Revealing What Has Been Hidden in Front of Our Eyes

Interesting Comments & Suggestions I have Received from Viewers – Volume 6

I will be sharing photographs, videos and other information viewers have gathered along the way and sent to me in their explorations and research of places close to where they live, in this sixth volume of what will be a long new series in which I am highlighting places, concepts, and historical events that people have suggested, and is a compilation of work I have previously done presented in a multi-volume format.

MF in Missouri sent me this nugget of information about Victorian homes on the real estate market, and said the following:

“Years of shopping for Victorian real estate sealed the deal for me regarding a previous civilization. Here is just one example.”

I myself can’t help but notice the mud-flood-type slant that is going on in these photos of different views around this Victorian home in Arkansas.

She also said to “Note the basement.”

Also, the red arrows on the right are pointing toward the downward slant of the brick wall of the house where it meets the slanted walkway, as well as the irregular brick-work shown here; and the red arrow on the left points to what looks like an older stone wall that is part of the house’s construction too.

…that “Often the remaining Victorian houses have 3, 6 or 9 gematria addresses…”

…and that “Many have the shallow ‘fireplace dog ‘ fireplaces.”

It is interesting to note that “fireplace dog” is another word for “andiron,” which is defined as one of a pair of bracket supports on which logs are laid for burning in an open fireplace, allowing air to circulate under the firewood for better burning and less smoke.”

So here are some examples of andirons out there, starting with “American Iron Firedogs” dated from between 1770 and 1800, and look to be of a more utilitarian design for fireplace use…

…but there are more elaborate and beautiful andirons, like these English brass and enamel andirons circa 1680…

…and this set of andirons, shown with logs, in a main dining room at the palace of Versailles outside of Paris, France.

Quite ornate to be designed specifically to hold logs burning in a fireplace!

Next, PH recently visited Keowee-Toxaway State Park in South Carolina and sent me video footage and photos he took during his visit.

Keowee-Toxaway State Park on Lake Keowee was created from lands previously owned by Duke Power, and all part of the historical lands of the Cherokee, which is today in the northwest corner of South Carolina near the state’s border with northeast Georgia and southwest North Carolina.

Lake Keowee is a man-made reservoir formed in 1971, that we are told was constructed for the needs of Duke Energy, which it uses for things like cooling three nuclear reactors at the Oconee Nuclear Generating Station, and for public recreational purposes.

The historic Cherokee Keowee Town had been located on the bank of the Keowee River and was part of what was known as the Lower Town Regions, all of which were inundated by the formation of Lake Keowee, its artifacts and history lost.

Were they hiding evidence of something they didn’t want us to know about in the process of creating these man-made lakes?

PH sent me these photos he took himself at the park, like this one atthe top of the land bridge at the park, what is referred to as the “Natural Bridge…”

…where he also said there was a nearby golf course, and it was striking to him how close the bridge was located to Route 11.

He also took photos he took of the area surrounding the bridge.

Who were the Cherokee, really?

Were they the hunter-gatherers we have been taught to believe in the historical narrative we have been given?

Or were they, and the other indigenous peoples in the Americas and around the world, actually the builders of what we know as civilization, dating back to ancient Mu, or LeMuria, to relatively modern times, and the European colonizers actually stole their legacy, subsequently claimed it for themselves, and then proceeded to banish the Master Builders of this ancient, advanced Mu’urish civilization to primitive status in the minds of the Collective Human Consciousness for eternity?

This is something for us to seriously consider moving forward in our understanding of what has taken place here and to not blindly accept everything we have been told.

I personally don’t think there was a mysterious “other” civilization, or aliens, that built everything, though if the History Channelprogram “Ancient Aliens,” which I appreciate gets these subjects out to the light-of-day on mainstream television, had been called “Ancient Humans,” it probably would not have lasted one season, much less 17 seasons…

…and how about we don’t have to look any further than the people who were already here to find the builders of it.

The Cherokee were even considered one of the “Five Civilized Tribes” by the European Colonizers, along with the Chicksaw, Chocktaw Creek and Seminole…

…who proceeded to have the majority of them removed from the land after signing treaties with the U. S. Government which had them cede their traditional land, after President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, leading to the infamous Cherokee Trail of Tears and those of the other affected tribes.

I was searching for images of “Cherokee,” and saw this image of a tapestry blanket for the city of Murphy, North Carolina, which is the seat of Cherokee County, which is described as long having been part of Cherokee homelands.

The Cherokee County Courthouse depicted in the center of the tapestry…

…was said to have been built in 1926 in the Classical Revival-style of architecture.

I wonder why they took down the topmost section of the courthouse’s cupola, which was seen in an earlier photo of it, but not one that was taken more recently.

I know there are many more examples of missing building parts like this, but here’s another example for the purposes of comparison of the same thing.

Today this building is the home of the the “Prescott Center for the Performing Arts” in Prescott, Arizona.

Once upon a time, we are told in our historical narrative, this building was the “Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Rectory,” built here starting in 1891, and the first services held on February 17th of 1895.

According to this plaque at the front of the building, the church had a steeple that was 115-feet, or 35-meters, tall, but that it was removed in 1930, after being struck by lightening several times.

Also notice the older, larger stone-work in contrast with the brick-work., like we saw back at the Victorian home in Arkansas at the beginning of this post.

Also interesting to note that, like the Victorian home example in Arkansas, there is a mud-flood-type slant going on around this building in Prescott…

…as well as building features below the ground-level of the building, but not necessarily the street-level.

Still in historical Cherokee territory, EJ took a road trip with two of her friends to see if they could find an actual “fort” at Fort Mountain State Park in Georgia, and she sent me photos from their trip to the Fort Mountain State Park outside of Chatsworth, Georgia…

…which happens to be only 103-miles, or 166-kilometers, from Keowee-Toxaway State Park in South Carolina.

She said there were lots of large boulders strewn about, and that it kind of looked like most of them had just been bulldozed into a pile ( just her impression).

She found one that had a straight cut through it that didn’t look natural, with her foot on it in the picture on the right for size comparison.

She said the 885-foot, or 270-meter, zig zagging stone wall, looked more to her like loose rocks dumped there than a wall.

EJ also sent me photos of the stone fire watch tower there, which was said to have been built in the 1930s during the Great Depression by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

There was a fire at the stone fire watch tower in 1971, which destroyed the cupola at the top…

…but there was a major restoration project between 2014 and 2015 that restored the stone fire watch tower on Fort Mountain to its original appearance.

EJ observed while she was there that the stone tower really isn’t tall enough to be an effective fire tower considering the trees are taller then the tower.

This stone fire watch tower is known for the heart-shaped rock found on one side of it.

The story goes that a young stone mason in the CCC, Arthur Bailey, led the team while missing his sweetheart back home, and to show his love for her, he carved a heart-shaped stone for the tower.

Seeing this stone in the tower got me thinking about other heart shapes that I have seen in the world, like what is called the “Heart of Voh,” in the heart of a mangrove forest in New Caledonia, which is a French territory comprised of dozens of islands in the South Pacific…

…the Heart of Corsica, also known as the Two Lovers, said to be in a natural rock formation in the Regional National Park of Corsica….

…Heart Lake, in the northern part of Brampton, Ontario, Canada…

…and this heart-shape in one of Cappadocia’s caves in Turkey.

All of these perfect-heart shapes make me wonder firstly, exactly how long this shape has been associated with love, and secondly, if the Ancients were encoding the emotion of love directly into landscape and architecture of Earth.

I am quite certain the Old World was based on the frequency of love, and not on the fear we have been conditioned with in the false construct of the New World.

Next, SV sent me quite a bit of information about where she lives in the Kensington District of London, England.

In the first series of information she sent me, she highlights where she lives in South Kensington.

She said that in the older buildings in London, and all over Europe for that matter, it is common to have “mud-scrapers” on both sides of the doors of entrances to remove mud from the soles of shoes.

This is the view of the back of the building she lives in from her terrace on the left, and on the right is a view of the garden of her downstairs neighbor on the basement-level.

In this video she sent me, SV is going on a “Mud-Flood Walk-About” around her neighborhood, showing us the buildings and basements of Wetherby Gardens and excavated mud-flooded levels throughout her walk, including: Ashburn Place; Harrington Gardens; Colbeck Mews; and St. Jude’s Church/Millitus College, which still shows the basement level; and the side-view of St. Jude’s from Courtfield Gardens, and other views going around the block there.

Here are a few points of additional information that I have pulled from the video she took.

The term “Victorian architecture” is used to refer to a number of different architectural-styles that we are told emerged between 1830 and 1910, during the reign of Queen Victoria.

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Here is a comparison from two windows in London that she showed us in the video on the left, with the same shape of the window in one of the rooms of the Victorian house seen earlier on the right in Arkansas.

We accept the explanation that these two windows in very different places would be the same design because they came from this same time period because, well, that is the only reason we have ever been given.

It is interesting to note that on her walk, SV’s video camera picked up magnetic patterns on the bricks of several of the buildings she passed by, and these were right next to St. Jude’s Church in Kensington’s Courtfield Gardens.

Then there is this side-picture from the street on the other side of the garden’s wall of St. Jude’s Church showing windows which just happen to resemble atomic wave-form patterns.

Lastly for this post, MB in Maryland sent me information to look into the story we are given about a big quarry at the C & O Canal and Seneca Creek, and stone-cutting mill located there.

These locations MB speaks of are in Montgomery County, Maryland, where I grew up.

I graduated from Wootton High School in Rockville, and MB graduated from Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, and while I don’t know the Seneca/Germantown area well, I do know it.

These are some old stomping grounds of mine, so to speak, for a variety reasons, when I was growing up.

I moved away from the area permanently when I got married in 1989.

MB visits the Seneca Creek Stone-Cutting Mill often, and said he has been suspicious for decades of the whole story.

It was said to have been built in 1868, and used to cut stone for Baltimore and Washington, DC, until 1901.

We are told the “brownstone” for Smithsonian castle, also known as “Seneca Red Sandstone,” and numerous buildings and canal locks in the area, came from…

… a big stone quarry at the C&O Canal and Seneca Creek that started operating somewhere around 1781.

This is listed as an 1898 photograph of the quarry.

Nowadays, the location designated as the former quarry is overgrown with sycamore trees, poplars, and dense brush, and is impenetrable most of the year.

The Seneca Creek Aqueduct is near the location of the quarry and mill, and was said to have been built between 1829 and 1832 out of the Seneca Red Sandstone of the quarry–almost 40-years before the Stone Cutting Mill was said to have opened.

MB said the big problem is there’s no big hole — nothing that could fit the Smithsonian Castle plus the myriad other structures supposedly supplied from the Seneca Quarry.

Excepting a “turn-around basin” that may be natural in the canal, he can find zero trace of any quarry at all in fact.

He indicated there are small-gauge railroad tracks laid down, leaving the stone cutting mill from approximately from its SW corner…but says then they then disappear, and MB has recently has been looking at the ruins here from ‘mudflood’ perspective.

I am going to continue to share photographs and videos viewers have shared with me, and the information they have gathered, in their journeys and explorations close to where they live, in this installment, as well as continuing to look at places viewers have suggested.

JPT left a comment about already noticing many mudflood building around town, which was “founded” in 1804, and said that when the next-door neighbor was tearing down an old shed recently, the excavator dug slightly into an embankment, and started digging out massive megalithic stones that were huge, 4-feet by 2-feet easily, and shared these photos with me.

JPT said the large stones seemed quite unexpected, and had been buried beneath brick about 10-feet, or 3-meters, or more.

It is interesting that NV left me a comment today with Rudyard Kipling’s entire 1902 poem “The Palace,” just one day after I have finished writing about JPT’s neighbor’s unexpected megaliths.

As much as I enjoyed reading when I was younger, and I read a number of the classics of literature as a teenager beyond what was required reading, I never got into Kipling much beyond Disney’s “Jungle Book” and whatever was required reading of his for high school English classes, so I didn’t know about this one at all.

Here is Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Palace”:

Going back to the first verse, it says: “When I was a King and a Mason – a Master proven and skilled – I cleared me a ground for a palace such as a king should build, I decreed and dug down to my levels. Presently, under the silt, I came on the wreck of a palace such as a King had built.

Silt is defined as fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, so it may also exist as soil or a sediment mixed in suspension with water…

…and silt is also associated with liquefaction, which occurs, for one thing, with high-intensity earthquakes.

And was Rudyard Kipling himself a Freemason?

Come to find out, he most certainly was!

Another commenter, SG, sent me the following information related to Rochester, Minnesota.

Rochester is the home of the Mayo Clinic.

She said Dr. William W. Mayo seems to have come from nowhere.

William Worrall Mayo was born in Salford England…

…and studied in Manchester as a scientist under the noted chemist John Dalton, who was credited with developing the modern atomic theory of matter and devising a table of relative atomic weights.

Mayo left England for America in 1846, and landed a job as a pharmacist at the Bellevue Hospital in New York City, the oldest public hospital in the United States.

He didn’t stay there long, as he moved progressively westward, from Buffalo, New York, to Lafayette, Indiana, and in 1849, assisted in a cholera outbreak there, after which he was said to have attended Indiana Medical College in LaPorte, Indiana, and graduated in February of 1850.

The same year Mayo was said to have graduated from the Indiana Medical College in 1850, was the same year it stopped offering classes, according to this historical marker….

…and by 1856, according to this article, the building in Laporte that housed the Indiana Medical College burned down, destroying most of the college’s records.

He and his family ended up in Minnesota sometime in the mid-1850s, living in various places in the state, and doing different kinds of jobs, and besides doctoring, he was said to have done work as a census-taker; farmer; ferry-service operator; justice of the peace; newspaper publisher; and working on a steamboat.

He first came to the Rochester-area around 1863 when he was named as the examining surgeon for the 1st Minnesota draft board during the Civil War, and he also opened a medical practice there.

While he was involved in a lot of different things, like politics, and different places, like St. Paul, the event that started the Mayo Clinic is considered to have been the August 21st tornado that devastated Rochester in 1883, when Dr. Mayo and his two sons, William James and Charles Horace, worked together to care for the wounded.

As a result of the devastating tornado, donations totalling USD $60,000 (or what would have been valued in 2016 as $1.5 million) were raised, and with that, the Sisters of St. Francis, assisted by Dr. Mayo, opened St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester in 1889.

The original St. Mary’s Hospital was demolished in 1953.

The first Mayo Clinic was in the Rochester Masonic Lodge, that the Mayos were said to have helped build as well…

…and indeed Dr. William Mayo, his son Charles Horace, and later his grandsons Charles W. and Joseph G., were listed as also active as Brothers in the masonic lodge…

…and this Rochester Masonic Lodge was destroyed by fire in 1916.

The Plummer Building opened on the expanding Mayo Clinic campus in 1928, and the architect of record is Ellerbe and Company, in collaboration with Henry Stanley Plummer, an internist and endocrinologist who was one of the founding physicians of the Mayo Clinic.

Interesting to see an owl is depicted with him in the architectural detail on the Plummer building.

Owl could mean wise. Could mean night owl.

But the symbolism of the owl could mean something else entirely.

The many notable features of the Plummer Building include its top, which is trimmed by terra cotta…

…and contains a 56-bronze-bell carillon, which is played every day.

On the left is the Plummer Building in Rochester, and on the right is the Victoria Tower in the Westminster Palace complex in London, which houses the British Parliament, the construction of which was said to have been completed in 1860.

Again, on the left is the top of the Plummer Building, and on the right is the Buxton Memorial Fountain in the Victoria Tower Gardens.

While the Victoria Tower is not a bell-tower, the Elizabeth Tower of the Parliament building is, which houses the Great Bell, better-known by its nickname, Big Ben, of the striking clock at the north-end of Westminster Palace.

With regards to other notable features of the Plummer Building in Rochester, the 4,000-pound, or 1,800-kilogram, and 216-foot, or 66-meter, -high ornamental bronze-doors are always open, except for significant events in Mayo Clinic, or national, history.

SG also shared the following information about Rochester, including there are “subways” under Rochester, with no subway trains, that are walking tunnels downtown that go for miles outside of downtown as well.

…and at a place called Quarry Hill, there are what are claimed to be caves dug-out for use by the State Hospital, as storage space for the food for its patients.

The State Hospital in Rochester was said to have been constructed starting in 1877 as a way to house the increasingly problematic group of residents known as “habitual drunkards,” for which funds for the State Hospital were raised.

Then, at the same time, the St. Peter Hospital for the Insane was having an over-crowding problem apparently, and so the State Legislature changed the facility to have a secondary-focus as the “State Inebriate Asylum, and a primary-focus as the “Second State Hospital for the Insane.”

It functioned as a State Hospital for over 100-years, closing as such in 1982.

Interestingly, with regards to the increasing problem of “habitual drunkards,” is that by 1870, Rochester was already home to three breweries, the largest of which started in the mid-to-late 1850s, and became known as Schuster’s brewery starting in 1871.

By 1910, Schuster’s Brewery was shipping the 10-million bottles of beer and malt tonic it produced annually to 24 states.

By 1922, it closed its doors, due primarily to Prohibition.

I’ve alluded in past videos to findings in my research that breweries and distilleries popped-up in droves in the beginning in the late 1700s, and I believe introducing copious quantities of beer and hard liquor was done deliberately to lower our collective consciousness and destroy lives.

This fireplace on what was formerly the State Hospital grounds is said to be more than 100-years-old…

…and built out of limestone from the quarry on top of what was a land-fill for the State Hospital upon the recommendation of one of its former Superintendent’s that it would make a good picnic area.

Along similar lines as the underground “caves” in Rochester, CG sent me information about the existence of Springfield Underground, an underground complex that contains 3.2-million-square-feet of leasable space in tunnels said to have been left by a limestone mining operation that started in 1946, and access to the general public is very limited.

The first tunnels were said to have been dug in 1954.

We are told the limestone mining process that was used left massive 30-foot by 30-foot, or 9-meter by 9-meter, pillars of limestone every 50-feet, or 15-meters, and the buildings and roadways of Springfield Underground are spaced between them; that the ceiling ranges from 27-foot to 45-foot-high, or 8-meters to 14-meters, high and the floor is 100-feet, or 30-meters, deep.

Michael in Austria sent me his finding of what he calls the “Iron Triangle” on Google Earth earlier this year.

I haven’t had a chance to take a deeper look into it yet, but the video he made of it from Google Earth will give you the idea.

BJ emailed me a photo of the first is the National Wallace Memorial in Stirling, Scotland, that stands above where Scottish national hero William Wallace led his troops to victory against the army of King Edward Ist in 1297 at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

The National Wallace Memorial was said to have been completed in 1869, following a fundraising campaign that was started in Glasgow in 1851 by the Rev. Charles Rogers following a resurgence of Scottish National identity.

I am finding the year 1851 to be a red-letter year in the historical reset narrative, which was the same year as the Great Exhibition of the Works of All Nations, also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition, in London.

George Murray, the Duke of Atholl and the Grand Master Mason of Scotland, was credited with laying the foundation stone in 1861 for the Wallace Memorial.

Lastly for this post, PH wondered about how kudzu vine has completely taken over the southern United States…

…and shared with me what he found when he looked into the origins.

So, the first thing we see is that it was introduced from Japan at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876, and promoted as an ornamental and forage crop plant.

Then kudzu was promoted for erosion control during the Great Depression in the 1930s, and planting it provided work for young men in the Civilian Conservation Corps.

What ended-up resulting from this indiscriminate kudzu planting policy?

Bottom line: it eventually takes over EVERYTHING in its path!

Question is: was this Kudzu take-over of the South an unintended consequence…or a planned act of environmental destruction?

One commenter, LN, said that there is a huge mansion called The Pensmore in Highlandville, Missouri, and located above the network of tunnels in Springfield.

It is one of the largest homes in the United States, and was designed to withstand earthquakes, tornadoes and bomb blasts.

It’s construction is reported as having started in 2008 and it is still under construction today.

SA used to live just down the street from the Springfield Underground, and was a long-haul trucker at the time and made many different pick-ups and deliveries in the Springfield Underground and others, and said there are several more undergrounds like Springfield, in and around Kansas City – at Lenexa KS…

…SubTropolis in Kansas City, Missouri, which calls itself the “World’s Largest Underground Business Complex…”

…and in Carthage, MO, where the underground there is a collection of marble quarries.

SA’s question while down in there was always “how old are they and how did they build them?”

The answer given never quite hit the mark, and Missouri is “The Cave State,” after all.

Another commenter said that AmeriCold is the largest World Wide owner of underground facilities like these, and that these facilities are highly-classified areas.

AmeriCold started out as “Atlantic Coal and Ice” when Atlanta businessman Ernest Woodruff merged three cold storage warehouses, in 1903, and grew out of many more mergers and acquistions of cold storage companies.

Since 2010 when it acquired Versacold, AmeriCold became the largest, temperature-controlled warehousing and distribution services provider in the world…

…and is controlled by the Yucaipa Companies, an American Private Equity firm specializing in private equity and venture capital for middle-market companies, growth capital, industry consolidation; leveraged buy-outs; and turnaround investments.

Here is a history of the company’s activities from between 1987 and 2014.

I definitely get the feeling that this subterranean subject leads to the Mother of All Rabbit Holes….

The second subject I am going to revisit is based on my mention of the Japanese vine Kudzu in the last post, which has introduced in the United States at the 1872 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

It was promoted as a forage crop and ornamental plant until 1953, and planted by the young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s at the behest of the Soil Conservation Service for erosion control.

Problem is, it kills other plants by smothering them underneath a solid blanket of leaves, and eventually takes over everything in its path, which raises the question about whether or not the Kudzu take-over of the South is an unintended consequence…or a planned act of environmental destruction?

PL left a comment in response to my mention of the kudzu plant, saying there are other possible biological terrorist acts to consider.

One is the Burmese python invasion in the Florida Everglades…

…where the pythons are taking over the land and killing many of the native species.

Researchers estimate there are anywhere between 30,000 and 300,000 of these pythons in South Florida.

The other is the Apple Snail problem in southwest Louisiana’s rice and crawfish farms, and are an invasive species that are not native here.

Apple Snails consume large quantities of plants, and damage important habitats for native fish and wildlife, and overpopulate their environments.

He said we are told that pet owners released these invasive species in significant enough numbers to produce breeding populations, and that those telling us this wont even consider a possible act of terrorism when it would be so easy to pull off.

Now on to new subjects.

RT suggested that I look into two identical sculptures entitled “The Awakening.”

Before I share what both of the “The Awakening’s” look like, I would like to insert that they were designed by John Seward Johnson II of the Johnson and Johnson family.

Seward Johnson was the grandson of Robert Wood Johnson…

…who had joined in partnership with his two brothers – James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson – in founding Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1886, becoming a major manufacturer of sterile surgical supplies, household products, and medical guides.

Seward Johnson was best-known for designing life-size bronze statues that were castings of people that were engaged in day-to-day activities, and he was the founder of the “Grounds for Sculpture” in 1992 in Hamilton,New Jersey, constructed on the location of the former Trenton Speedway, which was at the former New Jersey State Fairgrounds, both of which were closed at the same time in 1980.

Interesting that they would construct a sculpture garden on what would have been a power-node related to the State Fairgrounds and Trenton Speedway.

Now, here’s what I can find out about Seward Johnson’s creation “The Awakening.”

It is a 72-foot, or 22-meter, statue that depicts a giant embedded in the Earth, struggling to free himself.

There is one at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

It consists of 5 aluminum pieces buried in the ground in such a way that it gives the impression of a distressed giant attempting to free himself from the ground…

…with mouth in mid-scream as the giant struggles to emerge from the Earth.

Now seeing the Ferris Wheel across the way in this photo brings to mind a commenter’s question about what the deal is with Ferris Wheels.

I don’t know the answer to that question, but its a great question because they show up in a lot of places all over the world.

Are Ferris Wheels for the purpose of having fun, or do they have an ulterior purpose unbeknownst to the general public.

There is an identical sculpture in Chesterfield, Missouri.

There was even a duplicate of “The Awakening” that made a limited appearance at the”Grounds for Sculpture” for a Seward Johnson Retrospective a couple of years ago.

SV shared with me some information about statuary at the Marble Arch in London.

The architect John Nash (b. 1752 – d. 1835) was considered one of the foremost architects of the Regency Era, during the Georgian era from 1714 to 1830…

…and was credited with designing the Marble Arch in London in 1827, as the state entrance to the ceremonial courtyard of Buckingham Palace.

It is also interesting to note that only members of the royal family and its troop are permitted to pass through the arch in ceremonial processions.

SV explained that the Marble Arch is at a junction of very heavy traffic, redirecting cars and people along really important roads, such as Edgware Road, and Oxford Street…

…and that just beside the Arch are grounds with a small water pool, and fountains, where the Westminster City Council’s City of Sculpture Programme displays its commissions.

She said this statue was on display at the Marble Arch Park starting in 2015 until 2016, called ‘She Guardian,’ by Russian artist Dashi Namdakov.

While indications are the image was intended to be a “symbol of female strength and a desire to care for the young,” it’s effect on most on-lookers was that it appeared as demonic, “looking ready to devour with its fangs bared and the huge tips of its wings honed into giant spears.”

How about the bronze sculpture of a giant disembodied horses’ head captured as though the horse was drinking, sculpted by British artist Nic Fiddian-Green and installed at Marble Arch in 2011.

Ten-years later moved to a spot near Hyde Park Corner in May of 2021.

In 2016, David Breuer-Weil’s, 20-foot, or six-meter, high bronze sculpture called the “Brothers” was featured next to the Marble Arch, representing the joining together of two separate but connected individuals that, in this case, are siblings, joined by the head.

Here are some examples of David Breuer-Weil’s other sculptures around London, very reminiscent of Seward Johnson’s “Awakening” sculptures of the distressed giant attempting to free himself from the ground.

Other sculptures of the Westminster City Council’s City of Sculpture Programme have included:

Danse Gwenedour by Bushra Fakhoury in 2017, inspired by a dance performed by French villagers in Pourlet Country in Brittany.

Interesting take on the dancers in the sculpture, with no clothes and wearing bird-like-masks, unlike the dancers in Brittany, who are fully-dressed, and without those masks.

The dancers are depicted like birds, maybe?

Another sculpture by David Breuer-Weil was featured next to the Marble Arch in 2018, called “Flight…”

…and in December 2019, the featured sculpture was called “The Orphans, the Elephants of Tomorrow,” the work of artists Gillie and Marc.

The exhibit featured 21 life-size bronze elephants, a mother and 20 orphaned elephants, each orphan symbolizing a real elephant that lived at the “Sheldricke Wildlife Trust” in Kenya.

…and the one that is showing now is called “The Mound,” by Rotterdam-based architects MVRDV.

The reason I found given for the Mound having been commissioned by the Westminster Council, was at least in part, a novelty experience to give people a reason to come back to the shops in Westminster, which have suffered a decline in business in the last couple of years.

Other examples of unusual public art that I am aware of include:

The two headless, but otherwise well-muscled, bodies greeting the people who come to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum since the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, one male and one female, by California sculptor Robert Graham…

…the trolls at the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest south of Louisville, Kentucky, made from recycled wood by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, and which have been on the grounds since 2019….

…the sculpture entitled the “Statue of the Resurrection,” said to depict Jesus rising from a crater in the Garden of Gethsemane, as well as the anguish of mankind living under the threat of nuclear war, and is located right behind where the Pope sits…

…in the Pope Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican…

…enormous spider statues, called “Maman,” originally designed by French-American artist Louise Bourgeois, that are found at various permanent locations all over the world, including, but not limited to the Tate Modern in London…

…the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa…

…and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain….

…and lastly the public statues that are found in Frogner Park, also known as the Vigeland Sculpture Park, in Oslo, Norway, dedicated to the works of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland, and the centerpiece of the park is his 46-foot, or 14-meter, -high sculpture called “The Monolith.”

“The Monolith” is described as a symbolic sculpture consisting of 121 intertwined human figures, and said to represent the human desire to reach out to the Divine.

There are thirty-six sculptural groups situated immediately around “The Monolith,” including these…

…and these as well are found in the park.

The Vigeland Sculpture Park is the largest sculpture park in the world by one artist, with over 200 sculptures by Vigeland.

The human figures of all of the statues are naked, and the park’s overall theme is said to be the “Human Experience.”

These are just a few examples of these sculptures found in a public setting.

There are many more here, and they are all extremely disturbing.

All I had to do to find this place, which I had heard about in the past, was search for “creepy statue in Oslo, Norway.”

I wonder what are they telling us they are not telling us they are telling us with all of this creepy public art?

Is all of this public art some sort of soft disclosure, to circumvent the requirement of needing to tell us what they have done to Humanity, and are doing, without telling us they are telling us?

Putting this artwork in places where people can interact with it and accept it as “Art,” without knowing it is communicating to us something that has been very well-hidden about the world we are living in?

Next, RK suggested that I look into Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary.

I am somewhat familiar with what is found at Buda Castle from past research, and this is a great place to bring it up, from what I already know about it.

I will get to that in a moment.

First, a quick review of what we are told about the history of Buda Castle.

It was the historical castle and palace complex of the Hungarian Kings, and first completed in 1265 AD, and that later, between 1749 and 1769, the massive Baroque palace occupying most of the site was built

The original royal palace was destroyed during World War II…

…and rebuilt in a simplified Stalin Baroque-style during the Kadar-era, with the reconstruction work on the castle completed in 1966.

Janos Kadar was a Hungarian Communist leader, and General-Secretary of the Hungarian-Socialist Workers’ Party from 1956 to 1988.

RK’s mother was involved in the reconstruction work on the complex.

The Budapest Castle Hill Funicular was said to have been first built in 1870.

Part of the destruction of the complex during World War II, it reopened in June of 1986.

Today, Buda Castle is home to the Hungarian National Art Gallery…

…and the Budapest History Museum.

There is also a labyrinth under Buda Castle.

The Buda Castle labyrinth under Buda Castle Hill is part of a huge underground system, complete with caves, thermal springs, basements and cellars.

Among other features, there are five separate labyrinths encompassing nine halls.

There is not much detail in the information I can find about this place.

I am going to specifically look at the Crowned Head in the Ottoman Alley because I know what is there from past research.

This half-crowned-head is found in there.

I find it to be extremely odd.

To me, this giant head looks more like a petrified head with long-gone eyes, that is covered up to the nose and ears by mud, than an intentional work of art…

…and this is the most I can find out about it in a search – that it was said to be a symbol of the downfall of the independent Hungarian kingdom.

I can find nothing about it being a work of art.

Yet this crowned-half-head underneath Buda Castle looks remarkably like the David Breuer-Weil sculpture called the “Visitor” back in London.

I don’t know the big picture answer of what we are actually looking at here.

I can only point out the similarity, and high strangeness, of both half-heads.

Next, KH was looking at old books of Tartaria in Asia, in an effort to match historical places with modern-day sites, and she came across an example of what she described as the apparent destruction of one of the sites.

She saw two forms of destruction though – one that is old and the other is being carried out today, as they are obliterating the past more and more.

Here is the picture she was looking at and trying to match it to modern day.

She found other references to the place in other old books, but could not find a modern day name, until she stumbled across an old picture of the mountain which led her to the town today.

The picture is entitled “Schamachy,” which she said was part of Persia at the time.

It was one of the key towns of the ancient trade route of the Silk Road that connected East and West.

Today, it is the city of “Shamakhi,” in Azerbaijan, in what is considered the South Caucasus region that spans Asia and Europe.

The Caucasus Mountain region is a part of the world that has been hotly-contested in the quest for who’s in control of it, and has seen much civil warfare, as well as horrible atrocities and genocide including what would be termed as ethnic cleansing, well into the present-day into modern times, including, but not limited to, the state of armed conflict which still exists between Azerbaijan and Armenia, and the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region which is situated between the two countries, and which is officially-recognized as Azerbaijan’s territory, but it is occupied by Armenia.

There has been a literal blood-bath going on in this region for a very long-time.

KH said in the old image you can see where Shamakhi once was a star city.

Some places you can tell used to be star cities on modern maps and Google Earth, with the presence of bastions and such, or outlines of where they were, like Trujillo, Peru, pictured here…

…but apparently Shamakhi is not one of those places where you easily see where it was.

KH was very interested in the city on the hill in the background of the picture image of old Schamachy, and what I am able to find in a search is the location of, and information on, a place relatively nearby called the Gulustan Fortress.

In ruins, the legendary Gulustan Fortress of Shamakhi was said to have been built in the 8th- and 9th-centuries on top of a 656-foot, or 200-meter, -high rocky mountain in the northwest of Shamakhi, and we are told it existed until the end of the 16th-century, having been badly damaged by wars and earthquakes.

Interesting how the original masonry looks all covered over by earth and grass in these photographs of the ruins!

I think looking around the Gulustan Fortress area is even more telling about what might have actually taken place here.

The Yeddi Gumbaz Mausoleum complex and cemetery, also known as the “Seven Domes of Shamakhi,” is located at the foot of the Gulustan Fortress mountain.

Three of the seven mausoleums remain undamaged, and were said to have been built by the architect Usta Taghi in the early 19th-century, starting in 1810, for the family of Mustafa Khan, the last Khan of Shamakhi, who ruled from 1794 to 1820.

This mausoleum here is of particular interest to me for a number of reasons.

The slanted Earth on the side of the mausoleum;
The crooked appearance of the mausoleum from the entrance;
The grass growing on the stone roof;
The stones scattered in the grass;
And the large, in several cases pointed & slanted, ancient stones of what we are told was a cemetery.

I am going to end “Places & Topics Suggested by Viewers – Volume 6” here in Azerbaijan.

Lots more to come!

Lewis and Clark & the Corps of Discovery – True History or Real Mystery?

I did this research on Meriwether Lewis and Wiliam Clark & the Corps of Discovery as suggested in a comment by a viewer a little over two-years ago.

The information about the famous “Lewis and Clark Expedition” that came up in my research is presented here for your consideration – was it true history…or a real mystery?

This is what we are told about the Lewis & Clark Expedition.

Also known as the Corps of Discovery, the Lewis & Clark Expedition started on August 31, 1803 and lasted until September 25, 1806, with a mission to explore and map the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase.

We are told the Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Territory of Louisiana by the United States from France with the signing of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty on April 30th of 1803, which was officially announced on July 4th of 1803.

It was said to have doubled the size of the United States and paved the way for the nation’s westward expansion.

One of the negotiators with France for the terms of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 on behalf of President Jefferson was the minor French nobleman Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, who was living in the United States at the time.

His son Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, a chemist and industrialist, founded the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company to manufacture gunpowder and explosives in 1802, with the du Ponts becoming one of America’s richest families, with generations of influential businessmen, politicians and philanthropists.

Under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Lieutenant William Clark, the expedition was comprised of a select group of United States Army and civilian volunteers.

They were commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to find: 1) a practical route across the western half of the country; 2) to establish an American presence in this Territory before European powers tried to claim it; 3) to study plants, animal life, and geography; and 4) to establish trade with the local American Indian tribes.

This map is attributed to Captain Lewis and Lieutenant Clark from their expedition.

After Jefferson chose Meriwether Lewis as the expedition’s leader in 1803, he made sure Lewis was educated in medicinal cures by Dr. Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia…

…in navigational astronomy by American land surveyor Andrew Ellicott…

…and Jefferson gave Lewis full access to his extensive library on the subject of the North American continent at his home in Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia, which Jefferson is credited with designing and building between 1768 and 1772.

In the summer of 1803, a keelboat said to have been built to Lewis’ specifications near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…

…and that Lewis and his crew travelled in it immediately after it was finished in August down the Ohio River to meet up with Clark at what is now Clarksville, Indiana in October of 1803 at the Falls of the Ohio, across the river from Louisville, Kentucky.

We are told that in 1803, Lewis and Clark met a well-known Frenchman at Cahokia by the name of Nicholas Jarrot, who agreed to let them camp on his land on the Wood River, at that time known as the Riviere du Bois.

Known today at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, it is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city that is considered the largest and most complex archeological site north of the great pre-Columbian cities of Mexico…

…and is located directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.

The location of Camp Dubois at Wood River is almost directly north of Cahokia, both on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River.

While I am not seeing the remnants of a star fort in this Google Earth screenshot of the area surrounding Ft. Dubois in Wood River…

…I am seeing that it is situated beside a location where two railroad lines merge into one, as well as a landscape filled with huge lots and huge tanks…

…that are apparently connected to the oil refineries in Wood River.

Apparently, the city of Wood River was founded in 1907 with the establishment in the vicinity of a refinery for John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company.

Interesting that this would also be the historical location of the actual launch point for the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

John D. Rockefeller, Sr, was the progenitor of the Rockefeller family and considered to be the wealthiest American of all time.

He founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870.

The expedition members stayed through the winter at Camp Dubois in present-day Wood River, awaiting the transfer of the lands of the Louisiana Purchase to the United States, which did not occur until March 9th & 10th of 1804.

Jefferson’s instructions to the expedition, we are told, were stated thus:

While the US mint prepared special silver medals for the expedition called “Indian Peace Medals” with a portrait of Jefferson and inscribed with a message of friendship and peace distributed by the soldiers in it…

…they also had advanced weapons to display their military firepower, like the .46 caliber Girandoni air rifle, a repeating rifle with a 20-round tubular magazine that was invented in 1779 by the Italian Bartolomeo Girandoni.

They also carried flags, gift bundles, medicine, and other items that they would need for their journey.

The Corps of Discovery of approximately 45 members left Camp Dubois on May 14, 1804.

Under Clark’s command, they traveled up the Missouri River in their keelboat and two smaller vessels…

…to St. Charles, Missouri.

Founded in 1765, it is called the third oldest city west of the Mississippi River.

Lewis joined them six days later.

The expedition set out the next afternoon, on the 21st of May.

From St. Charles, the expedition followed the Missouri through what is now Kansas City, Missouri, where they camped at Kaw Point on June 26th of 1804, where the Kansas River runs into the Missouri River…The way these two rivers merge together into one at Kaw Point is another example of the many reasons I believe that so-called natural rivers are in actuality canal systems.

Here are some other examples of the similarity of river confluences like what is seen at Kaw Point:

On the top left is Six Rivers National Forest in Eureka, California, compared with the confluences of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers near St. Louis on the top right; of the Raccoon and Des Moines Rivers near Des Moines, Iowa, on the bottom left; and of the Blue Nile and White Nile near Khartoum, in the African country of Sudan, on the bottom right.

It was here that Clark reported encountering a great number of “parrot queets.”

The now-extinct Carolina parakeet inhabited much of what became the United States at that time.

The last-known Carolina parakeet died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918, and the species was declared extinct in 1939.

The Corps of Discovery famously landed next in the area surrounding the Missouri River of what is now Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Here in this landscape of tall prairie grass and river, we are told, the Lewis and Clark expedition traveled, camped, hunted, and fished, met with the Native people, and held council with the Indian chiefs of the area.

The Lewis and Clark Monument Park in Council Bluffs, Iowa, memorializes what was said to be a historic meeting between the expedition and the Otoe and Missouri Indians in 1804.

It is important to note the old stonework seen on the memorial grounds.

Council Bluffs was incorporated in 1853, receiving its name from this historic meeting.

The Jesuit explorer and missionary Pierre-Jean deSmet set up a mission in the late 1830s in what became Council Bluffs for several tribes that had been forced onto reservations there in the 1830s.

This was what he wrote about one reservation/settlement there:

There is a 150-foot, or 46-meter, tall moontower that was used for city-lighting in this historic picture of Council Bluffs.

We are told there were seven of what were called moontowers erected in Council Bluffs starting in 1887, and by 1908 they were all removed for a variety of given reasons – too expensive, safety, etc.

Council Bluffs was the historic starting point of the Mormon Trail, which was in use between 1846 and 1869.

Next they came to Omaha, said to have been founded in 1854 by speculators from Council Bluffs, and that a river-crossing called the Lone Tree Ferry gave the city its nickname “Gateway to the West.”

We are told that Omaha introduced this “New West” to the world when it hosted the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition to showcase the development of the entire West, from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast.

And, as with what I have seen with regards to what was called the “temporary” nature of all of the massive and ornate architecture associated with Exhibitions, Expositions, and World Fairs, starting with the Crystal Palace Exposition of 1851 in London, Omaha is no exception to this story.

This is the Old Market in Omaha, located near the Lewis and Clark Landing Park.

I can’t help but notice a similarity between the scenery in Omaha on the left, and New Orleans on the right, down to the similarity of the design and angles of the street-corner lay-out between the two buildings shown, much less the horse-and-buggies…

…as well as the similarity between this building in Omaha’s Old Market on the left, and the Columbus Tower, also known as the Sentinel Building, in San Francisco, California, on the right.

Just up the Missouri River from Omaha, in present-day Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, is the location of Fort Atkinson State Historical Park, said to have been the first fort established west of the Missouri River, in 1819, in what was called the “unorganized region of the Louisiana Purchase of the United States.”

In use for only 8-years, it was abandoned in 1827.

Back to the Corps of Discovery.

The only death to occur on the expedition was said to have taken place on August 20th, of 1804, when Sgt. Charles Floyd died, allegedly from acute appendicitis.

He had been among the first to sign up with the Corps of Discovery and was buried at a bluff by the river that was named after him in what is now Sioux City, Iowa.

We are told that his burial site was marked with a cedar post on which was inscribed his name and day of death, but that by 1857, the ground around the cedar post had eroded, and slid into the river, and concerned citizens were said to have rescued his skeleton.

This is the Floyd Monument today in Sioux City.

We are told the concrete-base of the monument was poured in 1900, at which time Floyd’s remains were reinterred almost on the hundredth-anniversary of his death, on August 20th of 1900, and that the obelisk was completed in 1901.

A minor historical character memorialized with an obelisk?

The expedition held talks with the Sioux Nation near the confluence of the Missouri and Bad Rivers in what is now Fort Pierre, South Dakota.

The meeting, which verged at one time on serious hostilities, took place in what is now Fischers Lilly Park in Fort Pierre…

…right where the Bad River enters the Missouri River in Central South Dakota.

Fort Pierre was the location of Fort Pierre Chouteau, one of the most important fur trade forts of the western frontier.

Fort Pierre Chouteau was said to have been built in 1832, after John Jacob Astor, head of the American Fur Company, decided to expand operations into the Upper Missouri River region in the 1820s.

The German-born John Jacob Astor was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States. He made his fortune after establishing a monopoly in the fur trade out West, and real estate investment in and around New York City.

This is the Old Stockgrowers Bank, said to have been built in 1903, and one of the oldest buildings in Fort Pierre.

It has a mud-flooded appearance to me, with street-level windows and it looks top-heavy.

From Fort Pierre, the expedition continued up the Missouri River between present-day South Dakota and North Dakota.

The Missouri River forms the eastern boundary of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, which straddles these two states.

Fort Yates is the tribal headquarters for the Standing Rock Sioux.

This is the memorial for Sacagawea, also known as Sakakawea, in Fort Yates.

Interesting Comments & Suggestions I have Received from Viewers- Volume 5

This is fifth volume of what will be a long new series in which I am highlighting places, concepts, and historical events that people have suggested, and is a compilation of work I have previously done presented in a multi-volume format.

There are a few mentions of comments about things related to the last videos that I would like to make, however, before I head on to the next stop in Indiana.

I covered the suggestion of Kansas City, Missouri, and SN left an interesting factoid about it.

Kansas City is called the City of Fountains, and is reputed to have more fountains than Rome!

There are 200 officially-registered fountains in the Greater Kansas City Metro area.

That number does not include fountains at corporation and sub-division entrances; office atriums; and private gardens and homes; or like this one at a Kansas City Auto Dealership.

The first fountain built was said to have been designed by George Kessler and built in Kansas City in 1898 at 15th (now Truman Road) and the Paseo, though it was destroyed in 1941, with no reason given.

But, hold on, the second-fountain designed and built originally in Kansas City in 1899, by George Kessler, along with John Van Brunt, is still in operation today, and known as the “Women’s Leadership Fountain.”

George Kessler was a German-born American city-planner and landscape architect, and in the course of his 41-year-career, was said to have completed over 200 projects, and prepared plans for 26 communities; 26 park and boulevard systems; 49 parks; 46 estates and residences; and 26 schools, which can be found in 23 states; and 100 cities, including Shanghai, New York, and Mexico City.

Interesting to note that George Kessler was also mentioned as being a 32nd-degree Freemason.

In the last video, I mentioned the Central High School in Duluth…

…and BM gave John Handley High School in Winchester, Virginia, as an example of ridiculous architecture for a high school.

He said that there is also a strange mound in the front, and there is a park in the back that reminded him of the mall in Washington, D. C.

Also in the last video, I talked about the Japanese Peace Bell Garden in Duluth that someone had commented on, as well as the Japanese Sister City Peace Garden that I had first-hand knowledge of Shawnee, Oklahoma.

Places like these I have come to believe are yet another way to provide cover to hide the original ancient civilization right in front of our eyes.

Other sister cities that were mentioned by viewers included the Japanese Bell of Peace and Friendship on the Iowa State Capitol grounds in Des Moines, Iowa…

…though it was the Robert D. Ray Asian Gardens in Des Moines that featured the old megalithic stones I keep an eye out for.

As a matter of fact, they even have names here.

We typically know of them as “boulders.”

NH mentioned the San Francisco Peace Pagoda in Japantown, which immediately reminded me of a ray gun.

Several viewers mentioned the Peace Garden in Toronto.

I am grateful to LH for the time she took to go on a special trip for me to downtown Toronto to check out the Toronto Peace Garden at Nathan Phillips Square because neither she nor I could find out any information about the possibility of similar set-up at Ontario Place on Toronto’s waterfront.

There is a back-story to the Toronto Peace Garden at Nathan Phillips Square, so the story about this one is a wee bit complicated.

Nathan Phillips Square is an urban plaza in Toronto, with the Old City Hall directly to the east of it…

…the New City Hall on the north-side of Nathan Phillips Square…

…and Osgoode Hall just to the west of the square, which serves currently as an office building and court house.

It was said to have been built between 1829 and 1832 as a law school.

The Toronto Peace Garden today is situated in the northwest corner of Nathan Phillips Square.

The original Toronto Peace Garden was in front of the New City Hall between 1984 and 2010, at which time it was decommissioned, and moved to the west- side of Nathan Phillips Square during the massive revitalization of the entire square.

The new Toronto Peace Garden was re-dedicated on May 18th of 2016, six-years later.

I studied the photo LH had taken of the stone structure at the Peace Garden.

Could this be the remnants of an old stone masonry structure?

This stone structure looks like it has missing archways, pointed out by the blue arrows; old stonemasonry blocks, as shown by the purple arrow; and a red arrow is pointing to what looks like old, smaller megalithic granite stone blocks.

Then in the pool of water surrounding the predominantly stone structure appears to be cut rock as shown by the green arrow, and a small magenta arrow is pointing towards what looks like an inch-wide layer of stone tiles over the old cut stone.

To provide a comparison of the stonework seen in the Peace Garden structure, I searched for examples of an “old masonry wall;” “old granite masonry wall;” and “polygonal masonry.”

One more thing, when I was looking for a good photo of the New Toronto City Hall, I found this one of it being constructed…and the classical-looking “Registry of Deeds and Land Titles Building” sitting right next to next to it in what appears to be a busy excavation scene of some kind.

The old “Registry of Deeds and Land Titles Building” was demolished in 1964 to allow the New City Hall to be completed, and would have been in the general vicinity of the Toronto Peace Garden today.

Lastly before I move on, there were some more points-of-interest that came from viewers about the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan.

DV shared a link and information about the Keweenaw Rocket Range.

We are told it was used by NASA between 164 to 1971 to send rockets into the atmosphere to collect information about electron density; solar x-rays; energetic electron precipitation; and other scientific measurements.

He said he was there last July, and that the odd thing is that getting there is difficult because the road is frequently a complete mess.

He indicated it is only 7-miles away from Copper Harbor, which is at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, but takes an hour to get there because of the poor road condition.

Recently, viewer LH sent my a photo of a giant from the early 1900s who lived in Calumet, a city on the Keweenaw Peninsula.

He said that the giant was well-known and everyone loved him, and is spoken very highly of to this day.

LH said that his tall height has been attributed in the official narrative to a very rare birth defect that caused him to grow like that…

…and that he matches the size of the doors of most of the buildings in Calumet.

Now I am going to move along into new places and topics that have been suggested to me.

DK sent me photos of what are known as “The Ruins” in Holliday Park and the Ruins in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Starting this tour of Holliday Park at “The Ruins…”

…they are described as the remains of the facade of a New York skyscraper, the St. Paul Building in Manhattan, the building of which was said to have been completed in 1898, and then one of the tallest skyscapers in New York was demolished only 60-years later in 1958.

The facade of the St. Paul building contained several sets of ionic-style colonnades, as well as a group of three sculptures known as “Atlantes,” the term given to an architectural supports sculpted in the form of people.

Hmmm. Atlantes…Atlantis? Atlantes…Atlanteans?

These marble statues known as “Atlantes” are at the portico entrance of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia…

…and these statues are known as the “Atlantes of Tula” in Mexico.

At any rate, the atlantes sculptures currently residing in Holliday Park were said to have been designed by Karl Bitter, an Austrian-born American sculptor known for his sculptures for architecture, memorials and residences.

According to the sign about “The Ruins” at Holliday Park, the sculptures were originally crafted from Indiana limestone.

Indiana Limestone, also known as Bedford Limestone, comes from a geological formation primarily quarried in southcentral Indiana, between the cities of Bloomington and Bedford, and is considered to have the highest-quality quarried limestone in the United States, and used in the U. S. and Canada in the construction of prominent architecture.

In addition to this information about Indiana Limestone, I have an old photo on the left of one of the limestone quarries in Bedford, Indiana, and for comparison of appearance, on the right is a photo of one of the megalithic stone walls found at the archeological site of Baalbek in Lebanon.

Also according to the sign about “The Ruins” at Holliday Park, the preserved statues and columns of the razed St. Paul Building were offered as the prize in a national design contest for their use.

They came back to Indiana when local artist Elmer Taflinger submitted the winning bid, and over the course of the next 20-years, worked with the city to construct his vision for “The Ruins” in Holliday Park, which was finally completed and dedicated in 1978.

We are told that since the initial installation of the St. Paul Facade at Holliday Park, other features have been added to the scene…

…including a ring of classical columns surrounding the imported stone work; pieces of other buildings…

…and water features such as fountains and reflecting pools.

Other sights in Holliday Park include “We the People,” giant slabs of rough Indiana limestone that were inscribed with the word to the Preamble of the U. S. Constitution…

…hiking trails…

…and a nature center.

These big cut-and-shaped stones are in the environment everywhere around us, but there is no attention drawn to them, and there is no explanation given to them, so they are overlook until you realize they are there.

These are near the Nature Center at Holliday Park in Indianapolis…

…and these line the hiking trails near the Nature Center and around Martin Nature Park in Northwest Oklahoma City, and this was one of the places where I started waking up to all of this.

One more thing I found interesting at Holliday Park before I move on is what is seen from the aerial lay-out of the park, where the trees outling the park are lined-up in an organized way, and that a straight line drawn from the tip of the compass shape at the entrance to the park, goes through the middle column and sculpture of what we are told once was the facade of the St. Paul Building; on through the middle slab of the three “We the People” limestone slabs; to the middle of a circle of stones with what appears to be a tall structure casting a shadow, like a sun-dial…

…which turns out to be a lone, tall, skinny evergreen tree.

Obviously it was intentional…but who did that?

According to the history we have been taught, it would have been the planners and builders of Holliday Park, the land for which was given to the city in 1916.

But was it?

DM suggested that I look at the Indianapolis Union Station.

We are told that in 1848, Indianapolis was the first city in the world to devise a Union Station, a kind of railway station at which the tracks and facilities were used by two or more separate railway companies, allowing passengers to conveniently connect between them.

The current Union Station building in Indianapolis was said to have been constructed started in 1886 at the location of the city’s original train station, which opened in 1853.

While the building is stilled used by Amtrak as a train station and Greyhound as a bus station…

…it is also now the Crowne Plaza Indianapolis at Historic Union Station, a hotel and conference center.

The Indianapolis Union Station on the left compared with the Louisville Union Station in Kentucky on the right.

Why do train stations look like cathedrals?

There are approximately 107-miles, or 172-kilometers, in a straight-line distance between Indianapolis and Louisville, and I do know from looking at the street-view on Google Earth, that the Indianapolis Union Station has a cathedral rose window that faces in a southerly direction, and the Louisville Union Station has a cathedral rose window that faces in a northerly direction.

What I can’t tell is whether or not they are facing each other directly.

When I was looking at the Google Earth map showing the close linear relationship between Indianapolis and Louisville, I couldn’t help but notice Cincinnati in the mix.

Cincinnati’s Union Station is a wonder to behold, with the largest half-dome in the western hemisphere, and at one time it was the largest half-dome in the world.

It was said to have been built starting in 1930, and opening in 1933.

Between Cincinnati and Indianapolis there is a straight-line distance of 100-miles, or 160-kilometers; and between Louisville and Cincinnati, 89-miles or 143.5-kilometers.

Now, these are approximate distances between the Union Station terminals because they reflect the distances between the cities themselves, but even with that, the distances, or length of the leg of what appears to be a triangle, between these three cities in relationship to each other are close to being equal.

In a city named Peru in Indiana that is due north of Indianapolis, in Miami County…

…a cliff formation called “The Seven Pillars” was brought to my attention by NS awhile back.

Also called “The Cliffs,” they are a limestone formation located along the Mississinewa River, and have been voted #1 of the “7 Wonders of Miami County” in the past by local residents, and are held sacred by the Miami Nation of Indiana, which owns land on the south bank of the Mississinewa River, directly across from The Seven Pillars where they hold sacred ceremonies and heritage days.

The other interesting thing that popped out when I was looking up information on Peru, Indiana, is that it is nicknamed the Circus Capital of the World.

Peru was the off-season headquarters of several famous circuses, including the Ringling Brothers, Hagenbeck-Wallace; Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and others, after the Golden Age of the American Circus began in 1870, and ended around 1950.

One last thing in Indiana.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the largest sports’ venue in the world, said to have been constructed in 1909, is located in Speedway, Indiana, a short-distance west of downtown Indianapolis, said to be an early example of a residential community planned for the nearby industrial plants that was laid out in 1912, three-years after the Indianapolis Speedway was constructed.

I mentioned this graphic a viewer sent me this awhile back in past post, and as the viewer had said the following:

“If you haven’t yet researched the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, I think it’s worth a glance…Balloon racing and monorail aeroplanes being used there before there were race cars…Check this out: Vatican City, the Wimbledon Campus, the Roman Colosseum, the Rose Bowl, Yankee Stadium, and the Kentucky Derby all fit inside the automobile racing CIRCUIT.”

It was the second-purpose built, banked oval racing circuit after Brooklands in Surrey, England, which opened in 1907 and closed in 1939.

The reason given for the Brooklands Track having closed down was safety due to the frequent accidents that were happening on it.

In the “after” picture, though while abandoned since 1939, the part of the track pictured still seems to be in a similar condition as to what it was in the “before” pciture.

I have speculated that these racing circuits originally functioned as electrical circuitry on the Earth’s grid system, and I am re-visiting this subject because MdS in Manitoba was wondering about early racetracks as well, that possibly the tracks were for power generation or old versions of the CERN particle accelerator, also known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), for the Old World.

I am going to look at several other early race tracks and see what comes up about them.

Another track that is now abandoned was called the Texas World Speedway.

It was an entire racing complex with a circuit track as well.

The Texas World Speedway opened in November of 1969…

…and officially closed in 2017.

It was one of eight superspeedways of 2-miles, or 3.2-kilometers, or greater used in the United States for racing, which includes well-known speedways like the ones in Indianapolis and Daytona, and lesser-known ones like Pocono Speedway in Pennsylvania…

…and the Michigan Speedway in southeastern Michigan, which opened in 1968, and of which the Texas World Speedway was said to be a copy and sister track.

We are told the Phoenix Trotting Park was built for horse-racing in 1964 in Goodyear, Arizona, a community just west of Phoenix, and opened in 1965.

It was apparently constructed at a cost of $10-million, $7-million over the original projected cost of $3-million, and only operated as such for 2-and-a-half seasons before it was closed, never to be used for horse-racing again, and abandoned for the most part.

After a deal fell through to sell the Trotting Park property after being put on the market in 2015 for $16.5 million, the Phoenix Trotting Park facilities were demolished in 2017.

The last track I would like to take a look at was the Keimola Motor Stadium in Vantaa, Finland.

Considered at one time one of the best tracks in the world for Formula racing, it was said to have been constructed starting in 1965, and opening in June of 1966.

The track was abandoned by professional racing, however, in 1978, after years of financial difficulties, and while it was used for illegal racing while the track was still in good condition, it has been unsuitable for driving for many years.

The plans at some point in the future are to turn the property into a residential area.

MdS in Manitoba also brought the subject of Freedomites to my attention.

This was a movement of what were called “Spiritual Christians” that began in Saskatchewan in 1902 and spread to British Columbia.

“Spiritual Christianity” was a reference to folk protestants, or non-Eastern Orthodox, that were indigenous to Russia and regarded as heretics, as the non-Orthodox groups believed in the direct revelation of God to the inner man as opposed to needing priestly intermediaries.

While the Russian government deported some folk protestant groups to internal exile in Central Asia, a small percentage escaped suppression by emigrating to North America, starting in 1898, after which they eventually separated into subgroups of the movement.

By 1930, almost 9,000 Doukhobors had emigrated to the Provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta in Western Canada, and adapted to life in agricultural communes.

Within a few years after arriving in Canada, the Freedomites separated from the Doukhobors, and made their way to the Kootenay and Boundary Districts of British Columbia to land they had purchased there under the leadership of Peter V. Verigin.

Self-named “God’s People” or “Sovereign People,” the Freedomite group opposed land ownership and public schools, in contrast to the Doukhobors, who obtained citizenship, registered their land, and attended public schools.

So here is where is where the controversy begins.

While on the one-hand, Freedomite ideals were said to emphasize basic Russian traditional communal living and action and living in peace, on the other hand having an ecstatic religious doctrine when agitated for protest, and anarchic attitudes towards external regulation.

Conflict soon developed between the government and Freedomites over the issue of generally refusing to send their children to government-run schools.

The governments of Saskatchewan, and later British Columbia, legally charged many of the parents for not sending their children to school.

The Freedomites became known for engaging in various kinds of protests, like burning their money in public and possessions, and parading in the nude, with the underlying belief that our birthday suits as God’s creation are perfect as is.

My initial thought on a really quick read-through after MdS first sent me the link about the Freedomites was that they were living on the lunatic fringe of society, but MdS encouraged me to look deeper into their story, and sure enough, there were deeper issues at play here concerning government rights versus human rights.

Along those lines, Operation Snatch was implemented by the British Columbia government, the RCMP and the federal government between 1953 and 1959, in which around 200 Freedomite children between the ages of 5 and 15 were seized.

For starters in 1953, a law called the British Columbia School Act was passed, making state-run education for all children mandatory, and soon after the government started shipping students to residential schools.

After initial raids and arrests at Freedomite gatherings in 1953…

…the beginning of the removal of Freedomite children started in earnest in January of 1955, when a government raid commenced on the village of Krestova, where homes were stormed, parents and grandparents beaten, and children were removed form their homes and taken to a place called New Denver on Slocan Lake, and the taking of Freedomite children and placing them in the New Denver residential school continued over the next four-years.

These children lost their human rights at the New Denver school, and were treated like prisoners.

Parents had to swear before a magistrate to send their children to school on July 31st of 1959, before the remaining 77 children were released from New Denver on August 2nd of 1959.

Over the next decades, there were many confrontations between the government seeking to control them and the Freedomite community seeking to follow their beliefs, being considered terrorists at the same time.

And is this kind of situation still happening today between governments, parents, and children?

Another viewer sent me information about the North Sea archipelago of what is known as both Heligoland and Helgoland – meaning either Holy Land or Hell Land – in the hopes it could add to my research.

The small two islands are located in what is called the Heligoland, or German, Bight in the southeastern corner of the North Sea, and has been part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein since 1890.

The larger of the two islands has a permanent population of somewhere around 1,000 people.

The smaller of the islands is called Dune, which is not permanently inhabited, but is the location of Heligoland’s airport.

Heligoland was historically part of Denmark.

Great Britain had attacked Copenhagen in August of 1807 in what was called the “Siege of Copenhagen” during the Napoleonic Wars, using the pretext of the fear that Napoleon was going to attempt to attack the Danish-Norwegian Fleet.

Britain then proceeded to seize the Danish-Norwegian Fleet in September of 1807, assuring the use of the sea lanes in the North Sea and Baltic Sea for the British merchant fleet.

The “fleet robbery” drew Denmark-Norway into the war on the side of Napoleon.

On September 11th of 1807, Heligoland surrendered to the British Navy’s Admiral Thomas McNamara Russell, it became a center of intrigue and resistance against Napoleon.

Then, Heligoland was ceded by Denmark to Great Britain as part of the terms of the 1814, Treaty of Kiel between the United Kingdom and Sweden on the anti-French-side, and Norway and Denmark on the French-side.

The reason given for the Treaty of Kiel was to end the hostilities between the parties in the on-going Napoleonic Wars, which didn’t officially end until November of the following year, but the Treaty also officially ended the ruling Oldenburg Monarchy of Denmark-Norway when Norway was transferred to the King of Sweden.

We are told that the main reason the British retained the small Heligoland Archipelago was to inhibit any future French naval aggression against the Scandanavian or German states, though nothing was really done to fortify it during this time.

What it did become in 1826 was a seaside spa and popular tourist destination for Europe’s upper class, and attracted artists and writers like August Heinrich Hoffman, a German poet best-known for writing “Das Lied der Deutschen” in 1841, the third verse of which became the national anthem of Germany in 1922.

It is interesting to note that August Heinrich Hoffman was also a member of the Young Germany movement, a group of German writers which existed from 1830 to 1850, a youth revolutionary progressive ideology that included socialism which was sweeping Italy, Poland, France, Ireland, and the United States during this time as well.

It is also interesting to note that Heligoland was said to become a refuge for the revolutionaries of the 1830 and 1848 that were responsible for taking down the old ruling houses of Europe.

Great Britain ceded these two small islands to the German Empire in the signing on June 1st of 1890 of the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty, also known as the Anglo-German Agreement of 1890.

The accord between the two countries, in addition to the Heligoland Archipelago, gave Germany control of the Caprivi Strip, a ribbon of land in the southeastern corner of Namibia, surrounded by Botswana to the South; and Angola and Zambia to the North…

…and gave access to the Zambezi River to German south-west Africa, and giving Germany control of the heartland of German East Africa.

In return for Heligoland in the North Sea and the Caprivi Strip in Africa, Germany recognized British Authority in Zanzibar, an island archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanzania in southern East Africa, which was a key link in British control of East Africa.

The Germans turned the islands into a major naval base, and the civilian population was evacuated during World War I.

The first naval battle of World War I, the Battle of Heligoland Bight, was fought on August 28th of 1914 between British ships and German ships.

By the end of the day, the Germans had lost three light cruisers and a torpedo boat, with three more light cruisers and torpedo boats each damaged, and 712 men killed in battle; and the British only had 35 killed, and four ships damaged – one light cruiser and three destroyers.

The battle was regarded as a great victory in Britain.

In between World Wars I and II, physicist Werner Heisenberg first came up with the equation underlying his picture of quantum mechanics while on Heligoland in the 1920s.

The Germans were also said to have fortified Heligoland, remember also known as Helgoland…

… as a sea fortress, with fortifications above-ground…

…and extensive bunker tunnels below ground, as there are 6-miles, or 10-kilometers, of tunnels, that go down five-stories, and are parallel to, and above, each other.

The second Battle of Heligoland took place on December 18th of 1939, and was the first named air battle of World War II, with the Royal Air Force bombing German Navy ships, but this time the victory at the end of the day was called for the Germans, and the biggest loss for the RAF Bomber Command up to that point in World War II, with regards to which Great Britain had declared war on Germany on September 3rd of 1939, right after Germany had invaded Poland, on September 1st.

It is very interesting to note that the very first battle of the German invasion of Poland was the Battle of Hel, which took place from September 1st to October 2nd of 1939 between the invading German forces and the defending Polish forces on Poland’s Hel Peninsula, taking place primarily around the Hel Fortified Area, said to be a system of Polish fortifications constructed between World War I and World War II in the 1930s near Poland’s border with Germany.

Between 1945 and 1952, Heligoland or Helgoland, whichever you prefer, was used as a bombing range.

On April 18th of 1947, the Royal Navy detonated 6,700 metric tonnes, or almost 7,400 tons, of explosives in an attempt to destroy the island completely and remove it as a fleet base for the Germans, resulting in one of the biggest, non-nuclear explosions in history, shaking the main island down to its base and creating what is called the “Mittelland.”

On March 1st of 1952, Heligoland was returned to German control, and its former inhabitants were allowed to return after the German authorities cleared a significant quantity of undetonated ammunition and rebuilt the houses.

Today, it is once-again a holiday resort like it was back in the 19th-century, and enjoys a tax-exempt status.

What in the holy hell is really going on here??!!

That’s what I would like to know!!!

One more thing before I move on. The viewer who pointed me in the direction of this place brought to my attention that the name of the southern point of Helgoland, which was “Sathurn” as seen in the 1900 map.

The viewer BJ sent me some old photos and asked me to guess where they were from, but that they were all from the same place from the mid-1800s to the early-1900s.

The easiest way to do an ID of photographs is to search by image, and these images were from Tokyo, Japan.

These two photos were of the Asakusa Luna Park in Tokyo, the first park of that name to open in Tokyo, though it was only in operation for eight-months, between 1910 to 1911.

It burned down under mysterious circumstances in April of 1911.

It was said to have been designed to mimic the original Luna Park in Brooklyn, New York, built in 1903; closed in 1944 after being mostly destroyed by a fire; and demolished two-years later.

Historically, there were many Luna Amusement Parks, and there are some still in operation today.

There are two out of four still in operation in Australia, one in Melbourne…

…and the other in Sydney…

…but in the process of tracking cities and places in alignment, I have found Luna Amusement Parks in unexpected places while tracking alignments, including the one in Mashhad, Iran…

…and the one in Ankara, Turkey.

This was the First Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

It was said to have been opened in 1890.

We are told the building was situated in a north-facing direction, with imperial palace moats north and east of it.

It was destroyed by fire on April 16th of 1922, while Edward, Prince of Wales was visiting Japan.

Most of the guests were out of the building at an imperial garden party, and no lives were lost in the fire.

Edo Castle was the name of the imperial Palace in Tokyo.

While the bombing of Tokyo was on-going by American bombers between 1942 and 1945 during World War II, the bombing raid that took place on the night of March 9th and 10th was considered the single-most destructive bombing raid in human history.

As a result of this particular raid, 16-square-miles, or 41-kilometers-squared of central Tokyo were destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and 1,000,000 homeless.

The Imperial Palace was not spared the wrath of bombs from the new at the time Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers, and suffered substantial damage from the campaign.

This last picture I remembered seeing before…

…when I was following a long-distance alignment through Tokyo awhile back.

This is the same image of the last scene in Tokyo on a 1922 postcard, featuring the Nihonbashi, or Japan Bridge, in the foreground, with more gigantic onion-domed buildings in the background.

This bridge survived the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, but didn’t survive urban development when it was buried underneath a massive expressway that was built in the 1960s.

One last photo sent to me by BJ was this one of the location of Hiroshima Castle, taken after the atomic bomb was dropped on there on August 6th of 1945.

If you look closely at the picture you can make out star fort points.

A concrete and wooden replica of Hiroshima Castle was built in 1958, which was originally built of stone, and now houses a museum of the city.

I have previously mentioned the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and other historical speedways that no longer exist, and explored the idea that these racing circuits originally functioned as electrical circuitry, power generators, and/or particle accelerators on the Earth’s original energy grid system.

ME commented that the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was originally paved in all red brick…

…which he pointed out is highly conductive.

The Indianapolis Speedway is nicknamed “The Brickyard,” and there still to this day is a strip of the original brick at the Start-Finish line, which the winning racer ceremonially kisses after the race.

Another viewer BBB mentioned the “Circuit of the Americas” Grand Prix Racetrack in Austin, Texas, and home to the “Formula One United States Grand Prix…

…the Indy Car Classic…

…and the Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas.

The racing circuit is almost 3.5-miles, or 5.5-kilometers, in length, and was built starting in 2010.

It bills itself as the ultimate destination for racing and entertainment…

…and is near the Austin-Bergstrom International airport, related to which there is a recurring of pattern of airports and racing circuits in very close proximity to each other all over the world…

BBB said that the racetrack has this creepy-looking observation tower that looks like a snake head coming up out of a basket.

What’s really interesting to me about that snake imagery is what the “Circuit of the Americas” complex looks like from above, where there is clearly an eye-shape that is part of the complex that looks like that shape of a snake, or reptile, eye.

The Germania Insurance 360-degree Amphitheatre for big-name entertainment events is situated between the eye-shape and the Observation Tower, at which it is situated at the base.

Nothing to see here…right?

TN left a comment about what was known as the Beltsville Speedway in Laurel, Maryland, for which we are told ground was broken in 1964, and it was closed permanently in 1978.

He indicated it was modelled after the Daytona Speedway, which has annually held the Daytona 500, the premier race in NASCAR, since 1959.

After the Beltsville Speedway in Laurel was closed in 1978, the land was turned into the location for the Capitol Technology University…

…which is close to Baltimore/Washington International Airport, and Fort Meade, which is home, to several major Intelligence agencies, including, but not limited to…

…the National Security Agency.

I already highlighted the Indianapolis Union Station, to which I added the one in Louisville and Cincinnati for comparison of their grandeur and location relative to each other.

TL commented that the Cincinnati Union Station looked like the Hall of Justice in the Super Friends cartoon in the 1960s and 1970s, which was an excellent catch…

…because the cartoon’s Hall of Justice was said to have been inspired by the Cincinnati Union Station.

Someone else suggested I should take a look at the St. Louis Union Station.

Once gain, the distances between the legs of the triangles between these four major cities with the incredible architecture of these Union Stations, are still remarkably close to each other in a geometric configuration, considering what we have been led to believe in our historical narrative was seemingly random settlement and construction.

This time I calculated the distance between them using address-to-address instead of city-to-city, which I did in the last post.

And ONGO was curious if Toronto’s union station happened to be missing its tower… saying the interior looks the same, but no tower of its own?

Interesting to note that the CN Tower, though, is located close to it!

The Toronto Union Station has a style of architecture which reminds me of the original Pennsylvania Station in New York City, which was said to have been built between 1904 and 1910 and demolished between 1963 and 1968.

I also mentioned what you can find in Holliday Park in Indianapolis, and I got too much feedback about Indianapolis, and other Indiana cities, to include here, like these Indianapolis and Indiana suggestions from MO…

…who also sent me these photos he took recently of “The Ruins” at Holliday Park.

Keep in mind, the official narrative tells us this was once a facade of the St. Paul building in Manhattan; and that it was transported to Indianapolis as the result of a winning entry in a design contest; and that the winning designer, Elmer Taflinger, and the city, spent the next 20-years constructing his vision for “The Ruins” in Holliday Park.

The red arrows in the bottom right point to the man and little girl in the photo for comparison of their size to that of “The Ruins.”

There is one other place near Holliday Park that I would like to mention from viewers.

Broad Ripple Village is one of Indianapolis’ seven-designated cultural districts.

Established in 1837, today it is best-known for being a socially, economically, and ethnically-diverse neighborhood, filled with art galleries; specialty shops; restaurants; and night clubs.

I am very interested in Broad Ripple’s location on a U-shaped bend, known as an “oxbow” of what is known as the White River; its connection to the Central Canal; its connection to the railroad; and the trolley line and amusement park in its history.

We are taught these river shapes are natural occurrences…

…but these exact same river shapes are found all over the world…including London on the River Thames.

The Central Canal was said to have been constructed in Indianapolis starting in 1836, and that water was first drawn into the Central Canal by the feeder dam on the White River in Broad Ripple starting in 1839.

This is a 1909 postcard of the dam.

So on the one-hand, we are told that life in America in the 1830s was largely rustic and full of social ills in need of reform…

…and on the other hand, we are told the North American Canal Age of canal-building was dated from 1790 to 1855.

Same thing with the construction of railroads starting in the same period, and simultaneously the railroads were already making the canals they were constructing obsolete according to the historical narrative.

Only eight-miles of the Central Canal within Indianapolis were completed, starting at Broad Ripple. It was originally intended to connect the Wabash and Erie Canal with the Ohio River…

…but construction was said to have stopped in 1839 because of financial difficulties due to the Panic of 1837, which was said to have touched off a major depression which lasted until the mid-1840s.

This is a view of the Central Canal, with cut-and-shaped large stones, and the Monon railroad bridge crossing over it, on the left, and on the right is a photo for comparison of an ancient megalithic stone wall in Delphi, Greece.

Here’s another view of the large stonework of the Central Canal from Broad Ripple’s Rainbow Bridge.

The Monon Trail used to be the Monon rail-line between Indianapolis and Delphi, Indiana, that was abandoned in 1987, and which was part of a larger rail-line that connected Chicago and Indianapolis.

Before I leave Broad Ripple, I would like to mention that it was a summertime retreat for Indianapolis from 1890 to 1930.

The organizers of the Broad Ripple Transit Company in 1894, what was called the first electric interurban railway to be constructed and put in operation in the United States, created the White City of Indianapolis Company in 1905, with the stated goal of developing an amusement park at the end of the Broad Ripple Transit Company’s College Line.

The White City Amusement Park, said to have been named in honor of Chicago’s 1893 Columbian Exposition, which was also known as the White City, opened officially on May 26th of 1906.

The 4-acre pool was scheduled to open to the public on June 27th of 1908, but on June 26th, 2 years and a month to the day, nearly the whole amusement park was burned to the ground, allegedly taking less than 10-minutes to engulf the park.

The pool, however, remained unscathed by the fire.

The Union Traction Company purchased the park in 1911, and continued on as the Broad Ripple Amusement park until around 1945…

…and the location was Broad Ripple City Park today.

Next, DeR mentioned the Japanese Tea Garden, also known as the Sunken Gardens, in a rock quarry in Breckinridge Park in San Antonio, Texas.

We are told it was developed on land donated to the city in 1899 by George Washington Breckinridge, a businessman who made his initial wealth as a war profiteer during the civil war, water works president, and philanthropist…

…who was the organizer of the first federally-chartered banking institution in the city, and the San Antonio National Bank on Commerce Street was said to have been completed in 1886, using limestone from local quarries.

The formation of the quarry as a Japanese Tea Garden started in 1917, we are told, under the guidance of the City Parks Commissioner at the time, who envisioned an oriental-styled garden in the quarry’s pit, and work began in 1918 with the use of prison-labor after several donors’paid for the cost of developing the quarry into a complex that included stone arch bridges, walkways, an island, and a Japanese Pagoda.

Long story short, the garden eventually sat neglected for many years, becoming a target for vandalism and grafitti, and it was slated for closure by the city.

Various groups in the community rallied, and it was renovated starting in 2009 and re-opened to the public in 2011.

AM mentioned the Japanese Garden in Springfield, Missouri, which is named the Mizumoto Japanese Stroll Garden and is the oldest attraction of the Springfield Botanical Gardens, and was established in 1986 in partnership with the Springfield Sister Cities Association and its Sister City of Isesaki, Japan.

The Mizumoto Japanese Stroll Garden is on 7.5-acres of land, and includes a moon bridge, meditation garden, large koi lake, tea house, and traditional Japanese Garden landscaping.

CG sent me these photos he took of a particular Odd Fellows bench on the garden grounds near the Japanese Stroll Garden in Springfield.

The American Independent Order of Odd Fellows was founded by Thomas Wildey in 1819 at the Seven Stars in Baltimore, Maryland, which had evolved from the Order of the Odd Fellows founded in England in the 1700s.

The command of the IOOF is to “visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan.”

Would be interesting to know what was really going on here.

It seems…well…odd….

Another viewer left a comment regarding this image of the Seven Pillars in Miami County in Peru, Indiana, directly north of Indianapolis.

The Seven Pillars are held sacred by the Miami Nation of Indiana, which owns land on the south bank of the river directly across from The Seven Pillars, where they hold sacred ceremonies and heritage days.

The viewer said that Cambell, on his Autodidactic 2 YouTube channel, showed very similar “ruins” to the Seven Pillars in Indiana supposedly created by indigenous Australians at the Nawarla Gabarnmung in Australia.

I found this photo of Nawarla Gabarnmung in Australia on the right that looks very similar to the formation and view of the Seven Pillars on the left.

I have arrows pointing to the several layers of stone at the top of the formation in both structures, which both photos show a combination of the thick pillars and skinny pillars, with the second arrow pointing to skinny pillars that are visible at both locations.

Here’s a photo with a better view of a skinny pillar in Indiana.

I couldn’t find a photo of the inside of the Seven Pillars site on the internet, but here is one of the similar site in Australia.

I can make an indirect connection based on what I have found in past research between the people and the places to support the idea that these two ancient sacred places on different continents could very well have been created by intelligent design and are not natural formations.

I started coming across people who identified as lost tribes of Israel all over the world from early on in my research.

This includes the Australian Aborigines identified as the Tribe of Reuben…

…and the Seminole Indians identified as the Tribe of Reuben, and are considered to be a Native American people originally from Florida…

…until the Seminole Wars starting in 1816 and ending in 1858…

…forced the Seminoles either to Indian Territory in Oklahoma…

…or onto six reservations in Florida.

What is interesting about that is that the well-known city of Miami, located at the southern tip of the east coast of the Florida peninsula, is the starting point for Highway 41, and Highway 41, known as “Tamiami Trail” where it crosses over northern border of Everglades National Park in South Florida, to Florida’s west coast is where Seminole reservation land is as well…

…and this same Highway 41 goes all the way up to the very tip of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula on Lake Superior, and passes through Indiana on its way.

The Miami Nation of Indiana hails from the Great Lakes region.

So then why is there a Miami at the southern tip of Florida in historic Seminole lands?

Possibly unrelated pieces of information which circumstantially connects the Seminoles, the Miami Nation of Indiana, and the Australian Aborigines, but then again, possibly not unrelated pieces of information….

With regards to the subject of Heligoland/Helgoland, a viewer commented that Heligoland was indeed a sacred and holy place, and is the only place in the world that a certain type of blood red silex, or flint, can be found.

Also that Heligoland is a remnant of Doggerland, believed by some to be part of Atlantis, and that it once connected Great Britain to Continental Europe.

Doggerland was said to have been submerged beneath the southern North Sea 8,000 years ago after the Storegga landslide, which took place off the coast of Norway between Bergen and Trondheim, and generated a tsunami strong- enough, and high-enough, to take out what was called the “True Heart of Europe.”

PS left a comment with lyrics from a song by Massive Attack in their 2010 Album, “Heligoland.”

These lyrics were from the song “Saturday Come Slow”:

In the limestone caves
In the south west lands
What towns in the kingdom
Beneath us understand?

Is Humanity under Massive Attack? I think so.

Lastly, I received some suggestions of places to look with regards to over-the-top architecture for schools, like the Central High School in Duluth, Minnesota, and the John Handley High School in Winchester, Virginia, two viewer suggested another example of Stadium High School, near downtown Tacoma, Washington.

It was said to have been constructed as a luxury hotel resembling a French Chateau for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company starting in 1891…

…but the Panic of 1893 brought its construction to a sudden halt when the Northern Pacific Railroad was faced with financial disaster.

The Panic of 1893 resulted in an economic depression which lasted until 1897.

We are told the unfinished hotel building subsequently became a storage facility until it was gutted by a fire in 1898, after which the Northern Pacific Railroad began dismantling it, and removing 40,000 unique Roman bricks said to have been manufactured by the California ceramics company Gladding, McBean in order to use them for the building of two other train stations, one in Montana and the other in Idaho.

Then, the Tacoma School District purchased the gutted building in 1904, and the redesign was planned by the school’s architect, Frederick Heath, with the reconstructed building opening in September of 1906.

In 1911, the future President Theodore Roosevelt spoke at the high school’s Stadium Bowl to a huge crowd, and said at the time that he had never seen anything like it in the world.

It is still in use as a high school today.

Viewer IG mentioned an abandoned school in Detroit that was once Cooley High School, and a very elaborate building said to have been constructed in the architectectural style of Mediterranean Revival.

It opened in 1928, and was closed at the end of the 2009 – 2010 academic year for the given reason of budget constraints and declining enrollment.

A suspected arson fire severely damaged the auditorium and rooms surrounding it in the building on September 30th of 2017.

That didn’t get it demolished, as it still sits abandoned in an old Detroit neighborhood and is considered Michigan’s largest abandoned school!

I am going to end “Places & Topics Suggested by Viewers – Volume 5” here.

Lots more to come!

Interesting Comments & Suggestions I have Received from Viewers- Volume 4

This is volume 4 of what will be a lengthy new series.

I am highlighting places, concepts, and historical events that people have suggested that I research in a new multi-volume series that is a compilation of work I have previously done.

There were a few more man-made lakes that commenters mentioned that I want to include before I move onto new material.

In “Places & Topics Suggested by Viewers – Volume 3,’ I featured Lake Lanier in north Georgia, and Lakes Keowee and Jocassee in the northwestern corner of South Carolina, near the state’s border with North Carolina and Georgia, an area known as the gateway to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Viewer TM lives in Cumming, Georgia, right at Sawnee Mountain (that I featured in the video in conjunction with its proximity to Lake Lanier), and commented “I can tell you what is under the dam at Lake Lanier. An ancient Native American mound. It is called Summerour Mound. There is also one in Dawsonville, Georgia, right next to Cumming, Georgia. They were destroyed with the creation of Lake Lanier.”

Summerour was a mound site that was excavated between 1951 and 1954 by archeologist Joseph Caldwell, before it was flooded by the waters of the Buford Dam.

This goes along with my field observations at local lakes where I was living in Oklahoma City at the time between 2012 and 2016, I came to the conclusion that man-made lakes serve at least two purposes, 1) creating a water reservoir and/or hydroelectric power supply; and 2) covering up ancient infrastructure.

These are pictures I took at Twin Lakes at Bethel, Oklahoma, on the top left; Lake Arcadia in Edmond, Oklahoma, on the bottom left; and Lake Thunderbird in Norman, Oklahoma, pictured on the right.

XTX left a comment about Lake Eufaula, a man-made reservoir in Oklahoma, east of Oklahoma City, off Interstate 40.

XTX grew up here and was told of people who had drowned in the lake due to wells and open holes beneath the water, and said nothing was torn down or filled in when it was made, and that it took in a lot of land…

…and a town called North Fork Town that was founded by the Creek Nation in Indian territory back in the 1800s.

We are told after its approval by Congress in 1946 to “provide flood control, hydroelectric power, water supply, navigation, and recreation,” the Eufaula Dam was built by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1956 and 1964.

The resulting Lake Eufaula, on the Canadian River, upstream from its confluence with the Arkansas River, is the largest capacity lake in Oklahoma, by volume, surface-area, and shoreline.

MFJ commented that Beaver lake in Arkansas has a city underneath with a pyramid, and it was called the Arkansas Atlantis.

Beaver Lake is near Rogers, Arkansas, in the Ozark Mountains of northwestern Arkansas…

…and Rogers, Arkansas, is a straight-line distance of only 109-miles, or 176-kilometers, from the city of Eufaula at Lake Eufaula.

MFJ said the name of the city is Monte Ne, and when the lake gets low you can see a magnificent city under the water, but said there is a crazy backstory behind it.

The story behind it goes something like this.

William Hope Harvey, also known as “Coin” Harvey, arrived in Rogers in 1900…

…and opened his office in what is called the “Golden Rule” Building.

He bought 320-acres, or 129-hectares, of land in a lush valley southeast of Rogers, and dammed the creek on his property to create a small lake for his resort, around which he was said to have built between 1900 and 1920 three large hotels, a bank, stores, post office, and the first heated swimming pool in Arkansas.

Two of his hotels, “Missouri Row” and “Oklahoma Row,” were said to be the largest log-buildings in the world.

There was a railroad spur leading to the resort, and a 50-foot gondola Harvey was said to have imported from Venice to convey passengers visiting the resort.

But, Harvey was a poor money manager, when it came to running the resort, so his ventures were never completed or went bankrupt, and after his death in 1936, the property was sold off in lots.

The remainder of the town and resort was submerged when Beaver Lake was created in 1964, and all that remains today are foundations and one severely vandalized structure.

The unsubmerged ruins of Monte Ne reminded me of the Osireion, an ancient temple in Abydos, Egypt, on the right.

Just a few of the other man-made lakes mentioned by viewers:

IP suggested checking out the Harriman Reservoir and Lake Whitingham, Vermont’s largest landlocked body of water…

…which was made when they flooded the very large, for the time town, of Mountain Mills…

….and the rare glory-hole-style dam there.

Several viewers mentioned Lake Murray in South Carolina…

…called the jewel of South Carolina is just west of Columbia, was created in 1930 as a result of the construction of the Saluda Dam, which was at one time the largest earthen dam in the world, and at the time it was finished flooding the region, Lake Murray was the largest man-made lake in the world.

These are the dam’s 5 massive hydroelectric intake towers in the lake.

Other suggestions included Lake Norman outside of Charlotte in North Carolina…

…and Blessington Lakes in the foothills of Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains.

Next, HH suggested looking at the time anomaly between Big Diomede and Little Diomede Islands, which are a pair of rocky islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between Siberia and mainland Alaska…

…and are only 2.4-miles, or 3.8-kilometers, apart from each other.

The international date line travels through that distance between them.

In spite of their proximity to each other, they are separated by the International Date Line, and Big Diomede is almost a day ahead of Little Diomede.

Also, these two islands are described as rocky, mesa-like islands, and have sheer, steep slopes, and block-shaped rocks on the shoreline.

JZ who lives in China requested that I look up Guilin City and Yangshuo County in the Guangxi Province, and he emailed me numerous pictures of the region.

He said the earthworks here are everything I talk about, and the mountains look like pyramids.

Notice how they rise from an otherwise perfectly flat landscape!

They are called the Karst Mountains in Guangxi Province, and are said to have been naturally formed by receding water from hundreds of millions of years ago.

With what are described as sheer limestone surfaces, the what are called mountains of this region are China’s top spot for climbing.

This same region in South China is also known for its karst caves, like the “Flute-Reed Cave,” also known as the “Art Palace of Nature.”

This is Chuanshan Hill in Chuanshan Park in the southern part of Guilin City, with what is called the hill’s “Moon Cave” showing prominently.

This is a close-up photo of the “Moon Cave” in Chuanshan Hill in the park, also known as “Tunnel Hill.”

Here is a view of Pagoda Hill next to Chuanshan Hill, with the Li River, with its masonry bank, in the foreground…

…and Chuanshan Hill is right across the Li River from the archway at what is called the “Elephant Trunk” Hill.

It’s important to note that other archways like these can be found in places as diverse as on the Mexican Revillagigedo Islands, located between the Hawaiian Islands and Mexico, like the arch at Cabo Pearce…

…and the Grand Arch on the Isla Socorro…

…on the Hollow Rock Beach on Minnesota’s Grand Portage Island…

…and Arch Rock at Arnarstapi in Iceland.

And some of these so-called natural arches are well-known to have things like winter solstice alignments, like Keyhole Rock at Pfeiffer Beach in California…

…and the Durdle Door in Lulworth, England.

JZ also sent me pictures from Sanya City, which is located on Hainan Island in South China.

Sanya is the southernmost city on the island of Hainan.

JZ said this double-bay is called Haitangwan.

What I find is interesting is that I have found examples of double-bays like that in many places, like Casco Cove on Attu Island, the former site of a U. S. Coast Guard Station at the end of the Aleutian Island chain, so far west, it is in the eastern hemisphere, and the westernmost point of land relative to Alaska…

…Halawa Bay on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai…

…and the double-bay at Miyanohama Beach on the Japanese Bonin (also known as Ogasawara) Island of Chichijimi.

Not only that, I have found single-beaches that have the same appearance all over the world, like Green Sand Beach, on the big island of Hawaii…

…Vaja Beach in Korcula, Croatia…

…Myrtos Beach in Kefalonia, Greece…

…and Grama Bay in Albania.

JZ said this is a picture of a mine on the left at another bay in the Sanya City called Huanghouwan.

He asked several locals and they all said that it is a natural structure, but he said to just look at it, and it is compared with the Boddington Gold Mine in Western Australia on the right.

He also said there are huge rocks everywhere at Huanghouwan.

Another viewer, RK, mentioned Manitoulin Island, which is part of the Niagara Escarpment.

The Niagara Escarpment runs predominantly east-to-west, from New York, through Ontario, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, with a nice, half-circle shape, attached to a straight-line, when drawn on a map.

It gets its name and its fame from being the cliff where the Niagara River takes its plunge at the Niagara Falls in New York and Ontario.

RK specifically mentioned the highest-point on the island, which is called the “Cup and Saucer,” and accessed by the trail of the same name.

Here are some views of the flat surfaces, straight-edges, and right-angles of what we are told are natural rock formations.

It reminded me of what is called Coffee Pot Rock in Sedona on the right, a great view of which I had out my bedroom window for two-years (I have recently moved).

Come to think of it, a place known as “Flower Pot Island” in Ontario’s Five Fathom National Park in Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay, happens to be located right next to Manitoulin Island on the Niagara Escarpment.

It is so-named because of the two rock-pillars on its eastern shore, described as a type of “sea stack,” formed over many years of “wind, rain, waves, and ice hammering away at the cliff that was once at the water’s edge.”

A third flower pot was said to have been here until 1903, at which time it tumbled.

Here is a photo of the trail to Manitoulin Island’s Cup and Saucer formations on the left, at a place which looks like Giant City State Park in Makanda, also known as the “Star of Egypt,” in Southern Illinois, on the right.

RK also mentioned that a leyline goes right through Manitoulin Island to Montreal.

Let’s see we can find in that department on Google Earth.

On a quick search, these four places appear to line-up with each other – Minneapolis, Minnesota; Manitoulin Island, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; and Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Viewer JT suggested that I look into Duluth, Minnesota on Lake Superior, and this is a good place to begin.

He suggested starting at the history of the Merritt Brothers and the railroad, so I will.

The Merritt family came to the Minnesota Territory in 1855 and 1856 from Pennsylvania after the 1854 Treaty of LaPointe was signed in Wisconsin between the U. S. Government and representatives of the Ojibwe of Lake Superior and the Mississippi.

As a result of this treaty, the Ojibwe ceded all of the Lake Superior Ojibwe lands in the Arrowhead Region of Northeastern Minnesota to the United States in exchange for reservations for the Lake Superior Ojibwe in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota.

The Merritt family settled in Oneota, which is now West Duluth, where they ran a hotel, and the father, Lewis, worked as a lumberman and millwright.

Lewis also prospected for gold in what was called the Vermilion Lake Gold Rush of 1865 to 1866 in the Mesabi Mountain Ranges because gold specks were found in quartz stone there in 1865.

Like the other prospectors, he couldn’t find any gold, but someone gave him a piece of iron ore that caused him to speculate there was more of the that to be found in northern Minnesota.

There are four iron ranges around Lake Superior in Minnesota and Ontario: the Vermilion; the Mesabi; the Gunflint; and the Cuyuna.

They are classified as not mountains, but outcrops of sedimentary formations containing high-percentages of iron from the Precambrian-geologic era, which was four-to-six-billion-years ago to 541-million-years ago.

Lewis Merritt and his wife Hepziabeth had eight sons.

One of their sons, Leonidas, purchased land in the Mesabi Range in northern Minnesota after he surveyed and mapped the surrounding area for iron ore, and opened the Mountain Iron Mine in the early 1890s, which became the largest iron ore deposit ever discovered.

He was joined by 6 of his brothers, and what became known as the “Seven Iron Brothers” owned the largest iron mine in the world in the 1890s.

In 1891, the Merritt family incorporated the Duluth, Missabe, and Northern Railway Company to build a 70-mile, or 113-kilometer-long, railroad from the mine to the port at Superior, Wisconsin, which was south of Duluth, raising the money needed in exchange for bonds from the railroad company.

Their success attracted the attention of John D. Rockefeller, who wanted to expand into the iron ore business, and the Merritts put their company stock up as collateral to borrow money from Rockefeller in order to fund the railroad.

Long story short, the Merritts ended up being financially ruined, and Rockefeller came to own both the mine and the railroad.

After Rockefeller assumed ownership in 1894, he leased his iron ore properties and the railroad to the Carnegie Steel Company in 1896.

John D. Rockefeller sold the railway to United States Steel in 1901, after it had been formed by the merger of the merger of Andrew Carnegie’s Carnegie Steel Company, Elbert Gary’s Federal Steel Company, and William Henry Moore’s National Steel Company in 1901, which was financed by J. P. Morgan.

Other places that JT suggested looking at in Duluth are the Enger Tower, which is a 80-foot, or 24-meter stone observation tower that has 5-stories, and was built on Enger Hill.

The tower was said to have been constructed as a tribute to businessman and philanthropist Bert Enger, a Norwegian-immigrant who came to Duluth in 1903 and set-up a furniture store with his business partner Emil Olson, which turned into a prosperous business over the years.

Enger donated a sizeable amount of his estate to the city of Duluth, which included Enger Hill, Enger Park, and Enger Golf Course.

There is a panoramic view from Enger Tower and Enger Hill of the Twin Ports of Duluth and Lake Superior, including great view of the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge.

A movable, lift-bridge, it spans the Duluth Ship Canal and Minnesota Point, and said to have been constructed between 1901 and 1905, and modified in 1929.

Both the Aerial Lift Bridge and Enger Tower are lit up at night, with different colors for different occasions and causes.

JT also mentioned the Kitchee Gammi Club.

It is the oldest incorporated club in Minnesota, having been founded in 1883, and originally met at Duluth’s Grand Opera House, which was said to have only stood for six years, from 1883 to 1889 – at which time a mysterious fire that began at Grasser’s Grocery store, got out of control and by the time it was put out, the Grand Opera House was in ruins.

The current Kitchee Gammi Club building was said to have been designed by prominent New Yorkarchitect Bertram Goodhue, and built between 1911 and 1913, with a 1914 opening.

The architecture is said to be “Jacobean Revival Style,” for features like bay windows, rectangular windows, triangular gables, and high ceilings, with Jacobean architecture being named after King James I of England and James VI of Scotland whose reign it is associated with.

As a matter of fact, here is a comparison between the Kitchee Gammi Club in Duluth on the left, and the Castle Bromwich Hall in Birmingham, England, on the right, said to have been built between 1557 and 1585.

There are two possibilities here – the Kitchee Gammi Club House truly represents a revival of Jacobean Architecture, and was built when it was by who was said to have built it…or its not, and was already built.

The name of the Kitchee Gammi Club is based on “Gitche Gumee,” the Ojibwe name for Lake Superior, and best known to the general public for being mentioned in the opening verse of in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “The Song of Hiawatha…”

…and it was mentioned in the opening verse of Gordon Lightfoot’s song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

I found this map, circa 1911, of the Duluth Street Railway Company.

I have circled the place where the Aerial Lift Bridge is marked on the map.

The Duluth Street Railway Company was said to have been incorporated in 1881, and that the first mule-pulled trolley cars were available for service in 1883…

…and that by 1892, the entire line was electrified.

The Highland Park Tramway Line served Duluth Heights via an Incline-Railway from 1892 to 1939, which was the last piece of the electric streetcar system to be dismantled, as the rest started going away in the early 1930s.

MB, who also lives in Duluth, made a comment about the bell that is found in Duluth’s Enger Park.

Called the Peace Bell, it is located in a Japanese Zen Garden in the park, and is a replica of a temple bell in Duluth’s Sister City of Ohara, Japan.

The story is that the city of Ohara donated the temple bell, which is now the oldest remaining bell in Ohara, to a wartime scrap drive during World War II, but the bell was never destroyed.

After the war, sailors on the USS Duluth found it, and gave it to the city of Duluth, where it was displayed in the City Hall.

A visiting academic from Ohara learned of the bell’s existence, and met with the Mayor of Duluth to ask for the bell’s return, which it was in 1954, and re-named the “Japan-U.S. Friendship Peace Bell.”

The current bell was dedicated in Duluth’s Enger Park in 1994, in the Japanese Peace Bell Garden.

Now, I find the subject of Japanese Peace and Friendship Sister City Gardens very interesting, because when I was first waking up to all of this several years ago in Oklahoma City, my brother, his family, and my mother were living in Shawnee, Oklahoma, which happens to have a Sister City relationship with Akita, Japan, and a Peace Garden as well.

My mom’s significant other was living in the nursing home facility across the street, and I had taken her on this occasion to see him for a visit, and had some time to kill, so I went by a nearby Braum’s to grab a cheeseburger, fries, and chocolate milkshake, and if you have ever lived in Oklahoma, you’ll know what that’s about…

…and went to the Peace Garden to sit and eat my Braum’s lunch while I was waiting for mom.

While I was sitting there eating, I started noticing that there were big stone blocks in the Peace Garden.

Either before I finished eating, or right after, I don’t remember which, I got up from where I was sitting and starting walking around the garden grounds.

And you can’t really tell clearly from this Google Earth Screen shot, but there are big stones situated at different places within the circle formed by the road going around it, and there are also large stones hidden away in the trees with no attention whatsoever drawn to them. You only see them if you happen to be looking there.

I am quite sure that the Sister City Peace Garden in Shawnee provides the cover for what was a stone circle.

Back in Duluth, SG shared that the Old Duluth Central High School was super shady, saying that no way was that built for high schoolers!

Said to have been built starting in 1891 and opening for classes in 1892, the Old Central High School, nowadays used as school district office space, occupies a city block…

…and has a clock tower that is 210-feet, or 64-meters, high, that had five-bells added to the clock in 1895.

There was even a 17-foot, 6-ton cannon on the steps of the Old Central High School from 1898 to 1942, said to have been captured from a Spanish warship during the Spanish-American War, and requested by the Duluth City Council for Duluth, who had to pay for the transportation costs to get it to Duluth.

We are told the cannon was either sold or donated as scrap-iron, and was melted down and used during World War II.

I had two viewers comment on places to look at in Kansas City, Missouri, which is located almost exactly mid-way between Minneapolis, Minnesota, which is 412-miles, or 662-kilometers northeast of Kansas City, and Dallas, Texas, which is 454-miles, or 731-kilometers, southwest of Kansas City, keeping in mind that Kansas City is split between the states of Kansas and Missouri.

HW said that Kansas City in Missouri has an area called West Bottoms, that is always hit harder when it floods in Kansas City than other parts of the city.

And no wonder, considering that West Bottoms is located on land that is situated between the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers, and was also the original Central Industrial District of Kansas City, and is one of the oldest areas of the city.

The first Hannibal Bridge, the oldest bridge crossing the Missouri River, was said to have been completed in 1869, after its construction started in 1867, two-years after the end of the American Civil War, and was the first permanent rail crossing of the Missouri River.

It established Kansas City as a major city and rail center.

After the completion of the Hannibal Bridge, we are told the need for the Kansas City Union Depot arose.

After all, soon after the Hannibal Bridge opened, it carried eight railroads shipping freight to major trade centers in the east, like St. Louis, Chicago, and New York.

This is a historical map of what was called the “Natural Port of Kansas City,” with the West Bottoms District highlighted in blue, and the freight houses of 12 different railroads are listed by number in the red square on the left-hand-side, and the locations by number of each freight house in the red square that is contained completely within the West Bottoms District.

The first Kansas City Union Depot opened in 1878, andsaid to be the largest building west of New York of the time, and located near the stockyards.

The first Union Depot train station was razed to the ground in 1915, after only 32-years of use, after the Kansas City’s second main train station, Union Station opened in 1914, the same year that World War I began.

The New Union Station is still in use by Amtrak as a train station today, in addition to housing museums, theaters, and restaurants and shops.

The Kansas City Livestock Exchange and Stockyards in West Bottoms were established in 1871, and at its peak, only the stockyards in Chicago were larger, of which this is a photo circa 1909.

We are told the Kansas City Livestock Exchange and Stockyards was built around the facilities of the Central Overland California and Pike’s Peak Express Company.

The Central Overland California and Pike’s Peak Express Company was a subsidiary of a freighting company that operated as a stagecoach line starting in 1859, and was the parent company of the Pony Express that ran from April of 1860 to October of 1861.

The stagecoach line went out of business in 1862.

The Kansas City Livestock Exchange and Stockyards, along with the whole of West Bottoms, has had major floods over the years as HW shared, in 1903…

…in 1908…

…and after the 1951 flood, the Kansas City Livestock Exchange and Stockyards and associated businesses were devastated, and it closed its doors for good in 1991.

The Livestock Exchange building, said to have been completed in 1911, was renovated and today is commercial business space…

…as are many of the old buildings in West Bottoms, known for its art galleries, restaurants, antique stores…

…and haunted houses.

Another viewer, MA, suggested looking into the Nelson-Atkin Museum of Art in Kansas City.

She said it is a massive building, and was said to have been completed in 1933…which would have been in the middle of the Great Depression.

The building was said to have been designed by prominent Kansas City architects, Wight and Wight, with groundbreaking in 1930 on the grounds of Oak Hill, home of Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson who left a fortune in his will for purchasing art for public enjoyment, in conjunction with $300,000 bequeathed in the will of Mary McAfee Atkins, the widow of a Kansas City real estate developer, establish an art museum.

The humongous badminton shuttlecocks were added to the grounds in 1994 as contemporary art.

Inside this magnificent building built during the Great Depression, there are marble floors, staircases, columns, and ornate marble alcoves and hallways.

She said the front entrance has six, 3-story-tall, Ionic Columns.

…and Ionic columns are found on either end of the building.

She said the windows on that lower level were half buried at the back of the building, and this is a photo I found behind the Bloch Building, an addition to the main museum which opened in 2005.

When I was looking around for information on the early history of Kansas City, Missouri, the following information and photos stand out.

A Rock Ledge became the landing place for riverboats and wagon trains starting in 1833, on the southside of the Missouri River at what became Kansas City, Missouri.

And all of these strata of limestone are underneath the surface where the rock ledge is located.

I just want to point out that limestone was a common building material in the ancient world, and used in constructions like the Pyramids of Giza…

…and the Western Wall, also known as the “Wailing Wall,” an ancient limestone wall in the old city of Jerusalem.

…and places that are officially identified as canals have rock ledges.

Other historic pictures that I would like to include of Kansas City, Missouri, include this one of when it was called “Gulley Town” in the 1860s and 1870s…

…and I found these views of Wyandotte Street as it looked in 1868…

…in 1870…

…in 1871…

…and here are historic photos of some of the buildings on Wyandotte Street circa 1928.

Also, there were two viewers from the other side of Lake Superior in Keweenaw County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Lake Superior who commented after I touched base on the history of Duluth, located in northeastern Minnesota on Lake Superior.

While the Minnesota/Ontario side of Lake Superior is known for the high-quality iron ore from its Iron Ranges, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is known for its high-quality copper.

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Keweenaw is the northernmost county of the State of Michigan, and it shares the Keweenaw Peninsula with Houghton County.

The Keweenaw Peninsula is formed by the largest freshwaters on Earth…

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…and, along with several other adjacent counties in the Upper Peninsula, is collectively called “Copper Country,” and in its hey-day, in the late 19th- and early-20th-century, it was the world’s greatest producer of copper.

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The copper here is predominately in what is known as native, or pure, copper form without the compound elements, like oxides and sulfides, that are found in other copper deposits.

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Isle Royale is the largest island in Lake Superior, and the second-largest island in the Great Lakes after Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron.

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It is part of the State of Michigan, though geographically closer to the northernmost part of Minnesota and Ontario.

It is the only national park in Michigan, and the only island national park in the United States.

I had read several years ago about the copper mines found on Isle Royale, and of the high-grade copper that was mined here in ancient times…

…as well as in the mid-to-late 1800s, like this 6,000 lb, or 2,722-kilogram, chunk of copper that was mined from the McCargoe Cove mine in 1875.

LH lives on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Keweenaw County, and said, among other things, that there is a lift bridge in Houghton County, as I had mentioned the one in Duluth in the last post.

Known as the “Portage Canal Lift Bridge,” it connects the cities of Houghton and Hancock across Portage Lake, which is part of the waterway which cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula with a canal linking the five-miles to Lake Superior to the northwest.

The steel swing, or vertical, bridge was said to have first been built in 1895 to replace a damaged wooden swing bridge that was built in that location in 1875, and that the current steel bridge replaced the previous steel bridge in 1959.

The Portage Canal Lift Bridge is on the only land-route across the waterway, which is U. S. Highway 41, that originates in Miami, Florida.

The Keweenaw Waterway is described as “part artificial and part natural,” and separates Copper Island from the mainland, in this case referring to Keweenaw County.

The building of the canal was said to have started in 1868, after the legislation authorizing the building of it passed in 1861, and completed in 1874…and widened in 1935.

Interesting to note the straight railroad track and canal running parallel to each other…

…which is a configuration I have seen in the past, at places like the Lehigh Canal and railroad tracks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania…

…and at Point-of-Rocks in Maryland, near Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia.

LH also mentioned some other places on the Keweenaw Peninsula, like the Houghton County Courthouse, with the cornerstone said to have been laid on July 24th of 1886, and the new courthouse dedicated a little over a year to the day later, on July 28th of 1887.

So…built in a year…in Northern Michigan no less…

…a place where winters are cold, and spring and fall still tend to be on the cold and moist side.

LH also mentioned the Catholic Church in Lake Linden, said to have been built between 1901 and 1912…

…and said there used to be a trolley line from Calumet and Houghton…

…as well as many trains, but all the tracks have been pulled up.

According to this map of the Houghton County Traction Company that operated the trolley line, there even was an “Electric Park” way up here!

It was a popular recreation destination, also known as a trolley park, between 1902 and 1932, which was when all operations of the Houghton County Traction Company ended, and the park disappeared completely from the scene by World War II, we are told, because of the cost of maintenance upkeep, etc, with the main pavilion sold, scrapped and reassembled as a potato barn.

Memories from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood just popped into my head.

Though I am more from the Captain Kangaroo generation of young children’s television programming in the 1960s…

…I would watch Mr. Rogers on occasion with my younger brothers.

I wonder if there were hidden meanings, beyond a clever way to tell a story to young children, behind Trolley and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe in the long-running children’s show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.

There is a lot more to find here, including the historical Fort Wilkins at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, said to have been established in 1844…

…sandwiched from east-to west between the beginning of Highway 41 marker…

…and Copper Harbor, also established in 1844…

…and from north-to-south between Copper Harbor Light House, said to have first been built in 1849, and then dismantled, and using the same stones as the first lighthouse, re-built and lit in 1866…

…and the long, skinny Lake Fanny Hooe.

There are a number of different women coming up as the subject in the tales of how the lake was named.

The slang meaning of “hooe-y” in English, having the same pronunciation with a silent “y” added at the end in the spelled form, is “nonsense.”

It is interesting to note that the only indication I could find that this might be a man-made lake in a search is this from the USGS website.

In the short distance between Lake Fanny Hooe and Lake Superior, I found the Fanny Hooe Creek Falls and the bridge on Highway 41 crossing the creek, said to have been built in the 1920s.

There are other falls hereabouts, but there is one other I want to highlight, the Upper Montreal Falls on the Keweenaw Peninsula’s Montreal River.

These particular falls are not located far from Lac La Belle, which at one time…

…was a railroad depot, as shown in the map on the right.

Two things I have consistently found in my research are waterfalls of the same make and model in different places all over the world…

…and correlations in location between railroads and canals, like I showed previously in this post with the Portage Canal of the Keweenaw Waterway, as well as the additional correlation of star forts located nearby, which I have studied extensively in past research.

So, now I am going to add the possibility of correlations of waterfalls to this configuration, with the idea that these were all connected to the original energy-generating grid system of the Earth.

To study this possibility more in-depth, I am going to turn my attention to information that viewer JG in Iowa has sent me.

We had connected about two years ago and one of the possibilities we explored in our correspondence were the possible correlations between railroads and waterfalls, and she had emailed me the information she had uncovered when she researched her home-state of Iowa regarding this subject.

I recently asked her to re-send her findings because I couldn’t find the original email with the information she sent, and so she sent google maps showing the locations of railroads and state parks with waterfalls, and racetracks, as well as another set of maps with more key things like the locations of powerplants, mines and sports stadiums.

I am going to focus in this post on the correlations between railroads, waterfalls, and racetracks that she sent me as a grouping.

Much of the part of Iowa being looked at here is where Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois meet, and is in part of what is called the “Driftless Area.”

This is part of North America is called the “Driftless Area” because it was said to have been by-passed by the last glacier on the continent and lacks glacial drift.

JG sent me this overlay that she put together of the racetracks, waterfalls, and railroads in Iowa…

…and I ended up needing to enlarge each map she sent separately as well so I could see and read the place names…

…and then I transferred the same information to Google Earth to see where these places were in relationship to each other.

I am specifically looking for correlations between the state parks with waterfalls and railroads here, and it will be interesting to see where the racetracks fit into the picture as well.

I am going to look specifically for this post at the upper section of the previous Google Earth screenshot.

In the top middle, is Black Falls and Dunning’s Spring Park.

Black Falls is near Kendallville, Iowa.

For all of the following waterfalls, I am going to point out with red arrows what looks like an old wall, or old masonry, to me.

There are three waterfalls at Dunning’s Spring just southeast of Black Falls, near Decorah, Iowa…

…one of which is located near the Decorah Ice Cave, a limestone and dolomite cave that has ice on the inside even during the summer…

…as well as the falls at Siewer’s Springs near Decorah, described as “technically a spillway, but a gorgeous staircase formation….”

…and the Malanaphy Spring Falls, northwest of Decorah.

I looked for rail-related infrastructure near Decorah, which now only has Railroad Street and Railroad Avenue, with the Mediacom Communications facility sandwiched between the two…

…and what was the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Combination Depot in Decorah is now commercial space, and all the railroad tracks through here were removed in 1971.

From where Black Falls and Dunning’s Spring are at the top of the Google Earth screenshot, next I am going to go southeast of there to “Pike’s Peak State Park.

Pike’s Peak State Park in McGregor, Iowa, is situated on a 500-foot, or 150-meter, bluff overlooking the confluence of the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers.

It is a recreational area that is considered one of Iowa’s premier nature destinations…

…where one of the places you can hike to is called Bridal Veil Falls.

Bridal Veil Falls is described as “a small natural waterfall that flows gracefully out of a horizontal limestone outcropping.”

Pike’s Peak State Park and McGregor, Iowa, are right next to Marquette, Iowa, on the Mississippi River, right across from Prairie de Chien, Wisconsin.

Marquette earlier in history was known as North McGregor, and served as a railroad terminus, becoming a major railroad hub for the region in its hey-day.

Passenger service ended in 1960, and the Marquette Depot Museum and Information Service in Marquette celebrates the town’s railroad history with exhibits of historic railroad artifacts…

…though the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Railway, still runs freight on the rail-lines through here.

Next, I am going to go due west from Marquette and McGregor over to Mason City, which is connected by the same Canadian Pacific Rail-line to Marquette.

Mason City is located on the Winnebago River, and was original of the settlement that was established here in 1853 was “Shibboleth.”

It was also known as Mason Grove and Masonville, until, we are told, Mason City was adopted in 1855, in honor of a founder’s son, Mason Long.

Interesting to note that the original name for the settlement, Shibboleth, is also a Freemasonic password.

The “Iowa Traction Railroad Company,” headquartered in Emery, west of Mason City, operates a short-line rail-line, that is around 10-miles, or 17-kilometers, -long freight railroad between Mason City and Clear Lake, Iowa, that interchanges in Mason City with the Canadian Pacific Railway and Union Pacific Railway.

It is electrified, which means that an electrification system supplies electric power to the railway, as opposed to an on-board power source or local fuel supply…

…and at one time was part of the electric trolley and interurban system of the region, with the charter for the trolley system expiring in August of 1936, and replaced by passenger bus service the following January.

I did find a waterfall in Mason City, though it is on private property and not in a state park.

Called the “Willow Creek Waterfall,” it can be viewed from the State Street Bridge between 1st Street NE and S. Carolina Avenue in Mason City.

The next places I am going to take a look at are the Highway 3 Raceway southeast of Mason City, and Backbone State Park southwest of Pike’s Peak State Park at McGregor.

The Highway 3 Raceway is a half-mile, semi-banked clay oval in Allison, Iowa at the Butler County Fairgrounds.

Seeing a Railroad Avneue here too.

Not a whole lot of information available except that it hosts stock-car races and the like.

I think racetracks like this are re-purposed elliptical circuitry on the Earth’s grid system.

Backbone State Park, 45-miles, or 72-kilometers, west of Dubuque, Iowa, is the state’s oldest park, having been dedicated in 1919…

…and named after the limestone ridges found in the park.

A Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) work-site for otherwise unemployed young men during the Great Depression, were given the credit for building the park’s recreational infrastructure in the 1930s…

…and the spillway dam at the park’s lake.

Backbone State Park is near Dubuque, Iowa, which has a connection to the railroad.

The Illinois Central Railroad ran through Iowa between Sioux City and Dubuque, one of four railroads were authorized by Congress via the “Act of 1856…”

…connecting that part of Iowa by rail to Chicago sometime around 1870.

Like Mason City, at one time Dubuque had an electric streetcar system, and which was retired in 1932.

Dubuque has one of the few incline railways still in operation, much less still in existence, in today’s world.

The Fenelon Place Cable Car is found in Dubuque’s Cathedral Historic District, and is described as the world’s steepest, shortest scenic railway, said to have been built in 1882 for the private-use of J. K. Graves, a local banker and State Senator.

The Dubuque Railroad Bridge is currently operated by the Canadian National Railway, who purchased the Illinois Central Railroad in 1999.

It is a single-track railroad bridge that crosses the Mississippi River between Dubuque Iowa, and East Dubuque, Illinois, that has a swing-span.

The original swing bridge was said to have been built in 1868, and that it was rebuilt in 1898.

There’s more in the information that JG sent about Iowa, but I am going to stop here, as I can go on and on.

The examples here show in particular that there are at least correlations in location between places with waterfalls and the locations of rail infrastructure.

What that means exactly is certainly open to interpretation, some conventional and some unconventional. I suggested earlier that waterfalls were possibly somehow connected to the earth’s original energy grid system, but it could also mean that waterfalls were very much apart of the original civilization’s infrastructure serving multiple hydrological purposes…

…and that the rail infrastructure was also an intrinsic and pre-existing part of the Earth’s energy grid system as well, and not originally built during the years we are told.

I am going to end “Places & Topics Suggested by Viewers – Volume 4” here.

Lots more to come!

Star Forts, Gone-Bye Trolley Parks and Lighthouses of New York’s Hudson River Valley & New York Bays

I am going to take a tour of the locations of historic star forts and places where there were trolley parks of a by-gone era in Eastern New York, starting at the southern end of Lake Champlain and heading directly south along the Hudson River Valley into the Upper and Lower New York Bays in this video.

I happened into the area when I was researching the Saratoga Springs Race Course, its relationship to airports in the area, as well as the presence of healing springs, railroad, and once upon a time, there was a trolley-car line as well as a “Fort Saratoga.”

I am going to begin with Fort St. Frederic and Fort Crown Point at the southern end of Lake Champlain, which lies between the states of New York and Vermont, and extends up into the Canadian Province of Quebec.

Fort St. Frederic was said to have been constructed by the French starting in 1734 on Lake Champlain at Crown Point, New York, in order to control the lake and to secure the region against British colonization, but that it was already destroyed by 1759 before the advance of a large British Army.

Then, the British were said to have built the much larger Fort Crown Point next to the ruins of Fort St. Frederic in 1759, and this fort fell into ruins after the American Revolutionary War.

The ruins of both of these star forts have been preserved on the grounds of the Crown Point State Historic Site since 1910.

Fort Ticonderoga is 116-miles, or 186-kilometers, southeast of Crown Point State Historic Site.

Fort Ticonderoga was said to have been built by the French between 1755 and 1757 during the French and Indian War, and was of strategic importance during the 18th-century colonial conflicts between the British and the French, and played an important role during the American Revolutionary War.

It ceased to be of military value after 1781, we are told, and the U. S. Government allowed it to fall into ruin.

Fort Ticonderoga was purchased by a private family in 1820, and it became a tourist stop, and today a foundation operates the fort as a tourist attraction, research center and museum.

I came across this circa 1780 map showing a number of other historical forts in this part of New York State, so there are more named here than what I was first aware of when I started doing the research here.

Also, what looks to be the beginning of the Hudson River is on the left-hand-side of the map, and to the left of Lake George which is below Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga.

The upper part of the map is showing Fort Independence directly across from Fort Ticonderoga.

At the other end of Lake George, which lies between Forts Ticonderoga and Independence, we find a Fort George and Fort Anne showing on this map.

Fort George on Lake George was said to have been built in 1755, destroyed in 1777 and abandoned in 1780.

Fort Anne was said to have been built in 1757, and was the location of the American Revolutionary War Battle of Fort Ann, fought on July 8th of 1777 between Continental forces in retreat from Fort Ticonderoga and General Burgoyne’s larger British army as part of the Saratoga campaign, and called a British victory.

I will be talking about Fort Edward on this map shortly.

Not showing on this map on the southern end of Lake George along with Fort George and Fort Anne is Fort William Henry, said to have been built in 1755 by the British during the French and Indian War as a staging ground for attacks against the French position at Fort St. Frederic back up at Crown Point.

Picking up at Fort Edward on the Hudson River from the upper-half of the map, the lower-half of the 1780 map shows Fort Miller, Fort Hardy, Saratoga, and Still Water along the Hudson River.

Fort Edward is located just below the towns of Hudson Falls and Moreau.

There’s not much left of Fort Edward to speak of.

There is a marker at the intersection of Route 97 and Route 4, near the Anvil Restaurant and lounge, that marks the site of the northeast bastion of Old Fort Edward, part of the outworks of the fort.

In the middle of what is now a residential neighborhood, there is a marker designating part of what was the old moat of Fort Edward…

…and in a park that overlooks a bend in the Hudson River, there is a big stone with a plaque marking the historic location of Old Fort Edward.

The nearby town of Moreau appears to be an interesting place by just glancing at the Google Earth screenshot.

The arrow is pointing to a structure in the landscape that looks like it could have been a star fort at one time.

…and the towns of Moreau and Hudson Falls are connected by the Fenimore Bridge, which was said to have been constructed in 1906 by the Union Paper and Bag Company as the company had plants in both places.

With fifteen arch spans, roadway, sidewalk and a standard gauge railway track, at one time, it was considered the longest, multiple-span, reinforced concrete arch bridge in the world.

It was closed to traffic in 1989 after it was deemed to be structurally-deficient, and a replacement bridge was built next to it.

Like Fort Edward, Fort Miller below it on the Hudson River is remembered by an historical marker, erected by the State Education department in 1940, and simply says it was built in 1755 by “Col. Miller.”

Fort Hardy in Schuylerville, New York, came next going south on the Hudson River, where today there is a “Fort Hardy Park” in town.

Fort Hardy was the location of the British General Burgoyne’s surrender following the Battle of Saratoga, when the Americans defeated the British Army in October of 1777, and a turning point in the Revolutionary War.

Below Fort Hardy, there was an historical Fort Saratoga on the Hudson River, and then a short-distance below Fort Saratoga were Fort Ingoldsby and Fort Winslow, both in Saratoga county in Stillwater, New York.

Between Fort Ingoldsby near Saratoga Springs and the next cluster of three historic star forts at West Point, New York, on the Hudson River, there were four historic trolley parks.

First, we come to Niverville, New York, 68-miles, or 109-kilometers, south of Fort Ingoldsby on the Hudson River, where Electric Park was located on Kinderhook Lake.

The Electric Park there was described as the largest amusement park on the east coast between Manhattan and Montreal during its run from 1901 to 1917.

We are told this Electric Park was created by the Albany & Hudson Railroad Company in order to increase ridership on weekends.

The reasons given for the closure of the Electric Park of Niverville in 1917 was that the popularity of automobiles no longer restricted people to rails and river steamer transportation; World War I; and high insurance premiums due to the number of trolley parks that had burned down.

The Hudson Athens Lighthouse is located below Niverville.

It was said to have been built between 1873 and 1874, becoming operational in 1874.

In 1967, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller established the Hudson River Valley Commssion, which suggested that the United States Coast Guard deed over or lease lighthouse facilities to non-profit historical groups to ensure their preservation and upkeep, and this lighthouse was the first to be tried through such a program, and in 1984, the lease for the lighthouse was first turned over by the Coast Guard to the Hudson Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society.

The Saugerties Lighthouse just north of Saugerties, New York, is below the Hudson Athens Lighthouse.

It was said to have been constructed in 1869, replacing an earlier 1838 lighthouse.

The Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy purchased it in 1986 and restored it.

The conservancy manages the property, including offering two bed and breakfast rooms and public tours.

Next we come to Kingston, New York, where the historic Kingston Point Park and Rondout Lighthouse were located, 106-miles, or 171-kilometers, south of Fort Ingoldsby.

Kingston Point Park was said to have been built by Samuel Coykendall, the wealthy owner of the Cornell Steamboat Company and Ulster and Delaware Railroad.

The stated purpose of the park was to serve as a steamboat landing for the Hudson River Day Line, and a place where trains and trolleys would take passengers into Kingston and the Catskill Mountains.

Kingston Point Park opened in 1896, and had a Ferris Wheel, Merry-go-Round, bandstand and boat rentals.

A fire in the 1920s destroyed most of the buildings.

All that remains today at the Kingston Point Rotary Park is a park-setting, beach, and trolley tracks.

The Rondout Lighthouse in Kingston was said to have been built in 1915 to replace an earlier lighthouse constructed in 1867.

Rondout Lighthouse was transferred to the City of Kingston by the Coast Guard in 2002, and it is currently managed by the non-profit Hudson River Maritime Museum.

The Esopus Meadows Lighthouse is below Kingston on the Hudson River

Nicknamed “Maid of the Meadows,” the Esopus Meadows Lighthouse was said to have been completed in 1871 to replace a lighthouse that had been constructed in 1838.

Interesting to note that the lighthouse was described as having been built with a granite foundation on top of piles that had been driven into the riverbed.

The lighthouse was closed in 1965, and said to have fallen into a state of disrepair, especially the granite foundation, which we are told had begun to fall apart due to ice damage.

The “Save Esopus Lighthouse Commission” leased the lighthouse from the Coast Guard in 1990 in order to restore it, and took ownership of it in 2002.

We come to Poughkeepsie next, 121-miles, or 194-kilometers, south of Fort Ingoldsby, where the Woodcliff Pleasure Park operated from 1927 to 1941.

It was the home of the Blue Streak roller coaster, the highest and fastest roller coaster anywhere during its time, and one of the largest swimming pools in the country.

The Woodcliff Pleasure Park was said to fall on difficult times, and permanently closed in 1941.

The next historic trolley park we would have come to was the Orange Lake Amusement Park that was located 6-miles, or 10-kilometers, west of Newburgh, New York.

It was a place where people could enjoy fishing, boating, swimming and a pleasant walk.

The advent of the trolley line in 1886 was said to have increased the popularity of the park, leading it to become one of the most popular parks in the northeast.

We are told the president of the Central Hudson Steamship Company, former New York Governor Benjamin Barker O’Dell, Jr, and Board member of the Trolley Company, developed Orange Lake Park into a showcase, and added a roller skating rink, snack bars, a midway with games of chance, a Ferris Wheel and other rides, a beach for swimming, and boat rentals.

During the Great Depression, the Orange Lake Park was forced to close for a number of years.

It was eventually dismantled in 1941, and turned into a residential community with nothing of the amusement park remaining.

After leaving Orange Park and Newburgh, New York, we arrive at Forts Clinton, Putnam and Constitution clustered around the Hudson River at West Point.

This location was called “The Turn” in the Hudson river, and where the 75-ton Great Chain was constructed, with the given reason of preventing British naval vessels from sailing upriver during the Revolutionary War between 1776 and 1778.

A…75…TON…chain…was constructed….during the American Revolutionary War?!

How could they have accomplished this according to the history we have been taught?

Fort Clinton was originally named Fort Arnold, as it was commanded by and named after Benedict Arnold before his betrayal to the United States and defection to the British Army.

The fort was subsequently named after Major General James Clinton.

Fort Putnam was said to have been completed in 1778 with the purpose of supporting Fort Clinton.

Even though it was rebuilt and enlarged in 1794, we are told, it fell into disuse and disrepair as a military garrison, and was obsolete by the mid-19th-century.

Fort Constitution was Just a short-distance away across the Hudson River from Forts Clinton and Putnam on the West Point campus.

It was captured and destroyed by the British in October of 1777, and said to have been partially reconstructed by the American forces after it was abandoned by the British, and became one of the anchor points for the Great Chain across from West Point.

It was completely abandoned after the revolutionary War.

Also destroyed by the British in 1777, were the nearby Forts of Montgomery…

…and Fort Clinton at Stony Point, named after Brigadier General George Clinton of the New York Militia, and commander of the fort before it was captured by the British and destroyed.

Fort Clinton at Stony Point is adjacent to Bear Mountain State Park.

Along with the variety of recreational opportunities to be found at Bear Mountain State Park, including biking, hiking boating, picnic facilities, swimming, and winter activities like cross-country skiing and ice skating, other places of interest in the park include the Perkins Memorial Tower, said to have been built in 1934; Trailside Museum & Zoo; the Bear Mountain Inn; a merry-go=round; pool and skating rink.

With regards to the history of the park, this is what we are told.

In January of 1909, the State of New York purchased a 740-acre tract of land at Bear Mountain, with plans to build Sing-Sing Prison there, but conservationists stopped the prison from being built.

Later that year, the newly-widowed Mary Averell Harriman, wife of Union Pacific Railroad President and American Financier Edward Henry Harriman who died in September of 1909, offered the state another 10,000 acres – and $1,000,000 – towards the creation of a state park.

American Progressive politician and businessman George W. Perkins, a partner in the J. P. Morgan Company and President of the Palisades Interstate Commission since 1900, with whom Mary Harriman had been working, managed to raise another $1.5-million from a dozen wealthy contributors, including John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan.

The state matched the contributions with a $2.5-million appropriation, and Bear Mountain-Harriman State Park came into being in 1910, and managed by the Palisades Interstate Commission, which was formed in 1900 by New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt and New Jersey Governor Foster Vorhees, for the state reason of stopping the quarrying activities along the Palisades Cliffs of New Jersey.

Right away, a steamboat dock was built excursion for excursions to the Bear Mountain State Park and the West Shore Railroad Station was built near the dock.

Got to wonder what was really going on here with the involvement of all these super-wealthy, elite family names of Rockefeller, Morgan &Harriman ?!

Shortly after leaving Fort Clinton at Stony Point on the Hudson River, we come to Buchanan, New York, the historic location of Indian Point Amusement Park.

Indian Point Amusement Park was said to have been created in 1923 on a former farm by the Hudson Day Line, the premier steamboat line on the Hudson River from the 1860s through the 1940s, as a recreational park for its passengers as a rival for the popular park at Bear Mountain.

The Indian Point Park had a cafeteria, picnic facilities, baseball diamonds, rides and games, dance hall, beer hall, miniature golf, swimming pool and speedboat rides.

The property backed up to the Croton and Mt. Kisco Reservoirs that provided water to New York City.

From 1923 to 1948, the Hudson Day Line operated Indian Point Park, at which time the park was closed.

It reopened in 1950 under new management and operated for a few more years until it closed in the mid-1950s and the property was purchased by Consolidated Edison Gas and Electric Company for the Nuclear Power Plant which opened in 1962…

…and which was in operation until April 30th of 2021 when Indian Point Energy Center was permanently closed.

Before its closure, the two reactors there provided an estimated 25% of New York City’s electrical power usage.

It is interesting to note that there is a feature across the Hudson River from Indian Point, in the actual town of Stony Point, that looks like it could have been a star fort at one time, just like what we saw back in Moreau, New York.

Before leaving the town of Stony Point, there is a light house here to show you.

The Stony Point Lighthouse stands on the grounds of the Stony Point State Historic Site, said to be the location of the 1779 Battle of Stony Point during the American Revolutionary War.

We are told the Stony Point Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse on the Hudson River, having been built in 1826 to warn ships away from the rocks of the Stony Point peninsula.

It was decommissioned in 1925; acquired by the Parks Commission in 1941, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979; restored starting in 1986, and reactivated in 1995.

Its automatic light is powered by solar power.

Doesn’t this lighthouse look rather strange?

Short and squat…and crooked?

Like maybe this is the top of a much larger structure, the rest of which has been encased in earth?

Next we come to the Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse in Sleepy Hollow, New York.

Today part of a county park, the Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse was said to have been built in 1883 to warn ships away from the shoals near the common route off Tarrytown and Ossining.

The tracks used by Metro-North’s Hudson Line, Amtrak’s Empire Service and CSX Freight are between the Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse and the developed sections of Tarrytown, New York, and the old cantilever Tappan-Zee Bridge, a mainline part of the New York State Thruway crossing the Hudson River at one of its widest points, is a 1-mile, or 1.6-kilometers, south of the lighthouse.

Interestingly, the John D. Rockefeller Estate known as Kykuit is near this location.

Situated on the highest point in neighboring Pocantino Hills, the Rockefeller Estate was said to have been built in 1913.

Sleepy Hollow.

Further on down the Hudson River, there is a lot of activity on either side of the George Washington Bridge, connecting noteworthy locations in Manhattan and New Jersey.

I am going to start unpacking what is here at Fort Washington Park on the Manhattan side of the George Washington Bridge.

Fort Washington Park is a public park that is located along the river bank below the bridge, and part of the Manhattan Riverfront Greenway.

The West Side Line of Amtrak’s Empire Connection runs through the western part of the park…

…and what is called the “Little Red Lighthouse,” officially Jeffrey’s Hook Light, is located right below the bridge.

It was said to have been constructed in 1921, decommissioned by the Coast Guard in 1948 with the completion of the George Washington Bridge making the navigational aid at this location obsolete.

Then in July of 1951, the Coast Guard signed the Little Red Lighthouse over to the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation.

Designated a New York City landmark in 1991, it was re-lighted by the city in 2002.

The remains of historic Fort Washington are in nearby Bennett Park, named for James Gordon Bennett, Sr, the newspaper publisher who launched the New York Herald in 1835.

Fort Washington was called a fortified position at the island’s highest point near the north-end of Manhattan…

…and said to have been constructed to prevent the British from going upriver starting in June of 1776 by Pennsylvania battalions of the Continental Army for General George Washington.

Fort Lee, also known as Fort Constitution, was said to have been constructed starting in July of 1776 on top of a bluff on the Hudson Palisades directly across the river in New Jersey from where Fort Washington was concurrently being built on the other side.

Alas, all of the hard work needed to build these fortifications came to nothing, since we are told that in November of 1776, in the Battle of Fort Washington, troops under the command of British General William Howe and Hessian General Wilhelm von Knyphausen made short work of the American forces stationed there, capturing both the forts, and taking a little over 2,800 American prisoners, of which only around 800 were said to have survived after being being kept in substandard conditions on-board British ships in New York Harbor.

Now I am going to take a look at Fort George and Fort Tryon Park in this same neighborhood of Upper Manhattan called “Washington Heights.”

Fort George was said to have been built in 1776 on Fort George Hill near the intersection of Audubon Avenue and 192nd Street.

The historic Fort George Trolley Park operated here from 1895 to 1914.

Fort George was located at the end of the Third Avenue Trolley Line, and was said to have been developed as a Trolley Park starting in 1894 in order to give people a reason to use their trolley services at the end of their lines on the weekends and draw the residents of Manhattan to the riverside neighborhood for summer recreation.

The park’s attractions included things like rides, saloons, casinos, the Harlem River Speedway, and vaudeville shows.

While the park prospered for years, but we are told that local residents began to petition for its closure in 1910 as benefits to the local economy faded, and the neighborhood suffered from social problems stemming from the park, like public drunkenness and high crime.

There was a suspicious fire on the property in 1911, but repairs were made and the park reopened.

Then in 1913, another suspicious fire that devastated the park, and after this one, the property was condemned and the land of the former trolley park was incorporated into Highbridge Park.

Fort Tryon was also located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan.

This is what we are told about Fort Tryon.

During the Revolutionary War, it was one of the sites of the Battle of Fort Washington mentioned previously, that resulted in a British victory and huge American loss.

During the 19th-century, the area was said to be sparsely populated, but that by the turn-of-the century, Fort Tryon was the location of large Gilded Age country estates.

LIke the Billings Estate, the most luxurious of the estates.

We are told what became known as Fort Tryon Hall was built by wealthy Chicago businessman and horse-breeder Cornelius K. G. Billings, who hadpurchased 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.

Billings’ estate had a mansion, stables for 60 horses, and an observatory.

By 1917, Billings was ready to move on, and sold his estate to John D. Rockefeller.

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.”

Palisades Amusement Park was across the Hudson River in Cliffside, New Jersey, adjacent to Fort Lee.

This trolley park was in operation from 1898 until its closure in 1971.

We are told that in 1898, the Bergen County Traction Company trolley operator originally conceived of the Park to attract evening and weekend riders for its service.

Over the years, and under different owners at different times, from the trolley park-era to the coming of cars and buses, the Palisades Amusement Park was one of the most visited in the country.

We are told that three main factors contributed to the park’s closure in 1971 – inadequate parking facilities; growing uncertainty about the park’s future; and an increase in the number of visitors who were injured or killed.

While four high-rise luxury apartments now stand where the amusement park was located, it is interesting to note there are still old stone ruins on the former park’s grounds.

Palisades Park was the first trolley park I ever stumbled across when I was doing research here in May of 2019 following cities and places in a circular alignment from Washington, DC, and where I first learned that trolley parks were said to have started out in the United States in the 19th-century as picnic and recreation areas at the ends, of street-car lines, and that by the 1920s, these trolley/amusement parks started to suffer a steep decline for a variety of reasons as we have seen.

Going on down the Hudson River to where it joins with the Upper New York Bay, we come next to what were two pairs of star forts.

Upper New York Bay, also called the New York Harbor, is the traditional heart of the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Liberty Island and Ellis Island are situated On the west side of Upper New York Bay near the Hudson River.

Liberty Island is described as an exclave of the New York City Borough of Manhattan, as it is in New Jersey waters. It was known as Bedloe’s Island until it was renamed Liberty Island by an Act of Congress in 1956.

Fort Wood, the eleven-pointed star fort the Statue of Liberty sits on top of, was said to have been built between 1806 and 1811.

The Statue of Liberty itself was said to have been gifted by the people of France to the people of the United States, and dedicated on October 28th of 1886.

The Statue of Liberty also operated as a lighthouse between 1886 and 1901 when it was under the auspices of the United States Lighthouse Board, but was said to have been closed down because of operational costs.

It is interesting to note solar alignments with the torch, like this one that was photographed on January 14th of 2018, eleven days after the Earth’s perihelion, when the Earth and the sun are at their closest point all year.

And no where is it mentioned that Liberty Island is an artificial island…

…and it is more obvious that Ellis Island located right next to it is an artificial island, with its geometric shapes, even though it is not called one either.

It was said to have been largely created through land reclamation.

Prior to when the current facilities are said to have been, Ellis Island was the location of Fort Gibson, one of forty forts said to have been built as part of the New York Harbor System between 1794 – 1812. This marker commemorates Fort Gibson…

…on what became known as Ellis Island.

Co-Architects William Alciphron Boring and Edward Lippencott Tilton are given the credit for the architecture seen here today dating from the late 1800s to 1900, and which is currently the museum for Ellis Island.

It is said to be what is called Renaissance Revival architecture.

Ellis Island has been owned by the United States government since 1808, and has been operated by the National Park Service since 1965…The south-side of the island, which houses the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, has been closed to the public since 1954.

Governors Island is also in the Upper New York Bay, and situated at the confluence of the East River and the Hudson River…It is 800 yards, or 732 meters, from the southern tip of Manhattan Island, and separated from Brooklyn by the Buttermilk Channel by approximately 400 yards or 366 meters.

The first thing that caught my eye when I was looking at Governors Island on Google Earth was Fort Jay, named after Supreme Court Chief Justice & Founding Father John Jay, and part of the Governors Island National Monument…

…said to have been built in 1794 to defend Upper New York Bay, and an active installation until 1997.

Another feature of the Governors Island National Monument is Castle Williams, part of the New York Harbor System defenses. It is called a circular structure of red sandstone, having been built between 1807 and 1811 under the direction of Lt. Colonel Jonathan Williams of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Battery Park, at the southern tip of Manhattan, the historical location of another star fort, Fort Amsterdam, said to have been surrendered by the Dutch to the British in 1664…

…and Castle Clinton, a circular fort said to have been built of red sandstone between 1808 and 1811, and the first immigration center of the United States before Ellis Island, between 1855 and 1890.

Castle Clinton was also known as the “West Battery,” a complement to Castle Williams as the “East Battery” on Governors Island. More on the use of the word battery shortly.

We come to the Robbins Reef Lighthouse in Upper New York Bay on the way to the Narrows, on the west side of the main channel, in a straight-line alignment with the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

It was said to have been originally constructed of granite, and replaced by a cast-iron station in 1883.

The Upper New York Bay is connected to the Lower New York Bay by the Narrows, described as the tidal strait separating the Boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn, and forms the principal channel by which the Hudson River empties into the Atlantic Ocean.

The Verrazano Narrows Bridge connects the New York City Boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

Fort Wadsworth is directly beside the northern-side of the bridge on Staten Island.

It is described as a former United States Military Installation said to have been established before the War of 1812, as well as between 1845- 1861, and a natural defense point for the Upper Bay of Manhattan and beyond.

I could not find clear reference dates on its construction.

This sturdy structure was closed in 1994, and is now also administered by the National Park Service’s Gateway National Recreation Area.

On the southern side of the other end of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn.

Fort Hamilton is an active United States Army installation.

This is the Fort Hamilton Community Club…

…the high school for the community of Fort Hamilton…

…and Fort Hamilton community real estate for sale.

Coney Island is just a little ways to the southeast of The Narrows.

The Coney Island Lighthouse is situated on the western end of Coney Island, in Seagate, east of the Ambrose Channel of New York Harbor, in what appears to be a triangulated relationship with Fort Wadsworth and Fort Hamilton on either side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

The Coney Island Light was said to have been built in 1890.

There were three historic amusement parks on Coney Island in Brooklyn- Steeplechase Park, Luna Park and Dreamland.

This is what we are told about them.

Steeplechase Park was created by entrepreneur George Tilyou in 1897.

He bought and improved the Steeplechase Horses attraction, which featured mechanical horses pulled along metal tracks.

The owner George Tilyou adopted a “Funny Face” mascot depicting a smiling man with several dozen teeth, nicknamed “the Tilly,” as the icon for his park.

The entrance to Steeplechase Park had a grand archway, the top of which was decorated with four horses.

The park included over 50 attractions on its midway alone…

…and Tilyou was said to have been inspired to build a Ferris Wheel after having seen the one at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair on his honeymoon.

In Steeplechase Park’s history between its opening in 1897 and closing in 1964, there were things like fires, rebuilding, rides added, and so on.

The land of the former amusement park today is Maimonades Park, the location of a minor league baseball stadium…

…and the only remaining structure from Steeplechase Park is the defunct Parachute Jump.

Luna Park at Coney Island opened in 1903.

It was said to have replaced Sea Lion Park that was operated by a man named Paul Boyton between 1895 and 1902, the first enclosed and permanent amusement park in North America.

He was credited with being the first person to pay an admission fee to a large enclosed area containing multiple amusement rides and activities.

The so-named Captain Paul Boyton was a world-famous back in the day aquatic daredevil and showman who travelled the world’s rivers in an inflatable rubber suit.

The Flip Flap Railroad mentioned at the bottom of this image of Sea Lion Park…

…was said to be the first looping roller coaster.

Paul Boyton’s remaining long-term lease on the park was bought ou starting on October 1st of 1902 by Frederic Thompson and Elmer “Skip” Dundy.

Thompson and Dundy were invited to the Steeplechase Park by George Tilyou for the 1902 Season.

They were known for their ride called “A Trip to the Moon” that was at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition that was held in Buffalo, New York.

The name of the fanciful airship that was the main part of the “A Trip to the Moon” ride was “Luna,” the Latin word for “moon’ for which, we are told, Luna Park in Coney Island was built around.

Well, for one thing, the problem with that story is that there were, and still are, Luna Amusement Parks all over the world, including Mashhad, Iran, and Ankara, Turkey.

The land Luna Park was on was located next to where the Elephantine Colossus Hotel had been located.

We are told this hotel was a tourist attraction on Coney Island that was an example of novelty architecture, designed by Irish-American inventor James V. Lafferty.

The massive elephantine structure stood above Surf Avenue and West 12th Street from 1885 to 1896, at which time it burned down, giving Thompson and Dundy more land upon which to build Luna Park.

Speaking of elephants, this picture was taken in January of 1903, when Luna Park was said to have been under construction.

It shows Topsy the Elephant before she was executed by electrocution for being a “bad” elephant by Thompson and Dundy as a publicity stunt to advertise the opening of their new park.

The invited press that day included the Edison Movie Manufacturing Company, who filmed the event.

It was released to be viewed in coin-operated kinetoscopes under the title of “Electrocuting an Elephant.”

We are told the park’s architectural style was an oriental theme, with over 1,000 red and white painted spires, minarets, and domes on buildings constructed on a grand scale.

All the domes, spires, and towers were lit-up at night with several 100,000 incandescent lights.

In the middle of the lake at the center of the park was a 200-foot, or 61-meter, tall Electric Tower that was decorated with 20,000 incandescent lamps, said to be a smaller version of the Electric Tower featured in the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo.

Luna Park was accessible from Culver Depot, the terminals of the West End and Sea Beach Streetcar and Railroad lines.

Besides a multitude of rides, attractions at Luna Park included infant incubators, described as a new type of infant care where infant incubators containing premature babies were displayed in shows called “Infantoriums.

They were touted as “neonatal healthcare,” helping newborn babies with compromised immune systems by providing a sanitary environment to reduce the possibility of getting an infection.

infant incubators for premature babies became widely available at fairs and amusement parks across America, rather than hospitals, which we are told, had nothing to help them.

What we are told is that many parents of premature, at-risk babies pretty much had to bring their infants to a side-show infantorium at an amusement park or fair, and that these infant shows were the main source of healthcare for premature babies for over forty years.

Say what??!!

Over the years, Luna Park would continue under different management, with constant changes.

The end of Luna Park came with two fires in 1944, one in August and one in October, which destroyed the park, and in 1946, the whole park was demolished.

There has been a Luna Park operating near the original location since 2010 that has no connection to the 1903 park.

Compare Luna Park at Coney Island with the White City in London, the location of numerous international expositions between 1908 and 1914, after which time it fell into a state of disuse and disrepair and demolished for a housing estate in 1937.

And why does the architectural-style at both places look Moorish?

Well, how about because the worldwide civilization was Moorish!

The Advanced Civilization from the ancient time of Mu to relatively recently?

And then something happened to knock Humanity off that positive timeline!

Dreamland was the third and last of the three original parks said to have been built on Coney Island in the early 19th-century.

Dreamland was said to have been founded by successful Brooklyn real estate developer and former State Senator William H. Reynolds as a refined and elegant competitor to the chaotic noise of Luna Park, and opened in May of 1904.

The location of Dreamland was near the West Eighth Street subway station opposite Culver Depot.

Everything at Dreamland was touted to be bigger than Luna Park, including the larger Electric Tower, and four times as many incandescent lights than Luna Park.

Besides having high-class entertainment, morality plays, and rides, Dreamland had human zoos featuring dwarf inhabitants in what was called “Midget City…”

…and a Somali Village…

…and a Filipino Village.

Like Luna Park, Dreamland also had an infant incubator sideshow attraction.

Dreamland’s life on Coney Island was ended only 7-years after opening.

On May 27th of 1911, a fire started at the Hell Gate attraction the night before the season’s opening day, and spread quickly, completely destroying the park by morning.

There are a couple of more things I would like to bring up before I leave this part of New York City.

One is Brighton Beach, which is adjacent to the three major Coney Island amusement park locations.

The Brighton Beach Race Course was an American thoroughbred horseracing facility shown here opened on June 28th of 1879.

It was instantly successful and drew wealthy patrons from New York City.

The track prospered in 1908, when the New York State Legislature passed the Hart-Agnew Law, banning gambling.

The Brighton Beach Race Track was eventually torn down, and by the 1920s, replaced by residential housing.

Back around 2015, about three-years before I started blogging and doing my own research in 2018, I remember seeing a video on the New Earth YouTube Channel about megalithic remains strewn about on Brighton Beach, so I searched for images like this one of Brighton Beach…

…and the explanation we are given for faces amongst the rocks was that there was a mystery artist in the 1970s who carved them.

The last thing I want to point out is the absolutely ruined-looking appearance found in the landscape here.

Jamaica Bay is coalled a partially man-made and partially natural estuary on the western tip of Long Island, and contains numerous marshy islands.

John F. Kennedy International Airport is on the northeast side of Jamaica Bay, and would have been in short-distance, straight-line alignment with the former Brighton Beach Race Course.

Interestingly, there is a rapid transit line of the New York subway system that operates here, the IND Rockaway Line that runs between the Aqueduct Racetrack Station terminal, also close to the airport in a short-distance, straight-line alignment, and the Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street Station terminal.

The long and narrow Great South Bay is east of Jamaica Bay on Long Island’s south shore.

The Great South Bay is described as a lagoon that is 45-miles, or 72-kilometers-, long, and has an average depth of a little over 4-feet, or 1.2-meters, and is 20-feet, or 6-meters, at its deepest.

I am sure there is a lot more to find here, but I will share this book cover and say that during the so-called Gilded Age, the Vanderbilts, Roosevelts, Whitneys, Morgans, and Woolworths were said to have built country estates on the North Shore of Long Island, and summer mansions on the South Shore.

Next, a look at lighthouses in the Lower New York Bay.

The Great Beds Lighthouse is just offshore from the northwestern New Jersey coast, located at the Great Beds Shoal near the mouth of the Raritan River.

It was said to have been built in 1880, and manned until 1945.

The Old Orchard Lighthouse is said to have been built in 1883, and is three-miles south of the center of Staten Island.

This is the West Bank Lighthouse, which serves as the front-range light for the Ambrose Channel, which is used in navigation to indicate safe passage, or position fixing. It was said to have been built in 1901.

The Staten Island Lighthouse is on Richmond Hill is the rear-range light for the Ambrose Channel, a 90-ft-high, or 27-meter, tower said to have been built in 1912, and is 141-feet, or 43-meters, above sea-level.

The Romer Shoal Lighthouse is situated between the ship channels of Ambrose, Swash, and Sandy Hook, and is approximately 3-miles, or 5- kilometers, north of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse. It was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. It was said to have been built in 1838.

Fort Hancock, and the Sandy Hook Lighthouse, are located at the northern end of Sandy Hook at the entrance of the Atlantic Ocean.

The lighthouse on Sandy Hook at Fort Hancock is said to be the oldest working lighthouse in the United States, and we are told it was built in 1764.

The construction of Fort Hancock was said to have started in 1857 and ended in 1867, without completing the building of the fort under the supervision of then-Captain Robert E. Lee of the Corps of Engineers, and was designed as a five-bastion irregular pentagon, built primarily of granite.

Not only was the fort said not to have been completed, it was also said to have had most of its surviving parts taken down by the U. S. Army after World War II.

The batteries of the now designated Fort Hancock were said to have been constructed starting in 1890 as part of the Sandy Hook Proving Ground for the testing of coastal defensive weapons, like Battery Potter.

Battery Potter is described as the prototype for a steam-hydraulic, gun-lift carriages, otherwise known as “disappearing guns.”

Fort Hancock is said to have become inactive in 1974, and is now part of the National Parks of New York Harbor, and the Gateway Recreation Area, under the National Park System.

Just north of Sandy Hook is the Ambrose Channel, the main shipping channel in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey.

On the other side of the Ambrose Channel from Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook is Fort Tilden on the Rockaway Peninsula in New York, a now abandoned Army installation that was said to have been built in 1917, and in use until 1995. It is now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, and administered by the National Park Service, like Fort Hancock.

The Navesink Twin Lights are on the headlands of the Navesink Highlands, overlooking Sandy Hook Bay.

Navesink was also the name of the Lenni Lenape people who inhabited the Raritan Bayshore near Sandy Hook, and Mount Mitchill in the scenic highlands in eastern New Jersey.

We are told, however, that the Twin LIghts were built in 1862.

The American Civil War is said to have taken place between 1861 to 1865, so we are expected to believe this solid masonry structure apparently with a lunar alignment was built during war-time.

This is one of the places on the Earth where it is exceedingly clear that something is really wrong with the narrative, with many great examples of the flimsy cover stories we are told about how infrastructure came into, and in so many cases, left existence.

Early wars in North America where massive masonry forts like the Crown Point State Historic Site in northern New York, said to have been built quickly during the French and Indian War time-frame in the mid-1700s, and then either destroyed or abandoned during or after those wars…

…Trolley Amusement Parks that were terminals of trolley car lines that went up in flames or are otherwise long-gone, like Luna Park at Coney Island…

…and lighthouses that were said to have been built in the 19th- and 20th-century for the sole purpose of navigational aid and then by-and-large deactivated and turned into local attractions.

There were many lighthouses here historically that are no longer physically present.

Between the entrance to the lower New York Bay at the Atlantic Ocean to the locations around the George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River, I have specifically looked at eleven star forts that are in pairs and/or clusters; five major historic trolley amusement parks; and eleven lighthouses.

First, star forts, which quite frequently have the word “battery” associated with them, like the “Battery Pottery” at Fort Hancock that I just talked about.

What are the meanings of “battery?”

One is “a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series.”

Another is “the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target.”

Or ” An assault in which the assailant makes physical contact.”

I think the answer to the mystery of star forts, found in pairs and clusters here in New York and all over the Earth, lies in the first answer – that somehow these star forts functioned as batteries or circuitry for the purpose of producing energy for the earth’s grid system, but they were re-purposed to the second definition in another time-line to have a military function.

Does the third definition of battery apply here?

I think that it does, in the sense that a major assault has been committed against Humanity by all that has taken place here without our knowledge and consent, and removing all of this critical information from our awareness about the True History of Humanity, and so, so much more.

Next, Trolley Amusement Parks.

The word terminal is associated with rail-lines, defined as “The end of a railroad or other transport route, or a station at such a point” and “A point of connection for closing an electric circuit.”

Trolley amusement parks were typically located at the end of streetcar lines, like what we saw back at the famed Palisades Park near Fort Lee in New Jersey.

Was there some kind of enhanced energy-generation going on with trolleys and amusement parks on the earth’s free-energy-generating system?

It sure looks to me like the Electric Amusement Parks found at the terminals, or ends, of trolley lines were a really fun and beautiful way the designers of the original advanced civilization contributed to powering the earth’s free-energy producing grid system.

This thought leads me to the last subject I have studied in-depth in this post – lighthouses.

While I do believe that lighthouses likely served to guide ships through maritime passages, I also think they were serving multiple purposes on the earth’s grid system,.

Perhaps “lighthouses” were literally “as “a house for light” for the purposes of precisely distributing the energy generated by this gigantic integrated system that existed all over the Earth that was in perfect alignment with everything on Earth and in heaven.

The parasitic and multi-dimensionally aware beings behind the wholesale destruction of Earth’s True History and Humanity’s Legacy want us to believe that suffering, sickness, misery, destruction, death was and is our normal state of being, and not question what we have been taught about who we are.

They are the only ones who benefit because they energetically feed on Humanity’s negative emotional states.

What was Team Dark to do?

They were jealous of Humanity…greedy…and hungry for power.

They wanted to rule over it all, take the wealth for themselves, and control the destiny of Humanity for their own benefit.

But the problem is in a Free Will Zone like Earth, the Human Beings who live here have to give their consent to choose whether the follow the Light or the Dark.

The only way they can accomplish this acceptance, however, is by outright lies, deception and duplicity because if people knew the true agenda of these controllers, the majority of Humanity would never, ever accept this.

I believe that these beings with a negative agenda devised a complicated plan to knock Humanity off the original positive timeline of Higher Consciousness…

…in an interdimensional war in order to control Humanity, using Humans as their pawns against the Creator and Creation.

I, for one, do not believe they are going to get away with what they have done, and that we are in the midst of the Great Awakening that Team Dark has done everything imaginable, and unimaginable, to prevent.

Interesting Comments and Suggestions I have Received from Viewers – Volume 2 Old World Electri-City Circuits & Springs

In this new multi-volume series that is a compilation of work I have previously done, I am highlighting places, concepts, and historical events that people have suggested to me in comments and emails.

The original series this video was based on, compiled from viewers’ suggestions, was what led me down the trail of discovering “Old World Electri-City Circuits & Springs,” as you shall see.

JC relayed to me that there are many hidden secrets in the Shepherd’s Bush District and its wards of White City and Wormholt in West London.

Shepherd’s Bush is a District of West London in the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

One of the explanations for the District’s name is that it was said to have been named Shepherd’s Bush because it was originally a pasture for shepherds as they made their way with their sheep…

…to the Smithfield Market in the City of London, the current building for which was said to have been designed by Victorian architect Sir Horace Jones and built in the second-half of the 19th-century.

Both the Shepherd’s Bush District and its White City Ward are located on the Central Line of the London Underground System, and along with the Metropolitan Line, one of only two lines to cross the Greater London boundary.

The Central Line first opened in 1900 as the third deep-level Tube line to be built after electric trains were said to have made them possible.

It is interesting to note that the Shepherd’s Bush Train Station was only in use for 42-years, by the London and South Western Railway, between January of 1874 and May of 1916, at which time it was closed, along with other nearby train stations, never to be used again.

The Shepherd’s Bush Green is an approximately 8-acre, or 3.2-hectare, triangular space of open grass that is surrounded by busy roads on all three sides.

Four main roads radiate from the western side of the green, and three approach from the eastern side, meeting at the Holland Park Roundabout.

The Thames Water Tower is located in the Holland Park Roundabout.

The Thames Water Tower was said to have been designed and built in 1994 on top of an underground shaft that brings drinking water up from the London Ring Main, an extensive underground tunnel of flowing water 30 meters, or 98-feet, underground.

The steel core of the glass-covered tower functions as one of the world’s largest barometers, said to forecast the weather by responding to changes in air pressure, characterized by filling-up with colored water, and turning the tower blue.

Neighboring Shepherd’s Bush, Holland Park is an affluent section of Kensington, known for its Royal Crescent, said to have been designed in 1839 by Robert Cantwell, and considered one of the most architecturally interesting 19th-century developments in Holland Park.

The Shepherd’s Park Green is an important node of the Bus Line, with eighteen bus routes arriving here, as well as being near five underground stations.

In addition to the two mentioned previously at Shepherd’s Bush and White City, the following underground stations are nearby:

The Shepherd’s Bush Market…

…the Goldhawk Road Tube Station…

…and the new Wood Lane Station on the Circle and Hammersmith & City Lines, that opened in 2008.

The original Wood Lane Station on the London Underground’s Central Line was said to have been built to serve the Franco-British Exhibition and the Olympic Games in London, which took place in 1908.

The Wood Lane Tube Station was said to have been closed when the White City Tube Station was opened a short distance north on the Central Line, and while the Wood Lane platforms were abandoned, the depot here became known as the White City Depot, one of three traction maintenance depots on the Central Line.

The depot at this location became operational in 1900.

Until 1928, it had the main power station for the Central London Railway (CLR) to generate electricity for the railway’s trains…

…after which time the Lots Road Power Station supplied the London Underground’s electricity until it was decommissioned in 2002.

Uxbridge Road is on the north side of the Shepherd’s Bush Green, a major road through West London that also provides transportation connections for buses and the London Underground.

The Shepherd’s Bush Green is bounded to the East by the West London Overland Line…

…and at one time bounded to the west by the rail-line which serviced the Shepherd’s Bush Station.

It is important to note that during the Second World War, Shepherd’s Bush and its environs were targeted heavily by German V-1 flying bomb attacks, which would strike with little notice.

Now I am going to take a look at the Franco-British Exhibition and the Olympic Games in London, both of which took place in 1908 in this complex in the White City Ward of Shepherd’s Bush.

What we are told is that the area now called White City was farmland until it was used as the building site of the Franco-British Exhibition, so-named as a celebration of the 1904 Entente Cordial between the two countries, said to mark the end of hundreds of years of intermittent conflict between the two states and their predecessors…among other things, and one of six Exhibitions held there between 1908 and 1914.

The 1908 Olympic Summer Games were held in London alongside the Franco-British Exhibition, as they were not able to be held in Rome as originally scheduled because of a violent eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 1906 that put the brakes on that plan.

First on the Exhibitions.

We are told the chief architect of the White City Buildings for the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition…

…was John Belcher, President of the Royal Institute of Architects from 1904 – 1906.

In addition to the twenty palaces and eight exhibition halls that were said to have been built expressly for the 1908 Exhibition, there were a number of amusement attractions featured, including:

The Flip-Flap in the Elite Gardens…

…the Mountain Scenic Railway…

…and the Canadian Toboggan.

The White City was also the location of five more Exhibitions:

The Imperial International Exhibition in 1909, called an opportunity to reflect upon the achievements of the three members of the 1907 Triple Entente, an accord between Russia, France, and Great Britain…

The Japan-British Exhibition was held in 1910 to celebrate and reinforce the Anglo-Japanese Alliance signed between the two countries in 1902, and driven by the Empire of Japan’s desire to develop a more favorable image to Britain and Europe.

The Coronation Exhibition was held in the White City starting in May of 1911, to showcase highlights of the British Empire and to celebrate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in Westminster Cathedral in June of 2011.

The Latin-British Exhibition in 1912 focused on the Latin countries in Europe of France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal, and South America.

In 1914, the White City of London held its last Exhibition, the Anglo-American Exposition.

Following the 1914 Anglo-American Exposition, the White City site fell into disuse and disrepair.

In 1937, a large portion of the White City was cleared to make way for a housing estate

The White City Stadium was the main venue for the 1908 Summer Olympics held concurrently with the Franco-British Exhibition on the White City grounds..

This stadium with a seating capacity for 68,000 was said to have been designed by engineer J. J. Webster, and built in 10-months by the George Wimpey construction firm starting in 1907, on part of the site of the Franco-British Exhibition.

The 1908 London Olympic Games were opened by King Edward VII at the White City stadium on April 27th.

One of the notable outcomes of these particular Olympic Games was that the distance for the marathon was fixed for future games and sporting events, and calculated by the distance from Windsor Castle to a point in front of the royal box.

After the 1908 Olympic Games, only the running track at the White Stadium was used until 1914, and there were attempts to sell it.

Other than that, the White Stadium track was used by some athletes in training for the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.

Then the Greyhound Racing Association took-over the White City Stadium in 1926.

The stadium became the host to the English Greyhound Derby between 1927 until the time of its closure in 1984.

Today, the BBC White City occupies the site of the White City Stadium, which was demolished in 1985.

The former White City Exhibition Site now hosts the Westfield Shopping Center, one of the largest in London.

We are told this 1841 map shows a largely rural and undeveloped Shepherd’s Bush, with a lot of open farmland compared to fast-developing Hammersmith.

When I look at the configuration of the blueprint for the lay-out of the Franco-British Exhibition and the White City Stadium, R2D2, the beeping ‘droid from Star Wars comes to mind as a similar match.

This is a detail of a map from 1912 called “Bacon’s Up-to-Date Map of London” showing the White City configuration, along with London Underground lines marked in red, and Tram lines marked in yellow.

To me, the whole White City configuration reminds me of sophisticated circuitry that appears to plug into the Central London Depot, which I mentioned previously, was the main power station for the Central London Railway (CLR) until 1928.

Now, there is a place I want to revisit in Tampa, Florida, which I researched last summer, that reminds me in very many ways of Shepherd’s Bush.

There is a similar relationship in the location of both of these places being close to a major international airport, with Shepherd’s Bush being 10-miles, or 16-kilometers in a straight-line, from London’s Heathrow Airport on the left; and on the right, the Sulphur Springs neighborhood of Tampa in a straight-line is 6-miles, or 10-kilometers, from Tampa International Airport.

Both places are located in a similar relationship to snaky, s-shaped rivers bends that have the same curvature…

…where the similarity would be even more pronounced had the water of the Hillsborough River not been dammed up and subject to water resource management.

Sulphur Springs is located six-miles north of downtown Tampa.

Its southern boundary is the Hillsborough River; the northern boundary is Busch Boulevard; Florida Avenue, Nebraska Avenue, and the CSX Railroad line forms boundaries on the west and the east.

Going from left to right on this map of Google Earth, there is a water tower here…

…like finding one in the Holland Park Roundabout right next to the Shepherd’s Bush Green…

…the construction of which was said to have been finished in 1927, to include a full automatic elevator for some reason, commissioned by local developer Josiah Richardson for the purpose of ensuring an adequate water pressure to supply the building which housed his Sulphur Springs Hotel & Apartments, and the first shopping mall in Florida, Mave’s Arcade.

Also, like the White City Stadium in Shepherd’s Bush, there was a stadium and track here that became a popular Greyhound Racing Track, that is still there but has long been abandoned.

After I started talking about the racing tracks, and proximity to international airports and rivers, in London and Tampa a viewer brought to my attention that the Montreal Hippodrome is located next to rails; is 15-minutes to the Montreal Pierre Trudeau International Airport; and the St. Lawrence River is just south of it.

The Montreal Hippodrome was located 8-miles, or 13-kilometers from Montreal-Pierre Trudeau-International Airport, or a driving distance of 11-miles, or 18-kilometers, from there.

The location of the historical Montreal Hippodrome appears to be situated at a similar angle to major international airports as seen in Shepherd’s Bush in West London and Sulphur Springs in Tampa shown and dicussed in the first part of this series, where both places had had elliptical-shaped race-tracks in their vicinities.

Also known as the Blue Bonnets Raceway, a thoroughbred horseracing track and casino, the Montreal Hippodrome was permanently closed in October of 2009 after 137 years of operation, and the abandoned site was demolished starting 2018.

The Hippodrome was located right next to the Canadian Pacific St. Luc Railyards, and its interesting to note this array of elliptical shapes on the race track grounds between the main ellipse and the railyards.

It is also interesting to note that the roundhouse at the St. Luc Railyards was said to have been completed in 1950…

…and by 2003, it was reduced to 4 or 5 stalls.

Why was a beautiful structure like this deconstructed after only a half-century of use?

The appearance of the historical St. Luc Roundhouse reminded me of depictions I have seen of the ancient harbor of Carthage in Tunisia, called a cothon, meaning an artificial, protected harbor.

This is a 2017 photo of the former grand 37-stall roundhouse , considered a shining example of the Canadian Pacific Railway when it was built.

Studies and planning have been done to re-develop the hippodrome site into social housing units.

The hippodrome was located in the western part of Montreal’s Cote-des-Neiges neighborhood, which is the geographic center of the Island of Montreal, said to have been founded in 1862…

…and is also the location of the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery…

…as well as the nearby Saint Joseph’s Oratory, the construction of which was said to have started in 1914, and completed in 1967.

Saint Joseph’s Oratory is: the highest building in Montreal; a National Shrine; a Roman Catholic minor basilica; the largest church in Canada; and has one of largest domes in the world.

A viewer in Montreal sent me this image of a massive dome, saying it was “interesting,” and I totally agree with him – very interesting!

Like Shepherd’s Bush in West London, the Cotes-des-Neiges neighborhood on Montreal is an underground transportation hub, with five Orange Line metro stops, and four on the Blue Line.

Another place I would like to bring your attention to before I move on is in Philadelphia.

I decided to take a peek at Philadelphia, another place I have studied on a map previously, and I knew the Philadelphia International Airport was in the southwestern part of the city.

So I looked at it on a map, and proceeded to look for an elliptical shape nearby to see if I could find one.

I came across this track on Google Earth, which I was able to identify by looking-up tracks in South Philadelphia.

The South Philadelphia Super Site is located 4-miles, or 7-kilometers in a straight-line, from the Philadelphia International Airport, and is a driving distance of 6-miles, or 10-kilometers.

Here is a comparison of the appearance of all four of these locations I have looked at with an elliptical race-track and relatively short-distance to a major international airport.

The South Philadelphia Sports Complex is adjacent to the Super Site…

…and which consists of Citizens Bank Park, the home of baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies; the Lincoln Financial Field, the home of football’s Philadelphia Eagles; and the Wells Fargo Center, the home of basketball’s Philadelphia 76’ers and hockey’s Philadelphia Flyers, and the sport of lacrosse’s Philadelphia Wings.

The South Philadelphia Super Site track and the three professional sports venues are both located very close to the CSX railyards…

…below which I noticed there was an abandoned elliptical shape surrounded by trees.

When I looked on a map, the railroad and sports complexes in South Philadelphia are adjacent to the Philadelphia Naval Yard, the location of the Philadelphia Experiment back in World War II.

A couple of thoughts before I move on from here.

First, I have wondered about a connection between athletic fields to the Earth’s grid system ever since finding ball-fields sandwiched between a star fort in called Fort Negley and the railroad yards in Nashville.

I am definitely beginning to think ellipses, ellipses, and the other varied shapes of sporting venues, served a function similar to star forts as circuitry on the Earth’s electro-magnetic grid system.

A viewer sent me this graphic awhile back saying:

“If you haven’t yet researched the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, I think it’s worth a glance.

Balloon racing and monorail aeroplanes being used there before they were racing cars.

Check this out: Vatican City, the Wimbledon Campus, the Roman Colosseum, the Rose Bowl, Yankee Stadium, and the Kentucky Derby all fit inside the automobile racing CIRCUIT.”

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the largest sports’ venue in the world, and said to have been constructed in 1909.

It was the second-purpose built, banked oval racing circuit after Brooklands in Surrey, England, which opened in 1907 and closed in 1939.

It certainly looks like the Controllers’ utilized the existing performance-enhancing features of the physical infrastructure of the Earth’s grid system for the sporting venues of the new historical timeline.

Someone mentioned the Battersea Power Station on the south bank of the River Thames in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

The one building comprises two power stations, with Power Station A said to have been constructed between 1929 and 1935, and Power Station B between 1937 and 1941.

One of the largest brick buildings in the world, and known for its Art Deco.

Then, after all that work to design and construct it, both power stations of the Battersea Power Station were decommissioned by 1983…only 42-years later?

After 30-years of abandonment, interest in the redevelopment of the site picked up, and it is currently being turned into luxury apartments, office space, and commercial business space.

Someone mentioned the Efteling Amusement Park, located in the North Brabant Province of the Netherlands, with largest nearby city being called Hertogenbosch, also known as Den Bosch.

Sounds like Shepherd’s Bush, and Busch Boulevard, as noted London and Tampa earlier in this video.

The Efteling Theme Park was opened in 1952 on the grounds of what was a former sports and recreational park under the guidance of the three visionary men who developed the park.

Amusements at the park include the King’s Castle of the Symbolica ride, a trackless dark family ride…

…with a grand ballroom at the end of the ride…

…the Villa Volta…

…an unusual type of ride in which the visitors get the illusion while inside that either the building, or the visitors, or both, are turned-upside down.

…and the Fata Morgana, also known as the Forbidden City and the 1001 Arabian Nights, an attraction that opened in 1986.

I have to wonder if the infrastructure for the park was already there….

Another place with a theme park that someone brought to my attention was in Chippewa Lake, a town in Ohio at the end of a trolley-line that came from Cleveland.

It operated for 100-years, from 1878 to 1978, after which time it was abandoned, with many of the original rides left to deteriorate in situ.

The Chippewa Lake Park Dance Hall burned-down in June of 2002.

A viewer from Belgium commented about the Antwerp Zoo, one of the oldest in the world as it was established on July 21st of 1842…

…and is located right next to the Antwerpen-Centraal Railway Station, which first opened in 1905.

The following are some of the architectural features of the Antwerp Zoo:

The Egyptian Temple, said to date from 1856, which houses the giraffes…

…the Moor Temple, said to date from 1885, which houses okapis, known as forest giraffes and the world’s first zoo with okapis starting in 1918…

…the Reptile Building, said to date from 1901…

…and the Winter Garden, a tropical garden dated to 1897.

The Belgian viewer also mentioned the Albert Canal, connecting Antwerp and Liege, which was said to have been built first by a German engineering company between 1930 and 1934, and then completed by Belgian companies by 1939…

…just in time for the German forces to cross the Albert Canal on May 11th of 1940, the destruction of Fort Eben-Emael, and the beginning of the German Occupation of Belgium.

Fort Eben-Emael was a star fort that was called part of the National Redoubt of Belgium, said to be a network of fortifcations that functioned as the infrastructural cornerstone of the Belgian defensive network and built between 1890 and 1914.

Along with Fort Eben-Emael, near the border with the Netherlands, the National Redoubt included:

The Fortified position of Liege, at the other end of the Albert Canal from Antwerp.

The Belgian government was said to have upgraded and extended the already existing infrastructure of the Fortified Position of Liege after World War I to block Germany’s invasion corridor through Belgium to France.

This was done after World War I because the Belgians were able to hold up the German forces invading France for a week at Liege, which in-turn affected the German timetable for invading France.

Interestingly, the Belgian King Leopold III declared Belgium’s neutrality in 1936 to try to prevent another conflict, which was said to prevent France from making active use for its defense of the Belgian defenses and territory, and as seen with Fort Eben-Emael, the Belgian fortifications did not hold the Germans, who occupied Belgium and France for at least four years during World War II.

Liege is one of the most important railway hubs in Belgium, with its first station opening in 1842…

…and in 1843, becoming the location of the first international railway connection linking Liege to Aachen and Cologne in Germany.

There was even a World’s Fair held in Liege in 1905.

This is the Liege-Guillemins Railway Station, which opened in 2009, one of four Belgian stations on the high-speed rail network.

The Fortified Position of Namur of the Belgian National Redoubt was said to have been established for the same reason as the Fortified Position of Liege – to fortify the traditional invasion corridor of Germany through Belgium to France.

The old forts here were said to have been built between 1888 and 1892.

The Siege of Namur took place in World War I, between August 20th and August 25th of 1914, when the German Army bombarded and destroyed the forts with heavy artillery.

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I think quite likely star forts were targeted for destruction in both World Wars, and other wars as well, and not because they were military fortifications.

During the Siege, the German Army captured the Namur Citadel…

…and Namur was occupied by the German Army for the rest of World War I.

Namur is situated at the confluence of the Meuse and Sambre Rivers, which reminded me in appearance of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania at the Forks of the Ohio, where the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers meet.

I am really quite sure that what we are told are natural river systems are in fact man-made canal systems.

The most important part of the Belgian National Redoubt, we are told, was the double-ring of defensive fortifications around the port city of Antwerp.

During World War I, the Germans also laid siege to Antwerp, against Belgian, French, and British forces.

The Germans were again victorious after bombarding the so-called Belgian fortifications with heavy and super-heavy artillery.

During World War II, on September 4th of 1944, the British Armored 11th-Division captured the port city of Antwerp intact except for the bridges across the Albert Canal.

Apparently, the retreating Germans blew up these bridges on their way out of town.

Then on October 12th of 1944, Hitler and the German High Command exclusively focused their V-weapon missile attacks on the cities of Antwerp and London, and for a period of 175-days-and-nights, German missile-launching crews fired more than 4,000 V-1s and more than 1,000 V-2s at Greater Antwerp, and Antwerp had become known as the “City of Sudden Death.

The Antwerp Underground is known as the “Ruien” and here there are vaulted ceilings, narrow canals, bridges, sewers and sluices.

Other places on my list of places suggested by commenters include:

Silloth Harbour and Beach in Cumbria, a northwest County in England near the country’s border with Scotland.

Silloth Beach is located on England’s Solway Coast, which is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Cumbria.

Silloth Harbor and Beach was said to have been inspired by Carlisle business men in the 1850s as a deepwater port, seaside resort and railway hub.

Carlisle, the administrative center of Cumbria, at one time had seven railway companies operating out of the Carlisle Railway Station, which was said to have first opened in 1847.

Silloth Port, one of the busiest ports in Cumbria, is clearly man-made, with old-looking walls, with its main cargoes being wheat, molasses, fertilizer, and general cargo.

Carrs Flour Mill is located right next to the port, called a Victorian-era mill that was said to have been built in 1887, and still provides flour to leading food manufacturers.

Silloth was called a planned community, and we are told that the railway company even had grey granite shipped here in its own vessels from northern Ireland for the Christ Church, a prominent landmark in Silloth, occupying a complete rectangle of the planned town, and its construction completed, we are told, in 1870.

The Silloth Green is considered to be one of the largest and longest greens in England, going back to the 1860s…

…and is fronted by the Silloth Promenade along the shoreline heading up the Solway Coast towards Skinburness.

Skinburness is considered a residential area for Silloth…

…and its most prominent building, the Skinburness Hotel, said to have opened in the 1880s and demolished in 2017, after having been abandoned for about ten years.

Another commenter pointed out the similarity between the architecture of Shipstone’s Brewery in Nottingham, England, founded in 1852, on the left, and the Anheuser-Busch Brewery in St. Louis, Missouri, on the right, first established as the Bavarian Brewery in 1852.

Both Shipstone’s Brewery and Anheuser-Busch Brewery are famous for their Clydesdales, a Scottish breed of draughthorse.

Someone else drew my attention to a place called Yednize in Dresden, Germany.

Come to find out Yenidze was formerly a tobacco and cigarette factory, which was said to have been built between 1907 and 1909, and designed by architect Marvin Hammitzsch in Moorish Revival style.

Often confused for a mosque by tourists, we are told that no, it’s not a mosque, it was just the clever way that the architect designed the mosque as an art-deco, mosque-inspired structure, because according to Dresden law at the time, we are told, it was prohibited to build factory buildings that might spoil the city’s baroque sky-line.

Jewish entrepreneur Hugo Zietz started the tobacco company which imported tobacco from Ottoman Yenidze in Thrace, which is now Genisea, Greece.

The bombing of Dresden took place between February 13th and 15th of 1945, more than 1,200 bombers of the British and American Air Forces dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the capital of the German State of Saxony.

These attacks destroyed more than 1,600-acres, or 6.5-kilometers-squared, of the city-center, and as many as 25,000 people were believed to have been killed.

Several commenters pointed me in the direction of Toronto, and there are several places I am going to take a look at here.

First, the Woodbine Racetrack is a short-distance northeast of the Toronto Pearson International Airport, in a straight-line distance of 3-miles, or 4.5-kilometers.

The Woodbine Racetrack has been a Thoroughbred horse-racing venue and there is a casino at this location.

The Downsview Airport further east of the Toronto Pearson International Airport has a number of tracks close by.

And the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport on Toronto Island has a track located northeast of it in a line that crosses through the real estate containing the CN Tower, Rogers Center, and Roundhouse Park and downtown Toronto.

The CN, or Canadian National, Tower is 1,815-feet, or 553-meters, high, a communications and observation tower located on what is known as Railway Lands, a large railway switching yard on the Toronto Waterfront, and said to have been completed in 1976.

Roundhouse Park next to the CN Tower was the location of the John Street Roundhouse, said to have been built in 1929 to maintain Canadian Pacific Railway trains during the Golden Age of Railways, where maintenance teams worked on as many as 32 trains at a time.

The Roundhouse is the last such building in Toronto, and survived the demolition of other railway facilities nearby that took place to make room for the new stadium, the Rogers Center, which opened in June of 1989.

The Rogers Center is the home of Major League Baseball’s Toronto Blue Jays, as well as a large-event venue.

Fort York is located Just a short distance west of this busy spot on Toronto’s water-front, and a short-distance north of the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.

What we see at Fort York was said to have been built between 1813 and 1815 to house soldiers of the British Army and Canadian Militia and to defend the entrance of Toronto Harbor…

…and made of stone-lined earthwork walls, and eight buildings within the walls.

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The Prince’s Gate is in the vicinity of Fort York, and was said to have been constructed out of cement and stone between April and August of 1927.

It is a triumphal arch and monumental gateway at Exhibition Place.

…and serves as the eastern gateway of the Canadian National Exhibition, an annual agricultural and provincial fair.

Now I am going to head in the direction of a Toronto neighborhood known as The Beach, or The Beaches.

It is considered part of the old city of Toronto.

There were historically several amusement parks here, the only pictorially documented one being the Scarboro Beach Park, in operation from 1907 until 1925, when apparently the owner of the park, the Toronto Railway Company, locked the gates to the property.

Eventually the Scarboro Beach Park property was sold to a company which removed the rides and buildings, and replaced the land with housing.

The Victoria Park Amusement Park, said to have been in operation from 1878 to 1906, would have been right about where the “x” is, at the intersection of Queen Street and Victoria Park Avenue.

A special thanks to LH from Toronto for sending me not only this map to share with me where the location of the Victoria Park would have been, but she also went exploring and sent me quite a few pictures of the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant Complex to follow.

Based on the photos she sent, and past research on star forts, I am going to postulate that the original purpose of the complex was a star fort.

Here’s why I think that.

First, star forts had many different shapes.

Most have pointed bastions, but some have round bastions, or a different shape altogether, and where I find one, there is at least one more in the vicinity to be found.

Here is the example in Puebla, Mexico, of Fort Guadalupe with pointed bastions, and Fort Loreto with round bastions.

Here is the geographic relationship of the locations of Fort York and the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant.

This is a photo of one of the round bastions at the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant, and cut-and-shaped stone blocks with straight edges in the foreground.

We are not given any other explanation in our historical narrative, so we typically don’t ask questions about how they got this way.

Like the buildings of Fort York, the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant is built on top of earthworks…

…and the brick-masonry here is massive, sophisticated and intricate.

It is definitely quite impressive on the inside as well!

This megalithic stone wall runs parallel to Queen Street at the front-boundary of the complex…

…with the Neville Street Loop for the Queen Street streetcar line the eastern terminus of Toronto’s longest streetcar route, just off the northwest corner of the RC Harris complex.

Here is what we are told about the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant.

Its construction started in 1932, and the building became operational on November 1st of 1941 (during World War II, and a little over a month before the bombing of Pearl Harbor).

It was named after the long-time Commissioner of Toronto’s Public Works, RC Harris, overseer of the construction project.

Another commenter directed my attention to the former horse-racing track next to Los Angeles International Airport, where there used to be a thoroughbred racehorse track.

It was located at Hollywood Park…

…but the racetrack was destroyed and replaced with the new SoFi stadium for the LA Rams and LA Chargers, that first opened in September of 2020.

It is 3-miles, or 4.5-kilometers from the Los Angeles International Airport, and just southeast of The Forum, a multi-purpose indoor arena that has been the home of the Major League Basketball and Hockey teams of LA.

Said to have been built in 1966, The Forum has no major support pillars on the inside.

Another person suggested I take a look at Baltimore.

Starting with the airport, I found school tracks at a similar angular relationship to Baltimore-Washington International Airport that I have found in other cities.

Also, like what I have found in other major cities, the Baltimore professional sports complexes are relatively close to the airport, in South 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.

The next three places are located in downtown Baltimore, suggested by the viewer, that are located close to Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Baltimore’s famous landmark, the Bromo Seltzer tower, was said to have been designed by local architect Joseph Evans Sperry, and erected between 1907 and 1911…

…for Bromo-Seltzer inventor Isaac Edward Emerson.

The Bromo-Seltzer Tower is also popular for photo shoots.

Interestingly, Baltimore had a Hippodrome Theater near the Bromo-Seltzer Tower, which was said to have been built in 1914, and was the foremost vaudeville house in Baltimore as well as a movie theater.

It was renovated in 2004, and is now part of the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center.

The Basilica of the Assumption is a number of blocks northeast of the Hippodrome in downtown Baltimore, and said to be the first Roman Catholic Cathedral, built in the United States between 1806 and 1821.

The architect of the Baltimore Basilica was said to be Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the “Father of American Architecture,” and best-known for having been given the credit for designing the U. S. Capitol Building.

Another commenter mentioned the Sydney International Airport and the Royal Randwick racecourse.

The Royal Randwick Racecourse is a horse-racing track on Crown Land, a territorial area belonging to the British monarch, that is leased to the Australian Turf Club.

The first race at Randwick was held in 1833, and in the present-day is the host of racing championships with millions of dollars in prize-money.

Here is a comparison ofthe relationship between some of the International Airports and racing tracks that I have looked at in this series.

And all the major sporting venues clustered together near railyards like these examples, As well as the nearby presence of historical trolleys, trolley parks, amusement parks and star forts in diverse places.

What are the odds of these similar relationship happening randomly is in diverse places across the world over long periods of time?

Well…there’s plenty more examples to show you as brought to my attention by comments on my videos!

I am going to continue showing you these examples of these relationships with this comment that a viewer in Denmark left me:

“Same thing here in Copenhagen, there is a racetrack in Kastrup, just around the same area as Copenhagen Airport!”

This is what I found on Google Earth the first time when I located Kastrup International Airport and some of the race tracks in Copenhagen.

Then the second time, I found an additional race track and star fort, as well as an amusement park, that I didn’t see the first time I looked next to the Klampenborg Racecourse.

For the purposes of this post, I am going to focus on the quadrant northeast of the airport because it has a number of noteworthy features.

I am going to start with the Klampenborg Racecourse and Bakken Amusement Park and work my way down towards the Kastrup International Airport.

The Klampenborg Racecourse is a flat horse-racing track that first opened in 1910 in this affluent Klampenborg suburb of Copenhagen.

Major races held at the Klampenborg Racecourse include the Scandinavian Open Championship, in which 3-year-old and over thoroughbred horse racing takes place annually in August.

The Bakken Amusement Park is adjacent to the Klampenborg Racecourse…

Opening 438 years ago, in the year of 1583, it is the world’s oldest operating amusement park, and the admission is free.

Its origins are related in this way: in 1583, Kristen Pill found a natural spring in a large forest park here. Residents of Copenhagen to the south of it were attracted to the spring because of the poor water quality in Copenhagen, and the belief that it had curative powers. The spring drew large crowds in the warmer months, and the large crowds attracted the entertainers and hawkers which was said to be the origin of the amusement park today.

We are told Bakken continued to grow even throughout the Napoleonic Wars, and became even more popular as time went on, with easy accessibility via steamships, starting in 1820, and railroads starting in 1864.

Today the park is filled with rides and amenities, including 5 roller coasters.

The park’s most famous roller coaster is the “Rutschebanen,” a wooden roller coaster that has been open since 1932.

Now I am going to take a look at The Charlottenlund Racetrack and the Charlottenlund Fort, a short-distance to the southeast of Klampenborg.

It is interesting to note that the Klampenborg Racecourse at the top-left of this Google Earth screenshot, the Charlottenlund Racetrack in the lower right-middle, and the Charlottenlund Fort on the lower right all have a similar pear-, or egg-elliptical shape.

The Charlottenlund Racetrack, also known as Lunden, is a horse harness-harness racetrack that first opened in 1891.

The two major annual events held here are the Danish Trotting Derby…

…and the Copenhagen Cup, an international Group One harness racing event that was established in 1928, and known as the International Championship until 1966.

It is held on the second-weekend in June every year.

The Charlottenlund Fort was said to have been built as part of the fortifications around Copenhagen between 1866 and 1868, and that in 1910, it was converted into a fort designed to protect Copenhagen from attacks from the sea.

It is located below Charlottenlund Palace, a former royal summer residence, with construction of it said to have started in 1731 and completed in 1881.

Now a cultural event venue, from 1935 to 2017, the Charlottenlund Palace housed the Danish Biological Station.

The railroad also goes through Charlottenlund.

Next, I am going to look at the star forts of Kastellet and Flakfortet, the city fortifications of Copenhagen, and the Tivoli Gardens Amusement Park.

Kastellet is seen here in the top middle of the Google Earth screenshot, and across the water-channel, close to one end of the line of what are called the Copenhagen city fortifications

Kastellet, which translates to “The Citadel,” is considered to be one of the best fortresses in Northern Europe, and was said to have been founded by King Christian IV in 1626.

Constructed as a pentagon with bastions at its corners, it looks remarkably similar to the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, South Africa, on the top right, and Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, on the bottom right.

Flakfortet, meaning sand-shoal fortress, is located on Saltholmrev, an artificially-built island in the sound between Copenhagen and the Danish island of Saltholm in the body of water that separates Denmark and Sweden.

We are told that Flakfortet, said to have been built between 1910 and 1914, was the last of three artificial islands that the Danes created to defend Copenhagen Harbor.

The oldest fort on an artificial island, Trekroner at the entrance of Copenhagen Harbor, was said to have been constructed starting in 1787 as part of the fortifications of Copenhagen.

The third fort, Middelgrundsfortet, is located on an artificial island, the largest in the world at one time, in the sound between Copenhagen and the city of Malmo in Sweden, and said to have been constructed by the government of King Christian IX of Denmark between 1890 and 1894 to serve as part of Copenhagen’s coastal fortifications to defend the entrance to Copenhagen’s Harbor.

What are called the “Fortifications of Copenhagen” surround the city.

Here is a comparison between the appearance of the Fortifications of Copenhagen on the left and Valletta, the capital city of the island Republic of Malta, on the right.

The Tivoli Gardens Amusement Park in Copenhagen opened in 1843, making it the third-oldest operating amusement park in the world, after Bakken in Klampenborg, and the Wurstelprater in Vienna, Austria, which opened to the public in 1766.

It is located in downtown Copenhagen next to the Central Rail Station…

…and the railyards there.

The Copenhagen Airport at Kastrup is the main international airport serving the region, and the largest airport in the Nordic countries.

One of the oldest international airports in Europe, it was said to have been inaugurated in 1925 and one of the first civil airports in the world.

There is a train station under Terminal 3 of the Oresund Railway line…

…and the airport is also connected by subway Line M2 of the Copenhagen Metro, which links the airport with the city center in about 15 minutes.

Another viewer left the comment “Check out the Toledo speedway, right next to two large freight yards and a former trolley park which is now a giant ditch.”

This is what I found on Google Earth relate to Toledo Airports and race tracks.

The yellow lines connect airports with race tracks.

The red lines form a triangle between race tracks, and the blue lines from a triangle between the two airports and other race tracks.

I located the railyards slightly south of the Toledo Speedway Racetrack, and the best candidate for the former trolley park in the vicinity would be the Willow Beach Amusement Park, where Cullen Park is today.

The Willow Beach Park, which opened in 1929, was a haven for food, games, gambling rides and entertainment at what was known as Point Place at the time, and permanently closed in 1947.

There was an historic trolley amusement park just a short ways up the coast of Lake Erie from Toledo in Ohio, called Toledo Beach.

It was located where the Toledo Beach Marina is today.

The viewer that commented about Toledo also wrote this: “I’ve also wondered what your thoughts might be on the Roche de Boeuf and abandoned Interurban Bridge on the Maumee river. This bridge was part of the lake shore line that went to Cleveland.”

He was referring to the Interurban bridge of Waterville, Ohio,which is an historic, concrete, multi-arch bridge, that was said to have been built in 1908 to connect Lucas and Wood counties across the Maumee river.

We are told that at the time of its construction, and for some time thereafter, it was the world’s largest earth-filled, reinforced concrete bridge, and that the decision was made in its construction to rest one of its supports on the historic indian council rock known as Roche de Boeuf near the center of the Maumee river, but that unfortunately during its construction the rock was partially destroyed.

Interurbans were a type of electric railway with self-propelled rail-cars running between cities or towns in North America and Europe. They were prevalent in North America starting in 1900, and by 1915, interurban railways in the United States were operating along, 15,500-miles, or 24,900-kilometers of track.

It was seen, however, as far more convenient, and cost-efficient to carry cargo by way of truck and other automobiles.

By 1930, most of the interurbans were gone, with a few surviving into the 1950s.

And by 1937, the Interurban bridge has sat unused to this day.

What are my thoughts?

For one, the Maumee River Interurban bridge looks way older than 113-years-old.

And why build a sophisticated, self-propelled electric street-car system, only to use it for 29-years and replace it trucks and cars?

Well, the most obvious answer is that the mass production of gasoline-powered private and public transportation provided another form of transportation for people and provided a highly lucrative means of generating wealth for the big corporations involved in the transportation industry.

Non-polluting and low-fare electric-streetcar-systems were simply no longer needed or wanted.

Another viewer commented about Pittsburgh, saying there is an alignment from the downtown professional football and baseball sports fields, through Pittsburgh International Airport, to the Mountaineer Racetrack & Casino, on the Ohio River across the state line in West Virginia.

What is now the Mountaineer Racetrack and Casino was originally called Waterford Park, and constructed in New Cumberland, West Virginia after delays since 1939, starting in July of 1948, and opening day was finally held on May 19th of 1951.

The thoroughbred horse-race track was purchased by a new owner in 1987, and renamed it Mountaineer Park and has gone through a series of new owners, and today as a gaming resort as well.

In downtown Pittsburgh, Heinz Field, the home of the NFL Steelers, and PNC Park, home of the MLB Pirates, are located right at the Forks of the Ohio, where the Ohio River forks into the Allegheny River flowing towards the North, and the Monongehela River flowing to the South.

These two major league sports’ stadiums are right across the mouth of the Allegheny River from Point State Park, the historic location of two star forts – Fort Pitt and Fort Duquesne right at the Forks of the Ohio.

Another point of interest at this location that was brought to my attention by another commenter was the “Tribute to Children,” a statue of Fred Rogers of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood fame, that was unveiled in November of 2009 in front of an archway in Roberto Clemente Park on the shoreline directly in front of Heinz Field.

From the information she provided on the arch, when I looked at the points on Google Earth, I found an alignment from Heinz Field, through the “Tribute to Children” Arch, to at least Fort Duquesne, and I continued the alignment out across the Monongahela River, through a section of the river that would require a high amount of electricity generation…

…to power Pittsburgh’s two remaining incline railways, out of what was originally seventeen in Pittsburgh, on Mount Washington, named the Duquesne and Monongahela Inclines…

…as well as the Station Square Station, a transit station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County’s Light Rail network, and the last transit station on the south side of the Monongahela River.

Station Square is an indoor and outdoor shopping and entertainment complex on lands formerly occupied by the historic Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Station, and across the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle of downtown Pittsburgh.

Is it me seeing things, or is that a statue of R2D2 at the entrance to Station Square?

Its likeness to R2D2 stands out in my mind, along with the configuration of the blueprint for the lay-out of the Franco-British Exhibition and the White City Stadium that reminded me of R2D2 earlier in this video.

Well, a viewer cleared up the identity for me of what looks like a statue of R2D2.

Patented in 1855, It is actually a “Bessemer Converter,” used in the “Bessemer Process,” the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.

Further up, the Presbyterian Church of Mt. Washington, or Grand View United Presbyterian Church, is located near the alignment with Heinz Field, the “Tribute to Children” Arch and Fort Duquesne.

…and the relatively flat, uniform surface of the top of Mt. Washington.

The St. Mary of the Mount Catholic Church on top of Mt. Washington is situated right next to the edge at the top, overlooking the places we have been looking at below…

…with a mud-flooded appearance signified by the slanted street in front of it, and some beautiful cathedral windows…

…which also resemble in appearance the patterns of some hydrogen wave functions. Could there be a connection somehow between cathedral windows and atomic wave functions?

In a different region of the country, another commenter mentioned that Turfway Park is slightly southeast of the Greater Cincinnati Airport in northern Kentucky, along the south-side of the Ohio River, Kentucky’s shared border with Ohio, and part of the Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan Area.

Turfway Park is an American horse-racing track that conducts live Thoroughbred horse racing in two meets a year – in December and between January to late-March, early-April – as well as offering year-round simulcast wagering from tracks around the country.

It first opened in 1959 as Latonia Race Course, and changed its name to Turfway in 1986.

I noticed Fort Mitchell, Fort Wright, and Fort Thomas located between the Greater Cincinnati Airport on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, and the Lunken Airport northeast of Fort Thomas on the Ohio side of the river.

Fort Mitchell and Fort Wright were said to be two of seven Civil War fortifications built for the Defense of Cincinnati, and the U. S. Army post of Fort Thomas was said to have been built in 1890.

The Defense of Cincinnati was said to have occurred during what was called the Kentucky Campaign of the Civil War from September 1st through September 13th of 1862, when Cincinnati was threatened by Confederate forces, which at that time was the 6th-largest city in the United States.

Then when Confederate Brigadier General Henry Heth arrived with his troops from Lexington, Kentucky, reconnaissance scouts assessed the defenses, and the general determined that a major attack was pointless. After skirmishing a few days with Ohio infantry units near Fort Mitchell, the Confederate troops withdrew back to Lexington.

Fort Mitchell, Fort Wright and the whole south-side of the Ohio River was home to a large share of the 222-miles, or 357-kilometers, of streetcar tracks in the region, with the system tied to the Cincinnati Streetcar system via the Roebling, Central and L & N bridges crossing the Ohio River.

The last day of the original streetcar system in northern Kentucky was July 2nd of 1950, when the system was replaced by buses, with the promise of additional service and modern comforts.

Tower Park in Fort Roberts, which also has an athletic track and field on the grounds, is a short-distance southwest of Lunken Field, also known as the Cincinnati Municipal Airport.

Just around the river-bend, west of Lunken Field, next to the river in downtown Cincinnati, are the city’s professional sports stadiums.

And interestingly, they are situated on the river exactly like they are in Pittsburgh.

The Paul Brown Stadium, home of the NFL Bengals, is on the left riverfront; the Great American Ball Park, home of the MLB Reds on the right riverfront.

There is a park directly in front of the Paul Brown Stadium, known as the Cincinnati Riverfront Park, like the Roberto Clemente Park in front of the Heinz Field Stadium; and a bridge located between both sporting venues.

Is the identical configuration only a coincidence?

What else is similar between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati?

There’s the geographic landmark and residential neighborhood of Mt. Adams, a flat-topped-looking earthwork that at one time had an incline Railway.

The Mount Adams Incline operated from 1872 until 1948. Long since demolished, it was the longest running incline of Cincinnati’s historic five incline railways.

Mt. Adams’ landmarks include the Pilgrim Presbyterian Church, said to have been built in 1886…

…near the Ida Street Viaduct, said to have been constructed in 1931 – which would have been during the Great Depression…

…and the Immaculata church and Holy Cross Monastery, said to have been built in 1895 and 1901 respectively…

…close to the edge of Mt. Adams overlooking the river, like St. Mary of the Mount back in Pittsburgh.

Another viewer commented: “There were two race tracks near where I live. One in Fenimore NY and another in Glens Falls NY. And there’s still one in operation in Saratoga NY that’s decked out with the usual old world ornamentations. Columns/pillars, brick walls, large iron gates, ornate cement facades. As for the lost two tracks, not much is known other than the one in Glens falls became a neighborhood and the shape of the track is still visible because they just paved over it and incorporated it into the modern road work infrastructure. What were these tracks originally… another mystery!”

Since the Glens Falls and Fenimore tracks no longer exist, I will focus on the Saratoga Race Course.

This is a snapshot 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.

The name of Saratoga Springs reflects mineral springs that are in the area, making it a popular resort destination for over 200 years.

High Rock Spring in this location is believed to have medicinal properties.

The British were said to have built Fort Saratoga on the west bank of the Hudson River, somewhere south of Schuylerville, in 1691.

Saratoga Springs was established as a settlement in 1819, and as a village in 1826.

What eventually became known as the Adirondack Branch of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, first arrived here in 1832.

This was the first station used in Saratoga Springs, from 1833 until it burned down in 1870.

Then, this was the main train station in Saratoga Springs, from 1871, until it burned down in 1899.

And this is the Saratoga Springs Railroad Station today.

And were there trolleys in the history of Saratoga Springs?

You bet there were!

Trolley service ended here in 1938.

Today the historic trolley station building serves as the Saratoga Springs Heritage Area Visitors Center.

The last place I am going to look into in this post is Hot Springs in Arkansas.

I had several comments from two viewers to research.

First, CC mentioned the following about Hot Springs.

“The resetters burned the city in the early 1900s.”

So I looked, and found out that a fire started on Church Street in Hot Springs on September 5th of 1913 near the Army and Navy Hospital and Bathhouse Row.

An estimated $10 million in damages from the fire occurred across 60 blocks and destroyed much of the southern part of the city.

CC also said that Hot Springs has a horse racing track, and a casino, which is located near the Memorial Field Airport.

The Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort is a thoroughbred horse-racing track that first opened in February of 1905.

It was ranked 5th in 2017 by the Horseplayers Association of North America, and includes the running of the Arkansas Derby, which has a $1 million purse.

CC indicated there is an amusement park in Hot Springs called Magic Springs, which first opened in 1978, closed due to financial problems in 1995, and re-opened in 2007 as Magic Springs and Crystal Falls Water and Theme Park.

The only reference to an historical amusement park in Hot Springs that I could find was McLeod’s Amusement Park, more commonly known as Happy Hollow, one of Hot Springs most popular tourist attractions from the late 1800s to the 1940s.

CC said there was a huge armory hospital in Hot Springs that was a massive star fort!

He was referring to what used to be the Army and Navy Hospital, which is now a state-run rehabilitation center.

The former Army and Navy Hospital, the first general hospital in the country that treated both Army and Navy patients starting in January of 1887, appears to be situated at the bottom of Hot Springs Mountain, just around the corner from Happy Hollow on the north-side of Hot Springs Mountain.

What we are told is that in the early 1930s (which would have been during the Great Depression), the original building was replaced with a brick-mortar and steel facility with 412-beds.

SD, who also lives in Hot Springs, commented about the old Army and Navy Hospital, and about Hot Springs Mountain as well, as, among other things, she said that it was the first federally-protected land in the United States.

Hot Springs Mountain was turned into a reservation by an Act of Congress on April 20th of 1832, and was the first time that land had been set aside by the federal government to preserve its use as an area for recreation, and the city of Hot Springs was incorporated on January 10th of 1851, and Hot Springs Mountain became a National Park in 1921.

SD said Hot Springs was also called Valley of the Vapors because when the hot water steam arose there were rainbows that were seen…

…and Hot Springs Mountain has 47 natural springs that have been capped off and piped into bathhouses, and that the bathhouses still stand, specifically the Fordyce Bathhouse with a museum is fascinating…

…but all of them are beautiful.

Bathhouse Row is maintained by the National Park Service, eight historic bathhouse buildings and gardens along Central Avenue.

SD mentioned that Hot Springs also had electric rail cars at some point in time.

I found out that the Hot Springs Street Railroad ran around Hot Springs to and from the Oaklawn Race Track.

SD also said there was a large solid and pure quartz crystal vein, that Hot Springs sits within or just outside of, that runs approximately 200-miles, or 322-kilometers, that starts in Oklahoma, runs through the Ouachita Mountains, and ends close to the state capital of Little Rock.

There is more I can delve into in Hot Springs, but I am going to stop right here.

So, again, what are the odds of all of these similar relationships and connections happening randomly in diverse places across the world over long periods of time?

I think the truth of what we are actually seeing, the components of a very precise and integrated, world-wide, electromagnetic free-energy-generating-and-receiving geometric grid system, is actually hidden within our every day language – in circuits (race tracks), batteries (star forts), terminals and engines (all rail-lines) and the definition of spring.

The sport of racing uses the word “circuit” in the following ways:

The course over which races are won.
The number of times the racers go around the track.
An established itinerary of racing events involving public performance.
Circuit race – a mass-start road-cycle race that consists of several laps of a closed-circuit, where the length of the lap is slightly longer each time.

Electrical Circuit definitions Include:

A closed path in which electrons from a voltage or current source flow.
An electric circuit includes: devices that give energy to the charged particles the current is comprised of, such as batteries and generators; devices that use current, like lamps, electric motors, and computers; and the connecting wires or transmission lines.
An electronic circuit is a complete course of conductors through which current can travel. Circuits provide a path for current to flow.

Wouldn’t it stand to reason that those behind the reset when setting up the New World would take advantage of the super science of the different types of circuits in the Earth’s grid system in order to harness their inherent power to enhance performance at sporting events, to make lots of money at highly-charged, prestigious gaming and betting venues, with the added excitement of large crowds spending large amounts of money on the factor of chance?

The word “battery” is typically associated with star forts, and I think that is telling us what their true function was.

And so many more star forts have been destroyed than are still intact.

A battery 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, which aligns with the examples of star forts occurring in pairs or clusters of three or more.

And the word terminal is associated with rail-lines, as in the example given back with the electric streetcar line that ended in Toledo Beach, defined as “The end of a railroad or other transport route, or a station at such a point” and “A point of connection for closing an electric circuit.”

Trolley amusement parks were typically located at the end of streetcar lines.

Was there some kind of enhanced energy-generation going on with trolleys and amusement parks on the earth’s free-energy-generating system?

The other definition of a terminal is: “A point of connection for closing an electric circuit.”

While Engines are also strongly associated with train locomotives, as seen in the second definition of engine.

The first definition show here is “a machine with moving parts that converts power into motion.”

Is that actually telling us the function locomotives performed on the Earth’s free-energy-generating grid system?

As seen in this post, there is also some kind of connection to different kinds of mineral springs with regards to all of this infrastructure.

Definitions of the word spring include:

I don’t know exactly what the function of mineral springs would be on this free-energy-generating system, but it could very well be contained within one or all of the non-water definitions.

And what is the function of quartz crystals in electronics?

Though quartz crystals have several applications in the electronics industry, they are mostly used as resonators in electronic circuits.

If you apply an alternating voltage to a quartz crystal, it causes mechanical vibrations. The cut and the size of the crystal determine the resonant frequency of these vibrations or oscillations, and it generates a constant signal.

A Big Thank You to everyone who has taken the time to make suggestions of places to research – your input has helped me enormously in this process, and you have me looking at places that I would not otherwise think to look in making these connections to the bigger picture of what looks more and more like “Circuit Board Earth.”

Counting the Ways You Need to Know What You are Consuming!

The reason I am doing this post right at this moment is because viewer BR emailed me asking for help in putting together a video about Gossypol to get the word out about what is in our food supply chain.

BR and her family are farmers, and in the winter they subsistence hunt wild hogs only what they need for their meat supply.

She received word from local authorities about a hog-abatement program that was going to be implemented in the area where she lives in Central Texas involving Gossypol, a toxic compound in the cotton plant.

She sees this situation just as bad, if not worse, than the fluoride scam that has been perpetrated on the world’s population!

She told me the cotton industry is taking a poison chemical waste-product from cotton and telling us its good for us!

She said she’s not a researcher, but she went down the rabbit hole herself to get an answer for her simple question that the authorities she contacted in Texas about the hog abatement program where she lives were either unwilling or unable to answer – is there evidence of secondary transfer? –

She said even she was able to find out how bad this is for the masses, and shared her research findings with me.

The subject she raised with me immediately piqued my interest because not long ago when I was doing research on Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long for the National Statuary Hall in Washington, DC, I encountered this information about him:

Huey Long worked as a salesman before entering politics.

He met his future wife Rose at a baking contest he promoted to sell Cottolene Shortening, a brand of shortening made of beef suet and cottonseed oil that was produced in the U. S. from 1868 until the early 20th-century, the first mass-produced and mass-marketed alternative to lard, a natural cooking fat derived from rendered pig fat.

Crisco Shortening, a competitor of Cottolene, was originally made entirely of cottonseed oil.

Gotta wonder about the word “shortening.”

Shortening what?

Does shortening your food lengthen your life, as the Cottolene advertisement implied, or intended to shorten your life?

The given reason is that it was called that because it makes the resulting food crumbly, like in the process of making pastry dough, or to behave as if it has short fibers.

Besides encountering Cottolene shortening in my research about Huey Long, after I present BR’s findings about Cottonseed oil and Gossypol, I am going to share other research that I have encountered along the way regarding the subject of what is in what we consume on a daily basis.

The Commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture released a press release on June 1st of 2021 regarding a “New Product in Fight Against Feral Hogs.”

https://www.texasagriculture.gov/News-Events/News-Events-Details/Article/6601/TEXAS-AGRICULTURE-COMMISSIONER-SID-MILLER-ANNOUNCES-NEW-PRODUCT-IN-FIGHT-AGAINS

In it, HoGStop is described as a “new hog contraceptive bait entering the market that week with the goal of curbing the growth of the feral hog population in Texas over time,” and “an exciting new tool in the war against feral hogs.”

The Texas Department of Agriculture Commissioner’s Press Release went on to talk about the estimated $52 million in damages feral hogs cause in damages in Texas, and that the all-natural contraceptive bait HogStop targets the male hog’s ability to reproduce.

The Press Release goes on to say that HogStop does not have to be registered by the Texas Department of Agriculture because it is considered a 25 (b) pesticide by the EPA, meaning that it is considered to be a pesticide that causes little harm to humans.

So when I looked on the HogStop website under Frequently Asked Questions, under “What is HogStop, and how do I use it?,” the answer is that it is a mixture of ingredients commonly found in livestock feeds fed to feral hogs to reduce their numbers on your farm or ranch.

Nowhere on their website can I find a list of the actual ingredients.

Just that the ingredients are natural, and that this is a non-kill, low environmental impact solution.

But there is nothing telling us what the actual ingredients are.

Only that it says it is considered safe for human consumption.

Not only that, the website states if there is a health risk for humans harvesting the hogs, it is directed to contact with disease organisms carried by the hogs.

I searched for “Gossypol in HogStop” and found it mentioned in a discussion thread of the” Texas Hunting Forum” website.

https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/8287970/re-hogstop-approved

…which led me to find a PDF on the Hi-Pro Feeds website that listed the ingredients when I searched for “Cottonseed Oil in HogStop.”

Click to access 13417225.pdf

Not only that, there is a pretty hefty caution statement on the PDF, including warnings like it may be harmful if swallowed; if it gets in your eyes, rinse thoroughly with clean water; and keep out of reach of children.

There is a link in the Texas Hunting Forum thread leading to a website explaining the it is the Gossypol in the cottonseed oil that causes male infertility.

This article references two Chinese studies that looked at the relationship between cotton and infertility.

Interesting Comments & Suggestions I have Received from Viewers- Volume 1

I am highlighting places, concepts, and historical events that people have suggested that I research in a new multi-volume series that is a compilation of work I have previously done.

My starting point is the recommendation of the Balmoral Cairns in 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 castle and estate was purchased from the Farquason family by Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband.

There are eleven, what are called “stone cairns,” 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.

At this point, it is really important to get the definition of “cairn” and “pyramid” before I look at some of the “Balmoral Cairns” in Scotland.

A cairn is defined as a “mound or heap of rough stones built as a memorial or landmark on a hilltop or skyline.”

The following examples are identified as cairns:

The definition of a pyramid according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (established in 1828) is:

“an ancient massive structure found especially in Egypt having typically a square ground plan, outside walls in the form of four triangles that meet in a point at the top, and inner sepuchral chambers.
“A structure or object of similar form”
“A polyhedron having for its base a polygon, and for faces, triangles with a common vertex.

Now back to the “Balmoral Cairns.”

We are told that the largest of the “Balmoral Cairns,” shown here, was erected in memory of Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, after his death on December 14th of 1861.

It certainly looks like the definition of a pyramid!

Look at the all the lichen growing on Prince Albert’s Cairn!

Somewhere in the past I remember hearing that lichen grows very slowly, so I looked it up to be certain.

Other cairns on the Balmoral Estate include:

Princess Helena’s cairn, the fifth child of Victoria and Albert, said to have been erected to commemorate her marriage to the Marquis of Lorne in 1871…

…the cairn of Prince Leopold, the eighth child and youngest son of Victoria and Albert, erected in 1882 to commemorate his marriage, and who died in March of 1884, at the young age of 30 from hemophilia, an inherited bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot properly.

The presence of the hemophilia gene in Queen Victoria was said to have been caused by a spontaneous mutation, as she is considered the source of the disease in modern cases of hemophilia among her descendents.

This is Prince Arthur’s cairn, the seventh-child of Victoria and Albert, said to have been erected to mark his marriage in 1870.

In addition to other cairns marking events in the lives of Queen Victoria’s family, we are told that a cairn was constructed in 2012 on the Balmoral Estate to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.

While these last four of the “Balmoral Cairns” seem to have more of the appearance of what are called cairns than what can also be called Prince Albert’s Pyramid, the question becomes this:

Were the “Balmoral Cairns” built when they were said to have been built by who was said to have built them?

Or were they built by an ancient, advanced civilization of Master Builders missing from our collective awareness for purposes unknown to us in the present-day?

I am seeing notation of obelisks as well on the map I just showed of the Balmoral Estates, and one of them is another monument to Queen Victoria’s husband, the Prince-Consort Albert, said to have been erected in 1862, and photographed by George Washington Wilson…

…a pioneering Scottish photographer, who got his start as a portrait miniaturist in 1849, and switched to portrait photography in 1852, and received the contract to photograph the Royal Family of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

What role do photographers and artists play in programming our perception away from what is actually in the environment into seeing only the preferred narrative?

From what I am seeing, photographers and artists play a substantial role in this process of reinventing history.

This is a photo of George Washington Wilson’s of Prince’s Street in Edinburgh, circa 1860, with the contrast of massive, stately columned architecture, cobbled streets and horse-and-buggies in the foreground, and Calton Hill in the background…

…with a view of what is called the Nelson Monument and the National Monument of Scotland.

The Nelson Monument was said to have been built on the highest point on Calton Hill between 1807 to 1816 to commemorate the British Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson’s victory over the French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

The National Monument of Scotland is a national memorial to the Scottish soldiers and sailors who died fighting in the Napoleonic Wars, which took place between 1803 and 1815.

With a design by Charles Robert Cockerell and William Henry Playfair based on the Parthenon in Athens, construction was said to have started in 1826, and that it was left unfinished in 1829 due to lack of funds.

It is interesting to note that in this view of Calton Hill, you see the Nelson Monument perfectly-framed through the center of the front colonnade of the National Monument.

Another commenter from Scotland mentioned Glasgow in particular.

Glasgow called itself the second city of the British Empire, passing Edinburgh in population by 1821, and that in the 1830s it started to become a major industrial center.

The University of Glasgow, established in 1451, is one of Scotland’s four Ancient Universities, along with Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and St. Andrews.

Universities that receive the designation “Ancient Universities” in Great Britain were founded before the year 1600, and considered among the oldest existing universities in the world.

For some reason, I have consistently found that the word “Ancient” is used to describe places that are not associated with “the far distant past” that the word ancient is defined as.

The oldest, currently functional, universities in the world are in North Africa.

The Al-Karaouine University in Fez, Morocco, dates to 859 AD.

Interesting to note that the archway shown here at the University in Fez on the left frames the larger building in much the same way that the archway does here at the University of Oxford in England on the right.

The University of Oxford was established in 1096, and is the oldest of the Ancient Universities of Great Britain.

Also, the colonnaded courtyard at the University in Fez in Morocco on the left looks very similar in appearance to the courtyard in the Alhambra in Granada, Spain on the right, which is architecture that the Moors are actually given credit for.

Tunisia’s still-functioning University in Kairouan is said to date from between 800 AD and 909 AD.

Back to the University of Glasgow.

James Watt was a mathematical instrument-maker at the University of Glasgow before he became interested in the technology of steam engines.

His improvement of the steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712…

…with his Watt steam engine in 1776 was said to have been crucial to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and the rest of the world.

You know, I can’t help but wonder about the origin of steam engine technology when I see examples of the big gear-wheel showing on the right, compared with the Watt Steam Engine on the left, at what is called a sugar mill in Belize with what appears to be an ancient tree firmly rooted inside the structure.

Adam Smith was a student at the University of Glasgow.

He was a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a period during the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries during which time there was an outpouring of Scottish intellectual and scientific accomplishments.

Known as “The Father of Capitalism” and “The Father of Economics,” Adam Smith is best known for his famous work on modern economics, the title of which is commonly abbreviated to “The Wealth of Nations.”

“The Wealth of Nations” was first published in 1776, the same year that James Watt brought forward his improved steam engine and the American Colonies declared their independence, as well as the founding of the Bavarian Order of the Illuminati by Adam Weishaupt on May 1st of that year.

The next place I am going to look into from a comment is the isle of Frisland, also known as Frislant, the specific awareness of which is new to me.

The isle of Frisland appeared on virtually all maps of the North Atlantic between the 1560s through the 1660s.

Nonetheless, it has come down to our historical time period as a “phantom island,” meaning that it was removed from later maps as it was proven not to exist.

This is Gerardus Mercator’s depiction of Frisland that a appears on a map that was published in 1606 by Jocodus Hondius, a few years after his death in 1594, in the lower left corner between Iceland to the northeast, and Greenland to the northwest…

…which I found on the National Geographic website seriously doubting Frisland’s existence.

The Zeno map that the article is referring to was said to have been first published in a book 1558, after having been found in the family home, by a direct descendent of the Zeno Brothers, Nicolo and Antonio Zeno, Venetian noblemen famous during the Renaissance for exploring the Arctic in the 1390s with an explorer-prince named Zichmni, a Lord of the islands off the southern coast of Frisland.

We are told that the existence of the isle of Frisland as identified by the Zeno Brothers was given credibility by in manuscript maps in the 1560s by the Genoan Maggiolo family, and accepted by leading cartographers and publishers of the 1500s and 1600s, Mercator and Hondius, even though the charting of Frisland on the Zeno map was later deemed incorrect.

The isle of Frisland has been identifed with a lost ancient land named Hyberborea by the Greeks, considered to have been in the general vicinity of Greenland; identified as Atland by the Frisians, a Germanic ethnic group indigenous to coastal parts of the Netherlands and northwestern Germany; and, and again, identifed as “Frisland” by Mercator.

In Greek mythology, Hyperborea was a fabulous world of eternal spring located in the far north, beyond the home of the north wind.

Hyperboreans were giants, with blessed and long lives untouched by war, hard work, old age and disease.

At any rate, there are some interesting similarities between the coastline of the now-called phantom isle of Frisland in Mercator’s depiction on the left, and this depiction I found of the island of Hyperborea on the right.

The Oera Linda Bok, or Book, is a manuscript that is written in Old Frisian, and said to provide historical, mythological, and religious themes of remote antiquity.

Like the doubt about the isle of Frisland itself, the Oera Linda Book is widely considered a hoax.

The manuscript first came into public awareness, we are told, in the 1860s.

The book is still occasionally brought up in esotericism and Atlantis literature.

I received a comment from someone who lives in St. Louis, where there are industries for beer, like the castle-looking Anheuser-Busch Brewery…

…the Aerospace industry, like Boeing…

…and starting in 1942, St. Louis was an integral part of the Manhattan Project, for which Mallinckrodt Chemical Works processed a majority of the uranium needed for the first atomic bomb in their plant north of downtown St. Louis…

…and which continued to process uranium until 1957.

When the chemical company ran out of space to store its nuclear waste on-site, nuclear waste was dumped in places like a site near the St. Louis airport…

…and the West Lake Landfill, a Superfund clean-up site.

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Needless to say, St. Louis has a nuclear waste problem.

There was an electric streetcar system in St. Louis that ran from the mid-1800s through the early 1960s, starting with horse-drawn streetcars in the late 1850s.

This is a map depicting the streetcar lines in St. Louis by 1884.

…with the first cable-driven streetcars in 1886, and the first electrified streetcars came to St. Louis in 1889.

The Forest Park Highlands Amusement Park opened as a beer garden in St. Louis in 1896.

…and was on a trolley line.

On July 19th of 1963, all of the Forest Park Highlands Amusement Park was destroyed by fire except for the swimming pool and the frame of the roller coaster.

With regards to streetcars, starting in the early 1930s through the 1960s, the St. Louis Public Service ended all streetcar service, as well as other regional streetcar operators.

The last day of St. Louis streetcar operation was May 21st of 1966.

Next, a commenter from Argentina suggested that I look into Cordoba.

Cordoba was said to have been founded on July 6th of 1573 by Jeronimo Luis de Cabrera, a Spanish conquistador who became a colonial governor over much of what is now northwestern Argentina.

The National University of Cordoba was said to have been founded by the Jesuits in 1613, and is the oldest University in Argentina, and the third oldest in South America.

The Jesuit Block in Cordoba was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the year 2000, and consists of what are described as a block of buildings dating back to the 17th-century.

The complex was said to have started by the Jesuits in 1615 as a Jesuit Reduction, which we are told was a type of settlement for indigenous people in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.

Named a “Reduction”? Which also means the act of making something smaller or less in size or amount?

Say what?!

The current Pope Francis is from Argentina, and spent two years in the 1990s in a small room number 5 in the Jesuit Block.

As Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he entered the Jesuit order in 1958, and is the first Jesuit pope.

It is interesting to note that the Jesuits were expelled from South America by the 1767 Decree of King Charles III of Spain, which was part of the “Suppression of the Society of Jesus,” in which the Jesuits were removed from most of the countries of western Europe and their colonies, we are told for political reasons.

The Suppression began in 1759, and ended in 1814 by Pope Pius VII, in which he restored the Jesuits to their previous provinces, and the Jesuits returned to the Americas in 1853.

Next, I am going to be looking at places in the Nashville area that were suggested by a commenter.

The Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville was the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974.

Its construction was said to have been promoted by Thomas Ryman, a Tennessee business man who was a riverboat captain as well as the owner of a riverboat company…

…as an auditorium and tabernacle for Samuel Porter Jones, an influential revivalist of the day, after Ryman was converted to Christianity in 1885 after attending a tent-revival held by Jones.

Opening in 1892 as the Union Gospel Tabernacle, it was not only used as a house of worship, it was also rented out as a venue for different types of events, including, but not limited to concerts, speaking engagements, boxing matches.

There are two things I would like to point out about the physical appearance of the Ryman Auditorium.

The first is to show the similarity of architectural features of the Ryman Auditorium on the left and the Moscow State Historical Museum in Russia on the right.

In particular the occurrence in both buildings of triple windows (the yellow arrows); double-windows (the purple arrows); and the intricate patterning of sections of windows (the black arrows).

The other thing is the classic mud flood feature of the slanted pavement in front of the building, and the ground-level windows on the side of the building that are level with the not-ground-level windows of the front of the building.

Also known as the “Mother Church of Country Music”…

…the Ryman Auditorium became the home of the “Grand Ole Opry” show in 1943 until March 15th of 1974…

…at which time the “Grand Ole Opry” was moved to its current venue, the massive “Grand Ole Opry House.”

It is interesting to note that the Ryman Auditorium was almost demolished by the owners of the “Grand Ole Opry,” with the reason given that it was in poor condition.

Though it was not demolished because of the outcry against this, the Ryman Auditorium sat dormant until 1989, and has been utilized as an event venue since then.

The Tennessee State Capitol building was said to have been designed by architect William Strickland, one of the architects credited with establishing the Greek Revival movement in the United States.

…and built between 1845 and 1859.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and named a National Historic Landmark in 1971.

It is interesting to note the entrance to an old tunnel was unearthed near the State Capitol building in 1951, under 6th Street.

Formerly known as the First Presbyterian Church, the Downtown Church in Nashville was also said to have been designed by William Strickland and completed in 1846.

The Downtown Presbyterian Church is considered the best-surviving ecclesiastical example of what is called Egyptian Revival architecture.

Egyptian Revival architecture too?

The Nashville Parthenon was also said to have been built for the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition.

We are told that Nashville’s nickname of “Athens of the South” influenced the choice of an exact replica of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, as the centerpiece of the Exposition.

The architect of Nashville’s Parthenon was said to be the former confederate soldier, William Crawford Smith.

It was said to have been originally built as a temporary structure out of plaster, wood, and brick, but it was left standing after the Exposition because of its popularity, and that it was rebuilt with concrete in the 1920s.

Now I am going to go quickly through some of the places people have commented about.

The Fox Theater in Downtown Oakland California, said to have been opened in 1928, and designed by the American architectural firm of Weeks and Day.

In Akron, Ohio, there is the Edison Dam…

…and the trails of the Gorge Metro Park in Akron.

The Buenos Aires Water Company Palace in Argentina was said to have been designed as a water pumping station in 1877 and completed in 1894…

…and the similar-looking St. Louis City Hall in Missouri, said to have been designed in 1898, modeled after the city hall in Paris, France, and completed in time for the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904.

The Town Creek Indian Mound in North Carolina, attributed to the Pee Dee people of the South Appalachian Mississippian Culture…

…that thrived in that Pee Dee River region of North and South Carolina before Columbus…

…near the town of Mt. Gilead, North Carolina.

The Warbreck Water Tower in Blackpool, England, said to have been built in 1932 to serve the heavily residential areas of central Blackpool and high-rise homes…

…is located on Leys Road.

Another tower in Blackpool, the Blackpool Tower, was said to have been inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and that at the time it was opened to the public in 1894, it was the tallest, man-made structure in the British Empire.

In Cleveland, Ohio, the West Side Market, which is classified as a Neo-Classical/Byzantine building, the construction of which was said to have been completed in 1912…

…and Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland, with its the dam…

…and the James A. Garfield Memorial, said to have been constructed in a combination of Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque Revival styles between 1885 and 1890 for the 20th-President of the United States who was assassinated in 1881 who had expressed a desire to be interred in the Lakeview Cemetery.

Castle Rushen, the construction of which was said to have started in the 10th-century, in Castletown on the Isle of Man, located in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland…

…and the Ostrozac Castle of Bosnia, a medieval castle called a fairy tale for every visitor.

I was asked to look into the Tuckahoe-Corbin City Fish and Wildlife Management Area, located in southern New Jersey…

…at a size of over 17,000 acres, or 6,880-hectares, of marshes, rivers, and Pine Barrens woodland located adjacent to the Great Egg Harbor.

The Beasley Point Generating Station, a coal-fired power-plant which operated from 1961 to 2019, was situated right at the edge of the Wildlife Management area, where several rivers flow into it from the Great Egg Harbor.

Somers Point, a city located on the other side of Great Egg Harbor from where the power plant was on Beasley Point, is the oldest settlement in Atlantic County, New Jersey, said to have been first settled in 1693 and incorporated as a borough in 1886.

The Atlantic City and Shore Railroad was a type of streetcar system in New Jersey called an interurban that served Somers Point and several other cities between Atlantic City and Ocean City in the years between 1907 and 1948.

Next, The North Point Water Tower in Milwaukee was said to have been built between 1873 and 1874 in the style of Victorian-Gothic as part of Milwaukee’s first public waterworks…

…and the Prospect Point Water Tower in Minneapolis, Minnesota, also known as the Witch’s Hat Tower, was said to have been built on Tower Hill Park in 1913, which was a hilltop park established in 1906.

A comment was made to look at the Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, opened in 1854, and the first railway station in Australia on the top left, compared for size and scope with the Marunouchi Station in Tokyo, opened in 1914.

These photographs came from a trek across Ebbetts Pass, in the Sierra Nevada range east of Sacramento in California were sent to me from a viewer.

I have talked about the Leeds Town Hall in Leeds, England, in past posts.

The Leeds Town Hall was one of the first examples I found in my research of the use of contests and competitions to explain how what we would consider relatively modern, monumental architecture came into being.

It was said to have been completed in 1858, and opened by Queen Victoria.

This gentleman, Cuthbert Brodrick, was given the credit for designing it, after winning a design competition for it, when he was 29-years-old, in 1852, and is considered his most famous architectural work.

A viewer from Leeds ordered the map of Leeds from 1847, and said it cuts of just where Leeds town hall should be…

…and also said that the town hall is a main feature of Headrow, so that for the map to be missing this section is noteworthy.

He also sent me pictures of the entrance of the Leeds Town Hall…

…and said that it is a popular venue for weddings and graduations…

He mentioned that it contains an organ that is considered the biggest musical instrument in the World, with 6,600 pipes weighing 70 tons and 50 feet high!

He also included a photo of the Temple Mill in the Leeds Temple Works Complex,said have been built between 1838 and 1840.

A former flax-spinning mill, when it was completed it was considered to be one of the largest factories in the world, with 7,000 steam-powered spindles.

Next, I was contacted by someone with these photos he had taken in West Dundas, Ontario.

Dundas is a community in Hamilton, Ontario, and was formerly a town in its own right.

It is at the bottom of the Niagara Escarpment and on the western edge of Lake Ontario.

Known originally as “Coote’s Paradise,” the community that had settled here became known as Dundas in 1814, which was incorporated in 1847.

Its construction said to have been authorized in 1823, the Desjardins Canal opened in 1837, and was said to have greatly contributed to the development of the region, until the canal fell into disuse…

…when the Great Western Railway put its line through Dundas in 1853.

Another viewer directed my attention to the following places in Tampa:

The congregation of the First Baptist Church of Tampa was said to have organized in 1859, and the church at its present-location built in 1923.

Old cigar factories in Tampa, including the Santaella…

…and the historic Pendes & Alvarez Cigar Factory.

And Ybor City, a historic neighborhood in Tampa said to have been founded in the 1880s by cigar manufacturers…

…known to have miles of tunnels running underneath it.

He also asked that I look into the catacombs of Paris, where millions of bones and skulls are neatly stacked underground in tunnels, and catacombs were said to have been created in an effort to eliminate the city’s overflowing cemeteries that was started in 1786.

The Paris Catacombs have been a concert venue since the 19th-century…

…and an Airbnb in the 21st-century.

Another viewer recommended I look into Lake McDonald…

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…in Montana’s Glacier National Park.

The Going-to-the-Sun Road provides access to many locations and activities within the park…

…including the Lake McDonald Lodge, considered one of the finest examples in the nation of the Swiss-Chalet-Style of architecture, and was said to have been built in 1913.

We are told the mountains of Glacier National Park started forming 170-million years ago, when glaciers forced ancient rocks eastward up and over much younger rock strata.

That’s a beautiful old stone bridge on the Going-to-the-Sun Road!

Next, one of my viewers provided me with a link to take a look at and see what I thought regarding a historical person.

The person was Jan Amos Komensky, also known as John Amos Comenius.

Have you ever heard of him?

I sure hadn’t!

Not being known to the general public is interesting to note, given that he has been credited with introducing and dominating the whole modern movement in the field of elementary and secondary education, first notated in the forward of this publication.

I didn’t have to look any further than the front page of the publication to have several things jump-out at me.

The publication was written by Otakar Odlozilik, PhD.

Dr. Odlozilik became an American citizen in 1955, and taught his specialized knowledge of influential Czechoslovak history in American universities.

He was .a Czechoslovak professor who specialized in things like Reformation currents of thought, the emigration of the Czech Brethren, and the influence of Bohemia, a historical region of Czechoslovakia today, but historically Bohemia referred to the entire Czech territory of Moravia and Silesia, called the “Lands of the Bohemian Crown,” historically ruled by the Bohemian Kings.

The publication is “In commemoration of the 350th anniversary of Comenius’ birthday.”

I have found that many World Fairs, Expositions and Exhibitions were held in commemoration of specific events in history, like the “World’s Columbian Exhibition,” also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, held in 1893 to celebrate the 400th-anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the New World in 1492, and said to have been designed by many prominent architects of the day.

Christopher Columbus first set sail for the “New World” from Spain on August 3rd of 1492.

In the same year, on January 2nd of 1492, the Sultan of the Emirate of Granada, Muhammad XII surrendered to Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, signalling the end of Moorish rule in Spain in our historical narrative.

We are told that after the World’s Columbian Exposition ended, all of the structures built for the Exhibition were destroyed except for the Palace of Fine Arts, now Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.

Dr. Odlozilik’s publication about Comenius was published in Chicago by the Czechoslovak National Council of America in 1942 .

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a constitutional monarchy and great power in central Europe between 1867 and 1918 that was dissolved after its defeat at the end of World War I.

Part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of World War I, Czechoslovakia was founded as a sovereign state on October 28th of 1918, and existed until it was dissolved into the separate countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia on January 1st of 1993.

Its government was communist from 1948 to 1989.

The Czechslovak National Council of America was founded in Chicago in 1910 to support the Czech and Slovak cause in its fight against the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

According to Dr. Odlozilik, Comenius was born on March 28th of 1592, almost 100-years to the day that the Alhambra decree was issued on March 31, 1492, where we are told Spanish Jews were given the choice of converting to Catholicism, or leaving the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon.

This decree may have originally applied to the Moors as well.

It is out there somewhere in the field of information that the next day, April 1st, became known as April Fools Day because while the Moors were told they had the same option, their ships and homes were burned, and many were killed. While this may or may not be true, it would not surprise me at all if it was true.

I am going to end this video with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, as suggested in a comment by a viewer.

This is what we are told about the Lewis & Clark Expedition.

It was said to have doubled the size of the United States and paved the way for the nation’s westward expansion.

Under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Lieutenant William Clark, the expedition was comprised of a select group of United States Army and civilian volunteers.

This map is attributed to Captain Lewis and Lieutenant Clark from their expedition.

After Jefferson chose Meriwether Lewis as the expedition’s leader in 1803, he made sure Lewis was educated in medicinal cures by Dr. Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia…

…in navigational astronomy by American land surveyor Andrew Ellicott…

In the summer of 1803, a keelboat said to have been built to Lewis’ specifications near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…

…and is located directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.

The location of Camp Dubois at Wood River is almost directly north of Cahokia, both on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River.

While I am not seeing the remnants of a star fort in this Google Earth screenshot of the area surrounding Ft. Dubois in Wood River…

…I am seeing that it is situated beside a location where two railroad lines merge into one, as well as a landscape filled with huge lots and huge tanks…

…that are apparently connected to the oil refineries in Wood River.

Apparently, the city of Wood River was founded in 1907 with the establishment in the vicinity of a refinery for John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company.

Interesting that this would also be the historical location of the actual launch point for the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Jefferson’s instructions to the expedition, we are told, were stated thus:

They also carried flags, gift bundles, medicine, and other items that they would need for their journey.

The Corps of Discovery of approximately 45 members left Camp Dubois on May 14, 1804.

Under Clark’s command, they traveled up the Missouri River in their keelboat and two smaller vessels…

…to St. Charles, Missouri.

Founded in 1765, it is called the third oldest city west of the Mississippi River.

Lewis joined them six days later.

The expedition set out the next afternoon, on the 21st of May.

The Corps of Discovery famously landed next in the area surrounding the Missouri River of what is now Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa.

The Lewis and Clark Monument Park in Council Bluffs, Iowa, memorializes what was said to be a historic meeting between the expedition and the Otoe and Missouri Indians in 1804.

It is important to note the old stonework seen on the memorial grounds.

Council Bluffs was incorporated in 1853, receiving its name from this historic meeting.

There is a 150-foot, or 46-meter, tall moontower that was used for city-lighting in this historic picture of Council Bluffs.

Council Bluffs was the historic starting point of the Mormon Trail, which was in use between 1846 and 1869.

In use for only 8-years, it was abandoned in 1827.

Back to the Corps of Discovery.

The only death to occur on the expedition was said to have taken place on August 20th, of 1804, when Sgt. Charles Floyd died, allegedly from acute appendicitis.

He had been among the first to sign up with the Corps of Discovery and was buried at a bluff by the river that was named after him in what is now Sioux City, Iowa.

This is the Floyd Monument today in Sioux City.

A minor historical character memorialized with an obelisk?

The expedition held talks with the Sioux Nation near the confluence of the Missouri and Bad Rivers in what is now Fort Pierre, South Dakota.

The meeting, which verged at one time on serious hostilities, took place in what is now Fischers Lilly Park in Fort Pierre…

…right where the Bad River enters the Missouri River in Central South Dakota.

Fort Pierre was the location of Fort Pierre Chouteau, one of the most important fur trade forts of the western frontier.

Fort Pierre Chouteau was said to have been built in 1832, after John Jacob Astor, head of the American Fur Company, decided to expand operations into the Upper Missouri River region in the 1820s.

From Fort Pierre, the expedition continued up the Missouri River between present-day South Dakota and North Dakota.

The Missouri River forms the eastern boundary of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, which straddles these two states.

Fort Yates is the tribal headquarters for the Standing Rock Sioux.

This is the memorial for Sacagawea, also known as Sakakawea, in Fort Yates.

Eyes Wide Open

In doing the research for my last post “Who is in the National Statuary Hall – Part 5 Louisiana, Maine, Maryland & Massachusetts,” there were two topics I encountered that really grabbed my attention and I started to research these two topics as independent subjects.

The first topic I had entitled “1871 – Eyes Wide Open” because I already knew from past research that significant historical events in our current timeline took place in 1871, and I uncovered some more events through my research into the National Statuary Hall that happened in or around 1871 to add to the list, in particular the beginning of Mardi Gras in 1871 in Galveston, Texas, and the establishment of Shriners International in 1870.

I had already started to do the research for the first topic, when the second topic grabbed my attention.

Calling it “Of Plantations & Partitions, and the Planned Destruction of Civilization,” this topic came to the surface as a result of researching John Winthrop, one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the early colonization process called “Plantation.”

It did not take me long to realize these two topics were related and that it made sense to merge them into one post and simply call it “Eyes Wide Open.”

I am going to start with the Moors, because everything that has happened is really about what happened to them and what happened to them has been happening in real time to all of us, so all of this is completely relevant to what is happening today.

I will take you through the information I have come across which has brought me to these conclusions.

The Moors have been almost completely removed from the history of civilizaiton, with the exception of roughly 800-years in Spain…

…and we are not taught anything about an ancient global unified Moorish civilization dating back to ancient Mu, or Lemuria that continued on through Atlantis, up until relatively recently in time, much more recently than one would think.

The architecture and infrastructure of this ancient Civilization is still all over the world, and still in use today though much has already been destroyed.

Since this is not in our historical narrative, we don’t even think to question what we are told about it being built by someone else.

The thing is…this ancient civilization, and civilization as we know it, is still under attack and being destroyed every single day.

Its earthworks are being destroyed every day in road and housing construction…

…it is being destroyed in big city riots…

…it is being destroyed by public policies that destroy lives and property…

…and public policies that encourage lawlessness…

…and it has been destroyed by world wars and civil wars…

…and demolished for reasons given like urban renewal, deterioration, and safety.

This has all been part of a plan, and is not happening by chance, though that is what we have been taught to believe!

What might that plan be?

Is the intention of the Plan displayed for all to see on the back of the one-dollar Federal Reserve Note, the currency of the United States.

There are two sides of the Great Seal of the United States.

On one side is the national Coat-of-Arms of the United States, and among other symbolism, prominently depicts an eagle, and the motto “E Pluribus Unum,” or “Out of Many, One.”

On the other side, an unfinished pyramid with an eye above it is depicted, as well as two more mottos.

The motto above the pyramid with the eye says “Annuit Coeptis,” which is taken to mean: “Providence – or God – favors our Undertakings”

The motto below is “Novus Ordo Seclorum,” which is commonly translated as “New Order of the Ages.”

The Roman numerals at the bottom of the pyramid, MDCCLXXVI, is the year 1776.

This is what we are told about the origins of the Great Seal.

Samuel Adams appointed William Barton of Philadelphia in 1782 to come up with a design proposal for the National Coat-of-Arms of the United States since he had a reputation for his knowledge of heraldry.

Barton called his design “Device for an Armorial Achievement for the United States of North America, blazoned agreeably in accordance to the Laws of Heraldry.”

Laws of Heraldry?

That one is new to me, so I looked into it and this is what came up.

“The Laws of Heraldic Arms governs the ‘bearing of arms,’which is the possession, use or display of arms, also called ‘Coat-of-Arms.’

According to the ‘Law of Arms,'” ‘Coats-of-Arms’ and other similar emblems may only be borne by 1) ancestral right, or descent from an ancestry through the male line; 2) or a grant made to the user under due authority, like the State or the Crown.

Where have we heard about the “right to bear arms” before?!

There would appear to be some kind of connection between the use of the word “arms” to refer to both heraldry devices and weapons.

We are told the Irish-born patriot Charles Thomson of Philadelphia finalized the design of the Great Seal of the United States, and it was he who added “Annuit Coeptis” instead of “Deo Favente,” and “Novus Ordo Seclorum.”

It is interesting to note that the final Great Seal of Thomson is an exact replica in design of the Great Seal of the Moors, with the differences being in the meanings of the inscriptions on each one.

The single eye at the top of the pyramid in the Great Seal of the Moors represents re-connecting with our Higher Selves and Divine Natures…

…and not the all-seeing eye of the Bavarian Order of the Illuminati and Big Brother that it has come to be associated with.

As you can see, symbols were co-opted from the original meanings, and the meaning of the symbols inverted and applied in a different context.

The Moors are Friends of Humanity, with Five Principles of Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom, and Justice.

…and are all about teachings to activate the pineal gland and about the human potential to re-connect to our Higher Selves and Divine Natures in this lifetime.

Another important “Ordo” is found in the Masonic Motto of the 33rd-Degree – “Ordo Ab Chao” and “Deus Meumque Jus.”

It is found on the grand decorations of the Order of the Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the Scottish Rite, one of the highest honors and roles which can be bestowed upon a Mason.

It translates to “Order out of Chaos” and “God and My Right.”

And who exactly is their god?

Was the meaning of “Order out of Chaos” simply about restoring order between divisions between the Northern and Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite that took place in the early 1800s in North America, as some have speculated?

Was it meant to draw forth order from the chaos of their own individual lives and minds?

Was it a description of a yin and yang process of change in how the Universe organizes itself, with order and chaos giving birth to one another, as others have speculated?

Or, was it an actual blueprint for sorcery and the plan for how the New World Order was going to take over the world?

…through the systematic application of the Hegelian Dialectic of Problem – Reaction – Solution.

Here is a list I found of of Hegelian Dialectic methods of manipulation, which includes chaos sorcery.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher who lived between 1770 and 1831.

In his major work “The Phenomology of Spirit,” Hegel traced the formation of self-consciousness through history and the importance of other people.

One of the titled subsections in the “Self-Consciousness” chapter of this book is “Independent and Dependent Self-Consciousness: Lordship and Bondage.”

The common name for this passage is the “Master-Slave Dialectic.”

The passage describes an encounter between what are two distinct self-conscious beings, with each becoming aware of the other.

Self-consciousness forms as a result of the dialectic, or movement, of recognizing each other.

This movement takes the form of a struggle to the death between the two self-conscious beings in which one masters the other, only to find out that the “lordship” or “mastery” is not possible because the ‘bondsman,” or “slave,” in this state is not free to offer it.

This passage is a key element in Hegel’s philosophical system, and influenced later philosophers.

It is interesting to note that I came across references to Tapping Reeve when I was researchong historical figures represented by statues in the National Statuary Hall.

Tapping Reeve was an early American lawyer, educator, and judge.

If you break down the meaning of his unusual name as actual words in English, “Tapping” can be defined as “To exploit or draw a supply from a resource;” and “Reeve” – ” as administrator, attendant; curator; agent; director; foreman; and the list goes on.

Something to think about.

Tapping Reeve opened the Litchfield Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1784, the first independent law school established in America for reading law, and a proprietary school unaffiliated with any college or university.

Tapping Reeve became Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1814.

Reeve came to mind because of the title of the book he published in 1816.

It was titled the “Law of Baron and Femme – of Parent and Child;, Guardian and Ward, Master and Servant; and of the Powers of the Court of Chancery, with an Essay on the terms Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body.”

This became the premiere American treatise on family law for much of the 19th-century, with revisions and republication in 1846, 1867 and 1888.

Hegel considered one of the most important figures in German Idealism that was linked with Romanticism and Revolutionary politics.

Romantic Nationalism is the form of nationalism in which the state claims its political legitimacy as a consequence of the unity of those it governs, including such factors as language, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, and customs.

This was in opposition to dynastic or imperial rule.

Here’s background information on who some of the dynastic rulers were before I go further into the results of Romantic Nationalism.

First a little bit about Elizabeth of Bohemia, who lived from 1596 to 1662.

She was the daughter of Anne of Denmark and King James VI of Scotland and I of England, Scotland and Ireland of the Royal House of Stuart.

These portraits of King James are both in existence.

Notice the word “Iacobus” at the top of the portrait of him on the left.

Elizabeth was the wife of Frederick V, who was the Elector Palatine of the Holy Roman Empire, briefly the King of Bohemia between 1619 – 1620, so she was briefly the Queen of Bohemia.

Prior to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in August of 1806 as a result of Napoleon defeating the Austrian and Imperial forces in the Battle of Austerlitz in December of 1805, the imperial throne of the Holy Roman Empire 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 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, a descendent of the House of Stuart.

Interestingly, Princess Sophia was born in 1630, which was the same year that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established, and the beginning of the “Plantation of New England.”

Who is Represented in the National Statuary Hall – Part 5 Louisiana, Maine, Maryland & Massachusetts

I took a look at who represents the states of Illinois, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, and Kentucky in the National Statuary Hall at the U. S. Capitol in Washington, DC, in the last video.

Illinois was represented by soldier/lawyer/politician James Shields and Educator/Temperance Activist/Socialist Frances Willard; Indiana by lawyer and politician Oliver P. Morton and lawyer/military officer/politician/author Lew Wallace; Iowa by agricultural biotechnologist and “Father of the Green Revolution,” with ties to the Rockefeller Foundation, Norman Borlaug and lawyer/politician Samuel P. Kirkwood; in Kansas I found General/President Dwight D. Eisenhower and lawyer/politician John J. Ingalls; and in Kentucky I found lawyer/politician Henry Clay and the physician/pioneer surgeon Ephraim McDowell.

So far the count of U. S. politicians in the National Statuary Hall is at 19-out-of-34 statues, once again over half of them, with thirteen of the politicians being lawyers, and when I get to the last part of this series, I will do an in-depth analysis of interconnections between these historical figures in the National Statuary Hall – some of whom are well-known and others not-so-much.

The two statues representing the State of Louisiana in the National Statuary Hall are Huey Pierce Long and Edward Douglas White.

Huey Pierce Long, Jr, was an American politician, serving as Louisiana’s Governor and as United States Senator. He was assassinated in 1935.

Nicknamed “the Kingfish,” he rose to prominence during the Great Depression as a left-wing populist in the Democratic party who was critical of President Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long didn’t think was radical enough.

Huey Long was born in August of 1893 near Winnfield, Louisiana, the seat of Winn Parish.

His family lived in a comfortable farmhouse, and were well-off compared to others in Winnfield.

In the 1890s, Winn Parish was a bastion of the Populist Party, a left-wing political party that emphasized the idea of “the People” versus “the Establishment.”

In the 1912 election, citizens of Winn Parish voted more for Socialist candidate for President Eugene V. Debs than any other candidate.

When Long was in high school, he and his friends formed a secret society, with a mission to “run things, laying down certain rules the students would have to follow.”

Cautioned by his teachers to obey the school’s rules, some of the rebellious things Long did included distributing a flyer that criticized his teachers and the necessity of a recently-mandated fourth year of secondary education, and successfully petitioning to fire the principal, though he never finished high school.

And even though he won a full academic scholarship to Louisiana State University, his family couldn’t afford to cover his books or living expenses, so he became a travelling salesman instead.

In 1911, at the urging of his mother, he attended seminary classes Oklahoma Baptist University, but only for one semester because it didn’t suit him.

Then, in 1912, he attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law in for a semester, where apparently his grades were poor because he was distracted by the gambling houses when he was attending classes there.

While working as a salesman, Long met his future wife Rose McConnell, who he married in 1913, at a baking contest he promoted to sell Cottolene Shortening, a brand of shortening made of beef suet and cottonseed oil that was produced in the U. S. from 1868 until the early 20th-century, the first mass-produced and mass-marketed alternative to lard, a natural cooking fat derived from rendered pig fat.

Long enrolled in the Tulane Law School in 1914, concentrating on the courses necessary for the bar exam.

He passed the bar, and received his license to practice law in 1915.

Long established his private law practice in Winnfield in 1915, where he represented poor plaintiff’s, mostly in Workers’ Compensation cases.

In 1918, he entered the race to serve on one of the three-seats on the Louisiana Railroad Commission.

His message to the voters throughout his career as an elected official, in a nutshell, was that he was a warrior from and for the people, battling the giants of Wall Street, with too much of America’s wealth being concentrated in too few hands.

He won by just over 600 votes.

While serving on the commission, he forced utilities to lower rates; ordered railroads to service to small towns; and demanded Standard Oil to stop importing Mexican crude oil and use more oil from Louisiana.

Long became chairman of the commission in 1922, known by then as the “Public Service Commission.”

Huey Long announced his candidacy for Louisiana governor in August of 1923.

He campaigned throughout the state, as well as in rural areas disenfranchised by the Louisiana political establishment, known as the “Old Regulars.”

He did not make it past the primary that year, even though received 31% of the vote from the electorate and carried 28 parishes, more than his opponents.

It was the only election Long ever lost.

Long spent the next four years building his political organization and reputation.

Also, Government mismanagement as a result of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 from the people affected by it aided Huey Long.

The most destructive river flood in U. S. history, it was estimated to cost upwards of $1 billion in damages, and caused the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom joined the “Great Migration,” also known as the “Black Migration,” from the rural south to the industrial cities of the North and Midwest, that took place roughly between 1910 and 1970.

He launched his second campaign for governor in 1927, using the slogan “Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.”

Among other things, he used trucks with loudspeakers and radio commercials in his campaign.

He won the 1928 election for governor with 96.1% of the vote in the general election, and was the youngest governor elected in state history at the age of 35.

Upon entering office on May 21st of 1928, Long fired hundreds of opponents in the state bureaucracy at all levels, and replaced them with patronage appointments of his political supporters, who were expected to pay a portion of their salary into his campaign fund.

This was his office in the Old Louisiana Governor’s Mansion in Baton Rouge, said to have been built under his supervision in 1930, and inspired to resemble the White House in Washington, DC.

It is now an historic house museum under the stewardship of an organization called “Preserve Louisiana.

The previous Governor’s Mansion in Baton Rouge, the Knox Mansion said to have been built in 1857, was demolished by convicts from the State Penitentiary under the direction of Huey Long.

After Long had strengthened his control over the state political apparatus, he proceeded to push bills through the state legislature to fulfill campaign promises using aggressive tactics to ensure their passage.

Long met considerable resistance from legislators after calling the legislature into special session in 1929 in order to enact a 5-cent per barrel tax on refined oil production, and his opponents introduced an impeachment resolution against him with nineteen charges listed.

He was ultimately impeached on eight-of-the-nineteen charges in the Louisiana House but avoided conviction in the Senate, in which conviction required a two-thirds majority, particularly when fifteen Senators signed a statement pledging to vote not-guilty regardless of the evidence.

In March of 1930, Long established his own newspaper, called the “Louisiana Progress,” which promoted his political aims and attacked his opponents.

The newspaper was renamed “The American Progress” in 1935, and went national to promote Long’s “Share Our Wealth” program and his ambitions for running for President in 1936.

Not long after his impeachment proceedings, Long announced his candidacy for the U. S. Senate in the 1930 Democratic Primary.

By this time, Huey Long was known as “the Kingfish,” a name he bestowed upon himself after an “Amos ‘n’ Andy” character from the radio show which first aired in 1928, and was later turned into a television series from 1951 to 1953.

The Kingfish in “Amos ‘n’ Andy” was a man whose life revolved around his lodge, the Mystic Knights of the Sea.

The radio show had black characters, but was created, written, and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who also happened to be Freemasons and Shriners.

Sure looks like these two Freemasons were engaged in the creation of racial stereotypes…

…like what Bohemian Club member Mark Twain was doing in his literary classic “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”

And I don’t think Aunt Polly’s fence was the only thing being white-washed in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”

Long won the Senate seat for a term that started while he was still Governor of Louisiana.

This led to a showdown between Long, and his Lieutenant-Governor Paul Cyr, who declared himself the State’s legitimate Governor in October of 1931, and who threatened to undo Long’s reforms.

Using a combination of the Louisiana National Guard and the Louisiana Supreme Court, Long successfully prevented Cyr from claiming the Governorship because he had vacated the Lieutenant-Governorship and had the court eject Cyr, making Long both Governor and Senator-elect.

He was able to concentrate his power into a political machine, and continued his practice of a patronage system placing his supporters into positions of influence and power.

Long’s opponents argued that he became the dictator of Louisiana.

Long’s legacy as Governor of Louisiana was said to be his creation of an unprecedented public works program resulting in the construction of roads, bridges, hospitals, schools and state buildings, which would have taken place during the Great Depression.

Infrastructure attributed to Huey Long includes:

The Huey P. Long Bridge, a cantilevered, steel through-truss bridge carrying six-lanes of U.S. 90 and two-tracks of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad across the Mississippi River, said to have been constructed between January of 1933 and December of 1935…

…the Field House at Louisiana State University, said to have been constructed in 1932 with a post office, ballroom, gymnasium, and the largest swimming pool in the United States at the time…

…the swimming pool of which was abandoned after the Natatorium for the LSU swim teams was completed in 1985…

…and the new Louisiana State Capitol building in Baton Rouge, said to have been constructed between 1930 and 1931, and inaugurated in May of 1932.

The Louisiana State Capitol Building in the middle brings to mind Moscow State University on the left, said to have been built in the Stalinist Architectural style between 1947 and 1953, and on the right, the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia, said to have been built starting in 1922, and opening in 1932.

Long continued to effectively maintain control of Louisiana as Senator, and by 1935, his consolidation of power led to those in opposition to him forming what was called the “Square Deal Association” in January of 1935, which included two former governors and the Mayor of New Orleans.

On January 25th of 1935, armed “Square Dealers” seized the East Baton Rouge Parish Courthouse.

In response, Long had the Governor, his long-time friend and supporter, Oscar Allen, call in the National Guard and declare Martial Law, banning public gatherings of more than two people and forbidding criticism of state officials.

The Square Dealers left the courthouse, and the only resulting incident was a brief armed skirmish at the airport, leaving one person wounded but no fatalities.

In the summer of 1935, Long called for two special legislative sessions, which passed laws further centralizing Long’s control over the state, and which stripped away the remaining powers of the Mayor of New Orleans.

On September 8th of 1935, Long was at the State Capitol to pass a bill that would gerrymander the district of an opponent, Judge Benjamin Pavy.

After the bill passed, Long was shot in the torso at close range, according to the official narrative, by a lone gunman, Baton Rouge physician Dr. Carl Weiss, the son-in-law of Judge Pavy.

Dr. Weiss was immediately shot by Long’s body-guards, with his autopsy findings showing that he was shot over 60 times.

Long’s funeral was held in Baton Rouge on September 12th, with an estimated 200,000 people in attendance, and he was buried on the grounds of the Louisiana State Capitol complex and memorialized by a statue of him directly facing the State Capitol building on his gravesite.

So, here we have a man who was beloved by the People for his anti-establishment rhetoric, and hated by his enemies, whose ambition for power was dictatorial in nature and whose platform was radical socialism, even though he was called a “Populist member of the Democratic Party,” and was also credited with monumental building projects as part of his legacy.

Something seems very fishy about this man and his whole story, leading to more questions than answers.

Who was this guy?

Travelling salesman, turned attorney, turned politician, turned virtual dictator?

What was really going on here?

I mean, doesn’t he even loo like he is telling a fish story in this photo of him?

Telling a “fish story” is slang for an improbable, boastful tale after the tendency of fishermen to exaggerate the size of the fish they have either caught or lost.

The other statue representing Louisiana is that of Edward Douglas White, a politician and jurist who was a Supreme Court justice for 27-years, and became the 9th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910.

Edward Douglas White was born in November of 1845 about 30-miles, or 48-kilometers, west of New Orleans, on his family’s sugar plantation in Thibodaux, the county seat of Lafourche Parish, which is today still-standing at the E. D. White Historic Site.

His father, Edward Douglas White Sr, a lawyer and judge who served in the U. S. House of Representatives and as Governor of Louisiana, died in 1847, and his mother, a descendent of the Lee family of Virginia and Maryland, remarried in 1850, to a French-Canadian immigrant merchant, Andre Brousseau, and the family moved to New Orleans in 1851.

Starting at the age of 6, Edward Douglas White Jr. attended a Jesuit school in New Orleans, and then starting in 1856, he and his brother attended the Catholic Mount Saint Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Then in 1858, White enrolled in Georgetown University, a distinctly Jesuit institution of Higher Education.

White’s Jesuit training was said to have influenced his legal philosophy later in life, with an emphasis on formal logical reasoning.

White left Georgetown without a degree after the American Civil War started, during which time he was mentioned as having fought for the confederacy in Louisiana.

White’s Confederate Civil War service was documented in two places, one in an account of his capture on March 12th of 1865 in an action in Morganza, in Pointe Coupee Parish, in the “War of the the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies…”

…and his service records in the National Archives, the building for which we are told was constructed between 1933 and 1935.

More Depression-era, monumental architecture, like what we saw attributed to Huey Long in Louisiana.

While White’s membership in the Ku Klux Klan was contested, with some saying he was a member, like D. W. Griffith, who made the movie “Birth of a Nation,” others said there was not enough evidence to support that claim…

…he was also reported as having served on the Reception Committee in 1877 of the Knights of Momus in New Orleans, the second-oldest krewe of the Mardi Gras Parade.

The 1877 parade theme for the Knights of Momus was “Hades, a Dream of Momus” and caused an uproar because it took aim at the Reconstruction government established in New Orleans after the Civil War.

The Knights of Momus withdrew from participating in the Mardi Gras parade in 1991 after an ordinance was passed that required all social organizations, including Mardi Gras krewes, to certify publicly that they did not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, handicap, or sexual orientation, to obtain parade permits and other public licensure.

Operating continuously since its founding, the Knights of Momus still hold an annual Bal Masque at the Orpheum Theater on the Thursday before Mardi Gras.

After the Civil War ended, White began studying law in New Orleans at what was named at the time the University of Louisiana Law School, which became Tulane University.

He was admitted to the bar and started practicing law in New Orleans in 1868.

In 1874, White served in the Louisiana State Senate; on the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1878 to 1880; and in 1891, was elected as U. S. Senator by the Louisiana State Legislature to succeed James B. Eustis.

Eustis was another lawyer-turned-politician from New Orleans. He graduated from Harvard in 1854 and was admitted to the bar in 1856. He served as President Grover Cleveland’s ambassador to France from 1893 to 1897.

Eustis was married into the Buckner Family, which included his father-in-law, New Orleans cotton broker Henry Sullivan Buckner, and nephew Mortimer Norton Buckner, a Yale graduate turned travelling salesman and insurance salesman who ended up in New York in 1901, and served as President and Chairman of the Board of the New York Trust Company, the New York Clearing House, and the National Credit Corporation.

Just a little side-trip to give an example of how these interesting connections keep coming up!

White was nominated by President Grover Cleveland to be an Associate Supreme Court Justice on February 14th of 1894, and was confirmed by voice vote on the same day.

This was after President Cleveland’s first two Supreme Court nominees had been rejected by the Senate.

White was part of the majority decision in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case in the Supreme Court, which upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal.

White also participated in the Insular cases, which took place in the early 20th-century, involving the relationship of the United States to the territories acquired in the 1898 Spanish-American War, and, for example, was part of the majority ruling in the 1901 Downes v. Bidwell case that the newly-annexed territories were not properly part of the United States for the purposes of the Constitution, though the guarantees of a citizen’s rights of liberty and property were applicable to all.

President William Howard Taft nominated White to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on December 12th of 1910, and he was again confirmed by voice-vote on the same day as his nomination.

He officially became the 9th Chief Justice a week later.

White originated the term “Rule of Reason,” which is a legal doctrine used to interpret the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, one of the cornerstones of Anti-Trust law in the United States.

He also joined the ruling that the Federal Government could not ban child labor in the 1918 Hammer v. Dagenhart case, in which the Supreme Court struck down a federal law regulating child labor.

White wrote the Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the 1916 Adamson Act, which mandated an eight-hour workday for railroad employees.

The 1918 Selective Draft Law Cases in his court upheld the 1917 Selective Service Act, which upheld the military draft.

White died in May of 1921 and was buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, DC.

The State of Maine is represented by Hannibal Hamlin and William King in the National Statuary Hall.

Hannibal Hamlin was an American attorney and politician who served as the 15th Vice-President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 during President Abraham Lincoln’s first-term, and the American Civil War.

Hannibal Hamlin was born in August of 1809 in Paris, Maine.

He was a grandnephew of Samuel Livermore of New Hampshire.

Along with district schools, Hamlin attended Hebron Academy, one of the nation’s oldest endowed preparatory schools, having been established in 1804.

Beginning in 1827, Hamlin published the political newspaper the “Oxford Jeffersonian” newspaper in Paris, Maine, which became the “Oxford Democrat” under two of his apprentices, George Millet and Octavius King.

I find interesting to note that this said-to-be sparsely populated, agrarian part of Maine, was noted as having over 25 newspapers in the late 1700s to 1900s.

Why so many?

I don’t have an answer…just curious.

Hamlin studied law with attorney and Maine state politician Samuel Fessenden’s law firm and was admitted to the bar in 1833.

He started his law practice in Hampden, Maine, where he lived until 1848.

Hamlin was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1835, which marked the beginning of his political career.

He was appointed a major on the staff of Maine’s Governor, John Fairfield, and he served in the militia during the 1839 Aroostook War, in which no blood was shed.

This was a military – civilian-involved international confrontation between the United States and the United Kingdom between 1838 and 1839 over the international boundary between the State of Maine and the British colony of New Brunswick.

The boundary was established in 1842 with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, giving Maine most of the disputed area, while preserving an overland connection between Lower Canada and the Maritime colonies.

Later, Hamlin was elected to two terms in the U. S. House of Representatives, and served between 1843 and 1847.

Then, in 1848, he was elected by the Maine State Legislature to fill a U. S. Senate vacancy, and in 1851, was elected to a full-term in the Senate.

Though elected Governor of Maine in 1857, he was only in office for a month before he resigned and returned to the Senate.

Hamlin started out as a Democrat, but joined the newly-organized Republican Party in June of 1856, after the Democratic Party endorsed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.

The Missouri Compromise was federal legislation that had passed in 1820 that balanced the desires of northern states to prevent the extension of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it.

The Republican Party nominated Hannibal Hamlin of Maine to serve as Vice-President of the United States in the 1860 election on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln of Illinois nominated as President, for the given reason of regional balance.

At the time, the office of Vice-President was part of the Legislative branch of the U. S. government with the role of President of the Senate, and not the Executive branch, and as such Hamlin did not attend Cabinet meetings.

In June of 1864, Lincoln was renominated as President by the Republicans, but Hamlin was not. Instead, they nominated former tailor-turned-politician Andrew Johnson as Lincoln’s running mate.

Johnson was seen as a capable military governor of occupied Tennessee, and the Republicans were looking ahead to southern Reconstruction as well as broadening their base of support.

Hamlin’s Vice-Presidency brought in 50-years of sustained national influence for the Maine Republican Party.

Between 1861 and 1911, Maine Republicans were in the offices of Vice-President; Secretary of the Treasury; Secretary of State; President of the U. S. Senate; and Speaker of the U. S. House.

Hamlin was elected to the U. S. Senate two-more times, starting in 1867, and his last political appointment was as U. S. Ambassador to Spain under President James A. Garfield, a position which he held from June of 1881 to October of 1882.

Hamlin died on July 4th of 1891, having collapsed while playing cards at the Tarrantine Club in Bangor, Maine – a club of which he was one of the founders in 1884, and its first club President.

The couch he died on is still on display at the Bangor Public Library…

…and he was buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, the second-oldest garden cemetery in the United States, after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts, which it was said to have been modelled after.

Also known as the “Rural Cemetery Movement,” Garden Cemeteries 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 “Garden 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.

Their popularity decreased, we are told, 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.

I find the “Rural Cemetery Movement” cropping up in history in the early- mid-19th-century, and ending, for all-intents-and-purposes at the end of the 19th-century to be particularly noteworthy, since the research I have done on what the official narrative tells us points right to this same time-period as being when the New World Order history reset really got underway.

The other statue representing Maine in the National Statuary Hall is one of William King.

William King was an American merchant, ship builder, army officer and statesman from Bath, Maine, who became the first Governor of Maine when Maine separated from Massachusetts in 1820.

King’s father Richard was a merchant and ship-owner, and he was born in February of 1768 at Scarborough, Maine.

Maine was part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay of Britain’s colony in America at that time in history.

He was said to have attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, for a term, though he was largely self-educated.

Phillips Academy is one of the oldest incorporated secondary-schools in the United States, having been established in 1778.

In 1787, King left Scarborough at the age of 19 to live with his sister and brother-in-law in Topsham, Maine.

Between the years of 1780 and 1820, the District of Maine was the governmental designation for what became the State of Maine when it was admitted to the Union in 1820.

The District of Maine was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which was admitted to the Union as a State in February of 1788.

Interestingly, when I was looking information up on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts becoming a State in 1788, I encountered the Massachusetts Act banning “Any African or Negro,” which was made law on March 26th of 1788, apparently in response to Prince Hall leading black masons to petition the court in 1788 to put an end to the slave trade.

Two things I want to draw to your attention in the wording of this law is that first, it does not apply to African or Negroes that are subjects of the Emperor of Morocco or a citizen of one of the States that can prove it.

Why would subjects of the Emperor of Morocco be specifically mentioned in this law?

What if what became known as America was originally part of Morocco, and this knowledge deliberately removed from our collective awareness and the civilization was intentionally destroyed?

The second is that this law was punitive towards the African or Negroes themselves, not the slave traders. If they didn’t leave within ten days, they would be committed to a house of correction, where it says un-hard labor but would seem to mean on hard labor, and if they continued to stay, they were to be whipped and then forced to leave in ten days.

This is a 1775 map of the Shawmut Peninsula, which we know as Boston, and of which Beacon Hill was the center.

Land reclamation took place here roughly between 1820 and 1900 to create land, where there was originally water, around the original peninsula.

The area originally had three hills.

Pemberton Hill and Fort Vernon Hill were near Beacon Hill, and both of these hills were levelled for Beacon Hill development.

Beacon Hill itself was reduced from 130-feet, or 42-meters, to 80-feet, or 24-meters, between 1807 and 1832.

Boston’s Fort Independence was the location where Prince Hall, and fourteen other men of African-American descent, became Freemasons in their initiation into the British Army Lodge 441 of the Irish Registry, after having been declined admittance into the Boston St. John’s Lodge.

He was the founder of Prince Hall Freemasonry, and the African Grand Lodge of North America.

Until Prince Hall found a way in, Moorish Americans were denied admittance into Freemasonry. There are 360-degrees in Moorish Masonry, compared to the 33-degrees of Freemasonry.

Masonry is based on Moorish Science, which also includes the study of natural and spiritual laws, esoteric symbolism, natal and judicial astrology, and zodiac masonry.

With regards to zodiac masonry, this is where the perfect alignments of infrastructure on earth with the sky comes from – the consummate alignment of earth with heaven that is seen around the world – like the lunar roll along the top of this recumbant stone in Crowthie Muir in Scotland…

…and the alignment with the Orion constellation at the ancient stone circle of Nabta Playa in Egypt.

The Moors were the custodians of the Ancient Egyptian mysteries, according to George G. M. James in his book “Stolen Legacy.”

You see these precise astronomical alignments with what would be considered more modern infrastructure as well.

I mean, someone knows about the Moors and what happened to them.

They are just not telling us directly.

Back to William King.

In 1795, William King became active politically, representing Topsham in the Massachusetts House of Representatives until 1799.

In 1799, King moved to Bath, Maine, where he served as Bath’s Representative in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1800, and then as Senator for Lincoln County in 1807 to 1811.

King worked his way up the ladder from his beginnings working on the family farm and in various mills.

He was credited with buildingat least 14 ships, and was either owner or part-owner of 35 merchant ships involved in trade with England, the West Indies, and various ports in the United States.

He married his wife, Ann Frazier of Boston, shortly after moving to Bath, and they built their home, “Stone House,” overlooking the wharves on the Kennebec River where his merchant fleet was docked.

King was considered Bath’s leading citizen, and besides hosting parties in his mansion, he started the South Church in 1805, initially a Congregational Church but later abandoned by them and purchased by the Irish Catholics.

The South Church was said to have been burned down by an angry mob during what is known to history as the Anti-Catholic Riot in 1854, when a group of local citizens was enraged to violence by a travelling street preacher named John Orr, who called himself the “Angel Gabriel,” preaching anti-Catholic sentiment in town.

At the beginning of the War of 1812, he became a Major-General in the Massachusetts militia in charge of the District of Maine.

He was said to have played a key role in enlisting troops and organizing coastal defenses to protect the Maine coast against attack from the British.

He also was a leader in recruiting efforts for the regular army, for which he was made a Colonel in the U. S. Army.

In 1813, King started a petition process for Maine to become separate from Massachusetts.

King was re-elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 1816, and in 1818, the approval was secured for Maine to become a separate state.

The Missouri Compromise allowed Maine to become a state on March 15th of 1820 and shortly thereafter, William King was elected Governor.

William King was also a Scottish Rite Freemason, and he became the first Grand Master of Maine in June of 1820 after becoming Maine’s first Governor.

President James Monroe named King one of three commissioners in May of 1821 to settle land claims resulting from the Adams-Onis Treaty, a position for which King resigned the Governorship of Maine and held until 1824.

The 1819 Adams-Onis Treaty was a treaty between the United States and Spain that ceded Florida to the United States, and defined the boundary between the U. S. and New Spain.

King was appointed by President Andrew Jackson in 1828 as Customs Collector of Bath.

The job of Customs Collector was to collect taxes on goods imported from other countries.

The construction of the historic Customs House in Bath was said to have started in 1852 and completed in 1858.

The building was made out of granite with iron beams inside the stone wall, and considered unusual for the time because of its “fire-proof” construction.

Even though King’s formal education was limited, he served as a Trustee for both Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, which was chartered in 1794…

…and for Waterville College, now called Colby College, which was established in 1813.

In June of 1852, William King died at home, and was buried in Bath’s Maple Grove Cemetery.

The Governor King Monument pictured here was said to have been erected in 1855 in memory of him at his burial site.

Charles Carroll and John Hanson represent the State of Maryland in the National Statuary Hall.

Charles Carroll of Carrollton was an Irish-American politician, planter, and the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.

He was considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and was known as the “First Citizen” of the American Colonies.

He received the “First Citizen” designation for the given reason this was his pen name for his articles in the “Maryland Gazette.”

Charles Carroll of Carrollton was born in September of 1737 in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of Charles Carroll of Annapolis, a wealthy Maryland planter and lawyer, and the grandson of Charles Carroll the Settler, an Irishman who secured the position of Attorney General of the young colony of Maryland from George Calvert, First Baron Baltimore and immigrated there in October of 1688.

The Colony of Maryland was established in the 1630s on land granted by a hereditary charter to the Calvert family, and intended as a haven for English Catholics and other religious minorities.

The young Charles Carroll received a Jesuit education, starting at the Jesuit preparatory school at Bohemia Manor in Cecil County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay…

…and then starting at the age of 11 was sent to Jesuit schools in France, including the College of St. Omer in northern France…

…and later the Lycee Louis-le-Grand in Paris, from which he graduated in 1755.

For the next 10 years, Carroll studied in Europe, and read law in London before returning to Annapolis in 1765.

He was granted Carrollton Manor, known as D0ughoregan Manor, by his father, which was why he received the name “Charles Carroll of Carrollton.”

Doughoregan Manor is located west of Ellicott City, Maryland, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.

As a Catholic, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was barred by Maryland Statute from entering politics, practicing law and voting.

This did not stop him from becoming not only one of the wealthiest men in Maryland, but of anywhere in the British Colonies, with his extensive agricultural estates, which besides Doughoregan, included Hockley Forge and Mill, called a collection of colonial-era industrial buildings along the Patapsco River near what is now Elkridge, Maryland, and Carroll provided the capital to finance new enterprises on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

In the early 1770s, when the dispute between Great Britain and her colonies in America became more intense, Carroll engaged in a debate via letters that were written anonymously and published in the Maryland Gazette.

Carroll under the pen name of “First Citizen” argued for maintaining the right of the colonies to control their own taxation, becoming a prominent spokesman against the Governor’s proclamation increasing legal fees to state officers and Protestant clergy.

Daniel Dulany the Younger, a noted lawyer and British loyalist politician in Maryland, opposed Carroll in these written debates, writing as “Antillon.”

Carroll’s fame and notoriety began to grow as the identity of the two anonymous debaters became known, and following these written debates, Carroll became a leading opponent of British rule and served on various committees of correspondence, and believed that only the violence of war could break the impasse with Great Britain.

He was a delegate to the Annapolis Convention, the revolutionary government of Maryland before the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Charles Carroll was elected to the Second Continental Congress on July 4th of 1776, arriving too late to vote on it, but he was there to sign it.

At the time, he was the richest man in America.

He remained a delegate of the Second Continental Congress until 1778, and during his term, he served on the War Board and gave considerable financial support to the Revolutionary War.

Carroll returned to Maryland in 1778 to help form the state government there.

He declined re-election to the Continental Congress in 1780, but was elected to the Maryland Senate in 1781, and served there until 1800.

I guess by that time, Catholics were no longer barred y statute from hold political office.

He was also elected to the U. S. Senate during this time by the State Legislature, in which he served from March of 1789 to November of 1792.

He had to resign his U. S. Senate seat, however, because Maryland passed a law barring anyone from serving in state and federal office simultaneously, and he preferred his State Senate job.

After retiring from public life in 1801, Carroll helped established the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which was founded in 1827 and broke ground for the construction of its headquarters and America’s first commercial railroad tracks on July 4th of 1828.

This is where aspects of the influential Carroll family of Maryland and Charles Carroll’s life and the history of the B & O Railroad intersect.

Mount Clare is called the oldest Colonial-era structure in Baltimore, Maryland, and was built on a Carroll-family plantation starting in 1763 by Charles Carroll the Barrister, a distant cousin of Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

This is what we are told.

The street grid of the city of Baltimore near Mount Clare began to grow and inch towards the southwest, with the dense development of streets and alleys of different styles of brick row-houses by the 1820s, and there was competitive economic pressure with the opening of the Erie Canal to develop the Port of Baltimore and the accompanying transportation systems like the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad with this new transportation technology from Great Britain and the proposed Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, of which both projects broke ground on the same day – July 4th of 1828 – and that there was an intense rivalry between the two.

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company was formed in 1827, of which Charles Carroll of Carrollton was one of its Directors, and he was the one that had the honor of laying the first stone for the railroad at the ceremony after the celebratory festivities at the July 4th ground-breaking in 1828, near the Mount Clare Mansion.

The Mount Clare Shops, of which this aerial photo is circa 1971, is the oldest railroad manufacturing complex in the United States, located on a portion of the Carroll family’s Mount Clare Estate, and the mansion left the family’s ownership in 1840.

Mount Clare Station was first said to have been erected in the 1830s and the Roundhouse in 1884, with the current Mount Clare Station building having been constructed in 1851.

Today the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, we are told the original Mount Clare passenger station, the first in the nation, was abandoned, and was located where the parking lot is for the museum is today.

Carroll was elected into the American Antiquarian Society in 1815, a national research library of pre-20th-century American history and culture, and the oldest historical society with a national focus, having been founded in 1812.

Its mission is to collect, preserve, and make available for study all printed records of what is known as the United States of America.

The seal of the American Antiquarian Society translates from the Latin of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book 15, Line 872: “Now I have completed my work, which neither sword nor devouring Time will be able to destroy.”

The written word can be manipulated to put out the narrative you want for posterity.

Architecture not so much.

This is the American Antiquarian Society building in Worcester, Massachusetts, said to have been designed by the arciectural firm of Winslow, Bigelow & Wadsworth in Georgian or Colonial-Revival style and completed in 1910.

Carroll died at the age of 95 in November of 1832, the oldest-lived Founding Father.

His funeral took place at the cathedral in Baltimore…

…and he was buried in the Manor Chapel on his estate at Doughoregan.

John Hanson is the other statue representing Maryland in the National Statuary Hall.

This what we are told about John Hanson in today’s historical narrative.

John Hanson was a Founding Father of the United States, and a merchant and public official from Maryland in the American Revolution-era.

He was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1779 and signed the Articles of Confederation in 1781, and that same year was elected as the first “President of the Confederation Congress,” sometimes called the first “President of the United States in Congress Assembled,” with some biographers asserting that this made him first President of the United States.

Hanson was born in Port Tobacco on a plantation called “Mulberry Grove” into a wealthy and prominent family in Maryland’s Charles County in April of 1721.

His father Samuel was a planter, as well as a politician who served two terms in the Maryland General Assembly.

We are told little is known of Hanson’s early life, except that he followed in his father’s footsteps as a planter-turned-politician.

Hanson’s political career began in 1750, when he was appointed Sheriff of Charles County, and 1757, he was elected to represent Charles County in the Lower House of the Maryland General Assembly, serving for 12 years in this capacity, and sitting on many important committees.

In 1769, he sold his land in Charles County, and moved to Frederick County, Maryland, where he held public offices such as deputy surveyor, sheriff, and county treasurer.

It is interesting to note that there are Compass Meridian Stones are in Frederick Maryland, the seat of Frederick County.

We are told they were established in Frederick in 1896 as the result of the work done by two surveyors, Lawrence Brengle and Thomas Woodrow, to accurately measure what was known as “Frederick Town” in 1820, and this helped others, to realize the importance firstly of precise and accurate surveying measurements, and secondly, of the establishment primary reference monuments and survey calibration baselines.

The “Compass Meridian Stones” in Frederick are on opposite sides of the lawn of the old courthouse, which is now the City Hall, and established as a North-South baseline in Maryland that surveyors used to annually check for variations in their compasses here and were required to report them to the Clerk of the Court to register them.

Polaris, commonly known as the “Pole Star” or the “North Star,” is visible from this location, and the two stones have been measured to align with the north.

Polaris is famous for appearing to stand-still in the night sky while the northern sky moves around it.

When relations between the American Colonies and Great Britain went south in 1774, John Hanson became a leading patriot of Frederick County.

He was a delegate to the Maryland Convention in 1775, and, along with the other delegates, he signed the “Association of Freemen” on July 26th of 1775, which expressed hope for reconciling with Great Britain but also called for military resistance to the Coercive Acts, a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, after the Boston Tea Party.

When hostilities were underway, Hanson chaired the Frederick County Committee of Observation within a patriot organization that assumed control of governing local areas.

Hanson was responsible for recruiting and arming local soldiers and Frederick County was the first to send southern troops to George Washington’s Army, and he financed much of the war effort from western Maryland out of his own money.

Also, Hanson chaired the Frederick County meeting in June of 1776 that urged Maryland leaders in Annapolis to instruct its delegates in the First Continental Congress to declare independence from Great Britain.

In 1777, Hanson was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates, and then in 1779, the House of Delegates named him as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, and he began his time of service in Philadelphia in June of 1780.

Along with Daniel Carroll, Maryland’s other delegate to the Continental Congress at this time, Hanson signed the Articles of Confederation with the other states’ delegates on March 1st of 1781, at which time they officially went into effect.

The Second Continental Congress elected Hanson as its President in November of 1781.

Both Legislative and Executive government was vested in the Congress under the Articles of Confederation, so the Presidency of Congress was largely a ceremonial position, and Hanson served as a neutral discussion moderator, handled official correspondence, and signed documents.

He served in this position for a year, after which time, he retired from public office and was in poor health.

Hanson died on November 15th of 1783 while visiting Oxon Hill Manor, the plantation of his nephew, Thomas Hawkins Hanson, and which where he was buried.

The original Oxon Hill Manor was said to have burned, and the mansion there today was said to have been built in 1928 by Summer Welles, the U. S. Undersecretary of State during President Franklin Roosevelt’s administrations from 1936 to 1943.

Here’s the thing.

There are two versions of who John Hanson actually was, and they definitely do not look like the same person!

I dunno.

I have memories of learning when I was much younger, like it feels like it was before the internet came into being, that the first President of the Continental Congress was a black man named John Hanson, and this is what I was able to find on the subject in an internet search now.

While there is a persistence to that version as to the identity of that John Hanson still in existence to this day…

…the discrepancy with two different historical persons having the same name has been explained that they are in fact different people from different times, and that the black John Hanson was a different John Hanson with very little biographical information that was born in Liberia on an unknown birthdate, was a merchant and Senator from Liberia who was born into slavery and purchased his freedom, who emigrated to Baltimore at the age of 36, and who died in 1860 on an unknown date.

The State of Massachusetts is represented by Samuel Adams and John Winthrop in the National Statuary Hall.

Samuel Adams was an American statesman, politician, Founding Father of the United States, and one of the architects of the principles of American Republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States.

Samuel Adams was born in Boston in the British Colony of Massachusetts in September of 1722, one of three children who survived out of 12 born to his parents, brewer Samuel Adams Sr. and Mary Fifield Adams.

They were Puritans, and members of the Old South Congregational Church, which is famous as the place where the Boston Tea Party was organized.

This is a photo of the original Old South Meeting House circa 1900…

…which still stands today at the corner of Milk and Washington Streets in Boston’s Downtown Crossing area.

We are told that the present building of the Old South Congregational Church was completed in 1873 after the Old South Meeting House was almost destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872.

Is it just me, or does the Old South Church’s cornerstone look a little strange?

It looks plastered over, and is not the same material as the stone surrounding it.

And the “16” of the “1670” date sure looks like it was worked with more than once.

The elder Samuel Adams, a Deacon of the church, entered politics through an informal political organization known to history as the “Boston Caucus,” which he was one of the founders of.

The “Boston Caucus” promoted candidates who supported popular causes in the years before and after the American Revolution, typically meeting in the smoke-filled rooms of taverns or pubs.

The younger Samuel Adams attended the Boston Latin School, which was established in 1635, and the oldest public school in British America and the oldest existing school in the United States.

Adams entered Harvard College in 1736 and graduated in 1740.

He continued in his studies, earning a Master’s Degree in 1743.

He was particularly interested in politics and colonial rights.

Founded in 1636, Harvard College, the original school of Harvard University, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

Harvard University is located right across the street from the Boston Latin School, and among many other universities and museums, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is only a short-walking-distance from the Boston Latin School.

The largest art theft in U. S. history took place on March 18th of 1990, at which time twelve paintings and a Chinese Shang Dynasty vase, all together worth $100 to $300 million, were stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Museum.

There is still a $10 million reward in place today for information leading to the recovery of the art work.

The museum was said to have been built between 1898 and 1901, with the design heavily influenced by art-collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart Gardner herself on the left, in the style of a 15th-century Venetian Palace, of which the 15th-century Palazzo Santa Sofia in Venice on the right is an example of this type of architecture.

The art museum is located near the Back Bay Fens, one of the areas of Boston that was reclaimed between 1820 and 1900, and said to have been designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as part of Boston’s Emerald Necklace system of parks.

Back to Samuel Adams.

Adams considered going into law after leaving Harvard in 1743, but ended up going into business, working at a counting house until he was let go after a few months because he was too preoccupied with politics.

His father subsequently made him a partner in the family’s malthouse, where the malt necessary for brewing beer was produced.

He was first elected into political office in 1747 as one of the clerks of the Boston Market, and in 1756, he was elected to the position of Tax Collector by the Boston Town Meeting.

In January of 1748, Samuel Adams and some friends launched “The Independent Advertiser,” which advocated republicanism, liberty and independence from Great Britain, after he and his friends became inflamed by British impressment, where men were forcibly taken into military or naval service.

He went into what can best be described as full-on political activism against Great Britain.

The 1764 Sugar Act passed by the British Parliament was a revenue-raising act for goods which could only be exported to Britain.

It was protested in the colonies for its economic impact, as well as the issue of taxation without representation, by merchants boycotting British goods and Samuel Adams drafted a report on the Sugar Act for the Massachusetts Assembly, in which he called the Sugar Act an infringement of the rights of the colonists as British subjects.

The Sugar Act was repealed in 1766 and replaced with the Revenue Act that same year, which reduced the tax to one penny per gallon on molasses imports.

The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765, which required colonists to pay a new tax on most printed materials.

Adams supported the calls for a boycott of British goods to pressure Parliament to repeal the tax.

Riots from groups like the Loyal Nine, a precursor to the Sons of Liberty, during this time resulted in some homes and businesses being destroyed, and the jury is out on whether or not Adams was directly involved in directing violent agitators in protest.

Adams was appointed to the Boston Town Meeting in September of 1765 to write the instructions for Boston’s delegation to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and he was selected to become a Representative for Boston later that same month.

Adams was the main author of several House resolutions against the Stamp Act, and he was also said to be one of the first colonial leaders to argue that mankind possessed certain natural rights that governments could not violate.

The Stamp Act did not go into effect when it was supposed on November 1st of 1765 because protestors throughout the colonies had forced stamp distributors to resign and the tax was subsequently repealed in March of 1766.

Next came the Townshend Acts.

The Townshend Acts were established by the British Parliament in 1767, establishing new duties on goods imported to the colonies to help pay for the costs of governing the American colonies.

The revenues generated from this were to be used to pay for governors and judges independent of colonial control and compliance enforced by the newly created American Board of Custom Commissioners, headquartered in Boston.

Resistance grew to the Townshend Acts and Samuel Adams organized an economic boycott through the Boston Town Meeting, and called for other towns and colonies to join the boycott.

Samuel Adams wrote what became known as the “Massachusetts Circular Letter,” calling on the colonies to join Massachusetts in resisting the Townshend Acts, which was approved by the Massachusetts House on February 11th of 1768, after having not been approved at first.

Lord Hillsborough, the British Colonial Secretary, instructed colonial governors to dissolve their assemblies if they responded to the letter, and directed the Massachusetts Governor, Francis Bernard, to have the Massachusetts House rescind the letter, which the House refused to do.

Governor Bernard dissolved the legislature after Samuel Adams presented another petition to remove the Governor from office.

The Commissioners of the Customs Board requested military assistance from Great Britain when they found they could not enforce trade regulations in Boston, and a 50-gun warship arrived in Boston Harbor in May of 1768, the HMS Romney.

Tensions escalated when the captain of the Romney began to forcibly impress local sailors to serve on the HMS Romney.

This led to Customs officials seizing a ship belonging to John Hancock named “Liberty” for alleged customs’ violations, and a riot broke out when sailors from the HMS Romney came to tow the “Liberty.”

This in turn led to Massachusetts Governor Bernard writing to London in response to this incident and requesting that troops be sent to Boston to restore order, and Lord Hillsborough ordered four regiments of the British Army there, with the first troops arriving in October of 1768.

In September of 1768, When Governor Bernard refused the request of the Boston Town Meeting to convene the General Court upon learning about the incoming British troops, the Boston Town Meeting called on other Massachusetts towns to send representatives to meet at Faneuil Hall starting on September 22nd, and one-hundred towns sent delegates to the convention, which issued a letter stating that Boston was a lawful town, and that the pending military occupation would violate the natural, constitutional, and charter rights of the citizens of Boston.

The British occupation of Boston was said to have been a turning point for Samuel Adams according to some accounts, who started working towards American independence and gave up hope for reconciliation with Great Britain.

He wrote a number of letters and essays against the occupation, considering it a violation of the 1689 Bill of Rights, which was an act of Parliament seen as a landmark in English Constitutional Law that laid out basic civil rights.

The “Journal of Occurrences” publicized the occupation of Boston throughout the colonies in a series of unsigned articles that may or may not have been written by Adams.

The articles were claimed to be a factual daily account of events in Boston under British occupation, depicting unruly British soldiers assaulting citizens on a regular basis with no consequences to them.

Publication of the “Journal of Occurrences” ended on August 1st of 1769, when Governor Bernard permanently left Massachusetts.

Two British regiments were removed from Boston in 1769, and two remained.

The Boston Massacre took place in March of 1770.

Five civilians were killed by British soldiers in a crowd of several hundred who were said to have been taunting the soldiers.

The incident was well-publicized by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, and was depicted in Revere’s 1770 engraving pictured here.

The situation quieted down somewhat after the Boston Massacre, with Parliament repealing the Townshend Acts in April 1770, with the exception of the tax on tea.

Samuel Adams continued to urge the colonists to boycott British goods, but the boycott faltered because of the improvement of economic conditions.

Adams and his associates came up with a system of “Committees of Correspondence” between towns in Massachusetts in November of 1775, where they would consult with each other on political matters by way of messages sent through these committees that recorded British activities and protested British policies.

These committees of correspondence soon formed in other colonies as well.

The new Massachusetts Governor, businessman and Loyalist politician, Thomas Hutchinson, became concerned that the Committees of Correspondence System was becoming an independence movement.

The Governor addressed the Massachusetts legislature and argued that denying the supremacy of Parliament came dangerously close to rebellion.

Adams and the House responded to him by saying that the Massachusetts Charter did not establish Parliament’s supremacy over the province, so Parliament could not claim that authority.

This exchange was published and publicized in the widely distributed “Boston Pamphlet.”

Samuel Adams was said to have been a leader in the events leading up to the Boston Tea Party that took place in December of 1773 in our historical narrative.

The British Parliament had passed the Tea Act in May of 1773 to help the British East India Company, who had amassed a surplus of tea that it could not sell.

The Tea Act allowed the East India Company to sell the tea directly to the colonies , granting them significant cost advantage over local merchants and reduction in their taxes paid in Great Britain while at the same time keeping the Townshend duty on tea imported in the colonies.

In late 1773, seven ships were sent to the colonies carrying the surplus tea, with four bound for Boston Harbor.

Adams and the Committees of Correspondence promoted opposition to the Tea Act, and with the exception of Massachusetts, every colony was successful in not having the tea delivered.

Governor Hutchinson was determined to hold his ground and have the tea delivered to those designated to receive it.

All other efforts to prevent the tea from being unloaded having failed, on the night of December 16th of 1773, approximately 342 chests of tea were dumped overboard in the course of three-hours by a large group of men known as the “Sons of Liberty.”

Samuel Adams publicized the event and defended it, arguing that the Boston Tea Party was not the act of a lawless mob, but the only remaining option left to people to defend their rights.

Great Britain’s response to the Boston Tea Party was the introduction of the Coercive, also known as Intolerable, Acts, of which the first was the Boston Port Act, enacted in March of 1774, and effective June 1st, which closed Boston’s commerce until the British East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea.

The May of 1774 Massachusetts Government Act rewrote the Massachusetts Charter, making numerous officials royally-appointed as opposed to elected.

Also passed by the British Parliament in May of 1774, the Administration of Justice Act allowed colonists charged with crimes to be transported to another colony or to Great Britain for trial.

General Thomas Gage was the new Royal Governor of Massachusetts appointed to enforce the Coercive Acts, and he was also the commander of British Military forces in North America.

Samuel Adams worked to coordinate resistance to the Coercive Acts.

In May of 1774, with Adams moderating, the Boston Town Meeting organized a boycott of British goods.

In June of 1774, he chaired a committee in the Massachusetts House behind locked doors which proposed what became the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and to which Samuel Adams became one of five delegates from Massachusetts.

The First Continental Congress took place at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia between September 5th and October 26th of 1774.

Delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies discussed how the colonies could work together in response to the British government’s coercive reactions in Massachusetts.

They agreed on a “Declaration and Resolves,” a statement that outlined colonial objections to the Coercive Acts, and concluded with the plan of the First Continental Congress to enter a boycott of British trade until the grievances were resolved.

They sent a petition to King George III pleading for resolution of their grievances and repeal of the Coercive Acts, which had no effect.

In November of 1774, Adams returned to Massachusetts and served in the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, which created the first Minutemen companies – militia ready to act on a moment’s notice.

Both selected as delegates to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, which was scheduled to start meeting in May of 1775, Samuel Adams and John Hancock attended the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in Concord, Massachusetts, in April of 1775, and then decided to stay in Hancock’s childhood home in Lexington before heading to Philadelphia after deciding it wasn’t safe to return to Boston.

After having received a letter from Lord Dartmouth, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, on April 14th of 1775 advising arrest of the principal people of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, General Gage, the Massachusetts Governor and commander of British Military forces in North America sent out a detachment of soldiers a few days later, on April 18th, to seize and destroy military supplies that the colonists had stored in Concord, and possibly to arrest Adams and Hancock, though this order is in dispute historically because it wasn’t in his written orders.

Regardless, the Patriots believed otherwise, and Paul Revere was dispatched on horseback from Boston on his famous midnight ride, to both alert the colonial militia that the “British are coming,” and warn Hancock and Adams about their potential arrest.

As Hancock and Adams made their escape, the American Revolutionary War began in Lexington and Concord on April 19th of 1775.

The exact role of Samuel Adams in the proceedings of the Second Continental Congress was not known because of its secrecy rule, but he was believed to have been a major influence in steering the Congress toward independence.

He served on numerous committees, including ones dealing with military matters, and it was he who nominated George Washington to be Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.

On June 7th of 1776, Samuel Adams’ ally, Richard Henry Lee from Virginia, introduced a three-part resolution calling for the Second Continental Congress to declare independence, create a colonial confederation, and seek foreign aid.

This resulted in the Continental Congress approving the language of the Declaration of Independence and its signing on July 4th of 1776.

Adams remained active in the Second Continental Congress, also having a hand in drafting the Articles of Confederation in 1777, the plan for colonial confederation, and he continued to serve on various military committees.

He retired completely from the Continental Congress in 1781.

Not bad for a guy who started out his career in the beer-making business!

Adams had returned to Boston in 1779 to attend a state constitutional convention, at which time he was appointed to a three-man committee to draft a new state constitution.

The new Massachusetts Constitution was amended by the convention approved by voters in 1780, and is among the oldest functioning constitutions in continuous effect in the world.

Adams continued to remain active in politics after his return to Massachusetts, putting his focus on the promotion of virtue.

He occasionally serving as moderator of the Boston Town Meeting, and he was elected to the State Senate.

Shays’ Rebellion took place in rural western Massachusetts from August of 1786 to February of 1787, in response to a debt crisis among the people and in opposition to the state government’s increased efforts to collect taxes on individuals and their trades.

It was led by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays who led 4,000 rebels in protest against economic and civil rights’ injustices.

Interestingly, where Samuel Adams approved of rebellion against an unrepresentative government, he opposed the taking up of arms against a Republican form of government, where problems should be remedied through elections.

He urged the Governor, James Bowdoin, to put down the uprising using military force, so he sent 4,000 militiamen to quell the uprising.

Shay’s Rebellion led to the creation of the United State Constitution, which started at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, because it contributed to the belief that the 1777 Articles of Confederation needed to be revised.

The United States Constitution came into force in 1789 as the supreme law of the United States.

The original Constitution is comprised of seven articles.

Its first three articles embody the doctrine of “Separation of Powers;” its next three articles embody the concepts of “Federalism,” and the rights and responsibilities of state governments; and its last article established the procedure used to by the thirteen original states to ratify it.

The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as the “Bill of Rights,” which were ratified by the first U. S. Congress, on December 15th of 1791, offer specific protection for individual liberty and justice, and place restrictions on the power of government.

Samuel Adams was elected Lt. Governor of Massachusetts in 1789, a position in which he served until Governor John Hancock’s death in 1793, at which time he became acting governor.

The following year, Adams was elected as the Massachusetts Governor, a position in which he served between October of 1794 and June of 1797.

In Massachusetts, Samuel Adams was considered a leader of the Jeffersonian Republicans, also known as the Democratic-Republican Party, a political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed things like Republicanism, agrarianism, political equality and expansionism.

This was in opposition to the Federalist Party, a conservative party that was founded in 1789, and the first political party in the United States.

It was led by people like Alexander Hamilton and Samuel’s cousin John Adams, and favored centralization, federalism, modernization, industrialization, and protectionism.

Samuel Adams supported the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion for the the same reasons he supported the suppression of Shay’s Rebellion.

The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the will and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws.

The Whiskey Tax was very difficult to collect, and was finally repealed in the early 1800s under President Thomas Jefferson.

Adams retired from politics after his term as Governor ended in 1797, and he died on October 2nd of 1803, at the age of 81, and was buried in Boston’s Granary Burying Ground…

…and also where Paul Revere was laid to rest.

No mention of his famous midnight ride, or much of anything on his grave-marker.

Paul Revere’s grave-marker reminded me of the simple grave-markers at Boot Hill in Tombstone, Arizona, famous for the “Gunfight at O. K. Corral” between the Earps and the cowboy outlaws.

The Granary Burying Ground’s Gate and fence was said to have been designed in Egyptian-Revival-style by Isaiah Rogers in 1840…

…and Isaiah Rogers was said to have designed an identical gateway for Newport, Rhode Island’s Touro Synogogue Cemetery in 1842.

Speaking of Egyptian Revival Style architecture, there’s a stunning example of it at the Downtown Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, said to have been designed by architect William Strickland, and completed in 1846.

One more thing before I move on.

This is what came up when I searched for “Was Samuel Adams a Freemason?”

I found Samuel Adams mentioned as a Freemason in an article from June of 2009 on the antiquesandthearts.com website about the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts celebrating 275 years of brotherhood.

The article mentioned things like the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston being the unofficial Headquarters of the American Revolution…

…as well as the meeting place for the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, which had purchased the Green Dragon Tavern in 1764, and used it as a meeting place until 1818.

Also mentioned in this article is that it was the origin point for the Boston Tea Party participants and Paul Revere’s midnight Ride, as well as mentioning that there were Freemasons among the British soldiers occupying Boston, which are called “Brethren.”

So, who’s their loyalty to? Their countries or each other?

Samuel Adams was mentioned as a Freemason in this article…

…and I wonder if he belonged to the York Rite of Freemasonry, since there is what appears to be a Templar cross next to his gravestone, and “Knights Templar,” the final order joined in the York Rite…

…because Samuel Adams was not mentioned on the “Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite” website, but the following men were listed as Freemasons of the Independence.

George Washington.

Well, no surprise there. I knew that about him a long time ago, and it even says in the description that he was one of the most famous Founding Fathers and Freemasons in American History.

Benjamin Franklin.

No surprise there either, though I don’t think he was as well known to the general public as a Freemason as George Washington was.

The last two mentioned as Freemason on this website page were John Hancock…

…and Paul Revere.

Again, not surprising to find out these men were Freemasons, but it is very interesting to me in terms of what this might represent in the bigger picture of what has been actually been taking place on Earth, especially in light of the role played by other Freemasons in our historical narrative.

John Winthrop is the other statue representing Massachusetts in the National Statuary Hall.

John Winthrop was an English Puritan lawyer, and led the first wave of colonists from England in 1630 and a leader in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major British Colony after the founding of Plymouth Colony in 1620.

John Winthrop was born in January of either 1587 or 1588 in Suffolk, England.

His father Adam was a prosperous landowner and lawyer, and his mother Annie came from a well-to-do landowning family as well.

The Winthrop family was granted Groton Manor after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, as the Lord of the Manor had previously been the Abbot of the Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, and John’s parents moved in when he was young.

The Dissolution of the Monasteries took place between 1536 and 1541, in which King Henry VIII disbanded the approximately 850 monasteries, convents and friaries in England, and leaving none.

Their income was taken and assets disposed of, and in many cases, like that of Glastonbury Abbey, the buildings on the property were left in ruins.

The Winthrop Coat of Arms was confirmed to John’s uncle by the College of Arms in 1592.

The College of Arms was said to have been first incorporated as a Royal Corporation in March of 1484 under King Richard III, and then re-incorporated in 1555 under Queen Mary I of England.

During King Henry VIII’s reign, it was said that the College of Arms “…at no time since its establishment, was the college in higher estimation, nor in fuller employment, than in this reign.”

The College of Arms has been on Queen Victoria Street in the City of London in the shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral since 1555.

This is the Coat-of-Arms for the College of Arms, with the motto “Diligent and Secret,” which interestingly the heraldry-wiki doesn’t know the meaning of.

Could it possibly mean exactly what it says – diligent and secret?

Like we don’t want you to know something, but we are sure working hard at what we are doing!

This would explain a question I am often asked – how to explain something like a mud flood event and repopulation effort involving lots of orphans when some people have long genealogies in their families, and I am one of them, with long genealogies on all my family lines, including ancestors on the Mayflower on my paternal grandmother’s side.

Yet my husband’s family got the name Gibson from an orphan ancestor that worked on a cattle drive for a man named Gibson, and he took his name.

Another question that comes to my mind is why does the word “arms” refer both to heraldry devices and weapons?

I have had some major questions about King Henry VIII’s role in the historical narrative.

Many star forts were attributed to having been built during his reign, like the Portland Castle on the Isle of Portland between 1539 and 1541…

…and Sandsfoot Castle in neighboring Weymouth, completed in 1542 and that both were meant to defend the original harbor against French and Spanish invaders.

During this same period of time, the Jesuit Order was formed in 1540 by a papal bull issued by Pope Paul III, under the leadership of Ignatius Loyola, and included a special vow of obedience to the Pope in matters of mission direction and assignment.

In 1542, Pope Paul III also established the Holy Office, also known as the Inquisition and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Copernicus’ Universe-changing book was published shortly before his death on May 24th of 1543.

Anyway, back to John Winthrop.

Winthrop entered Trinity College at Cambridge University in 1602.

Trinity College was founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII.

Interesting to note that this architectural-style found at Trinity College looks just like college architecture found all around the world, with examples shown here at Korea University in Seoul, Korea, on the top left; Sydney University in Sydney, Australia, on the top right; Mainz University on Mainz, Germany on the bottom left; and at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma on the bottom right.

John Winthrop left Trinity College in 1605 to get married to Mary Forth, the daughter of a family friend.

In 1613, Winthrop’s father transferred the family holdings in Groton to him, and he became Lord of the Manor at Groton.

Lord of the Manor referred to the landholder of a rural estate, enjoying manorial rights, which was the right to establish and occupy a residence, and seignory, the right to grant or draw benefit from the estate.

Also sometime around 1613, Winthrop enrolled in Gray’s Inn, where he read law but did not advance to the Bar.

Gray’s Inn is one of the four inns of court in London – along with the Lincoln Inn, Inner Temple, and Middle Temple – that educate and train barristers in order to be able to practice law in England and Wales.

The early records of all four inns of court were lost, and the exact dates of their founding is not known.

The records of Gray’s Inn are lost up until the year of 1569, but was believed to date back to around 1370.

Winthrop’s wife Mary died in 1616, and he was remarried to Thomasine Clopton, who also died in 1616, in childbirth in December of that year.

Through his legal connections, he began courting Margaret Tyndal, the daughter of chancery Judge Sir John Tyndal and Anne Egerton, the sister of Stephen Egerton, aleading Puritan preacher of his time.

John Winthrop and Margaret Tyndal were married in April of 1618.

At some point not long after they were married, John acquired a position at the Court of Wards and Liveries and travelled between London and Groton, where his wife and eldest son John from his first marriage managed the manor when he was away.

The Court of Wards and Liveries was established starting in 1540 during the reign of King Henry VIII by two Acts of Parliament – the Court of Wards Act of 1540 and the Wards and Liveries Act of 1541.

It was established around the issues of practical matters relating to the Crown’s right of wardship and livery of young orphaned heirs where their father had been a Tenant-in-Chief of the Crown, including having rights over the deceased’s estate, including income and land, so this special court also administered a system of levying and collecting feudal dues.

Does this mean that there were so many orphaned heirs that they had to establish a special court to handle them?!

And what is Livery?

Well,if you look up the meaning, livery is an identifying design, such as a uniform, ornament, symbol, or insignia that designates ownership or affiliation.

Most often it would indicate the wearer of the livery was a servant, dependent, follower or friend of the owner of the livery.

Apparently the “Office of Liveries” was joined with the “Court of Wards” in 1542.

I find this information about the “Court of Wards and Liveries” very intriguing, and would love to know more about what was going on here that is not found in the historical record.

Perhaps there was more to it than just a way of replenishing the Royal Treasury and controlling wards and the administration of their lands, which is found in the historical record.

But was there a connection between the English words “livery” and “delivery,” where definitions of delivery include 1) the transfer of something from one place or person to another; 2) the process of giving birth; and in law 3) the formal or symbolic handing over of property to a grantee or third-party.

There was an atmosphere of intolerance towards Puritans and this state-of-affairs led Puritan leaders to consider emigration to the New World as means to escape persecution.

The establishment of Plymouth Colony on the shores of Cape Cod Bay in 1620 was the first successful religious colonization of the New World.

In 1629, a charter was received by Puritan investors that became known as the “Massachusetts Bay Company” to govern a land grant of territory between what became known as the Charles River in eastern Massachusetts and the Merrimack River, which starts in New Hampshire and flows southward into Massachusetts.

Puritan John Endecott led a small group of settlers to the area around this time to prepare the way for a larger migration, and he became the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1629 to 1630, and served as governor several more times over the years, for a total of sixteen years all together.

The exact connection by which John Winthrop got involved with the Massachusetts Bay Company is not known, but he had connections with individuals associated with the company.

Also in 1629, King Charles I dissolved Parliament, beginning a historical period known as “11 years of rule” without Parliament.

This worried Massachusetts Bay Company principal investors, and John Winthrop as well, who had lost his position with the Court of Wards and Liveries in the crackdown on Puritans that took place with the dissolution of Parliament.

The Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company proposed the company reorganize and transport its charter and governance to the colony, and as the months went on, John Winthrop became more involved with the company, and a major supporter of emigration there.

John Winthrop was a signatory on the Cambridge Agreement, which was signed on August 29th of 1629 by company shareholders.

Under its terms, those who wanted to emigrate to the New World could purchase shares from those shareholders who didn’t want to leave home.

The Cambridge Agreement also set forth that the Massachusetts Bay Colony would be under local control, and not governed by a London-based corporate board.

The company shareholders met in August of 1629 to enact the agreement.

At this time, John Winthrop was chosen as the new Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company, and, along with other company officials, set about making all the necessary arrangements for the venture of settling in the New World.

John Winthrop was on one of four ships of the transport fleet that left the Isle of Wight on April 8th of 1630.

All together, there were eleven ships that carried roughly 700 emigrants to the new colony.

John Winthrop, with the charter for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in hand, and the new colonists arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, in June of 1630, and were welcomed by John Endecott.

Winthrop found the Salem area inadequate for the arrival of all the new colonists, so he and his deputy, Thomas Dudley, surveyed the area, and eventually settled on the Shawmut Peninsula, where they founded what became the city of Boston.

They also established settlements along the coast, and banks of the Charles River, we are told, in order to avoid presenting a single point that hostile forces might attack.

So along with Boston, these settlements were Cambridge, Roxbury, Dorchester, Watertown, Medford, and Charlestown.

This map was the illustration that appeared opposite the title page of William Wood’s book from that time entitled: “New Englands Prospect” and called “A true, lively and experimentall description of that part of America commonly called New England; discovering the state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to the old native inhabitants. Laying down which that which might enrich the knowledge of the mind-travelling reader, or benefit the future voyager.”

This selection from William Wood’s book was of a map showing the plantations along Massachusetts Bay, and the word or name Sagamore is showing in several places.

The word “Sagamore” or “Sachem” apparently denoted a leader of the Algonquin-speaking peoples.

I just want to say that it is extremely difficult to find information about who the Algonquin people really are because the visuals we see are typically like this.

Here is an historic photograph that I came across of the Algonquin Narragansett people of Rhode Island, circa 1925.

We are told that in its early months, the new colony struggled, losing around 200 people to various diseases.

Winthrop worked alongside the laborers and servants in the work of the colony, setting an example for the other colonists to do all the work that needed to be done on the “plantation.”

Interesting to see the word “plantation” used so much even from the very beginnings of the New World.

In the history of colonialism, plantation was a form of colonization where settlers would establish a permanent or semi-permanent settlement in a new region.

Looks like the colonizers were literally “planting” themselves in a new place.

Not only were settlements and settlers being planted in a new region from somewhere else, this plantation system of the colonizers quickly laid the foundation for slavery on large farms owned by “planters” where cash crop goods were produced.

…creating all kinds of long-term problems.

The British Plantations of Ireland replaced the Irish language, law and customs with those of the British, created sectarian hatred between Protestants and Catholics, and Northern Ireland is still part of Britain to this day.

Back to John Winthrop.

This plaque memorializes John Winthrop’s first house in Boston, said to have been built nearby.

The marker was placed on the old Boston Stock Exchange Building, located at 53 State Street, by the City of Boston in 1930.

The old Boston Stock Exchange Building was said to have been built between 1889 and 1891 from designs by the architectural firm of Peabody & Stearns, and one of the largest office buildings in America back in the day, and in its hey-day housed banks, corporations, safe-deposit vaults, lawyers, and businessmen.

Governor Winthrop was also granted an estate on the southern bank of the Mystic River in Somerville, Massachusetts, by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in September of 1631 that he called “Ten Hills Farm.”

It was so-named for what were called “ten small knolls” on the property, which included orchards and meadows for grazing cattle.

Ten Hills Farm was inherited by his son, John Winthrop, Jr, in 1649, who was the Governor of the Connecticut Colony between 1659 and 1676.

Today Ten Hills is a neighborhood of Somerville.

On the other side of the Mystic River from Ten Hills Farm was a shipyard owned in absentia by Mathew Cradock, one of the original principal investors of the Massachusetts Bay Company, and it was there that one of the colony’s first ships was said to have been built, the 30-ton “Blessing of the Bay,” and first launched on July 4th of 1631.

It was operated by John Winthrop as a trading and packet ship up and down the coast of New England, but only for a short time as the ship “disappeared from view,” possibly wrecked on the capes in 1633 on a voyage to Virginia with a load of fish and furs.

Winthrop was a big regional landowner.

He also owned the land that became the town of Billerica…

…Governor’s Island in Boston Harbor…

…and Prudence Island in Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.

Winthrop spent a lot of time writing, including his “The History of New England: 1630 – 1649,” also known as “The Journal of John Winthrop,” which was apparently not published until the late 18th-century.

John Winthrop died of natural causes in March of 1649 and was buried in the King’s Chapel Burying Ground, the oldest cemetery in Boston and a site on the Freedom Trail.

The Freedom Trail is a 2.5-mile, or 4-kilometer, -long path through Boston with sixteen locations significant to the history of the United States that was established in 1951.

I am going to end this post here, and in the next part of this series will be look at the representatives in the National Statuary Hall of the states of Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi and Missouri.