold standard lifestyle.

They look more like Ancient Egyptian temple ruins and an archeological site than a residential neighborhood.

This is called the Gumti Monument in Faisalabad’s Chenab Colony, which has similar characteristics to western infrastructure, like the World War I Memorial said to have been erected in Washington, DC, in 1931, which would have been during the Great Depression.

This is a close-up view of the Gumti Memorial, where we find the same two design patterns I highlighted earlier – the eight-pointed star and what I am going to call an infinity pattern for lack of a better description.

Like I said before, I have found these patterns together in places across countries and continents, like the Moorish Kiosk in Mexico City…

…and an eight-pointed star in the designs of the ceiling above the chandelier of the abandoned Loew’s Theater on Canal Street in Manhattan.

Next on this alignment from Faisalabad, we are coming into the Khyber-Pakhtunkwha Province, which is the location of the Khyber Pass, a mountain pass in the northwest of Pakistan, and was an integral part of the ancient Silk Road.

A translation is “On the Khyber side of the Land of the Pashtuns.”

This is the Bab-e-Khyber, or Khyber Gate. that stands at the entrance to the Khyber Pass that was said to have been constructed in four months and inaugurated in 1963.

The turreted and crenellated appearance of the Bab-e-Khyber brought to mind the style of architecture seen on this old Merovingian textile from France on the top, and the Cajun flag of Louisiana on the bottom.

The Jamrud Fort is adjacent to the Bab-e-Khyber.

We are told that the foundation of the fort was laid out by the Sikh General Hari Singh Nalwa on the 18th of December in 1836, and that the fort was completed in 54-days, after Jamrud was lost to the Afghan Durrani Empire and conquered by the Sikh Empire.

This is a screenshot of the Jamrud Fort on Google Earth, with its rounded bastions, on the left, which we see at Fort Loreto in Puebla, Mexico in the middle, and rounded bastions are seen at Dubai’s Al Fahidi Fort on the right.

While most star forts have more angled configurations, making them look like stars, not all do, and I believe they were originally part of the electrical circuitry of the Earth’s grid system, and not military in nature as we are taught to believe.

As a matter of fact, the Jamrud Electrical Grid System is located very close to Jamrud Fort, as is at least one other structure with the arrow pointing towards it, and possibly more, that looks like it could be connected to this system.

It is typical to find star forts in clusters of two or more.

Khyber-Pakhtunkwha Province was the historical location of the ancient kingdom of Gandhara, including the ruins considered to be 2,000 years old of its capital city Pushkalavati, near modern-day Charsadda.

Pushkalavati was originally a stronghold of Buddhism.

These Buddhist ruins are found in the Khyber Pass of Afghanistan, on the left compared in appearance to the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves in Turpan in northern China’s Uyghur Autonomous Region in the middle, and Borobudur on the island of Java in Indonesia on the right.

Ancient Gandhara in present-day Pakistan was said to have attained its height from the 1st- to the 5th-centuries AD, flourishing as the “Crossroads of Asia” under the Kushan Empire.

The Kushan Empire encompassed much of what is now Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, western Nepal, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and said to have been formed by the Yuezhi, an ancient people described as nomadic pastoralists, who were in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st-century.

We will never know if it was connected to the Kingdom of Kush of Africa because that is not what our history tells us, but something to consider.

Could there have been a connection between the Kushan Empire, in this region which includes a mountainous region known to this day as the “Hindu Kush,” and the Kushite Empire of northern Africa with its capital of Meroe (also sounds like “Merovingian” mentioned previously in association with the French textile design) in Sudan near the Nile River, pictured here?

This leads back to the Pashtun tribal peoples, the primary inhabitants of the Khyber-Pakhtunkwha and Balochistan Provinces of Pakistan and Afghanistan, in a region regarded as Pashtunistan, split between two countries since the Durand Line border between the two countries was formed in 1893 after the second Anglo-Afghan War.

The name sake of the line, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, was a British Diplomat and Civil Servant of the British Raj. We are told that together with the Afghan Emir, Abdur Rahman Khan, it was established to “fix the limit of their respective spheres of influence and improve diplomatic relations and trade.

Well, that certainly sounds good…but what was really going on here?

The Durand Line cuts through the Pashtunistan and Balochistan regions, politically dividing ethnic Pashtuns and Baloch, who live on both sides of the border.

But, really, why divide a people in this fashion?

It has been clear to me travelling through this part of the world how what we know as the European Colonial powers, starting in the 18th-century, just tore up this part of the world through partitioning it.

As I mentioned previously in the Farah Province of Afghanistan, the Pashtun are a tribal nation of millions of Afghani and Pakistani Muslims who also have a strong oral tradition that they are descendants of lost Tribes of Israel, and they refer to themselves as Bani Israel. 

Here is an example of a Pashtun textile piece showing the sacred geometric shape of a star tetrahedron in the center, also known as the Star of David…

…and a recognizable symbol of what is called Judaism today, as seen on the flag of Israel.

This is also the 2D symbol of the 3D star tetrahedron that is the sacred geometric shape of the Human Lightbody, known as the Merkaba.

What is intriguing is that there is other evidence that the Pashtun people of this region are connected to the Tribes of Israel.

At first I was puzzled by seeing references to the twelve tribes in different places besides the Pashtun in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 

I found the Tribe of Naphtali in the South Pacific…

…the Tribe of Reuben in Australia…

…the Kuki of India say they are of the Tribe of Manasseh…

…and on Madagascar, there is a resurgence of what they say the original faith of the island.

The Jesuits were said to have arrived here in 1845, and entrusted with the Prefecture Apostolic of Madagascar in 1850.

I think a good explanation of this finding of the same tribal name in different parts of the world is contained in a Megalithomania presentation by Christine Rhone on “Twelve Tribe Nations – Sacred Number and the Golden Age.”

She co-authored a book with John Michel of the same name.

Among other things, they followed the Apollo – St. Michael alignment across countries and continents all the way to Jerusalem in Israel.  They discuss records and traditions of whole nations being divided into twelve tribes and twelve regions, each corresponding to one of the twelve signs of the zodiac and to one of the twelve months of the year, all formed around sacred centers.

So what if we are talking about a civilization arrangement like what you see pictured here with the 12 Constellations and 12 Tribes of Israel all contained within an 8-pointed star?

And that was the same symbol seen earlier in this post when I asked the question “Who were the People of Ar?”

I realized that earth’s true history was not about organized religions, which is a stumbling block because of what we have always been taught.

The Controllers didn’t rewrite history from scratch – they rewrote the historical narrative to fit their agenda, and from cradle-to-grave, we are immersed in learning their version of history.

There is so much we haven’t been told about the True History of the Earth, including how all organized forms of religion connect back into the Advanced Ancient Civilization, and are not mutually exclusive as we have been taught to believe.

They definitely don’t want us to know who we really are, and try to keep most of Humanity stuck in their lower selves in every way possible, including addictions, distractions, and consumerism that huge corporations are making massive profits from.

This alignment next enters Ghazni In Afghanistan from Pakistan.

It is stategically located on the main Highway 1 between Kabul and Kandahar, which has served as the main road between those two cities for thousands of years.

Ghazni is an ancient city with a rich heritage.

The Ghazni Citadel was said to have been built in the 13th-century to form a walled city.

This is a lithograph painting of the Ghazni Citadel in 1839 by James Rattray, a soldier and artist serving in Afghanistan in the 1st Afghan War.

The First Anglo-Afghan War is called one of the first major conflicts of what was called “The Great Game,” the 19th-century competition for power and influence in central Asia between Britain and Russia.

I found reference to “the Great Game” in the Torres Strait Islands, a group of at least  274 small islands in the Torres Strait between Australia’s Cape York and New Guinea.

Green Hill Fort was located on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait near Cairns in North Queensland, Australia.

This complex was said to have been constructed between 1891 and 1893 as part of the Imperial and Colonial whole-of defense of Australia in response to the Russian Scare of 1885 that grew out of Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Afghanistan, also known to history as the “Great Game”and the European colonial expansion into New Guinea and the South Pacific.

Compare the Green Hill Fort in the middle for similarity of appearance with the Battery Boutelle on the left, on the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, said to have been built in 1900; and the Alexandra Battery on the right, said to have been built in St. George’s, Bermuda, in the 1860s to protect the north shore and ship’s channel.

The First Anglo-Afghan War was fought for three years between the British East India Company and the Emirate of Afghanistan starting in 1839, after the British had captured Kabul.

There’s that 8-pointed star again on this book cover.

In 1842, Edward Law, the Governor-General of India between 1842 and 1844, issued what was called his famous “Proclamation of the Gates,” in which he ordered the British Army in Afghanistan to return via Ghazni and bring back to India the Sandalwood Gates from the tomb of Mahmud of Ghazni.

They were returned to the Somnath Temple in India, where they had been allegedly taken from by Mahmud 8-centuries previously from Somnath, and for which the British used as justification to the people of India for the destruction of Ghazni .

Back in Afghanistan, Herat, the third-largest city in Afghanistan, is linked to Kabul, Ghazni, and Kandahar, and other main cities in Afghanistan, via Highway 1, also known as the “Ring Road.”

It is one of the largest cities in Afghanistan with a population of almost 500,000 people.

It is located in the fertile Hari River Valley, with a history that goes back thousands of years. In some literature it is referred to as the “Diamond of Asia,” as well as the “Pearl of Khorasan.”

Like so many other places we’ve seen, there is also a citadel in Herat.

It was said to have been built in 330 BC, when Alexander the Great arrived in Herat after the Battle of Gaugamela, which was close to the city of Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan.

It was said to have been saved from demolition in the 1950s, and restored by UNESCO between 1976 and 1979.

The National Museum of Herat is housed in the lower part of the Citadel.

It was established as a museum in 1925 by order of King Amanullah, one of the kings of modern Afghanistan.

Here are just a few examples of similar brick or stone archways in other places, like in Mandu, India on the top left; Pompeii, Italy on the top right; the Buenos Aires History Museum in Argentina on the bottom left; and the House of Vans Skate Park in London, England, on the bottom right.

Khorasan was a province in northeastern Iran from 1906 to 2004, but as I have previously-mentioned, historically referred to a much larger area comprising the east and northeast of the Persian Empire, including, besides northeastern Iran, parts of Afghanistan and much of Central Asia.

During the Qajar Dynasty of what was then called the Sublime State of Persia between 1789 and 1925, Britain supported the Afghans to protect their East India Company.

So Herat in Afghanistan was separated from Persia, and the King of Persia, Nasser-al-Din Shah was unable to defeat the British to take back Herat.

Nasser-al-Din Shah was assassinated in 1896 while in prayer at the Shah Abdol-Azim Shrine in Ray, what is called the oldest existing city in Tehran Province.

Persia was compelled by treaty not to challenge the British for Herat and other parts of what is today Afghanistan.

Khorasan was divided into two parts in 1906, with the eastern part coming under British occupation, and the western section remained part of Persia, shown here.

The city of Mashhad in modern Iran’s Razavi Khorasan Province was a major oasis along the ancient Silk Road.

This is a Google Earth screenshot of Mellat Park, the largest park in Mashhad…

…which includes on its grounds what is described as one of the best and most famous amusement parks in Iran, the Mellat Luna Park, and one of several amusement parks in Mashhad.

Interestingly, Luna Park was the name of numerous historical trolley and amusement parks in the United States and around the world.

This is a photo of the original Luna Park in Coney Island, New York, with Moorish-looking infrastructure.

This Luna Park was in operation from 1903 to 1944, at which time it was destroyed by fire.

Some other things I would like to point out in the greater park of Mashhad’s Mellat Park is its amazing hydrological features and beautiful fountains…

…and canals, with fountains included.

This canal is in Torqabeh, a short distance east of Mashhad.

I have found canal systems throughout Asia…and elsewhere…including, but far from limited to, Quorgonteppa in Tajikistan…

…and the Kanali Varzob in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan…

…as well as the Ankhor Canal in Tashkent in Uzbekistan.

These places were all once part of the Greater Khorasan as well.

Mashhad has been called “Iran’s Spiritual Capital,” and is the location of the Imam Reza Shrine, the largest mosque in the world by area.

This is a comparison of the front of the Imam Reza Shrine on the top left, compared with the Jama Masyid Mosque in Delhi, India on the right, and the front of the Vorontsov Palace in Alupka, Crimea.

This photo shows the exquisitely-crafted mirror interior of the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, like the stunning mirror-work at the Golestan Palace seen earlier in this post.

There is an 8-pointed star found here as well.

Mashhad is a prominent center of the carpet-weaving industry, having been a major producer of Persian rugs for centuries…

…and it is not hard for me to see the shapes made by a kaleidoscope in this particular rug.

Mashhad has a reputation for creating some of the best items on the market.

And I see a rose cathedral window pattern in this Mashhad Persian rug.

Not only that, Cathedral Rose windows look like the cymatic patterns of musical notes.

With the massive organ pipes surrounding the cathedral rose window, it appears as though this was a musical system designed to generate waves of specific frequencies, like Solfeggio frequencies, through this type of window.

Solfeggio frequencies make-up the ancient six-tone scale used in sacred music, like, for example, Gregorian chants and Tibetan singing bowls.

Each solfeggio tone is a frequency that can be used to balance one’s energy and keep one’s body, mind, and spirit in harmony.

Mashhad is connected to three major rail lines: Tehran – Mashhad running west; Mashhad – Bafgh running south; and Mashhad – Sarakhs running east.

It is interesting to note how inter-connected the railways of Asia are with each other.

Wouldn’t that take incredible planning and coordination across all of these different countries?

With regards to Iran, we are told that the first Iranian rail lines were established in 1886 and 1887, albeit on a limited basis.

Then the 865-mile, or 1,392-kilometer, Trans-Iranian Railroad was opened during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1939, which would have been two years before he was deposed by Allied British and Soviet forces in 1941.

We are told this railway traverses many mountain ranges, and is full of spirals and steep grades, and that much of the terrain was unmapped when the construction took place in unknown geology.

Yet we are told this rail line was completed ahead of schedule when it opened in 1939.

In our historical narrative, the Trans-Iranian rail line was part of the Persian Corridor during World War II after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of 1941, and used as a supply route for war material for the Soviet Union.

So it would have been completed by the Iranians in 1939, just in time for the start of, and use during, World War II by the Allies.

Like the Panama Canal opening on August 15th, 1914…

…just in time for the beginning of World War I, which started on July 28th, 1914.

Just a coincidence?

I really wonder about that….

Heading out of Mashhad, we come to the Elburz Mountains, a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from its border with Azerbaijan, along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea, and then runs northeast and merges with the Aladagh mountains in the northern parts of Khorasan.

Mount Damavand is the highest peak in Iran at 18,402-feet, or 5,609-meters, in elevation and located in the Central Elburz Mountains.

We are told it is a stratovolcano, built up of alternate layers of lava and ash, and is the highest volcano in Asia.

It is a popular climbing destination as one of the Seven Volcanic Summits mountaineering challenge, the highest volcanoes on each of the seven continents.

Sari, the capital of Iran’s Mazandaran Province, is on the alignment, between the northern slopes of the Elburz Mountains and the Caspian Sea.

This is what I found looking into Sari.

This is the official logo of the Municipality of Sari City.

There is an eight-pointed star contained within this design.

A stylized-version of the same eight-pointed star is found in the logo of the city of Prescott, Arizona, where I live.

Sari’s Clock Tower and Square is one of the notable landmarks of the city.

There are clock towers like these everywhere, like in Faisalabad, Pakistan on the left; Gisborne, New Zealand, in the middle; and the Apia Clock Tower in Samoa on the right.

Other notable structures in Sari, Iran include the Lajeem Tower and the Resket Tower, both with a noticeable magnetic pattern in the bricks.

We are told both of these towers were built as tombs.

The last place I want to look at on this alignment is Tabriz, one of the historical capitals of Iran, and the present-day capital of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province.

It is the most populated city in northwestern Iran, located on the Quru River, which appears to be a canal.

This is the Saat Tower in Tabriz, also known as the Tabriz Municipality Palace.

The Saat Tower has windows which bear a distinct resemblance to cathedral windows on the left, like these on the right.

I have reason to believe this type of cathedral window functions as an antenna.

When I was reading an article about “Elliptical Polarization,” I encountered the diagram on the left showing the efficiency in decibels of the axial ratio of two antenna, and the shapes formed in the graph are identical to those of this type of cathedral window in comparison on the right.

I am going to end this here.

There is always much more to find and share, so this is just really a sample of what there is to find.

Much has been removed from our collective awareness but there are still clues available to find that hints at a much larger picture than what our historical narrative teaches us, especially when we are willing to let go of what we have always been taught to believe is true, and open ourselves to receiving new information.

I hope that I have created an opening for people to consider thinking differently about what our True History might have been with the information I have presented in this post, and about how the messy world we live in was heavily manipulated to keep this knowledge from us and to ultimately control us and our destiny.

For this post, I have pulled information primarily from research I have done over the years specifically on the mansions and castles of the elite and wealthy in our relatively modern history, and when put together in one place, provides us with a window into how the reset narrative was constructed and reinforced, and how the original ancient, advanced civilization was covered up in the process.

For the purposes of this post, I am going to focus on examples primarily in the United States, but also some in Canada and the United Kingdom, though there are countless examples all over the world.

I am going to start by looking at elite estates in the United States.

The John D. Rockefeller Estate known as Kykuit is in the Hamlet of Mount Pleasant near the Village of Sleepy Hollow and the Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse on the Hudson River.

New York City is 25-miles, or 40-kilometers, due south of this location.

The nearby Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse today part of a county park, and was said to have been built in 1883 to warn ships away from the shoals here.

The tracks used by Metro-North’s Hudson Line, Amtrak’s Empire Service and CSX Freight are located between the Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse and the developed sections of Tarrytown, New York, and the old cantilever Tappan-Zee Bridge crossing the Hudson River at one of its widest points is just south of the lighthouse.

Sleepy Hollow and Tarryton were central to the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” a short story about Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman published by American author Washington Irving in 1820 in his collection of essays and short stories titled “The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent,” which he wrote while living in Birmingham, England.

Situated on the highest point in neighboring Pocantino Hills, the Rockefeller Estate was said to have been completed in 1913 in the Neo-Georgian Classical Revival architectural-style.

The 40-room mansion was said to have been conceived by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and built for oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller Sr. and was the home of four-generations of Rockefellers.

The former United States Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller bequeathed one-third interest of the estate to the National Trust for Historic Preservation upon his death in his will.

It has been open to the public for guided tours since 1994.

It has two basement-levels with interconnecting passageways and service tunnel, which include galleries housing their art collection of Picassos, Warhols, Chagalls and other modern masterpieces.

John D. Rockefeller Sr., along with Henry Flagler, an American Industrialist and major developer in the state of Florida, founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870, an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company.

This was roughly a decade after the birth of the American Oil Industry in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859.

John D. Rockefeller Sr. was born in the United States in 1839, and was the progenitor of the wealthy Rockefeller family.

He was considered to be the wealthiest American of all time, as seen in this #1 ranking by CNN Business.

Rockefeller’s wealth soared as kerosene and gasoline grew in importance.

At his peak, he controlled 90% of all oil.

It would seem that as quickly as possible, a way was found by the Earth’s new Controllers to replace what remained of the original free-energy grid system, which I believe included lighthouses, railroads and bridges, with their own coal- and oil-based system, and in the process make money hand over fist from the total control of the new system.

Further down the Hudson River from Kykuit in New York City, Fort Tryon in the Washingto0n Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan was the location of large Gilded Age country estates at the turn-of-the century, like the Billings Estate, the most luxurious of the estates.

We are told what became known as Fort Tryon Hall was built for the wealthy Chicago businessman and horse-breeder Cornelius K. G. Billings, who had purchased 25-acres of land in what was called the “countryside” of northern Manhattan.

Billings, the former President of the People’s Gas Company of Chicago, was said to have started construction of his estate in 1901, and where he was said to have lived for 15-years.

Billings’ estate had a mansion, horse stables, and an observatory.

The stables for his racing horses, known as “Tryon Towers,” were noteworthy for having numerous towers and cupolas.

Built with oak and Georgia pine, it had steam heat, electric lighting and hot water, and two five-room suites of living quarters for twenty-five employees.

There was also a gymnasium and blacksmith shop, as well as feed rooms, a hayloft, and zinc-lined granary that could hold 5,000-bushels of grain.

By 1917, Billings was ready to move on, and sold his luxurious estate to John D. Rockefeller Sr.

Rockefeller wanted to combine the property of this estate with two other estates and turn the land into a public park.

He wanted to tear down Fort Tryon Hall, but his architects protested so he changed course with other ideas for its use.

Well, I guess fate must have helped Rockefeller out because in 1926, a fire burned down Fort Tryon Hall along with its priceless works of art and other fineries.

We are told that remnants of Fort Tryon Hall include the driveway that Billings had constructed, a sort of bridge that extended over the edge of the hill with a “high, graceful arch at each end.”

The “Mrs. William B. Astor House” was also in Manhattan.

What was known as the “Mrs. William B. Astor House” was said to have been completed in 1896 on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, the widow of real estate heir and racehorse owner/breeder William Backhouse Astor Jr, and for her son John Jacob Astor IV.

It was said to have been designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the architectural-style of the early French Renaissance period of King Louis XII from 1498 to 1515.

Mrs. Astor died in 1908, and her son John J. Astor IV was known in history as being the richest man on-board the Titanic when it sank on April 15th of 1912, and a prominent figureof his day who had been opposed to the creation of the Federal Reserve.

In our historical narrative, the “Mrs. William B. Astor Mansion” was demolished in 1926.

The preeminent Gilded Age architect Richard Morris Hunt was also credited with things like designing the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1884…

…and the Entrance Facade and the Great Hall of the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1902.

The Beacon Towers at Sands Point on Long Island was said to have been designed by Hunt & Hunt, the architectural firm of Richard Morris Hunt’s sons Richard and Joseph, and a Gilded Age Mansion built in 1917 and 1918 for Alva Belmont, the ex-wife of William K. Vanderbilt, and the widow of Oliver Belmont.

Both of Alva’s husbands were millionaires, and members of prominent families of New York City.

Alva Belmont herself was a multi-millionaire American socialite and suffragette.

We are told she purchased the adjacent Sands Point Lighthouse in 1924 to add more privacy to her estate.

In our historical narrative, Beacon Towers Estate was sold to William Randolph Hearst in 1927, and that he made some renovations to the property before he sold it in 1942.

By 1945, the original Beacon Towers Mansion was demolished, though the Gate House remains standing and is a private home.

The Hempstead House is also located at Sands Point on the North Shore of Long Island, and is still standing standing today.

It is also known as the Gould-Guggenheim Estate and Sands Point Preserve.

It was said to have been started by Howard Gould sometime around 1909, and finished by Daniel Guggenheim in 1912.

Hempstead House in its hey-day was considered one of the most luxurious estates on the North Shore, also known as “Long Island’s Gold Coast.”

We are told “Long Island’s Gold Coast” had over 500 lavish mansions and castles built in 70-square-miles, or 180-kilometers-squared, by the very wealthy of the Gilded Age.

Like the Oheka Castle, which is also known as the Otto Kahn Estate, located on the North Shore of Long Island in the town of Huntington.

It was said to have been built between 1914 and 1919 as a country home for the investment financier Otto Kahn and his family, and was considered to be the second-largest private home in the United States.

Today, the Oheka Castle is an historic hotel with 32-guest rooms and suites.

In case you have never heard of him, the fabulously wealthy Otto Kahn was the inspiration for the Mr. Moneybags character of the Monopoly board game.

It is interesting how powerful but otherwise unknown people like this example here get inserted in our collective consciousness in seemingly innocent ways.

Gardiners Island is a small island located in Gardiners Bay between the North and South Forks of Long Island.

Passed-down through the Gardiner family for over 380-years, the Gardiner Mansion on the island is considered to be the oldest family estate in America.

In our historical narrative, Gardiners Island was granted to Lion Gardiner via a Royal Patent in 1639 from King Charles I of England giving him the right to possess the land forever and he was given the title of “Lord of the Manor.”

Lion Gardiner was an English engineer and colonist who founded the first English Settlement in New York here.

Gardiners Island is a little over 5-square-miles, or 13.4-kilometers-squared, and has more than 1,000 acres of old growth forest, considered by some to be the largest old-growth forest on the northeast coast of the United States.

The windmill on Gardiners Island was said to have been built in 1795, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

I would like to mention two more noteworthy elite estates in New York State on the St. Lawrence River in the Thousand Islands – the Boldt Castle, Power House and Yacht House, and the Singer Castle on Dark Island.

First, the Boldt Castle, Power House and Yacht House on Heart Island.

Boldt Castle was named after turn-of-the-century German-born American businessman, George C. Boldt, who was the proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City and the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia.

As the story goes, we are told that in 1900, he wanted to build a huge masonry structure, one of the largest private homes in the United States, and engaged an architectural firm and hundreds of workers to build a six-story castle on Heart Island as a present for his wife.

Construction ceased however when his wife died in 1904, and he never went back to Heart Island.

This is the Boldt Castle Power House and Clock Tower, which is located on the eastern end of Heart Island.Iit was said to have been designed to look like a medieval tower.

It rises out of the St. Lawrence River from an underwater shoal.

It housed two generators that would supply electricity to the entire island.

Sadly, much of the original equipment has been lost, with only a few pieces remaining on display.

On the neighboring Wellesley Island, we find the Boldt Yacht House.

The Boldt Yacht House was said to have been commissioned by George Boldt to house the many yachts he owned.

It was said to have been built in 1903, and had five structural elements: a circular tower containing reception rooms; a central group of three yacht bays; a large east yacht bay; a combination office and storage wing with a crenellated tower; and a large caretaker’s residence.

The Singer Castle on Dark Island is just up the St. Lawrence River from the Boldt Estate locations.

The Singer Castle, also known as “The Towers” was said to have been built between 1903 and 1905 for Frederick Gilbert Bourne, the fifth president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, for which tons of granite were said to have been quarried from the nearby Oak Island and transported over ice and water.

The castle features 28-rooms which can be accessed by a network of secret passageways that are accessible from different locations, like the library.

It served as a private residence for the Bourne family until the mid-1960s.

It was opened to the public for tours in 2003.

Next, I’m going to look at Nemours, the 300-acre, or 120-hectare, country garden estate in Wilmington, Delaware.

It is a 77-room mansion that was said to have been built between 1909 and 1910 for industrialist Alfred I. duPont as a gift for his second wife, Alicia.

It was said to have been built to resemble a French chateau in the King Louis XVI architectural-style.

The mansion contains rare 18th-century French furniture, as well as notable antiques and artworks.

The Nemours Mansion and Gardens were first opened to the public as a museum in 1977.

The Nemours Estate has the largest and most developed French formal gardens in North America, said to be patterned after the gardens of the Royal Palace of Versailles in France

This architectural style in the Nemours Gardens is called a folly, which is defined as a decorative building that doesn’t serve much of a purpose, even if it is meant to look like it does.

At any rate, the folly in Wilmington at Nemours Gardens on the left is similar in appearance to the two follies in England on the right.

Next, the Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina.

The Biltmore Estate is the largest private home in the United States.

Richard Morris Hunt, the same architect we saw earlier that was credited with the Statue of Liberty’s Pedestal, and grand architecture of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, received the credit as the architect for the Biltmore Estate.

It was said to have been built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895.

The Vanderbilt family amassed a huge fortune through steamboats, railroads, and various business enterprises, and the Biltmore Estate in Asheville is still owned by his descendants.

Frederick Law Olmsted, the Father of Landscape Architecture in our historical narrative, was credited with the design of the gardens at the Biltmore Estate, and was said to be his last project.

Overlook Castle is also in Asheville, and was said to have been built between 1912 and 1914 for Fred Loring Seely after his father-in-law, Edwin Wiley Grove, gave him 10-acres, or 4-hectares, on top of Sunset Mountain.

It has two large windows that offer a panoramic view of Asheville…

…and high, Jacobean ceilings.

In our historical narrative, the Jacobean style was named after King James I of England who was also King James VI of Scotland of the Royal House of Stuart.

Fred Loring Seely was a drug manufacturer, newspaperman, architect and developer who moved to Asheville in 1913.

Among other things, Seely and his father-in-law were credited with building the Grove Park Inn in Asheville.

We are told that Seely had no formal training in architecture or construction.

Next, there is a ruined mansion on Cumberland Island in Georgia.

Cumberland is the largest of Georgia’s Sea Islands on the Atlantic coast, and located just south of Jekyll Island.

Cumberland Island today has mostly marsh, mudflats, tidal creeks, campgrounds, and wild horses.

The story goes that the mansion on Cumberland Island was built in 1884 by Thomas Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie’s brother and business partner, as the Carnegie Family Retreat known as “Dungeness.”

What we are told is that a fire in 1959 reduced the mansion to ruins.

Next, there are several places in Florida I would like to bring forward.

First, in St. Augustine, the Kirkside Mansion, the Villa Zorayda, and the Castle Warden.

The Kirkside Mansion was said to have been built between 1892 and 1893 for Henry Flagler, John D. Rockefeller’s partner in founding Standard Oil, and his second wife, Ida Alice.

It was demolished in 1950, though there is a small replica of the Kirkside Mansion inside the Memorial Presbyterian Church which was adjacent to the property.

The Villa Zorayda in St. Augustine was said to have been built in 1883 by the eccentric millionaire Frederick W. Smith, who was said to be an amateur architect and pioneer in poured concrete construction.

His Villa Zorayda was said to be inspired by the 12th-century Moorish Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, and called Moorish Revival architecture.

Smith was said to have named the “Villa Zorayda” after one of the princesses in Washington Irving’s “Tales of the Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards” that was first published in 1832 and revised in 1851.

We are told that shortly after publishing a biography of Christopher Columbus in 1828…

…Washington Irving travelled from where he had been staying in Madrid to Granada as he was preparing to write a book called “A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada,” a history of the years 1478 to 1492.

In the process of doing that, Washington Irving was said to have gathered legends and tales about the Alhambra.

The Alhambra is perhaps the most famous example of Moorish architecture and one of the best preserved palaces of Moorish Spain.

I have expressed in my post “The Backfill of History and the Shaping of Our New Historical Narrative,” my belief among other things that famous authors were being used as programming devices with which to shape our collective minds with a new historical narrative and history that we have been thoroughly educated in, and completely covering up what was once a worldwide ancient Moorish Civilization.

I have identified a 450-year timeline between the Fall of the Moors in Granada in 1492, and 1942, midway through World War II, with 1717 as the mid-point year, that I believe our new false paradigm was based on, and believe that at some point in our narrative, world history has been fabricated and backfilled, and that at some point in our relatively modern history, likely sometime in the the 1700s, history became real with the Controllers writing themselves in to the new historical narrative.

So along those lines, the Castle Warden in St. Augustine was said to have been built in 1887…

…as a winter home for William H. Warden of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a partner with Henry Flagler and John D. Rockefeller in the Standard Oil Company; President of the St. Augustine Gas and Electric Light Company; and the Finanical Director of the St. Augustine Improvement Company.

It has served as Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum since 1950.

Saint Augustine has the nickname “The Ancient City.”

Ancient means something belonging to the very distant past. 

The Ca’ d’ Zan in Sarasota, Florida, was said to have been built between 1924 and 1926 as a winter retreat for circus mogul, entrepreneur and art collector John Ringling and his wife Mabel.

Ca’ d’Zan features an array of what is called Venetian Gothic, Italian Renaissance, Moorish and Spanish-inspired elements.

Ca’ d’Zan means “House of John” in the original language of Venice, which apparently wasn’t Italian but singularly Venetian.

Today Ca’ d’Zan is a museum on the Ringling Estate, along with the Circus Museum and the Museum of Art.

In Miami, William Deering’s son James, connected with the Deering-McCormick International Harvester fortune, was said to have built the Villa Vizcaya between 1914 and 1922 on Biscayne Bay in the Coconut Grove neighborhood.

The Deering Harvester Company had been founded in 1874 by William Deering, and he moved the company to Chicago in 1880.

In 1902, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company merged with the Deering Harvester Company, forming International Harvester.

The business lines of the company included primarily agricultural equipment, automobiles, commercial trucks, lawn and garden products, and household equipment.

The merger of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the Deering Harvester Company was arranged by J. P. Morgan, an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the period of time called the “Gilded Age.”

He was a driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidation in the United States in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries.

Besides his involvement in the formation of International Harvester, he was also behind the formation of the U. S. Steel Corporation and General Electric, among many other mergers.

His only son J. P. Morgan Jr, AKA Jack, was said to have had the 57-room mansion built on Matinecock Point on East Island in Glen Cove, on the North Shore of Long Island between 1909 and 1913.

Inside, it had 14-foot ceilings, marble fireplaces and sinks, and secret panels hidden within walls, as well as magnificent gardens outside.

It was demolished in 1980.

Next I am going to look at a couple of places in Rhode Island – Newport and Block Island.

Rhode Island is the smallest state in the United States.

Bellevue Avenue in Newport is known for its “Gilded Age Mansions.”

One definition that I found of “Gilded Age” is that it was a period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in the United States from the 1870s to 1900.

Another definition is that it was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the northern and western United States.

Perhaps the most famous of these “Gilded Age” mansions is “The Breakers,” said to have been built in Newport between 1893 and 1895 as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II.

It is a 70-room mansion that was said to have been designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Renaissance Revival architectural-style.

It was said to have been patterned after a Renaissance Palace, and built with marble imported from Italy and Africa, as well as rare wood and mosaics from countries around the world.

It has been a museum since 1948.

Next heading over to Block Island.

Mansion Beach on Rhode Island’s Block Island today is a secluded beach on the island’s northeast coast, known for its white sand and big waves.

It was so-named because there was a mansion once here, said to have been designed by Massachusetts architect Edward F. Searles as a dream home for he and his wife, the widow of San Francisco Central Pacific Railroad magnate Mark Hopkins and constructed between 1886 and 1888.

Searles’ wife, Mary Hopkins Searles, was often referred to as the richest woman in America, and shortly after they married, she bequeathed him her entire fortune.

Searles was another one of those architects credited with the design of other monumental architecture, including, but not limited to, the interior design for the Kellogg Terrace, known today as Searles Castle, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, said to be one of America’s great masterpieces of gothic and Neo-Renaissance architecture built in 1883 by Stanford White of the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the same architectural firm credited with the classical design of the Plymouth Rock Monument.

Sure looks to me like Searles Castle sits atop a star fort base, compared with Fort Loreto, a star fort in Puebla, Mexico, on the right.

Searles was credited with the design of the giant nave which still houses one of the largest pipe organs built in a residence in the United States.

At any rate, after having been abandoned for years, the Searles Mansion back on Block Island burned down in the 1960s, and was never rebuilt.

Mark Hopkins, Mary Hopkins Searles first husband, was the Treasurer of the Central Pacific Railroad, and one of the Central Pacific Railroad’s Big Four, along with Leland Stanford, President; Collis P. Huntingdon, Vice-President; and Charles Crocker, Construction Supervisor.

These four men used their immense wealth and power to dominate politics and commerce in San Francisco and California.

All four of these men had their mansions on Nob Hill destroyed by the 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake.

Nob Hill has historically served as a center of San Francisco’s upper class, and is one of San Francisco’s original seven hills.

Prior to the 1850’s, it was called California Hill, but was re-named Nob Hill after the Big Four, known as the Nabobs, or Nobs, said to be an Anglo-Indian term for ostentatiously wealthy men.

These are the mansions said to have been destroyed by the earthquake.

The Stanford Mansion in Sacramento is in the neighborhood of the Capital Mall, and serves as the official reception center for the California government.

It was said to have been built in 1856 as a residence for Leland Stanford, a former California governor, and founder of Stanford University in 1885.

It was donated to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento in 1900, who operated a children’s home there until 1978.

Where did the wealth of the Big Four come from?

We are told it came first from selling supplies for the California Gold Rush of 1849 to 1851.

Then they were said to have funded the construction of the Transcontinental railroad.

When they became Directors of the Central Pacific Railroad, they became immensely wealthy and the most powerful men in California.

You can also find them referred to as Robber Barons, along with other prominent individuals of this era that we have seen reference to in this video.

Robber Baron is defined as a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices, originally with reference to prominent U. S. businessmen in the 19th-century.

The 1906 Earthquake and Great Fire of San Francisco has all of the elements of the modus operandi of the reset to a new false historical narrative from the original worldwide advanced civilization, and concerning how the new narrative was superimposed on top of existing infrastructure.

This is what we are told about this famous historical event.

A very large earthquake struck the coast of northern California early in the morning of Wednesday, April 18th, 1906.

High intensity shaking was felt from Eureka, California, which is the principal city of what is called the Redwood Empire region of California, and the largest coastal city between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.

The California Parks’ Headquarters for the North Coast Redwoods District is in Eureka.

The Carson Mansion is a nationally-recognized landmark in Eureka.

It was said to have been built starting in 1884, and completed in 1886, for lumber baron William Carson.

It has been a private club since 1950 and is not open to the general public.

William Carson was said to have arrived in San Francisco in 1849, from New Brunswick in Canada, with a group of other woodsmen.

In 1850, he and Jerry Whitmore were said to have felled a tree, the first for commercial purposes on Humboldt Bay.

In 1854, he was said to have shipped the first loads of Redwood timber to San Francisco, and in 1863, he and John Dolbeer formed the Dolbeer and Carson Lumber Company.

William Carson was also said to have been involved with the founding of the Eel River and Eureka Railroad in November of 1882, along with a man named John Vance.

Its service was said to have been stopped for safety reasons between 1996 and 1997.

Here is a building in old town Eureka on the top left, which is said to be known for its Victorian architecture; compared with Fort Madison in Iowa on the top right; and Kherson, Ukraine, on the bottom.

In our historical narrative, the American author Jack London provided a vivid first-hand account of the San Francisco Earthquake and the fires it was said to have caused in his article “The Story of An Eyewitness,” published in Collier’s Magazine on May 5th of 1906 after he was commissioned to report on the story by travelling to San Francisco right after the earthquake, and in which he reported on the almost complete destruction of the city from the earthquake and the subsequent fires that allegedly did more damage than the earthquake.

We are told that in 1905, Jack London purchased 1,000-acres, or 405-hectares, of ranch land on the eastern slope of Mount Sonoma in Glen Ellen, California, and called it the Beauty Ranch.

He did not fare well as a rancher, as it was not an economic success.

According to our historical narrative, the 26-room mansion he and his wife were building on the ranch was said to have burned down two weeks prior to the day they were planning to move in.

These are said to be the ruins of his home, called Wolf House, at Jack London State Historic Park.

Wolf House reminds me of the Castle at Ha Ha Tonka State Park at Central Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks, construction of which was supposed to have started in 1905 by a Kansas City businessman, and finished by his sons in the 1920s before the stock market crash. 

We are then told, after being used first as a seasonal home, and then as a hotel, it was destroyed by a fire in 1942.

Jack London was born in San Francisco on January 12th, 1876.

We are told he was one of the first writers to have worldwide fame, and great financial success.

Also, it is interesting to note that in 1904 Jack London was elected to honorary membership in the private, San Francisco-based Bohemian Club, which utilizes Bohemian Grove.

Authors Mark Twain, Bret Harte and Ambrose Bierce were also members of the Bohemian Club.

There is one more thing I’d like to mention about the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.

The Palace of Fine Arts is right next to the Presidio Park in the Fisherman’s Wharf section of San Franscisco.

It was said to have been built for the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915, an exposition which celebrated the city and its rise from the ashes from the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906. and one of its few surviving structures.

Interesting to note such a massive engineering feat and event like this taking place during World War I, which took place between 1914 and 1918 in our historical narrative.

I am going to look at a few more California locations -the Hearst Castle in San Simeon; Scotty’s Castle in Death Valley; and the Winchester Mansion in San Jose.

While there’s a bunch of photographs that are said to be depicting the construction of the Hearst Castle…

…I do believe it was an old world building and I looked into what our narrative says about its history.

We are told that George Hearst purchased the land in San Simeon in 1865.

George was an American businessman and politician, who founded and developed mining operations, like the Homestake Mine in the 1870s.

It is in the Black Hills in Lead, South Dakota, which was the largest and deepest gold mine in North America until it closed in 2002.

So, here’s the story we are told behind the Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California.

George’s son, William Randolph Hearst the publishing tycoon, and his architect, Julia Morgan, conceived what became the Hearst Castle, which was said to have been built starting in 1919, when William Randolph inherited somewhere around $10-million after the death of his mother, Phoebe.

We are told that the Hearst Castle was under almost continual construction from 1920 to 1939, and during that time there was apparently enough of it constructed for William Randolph Hearst to lavishly entertain the entertainment and political luminaries of the day with many different forms of entertainment, sports, views, and what was called “the most sumptuous swimming pool on Earth.

The Hearst Castle has both an outdoor and indoor swimming pool.

But then the construction of it ended for all intents and purposes in 1947.

William Randolph Hearst died in 1951, and Julia Morgan in 1957, and in that year, the Hearst family gave the castle and much of its contents to the State of California, and it has since operated as the Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument.

Jean-Leon Gerome’s 1886 painting entitled “Napoleon Before the Sphinx,” hangs in the sitting room of the “Celestial Suite” at the Hearst Castle…

…and here’s how the Sphinx looks today on the right.

The next place I want to look at in California is Scotty’s Castle in northern Death Valley, described as a two-story Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial-style Revival villa in the Grapevine Mountains.

Named for gold prospector Walter E. Scott, the story goes that Scott convinced a Chicago millionaire by the name of Albert Mussey Johnson to invest in Scott’s gold mine in Death Valley.

When the gold mine turned out to be fraudulent, instead of staying angry at Scott, we are told Johnson continued a friendship with him, and Johnson and his wife ended up buying around 1,500-acres in Grapevine Canyon, and proceeded with the construction of a ranch there starting in 1927.

Long story short, for a variety of reasons, including the stock market crash of 1929, we are told the ranch was never completed, and that the National Park Service bought the property from Johnson’s Gospel Foundation, and turned it into a tourist attraction.

Scotty’s Castle includes such amenities as a 1,121-pipe Welte Theater Organ – which was the type of organ used in movie theaters to accompany the earlier silent films – in this spacious and elaborate music room.

There is also one-quarter-mile, or .4-kilometers, of tunnels underneath the building, where there is a Grapevine Canyon springwater-powered Pelton-wheel for electricity-generation…

…and an array of Edison’s nickel alkaline batteries for electricity storage…

…and the tunnels were also where the imported Spanish tiles were stored…

…for the pool that wasn’t finished when we are told the construction of the villa stopped in 1929.

Scotty’s Castle was closed to the public in 2015 after it sustained severe flood damage, though opened for the first time this year for limited “Flood Recovery Tours” on certain Sundays through March of 2026.

The $90-million restoration work is expected to continue for another 2 – 3 years.

The last place I am going to take a look at in California is the old Winchester Mystery house in San Jose.

The story goes that Sarah Winchester, the wealthy widow of firearm magnate William Wirt Winchester who died of Tuberculosis in 1881, was told by a medium to leave New Haven, Connecticut, and travel west to a location where she would continuously build a home for herself and the ghosts of the victims who died as a result of Winchester rifles.

She left for California, and purchased an unfinished farmhouse in Santa Clara County, apparently believing her family and fortune was haunted by ghosts, and that she could only appease them by building them a house.

We are told that she did not hire an architect, but instead added on to the building in a haphazard fashion by hiring carpenters to do the work, and ended up with a seven-story mansion.

The house contains numerous strange features such as doors and stairs that don’t go anywhere; windows overlooking other rooms; and odd-sized stairs.

After the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the Winchester House was said to go from seven-stories to four-stories because of damage caused by the quake.

Sarah Winchester died in 1922, and her will made no mention of the mansion.

Shortly thereafter, it was purchased by investors and leased to John and Mayme Brown.

The Winchester Mystery House was opened to the public in February of 1923, with Mayme Brown becoming the first tour guide.

In the one-hundred years since the Winchester Mystery House was opened to the public for tours, millions of people have visited it, and has been listed in many places as a top destination around the world, especially in the “haunted” destination category.

Now I am going to look around a few more states before looking at some mansions and castles in other countries.

Like, the Patsy Clark Mansion in Spokane, Washington.

The Patsy Clark Mansion was attributed to the architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter, circa 1897 – 1898, having been hired by mining millionaire Patsy Clark to replace his mansion that had been burned down in the Great Fire of Spokane in 1889.

The mansion now houses a law firm and offers private rentals for small events.

The 1889 Great Fire of Spokane was a major fire in August of that year which affected downtown Spokane, destroying the downtown commercial district of the city, the same year as the Great Fire that destroyed downtown Seattle in June of that year.

Some of the things that we are told about it included that due to a technical problem with the pump station, there was no water pressure in the city when the fire began, and that firefighters demolished buildings with dynamite in a desperate bid to starve the fire.

After the fire, architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter was also credited with designing many of the city’s older Romanesque Revival-Style buildings, like the First National Bank…

…the Rookery Building…

…the Spokane Club…

…and the Davenport Hotel and Restaurant.

Notable features in the Davenport Hotel included the first hotel air conditioning in the United States; a central vacuum system; and a pipe organ.

In 1985, the Davenport was closed, and the demolition of the grand building was considered.

However, a local property developer bought the building in 2000, and restored the Davenport to its former grandeur, and it reopened as a hotel in September of 2002.

The Historic Davenport Hotel is still considered the Grandest Hotel in Spokane.

Next I am going to take a look at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The American Swedish Institute is a museum and cultural center, dedicated in our historical narrative to the historic role that Sweden and Swedish-Americans have played in American History.

It is housed in what is described as a turn-of-the-century mansion that was built for Swedish immigrants Swan and Christina Turnblad.

Swan Turnblad immigrated with his family to southern Minnesota in 1868, at the age of 8.

His parents were farmers, and in a rags-to-riches story, Swan left the family farm for Minneapolis in 1879, and entered the newspaper business as a type-setter for several Swedish-language newspapers.

He eventually became the publisher and sole owner of one them, and from which he became wealthy.

Swan met his wife Christina Nilsson, also an immigrant from Sweden, at an International Organization of Good Templars meeting, a fraternal organization that was part of the Temperance Movement promoting the avoidance of alcohol & drugs.

Notice the shared symbolism that the International Organization of Good Templars has with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

We are told that Swan Turnblad commissioned the building of a 33-room mansion for himself and his family in 1903, spending $1.5-million in the process.

Supposedly, the family moved into the mansion in 1908 until 1915, when they spent most of their time living in an apartment across the street.

Then after Swan’s wife died in `1929, he and his daughter moved into the apartment full-time and turned the mansion into a museum.

The Moorish Room at the Turnblad Mansion is one of the interior decorative spaces in the mansion that is explained as reflective of the exotic revival tastes popular in the homes of wealthy Americans at the turn-of-the-century.

Historically, it was described as an informal den or sitting room decorated in Moorish-style, likely intended for casual conversation or entertaining.

I was recently informed about a couple of noteworthy things by a friend who volunteered as a tour guide at the American Swedish Institute in the 1990s.

First, she told me about the “Kakelugns.”

Kakelugns were tile stoves that are common across Northern and Eastern Europe, and became popular in Sweden in the 18th-century.

They use ceramic tiles and stone to preserve and sustain heat and are known for their exceptional glazing techniques, intricate designs and technical sophistication.

Swan was said to have handpicked these tile stoves from catalogs and had them imported from Sweden to their home.

At the time she volunteered there, she was told they were never used and she could see that nothing was ever burned in these tile stoves as she could open the doors of many of them.

There was a boiler system that was said to have been installed during the constrction.

She said that during the winter months it’s almost too warm in there.

She now wonders if the kakelungs were used for free energy, or perhaps heated in other ways than putting combustibles like coal in them.

She also told me that the narrative has changed since she was there.

When she was there, her script said that the Turnblads never lived there and moved across the street into apartments which are still standing today.

Also her script told her that Swan and his daughter purchased a couple of large apartments.

Her script also told her that the mansion took five years to build – from 1902-1907, and now they say was 1903-1910. 

She sent me information that she found in on-line property information for Minneapolis in 1992-1996 that this apartment complex across the street, which is the original structure for that parcel, was listed as having been built in 1930.

The James J. Hill House is the largest house in St. Paul, the construction of which was said to have been completed in 1891, after Hill purchased three lots on Summit Avenue in 1882, at a time when wealthy citizens wanted to build fashionable homes there.

James J. Hill was a Canadian-American railroad magnate, and CEO of the family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway.

He was another rags-to-riches success story in that we are told he was born to a poor Canadian family and lost his father at the age of 9.

He was said to have worked as a teenage clerk on the St. Paul levee, and rose to become the “Empire Builder” constructing the Great Northern Railway.

The James J. Hill House was said to be an example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture designed by the East Coast architectural firm of Peabody, Stearns and Furber, and that Hill himself supervised the design and construction closely.

There was a pipe organ in the home here as well because apparently that was a fashionable trend back in Hill’s day.

The William Sauntry House and Recreation Hall is also in Minnesota.

William Sauntry was a local lumber baron, known as “King of the St. Croix,” who at the height of his career amassed a fortune close to $2-million.

It is in Stillwater, which is in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan area on the west bank of the St. Croix River, across the river from Wisconsin.

The house is described as a late 19th-century house and the Recreation Hall as a 1902 addition styled after a Moorish palace, and a rare use of Moorish Revival architecture inspired by the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.

Next in Michigan, I found “Castle Farms” in Charlevoix on the western shore of Lake Michigan.

It was said to have been originally built in 1918 by the acting President of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, Chicago attorney Albert Loeb, as a dairy farm that was modelled after the stone barns and castles he had seen in Normandy, France.

At one time, it had 200-head of prize-winning Holstein-Friesien dairy cows and 13-pairs of Belgian draft horses.

Since then it has passed through different ownership but it has been serving as primarily an event venue throughout the years.

In Nebraska, in the Buffalo Bill State Historical Park near North Platte, is the location of an 18-room mansion named the “Scout’s Rest Ranch,” which we are told was built by Buffalo Bill Cody in 1886 as a place to rest between show-tours and where he lavishly entertained his famous contemporaries.

Buffalo Bill founded his international touring show in 1883, which travelled across the United States, Great Britain, and Continental Europe.

I saw a book about Buffalo Bill called “Presenting Buffalo Bill – the Man who Invented the Wild West.”

Phineas T. Barnum, known more commonly as P. T. Barnum, was a showman, businessman, politician and, along with John Ringling, a travelling circus pioneer.

The first major fire of several associated with P. T. Barnum was the mansion he was said to have had built as his residence in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1848, and named “Iranistan.”

It was said to have been set on fire by workmen in 1857 when Barnum had been away for several months.

Now I am going to look at some castles and mansions in other countries.

First, Canada.

The Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, Ontario, was said to have been built in the Neoclassical Style between 1832 and 1835, and cost $175,000 to build.

The architect credited with building it was Robert Charles Wetherell, and the owner of the property, and the person it was said to have been built for, was Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet, a Canadian political leader, land speculator, and property investor.

The 40-room house had all the amenities of the day, including gas-lighting and running water.

We are told the property was purchased by the City of Hamilton for $50,000 around 1900, and that it cost the city nearly $3-million to renovate the site to make it open to the public, and today it is the Dundurn Castle National Historic Site.

The back-side of the Dundurn Castle…

…looks like the architectural-style of the Montaza Palace in Alexandria, Egypt, on the top left; that of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Canary Islands off the coast of Morocco, on the top right; the Bermuda Parliament Building in Hamilton, Bermuda, in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the bottom left; the example of the Arcachonnaise-style in Arcachon Bay in western France, in the bottom center; and a view of old Ouarzazate in Morocco, nicknamed “The Door of the Desert,” and is considered a gateway to the Sahara Desert…

…and like that of several lighthouses I looked at on Lake Huron, like the example of the Forty Mile Point Lighthouse just north of Rogers City, on the east-side of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.

Its construction was said to have been completed by 1896.

Next, the Casa Loma in Toronto.

The Casa Loma is described as a Gothic Revival Style mansion constructed between 1911 and 1914 as a residence for financier Sir Henry Pellatt, and called the biggest private residence ever constructed in Canada.

It is a popular filming location for movies and television, as well as a wedding venue.

Next I am going to hop across the pond and check out a few places in the United Kingdom.

My first stop is Buckingham Palace in the City of Westminster in London.

We are told that the core of Buckingham Palace was a privately-owned townhouse that had been built for the Duke of Buckingham and Normandy that was built in 1703 that was acquired by King George III in 1761 to be a private residence for his wife Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and became known as Buckingham House, or the Queen’s House.

Queen Charlotte was born into the ruling family of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a duchy in Northern Germany.

While this information is obscured, there is reference to her being of Moorish ancestry in the historical narrative.

Then in the early 19th-century, we are told it was enlarged by the architects John Nash and Edward Blore.

The architect John Nash was considered one of the foremost architects of the Regency Era, during the Georgian-era from 1714 to 1830.

The Regency Era was the period during which the son of King George III became the Prince Regent, Prince George, and ruled as proxy when his father was deemed unfit to rule due to illness, from 1811 until he became King George IV in his own right in 1820.

Edward Blore’s background was said to be in “Antiquarian Draftsmanship” rather than architecture, in which he had no formal training.

In our historical narrative, John Nash transformed Buckingham House into a grand, U-shaped Palace for King George IV in the 1820s, in which he was said to have extended the central block and rebuilt the wings to create the core of the modern residence.

Edward Blore was credited with completing John Nash’s design of Buckingham Palace in 1847 by designing the Great Facade of Buckingham Palace, and that it was completed in 1850.

While one of the meanings of facade is the front of a building, another meaning is an outward appearance that is maintained to conceal a creditable reality – a pretense, guise, mask, or veil.

John Nash was also given credit for the Marble Arch in London, said to have been designed by him in 1827 as the state entrance to the ceremonial courtyard of Buckingham Palace.

An interesting aside to this is that it was said to have been moved in 1851 on the initiative of Decimus Burton (b. 1800 – d. 1881), a pupil of John Nash and urban-planner, from its original location.

It is also interesting to note that only members of the royal family and the King’s troops are permitted to pass through the arch in ceremonial processions.

John Nash was also given credit for the design of the Royal Pavilion of Brighton.

It was said to have been commissioned by the Prince Regent George as a seaside resort, with construction starting in 1787 and completed in 1823.

The style is described as “Indo-Saracenic.”

The Royal Pavilion in Brighton was said to have inspired P. T. Barnum’s “Iranistan.”

Saracen is an older term in England referring to Arabs or Muslims…as well as megalithic stones.

These are Saracen, or Sarsen, stones.

Along with the Grand Facade of Buckingham Palace, Edward Blore was also credited with the introduction of the Scottish Baronial and Moorish Revival architectural styles in the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea region in the 1820s

Like with the Vorontsov Palace in Alupka, Crimea, which was said to have been built between 1828 and 1846.

Here is a comparison of the some of the architecture found at Vorontsov Palace in the Crimea on the left, and on the right, the Jama Masyid Mosque in Delhi, India, said to have been built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656.

Next, the Balmoral Castle in Aberdeen, Scotland.

The Balmoral Castle on the Balmoral Estate has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, at which time the estate and its original castle were purchased from the Farquharson family, a highland Scottish clan, by Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband.

We are told that before long, it was found that the original castle was “too small,” and the design of the current Balmoral Castle was said to have been commissioned to the prolific local Scottish architect William Smith of Aberdeen, with design input from Prince Albert, with construction from 1853 to 1856.

It is classified as “Scottish Baronial” architecture.

There are eleven, what are called “stone cairns,” that were said to have been erected on the Balmoral Estate to commemorate members of the British Royal Family and events in their lives, the majority of which were said to have been erected by Queen Victoria.

We are told that the largest of the “Balmoral Cairns,” shown here, looking very much like a pyramid, was erected in memory of Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, after his death on December 14th of 1861.

Here is an obelisk on the Balmoral Estate, which was said to be another monument to Prince Albert, and said to have been erected in 1862.

Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, was born on July 15th of 1750, and was the progenitor of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha line, which seeded the lineage of the new Royals of Great Britain and many other Royal Houses of Europe.

Francis succeeded his father as the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in 1800.

Napoleon defeated Austrian and Imperial forces in the Battle of Austerliz on December 2nd of 1805, andas a result, the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved on August 6th of 1806, and on December 15th of 1806, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, along with the other Ernestine Duchies, entered Napoleon’s Confederation of the Rhine, becoming client states of the French First Empire, which lasted until 1813.

Prior to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the imperial throne was occupied by the House of Habsburg.

Also called the House of Austria, the House of Habsburg was one of the most distinguished and influential royal houses of Europe.

The Habsburg male line died out in 1740 with the death of Emperor Charles VI, and as a result of the War of Austrian Succession that took place between 1740 and 1748, the Empress Maria-Theresa had to concede Habsburg lands in Austria, Spain, and Italy to other powers as part of the terms of the 1748 Treaty of Aix-La-Chappelle, which also confirmed the right of succession of the German House of Hanover to the British throne.

King George I of the German House of Hanover succeeded to the British throne on August 1st of 1714 in our historical narrative.

He was the grandson of the daughter of King James VI of Scotland and I of England.

His grandmother was Elizabeth of Bohemia, who lived from 1596 to 1662.

In 1613, She married Frederick V, the Elector-Prince of the Palatinate, one of the Holy Roman Empire’s greatest Prince-Electorates. 

The Electors were responsible for electing the Holy Roman Emperor.

The daughter of Elizabeth of Bohemia and Frederick V was Princess Sophia.

Princess Sophia was the founder of the Hanoverian line of British Monarchs, and through her mother.

The House of Stuart had been the ruling monarchs of the British Isles since King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England in 1613.

In February of 1717, the Stuart heir, James Francis Edward Stuart, known in our historical narrative as the Pretender, left where he was living in France in order to seek exile with Pope Clement XI in Rome, which was where he died 1766.

He would have been heir to the three thrones, but was forcibly prevented from claiming them when he tried to do so.

The portrait on the left is believed to be a portrait of James Francis Edward Stuart that was painted when he lived in France.

Leopold, the son of Duke Francis of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, became Leopold I, the first King of the Belgians, in 1831.

He had strong ties to Great Britain as he had moved there and married Princess Charlotte of Wales in 1816, second-in-line to the British throne after her father the Prince-Regent, who became King George IV.

Princess Charlotte was recorded as having died after delivering a stillborn child a year after they were married, leaving King George IV without any legitimate grandchildren.

King George III’s son, the Prince-Regent George’s brother, Prince Edward, ended-up proposing to Leopold’s older sister Victoria, of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, who were the parents of the future Queen Victoria.

Victoria, the daughter of Prince Edward, son of King George III of Great Britain, and Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the daughter of Duke Francis, became the new Queen of England at the age of 18 on June 20th of 1837.

Her father Prince Edward, and grandfather, King George III, died within six-days of each other in 1820, and there was no other surviving legitimate issue to claim the throne after King George IV died in June of 1837.

Queen Victoria’s reign began on June 20th of 1837, and lasted for almost 64-years, until her death on January 22nd of 1901.

She was considered the last monarch of the House of Hanover through her father Prince Edward

Her reign was characterized as a period of cultural, industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.

Queen Victoria married her first-cousin, Prince Albert, the grandson of Duke Francis through his father Duke Ernest I, on February 10th of 1840.

Prince Albert was an important political advisor to his wife, and became the dominant influential figure in the first half of their lives together.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert produced 9 children, starting with Victoria, Princess Royal, on November 21st of 1840.

The oldest son of Victoria and Albert, Prince Edward of Wales became King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and British Dominions and Emperor of India when Queen Victoria died in 1901.

He was the first British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

On July 17th of 1917, during the reign of King George V, the name of the royal house was changed to Windsor, supposedly due to anti-German sentiment generated by World War I.

I firmly believe that what we know of as the Victorian Era was actually the official beginning of the New World Order timeline reset, with Queen Victoria presiding over what I believe was its official kick-off at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851.

The Crystal Palace was said to have been designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, a gardener and greenhouse builder, and built in Hyde Park to house the Exhibition.

The Crystal Palace was described as a massive glass house that was 1,848-feet, or 563-meters, long, by 454-feet, or 138-meters, wide, and constructed from cast-iron frame components and glass.

There were statues on the inside, and trees – said to demonstrate man’s triumph over nature.

We are told the purpose of the first Great Exhibition in 1851 was said to be making clear to the world Britain’s role as industrial leader, while at the same time it provided a platform on which other countries from around the world could display their achievements.

It was organized by Sir Henry Cole, British civil servant and inventor, and Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.

We are told that it took only 9-months to develop it, from plans and organization to the Grand Opening with Queen Victoria.

We are told that after the Great Exhibition, the Crystal Palace was moved and re-erected in 1854 to Sydenham Hill in South London, and was later destroyed by fire in 1936.

Just wondering how they managed to move a massive building of plate-glass and cast-iron, said to be three times larger than St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

Sir Joseph Paxton was also said to have been commissioned by Baron Mayer de Rothschild in 1850 to design the Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire, said to be one of the greatest country houses built during the Victorian Era.

It was said to have been built between 1852 and 1854.

The mansion has been largely vacant for over 15-years, and is listed on the “Historic England At-Risk Ledger” for neglect, with reports of serious structural decay.

Joseph Paxton was also credited with the design of Birkenhead Park on the Wirral Peninsula in northwest England near Liverpool, which opened in April of 1847 and said to be the first publicly funded civic park in the world.

This is a good lead-in to bring in another one of the many hats of Frederick Law Olmsted in the shaping of our new historical narrative.

We saw him earlier at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, for what he is known best for as the “Father of Landscape Architecture.”

He started out his storied career as a journalist.

In our historical narrative, Frederick Law Olmsted travelled to England in 1850 to visit the public gardens there, including Birkenhead Park,

After his trip, Olmsted published “Walks and Talks of an American Farmer” in England in 1852, where he recorded the sights, sounds and mental impressions of rural England from his visit.

Frederick Law Olmsted’s career as a prolific and celebrated landscape architect was said to have gotten its start teaming up with Calvert Vaux in the design and creation of Central Park in New York City.

Their design, announced as the winner of a contest in 1858, was called the “Greensward Plan.”

Frederick Law Olmsted’s visit to Birkenhead Park in 1850 was said to have provided him inspiration for the Central Park design.

Frederick Law Olmsted apparently was also commissioned by the New York Daily Times to start on an extensive research journey in the American South and Texas between 1852 and 1857.

The dispatches he sent to the Times were collected into three books, and considered vivid, first-person accounts of the antebellum South: “A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States,” first published in 1856; ”A Journey through Texas,” published in 1857; and “A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853 – 1854,” published in 1860.

All three of these books were published in one book, called “Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom,” in 1861 during the first six months of the American Civil War at the suggestion of his English publisher.

Like I said earlier in this post, I believe famous writers were being used as programming devices with which to shape our collective minds with a new historical narrative and history that we have been thoroughly educated in, and completely covering up what was once a worldwide ancient Moorish Civilization.

I believe Napoleon was telling the truth when he was famously attributed as saying, “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”

I have endeavored to show here the evidence I have found over the years that shed light on what the “set of lies” are in our historical narrative, and some of those who “agreed upon” them.