Tag: Moorish

What if something very different has been going on here on Earth from what we have always been taught to believe, and that what has been happening is only for the benefit of a very few, and not for the benefit of all?

I have come to the conclusion after years of research that there is much to question in the official history and science that has come down to us as unquestionable truths, and have decided to approach the subject about what might be really going on here from the perspective of the “Elite Enclaves of the New World,” so I have pulled together many of my research findings over this years about this topic, and new research I have done for this post, and what this might mean in the bigger picture.

“Elite Enclaves” commonly refer to the geography of high-income communities, and in this post, I am going to be specifically looking at places where elite families have lived, as well as vacationed in the summer months, since the early days of the United States; who lived in these place prior to these elite families; and speculate as to the reason why they may have chosen these places above all others.

The original civilization of the Earth was nothing at all like what we have been taught, even though the clues and evidence for the highly-advanced, original ancient advanced civilization surround us all over the Earth.

We don’t recognize the clues and evidence as such because we have no points of reference for them because Earth’s True History is not included the historical narrative we have been given, and instead have been given a fictional explanation for our history and how everything came to be in our world.

I am going to start by looking at the traditional lands of the Algonquin-speaking Lenape people, also called the Lenni Lenape and the Delaware Indians.

Lenape lands included present-day New Jersey; eastern Pennsylvania along the Delaware River watershed; New York City; western Long Island; and the Lower Hudson Valley.

According to the history we have been taught, everything changed for the Lenape who lived here after Henry Hudson sailed up what is now called the Delaware River in 1609, and this painting depicts what we are taught to believe about all the original people of this land – that they were hunter-gatherers living off the land, and framing the European colonizers as the builders of infrastructure and civilization in the so-called New World.

I am going to give you examples from here of why that narrative doesn’t quite hold up under scrutiny, and also about the fascination and interest the wealthy elites of American society have long had with this region.

So, for example, the highly-affluent Philadelphia suburbs along the railroad tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad are collectively called the “Main Line.”

The “Main Line” region was part of the “Lenapehoking,” the homelands of the Lenape people that ranged from western Connecticut to Delaware.

“Main Line” towns had the country estates of the wealthiest families of Philadelphia, including those from “Old Money” and “New Money.”

The “Old Philadelphians” is the name given to the First Families of Philadelphia from the old Colonial-era that are considered part of the historic core of the East Coast Establishment, the dominant social group comprised of a self-selecting, closed circle of elite families.

So in the example of the “Main Line” in Philadelphia, I am going to look at families like the Biddles, Drexels and the Hires.

Firstly, the Biddle family is one of the classic “Old Money” Philadelphia families, and considered part of the city’s historical social aristocracy.

The most famous family member was Nicholas Biddle, one of the most important financiers of the early republic.

Nicholas Biddle served as President of the Second Bank of the United States, which was headquartered in the Custom House in Philadelphia, which was said to have been built between 1819 and 1824.

Biddle represented elite centralized finance and he became nationally famous during the “Bank War” with President Andrew Jackson.

The “Bank War” took place between 1832 and 1836, and ultimately resulted in the dissolution of the Second Bank of the United States when President Jackson refused to recharter this Federal Bank, instead removing federal deposits and expanding state banks.

The Biddle family had several “Main Line” estates, but their family estate that really got my attention was not directly on the Main Line, though it is in the Greater Philadelphia area.

The ancestral home of the Biddle family was “Andalusia,”northeast of Philadelphia on the Delaware River in Bensalem Township, and is open to the public these days for tours.

The family estate is located on 75-acres, or 30-hectares, of land, with a mansion said to have been built as a summer home in 1795 that is considered one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in the United States, and proportionally massive compared to the average height of people in our recent history as seen in this photo.

The mansion features original art, sculptures, and rare books & manuscripts that offer a glimpse into the opulent lifestyle of early American high society.

The estate contains formal and informal gardens, and an accredited arboretum with over 250 unique species of plants and trees.

There are several things that I would like to mention here.

The first is Andalusia, the name of the estate.

Andalusia is the southernmost region of Spain.

It is noteworthy for its association with Moorish Spain, a nearly 800-year-period between 711 AD and 1492 AD in our historical narrative that the Moors were recognized for their contributions to civilization, and where they were credited with introducing such things as advanced science and magnificent architecture.

The city of Granada in Andalusia is where the beautiful complex of the Alhambra is located.

The Alhambra is perhaps the most famous example of Moorish architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of Moorish Spain.

The early American novelist Washington Irving first published his “Tales of the Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards” in 1832.

We are told that Washington Irving was in Spain between 1826 and 1829, during which time he published a biography of Christopher Columbus in 1828…

…and he published a book in 1829 after travelling to Granada on “A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada,” a history of the years 1478 to 1492, and during which time he had also gathered the legends and tales about the Alhambra.

In my post “The Backfill of History and the Shaping of Our New Historical Narrative,” I have expressed my belief among other things that famous authors were being used as programming devices with which to shape our collective minds with a new historical narrative and history that we have been thoroughly educated in, and completely covering up what was once a worldwide ancient Moorish Civilization.

I have identified a 450-year timeline between the Fall of the Moors in Granada in 1492, and 1942, midway through World War II, with 1717 as the mid-point year, that I believe our new false paradigm was based on, and believe that at some point in our narrative, world history has been fabricated and backfilled, and that at some point in our relatively modern history, likely sometime in the 1700s, history became real with the Controllers writing themselves in to the new historical narrative.

More on this to come.

Next, there are two things that I would like to note about Bensalem Township in Pennsylvania.

The first thing is that Bensalem was the name of the mythical utopian island in Sir Francis Bacon’s “New Atlantis” that was first published 1626, after his death in April of that same year.

“New Atlantis” was said to portray a future vision of human discovery and knowledge, and the novel depicts an enlightened utopian land where qualities like generosity, high moral character, and honesty were commonly held by the inhabitants of a mythical island he called “Bensalem.”

There was a state-sponsored scientific institution on Bensalem called “Salomon’s House,” said to envision in the book the modern research university in applied and pure sciences.

I believe Bacon’s “New Atlantis” was actually describing the original advanced and worldwide Moorish civilization, which was the same civilization we know of as Atlantis, that existed in our relatively recent past.

The second thing I would like to mention about Bensalem Township is that it is the current location of the bronze sculpture of a giant disembodied horse’s head called “Horse at Water” at the Parx Casino and Racetrack entrance, a thorough-bred horse-racing venue.

The sculpture was originally installed at the Marble Arch in London in 2011, and sculpted by British artist Nic Fiddian-Green.

They seem to be trying to make a connection between the disembodied horse’s head as somehow symbolizing horses in general and therefore perfectly natural to have at the entrance of a thoroughbred horse-racing venue, but no matter how you spin it, the disembodied horse’s head is still perceived as creepy in the public eye.

I provided numerous examples from around the world, including this one, of bizarre and shocking art in very public places in my blog post “Really Creepy Public Art,” and framed my belief at the end of it that this creepy public art is some sort of soft disclosure, designed to circumvent the requirement of needing to tell us what they have done and are doing to Humanity, without telling us they are telling us, by 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.

Really Creepy Public Art

Next, the Drexel family.

The Drexel family was one of the classic Main Line families from the Gilded Age and the early 20th-century.

The family’s wealth originated in Center City Philadelphia banking through Drexel and Company, and we are told the Drexel family was very influential in the development of Philadelphia and the surrounding area.

Francis Martin Drexel was an Austrian-American painter and banker who founded the banking house of “Drexel and Company” in Philadelphia in 1837, which became one of the largest banks in the United States.

The firm initially specialized as a currency brokerage firm, specializing in discounting privately-issued bank notes and trading foreign exchange, which laid the foundation for it to become a global financial powerhouse.

Anthony Joseph Drexel, the son of Francis, played a major role in the rise of global finance after the American Civil War.

He founded “Drexel, Morgan and Company” in 1871, with J. P. Morgan as his junior partner.

J. P. Morgan was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the period of time called the “Gilded Age,” between the years of 1870 and 1900.

He was a driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidation in the United States in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries.

Morgan was behind the formation of the U. S. Steel Corporation, General Electric, and International Harvester, among many other mergers.

J. P. Morgan’s father was Junius Spencer Morgan.

Junius Spencer Morgan was the founder of the company that would become J. S. Morgan & Company in 1864, that was the successor company to the London-based George Peabody & Company, of which he became the Junior Partner in October of 1854.

In 1854, Morgan was put in charge of the firm’s iron portfolio, which included the marketing of railroad bonds in London and New York.

Back in Philadelphia, perhaps the most famous Drexel Estate on the “Main Line” is the Wootton Estate in Radnor.

It is described as a magnificent summer estate developed by publisher George Childs and his partner Anthony Joseph Drexel.

It featured a 50-room mansion that was said to have been built in 1881, and since 1950 has been the home of the St. Aloysius Academy, the only private, Catholic, all-boys school in the Philadelphia-area.

A couple of interesting side-notes here.

One is that the second-American saint born in the United States, Saint Katherine Drexel, was the daughter of banker Francis Anthony Drexel, the oldest son of Francis Martin Drexel and brother of Anthony Joseph Drexel.

In 1891, she founded what was called the “Congregation of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People” in Bensalem, in which she used the vast wealth of $20-million she inherited from her father to finance schools and missions for Native Americans and African-Americans in our historical narrative.

This is the Saint- Katharine Drexel Mission Center and Shrine in Bensalem.

Also interesting to note that Anthony Joseph Drexel was the first president of the Fairmount Park Art Association, the nation’s first private organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning that was established in Philadelphia in 1872.

Today, the Association for Public Art works with the city’s Public Art Office, Fairmount Park, and other agencies responsible for placing and caring for outdoor sculptures in Philadelphia.

Like the “Government of the People” statue in the plaza of the Municipal Services Building in Center City, Philadlephia.

It is described thus: A tower of intertwined human arms, legs, and torsos that are arranged in a three-tier totem, with a family at the base representing life; a young couple above representing hope; and figures at the top holding a turbulent shape that is meant to symbolize the banner and flag of Philadelphia.

Fairmount Park in Philadelphia was the location of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, the first official World’s Fair in the United States,

We are told it was held to celebrate the 100th-Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

German architect Herman Schwarzmann was given the credit for designing all the buildings for the Centennial Exposition, starting in 1869.

This is the Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, said to have been built as the Art Gallery for the 1876 Centennial Expo, and the only major structure from that exhibition to survive to the present day.

It is currently called the Please Touch Museum, which focuses on teaching mostly children seven-years-old and younger through interactive exhibits and special events.

This was inside the original Horticultural Hall, no longer standing, that was said to be designed for the 1876 Exposition in the Moresque style of the twelfth-century…

…and looks a lot on the outside on the top, like some Oklahoma High Schools to me, like this historic photo of the original Central High School in Tulsa, on the bottom.

The largest Corliss Steam Engine ever built, with its 1,400-horsepower engine, was on display in, and generated all the energy used in, the Machinery Hall during the 1876 Exhibition.

The Corliss Steam Engine was said to have been invented by George Henry Corliss, and patented in 1849. It is a steam engine fitted with rotary valves and variable valve timing, and generally 30% more fuel efficient than conventional steam engines.

Somebody left me this comment after I uploaded the video four years ago called “Exposing Exihibitions, Expositions, and World Fairs Since 1851” about the Corliss Engine looking like a Rukma Vimana.

I looked it up, and sure enough, it does look like a Rukma Vimana!

This was the frontal view of the Corliss steam engine from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition on the left, and an illustration of the Rukma Vimana on the right.

Vimanas have come down to us as ancient flying vehicles that are described in ancient Indian texts.

Lastly for families on the “Main Line,” on the “Lenapehoking,” the homelands of the Lenape people, I want to look at the Hires family.

Charles E. Hires created “Hires Root Beer,” which gained popularity in the 1870s.

The Hires Family came into prominence in the Gilded Age through manufacturing and consumer products and would be considered more “new money” by Philadelphia standards of the day.

He was described as a pharmacist, who developed health remedies and flavoring extracts as he developed his root beer drink, the first successful commercial root beer soft drink.

Charles Hires also owned sugar plantations in Cuba and dairies for his condensed milk factories and plants in the Philadelphia-area and across the country.

Charles Hires had a 21-acre, or 8 1/2-hectare, estate in Merion Station called Rose Hill, as well as one on Buck Lane in Haverford.

There was also the Wanamaker family, which had the Lindenhurst Estate in Jenkinstown, north of Philadelphia, but not directly part of the “Main Line” suburbs of wealthy families.

The Wanamaker family, like the Hires family, was also a “New Money” family, from the Gilded Age, rising to prominence through John Wanamaker, the founder of “Wanamaker’s Department Store” and which went on to became one of the most important and influential department stores in American retail history.

Department stores emerged in the 19th-century as a new way of organizing retail, where one store sold a huge range of goods instead of buying from open-air markets, specialty stores, peddlers and dry-goods stores.

American department stores developed rapidly after the Civil War, which took place in our narrative between 1861 and 1865.

They emerged with industrialization and the mass production of consumer goods; the rise of railroads and steamships facilitating the distribution of goods nationwide; and advertising through newspapers and catalogues.

Interesting to note the Moorish-looking appearance of the 1876 Wanamaker’s Department Store building in Philadelphia shown here.

Wanamaker’s was comparable in prestige and scale to Macy’s in New York, and Selfridge’s in London, though it no longer exists as a retail business.

The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, the largest fully-functioning pipe organ in the world, today is located in the 7-story Grand Court of Macy’s Center City, formerly Wanamaker’s Department Store.

Said to have been built for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, it has 28, 750-pipes and is famous for its orchestra-like sound as it was designed to imitate a full-size orchestra.

After the World’s Fair in St. Louis, it was said to have languished in storage until 1909, at which time it was purchased by John Wanamaker for his department store in Center City, Philadelphia.

Macy’s Center City is literally just around the corner from the Philadelphia City Hall.

This part of Philadelphia is the historic center of the city.

Philadelphia’s City Hall is the world’s tallest, free-standing masonry building, said to have been designed in the ornate Second French Empire-style of Emperor Napoleon III, and constructed from brick, white marble, and limestone between 1871 and 1901.

At the time it was completed, it was said to have the tallest clock-tower in the world.

Before I go further, I would like to mention it was when I was researching “Creating the New World from the Old World – Part 3 The Centuries of Exploration” in June of 2020 that I first came to believe that the history about early explorers in school and in our culture is back-filled information and did not really happen as we have been taught, including but not limited to, Henry Hudson who we are told changed everything for the Lenape of this region.

At that time, I found this 1909 publication about Henry Hudson by Thomas Allibone Janvier, described as an American story-writer and historian.

Earlier biographies of Henry Hudson included a book about Henry Hudson that was published by G. M. Asher in 1860 entitled “Henry Hudson the Navigator,” which served as a foundational biographical source for later writers…

…and one that was published by Edgar M. Bacon in 1907 called “Henry Hudson: His Times and His Voyages.”

When I was researching the Hudson River, I found out that a replica of Henry Hudson’s ship the “Half Moon” was said to have been built in 1912 and moored at the dock of the Bear Mountain State Park on the Hudson River.

With regards to the history of this 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 Averill 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.

The firm Harriman Brothers & Company grew out of the business empire of W. Averrill Harriman and E. Roland Harriman, the sons of railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman.

Harriman Brothers & Company merged with the Brown Brothers, originating from Alex. Brown and Sons, the first investment banking firm in the United States in 1800, to become known as the “Brown Brothers Harriman & Company,” one of the oldest and largest private investment banks in the United States.

Founding partners of the “Brown Brothers Harriman & Company” included W. Averill Harriman, the son of railroad baron Edward Henry Harriman and Mary Harriman, and Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman…

…and Prescott Bush, American banker and politician, and the father of President George H. W. Bush.

Investment banker E. Roland Harriman, AKA “Bunny,” was also the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross from 1950 to 1973.

Prescott Bush and E. Roland Harriman attended Yale University at the same time, where they were both members of the “Skull and Bones” Society.

Over the years I have been researching, I have encountered people like Ernst Georg Ravenstein, who was born in Germany in 1834, publishing books in the 19th-century about famous early explorers.

Like Bartolomeu Dias, the Portuguese explorer said to have sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, in 1488, setting up the route from Europe to Asia later on.

Ravenstein was credited with writing the first biography of Dias that was originally published in 1900 and republished in 2010.

Ravenstein was also said to have translated the only known copy of a journal believed to have been written on-board ship during Portuguese explorer’s Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India, which was published in 1898, who made it to India in a journey between 1497 and 1499 in our historical narrative.

Next I am going to move on into the State of New Jersey from the Philadelphia-area, and look at places like Ong or Ong’s Hat, Lake Lenape, Atlantic City, Sayreville, the Navesink Twin Lights, and Holmdel.

First, Ong.

While it is not an elite enclave, I believe it is part of the story of what has taken place here to bring us to the world we live in today.

Ong, or Ong’s Hat, is a ghost town in the Brandon T. Byrne State Forest, and the northern terminus of the Batona Trail, a 53.5-mile, or 86.1-kilometer, hiking trail through the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

Ong is 29-miles, or 47-kilometers, east of Philadelphia.

Ong’s Hat was also considered one of the earliest, internet-based, conspiracy theories.

Ong’s Hat is also listed as the first Alternate Reality Game (ARG) on many lists of ARGs.

We are told that “Ong’s Hat” was a work of alternate-reality collaborative fiction, beginning back in the 1980s and embedded in various media to establish a backstory, and that author Joseph Matheny concluded the project.

Interesting to note on this cover that there are two Moors depicted on it, as seen on the lower left and upper right.

The Ong’s Hat tale was told about a group of physics and science professors from Princeton who ran chaos theory and quantum physics experiments from an ashram there to travel interdimensionally through a device called “The Egg,” and they were camped out in another world.

“The Egg” was said to have been developed by these physicists and scientists as a sensory deprivation chamber, and used by them to determine when a wave becomes a particle.

One day “The Egg” disappeared, and the young man within explained that in the seven-minutes he was gone, he had travelled to an alternate dimension of the Earth.

According to the story about “Ong’s Hat,” these experiments continued over the years, until the military threatened their research, at which time they moved entirely in to the alternate dimension, only coming back for supplies.

Interesting to note that Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, the only tri-service base in the U. S. Department of Defense, is right there, at a distance of only 8-miles, or 13-kilometers, north of Ong.

At any rate, Ong is reputed to be an interdimensional gateway.

Next, Lake Lenape Park.

This is what we are told about Lake Lenape Park on the Great Egg Harbor River.

The Great Egg Harbor River flows southeast in New Jersey from near Camden, entering the Great Egg Harbor about 5-miles, or 8-kilometers, southwest of Atlantic City.

Lake Lenape was formed after the construction of a dam in May’s Landing around 1847, with the land having previously been an apple orchard.

Interesting to note the megalithic stones used in the construction of the dam.

Lake Lenape Park was said to have first opened in the early 1900s.

Named for the indigenous people who lived here, Lake Lenape Park features Lakeside Manor, a popular wedding and special event venue.

We are told that in 1854, the first railroad was built in the area between Camden and Atlantic City.

So let’s take a look at what they tell us about Atlantic City, which was Lenape land prior to the arrival of European settlers.

We are told in our historical narrative that Jeremiah Leeds was the first permanent European settler in the Atlantic City-area in 1783.

But it was not until 1850 that the idea of this becoming a resort location was conceived, and the first hotel here was said to have been built in 1853.

What became known as “Atlantic City” was incorporated in 1854, the same year that train service began on the Camden and Atlantic Railroad mentioned previously, and providing a direct link to Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.

The first Atlantic City Boardwalk was said to have been built in 1870.

By 1874, an estimated 500,000 were coming to Atlantic City each year by the railroad, and we are told that there were so many people coming to Atlantic City by 1878 that the decision was made to build the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad was constructed to accommodate the increased ridership.

Then, in order to accommodate the increasing number of tourists coming to Atlantic City, massive hotels like the United States Hotel sprang up.

And all of the new railroad lines that were popping up betwixt and between these large population centers and the South Jersey shore were going right through the desolate, swampy and forbidding New Jersey Pine Barrens.

Today there are abandoned trains and railroad lines found throughout the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

Atlantic City’s Steel Pier was said to have been built by the Steel Pier Company that first opened in June of 1898 as an amusement park built on a pier.

Called the “Showplace of the Nation,” it was one of the most popular entertainments in the United States for 70 years.

The Steel Pier continues to operate as an amusement park to this day.

Other examples of the original Moorish-style architecture in Atlantic City included the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel, which was said to have been built between 1902 and 1906, and demolished in October of 1978…

…the Traymore Hotel, said to have opened in its most recent form in 1906 and demolished in 1972…

…and the Hotel Windsor, about which I can’t find any information to speak of, but presumably long gone.

When I was looking around Atlantic City, I also found out that the largest organ in the world by number of pipes, officially with 33,113, is in the Main Auditorium of the Boardwalk Hall, formerly known as the Atlantic City Convention Hall.

What we are told is that it is one of the few surviving buildings from Atlantic City’s hey-day as a seaside resort.

Recognized by the Guiness Book of World Records as the largest and loudest musical instrument ever constructed, it is called the “Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ,” also known as the “Poseidon,” and the “Midmer-Losh,” after the defunct pipe-organ building business that was said to have built the instrument between 1929 and 1932.

This organ has not been fully functional since 1944, when it was first damaged in the 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane, during which time the Boardwalk Hall was flooded with seawater.

Further damage to the organ was said to have taken place in 2001 when it was improperly handled by workmen during a renovation of the Boardwalk Hall.

While we are told that restoration efforts have been on-going, as of yet it’s not fully-operational.

This is an old postcard showing the Atlantic City and Shore Railroad crossing a two-mile, or 3-kilometer, -long trestle bridge in the middle of the Great Egg Harbor Bay, and was part of an interurban trolley system in New Jersey that served Somers Point and several other cities between Atlantic City and Ocean City in the years between 1907 and 1948.

The reason given for the end of its operation was a hurricane damaging the viaduct in 1948, and fixing it was cost prohibitive because of the decline in trolley use.

Continuing to track the coastline heading north along the New Jersey shoreline from Lake Lenape and Atlantic City, we come to Sayreville, the Navesink Twin Lights, and Holmdel.

First, Sayreville.

Sayreville is located at the mouth of the Raritan River where it enters Raritan Bay in the New York – New Jersey Estuary System.

This whole area is part of what is called the New York – New Jersey Harbor Estuary System, forming one of the most intricate natural harbors in the world, as well as being the busiest port in the world as the Ports of New York and New Jersey are contained within it.

An “estuary” is defined as a partially-enclosed, coastal body of brackish water, which is water that is salty, dirty & unpleasant, with one or more rivers flowing into it, and a connection to the open sea.

Estuaries have been on my radar for quite some time as ruined and sunken land and infrastructure.

Also known as the Hudson-Raritan Estuary, it is described as a harbor system of bays and tidal rivers where the Hudson, Hackensack, Rahway, Passaic and Raritan Rivers meet the Atlantic Ocean, which I believe were all once part of a gigantic canal system.

For one example of a canal in the area that is actually called a canal and not a river, the Delaware and Raritan Canal connects the Delaware River at Bordentown, New Jersey, and the Raritan River at New Brunswick, New Jersey.

This a distance of 44 miles, or 71 kilometers.

It goes through Trenton on its way to the New Brunswick Terminus.

We are told this canal was dug by Irish immigrants using hand-tools between 1830 and 1834, but the sophistication of the engineering of these canals does not match the low technology of the times in which they were said to have been built in our historical narrative.

At any rate, Sayreville at the entrance to the Raritan River received its name from James Sayre, Jr, of Newark, one of the two co-founders of the Sayre and Fisher Brick Company in 1850.

There are extensive clay deposits in the area, and the Sayre and Fisher Company quickly became one of the largest brick-making companies in the world.

Big companies including, but not limited to, DuPont established plants in Sayreville for gunpowder production initially in 1898, and later for paint and photo products.

The Raritan River Railroad operated freight and passenger service through here between 1888 and 1980, after which time Conrail took over rail operations.

This the logo for the Raritan River Railroad on the left, and this is the logo for Rolls Royce on the right….The similarity between these two logos tells me these two companies were connected in some way. …Besides the fact the logos look virtually identical, it brings to mind what I found on a leyline going through Derby, England.

Derby is the geographic center of England, and the Derwent River Valley in Derbyshire is considered the Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

Derby is the headquarters of the Civil Aerospace and Nuclear Division of Rolls-Royce, a global aerospace, defense, energy, and marine company focused on world-class power and propulsion systems.

Derby is also the location of the Railway Technical Center, the technical headquarters of British Rail, and considered the largest railway research complex in the world.

I strongly suspect the apparent connection we see in the similarity of the logos of the Raritan River Railroad and Rolls-Royce has to do with bringing the pre-existing railroad infrastructure back on-line, and that it was being funded by the early bankers and financiers that we have seen thus far.

Next, the Navesink Twin Lights are on the Navesink Highlands overlooking Sandy Hook at the entrance to the Lower New York Bay.

Navesink was also the name of the Lenape people who inhabited the Raritan Bayshore near Sandy Hook in the scenic highlands in eastern New Jersey.

The story goes that the Navesink lands were sold by Navesink elders to a group of Dutch businessmen for wampum and goods in March of 1664, the first and largest land sale deal along the Jersey Shore between Native Americans and Europeans, and that the Navesink received in return for their land such things as 5 coats; one gun; 12-pounds of tobacco; and 10 gallons of liquor.

The Navesink Twin Lights were said to have been built in 1862.

The American Civil War is said to have taken place between 1861 to 1865, so we are expected to believe this massive masonry structure was built during war-time.

The Navesink Highlands area is one of the most desirable luxury enclaves on New Jersey’s northern shore.

The region is known for its elevated views; large estates overlooking the Navesink River; proximity to Manhattan ferries; and historic coastal architecture.

Real estate prices here typically range from $1-million to $8-million or more.

Also, I find it quite interesting that according to historical narrative, this first and largest land sale deal along the Jersey Shore that took place here between Native Americans and Europeans, coincidentally…or not…is the same land that was the location of the first Bell Laboratory at Holmdel.

If I were to make an educated guess, I would say that this geographic location on the surface of the Earth was critically important to the original ancient advanced civilization.

What became Bell Labs at Holmdel had a direct connection to the Galactic Center, since this was where, among many other firsts, researchers like Karl Jansky, called the “Father of Radio Astronomy,” was credited with the discovery of radio waves coming from the Galactic Center.

Now I want to connect this information to the bigger picture puzzle pieces about this region.

The first thing I want to bring forward is the ruined looking appearance of the shoreline from the South Jersey Shore on up through the South Shore of Long Island, which is the same thing as the New York – New Jersey Bight.

Here’s a closer a look at the South Jersey shoreline up to the New York-New Jersey Estuary System, so you can get a better view of what I am referring to and then what the shoreline looks like going from the New York – New Jersey Estuary System across Long Island to Montauk Point.

And in spite of the marshy and wetland quality of the landscape hereabouts, this whole area is prime and valuable real estate that is, among other things, coveted by the very wealthy in our society as we shall see.

The New York Bight is described as a roughly triangular indentation along the Atlantic Coast of the northeastern United States from Cape May, New Jersey, to Montauk Point on the Eastern tip of Long Island.

“Bight” is the term given to a concave bend or curvature in a coastline.

Next I am going to turn my attention to the New York City-area, and Long Island.

There are two designations for historical elite families of New York City that I would like to mention here – the “Uppertens” and the “Four Hundred.”

First, the “Uppertens” was a 19th-century term referring to the wealthiest 10,000 families of New York City, coined in 1844 by Nathaniel Parker Willis, a writer and publisher who became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day.

It came to refer to the upper circles of other major cities besides New York City.

Interesting to note that Nathaniel Parker Willis started a magazine in 1846 with George Pope Morris called “Morris’s National Press – A Home Journal,” which is still with us today as “Town and Country,” the longest-running, continually-published, general-interest magazine in the United States.

The year of 1846 was the same year that Charles Dickens founded and edited the first edition of the “Daily News” in the United Kingdom, which merged with the “Daily Chronicle” in 1930, and was absorbed into “Daily Mail” in 1960.

So back to the “Uppertens.”

The “Uppertens” were the wealthiest and most socially-powerful families in Manhattan, who controlled fashion, culture, politics, philanthropy, and high society.

As time went on, the phrase “Uppertens” was short-hand for Old-Money Manhattan families and Fifth-Avenue Mansion society.

The most famous families associated with this world were the Astors; Vanderbilts; Whitneys; Livingstons; Roosevelts; Schermerhorns; and Morgans.

We are told that New York’s Fifth-Avenue came into existence in 1824 where it started in Washington Square, and soon became the premiere residential address where the grandest mansions ever seen were built as lavish displays of the wealth and status of their owners.

Like the Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion at 57th Street and 5th Avenue, which was demolished in 1927, and said to have been the largest private home ever built in Manhattan.

Staten Island-born Cornelius Vanderbilt, the family patriarch, got his start in regional steamboat lines and ocean-going steamships, and from there got into the railroad business.

He bought control of the Hudson River Railroad in 1864; the New York Central Railroad in 1867; the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad in 1869; and the Canada Southern Railway in 1876.

He consolidated his two key lines into the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1870, becoming one of the first giant corporations in the history of the United States

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

By the 1880s, the social hierarchy became more formalized with the “Four Hundred,” a list of New York Society put together by Caroline Schermerhorn Astor and Ward McAllister, a popular arbiter of social taste in the “Gilded Age of America.”

What was the “Gilded Age?”?”

One definition that I found of “Gilded Age” is that it was a period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in the United States from the 1870s to 1900.

Another definition is that it was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the northern and western United States.

At any rate, what was known as the “Mrs. William B. Astor House” was said to have been completed in 1896 on Fifth Avenue for Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, the widow of real estate heir and racehorse owner/breeder William Backhouse Astor Jr, and for her son John Jacob Astor IV.

It was said to have been designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the architectural-style of the early French Renaissance period of King Louis XII from 1498 to 1515.

Mrs. Astor died in 1908, and her son John J. Astor IV was known in history as being the richest man on-board the Titanic when it sank on April 15th of 1912, and a prominent figureof his day who had been opposed to the creation of the Federal Reserve.

The “Mrs. William B. Astor Mansion” was demolished in 1926.

Mrs. Astor died in 1908, and her son John J. Astor IV was known in history as being the richest man on-board the Titanic when it sank on April 15th of 1912, and a prominent figure of his day who had been opposed to the creation of the Federal Reserve.

J. P. Morgan has long been suspected of having been behind what has come down to us as the sinking of the Titanic on April 15th of 1912.

We are told the Titanic sank with bankers opposed to the creation of the Federal Reserve on board.

John Jacob Astor IV was the great grandson of John Jacob Astor.

John Jacob Astor who made a fortune in real estate development, the fur trade, and opium smuggling, and was the progenitor of the Astor family in America.

John Jacob Astor was considered to be the world’s first multi-millionaire, and the third-richest American of all time according to CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $138-billion.

The Federal Reserve Act Passed Congress, and was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23rd of 1913, the year following the sinking of the Titanic in our historical narrative.

It created and established the Federal Reserve System, and created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes (commonly known as the US dollar) as legal tender.

In the Bronx Borough of New York City, the “Thain Family Forest” is a tract of original old-growth forest that has never been logged in the New York Botanical Gardens along the Bronx River, once called the most precious natural possession of New York City.

It consists of several different kinds of trees, like oak, hemlock, beech, and sweet gum.

The New York Times tells us in a 2011 article about it that it was “where the Lenape trod,” the original people here, with the article telling us it was land on which they would hunt.

The New York Botanical Garden is located on 250-acres, or 100-hectares, across from the Bronx Zoo.

The New York Botanical Garden first opened in 1891, 8-years before the Bronx Zoo, and we are told that the first structures on the grounds opened about a decade-later.

This would include the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a greenhouse said to have been designed by Lord & Burnham Company in the Italian Renaissance-style, which first opened in 1902

We are told that this conservatory was inspired in part by greenhouse-builder Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, where the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London was held, the first of a series of major World’s Fairs, Expositions, Exhibitions that took place primarily over the next 100-years, which were described as “large, global exhibitions designed to showcase the achievements of nations.”

So, for example, we are told the purpose of the first Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace was making clear to the world Britain’s role as industrial leader, while at the same time providing a platform on which other countries from around the world could display their achievements.

I have long seen them as showcasing the technology and architectural wonders of the original civilization before being hidden away or forever destroyed, like what we saw back in Philadelphia at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition.

The Bronx Zoo adjacent to the New York Botanical Garden is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States, and first opened in November of 1899, featuring 843 animals in 22 exhibits.

We are told that the zoo’s original buildings, known as “Astor Court,” were designed and built as a series of Beaux-Arts Pavilions between 1899 and 1910.

I would also like to make note of the Century Association in New York City.

It was a private social, arts and dining club, and named after the first 100 people proposed as members.

The Century Association Building at 42 E. 15th Street was in-use by the association starting in 1857.

Members of the Century Association have included artists and writers like: poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant; landscape painter Frederick Edwin Church; landscape painter Winslow Homer; and best-known for stained-glass-work, Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Architect members have included: landscape-architects Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted; Beaux-Arts architects Carrere and Hastings, as well as York and Sawyer; and architects McKim, Meade and White, who were said to have defined the ideals of the American Renaissance in end-of-the-century New York.

Other members were said to have included: Eight U. S. Presidents; ten U. S. Supreme Court Justices; forty-three Members of the Presidential Cabinet; twenty-nine Nobel Prize Laureates; members of the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Roosevelt, and Astor families; as well as financier J. P. Morgan.

Now I am going to focus on Long Island, starting with Coney Island

Coney Island is located across the Lower New York Bay from where I was looking in New Jersey.

Coney Island is geographically on western Long Island, and is the southwestern tip of New York City’s Borough of Brooklyn.

Coney Island became connected to the rest of the main Long Island landmass through landfill in the early-20th-century.

Historically, there were three major amusement parks with Moorish-looking infrastructure/architecture on Brooklyn’s Coney Island – Steeplechase Park; Luna Park; and Dreamland.

Steeplechase Park on Coney Island was said to have been created by entrepreneur George Tilyou in 1897.

The park included over 50 attractions on its midway alone.

The only remaining structure from Steeplechase Park is the defunct Parachute Jump, next to Maimonades Park, the location of a minor league baseball stadium.

Coney Island’s Luna Park was said to have opened in 1903, and operated until 1944.

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 hunreds of thousands of 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.

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.

Dreamland was the third and last of the three original parks said to have been built on Coney Island in the early 20th-century, first opening in 1904.

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.

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.

Next we come to Brighton Beach, Just west of Jamaica Bay, where we find megalithic rocks strewn about on the 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.

Jamaica Bay is next, which is called a partially-manmade and partially natural estuary on the western-end of Long Island, and contains numerous marshy islands.

Jamaica Bay spreads across the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.

John F. Kennedy International Airport is on the northeast side of Jamaica Bay.

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 through the marshy Jamaica Bay to the Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street Station terminal, like the previously-seen Atlantic City and Shore Railroad that crossed in the middle of the Great Egg Harbor Bay, and was part of an interurban trolley system in New Jersey between 1907 and 1948.

Going in a northeasterly direction on Long Island from Jamaica Bay, we come to the long, narrow, and shallow Great South Bay on Long Island’s South Shore in Suffolk County.

The Great South Bay is described as a shallow 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 will share this book cover here and say that during the Gilded Age, the Vanderbilts, Roosevelts, Whitneys, Morgans, and Woolworths were said to have built summer mansions on the South Shore.

The elite families of the Gilded Age were also found on the North Shore of Long Island, also known as “Long Island’s Gold Coast.”

We are told “Long Island’s Gold Coast” had over 500 lavish mansions and castles built in 70-square-miles, or 180-kilometers-squared, by the very wealthy of the Gilded Age.

Like the Oheka Castle, which is also known as the Otto Kahn Estate, located on the North Shore of Long Island in the town of Huntington.

It was said to have been built between 1914 and 1919 as a country home for the investment financier Otto Kahn and his family, and was considered to be the second-largest private home in the United States.

Today, the Oheka Castle is an historic hotel with 32-guest rooms and suites.

In case you have never heard of him, the fabulously wealthy Otto Kahn was the inspiration for the Mr. Moneybags character of the Monopoly board game.

It is interesting how powerful but otherwise unknown people like this example here get inserted in our collective consciousness in seemingly innocent ways.

The Harbor Hill Moraine that skirts the North Shore of Long Island was said to have resulted from advancing glaciers 18,000 years ago…

…and named for Harbor Hill in Roslyn, New York, the highest point in Nassau County, where the Harbor Hill Mansion was said to have been built between 1899 – 1902 for the telecommunications magnate Clarence Hungerford Mackay, and designed by Stanford White of the architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White.

Long Island Sound runs from west- to-east between the East River in New York City, along the North Shore of Long Island.

Long Island Sound is a tidal estuary and marine sound of the Atlantic ocean.

A sound is the term given to a smaller body of water connected to a larger sea or ocean.

Suffolk County on Long Island’s East End is comprised of the towns of Brookhaven, which includes the Long Island Central Pine Barrens; East Hampton; Southampton, which includes Westhampton; Shelter Island; Southold; and Riverhead.

I am going to highlight several places found here.

First, Brookhaven.

The town of Brookhaven on Long Island is the namesake of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in nearby Upton, a U. S. Department of Energy Laboratory.

The Department of Energy National Laboratory was established in 1947, with a stated desire to “explore peaceful applications for atomic energy” after World War II.

The Laboratory has developed a broader mission over time, including: nuclear and high-energy physics; physics and chemistry of materials; nanoscience; energy and environmental research; national security and nonproliferation; neuroscience; structural biology; and computational sciences.

The research facilities of Brookhaven National Laboratory include the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the first and one of two operating heavy-ion colliders, and only spin-polarized proton collider ever built.

It is also said to be the only operating particle collider in the United States, as physicists study the primordial form of matter that existed in the Universe after what we are told was the “Big Bang,” a physical theory about an event that describes how the Universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature.

The worlds’ other operating heavy-ion collider is the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC and also known as CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.

In addition to the RHIC, the Brookhaven hosts the National Synchrotron Light Source II, designed to produce x-rays 10,000-times brighter than the original National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

We are told it supports basic and advanced energy technologies in a wide-variety of applications, from nano-catalyst-based fuel cells to economical use of solar energy in high-temperature superconductors in a high-capacity and high-reliability electric grid.

Next, the Long Island Central Pine Barrens is called Long Island’s largest natural area and last remaining wilderness.

The Brookhaven National Laboratory is located within the Central Long Island Pine Barrens.

The Pine Barrens recharge a federally-designated sole source aquifer for Long Island’s fresh drinking water, which comes from groundwater wells.

Almost all of Long Island’s Peconic and Carmans Rivers, and their watersheds, two of the four major rivers here, are in the Pine Barrens.

Like I said previously with regards to the rivers in the New York – New Jersey Harbor Estuary System, it is my belief that we are looking at what once was a canal system.

The Peconic River drains an area between the Harbor Hill Moraine, flowing into Flanders Bay, and connecting to Peconic Bay, the bay between Long Island’s North and South Forks, east of Riverhead.

It originates in bogs and wetlands in Central Long Island, and is freshwater until it becomes an estuary in Riverhead, a town and township on the northern edge of the Pine Barrens.

It is interesting to note that the former location of Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower was in Shoreham on Long Island, located on the North Shore of Long Island and a short distance north of Brookhaven National Laboratory.

The Wardenclyffe Tower was said to have been built on land next to a railroad line by Tesla between 1901 and 1902 as an early experimental wireless transmission station based on his theories of using the Earth to conduct the signals.

Stanford White, of the architectural firm of McKim, Meade, and White, was said to have designed the original brick building and tower which the Wardenclyffe Tower sat beside.

We are told that the primary financial backer of Tesla’s project was J. P. Morgan until he refused Tesla’s request for more funding to increase the size of the facility and implement his ideas of wireless transmission to compete better with Marconi’s radio-based telegraph system.

By 1906, we are told the project was abandoned because there were no further investors and that by 1917, which would have been during World War I, the tower was demolished for scrap.

The brick building next to it remained standing up until relatively recently, and part of the Tesla Science Center.

A mysterious fire in November of 2023 severely damaged Tesla’s last remaining laboratory.

This fire happened just before the start of a significant renovation and restoration project that was poised to get started for which millions of dollars had been raised.

The towns of Southampton and East Hampton together are what are known as “The Hamptons,” another one of the historical summer colonies of the wealthy elite in our society.

Southampton is on the eastern side of the Long Island Central Pine Barrens, and the Central Pine Barrens Planning Commission is in Westhampton Beach, on the western side of Southampton…

…where you find the Westhampton dunes…

…considered prime land and luxury real estate for those that can afford it…

…and canals, like the Moneybogue Canal, which requires dredging to get rid of the sediment at the bottom of the waterway.

We are told that Southampton was founded in 1640 by a group of ten settlers from Lynn, Massachusetts, who obtained land from the Shinnecock Nation by signing a lease, and the town grew quickly and over the next few years, established an early whaling industry here.

The Algonquin Shinnecock Nation’s reservation is in Southampton, and we are told, among thirteen Indian tribes on Long Island, largely based on kinship.

In 2005, the Shinnecock filed a lawsuit against the State of New York seeking return of 3,500 acres, or 14 km-squared, in Southampton, and billions of dollars for damages, challenging the State Legislature’s approval of an 1859 sale of 3,500 acres of tribal land.

The disputed land included the Shinnecock Hills Golf Course.

In 2006, the court ruled against the Shinnecock Nation, however, finding the lawsuit was barred by laches, or a lack of diligence or activity for making a legal claim or moving forward with legal enforcement of a right.

They did finally receive federal recognition in 2010, after a 30-year effort that included suing the Department of the Interior.

The township of East Hampton is on the eastern end of Long Island’s South Shore.

East Hampton includes the following hamlets: Montauk, Springs, Wainscott, Amagansett, part of Sag Harbor, and jurisdiction over the privately-owned Gardiners Island.

The hamlet of Montauk is on the eastern end of Long Island’s South Fork.

The Montauks, also known as the Montauketts, once resided in large numbers on the eastern end of Long Island.

In 1910, a Judge ruled that the Montauks no longer existed as a tribe and were disenfranchised from their ancestral lands.

More on this in a moment.

The Montauk Point Lighthouse is on Turtle Hill at the easternmost tip of Long Island, and not only was it said to be the first built within the State of New York, it was said to be the first public works project in the new United States because shippers were said to have needed a lighthouse at the end of Long Island to guide them along the south side into New York Harbor.

It is said to be the fourth-oldest active lighthouse in the United States, and also today a privately-run museum.

We are told that construction of the lighthouse was authorized by the Second United States Congress in April of 1792 and that the lighthouse was built between July and November of 1796.

The U. S. Army took over the lighthouse during World War II, and opened Camp Hero, or Montauk Air Force Station, in 1942, adjacent to the lighthouse.

The remnants of Camp Hero are said to be four gun-battery casements, emplacements and concrete fire control towers at the nearby Camp Hero State Park today.

Camp Hero on Montauk Point is alleged to be the location of the Montauk Project, a series of U. S. Government projects with the purpose of developing things like psychological warfare techniques, like MK Ultra, and time-travel research, among others.

We are entering a place on Earth where so-called “Conspiracy Theories” like the Montauk Project abound.

The Conspiracy-Theory Montauk Project was the inspiration for the Netflix show “Stranger Things,” which was originally billed as “Montauk.”

Interesting to note there is a “Pharoah” surname amongst the Montauks.

This is a painting of David Pharaoh of the royal family of the Montauk tribe, depicting sand dunes.

He was born in 1835 and died on July 18th of 1878.

He was buried in the Indian Field Cemetery on the old reservation lands on East Lake Drive in Montauk.

Princess Pocahontas Pharaoh was born on February 15th of 1878, the last Montauk born on the Montauk Reservation at Indian Field on Montauk Point, a year before the reservation was sold.

She was the youngest daughter of King David Pharaoh and Queen Maria Fowler Pharaoh of the Montauk Tribe.

The King of the tribe always came from the Pharaoh family.

Pocahontas Pharaoh was born in the middle of efforts by Arthur Benson and the Long Island Railroad to force the Montauks off their Land.

Benson purchased Montauk in October of 1879 for $151,000 and allowed for the expansion of the Long Island Railroad through it.

In 1897, King Wyandanch Pharaoh, Pocahontas’ brother, went to court to try to get the Montauk land back and fought until 1910, at which time a New York court held that the Montauk Tribe was extinct and stripped the nation of its tribal lands.

Interesting side-note that at least in the Romance languages, the word for lighthouse includes the root sound of “Far”:

In Italian and Spanish, the word for lighthouse is “Faro;” In French, the word for lighthouse is “Phare;” in Portuguese, it is “Farol;” and in Romanian “Far.”

They are spelled and sound like they are related to the word “Pharaoh,” which we are told was the common title for monarchs of ancient Egypt from the First Dynasty, starting in 3,150 BC, up to the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Empire in 30 BC.

Throwing this information into the mix for consideration since both a lighthouse and pharaohs are found on Montauk Point.

The Moors were the custodians of the Ancient Egyptian mysteries, according to George G. M. James in his book “Stolen Legacy.”

Next, Block Island Sound extends from Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island and separates Block Island from the coast of mainland Rhode Island to the east, and contains places like Gardiners Island, Plum Island, Fishers Island, and Block Island.

First, Gardiners Island.

Gardiners Island is a small island located in Gardiners Bay between the North and South Forks of Long Island.

In our historical narrative, the island has been owned by the Gardiner family since 1659, when we are told Lion Gardiner, an English engineer and colonist who founded the first English Settlement in New York here, was said to have purchased it from the Montauk Grand Sachem Wyandanch for “…a large black dog, some powder and shot, and a few Dutch blankets.”

Wyandanch died that same year, and after his death, the title of “Grand Sachem” went into decline and was eliminated by the colonists after they conquered the region of what was known as “New Netherlands” at the time.

What I am able to find in a search is that the title “Sachem” was the title given to a Native American Chief, in particular the chief of a confederation of Algonquin tribes.

“Sagamore” was the title given to a chief or leader of the Algonquins.

This selection from William Wood’s book was of a map showing the plantations along Massachusetts Bay, and the word or name Sagamore is seen in several places.

William Wood’s book from 1639 was 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 that which might enrich the knowledge of the mind-travelling reader, or benefit the future voyager.”

While not under the jurisdiction of the Colonies of Connecticut or Rhode Island, Gardiners Island did fall under the jurisdiction of William Alexander, the 1st Earl of Stirling, who had been given Long Island by the King Charles I of England in 1636, and who required that Gardiner gain approval of his land grant, which he did in 1639 with a royal patent giving him the right to possess the land forever, and given the title of “Lord of the Manor.”

Gardiners Island is a little over 5-square-miles, or 13.4-kilometers-squared, and has more than 1,000 acres of old growth forest, considered by some to be the largest old-growth forest on the northeast coast of the United States.

Passed down through the Gardiner family for over 380-years, the Gardiner mansion on the island is considered to be the oldest family estate in America.

Next, Plum Island.

Plum Island is an island that is part of Southold in Suffolk County, New York, and located in Gardiners Bay, off the eastern end of Long Island’s North Fork peninsula on the eastern end of Long Island.

Plum Island is owned by the United States government, and access to it controlled by the U. S. Department of Homeland Security.

Next, Plum Island is only 17-miles, or 27-kilometers, south-southeast of Lyme, Connecticut, the place which gave “Lyme Disease” its name.

The origin story of the disease goes like this:

A mysterious ailment afflicted a group of people in and around Lyme, Connecticut, in the 1970s, and that the cause of Lyme Disease was found to be a form of spiral-shaped bacteria transmitted by the bite of a certain kind of tick.

Lyme Disease causes symptoms like a rash, flu-like symptoms, joint-pain and weakness, among others.

Coincidentally…or not…there is a National Disease Center on Plum Island, which was established in 1954 by the United States Department of Agriculture.

The facility maintains laboratories up to biosafety-level 3, which involves microbes which can cause serious and potentially lethal disease by inhalation.

Next, Fishers Island is also a part of Southold, New York, at the eastern end of Long Island, located in close proximity to Connecticut and Rhode Island as well.

Named Munnawtawkit by the Pequot, it was said to have been named “Vischer’s Island” by the explorer Adrian Block in 1614 after one of his companions.

The Pequot Nation is indigenous to Connecticut.

The Pequot Nation was classified extinct by colonial authorities after the Pequot Wars that took place between 1636 and 1638, effectively decimating them as a viable tribe, as survivors were either sold into slavery to colonists in the West Indies or Bermuda, otherwise taken captive, or absorbed into other tribes.

Of 5 Pequot tribes in existence today, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe is the only one that is federally-recognized…

Mohegan-Pequot was an Algonquin-language spoken by the Mohegan, Pequot, and Niantic people of southern New England, and the Montauks and Shinnecock of Long Island.

The last living speaker of Mohegan-Pequot died in 1908.

We are told that historically Mohegan-Pequot did not have a writing system, and that the only significant writings came from European colonizers who interacted with speakers of the language.

I am quite sure that James Fenimore Cooper’s “Last of the Mohicans,” first published in 1826, was an early novel introducing and reinforcing the new historical narrative.

What I found in our narrative about Fisher’s Island is that John Winthrop the Younger, son of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Founder and Governor John Winthrop, which was established in 1630, received a grant of Fisher’s Island in 1640.

The island was privately held by the Winthrop family until 1863, then owned privately by others until 1879, when a joint-commission for Connecticut and New York reiterated that New York had legal title to Fisher’s Island, even though it has closer ties to Connecticut because of its proximity.

Between 1783 and 1909, brick-making was the only industry on the island because of the clay-pits there, and at its peak in the 1880s, the brickyard was believed to be the largest in the country, with a production capacity of 18-million bricks per year.

We are told that horse-drawn railroad cars were used to transport clay produced by hundreds of miners wielding shovels to the brick presses.

Since the 1920s, Fishers Island has been a playground for the social register set that includes the Rockefellers, DuPonts, Whitneys, and Roosevelts, and two-thirds of the island is off-limits to everyone except residents and their guests.

The social centers of Fishers Island are two private, exclusive clubs that rarely allow outsiders in – the Fishers Island Club and the Hay Harbor Club.

The Fishers Island Club is located near the eastern end of Fishers Island, and has an 18-hole golf course, said to have been designed by Seth Raynor and opened in 1926, that was ranked in 2009 as ninth in “Golf Digest” of the top 100 golf courses in the world.

The Hay Harbor Club was established in 1909, and is on the western end of Fishers Island.

Among other things, it has a 9-hole golf course said to have been designed by George Strath and opened in 1898.

Next, a look at Rhode Island’s Block Island.

It is 9-miles, or 14-kilometers, south of the Rhode Island mainland, and 14-miles, or 23-kilometers, east of Long Island’s Montauk Point.

Block Island was named for Adrian Block, a Dutch privateer who was employed by the Dutch East India Company who charted the area in 1614 in our historical narrative.

New Shoreham is the only town on Block Island.

Block Island School is the only school here, teaching students from kindergarten through 12th-grade.

It was said to have been built in 1933 to replace five, one-room schoolhouses, and still use today, with some architectural changes over the years.

Mansion Beach today is a secluded beach on the island’s northeast coast, known for its white sand and big waves.

It was so-named because there was a mansion once here, said to have been designed by Massachusetts architect Edward F. Searles as a dream home for he and his wife, the widow of San Francisco Central Pacific Railroad magnate Mark Hopkins and constructed between 1886 and 1888.

Searles’ wife, Mary Hopkins Searles, was often referred to as the richest woman in America, and shortly after they married, she bequeathed him her entire fortune.

Searles was one of those architects credited with the design of other monumental architecture, including, but not limited to, the interior design for the Kellogg Terrace, known today as Searles Castle, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, said to be one of America’s great masterpieces of gothic and Neo-Renaissance architecture built in 1883 by Stanford White of the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White.

It sure looks to me like Searles Castle sits atop a star fort base, compared with Fort Loreto, a star fort in Puebla, Mexico, on the right.

Searles was credited with the design of the giant nave at Searles Castle which still houses one of the largest pipe organs built in a residence in the United States.

At any rate, after having been abandoned for years, the Searles Mansion back on Block Island burned down in the 1960s, and was never rebuilt.

Block Island has thirteen distinct beaches.

This rocky beach is a clothing optional beach below the Mohegna Bluffs, which has a sheared-off-looking quality to it.

The huge rocks found here also look megalithic, like they were shaped and cut.

The next place we come to is Newport, Rhode Island.

Newport is a seaside city in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, located 33-miles, or 53-kilometers, southeast of Providence.

The Narragansetts are an Algonquin-speaking people indigenous to what became the State of Rhode Island.

Here is an historic photo of the Narragansett.

Their language died out in the 19th-century, though the they have been trying to revive it using written source material.

Across the Narragansett Bay from Newport, in the town of Narragansett, we find a stone masonry building called the Towers, said to have been built between 1883 and 1886 by the ubiquitous architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White as part of a Victorian-era casino and social-elite resort facility.

Also known as the “Twin Towers,” it is all that remains after a history of disasters, including fires and hurricanes.

In our historical narrative, Newport was first incorporated as a town in 1639 by a group of nine founding English colonists, after the Colony of Rhode Island had been established in 1636 by Roger Williams, and only six-years after the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established in 1630.

Newport is known for its “Gilded Age Mansions.”

Many members of New York City’s list of “Four Hundred” elite families had massive cottage estates in Newport.

LIke the summer cottage estate known as “The Breakers” that was said to have been built between 1893 and 1895 for Cornelius Vanderbilt II.

It was said to have been patterned after a Renaissance Palace, and built with marble imported from Italy and Africa, as well as rare wood and mosaics from countries around the world.

The “Marble House” was another Vanderbilt family summer cottage in Newport.

It was said to have been built between 1888 and 1892 for Alva and William K. Vanderbilt.

And “Beechwood,” which was said to have been built in 1851, and became the summer cottage estate in 1880 of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, who had a massive ballroom built in it to accommodate her society events. and it became the epicenter of Newport High Society.

Next, we come to the Elizabeth Islands, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket Island off the coast of Massachusetts.

The Elizabeth Islands are a small chain of islands off the southern coast of Cape Cod, on the southern edge of Buzzard Bay, and is separated from Martha’s Vineyard by Vineyard Sound.

All of the Elizabeth Islands, with the exception of Cuttyhunk and Penikese, are privately-owned by the Forbes family, a wealthy American family of Scottish descent long prominent in Boston.

The family’s original fortune came largely from trading opium and tea between North America and China in the 19th-century.

Forbes family members include businessman John Murray Forbes, among other things a railroad magnate and President of the Michigan Central Railroad, and the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s; and John Forbes Kerry, present-day politician, and the Secretary of State in President Obama’s second administration.

Like we saw with the Astor family, along with other well-known moneyed families, the Boston Forbes family’s original fortune came in large part from trading opium (and tea) between North America and China in the 19th-century.

This information about opium-trading is on the Forbes’ website, so they do not even try to hide this information from us.

The Forbes family were part of the “Boston Brahmins,” the historic upper elite class of Boston, Massachusetts, widely considered America’s closest equivalent to an aristocracy.

The “Brahmins” dominated New England’s intellectual, cultural and financial institutions from the late-19th- to the mid-20th-centuries, and were instrumental in founding and running major American educational institutions like Harvard University and M.I.T.

Their recognizable surnames included, besides the Forbes family, the Cabots, Lowells, Lodges, Adamses, and Peabodys.

The term “Boston Brahmins” was coined by Oliver Wendall Holmes in an 1860 article in the “Atlantic Monthly,” after he likened Boston’s prestigious, old-money elite to the highest-ranking Brahmin class in Hindu society.

The “Atlantic Monthly” was established in Boston in 1857 as a literary and cultural commentary magazine by a collective of distinguished writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and first editor James Russell Lowell.

Next, Martha’s Vineyard, an island located south of Cape Cod and the Elizabeth Islands, is a popular summer colony for the wealthy.

Martha’s Vineyard, along with the adjacent Chappaquiddick Island, another small island off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard called “Noman’s Land,” and the Elizabeth Islands together comprise Massachusetts’ Dukes County.

First, a little bit about Martha’s Vineyard.

Martha’s Vineyard, as of the 2010 Census, had a year-round population of approximately 17,500 people, and in the summer months the population grows to somewhere around 100,000.

In a study by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, the Cost-of-Living on the island was found to be 60% higher than the national average, and the cost of housing 96% higher.

Vineyard Haven was named the #1 most expensive town in the United States by Lending Tree in 2021.

When the European colonizers arrived, the island was inhabited by the Wampanoag, the Algonquin indigenous people of eastern Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.

There is something interesting to note about the Algonquin language.

It is extremely hard to find this kind of information because of the hunter-gatherer theme going on with indigenous peoples of North America in the narrative, but I found an example in the written language script of the Algonquin Mikmaq people of Nova Scotia, and it is that of an apparent connection to the Egyptian language script.

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, or Aquinnah, on Martha’s Vineyard is one of only two federally-recognized Wampanoag Tribes, the other one being the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, headquartered in Mashpee on Cape Cod.

The Wampanoag on Martha’s Vineyard are headquartered in Aquinnah on the southwest tip of Martha’s Vineyard, part of the lands where they have lived for thousands of years which were dispossessed by English settlers encroaching on their lands.

Aquinnah, which was incorporated as a town named Gay Head, between 1870 and 1997, is the location of the Aquinnah Cliffs.

The Aquinnah Cliffs, with streams of red and orange clay mixed with sand, were said to have been formed by glaciers millions of years ago.

These cliffs have that same, sheared-off-looking quality to them like other places we have already seen through here.

The Gay Head Lighthouse located here was featured in the 1975 movie “Jaws.”

There is an interesting, and lengthy back-story to the Gay Head Lighthouse.

But long story short, at one time there were more buildings here.

Now there is only one, which looks like there is possibly more to it under the ground.

Also interesting to note that I found this article talking about there being a deaf community on Martha’s Vineyard from its earliest settlement through the 19th-century.

It would appear from the article that the deaf people here attracted a lot of interest and questions.

More thoughts on this to come.

Chappaquiddick Island is a small peninsula that occasionally becomes an island, and part of the town of Edgartown, on the eastern end of Martha’s Vineyard.

Well, if you ever wondered where the Chappaquiddick of the infamous incident involving Ted Kennedy and an overturned vehicle containing the body of a woman back in July of 1969, it was right here.

The small island called “Nomans Land” is located three-miles, or 5-kilometers, off the southwest coast of Martha’s Vineyard and was used as a practice bombing range by the United States Navy between 1943 and 1996.

The island of Nantucket is 30-miles, or 50-kilometers, south of Cape Cod, and together with the islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket of Massachusetts, and like Martha’s Vineyard, a summer colony for the wealthy.

The name Nantucket was said to have been adapted from a similar-sounding Algonquin name for the island of the indigenous Wampanoag people.

The National Park Service cites Nantucket as being the finest example of a late 18th- and early 19th-century New England Seaport town, and was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1966.

Nantucket Island was perhaps best-known for the historical importance of its whaling industry, particularly during the 18th- up to the mid-19th-centuries.

The Great Fire of 1846 devastated the downtown business hub of Nantucket, starting in a hat store and completely destroying more than one-third of the heart of the community and economy, and leaving many homeless, in poverty, and causing them to leave the island.

Great fires (and floods for that matter) destroying the central business districts of cities and towns around the world were quite common in our historical narrative, seemingly as a way to either destroy the original infrastructure, and/or take credit for the building of it afterwards, and as well as to deliberately cause disruption and displacement.

Next, we come to Cape Cod and the Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barren (SEMBP) Association, which is headquartered at The Center at Center Hill Preserve in Plymouth.

The SEMBP is on land that extends from Duxbury to Provincetown along the Cape Cod Bay shoreline, covering Cape Cod, the Elizabeth Islands, Nantucket Island and Martha’s Vineyard, and inland includes Southeastern Massachusetts, including Plymouth and surrounding communities.

It so happens that this is the same Plymouth that was the location of the Plymouth Colony, the Pilgrim settlement founded in 1620 in our historical narrative by the Pilgrims after they journeyed from England to the New World on the Mayflower, seeking religious freedom, as we are taught and celebrate every year in the United States at Thanksgiving.

This is the Plymouth Rock Monument in Plymouth.

The current classical monument housing it was said again to have been designed in 1921 by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White of the elitist Century Association in New York City.

The Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts, is on the northern end of Cape Cod.

It was said to have been the winning design submitted by Boston architect Willard T. Sears in a contest, and built between 1907 and 1910 to commemorate the first landfall of the Pilgrims in 1620 and the signing of the Mayflower Compact in Provincetown Harbor.

The Pilgrim Monument is a bell-tower, and the tallest, all-granite structure in the United States, and said to have been modelled after the Torre del Mangia in Siena, Italy, which is said to have been designed in 1309.

It is 252-feet, 7.5-inches, or 77-meters, tall.

Granite is described as a “sonorous” rock, meaning that it will make a sound if you strike it, and in the case of granite, it will make a bell-like sound.

Now I am going to talk about the location of the Pine Barrens in New Jersey, Central Long Island, and Coastal Massachusetts.

There is a linear relationship between these three Pine Barren ecosystems.

The Pine Barrens have nutrient-poor, sandy and acidic soil, characterized by bogs.

Here is the linear relationship on Google Earth when I searched for the Pine Barrens in New Jersey; the Central Long Island Pine Barrens; and the Coastal Massachusetts Pine Barrens, also known as the Plymouth Pinelands- the pins are placed where that search term for each popped-up, and each place I have mentioned in this post – near Ong in New Jersey; Westhampton Beach on Long Island; and Plymouth in Massachusetts.

I believe this Pine Barren alignment was ground-zero for the cataclysmic event that destroyed the surface of the Earth, and that this event took place relatively recently.

I believe that the landscape we see today here in the northeast United States, and all over the world, was born out of the trauma and changes to the earth’s surface as it buckled and ruptured, and gave way amidst thunderous sound and gigantic force as a result of the deliberate destruction of the original free energy grid that was for the benefit of all life everywhere, and subsequently transformed by those ushering in the “New World Order” into what we know as the Matrix for the benefit of the very few behind the reset of the original earth’s history, which I believe started sometime in the mid-to-late 1700s.

So I am going to present a theory for your consideration as to what might have caused this cataclysm of the Earth’s surface along the Earth’s Grid System in order to bring about the “New World Order.”

Prior to this deliberately-caused cataclysmic event, all of the infrastructure on the Earth was a perfectly-tuned and resonant scientific and musical instrument.

Everything worked together in harmony and balance to produce free-energy and abundance for all life everywhere – all the cathedrals, rail-lines, bridges, star forts, lighthouses, organs, bell-towers, and much, much more.

I believe that the circuit board of the Earth’s original free-energy grid system was deliberately blown-0ut, and because of my findings here in this part of the world, I believe directed frequency could have been used, and I am going to present a scenario for your consideration based on my research over the years as to how this could have happened.

Here’s how what I have learned about the Philadelphia Experiment and what I am calling the “Philadelphia Experiment Ley-line” could have caused the cataclysmic event that destroyed Circuit Board Earth and in the process, brought great change and upheaval to the surface of the Earth.

With regards to the elite enclaves seen throughout this post,  I believe the high-society elites prized and coveted most the destroyed places that were of high importance in the original civilization, either because of who lived there or what was there.

I am going to start first with the Philadelphia Experiment.

I have postulated for quite some time that a rip in the fabric of space-time caused by the Philadelphia Experiment allowed great evil in the form of parasitic non-human beings to incarnate in human form on the Earth, and subsequently created the conditions for the world we are living in today.  

Humanity has been at the mercy of a parasitic consciousness that has rigged the system to provide the non-stop flow of wealth for them and to keep us stuck in the negative energy of our lowest states of consciousness of fear and suffering that they need to survive.

Now, I’m going to take a look at the Philadelphia Experiment itself and see what we are told about that.

I mentioned previously in this post that Ong in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, geographically close to Philadelphia, is reputed to be an interdimensional gateway.

The strange Philadelphia Experiment was alleged to have taken place at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in the middle of World War II, the deadliest conflict in human history which started on September 1st in 1939, and ended on September 2nd in 1945 – exactly six years later. 

When I originally looked for information on the Philadelphia Experiment several years ago, the date I first encountered for it was the date of July 22nd of 1942.

The Philadelphia Experiment involved the USS Eldridge, a naval destroyer escort for merchant ships.

The ship’s generators were turned on in view of other merchant ships that were in the Navy Yard.

As the fields created by the generators built-up, a green haze formed around the ship.

When the green haze disappeared, so did the ship, rendered invisible to both radar and the naked eye.

It returned to view after 15-minutes.

Did the USS Eldridge just become invisible? 

Or did it go somewhere else? 

And if it went somewhere else, where might it have gone?

What was the real purpose of the Philadelphia Experiment?

What if the USS Eldridge travelled in time?

I first learned of the work of author and publisher, Peter Moon sometime around 2014.

I started reading some of the books he published because I was looking for information about the Moors, and was having a hard time finding it.

Peter has been involved in a lot of work on the Moors, the Philadelphia Experiment, Montauk Project, and time travel research. 

Peter also has a lot to say about Aleister Crowley in his books, and the dark, occulted nature of the timeline that we have been living on. 

In one of his books,“Synchronicity and the Seventh Seal,” Peter mentioned that he had a correspondence with Crowley’s son Amado, and that Amado related to him that on the day of the Philadelphia Experiment, which he gave as August 12th of 1943, Crowley had passed him as a child through the circular megalith at Men-an-Tol in Morvah, Cornwall, and that when he did this, it caused a line of rough energy to cross the ocean. 

This passage in the book also goes onto say further that while Crowley’s organization, known as the Ordo Templi Orientis, or OTO, an occult, fraternal and magical secret society, disputed this, others had no problems with his claim, and reported that during an eclipse ceremony on August 11th in 1998 at Men-an-Tol…

…an eclipse shadow line ran from Cairo, Egypt, to Montauk, Long Island, straight through Men-an-Tol.

Whatever date it took place on, both July 22nd and August 12th have annual significance in ancient cosmology.

Each year August 12th is the last day of the Lion’s Gate Portal, which begins on July 28th every year, and opens on 8/8…

…and each year, July 22nd coincides with the heliacal rising of Sirius before the sun.

Interesting to note that the Lion’s Gate Portal is symbolized by the Figure 8, which is also the infinity symbol, and it peaks on 8/8 every year.

Like I mentioned earlier in this post, I have postulated for several years that the years 1492 and 1942 are the boundary years of a new timeline called Rome.

There are 450-years between 1492 and 1942 that can be divided evenly into nine, 50-year-periods, and at the beginnings of each these 50-year-periods, much was happening in our historical narrative.

With 225-years on either side, 1717 is the midpoint year.

I believe a new 3D Time loop was created that somehow mirrors or involves the Figure 8, upon which a new history was superimposed on to the existing infrastructure on the Earth, and falsely attributed in the new historical narrative as we have seen in the elite enclaves through this post.

The mid-point year of 1717 was the year that the Premier Grand Lodge of England was founded in London, on June 24th, 1717.

It was the first western Freemason Grand Lodge.

The same lodge adopted the Anno Lucis that same year, in 1717, as the Masonic calendar.

The Anno Lucis Calendar adds 4,000-years to the Gregorian calendar.

It is my understanding that only those initiated into the highest degree of western Freemasonry know directly about the Moors.

And it is no secret within Modern Freemasonry that it is “speculative,” meaning based on conjecture rather than knowledge, as opposed to “operative,” meaning those who actually worked with stone.

The New World’s Controllers stole the identity and legacy of the operative masons, representing Humanity at its highest-level of consciousness, and took us from the “Moorish Divine Movement of the World,” from Antiquity, with the eye on top of the pyramid signifying our pineal gland and our connection to the Creator, to it symbolizing “Big Brother,” and the control of the 13 Bloodline families.

At any rate, with regards to the alleged Aleister Crowley connection with the Philadelphia Experiment, I extended the Pine Barrens alignment that I found connecting the three pine barrens of New Jersey, Central Long Island, and Coastal Massachusetts.

Going in the northeast direction, the alignment connected to Morvah in Cornwall, the location of Men-an-Tol, and going in a southwest direction, I took it as far the bayous in Louisiana.

Along with at least one abandoned train found out in the middle of nowhere in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, there is at least one abandoned train in a bayou in Ascension Parish.

It is my belief that Aleister Crowley, known openly as the “Wickedest Man in the World,” was directly responsible for bringing us to “Crazy Town,” and brought in the parasitic entities that wouldn’t otherwise be here responsible for the world we live in today in the form of the wealthiest families that live in these elite enclaves.

I am sure that some of you will be aware of who this person is, but I would surmise that this name would be unfamiliar to most people.

Crowley was also known as “the Beast.”

He was highly involved in Freemasonry, and in ceremonial magical practices, including sex magic, and he was known to have been bisexual. 

He also assumed the title of Baphomet within the OTO, originally founded in the early-20^th-Century by German Occultists, and modelled after Freemasonry. 

Crowley described the Baphomet as a divine Androgyne, and the “Hieroglyph of Divine Perfection.” 

I believe this information is quite relevant to the bizarre gender agendas we see playing out in the world today. 

The image on the left popped up when I searched for “they want to turn us into them,” instead of us being in the image of God on the right.

There are several more points I would like to bring up with regards to the Crowley connection and the role of the Philadelphia Experiment in bringing us to the world we live in today being a real possibility, and not science fiction.

I had already collected a lot of puzzle pieces relating to what has taken place here with regards to the original civilization, what happened to it, who was involved in the reset of Earth’s history, and much of the how it was done.

But until I started looking into the sound elements, I did not have a conceptualization about how the time-space altering event of the Philadelphia Experiment could have also caused the destruction of the Earth’s surface, an event which I believe caused the sinking of the advanced civilization of Atlantis only hundreds of years ago at the most, not thousands of years ago as we have been taught.

As I mentioned previously, all three of the Pine Barren ecosystems of Coastal Massachusetts, Central Long Island, and New Jersey are on this alignment, as seen on the top left.

Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod where the Pilgrim Monument is located, is also on this same alignment and all of Cape Cod, as well as the Elizabeth Islands, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket, is part of the Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barrens Alliance, on the right.

As I mentioned previously, the Pilgrim Monument is a bell-tower that is the tallest granite structure in the United States, and granite rings with a bell-like sound when it is struck.

If Crowley’s ritual ceremony at Men-an-Tol, whenever it took place, did in fact send a line of rough energy to cross the ocean towards Long Island, as claimed by his son Amado to Peter Moon as mentioned previously, it would have crossed through or near the Pilgrim Monument, with the energy thereby striking it, either directly or indirectly.

It is also very interesting to note that Provincetown is one of the most LGTBQ-inclusive places in the country, and has been for a long time.

As early as 1900, when an artists’ colony and experimental theater developed there, including drag shows in the 1940s.

In the process of doing this research, I learned about resonance and forced resonance.

Resonance occurs in oscillating systems when an external force with the same natural frequency causes a rise in amplitude, which results in a net rise of mechanical energy.

Resonance can occur in various systems, whether acoustical, electrical, or mechanical systems, and is desirable in their applications.

Resonance can also be detrimental, however, when it leads to excessive vibrations and structural failure.

Now what I think could have happened is that the rough line of energy caused by Crowley’s ritual ceremony on Cornwall either struck this bell-tower, or another bell-tower along the way that is underwater now, which caused a forced resonant frequency to go throughout the Earth’s entire grid system, either all at the same time, or in waves, like the aftershocks of earthquakes, and caused it to go haywire, leading to the destruction of the entire system and dramatically changing the face of the Earth.

I also consider the possibility that the manipulation of time-and-space involved in the Philadelphia Experiment could have also carried this forced resonant frequency back in time to create the cataclysmic event as opposed to something that happened in real-time.

Let’s use the example of Cape Cod to illustrate the presence of railroad lines and lighthouses, for example, right next to water.

Here is the map showing fourteen lighthouses on Cape Cod alone, as well as other lighthouses of this part of New England, on the left, as well as the historic Old Colony Railroad that traversed the length of Cape Cod.

While we have always been given the explanation that lighthouses were constructed to guide ships through rocky shoals and dangerous waters, and railroads were built around the same time period in the 19th-century, what I am seeing is that these were places that were in perfect resonance and that forced resonance throughout the grid system caused the system to go haywire, and the surrounding land sank, or turned into like swamps, bogs, barrens, or deserts and dunes.

There are several more points I would like to make with regards to the Crowley connection and the role of the Philadelphia Experiment in bringing us to the world we live in today being a real possibility.

One is about the deaf community on Martha’s Vineyard that was being studied in the 19th-century, which would have been very near the bell-tower in Providence.

They want us to believe it was from internal causes, but what if the cause of the deafness was from an external source, like an eardrum-shattering sound resulting from a forced resonant frequency going through a massive, previously-resonant system?

People who were deaf or deaf-mutes was a huge issue in the 19th-century that historical figures like Alexander Graham Bell were famous for working with.

For one example, Bell was known for training instructors of deaf-mute students.

He travelled to Boston in 1871 to teach instructors at the Boston School for Deaf-Mutes his “Visible Speech System.”

The oldest public day school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, it later became known as the Horace Mann School for the Deaf.

Another point that I would like to make is that because Earth is a Free Will Zone, the Human Beings who live here have to give their consent to choose whether the follow the Light or the Dark, and they have to tell us what they are doing.

They can’t just come in and do whatever they want to, even though it might seem like that is what they have been doing.

One way they gain our consent is through literature, art, music, and things like predictive programming and soft disclosure in movies and television programs, and accomplish this by not telling us they are telling us.

If we don’t get it and object collectively, then they technicially have our tacit consent even if we don’t know we are being told something, and that is what they are counting on.

Predictive programming is defined as storylines, or even subtle images, that in retrospect seem to hint at events that actually end up happening in the real world.

Soft disclosure is defined as a gradual, understated release of controversial or secretive information to the public, like “Stranger Things.”

Does soft disclosure also relate to the 1980 movie “The Final Countdown,” in which a time-travelling naval vessel in the form of the USS Nimitz goes back in time to the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th of 1941.

Did the subject matter come solely from someone’s fertile imagination, or are they disclosing something that has been hidden from us?

The other way they get our consent is by outright lies, deception and duplicity because if people knew the true agenda of these controllers, the majority of Humanity would never, ever accept what they are doing to us.

We are inherently sovereign beings.

They have gone to all of this trouble because, by Universal Law, they can’t lay a finger on us.

They have tricked us into accepting their sovereignty over our own.

How was this accomplished?

There were numerous ways, but one is private clubs like the Century Association mentioned previously in New York City, and/or other hand-picked elite groups of people who could meet secretly and make their plans for bringing the New World Order into existence.

Ever hear the George Carlin quote “It’s one big club, and you ain’t in it?” and wonder where that idea might have come from?

The self-appointed elites have continued doing the same thing to this day in their secretive meetings to plan their agendas for what they want the future to look like for Humanity and the World, and what they wanted doesn’t look good for us!

A small number of related, elitist family bloodlines, hidden in different nationalities and religions to carry out their plans for world domination, brought into existence a New World built upon the ruins of the Old World, and have stolen the legacy and identity of the original people and the true builders of all of the original infrastructure of the Earth; claimed their legacy as their own while at the same time, robbing us blind of resources, wealth, and energy without us knowing anything about it because they educated us in a new history with them written in to it, and at the same time removed everything about the Old World from our collective awareness.

In this post, I am going to bring forward research I have done over the years on resorts, springs and spas, and show how once-upon-a-time the amazing natural healing places once in existence were connected to the Old World and its energy grid, and in most cases, were taken out a long time ago.

The first place I am going to take a look at is Excelsior Springs in Missouri, located on the East Fork of the Fishing River.

The City Hall of Excelsior Springs today used to be the called the “Hall of Waters.”

This building was said to have been built between 1936 and 1937 by the architectural firm of Keene & Simpson, which would have been in the years between the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II.

The Hall of Waters was significant as being on the location of one of the only natural supplies of iron-manganese mineral water in the U. S. that was discovered in 1880.

The Regent Spring was said to have been discovered in 1881, a second iron-manganese spring in the area.

Here’s what we are told about the Regent Spring.

The waters of the Regent Spring were one of four Spring waters bottled by the Excelsior Springs Bottling Company, and was considered to be the strongest iron-manganese spring-water in the world.

The healing properties of this water were substantial, including prompt and permanent relief of things like all kidney and bladder problems, including Bright’s Disease; Diabetes, inflammation; rheumatism; and dyspepsia.

Long story short, by 1935, the well at the spring had been capped after having been piped, along with that of nine other private wells, into the Hall of Waters, and the wooden pavilion at the Regent Spring was demolished.

All-in-all, four different types of mineral water were found in downtown Excelsior Springs, with more varieties than anywhere on Earth.

From the discovery of the springs starting in 1881, Excelsior Springs was said to have quickly become the largest health resort in the state, with the town having electricity, a good sewer system and fine hotels.

The Elms Hotel illustrated in this post card on the left was said to have opened in 1912, and is still in operation as The Elms Hotel and Spa today on the right.

Other fine lodging places in Excelsior Springs, like the Hotel Castle Rock and the Chadwick Hotel are long gone.

Next, I am going to head to Paso Robles in California.

Paso Robles was historically known for its healing hot springs, which was on a Southern Pacific Railroad lines.

There was once a massive bath house downtown where a city parking lot is today.

It would have been right next to where the Carnegie Library today, which is right across Spring Street from the Paso Robles Inn.

The Carnegie Library in Paso Robles was said to have been built between 1907 and 1908 with a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation.

The original Paso Robles Inn featured a 7-acre garden; 9-hole golf course; library; beauty salon; barbershop; several billiard and lounging rooms; along with its famous spa, which attracted the luminaries of the day.

But, alas, tragedy struck this grand hotel in December of 1940.

A spectacular fire completely destroyed the “fire-proof” El Paso de Robles Hotel, though miraculously the guests staying the night escaped unharmed, with the exception of the night clerk, who allegedly suffered a fatal heart attack after sounding the alarm.

This has been the Paso Robles Inn since 1942, which is also advertised as a haunted location.

The Paso Robles Springs and mud baths were known at one time to be among the most healing on earth, from things like psoriasis and arthritis among other ailments.

This is a photo of the municipal mud bath in 1905 on the left, and on the right, the candy store that is at the same location today, with no more mud baths!

The San Simeon Earthquake in 2003 cracked open the hot springs beneath the parking lot next to the City Hall and library, and they started flowing again, so they were covered-up all over again!

The former Shasta Springs Resort, a popular summer resort in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, is not far from Mount Shasta in California.

The springs on the resort property were the original source of the water and beverages that became known as the Shasta brand of soft-drinks.

The resort was on the Union Pacific Railroad line in the Sacramento River Canyon in-between Dunsmuir and Mount Shasta.

The Shasta Springs Resort was sold in the 1950s to the St. Germain Foundation, the current owners of the property and is still in use as a private facility by the organization.

I looked into German-American engineer, politician and philanthropist Adolph Sutro and the baths that were named after him in San Francisco.

Sutro was the Mayor of San Francisco from 1895 to 1897.

He emigrated from Prussia in 1850, and moved to San Francisco in 1851, and left for Virginia City in Nevada in 1860.

He made a fortune in connection with the Comstock Lode there, the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States.

He returned to San Francisco around 1879, and increased his wealth by large real estate investments there.

We are told in our historical narrative that Adolph Sutro opened his private estate to the public, building the Sutro Baths between 1894 and 1896. All that remains today of the Sutro Baths is seen here.

In 1897, Sutro was said to have built the second Cliff House in existence at this location, after the first one burned down in 1894, and the second-one burned to the ground in 1907.

We are told the Cliff House was rebuilt for the third time, and completed in 1909.

The building still stands today, but the Cliff House was closed at the end of 2020.

This location at San Francisco’s Land’s End is very close to the Presidio, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Palace of Fine Arts.

Next in New York State, 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.

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 Saratoga Race Course is a thoroughbred horse racing track in Saratoga Springs, New York.

It is one of the oldest sporting venues in the United States, having opened on August 3rd of 1863 (which would have been in the middle of the American Civil War).

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

This 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.

There were also trolleys in the history of Saratoga Springs.

Trolley service ended here in 1938.

Today the historic trolley station building serves as the Saratoga Springs Heritage Area Visitors Center.

Now, I am going to look at Hot Springs in Arkansas.

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.

Hot Springs Mountain became a National Park in 1921.

Hot Springs was also called the Valley of the Vapors because when the hot water steam arose there were rainbows that were seen.

Hot Springs Mountain has forty-seven natural springs that have been capped off and piped into bathhouses, and the bathhouses still stand, like the Fordyce Bathhouse, which also has a museum.

Bathhouse Row is maintained by the National Park Service, consisting of eight historic bathhouse buildings and gardens along Central Avenue.

The former Army and Navy Hospital in Hot Springs, the first general hospital in the country that treated both Army and Navy patients starting in January of 1887, was located at the foot of Hot Springs Mountain, and has high, stone walls and star fort-looking characteristics.

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.

On September 5th of 1913, a fire started in Hot Springs on Church Street 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.

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.

Hot Springs also had electric rail cars at some point in time, and the Hot Springs Street Railroad ran through Hot Springs to and from the Oaklawn Race Track.

Hot Springs sits within or just outside of a large, solid and pure quartz crystal vein 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.

I have also looked into West Baden Springs in French Lick, Indiana.

Known as the “Eighth Wonder of the World” at one time, the hotel for the resort was said to have been built in 1901 in the Moorish architectural style, and from 1902 to 1913, was said to have the largest free-span dome in the World.

The West Baden Springs Hotel was nicknamed the “Carlsbad of America,” after the renowned European spa town of Carlsbad in the Czech Republic, which is now called Karlovy Vary.

The West Baden Springs Resort had numerous mineral springs named after Greek and Roman Gods, like the Pluto Springs.

The West Baden Resort bottled its “Pluto Water” on-site.

“Pluto Water” was a heavily-mineralized laxative water renowned for its natural magnesium and sodium sulfate content, and was shipped nationwide until 1971, when we are told it was discovered to have lithium in it and subsequently sales were stopped.

Like Hot Springs in Arkansas, there was a trolley system here.

Today there is a restored trolley car line between West Baden Resort and French Lick Resort in Indiana’s “Springs Valley.”

West Baden Springs also had the largest bicycle track in the country at one time, which was a covered double- decker.

The double-decker bicycle track, however, was said to have been nearly demolished by a windstorm that blew through the area on July 25th of 1925, and when the owner received an insurance check for $100,000, he tore the rest of the structure down, and it was gone by the fall of 1925.

There was also a natatorium at West Baden Springs, another name for a large, indoor swimming pool.

There was even a cathedral at this location.

The former Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church was demolished in 1934 when it was deemed structurally unsound by someone, and only remembered on post cards and souvenirs.

We are told the West Baden Hotel closed in 1932 after it fell into disrepair following the 1929 Stock Market Crash.

The hotel was restored in the 2000s and reopened as part of the French Lick Resort complex.

It is interesting to note that for awhile after 1934 the West Baden Hotel was a Jesuit Seminary.

The Jesuits even had an astronomical observatory on the West Baden Hotel grounds.

Next, I would like to mention a couple of famous places I know of in the Great Lakes region.

Like Hotel Victory, which was located on South Bass Island on Lake Erie’s Put-in Bay.

The island has a small airport, and is otherwise accessed by ferries and charter boats.

This is what we are told about it.

The construction of the Hotel Victory was started in 1892, and first opened in 1896, its launch having been covered in newspapers across the United States.

It was touted as the biggest hotel in America, and had 625 basic guest rooms and 80 suites.

It had elevators, an indoor swimming pool, efficient steam heating, and electrical lighting, with 3,000 incandescent light bulbs.

Hotel Victory had two dining halls that each could serve 1,200 guests in one sitting.

For a variety of reasons, the Hotel Victory closed and re-opened numerous times during its short existence, as on August 14th of 1919, a fire broke out on the third-floor and quickly spread throughout the whole building.

The local fire department raced to the scene, only to find-out, we are told, that they were outmatched by the immense blaze and unable to contain the fire, resulting in the building’s total loss.

All that remained of the once-grand hotel were parts of the swimming pool’s concrete foundations, and the thirteen-foot, or 4-meter, -tall Victory Statue that once stood at the Hotel’s entrance, which ended-up going to the scrap metal drives of World War II.

I would also like to mention the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, which was said to have been constructed in the late 19th-century.

We are told in our historical narrative that in 1886, the Michigan Central Railroad, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, and the Detroit and Cleveland Steamship Navigation Company formed the Mackinac Island Hotel Company.

We are told they purchased the land and construction of the hotel began based on a design by Detroit architects Mason and Rice, and it first opened in 1887, a year later.

Still operating as a resort today, in its history it has been a destination for Presidents and famous people in our narrative.

The next two places I am going to look at are in Pennsylvania.

First, the Pocono Mountains became a well-known resort getaway early in the 20th-century.

So, for one example, this was an early postcard showing the Pocono Mountain House and Springs.

It was one of the largest resorts that served visitors to the Pocono Mountains.

It was said to have started as a sportsmen’s club in 1874 and grew into a popular resort.

Besides recreational activities of all kinds, there were springs here that were known for healing properties.

The resort closed permanently to the public in 1933, and we are told that by 1974, it had fallen into such disrepair that the local fire department had to burn it down.

It is interesting to note that not all the historic resorts in the Pocono Mountains burned-down.

At one time, this region was known as the “Honeymoon Capital of the World” and is littered with abandoned resorts that were left to rot in place.

Cresson is also in Pennsylvania.

It is situated on top of the Eastern Continental Divide at the summit of the Allegheny Mountains on the route of the historic Allegheny Portage Railroad through the Allegheny Mountains.  

Back in the industrial heyday of the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, there were lumber, coal and coke-yard industries located in Cresson.

Cresson was also known for its therapeutic mineral springs, and we are told that in 1881, the Pennsylvania Railroad opened the Mountain House Resort Hotel.

What we are told is that the reason for the demise of the Mountain House Resort Hotel and Cresson Springs was that America’s appetite for “mountain” or “inland” resorts began to decline in favor of beach resorts, just like canals falling by the wayside for railroads, and railroads the same for automobiles, and so on.

The Mountain House Resort Hotel had ceased operations by the early 1900s, and in 1916, it was completely razed to the ground, and the original hotel building was gone.

Interesting to note, that unlike the luxurious Mountain House Resort Hotel that got razed to the ground, the likewise spacious building of the former Cresson Sanitorium and Prison is still-standing, albeit in pretty rough shape these days!

In West Virginia, White Sulphur Springs was said to have been settled in 1750, and developed as a health spa in the 1770s, as the story goes after a woman was healed of rheumatism after bathing in the springs, and calls itself “America’s Resort since 1778.”

The springs are on the grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel, which was said to have been built by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company in 1913.

Even today, the same Amtrak Cardinal Line that runs through the New River Gorge has a station at White Sulphur Springs.

The Greenbrier Resort was at one time a Presidential getaway, with President Eisenhower the last President in office to have stayed there.

The Presidents’ Cottage is a museum today.

It remains a favorite retreat location for members of the U. S. Congress.

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

Next, I am going to take a look at a couple of places in Georgia.

First, the Tallulah Gorge and Tallulah Falls in North Georgia close to where it meets the South Carolina State Line.

A state park since 1993, the major attractions of the park are the 1,000-foot, or 300-meter, deep Tallulah Gorge; the Tallulah River which runs along the foot of the gorge; and six major waterfalls known as the Tallulah Falls which cause the river to drop 500-feet, or 152-meters, over one-mile, or 1.6-kilometers.

This is what we are told.

In 1854, The General Assembly of the State of Georgia first enacted legislation for the construction of a railroad linking the towns of Athens and Clayton in North Georgia, and the railroad opened in sections starting in 1870, with construction of the railroad having been delayed with the outbreak of the Civil War between 1861 and 1865.

When the railroad arrived at Tallulah Falls in 1882, tourism to the area intensified, bringing thousands of people a week to the area.

At one time, there were seventeen restaurants and boarding houses here catering to wealthy tourists.

Places like the Tallulah Lodge, said to be the grandest lodge at Tallulah Falls with over 100-rooms and built in the 1890s, and located one-mile, or 1.6-kilometers, south of the depot on the rim of the gorge.

The Tallulah Lodge burned down in 1916.

There was an historical fire in Tallulah Falls in 1921 that wiped out almost the entire town.

The Cliff House boasted 50-rooms and was located on the edge of the gorge across the tracks from the train depot, and was said to have been built in 1882.

When it finally burned down in 1937, all the grand hotels and boarding houses were gone.

Next I am going to talk about Radium Springs, the largest spring in Georgia.

It is called one of the “Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia,” and located directly on the alignment between the Quetzalcoatl Pyramid in Mexico and the Great Pyramid of Giza that I recently researched the entire length of in a three-part series.

The deep blue waters of Radium Springs flow at 70,000-gallons, or 265,000-cubic-meters, per minute into the Flint River.

There is also an extensive underwater cavern system here.

Long known for its healing properties and crystal clear waters, we are told that a resort and golf course was developed here in the 1920s.

Sadly, the Great Depression led to the closure of the resort in 1939, though the golf course remained open intermittently in the years following after it was acquired by a group of investors.

In 1994, the casino building was too severely damaged by Hurricane Alberto to save, so it came down.

Today it is Radium Springs Gardens, where you can visit and walk around, and look at the beautiful surroundings, but you can no longer swim.

Les Sources des Caudalie near Bordeaux, France, is also on the Teotihuacan-to- Giza alignment.

Today this is a 5-star hotel and spa.

The indoor swimming pool at this location on the left reminds me of the glorious swimming pools of the by-gone era we have been looking at, like the historic Sutro Baths in San Francisco on the right.

When I came to the location of the Great Pyramid on this same alignment, I found the Marriott Mena House Hotel and it’s golf course right next to it.

I consistently find golf courses on these alignments.

“Links” is another name used to refer to golf courses, and I think that’s a clue to what they originally were on the energy grid system – “links” of some sort between the circuitry of the grid system.

The Mena House Hotel is located approximately a half-mile, or 700-meters from the Great Pyramid.

The Mena House Hotel on the left, like Les Sources des Caudalie on the right back on the alignment near Bordeaux, is a luxury 5-star hotel, and they both have the distinctive tower design with closely set-together rectangular windows.

We are told the Mena House Hotel was established in 1886.

It has been frequented by the powerful, rich and famous throughout its history.

Up until 1851, the Great Pyramid was the Prime Meridian, located at the center of the Earth’s landmass.

Longitude fixes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a North-South zero-line of longitude called the Prime Meridian, given as an angular measurement that ranges from 0-degrees at the Prime Meridian to +180-degrees westward and -180-degrees eastward.

In 1851, the same year as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, Sir George Biddell Airy, the seventh Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, established the new prime meridian of the Earth, a geographical reference line, at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich in London, and by 1884, over two-thirds of all ships and tonnage used it as the reference meridian on their charts and maps.

Carl Munck deciphered a shared mathematical code in his book “The Code,” related to the Great Pyramid, in the dimensions of the architecture of sacred sites all over the Earth, one which encodes longitude & latitude of each that cross-reference other sites. 

He turned his findings in “The Code” into a video series which can be found on YouTube.

He shows that this pyramid code is clearly sophisticated and intentional, and perfectly aligned over long-distances.

It’s interesting to me, as I sit here including this information about Carl Munck in this post about Old World Springs, that I just now remembered Carl talked about a place called Warm Mineral Springs in Sarasota County in Florida in the second video on YouTube in his series about “The Code.”

He demonstrated how Warm Mineral Springs was geometrically-aligned with other structures he had identified through the mathematical application of “The Code.”

I guess you could say this was part of my early education in 2012, several years before I started doing my own research in 2018, that this worldwide, perfectly- geometrically-aligned energy grid was a real thing.

Shortly after I watched this video, I was about an hour or so north of it in the Tampa Bay area visiting family in July of 2012, and at my request, my aunt took me there for a visit.

Warm Mineral Springs is the only warm water mineral spring in Florida, and was operated as a spa from 1946 until 2000.

It is on the list of the possible locations of the fabled “Fountain of Youth” that Ponce de Leon was looking for when he landed in Florida in 1513 in our historical narrative.

It has highly-mineratlized water that stays at a temperature of 85 – 87-degrees Fahrenheit, or 29- to 30-degrees-celsius, believed to have healing properties, and is rich in sulfur, magnesium, potassium and sodium.

So in summary, there certainly seems to be some kind of connection to these resorts, spas, and springs with regards to infrastructure like rail, today’s racing circuits, airports, and even golf courses that were seen in examples presented here that I have also identified together in the same relationships to each other in countless places, and that I believe were components of a pre-existing free-energy-generating grid before a deliberately-caused cataclysm destroyed the original grid and wiped the Old World of the advanced civilization responsible for creating it off the face of the Earth.

The New World was ushered in by negative, parasitic beings who transformed the once regenerative positive energy grid for the benefit of all into the extractive energy grid known is the Matrix for the benefit of the very few.

I don’t know exactly what the function of springs would be on the circuit board for this free-energy-generating system, but it could very well be contained within one or all the definitions of spring.

As we’ve seen throughout this post, and I could continue on with many more examples around the world, while some of the healing springs and spas still exist in today’s world, especially in luxury resorts catering to the elite, many more are long-gone, for a variety of given reasons, including destruction by fires and obsolescence from the services or locations supposedly becoming outdated or less popular.

One or two disappearing in this fashion maybe, but so many of them is highly suspicious for causes other than random chance.

Since so many appear to have been deliberately shut-down or removed, one explanation for the disappearance of the majority of these healing places could framed like this:

Why would you need Big Pharma if you had all of these amazing mineral springs available to heal all your ailments naturally?

I believe that the circuit board of the Earth’s original free-energy grid system was destroyed in a deliberately-caused cataclysmic event which caused the entire surface of the Earth to undulate and buckle around key infrastructure of the energy grid, and that when when the original energy grid was destroyed, replacement energy sources were then extracted from the original grid to bring everything back on-line as quickly as possible leading directly to the industrialized world we live in that is the only thing we know about.

From what I am seeing and finding, the destruction of the grid created swamps, marshes, bogs, deserts, dunes, and places where it appears land masses sheared-off and submerged under the bodies of water we see today.

I am going to show you exactly why I believe this to be the case in this post.

I am going to bring forward my findings from past research on what our narrative tells us about our history in North America, in places like Pennsylvania, Appalachia and the Great Lakes region.

The destruction of the energy grid and the existence of the Old World was covered up by those behind the creation of a New World Order that was built on top of the ruins of the Old World

I think what we think of as modern infrastructure was actually pre-existing infrastructure, including railways, canals, and lighthouses among the many examples available to choose from.

I believe those behind the cataclysm were shovel-ready to dig enough of the original infrastructure out of the ruined Earth so they could be used and civilization restarted, which I think started in earnest in the mid-to-late 1700s and early 1800s.

They only used the pre-existing infrastructure until they developed replacement fuel sources that could be monetized and controlled by them and when what remained of the original infrastructure was no longer useful to them, or inconvenient to their agenda, they had it destroyed, discontinued, or abandoned, typically in a very short time after it was said to have been constructed.

For the purposes of this post, I am going to focus on what was happening in our historical narrative starting in 1765 with the establishment of the Freiburg University of Mining and Technology, the oldest school of mining and metallurgy in the world, by Francis Xavier of Saxony of the House of Wettin.

Its main purpose was the education of highly skilled miners and scientist in fields connected to mining and metallurgy.

The original royal houses of Europe were completely replaced by this obscure German Ducal lineage primarily through Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, first-cousins and members of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha of the Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin.

I would like to insert here my belief the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London that took place in 1851 during the reign of Queen Victoria was the official kick-off to the New World Order timeline.

It was also known as the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations.

We are told the purpose of this first Great Exhibition in 1851 was to make clear to the world Britain’s role as industrial leader, while at the same time it provided a platform on which other countries from around the world could display their achievements.

From my perspective, one of the main purposes of these Exhibitions, Expositions, and World Fairs, starting in 1851, was the showcasing of the technology and architectural wonders of the original civilization before being hidden away and/or forever destroyed.

In our historical narrative, we are told the Crystal Palace Exhibition was organized by Sir Henry Cole, British civil servant and inventor, and Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.

We are told that it took only 9-months to develop it, from plans and organization to the Grand Opening with Queen Victoria.

Between May 1st and October 15th of 1851, six-million people were said to visit the Crystal Palace Exhibition, including famous people of the time like evolution theorist Charles Darwin; gun-maker Samuel Colt; writers Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and Alfred Lord Tennyson; and merchant banker and financier George Peabody.

The proceeds generated by the Great Exhibition of 1851 were then said to be used to found the following museums in London:

The Victoria and Albert Museum in 1852 on the left; the Science Museum in 1857 in the middle; and the Natural History Museum in London in 1881.

What was the fate of the Crystal Palace itself?

Well, we are told the magnificent Crystal Palace was moved and re-erected in 1854 to Sydenham Hill in South London, and was later destroyed by fire in 1936.

Among many other questions I have about a lot of things, how did they manage to move a building described as a massive glass house that was 1,848-feet, or 563-meters, long, by 454-feet, or 138-meters, wide, and constructed from cast-iron frame components and glass. of plate-glass and cast-iron, said to be three times larger than St. Paul’s Cathedral in London?

Also, please keep these years like 1851 and 1854 in mind as I go through the timeline of events in our history that I have pieced together from my research related to “The Industrial Rewiring of the New World,” starting with when anthracite coal was first mined in Pennsylvania.

Anthracite coal was first mined in Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania in 1775, just ten-years after the establishment of Freiburg University of Mining and Technology, and we are told that it fueled urban development in the region, resulting in a string of towns, industries, mines, roads and rail-lines to the south.

We are told the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor preserves the historic pathway that carried coal and iron ore from Wilkes-Barre to Philadelphia as a vital connection to nature, recreation and our nation’s industrial heritage, as well as having a more than $250-million per year economic impact for the region.

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

It was home at one time to major anthracite coal supplies and the mine-to-market process, with a legacy of intense mining, industrial development and rich mixture of ethnic cultures.

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

Anthracite coal is the purest form of coal, and this region contains most of the world’s supply of anthracite coal, which was found in alternating layers of rock said to have been folded into mountains and we are told it was created by a geological process called “coalification.”

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

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

The “Main Line of Public Works” was passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1826, and funded various transportation systems, including canal, road, and railroad.

The construction of the Union Canal circled in red between Middletown and Reading and was said to have started under the administration of President George Washington in 1792, and completed in 1828, and was touted as the “Golden Link” in providing an early transportation route for shipping anthracite coal and lumber to Philadelphia.

This is a section of the old Union Canal on the “Bear Hole Trail” of Swatara State Park in Central Pennsylvania, and was said to have been closed after the dam holding the reservoir was washed away by a devastating flood in 1862.

We are told the Union Canal was permanently closed to use in 1885 because it could not compete with the “efficiency of the railroad.”

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

This is a view of the Lehigh Canal at it appeared at one time in our history in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – located along this section in-between today’s Jim Thorpe and Easton.

In Easton, the Lehigh Canal connected with the Pennsylvania Canal’s Delaware Division and the Morris Canal.

Also known as the Delaware Canal, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was said to have built the Delaware Canal to feed anthracite coal to Philadelphia in the years between 1828 and 1834.

It ran along the right bank of the Delaware River for 60-miles, or 97-kilometers, to Bristol, just north of Philadelphia.

The Morris Canal was 107-miles, or 172-kilometers, -long and said to have been completed in 1832 to carry anthracite coal across northern New Jersey between where it connected to the Delaware Canal in Easton, to what is today Jersey City on the Hudson River.

It was closed in 1924.

It was hailed as an ingenious, technological marvel for its use of water-driven, inclined planes.

The builders of the Morris Canal used a sophisticated power house technology, pictured here, to power the water turbine that was set in motion to raise or lower cradled boats on the inclined planes by means of a cable.

According to the history we are taught, all of this extremely sophisticated and advanced canal-engineering technology was being implemented prior to the beginning of the Industrial Age.

And interestingly, mules were still needed to be used to pull the canal boats in places on the Morris Canal in spite of all that sophisticated technology!

Food for thought about the difference between what we are told, and what does not hold up under scrutiny.

We are told that Mauch Chunk on lower section of the Lehigh Canal between between it and Easton, Pennsylvania, was founded as a company town in 1818 by Josiah White and his partners, who were also founders of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.

It was renamed Jim Thorpe in 1954 for the Native American sports’ legend who was buried here.

The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company was a mining and transportation company that was headquartered in Mauch Chunk.

It operated from 1818 until it was dissolved in 1964 and was known in our history for having an early and influential role in the American Industrial Revolution.

The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company was considered to be the first vertically-integrated company in the United States.

Vertical integration is where the supply chain of a company is owned by the company.

Other examples of the adoption of the business practice of “vertical integration” off the top of my head was by Adolphus Busch as head of Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association.

Busch adopted vertical integration as a business practice, in which he bought all the components of his business, from bottling factories to ice-manufacturing plants to buying the rights from Rudolf Diesel to manufacture all diesel engines in America.

This illustration was of the Bevo Bottling Facility in St. Louis.

Adolphus Busch died in 1913, with a net worth $60 million in US dollars at the time of his death.

Henry Ford also utilized the practice of “vertical integration” in the Ford Motor Company.

The introduction and refinement of the assembly line facilitated the mass production of new cars, which in turn made the purchase of a new car affordable for most people.

As we go through all the information that will be presented in this post, we will see why this was yet another replacement technology for the original transportation system, which was powered by free energy.

Henry Ford was also the 13th-wealthiest American of all-time according to CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $67.2-billion.

The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company had its beginnings as the Lehigh Coal Mine Company in 1792, after we are told a hunter named Philip Ginter discovered anthracite coal on Pisgah Mountain near Summit Hill, near the border between Luzern and Carbon Counties.

The Lehigh Coal Mine Company was incorporated in 1793 and acquired 10,000- acres, or 4,000-hectares, in and around the Panther Creek Valley and Pisgah Mountain, in order to bring anthracite coal from the large deposits on Pisgah Mountain to Philadelphia via mule-trains and coal arks, or one-time single use boats, on the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers.

We are told that while the original Lehigh Coal Mine Company was able to sell all the coal it could to the available market, it lost a lot of coal to the rough waters of the unimproved Lehigh River, so they sold the original company to Josiah White and his partners in 1818.

In a nutshell, this is what we are told.

In the same year, in 1818, the new owners of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company, began the construction of the Lehigh Canal, and that it became usable in 1820.

The Lehigh Canal enabled the transport of anthracite coal, a primary energy source at the time, to the primary markets in the northeastern United States, and, we are told, inspired the development and connection of other regional canals.

The new owners of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company were said to have been behind of the construction of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad between 1839 and 1841…

…the Ashley Planes, an historic freight-cable railroad between Ashley and Mountain Top said to have been built between 1837 and 1838 to transport millions of tons of anthracite coal over the Wilkes-Barre Mountain…

… and brought in blast furnace technology to the Lehigh Valley, a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals.

Smelting is defined as a process by which metal is obtained, either as a single element or compound.

In 1822, the company became the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, after which they built the Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Railroad.

The Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Railroad, also known as the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, was said to have been built in 1827 and operated until 1932.

It was said to be the second permanent railway constructed in the United States, and used to transport coal down Summit Hill to the Lehigh Canal.

We see what became the historical Lehigh Valley Railroad crop-up at Interstate-190, which connects Interstate-90 in Buffalo with the International Border at Lewiston, New York, where it crosses the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge and from there becomes Ontario Highway 405.

Parts of Interstate 190 were built along the Rights-of-Way of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Erie Canal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Union Canal is Buffalo’s boundary with the city of Lackawanna.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Back in Pennsylvania, the “Horseshoe Curve” is a three-track railroad curve in Altoona that is described as one of the world’s most incredible engineering feats, and that it was accomplished by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1854.

It was said to have replaced the original Allegheny Portage Railroad, which was said to be the first railroad constructed through the Allegheny Mountains in 1834, and connected to the Pennsylvania Canal, all of which was said to have been built as part of the transportation system by the “Main Line of Public Works” passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1826.

Considered a technological marvel in its day and critical to opening the way to commerce and settlement past the Appalachian Mountains, the original Allegheny Portage Railroad consisted of a series of five inclines on either side of the ridge-line to Cresson Summit alongside what is called the Little Conemaugh River to where it meets the Conemaugh River at Johnstown.

Cresson is at the summit of the Allegheny Portage Railroad’s journey through the Allegheny Mountains on top of the Eastern Continental Divide. 

Back in the industrial heyday of the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, there were lumber, coal and coke-yard industries located in Cresson.

Wealthy Pittsburgh businessmen like Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and Charles Schwab, all connected to each other through the steel industry, had summer residences here, like Carnegie’s Braemar Cottage.

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-born immigrant to America, who in our narrative moved to Pittsburgh from Scotland in 1848 from humble beginnings with his parents, and who by the 1860s, had investments in such things as railroads, bridges and oil derricks, and ultimately worked his way into being a major player in Pittsburgh’s steel industry.

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

The Edgar Thomson Steel Works was Andrew Carnegie’s first steel mill with his partners, one of whom was Henry Clay Frick, the owner of a coke manufacturing company, a product used in making steel, which was operational by 1874, in Braddock, Pennsylvania.

It was named after the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1852 to 1874.

The Edgar Thomson Steel Works is still operational today, and currently owned by U. S. Steel.

They subsequently acquired other steel mills, and in 1892, the Carnegie Steel Company was formed, of which Henry Clay Frick became chairman. and in 1897, Charles M. Schwab, who had gotten his start as an engineer at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, became President of the Carnegie Steel Company in 1897.

Johnstown was at the other end of the historic Allegheny Portage Railroad.

From 1834 to 1854, Johnstown was a key transfer point on the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal.

At the head of the canal’s western branch, canal boats were transported over the mountains by the Allegheny Portage Railroad to continue the trip by water to Pittsburgh at the “Forks of the Ohio” and on to the Ohio River Valley.

We are told that when the Pennsylvania Railroad became connected to Johnstown in 1854, with the completion of the main-line, the same year we are told the amazing Horseshoe Curve in Altoona came into  existence, the Pennsylvania Canal became obsolete, and Johnstown grew rapidly as a major producer of steel via the Cambria Iron Company, and at one time was the country’s leading producer of steel.

It operated under this name until 1898, and was under different management two more times, before it closed permanently in 1992.

Though the Cambria Iron Company’s facilities were said to have been badly damaged during the Johnstown flood, the company was able to reopen on June 6th of 1889, a week after the flood, and continued to operate.

The infamous Johnstown Flood took place on May 31st of 1889, the worst flood in the United States in the 19th-century, and caused by the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam.

The South Fork Dam was said to have been an earthwork built between 1838 and 1853 as part of a canal system as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

But then, after spending 15-years building the dam, it was abandoned by the Commonwealth, and sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, who turned around and sold it to private interests.

In 1881, speculators had bought the abandoned reservoir and built a clubhouse called the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club and cottages, turning it into an exclusive retreat for 61 steel and coal financiers from Pittsburgh, including Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon.

The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was a Pennsylvania Corporation that owned the South Fork Dam.

Henry Clay Frick was a founding member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, and was actually said to have been largely responsible for the alterations to the South Fork Dam that led to its failure.

What we are told is that the South Fork Dam failed after days of unusually heavy rain, and 14.3-million-tons of water from the reservoir of Lake Conemaugh devastated the South Fork Valley, including Johnstown 12-miles, or 19-kilometers, downstream from the dam, killing an estimated 2,209 people and causing $17-million in damages in 1889, which be $490-million in 2020.

Though there were years of claims and litigation, the elite and wealthy members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were never found liable for damages.

In 1904, the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club corporation was disbanded and assets sold at a public auction by the sheriff, and there were permanent exhibits in many places, like Atlantic City, depicting the horrors of the Johnstown Flood experience for public consumption, billed as a “Thrilling Account of the awful floods and their appalling ruin.”

The main highway connecting Johnstown to the Pennsylvania Turnpike is US Route 219.

US Route 219 is a spur of US Route 19.

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

These two highways meet at Bluefield in Virginia.

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

The Pocahontas Coalfield started to be mined in 1882.

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

We are told that Bluefield in West Virginia, with its great location with respect to the developing Pocahontas Coalfield, was selected as the location of a major Division point on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the late 19th-century, and that the railroad greatly stimulated the town’s growth, so much so that in its hey-day, Bluefield was considered a “Little New York.”

There was also the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.

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

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

Then in 1888, Huntington lost control of the railroad to J. P. Morgan, an American financier and investment banker, and William K. Vanderbilt, who managed the Vanderbilt family’s railroad investments.

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

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

Staten Island-born Cornelius Vanderbilt got his start in regional steamboat lines and ocean-going steamships, and from there got into the railroad business.

He bought control of the Hudson River Railroad in 1864; the New York Central Railroad in 1867; the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad in 1869; and the Canada Southern Railway in 1876.

He consolidated his two key lines into the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1870, becoming one of the first giant corporations in the history of the United States

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

The longer U. S. Route 19, that US-219 is a spur of, runs from its northern terminus at U. S Route 20 at Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania to its southern terminus at an interchange with U. S. 41 in Memphis, Florida, just south of St. Petersburg.

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

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

I am going to put this area near Erie and US-19 into the perspective of this new system in our historical narrative with its proximity to Titusville, which we come to going south out of Erie on Pennsylvania State Route 8 that runs relatively close to US-19..

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

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

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

Also, 1854 was the same year as the amazing engineering feat of Altoona’s “Horseshoe Curve” in our historical narrative.

It appears as though the petroleum industry was developed in the 1850s in order to provide a replacement energy technology for the free energy technology of the original civilization.

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

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

John D. Rockefeller, Sr, who was born in the United States in 1839, was the progenitor of the wealthy Rockefeller family.

He was considered to be the wealthiest American of all time, as seen in this ranking by CNN Business.

Rockefeller’s wealth soared as kerosene and gasoline grew in importance.

At his peak, he controlled 90% of all oil.

As quickly as possible, a way was found to replace what remained of the free-energy system with their own coal- and oil-based system, and in the process make money hand over fist from the total control of the new system.

Pittsburgh is 128-miles, or 206-kilometers, south of Erie.

Many leading industrialists of the 19th-century were based in Pittsburgh, and resided in the East Liberty neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End, at one time the richest suburb in America, with names including Mellon, Carnegie, Heinz, and Westinghouse living there.

We are told that East Liberty started developing as a commercial area in 1842, when Thomas Mellon, prominent businessman and patriarch of the Mellon family in Pittsburgh, married Sarah Jane Negley, daughter of one of the earliest land-owners in the area, and made East Liberty their home.

We are told that Thomas Mellon made his fortune selling or renting land inherited by his wife, and used the proceeds to finance early industries in Pittsburgh.

In 1870, he and his sons Andrew and Richard established the “T. Mellon & Sons Bank,” and it became the Mellon National Bank In 1902.

It became a force in the mass production revolution in the United States, particularly in the Midwest.

A National Bank is a private bank operating as a commercial bank within the Federal Government’s Regulatory Structure, and under the supervision of the “Office of the Comptroller of the Currency,” rather than a state banking agency.

At one time in our history, National Banks had the authority to print money.

At its height, Mellon Financial Services was one of the world’s largest money management firms. 

It merged with the Bank of New York in 2007 to become BNY Mellon.

Richard Mellon, with an adjusted wealth of $103-billion, is listed as the 5th wealthiest American of all-time by CNN Business, and a founder of Gulf Oil and Alcoa Aluminum, as well as a number of other big corporations, along with his brother…

…Andrew Mellon, who is listed as the 15th-wealthiest American of all-time by CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $63.2-billion.

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

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

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

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

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

Conneaut is the northernmost city in Ohio, and a port at the entrance on Lake Erie of Conneaut Creek.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

While the Northwestern Confederacy had some early victories, they were ultimately defeated.

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

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

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

Ashtabula is another port city in Ohio, and like nearby Conneaut, important to iron ore and coal since the late 19th-century, and was integral to the steel-manufacturing that developed around the Great Lakes.

Most of the historic steel manufacturing has moved offshore, and with industrial jobs declining since the 1960s, it is considered part of a large historical manufacturing region called the “Rust Belt.”

While the Port of Ashtabula is still a hub for industrial material shipping on Lake Erie, including coal, the historic Ashtabula coal ramp and pier is no longer in use, with its operations handling bituminous coal ending in 2016.

The related coal-fired Ashtabula Generating Station closed in 2015, and the site is abandoned, with portions slated for demolition.

Cleveland is to the west of Ashtabula and Conneaut on Lake Erie.

The historic C & P Ore Docks were located on Whiskey Island on the west-side of the entrance to the Cuyahoga River.

In our historical narrative, Whiskey Island was the first piece of solid land in the swamps that lined the entrance to the Cuyahoga River when Moses Cleaveland surveyed the area in 1796 for the Connecticut Western Reserve.

The first permanent settler of Cleveland, Lorenzo Carter, built his family farm on Whiskey Island, which got its name for a distillery built on the site in the 1830s.

We are told that starting with the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal in 1825, the area was settled largely by Irish immigrants.

Then in 1831, investors from Buffalo and Brooklyn purchased the Carter farm and divided its 80-acres into allotments along 22 streets, and manufacturing plants and docks were constructed.

We are told the C & P Ore Docks were built by the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad in the late 1800s, and used until they were abandoned in the 1990s.

At their peak, they handled millions of tons of iron ore every year.

The four towering Hulett Iron Ore Unloaders have been removed.

Two were removed and scrapped in 2000, and the remaining two were removed in 2024 and then scrapped.

There are some remnants of ore dock infrastructure that exist and in-use as part of the bulk terminals of the working industrial waterfront.

Whiskey Island is situated next to the entrance of the Cuyahoga River.

The Cuyahoga River was crucial to the industrial development of northeast Ohio, particularly Cleveland and Akron, by transporting raw materials like iron ore and coal, and powering the growth of steel, rubber, and manufacturing industries.

Cleveland became one of America’s key manufacturing centers in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries.

Where it was located on Lake Erie made it perfect for shipping raw materials like iron ore and coal, and oil-refining and steel- and machinery-manufacturing boomed here.

Cleveland was where John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870, which transformed the city into a major oil refining hub.

The intense industrial use of the Cuyahoga River caused extreme pollution, and the river caught fire thirteen times in our history between 1868 and 1969.

The 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River led to the creation of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972 which mandated industrial pollution control and provided investments for modernizing sewage infrastructure.

In today’s world, the Cuyahoga River has shifted to a center for recreation and tourism, though it is still a working waterway for large freighters to transport raw materials to the factories that remain.

The Ohio and Erie Canal is here in Cleveland as well directly alongside the Cuyahoga River.

The 308-mile, or 496-kilometer, -long canal was said to have been constructed, from 1825 to 1832 to connect Lake Erie at Cleveland with Portsmouth on the Ohio River, and that it only carried freight from 1827 to 1861, when the construction of railroads ended demand.

The year of 1861 was also the first year of the American Civil War, which ended in 1865.

Then from 1862 to 1913, the canal served as a water source for industries and towns.

In 1913, much of the canal system was abandoned after important parts of it were badly flooded.

The canal was said to have been dug manually largely by Irish immigrants, who used picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows, and using horses, oxen and dynamite to clear trees and blast through rock.

In-between the Harvard Avenue Trailhead access to the Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation to the South; the house from the movie “A Christmas Story” to the west; and the Cleveland Velodrome, a bicycle-racing track, to the East, I found places like, but not limited to, Industrial Valley; the CSX Clark Avenue Railyards; the Norfolk Southern Railyards; and the Cleveland Cliffs Cleveland Works, a steel manufacturer, and its railway.

Industrial Valley, often referred to as “The Flats,” or the “Cuyahoga Valley Neighborhood,” is a heavily industrialized district along the banks of the Cuyahoga River south of downtown Cleveland.

It is a hub for heavy industry, which includes, besides the Cleveland Cliffs steel manufacturer, chemical manufacturers, petroleum terminals, and scrap metal recycling centers.

It is also the location where John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870, cementing Cleveland’s status as an industrial powerhouse.

Next, the Baltimore & Ohio (B & O) Railroad and Chesapeake & Ohio (C & O) Canal.

We are told there was an intense rivalry between the B & O Railroad, and the C & O Canal, with each project choosing the same day to break ground – on July 4th, 1828.

In our historical narrative, both projects were said to be vying for the narrow right-of-way where the Potomac River cuts through a mountain ridge at Point- of-Rocks, Maryland, which ended up in court.

Even though after four-years the case was said to have been ruled in favor of the canal, we are told the C & O Canal had to allow the B & O Railroad to go through there.

We are told that the C & O Canal, and other canals, were made obsolete because the railroad was so much more efficient and canals couldn’t compete with them.

This is what was called the Great Tunnel of the C & O Canal in Allegheny County, Maryland, pictured on the left, and part of the Paw Paw Bends section of the Potomac River as it winds its way through West Virginia and Maryland, pictured on the right.

Built using more than 6,000,000-bricks, this tunnel has been described as the “greatest engineering marvel along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.”

The Paw Paw Tunnel was said to have been built between 1836 and 1850 for the C & O Canal to by-pass the bends in the Potomac River near Paw Paw, West Virginia, with no work having been done on it between 1841 and 1847 due to construction and financial problems.

The C & O Canal closed to canal boats in 1924.

The State of Maryland chartered the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the first common carrier, and the oldest, railroad in the United States in 1827.

The first section of the B & O Railroad was said to have opened in 1830, and it was said to have reached the Ohio River in 1852, the first eastern seaboard railroad to do so.

Unfortunately, we are told that with the rise of automobile ownership, ridership declined, and B & O ended its passenger service in 1971, at which time Amtrak took over and passenger service continued for another ten-years.

What is now the North Bend Trail was at one time one of the most distinguished railroad lines in United States History because during its prime, it hosted the B & O Railroad’s premiere passenger train, the National Limited, between New York City and St. Louis, Missouri.

It was said to have been constructed between Grafton, West Virginia, and Parkersburg, West Virginia, by the Northwestern Virginia Railroad between 1851 and 1857, at which time it was sold to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and became known as the “B & O Parkersburg Branch.”

Eventually the rail-line that was part of the North Bend Rail Trail became freight-only, and the line was abandoned and dismantled in 1988. 

The trail was completed between 1991 and 1996, and also has beautiful, red-brick tunnels along the way.

The North Bend Rail Trail is part of the “American Discovery Trail,” that runs from coast-to-coast through 15-states and the District of Columbia, and is the only non-motorized trail that crosses the country.

Interestingly, the “American Discovery Trail” includes the Indiana Dunes Discovery Trail on the Southern Shore of Lake Michigan, which is called one of the most biodiverse areas in the United States, and includes sand dunes and wetlands, including bogs, existing right next to each other in the same location, and both are beside railroad tracks, circled on the bottom right.

The South Shore Line runs in ths part of Indiana starting in South Bend, and goes between Michigan City just to the east of the Indiana Dunes, to Gary, Indiana, located just to the west of the Indiana Dunes, on its way to Chicago, Illinois.

Designated as the nation’s newest National Park in February of 2019, the Indiana Dunes National Park runs 20-miles, or 32-kilometers, along the southern shore of Lake Michigan.

It had been designated as a National Lakeshore by Congress in 1966.

The Indiana Dunes State Park is within the boundaries of the National Park, and was first established in 1925 by Richard Lieber, a German-American businessman/conservationist who was the founder of the Indiana State Park System.

There have been five groups of mounds documented in the Indiana Dunes area.

Michigan City, Indiana, to the east of the Indiana Dunes on Lake Michigan, was the northern terminus of what was originally the Michigan Road.

The Michigan Road was Indiana’s first “super-highway,” and said to have been constructed in the 1830s and 1840s between Madison, Indiana, and Michigan City, Indiana, by way of Indianapolis.

We are told that one of the things that made what became the Michigan Road possible was the concession of land by the Potawatomi in the 1826 Treaty, allowing for a ribbon of land that was 100-feet, or 30-meters, wide, stretching between Madison at the Ohio River and Michigan City on Lake Michigan.

The original Michigan Road pre-dated the “Plank Road Boom” by about 10 years or so.

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

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

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

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

I found references to the original Michigan Road being unpaved, and hard to build because of “swampy land” in places.

I did find this paper note guaranty from 1862, which would have been during the American Civil War, for a “plank road” connected to Michigan City.

Interesting to see the masonry archway with the herded livestock underneath it in the lower-right-hand corner of the note.

The Michigan City Power Plant is on the lakeshore just to the east of the Indiana Dunes and not far from the city’s downtown area.

It is a coal- and natural gas-fired powerplant, with a power plant operating at this location since 1931.

It is scheduled for retirement between 2026 and 2028 as part of the shift to renewable energy.

The site faces environmental clean-up of coal ash, which has contaminated local groundwater.

The Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Plant is located on the west side of the Indiana Dunes National Park.

It is operated by Cleveland-Cliffs Inc, the second-largest steel producer in the United States, after the Nucor Corporation based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The company’s predecessor was the Cleveland Iron Mining Company, which was first founded in 1847 by Samuel Livingston Mather and several associates, and chartered as a company in Michigan in 1850, after learning of rich iron-ore deposits in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Soon afterwards the Soo Locks opened in 1855, which allowed for the shipping of iron ore from Lake Superior to Lake Michigan.

The New York Central Railroad was said to have begun operating in 1853 with the consolidation of earlier independent companies running between Albany and Buffalo.

This graphic depicts the New York Central rail system as of 1918.

We are told extensive trackage existed in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, and West Virginia, plus additional trackage in Ontario and Quebec, and by 1925 operated 26,395-miles, or 42,479-kilometers, of track.

There was a strike by miners in the Upper Peninsula Iron Ore Mines in July of 1865, after the company announced a wage cut since the American Civil War had just ended.

The miners ended up storming the mines and the town of Marquette, Michigan, looting and burning along the way.

The Cleveland Iron Mining Company requested military intervention to end the strike, and a U. S. Navy gunboat, the Michigan, and troops responded.

They were given 24-hours to go back to work, or the camp was going to be shelled.

They acquiesed, but after the Michigan left, they went back on strike.

The Michigan returned and more troops, and the miners’ strike was put down for good.

The Pickands Mather Company was formed in 1883 by James Pickand, Jay C. Morse, and Samuel Livingston Mather, the son of the founder of the Cleveland Iron Mining Company.

Pickands Mather dealt in iron ore, pig iron, and mining iron ore from two mines in the Marquette Iron Range.

The company quickly expanded into coal mining; iron ore and coal shipping; dock ownership, and the manufacture of coke and iron and steel-rolling mills.

After years of leasing and managing the freighters of other companies, Pickands Mather formed the Interlake Company, their own shipping company for lake freighter shipping in 1894.

It once had the second-largest shipping fleet on the Great Lakes in the 1910s and 1920s.

In 1992, Pickands Mather was sold to a private management group, and is still in operation as a private company.

Gary, Indiana, is just to the west of Cleveland-Cliffs and the Indiana Dunes.

In June of 1906, the location of what became the city of Gary, about 26-miles, or 42-kilometers, east of Chicago, Illinois, was a wasteland of drifting sand and patches of scrub oak.

No one lived there, and there was no agricultural value to the land.

Yet, three or four railroads passed through the area and the Grand Calumet River wound its way around sand dunes to get to Lake Michigan.

It was in June of 1906 that the first shovelful of sand was turned for the creation of the new steel town of Gary.

Laborers were housed in tents and shacks, and were digging trenches as very little work was being done above-ground.

By 1908, lo-and-behold, the city of Gary had taken on its shape and form!

Gary was heralded as a “Magic City,” having been transformed from sand dunes in record time!

Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary, a founder of U. S. Steel in 1901, along with J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab, and he was the second President of U. S. Steel, from 1903 to 1911.

Gary was established to be the “company town” for U. S. Steel, and became home to the largest steel mill complex in the world, with its operation starting in June of 1908, only two-years after the first shovelful of sand was turned at this location.

Gary was the site of one of the steel strikes in 1919.

The American Federation of Labor was attempting to organize a labor union in the leading company in the American steel industry, leading to strikes at U. S. Steel locations across the country.

In Gary, a riot broke out on October 4th of 1919 between steel-workers and strike-breakers brought in from the outside.

Several days later, the Indiana Governor declared martial law and brought in 4,000 federal troops commanded by Major-General Leonard Wood to restore order.

By January of 1920, the strike had collapsed completely, and U. S. Steel having successfully opposed unionization efforts at that time, and it would be many years before unionization efforts in the steel industry resumed.

U. S. Steel is still the largest employer in Gary, and is still a major steel producer, but with a significantly reduced workforce due to the increase in overseas competitiveness in the steel industry over the years.

As a matter of fact, Gary has been in decline for years, with population loss leading to abandonment of much of the city, unemployment and decaying infrastructure.

This is a good place to mention the Pacific Railroad Surveys.

The Pacific Railroad Surveys were a series of explorations of the American West between 1853 and 1857 with the stated purpose of finding and documenting possible routes for a transcontinental railroad across North America.

There were five surveys conducted: the Northern Pacific Survey between the 47th-parallel north and the 49th-parallel north from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Puget Sound; the Central Pacific Survey between the 37th-parallel North and the 39th-parallel North from St. Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California; the Southern Pacific Survey along the 35th parallel north from Oklahoma to Los Angeles, California; the Southern Pacific Survey across Texas to San Diego, California; and along the Pacific Coast from San Diego, California, to Seattle, Washington.

All were carried out under the direction of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, the future President of the Confederacy.

Jefferson Davis became Secretary of War in President Franklin Pierce’s Administration in March of 1853.

We are told the volumes of information that were produced from these surveys were considered to constitute the singlemost important contemporary source of knowledge on western geography and history, and that their value was greatly enhanced by beautifully-illustrated color plates showing the scenery, native inhabitants & fauna and flora of the West.

Let’s take a look at some of the definitions of survey.

There is the definition of survey regarding civil engineering and the activities involved in the planning and execution of surveys gathering information related to all aspects of engineering projects, which is the definition implied as the driving force behind the Pacific Railroad Surveys.

But what if another definition of survey might be in play here?

Like the definition of a short descriptive summary; the act of looking or seeing or observing; considering in a comprehensive way; holding a review; and a detailed critical inspection, and not the kind of surveying for civil engineering projects seen in the previous slide as we have been led to believe through historical omission.

What if the Pacific Railroad Surveys were undertaken to explore a ruined landscape surveying, as in “looking at and observing,” everything, including pre-existing rail infrastructure in order to restore it to use once again?

So, for example, the Great Northern Railway was said to have been created in 1889 from several predecessor rail-lines in Minnesota, making it the northernmost transcontinental railroad in the United States, with lines to Duluth, and Superior in Wisconsin, on Lake Superior.

The Great Northern Railway was said to the be the creation of the 19th-Century Canadian-American railroad entrepreneur, James J Hill.

We are told James J. Hill was a railroad executive who came from an impoverished childhood.

In 1898, Hill purchased control of large parts of the Mesabi Iron Range in Minnesota and its rail lines.

The Great Northern Railway began large-scale shipment of iron ore to the Midwest’s steel mills.

The 28.5-mile, or 42.9-kilometer, Dakota Rail-Trail was built on the former track-bed of the Hutchison Spur of the Great Northern Railway between Wayzala and Lester Prairie.

The question is why did they take out all of the former railroad infrastructure and replace it with recreational trails and highways to begin with?

I think the reason has to do removing the rail-lines that were original part of the energy grid when they were no longer needed for mining and/or transportation

They were instead turned into highway routes and recreational trails used for harvesting our energy for the benefit of a few from what was the original free-energy grid system for the benefit of all.

The free-energy grid was destroyed, and the robber barons behind the creation of the New World Order, like John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and the other big players we have seen so far, actively sought to bring on-line replacement sources for energy-generation and industry as quickly as possible, which came from the harvesting of the components of the original energy grid, like iron ore, coal, and oil.

Around the same time as the Pacific Railroad Surveys, 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 River.

As a result of this treaty, our historical narrative tells us 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.

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

In Wisconsin and Michigan, there are the Gogebic, Iron River – Crystal Falls, Menominee and Marquette iron ranges.

Leonidas Merritt 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.

Leonidas 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.

We are told that 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 on Lake Superior at Superior, Wisconsin, which was just to the 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, which was financed by J. P. Morgan.

 J. P. Morgan was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the period of time called the “Gilded Age,” between the years of 1870 and 1900.

He was a driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidation in the United States in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.

Besides his involvement in the formation of the U. S. Steel Corporation, he was also behind the formation of General Electric and International Harvester, among many other mergers.

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

Ashland, Wisconsin, is located at the junction of US Highway Route 2 and Wisconsin 13, not far from the port at Superior.

It is the seat of Ashland County, with its city hall said to have been built in 1893 from locally-quarried brownstone.

Ashland is located very close to the Gogebic Iron Range, and was the primary shipping port for iron ore from its mines during the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, and its history is deeply connected to mining and ore docks used to transport iron to steel mills.

We are told the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railway platted the city of Ashland in 1885 as railroad construction moved to the west.

Also known as the “Lake Shore Road,” this railway connected Milwaukee, the Upper Peninsula and northwest Wisconsin, with a connection to Chicago.

The Wisconsin Central Railway Company also had a presence in Ashland having been created in 1897 from the bankruptcy reorganization of Wisconsin Central Railroad, which existed from 1871 to 1899.

The Wisconsin Central Railway Company was merged into the Soo Line Railroad in 1961.

The Wisconsin Central Railway had a massive ore dock in Ashland that was 1,800-feet, or 550-meters, in length.

The ore dock was demolished in 2009, unable to be saved by local preservationists.

Next, Marquette is the largest city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and is a major port on Lake Superior known primarily for shipping iron ore from the Marquette Iron Range.

While the iron ore dock in Marquette’s lower harbor is still standing, unlike the one in Ashland, but has not been used as an ore dock since 1971, though there are some plans to revitalize it and possibly turn it into a public park.

These historical ore docks were typically long, high structures with railway tracks on the top, and pockets where ore was unloaded by gravity from the railcars.

Then each pocket had chutes with which to unload the ore into the hold of a cargo ship for transport.

By the 1890s, Michigan was the largest supplier of iron ore in the United States.

This is what we are told about the history of Marquette.

We are told it was named after Father Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit explorer of the Great Lakes Region and Mississippi River Valley starting around 1668 to his death in 1675.

Then in 1844, the area started to be developed after iron deposits were found at Teal Lake west of Marquette.

Subsequently,the Jackson Mining Company was formed in 1845, the first organized mining company in the region.

Then in 1849, a second iron ore-related company was formed, the Marquette Iron Company, which marked the beginning of the Village of Marquette.

This iron company had failed by 1852, but in 1854, the Cleveland Iron Mining company flourished, and had the village platted.

The village was incorporated in 1859 and it was incorporated as a city in 1871.

We are told that in the 1850s, Marquette was linked by rail to numerous mines, and became the leading shipping center of the Upper Peninsula.

The Lake Superior and Ishpeming (LS & I) Railroad was organized in 1893 as a subsidiary of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, which mined iron ore.

Based out of Marquette, it started operating in 1896 to transport iron ore from the Marquette Iron Range, located west of Marquette, to docks on Lake Superior for it to be shipped to steel mills on the lower Great Lakes.

It continues to operate today as an independent railroad from its headquarters in Marquette.

The LS & I Railroad merged in 1923 with the Munising, Marquette and Southeastern (MM & SE) Railway, a short-line running 40-miles, or 64-kilometers, east to Munising, which ran through thickly-forested pulpwood on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which was used for timber operations by Cleveland-Cliffs, an iron ore and timber-extraction conglomerate.

Interesting to note that Munising is probably best known as the western gateway to “Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.”

The “Pictured Rocks” are described as dramatic, multicolored cliffs with unusual sandstone formations.

Formations with names like “Miners Castle Rock…”

…and the Grand Portal Rock as seen in this lithograph from 1851…

…which mysteriously collapsed in the early 1900s, from the believed cause of erosion but no one really knows what might have caused it.

And no I don’t think these are natural formations, but instead great examples of melted infrastructure that I believe was caused by the destruction of the energy grid, which had multiple effects.

The Grand Sable Dunes run along the northeast end of the Pictured Rocks Lakeshore for 6-miles, or 10-kilometers.

This is the view of them from what is called the “Log Slide Overview,” where in the 19th-century, loggers used them to slide logs from the top of the dunes to the shoreline so they could be transported out.

Other places located at this end of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore include Sable Falls, which flow 75-feet, or 23-meters, over what is called Munising and Jacobsville sandstone formations to Lake Superior.

The general area around Munising has many waterfalls.

Others waterfalls in the area include: Alger Falls; Horseshoe Falls; Memorial Falls; Munising Falls; Miners Falls; Scott Falls; Tannery Falls; and Wagner Falls.

It is my belief  that waterfalls were an integral part of the original energy grid as well, and believe that the destruction of the grid in this region created the Great Lakes by the outflow of tremendous amounts of water from the waterfalls and the interconnected hydrological system.

I have looked at this subject in-depth most recently throughout my series on North America’s Great Lakes, where I have looked at places all along the shores of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, and Lake Erie, paying particular attention to lighthouses; railroad and streetcar history; waterfalls; bluffs, wetlands and dunes; major corporate players; mines and mining; and many other things.

The Au Sable Point Lighthouse is located in the area of the Grand Sable Dunes and Sable Falls, and it is nicknamed the “Beacon of the Shipwreck Coast.”

The lighthouse here was said to have been built between 1873 and 1874, and yet another lighthouse of many I have come across with a perfect alignment to the Milky Way.

The Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway was an American railroad that served the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and the Lake Superior shoreline of Wisconsin, providing service from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and St. Ignace, Michigan, westward through Marquette to Superior, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota.

The first of this railway line started operating in 1855; then came under the control of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1888; and was in operation all together from 1855 to 1960 as an independently-named subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

What’s left of it was merged to the Soo Line in 1961.

Parts of the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway were converted to rail-trails, like the St. Ignace – Trout Lake Trail, which is 26-miles, or 42-kilometers, of multi-use recreational trail in its former railbed.

Across the Upper Peninsula, Michigan Highway 28 passes through forested woodlands, bogs, swamps, urbanized areas, and along the Lake Superior shoreline along its course.

The “Seney Stretch” of Michigan State Highway 28 between Seney and Shingleton, a “straight-as-an-arrow” highway, goes across the “Great Manistique Swamp.”

We are told the road across the swamp was built parallel to the “Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway.”

The “Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway” in-turn became what was called the “Soo Line.”

The Soo Line of today was named for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, and was formed by the consolidation of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway and the Wisconsin Central Railway.

So now I am going to turn my attention to the binational region known collectively as “The Soo,” the nickname given to the Sault Stes. Marie of Michigan and Ontario which are located directly across from each other on the International Border of the St. Mary’s River.

The cities of Sault Ste. Marie was said to have been founded by the French Jesuit missionary, Father Jacques Marquette, in 1668. It was said to be named for both the “Sault,” the name given to the St. Mary’s River rapids, and the Virgin Mary, and called the first European city in the Great Lakes Region.

Sault Ste. Marie was one city until the border between the United States and Canada was established at the St. Mary’s River in a treaty after the War of 1812 in our narrative, creating Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie Ontario, and on both sides of the river, the area is referred to as the “The Sault” or even “The Soo.”

Sault Ste. Marie is the oldest city in Michigan, and said to be the third-oldest city in the United States.

The Soo Locks, the largest waterway traffic system on Earth, are called the “Linchpin of the Great Lakes,” allowing ships to travel between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.

Lake Superior meets Lake Huron with a 21-foot, or 6-meter, drop in elevation.

The Soo Locks are considered a wonder of engineering and human ingenuity.

They by-pass the rapids of St. Mary’s River.

The river drops 21-feet, or about 6.4-meters, over hard red sandstone in a short 3/4-mile, or 1.2-kilometer, stretch.

We are told the first locks were built here in 1855, and operated by the State of Michigan until transferred to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1881, who own, maintain, and operate the St. Mary’s Falls Canal, within which the locks are located.

Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan is the northern terminus of Interstate-75, which goes all the way to Miami, Florida.

The Sault Ste. Marie International Railroad Bridge runs adjacent to the International Bridge, and was said to have been built in 1887.

It also has both lift and swing bridge features.

Pretty sophisticated engineering technology for 1887!

The next place we come to as we make our way across “The Soo” are the St. Mary’s Falls, of which the International boundary goes through the middle.

What are known as the Compensating Works are in the left foreground of this screenshot, in front of the International Bridges.

They consist of 17 piers and concrete aprons bearing on sandstone bedrock.

Piers 1 – 9 are in Canada, and Piers 10 – 17 are in the United States.

These were said to have been constructed between 1913 and 1919 (with World War I occurring between 1914 and 1918), and have an extremely sophisticated sluice-gate and gate-machinery system.

Next we come to the Great Lakes Power Canal on the Ontario side of Sault Ste. Marie.

Great Lakes Power was established in the early 1900s by Francis H. Clergue.

Francis H. Clergue was an American businessman who became the leading industrialist of Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

In addition to Great Lakes Power, he was also credited with establishing many other industrial companies,including, but not limited to, the Sault Ste. Marie Pulp and Paper Company in 1895, as we will see going through this region.

I found this intriguing photo of the Pulp and Paper Mill.

What is it showing us?

A recently built canal and building as they want us to believe?

Or far older infrastructure, perhaps after a cataclysm?

We are told Francis Clergue was behind the establishment and construction of the Algoma Steel Factory, which is said to have first opened for steel production in 1902, at which time the factory was said to have produced its first rail-tracks when the first Bessemer Converter was put into operation using pig iron made from the Helen Mine.

The massive blast furnaces for pig iron manufacture were not said to have been completed at the site until 1904.

This is incredibly high building and industrial technology and expertise for what we are taught we were capable of at the time.

Ford’s Model T wasn’t even in production yet ~ it entered the transportation scene in the fall of 1908.

It is interesting to note that we are told during this same time, Clergue’s financial operations suffered reverses and operations were shuttered in 1903, which led to the 1903 Consolidated Lake Superior Riot.

The Consolidated Lake Superior Riot took place from September 28th – 30th of 1903 as a result of lay-offs and unpaid wages.

The riot resulted in the injuries of four protestors and two police officers, and military forces were called in to end the riot – first the local militia, and shortly thereafter, the members of the Royal Canadian Regiment and Mounted Royal Dragoons, and from Toronto, members of the Queen’s Own Rifles, and 48th Highlanders.

Clergue was also credited with the development of the Algoma Central Railway, connecting it to the Transcontinental artery of Canada.

He was said to have initially owned it, and needed a way to transport logs from the Algoma District in northeastern Ontario for his pulp mill, and iron ore for the steel factory, and that it was chartered on August 11th, 1899.

It was said to have been completed to Hearst, Ontario in 1914, and we are told that it never made it all the way to Hudson Bay as was planned

Here is a comparison with a railroad trestle bridge for the Algoma Central Railway on the left, and the one for the Tallulah Railroad at Tallulah Falls in the northeastern corner of Georgia on the right.

This is the Algoma Central & Hudson Bay Railway Terminal Station in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, said to have been built in 1912.

The Ojibwe indigenous to the region were forced to cede their lands to the Canadian government under an 1850 Treaty in exchange for annuities and reservations.

We are told a large tract of land was signed over to the British Crown in 1850 as part of the Robinson Superior Treaty covering the North Shore of Lake Superior.

This was two days after the signing of the Robinson-Huron Treaties, which covered the northern eastern shores of Lake Huron, which also established annuities and reservations.

In both cases, the Crown pledged to pay an annuity to these First Nations people, originally set at $1.60 per treaty member, and it was last increased to $4 in 1874, where it is fixed to this day.

Further north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, on the northern shore of Lake Superior, we come to the Township of Wawa, where there are numerous mining concerns, including gold…

…and historical mining for high-quality iron ore at the defunct Helen Mine and Magpie Mine.

Starting in 1900, the Helen Mine was owned and mined by Francis Clergue.

In our historical narrative, Clergue built a railroad from the Helen Mine to Michipicoten Harbor on Lake Superior, which was only 10-miles, or 16-kilometers, away from the mine.

It was here that we are told Clergue had ore docks built in Michipicoten Harbor which facilitated the transfer of the iron ore to the blast furnaces of steel mills.

Here’s a view of remnants of infrastructure in Michipicoten Harbor in the present day, left to rot in place, which was not an uncommon thing to do.

We are told that another large iron deposit was discovered north of the Helen Mine in 1909.

The land was purchased by the Algoma Steel Company, and the Magpie Mine was commercially developed, in production between 1914 and 1926.

It is important to bring up information about the shipping routes and infrastructure like lighthouses that made all of this Great Lakes commerce possible.

This is what we are told about the Great Lakes Waterway.

It is a system of natural channels and artificial locks and canals that allow for the navigation between all of the Great Lakes, with the major civil engineering works being the Soo Locks between Lakes Superior and Huron; what are called dredged channels in the St. Mary’s River, the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, and the St. Clair River between Lakes Huron and Erie; and the Welland Canal between Lakes Ontario and Erie; and the St. Lawrence Waterway that allows ocean-going vessels to travel to and from the Atlantic Ocean.

In this part of the world, the Straits of Mackinac between Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula hydrologically-connect Lake Huron to Lake Michigan.

The bathymetry of the Straits of Mackinac and the Mackinac Channel in between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron shows the depth of the water to be quite shallow, ranging in depth from primarily 0- to 50-meters, or 164-feet.

The Round Island Channel is located in a navigable waterway in Lake Huron and a key link in the lake freighter route between Lake Michigan and Lake Superior on which millions of tons of taconite iron ore are shipped annually, and has been an essential element in shipping the iron ores from northern Minnesota since the late 1800s.

Round Island is a tiny island in-between Mackinac Island and Bois Blanc Island.

The most noteworthy thing about the uninhabited Round Island are its lighthouses – the Round Island Passage Light Station and the Old Round Island Lighthouse.

The Round Island Passage Lighthouse was said to have been constructed starting in 1947 and became operational in 1948.

The Old Round Island Lighthouse is located on the west shore of Round Island in the shipping lanes of the Straits of Mackinac, and was said to have been constructed in 1895.

We are told in our historical narrative that Bois Blanc Island was ceded by the Chippewa “as an extra and voluntary gift” to the United States government in the previously-mentioned 1795 Treaty of Greenville between the United States and the indigenous nations of the Northwest Territory for their lands for settlement after their defeat at the end of the Northwest Indian War that took place in this region between 1786 and 1795.

The community of Bois Blanc Township is on the island with a population of 100 in the 2020 Census, and has the smallest school district in terms of student enrollment in the nation, with three students in 2024 – 2025.

The Bois Blanc Lighthouse was said to have been constructed in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War.

It is on the northern end of the island, is not in use, and is privately-owned.

In the part of Lake Huron surrounding these three islands, we find Poe Reef Lighthouse; the Fourteen Foot Lighthouse; the Spectacle Reef Lighthouse; the Martin Reef Lighthouse, and more lighthouses in what is called the De Tour Passage – De Tour Reef Lighthouse; Frying Pan Island and the Pipe Island Light Beacon Station.

The Poe Reef Lighthouse is between Bois Blanc Island and the mainland of the Lower Peninsula, 6-miles, or 9.7-kilometers, east of Cheboygan.

Poe Reef is a problem for shipping, lying 8-feet, or almost 2.5-meters, below the surface of the water.

The Poe Reef Lighthouse was said to have been built in 1929, and sits on the northern-side of the South Channel, where the water is too shallow for Lake freighters.

Same story with the Fourteen Foot Shoal Lighthouse on the southern-side of the South Channel, and 3 1/2-miles, or 5.6-kilomters, from the Poe Reef Lighthouse.

It was also said to have been built in 1929 where there was a significant navigational hazard, with the water here being only 14-feet, or almost 4 1/2-meters, -deep.

The Spectacle Reef Lighthouse is on the other side of Bois Blanc Island from the Poe Reef and Fourteen Foot Reef Lighthouses.

The Spectacle Reef Lighthouse is 11-miles, or 18-kilometers, east of the Straits of Mackinac.

It was said to have been constructed at great expense between 1870 and 1874, and made of interlocking, hand-cut limestone blocks, and is 86-feet, or 26-kilometers, in height.

The Spectacle Reef Lighthouse is at a location where there are two limestone shoals that resemble a pair of eyeglasses, which constituted the most dreaded navigational hazard on the Great Lakes.

What we are told in our historical narrative is that there was an effort between 1870 and 1910 to build lighthouses where there were isolated reefs, shoals, and islands that were significant navigational hazards.

It is my belief that land sank or became submerged around these lighthouses when the energy grid they were once part of was destroyed, and that if there was any “construction” taking place during that time, it was to get them operational for use as navigational aids since that was what they were now needed for, but was not their original purpose, which I think had something to do with light energy distribution on the original grid system.

Another example is the Martin Reef Lighthouse, which is at a location where the water of Lake Huron is only a few inches deep in its shallowest area, and another significant hazard.

This lighthouse was said to have been constructed in the summer of 1927.

Also, we are told the Imperial Towers of Ontario were six of the earliest lighthouses built between 1855 and 1859, primarily out of stone, on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay.

They were said to have been built was as a result of new trade agreements and the opening of the Soo Locks in 1855, which led to an increase of commercial shipping traffic on the Great Lakes.

In summary, I believe that the circuit board of the Earth’s original free-energy grid system was destroyed in a deliberately-caused cataclysm relatively recently.

This cataclysm caused the entire surface of the Earth to undulate and buckle around key infrastructure of the energy grid, creating what we see on the surface of the Earth today – the swamps, marshes, bogs, deserts, dunes, and places where it appears land masses sheared-off and submerged under the bodies of water we see today.

Those behind the destruction of the Old World were shovel-ready to dig enough of the original infrastructure out of the ruined Earth so they could be used and civilization restarted, which I think started in earnest in the mid-to-late 1700s and early 1800s, and that the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London in 1851 was the official kick-off to the New World Order timeline.

They only used the pre-existing infrastructure until they developed replacement fuel sources that were extracted from the original grid to bring everything back on-line as quickly as possible.

These replacement fuel sources could be monetized and controlled by them and they became incredibly wealthy.

Then, when what remained of the original infrastructure was no longer useful to them, or inconvenient to their agenda, they had it destroyed, discontinued, or abandoned, typically in a very short time after it was said to have been constructed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anthracite coal is the purest form of coal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

First, the International Railway Bridge.

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

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

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

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

He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1897.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Life & Times of Frederick Law Olmsted – A Retrospective of Reset History

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Next, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First, the Buffalo City Hall.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Next, the Buffalo River.

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

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

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

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

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

It was constructed out of limestone and cast iron.

These days it is an outdoor museum.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More to come later on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail.

The Horseshoe Reef Lighthouse is next.

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

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

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

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

The Buffalo Intake Crib is near the Horseshoe Reef Lighthouse.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Its history goes something like this.

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

It was in the Tifft family until 1883.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The other two are at Delaware Park and South Park.

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

First, the CSX Intermodal Terminal in Blasdell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was known for its abundant fruit orchards.

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

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

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

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

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

Including Orchard Park.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra has held summer concerts here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Of Railroads and Waterfalls and Other Physical Infrastructure of the Earth’s Grid System

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

First, the Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center.

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

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

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

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

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

Wanakah Beach runs along the lakeshore here.

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

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

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

It is right on the shore of Lake Erie.

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

The Cloverbank Country Club is also a private club.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The parking area here is surrounded by megalithic stone blocks.

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

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

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

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

…and two waterfalls.

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

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

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

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

This brings me to the Hobuck Flats.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First, the Dunkirk Lighthouse.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is known for its panoramic views of Lake Erie.

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

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

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

Discussions are underway regarding rehabbing the plant or decommissioning it.

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

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

Bioaerosols contain different microorganisms that can cause diseases and allergies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These are just a few of countless examples.

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

First, The Vineyards Golf Course.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The area is known for its steep, scenic gorges.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This historical structure has been replaced with another bridge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On the Trail of Giants, in Appalachia and Beyond

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

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

US Route 219 is a spur of US Route 19.

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

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

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

The Pocahontas Coalfield started to be mined in 1882.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First, the Barcelona Lighthouse in Westfield, New York.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The forest borders the steep gorges of Chautauqua Creek.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First, the Wintergreen Gorge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Presque Isle State Park has an interesting and distinct shape.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hector Falls is located northeast of Titusville and West Hickory.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The relics were being viewed in nearby Tionesta before being sent on to New York.

And lastly, the bones were said to have been found about 12-feet, or 3.5-meters, below the surface of a mound, and the mound was not more than 3-feet, or less than a meter, above the level of the ground around it.

So to put that into visual perspective, this garage has 12-foot, or 3.5-meter, – high walls, so the giant’s bones were found that far below the surface of a mound, which was another 3-feet, or almost 1-meter, higher than the ground.

Next I am going to look at the Erie Bluffs State Park and Howard Falls just to the southwest of Erie, Pennsylvania, and then head south to Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania.

This is all right before we reach the Pennsylvania – Ohio State Line.

The Erie Bluffs State Park is the largest stretch of undeveloped land overlooking Lake Erie in Pennsylvania.

It is just west of Lake City, and north of the Seaway Trail and the railroad tracks.

Within the 587-acre, or 238-hectare, state park, there are things like bluffs up to 90-feet, or 27-meters, – tall, and patches of old-growth forest.

With almost 4-minutes of totality, the Erie Bluffs State Park was one of four state parks in Pennsylvania that were in the Path of Totality for the Annular Solar Eclipse of April 8th of 2024, the other three state parks being Presque Isle; Pymatuning; and Maurice K. Goddard.

Total solar eclipses occur when the moon completely blocks the view of the sun, and are only visible along a narrow track of the Earth’s surface.

For a few moments during totality, when the moon completely covers the sun, the day becomes night, the horizon displays the colors of sunset, and the heavenly bodies usually seen only at night appear.

There were two total solar eclipses occuring in the United States in a seven year time-frame, with the first one occurring on August 21st of 2017.

The 2017 eclipse traveled from northwest to southeast and the 2024 eclipse travelled from southwest to northeast, and their paths crossed each other in Carbondale, Illinois.

The 2024 Eclipse passed through or near nine cities named Salem.

The 2017 Eclipse passed through seven cities named Salem.

Just a coincidence…or did the builders of this ancient advanced civilization know exactly where they were in place, time and space?

The Giant City State Park, located just south of Carbondale in Makanda, Illinois, and another massive “rock city,” experienced the longest period of totality during the 2017 eclipse, at 2-minutes, and 40-seconds, and was also in the path of totality in 2024 for almost 4-minutes, though did not have the longest period, which was in Nazas, Mexico.

Here is another clipping from a publication on the subject of giants.

Talking about the Great Lake Region, it says “Long Before the Indians…it is believed to have been inhabited by a superior people – of whom not even a tradition remans – whose only monuments are earthworks and tumuli (another word for burial mounds), scattered here and there, in some places containing bones from men of gigantic size.”

It goes on to say further “Mounds and relics from these “Mound Builders” were formerly abundant throughout the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, especially in this section. If a separate race from the Indians, when and by what agency they were destroyed will probably remain a mystery as deep as that of the lost island “Atlantis.”

So this acknowledges the presence of giants here who were Mound Builders, but shrouds what happened to them in mystery, just like the lost Atlantis, saying we don’t know who they were, or really anything about them, except that they were a superior people.

It is interesting to note that researchers have long suspected the Smithsonian to have played a role in the cover-up of giants.

Back in the day, giant skeletons were displayed in public places and mentioned in newspaper articles, but all that went away

On the one-hand, there are reports that the Smithsonian admitted to the destruction of thousands of giant human skeletons in the early 1900 as the result of a U. S. Supreme Court ruling, and on the other hand, there are fact-checkers vigorously debunking this as a satirical claim and false.

Why is there such a contradiction of information, and vehement denial on the subject of giant skeletons, when there were historical records of their existence?

The existence of giants are pushed way back in time in our historical narrative, with what happened to them being a mystery.

I think the giants were buried right where they stood when whatever destroyed the energy grid took place.

Yes, they were reported to be found at mounds, but they were also randomly uncovered when people were digging.

A sudden cataclysmic event, creating swamps, deserts, and even submerging entire landmasses around the Earth, would account for how a highly advanced worldwide civilization of giants could be wiped from the face of the Earth and erased from our collective memory.

The next place I want to take a look at is the Howard Falls in Girard, the largest falls in Erie County, Pennsylvania.

It is in the Falls Run Gorge, and is described as cascading over a large, rock outcropping, approximately 33-feet, or 10-meters, -wide and 40-feet, or 12-meters, -high.

The land that the falls occupy has been privately-owned by the Howard family for 180-years, and while not open to the public to see close-up, they are viewable from the public Falls Road.

The Falls are close to the Howard Quarry in Girard, an inactive stone quarry operated by the Howard family starting in 1839.

The Howard Quarry was said to have provided the local hard sandstone for the Erie County Courthouse in Erie, the west wing of which was said to have been constructed between 1852 and 1853.

The matching east wing was said to have been constructed in 1930, during the Great Depression.

Next, I am heading down to Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, because I know there was an historical trolley park there.

The historic Exposition Park was founded there in 1892 by Colonel Frank Mantor, owner of the Conneaut Lake Exposition Company, with a stated purpose of being a permanent fairground and exposition for livestock, machinery, and industrial products.

Ownership of the park transferred to the railroad in 1901, and in 1907 trolley service was said to have been extended to the park.

Then the following year, in 1908, Many of the park’s original buildings were lost in a fire.

We are told that while arson was suspected as a cause of the fire at the time, it was never proven.

An amusement park at Conneaut Lake has existed under various ownership over the years, but as of the 2020s it is no longer a full-scale amusement park, but instead a partial event venue with remnants of the park.

Now I am going to head back to the Lake Erie shore where we cross the state-line and go into Ohio from Pennsylvania.

The first cities we come to are Conneaut and Ashtabula, both of which have lighthouses.

First, Conneaut.

Conneaut is the northernmost city in Ohio at the entrance on Lake Erie of Conneaut Creek.

We are told the land was first surveyed by the Connecticut Land Company in 1796, and the first permanent settlement was in 1798.

The Connecticut Land Company was a land speculation company that formed in the late 18th-century to survey and encourage settlement in the eastern parts of the newly chartered “Connecticut Western Reserve” of the former “Ohio Country,” which was part of the highly-prized “Northwest Territory.”

The Connecticut Land Company purchased 3-million-acres, or 12,000-kilometers-squared, of the western reserve in Northeast Ohio, in 1795, and settlers demanded that the land be surveyed prior to settlement per the Land Ordinance of 1785, in which was a standardized system by which settlers could purchase title to farmland in the West.

This is what we are told in our historical narrative.

The Northwest Indian War took place in this region between 1786 and 1795 between the United States and the Northwestern Confederacy, consisting of Native Americans of the Great Lakes area.

The Territory had been granted to the United States by Great Britain as part of the 1783 Treaty of Paris at the end of the Revolutionary War.

The area had previously been prohibited to new settlements, and was inhabited by numerous Native American peoples.

The British maintained a military presence and supported the Native American military campaign.

While the Northwestern Confederacy had some early victories, they were ultimately defeated, with the final battle being the “Battle of Fallen Timbers” in August of 1794 in Maumee, Ohio, which took place after General Anthony Wayne’s Army had destroyed every Native American settlement on its way to the battle.

Outcomes were the 1794 Jay Treaty, named for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay, the main negotiator with Great Britain.

As a result, the British withdrew from the Northwest Territory, but it laid the groundwork for later conflicts.

The 1795 Greenville Treaty that followed forced the displacement of Native Americans from most of Ohio, in return for cash and promises of fair treatment, and the land was opened for settlement.

The Conneaut West Breakwater Lighthouse is the only lighthouse here now.

It was said to have been completed in 1936 to replace one that had been built on the breakwater in 1920, which had to be demolished because of major changes to the breakwater.

It is a 60-feet, or 18-meters, -tall steel tower said to have been constructed in the Art Moderne-style, a design-style of the 1930s and 1940s said to have evolved from Art Deco of the 1920s.

We are told that the first lighthouse was built in Conneaut in 1835 and that as its importance as a shipping port grew, it had multiple lighthouses and pierhead beacons.

Starting in 1869, what became the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (BLE) ran from Conneaut, Ohio, to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, and in 2004, it came under the ownership of the Canadian National Railway as part of their purchase of the Great Lakes Transportation” holding company.

Today the former railroad runs as their “Bessemer Subdivision,” though it still does business as BLE.

Iron ore that comes from the Iron Ranges in northeastern Minnesota on the western-side of Lake Superior is still shipped via BLE trains to steel mills in the Pittsburgh region, mainly US Steel’s Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, Pennsylvania, one of the last still operating from the earliest days of the American Steel Industry.

The BLE was formed out of a series of small predecessor railroad companies operating in the area.

The Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company was founded in 1897 by Andrew Carnegie to haul iron ore and other products from Conneaut to Carnegie Steel Company plants in Pittsburgh and the surrounding region, which hauled coal north on the return trip.

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant to America, who came to Pittsburgh in 1848 with his parents at the age of 12, got his start as a telegrapher, and who by the 1860s, had investments in such things as railroads, bridges and oil derricks, and ultimately worked his way into being a major player in Pittsburgh’s steel industry.

His first steel mill, operational by 1874, was the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, named after the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

They subsequently acquired other steel mills, and in 1892, the Carnegie Steel Company was formed, and in 1897, Charles M. Schwab became President of the Carnegie Steel Company.

In 1901, Charles M. Schwab helped negotiate the sale of Carnegie Steel with a merger involving it with Elbert Gary’s Federal Steel Company, and William Henry Moore’s National Steel Company to a group of New York City Financiers led by J. P. Morgan.

After the sale of Carnegie Steel, Andrew Carnegie surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American at the time, and Charles M. Schwab became the first President of the newly minted U. S. Steel Company.

Andrew Carnegie was ranked as the 6th-richest American of all-time by CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $101-billion.

The Bear Creek and Lulu Waterfalls are to the south of, and in-between, Conneaut and Ashtabula on either side of I-90.

The Bear Creek Waterfall on Bear Creek is in a gorge area near State Road in Kingsville, Ohio, and Bear Creek is a tributary to the Lake Erie watershed.

It is a seasonal waterfall with reported heights varying between 15- and 100-feet, or 4.5- to 30.5-meters, depending on the specific ledge and waterfall.

They are easily visible from the State Road covered bridge.

The State Road covered bridge is one 17 drivable covered bridges in Ashtabula County.

It is called a single-span lattice truss design made from 97,000-feet, or 30,000-meters, of southern pine and oak wood.

This bridge was dedicated in 1983, and was said to have replaced a previous bridge dating from 1831 that stood until 1898.

The Lulu Falls on the other side of I-90 are also in Kingsville.

It is a 25-foot, or 8-meter, -tall waterfall on an unnamed tributary of Conneaut Creek.

It was a popular picnic spot in the 1800s, and supposedly received its name from a young woman who liked the name of a friend.

Like we saw back in Buffalo, where the Scajaquada Creek passes over Serenity Falls in the Forest Lawn Cemetery on its way to Delaware Park, the Victorian-era Lulu Falls Cemetery is near the waterfall here in Kingsville, Ohio.

Now we come to Ashtabula, which is another port city like Conneaut important to iron ore and coal since the late 19th-century, and was integral to the steel-manufacturing that developed around the Great Lakes, with most of the historic steel manufacturing having moved offshore, and with industrial jobs declining since the 1960s, it is considered part of a large historical manufacturing region called the “Rust Belt.”

While the Port of Ashtabula is still a hub for industrial material shipping on Lake Erie, including coal, the historic Ashtabula coal ramp and pier is no longer in use, with its operations handling bituminous coal ending in 2016.

The related coal-fired Ashtabula Generating Station closed in 2015, and the site is abandoned, with portions slated for demolition.

We are told in our historical narrative that railroad construction connected its port to a national network, and Ashtabula is known for the “Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster,” also known as the “Ashtabula Horror,” one of the nation’s most notorious rail accidents that took place on December 29th of 1876.

It involved the collapsing of the Ashtabula River bridge when a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway train was crossing it, dropping a locomotive and eleven passenger cars onto the frozen river 150-feet, or 46-meters, below it, which also started a fire from the railroad car stoves.

Of the 159 people on board, 92 people were killed, and 64 people injured.

There was also a historical rail ferry that operated carrying coal and iron ore railway cars from Ashtabula to Port Burwell, Ontario, which ran from 1906 until it sank after it collided with a steamer in September of 1959.

There was an interurban line that was completed in 1901 that connected Ashtabula to Painesville, which connected it to the Cleveland, Painesville, and Eastern interurban system, which stopped operating on May 20th of 1926, for the given reason of competition from cars and buses.

The Ashtabula Lighthouse is located at the end of the west breakwater at the entrance to the busy commercial port of Ashtabula.

The current lighthouse was said to have been built in 1905, replacing earlier lighthouses that were built from the 1830s to the 1850s.

Though still an active lighthouse, in 1982 the lighthouse passed into private hands, and it was opened as a museum in 1984.

The fresnel lens was replaced by a modern beacon, and was given to the museum in 1995.

The next places we come to going down the Lake Erie shoreline from Ashtabula are just east of Cleveland.

I am going to look at the Geneva Beacon Lighthouse, the Erie Shores Golf Course and Madison Country Club; the Perry Nuclear Power Plant; Lake Erie Bluffs; Paine Falls; and the Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light.

First, the Geneva Beacon Lighthouse.

The Geneva Beacon Lighthouse is located at the Geneva State Park Marina in Geneva in northwestern Ashtabula County.

It serves recreational boat traffic for the marina as opposed to the industrial ports we have just seen in Conneaut and Ashtabula

The date given for its construction is 1980, and it is a 55-foot, or 17-meter, -tall steel structure.

The next places we come to are the Erie Shores Golf Course and the Madison Country Club, which are relatively close together, and in-between the shore of Lake Erie, US-20; I-90; the railroad tracks; and the S-shaped Grand River.

The Grand River is one of the most important waterways in northeastern Ohio, and one of the largest rivers on Ohio that flows directly into Lake Erie.

It was a key route for settlers moving into the Connecticut Western Reserve in the early 1800s.

The Perry Nuclear Power Plant and the Lake Erie Bluffs come next.

The Perry Nuclear Power Plant is situated on Lake Erie, and is 40-miles, or 64-kilometers, northeast of Cleveland.

There is a land on the grounds of the Perry plant that were designated as an urban wildlife sanctuary in 1993, where there are trees, shrubs, streams, ponds, and wetlands that are habitat for species herons, kingfishers, ducks, geese, and endangered spotted turtles, as well as the rare crane-fly orchid.

Perry is the fourth nuclear power plant that I have come across while doing this Great Lakes series, and all have been right on the lakeshore of their respective Great Lakes.

They were the Darlington Nuclear Power Station in Bowmanville, Ontario, on Lake Ontario; the Nine-Mile Point Nuclear Power Station in near Oswego, New York, on Lake Ontario; and the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant in Kincardine, Ontario, on Lake Huron.

The Lake Erie Bluffs is a 670-acre, or 271-hectare, park managed by Lake Metroparks, a public park system in Lake County, Ohio, that manages a large network of natural areas, parks and recreational facilities.

The Lake Erie Bluffs Park has a mix of up to 40-foot, or 12-meter, -high bluffs on the beach; a significant amount of wetland; and a sandy and cobbled beach along 9,000-feet, or 2,743-meters, of shoreline.

I’ll insert here my belief that all the bluffs and cliffs we are seeing is where land was previously, and it sheared off and is now below the surface of the water.

When the word “sheer” is used to refer to a cliff, it means a high area of land with a very steep side.

One of the meanings of the word “shear” spelled with an “a” is to break off, or be cut off, sharply.

A synonym of the word for “sheer cliff” is “bluff.”

Another meaning of the word “bluff” is a deception, or an attempt to deceive.

There are countless examples to choose from, but here are examples of sheared-off, unstable-eroded-looking landscape seen on this stretch of coastal road beside the Southern California Bight on the left, and the Aquinnah Cliffs on Martha’s Vineyard, which is also where the headquarters of the Wampanoag Tribe of Martha’s Vineyard is located on their historical land.

This type of thing is found all over the Earth, like the sheer cliffs of Iran’s Hengam Island’s coastline on the left, compared for similarity of appearance with the sheer white cliffs of Dover on the coast of southern England on the top right, and the cliffs along the southern coast of Australia in Victoria State where the Great Ocean Road runs for a long distance next to a sheer cliff.

Next, the Paine Falls are to the south of the nuclear power plant and the Lake Erie Bluffs Park, right next to I-90.

They are located in Paine Falls Park, which is also managed by Lake Metroparks.

Paine Falls is one of the many waterfalls that can be found in the Cleveland area.

It is a 25-foot, or 8-meter, -tall waterfall on the Grand River where there is a gorge.

Railroad history on the Grand River was centered around Lake County, and particularly Painesville, where the railroad supported regional industry and shipping.

Key railroad infrastructure included the Baltimore and Ohio (B & O) Railroad lines that were established in the late 1880s, including significant bridge structures.

The Grand River Railway was revived as a short-line in 2016 to support Lake County industry by hauling salt from the Morton Salt Mine to a CSX Interchange after CSX closed the line in 2002.

Historically, the railroad along the Grand River was defined by its role as a vital industrial corridor, connecting the inland steel mills of Youngstown, Ohio, with the shipping docks of Fairport Harbor.

Painesville, the county seat of Lake County, was historically part of the Connecticut Western Reserve.

It was named after General Edward Paine, an officer in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, who was one of the first settlers of the Western Reserve.

With its location on key roads and railroads, Painesville became a broader part of the industrial network of northeast Ohio, and became a serious manufacturing center in the late 1800s and early 1900s, with key sectors being metal fabrication and machining; chemical production; electrical components; and plastics and industrial materials.

One of many was the Industrial Rayon Corporation Plant in Painesville.

It was a major employer from 1938 until its closure in 1980, at which time the site was abandoned.

It produced 12.5-million pounds of viscose rayon every year for textiles and tire-cord, clothing, and parachutes, and was known for demanding, high-temperature chemical preocesses.

There are two lighthouses in Painesville that I would like to mention – the Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Lighthouse and the Fairport Harbor Lighthouse.

The Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Lighthouse is near the entrance to the Grand River at the end of the breakwater at Headlands Beach State Park.

We are told that it was built in 1925 to replace the Fairport Harbor Lighthouse.

It is an automated lighthouse , and while the lighthouse itself is closed to the public, the public can walk up to it on the breakwater from the state park and view it from the outside.

The original Fairport Harbor Lighthouse still stands, but these days is a maritime museum.

It is located at the intersection of Second and High Streets in the village of Fairport Harbor.

It was said to have been constructed in 1871.

Like what we saw back at the Ashtabula Lighthouse and Maritime Museum, the fresnel lens that was from Fairport Harbor Lighthouse is also on display in the maritime museum here at the same location.

From the Painesville area we are next entering Cleveland, the largest city on Lake Erie, and the second-largest in Ohio after Columbus, the state capital.

The places I am going to take a look at first here are the Coulby Lighthouse; the Beachland Ballroom & Tavern, near the location of the historical Euclid Beach Park; Rockefeller Park; the Cleveland East Entrance Lighthouse; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Garfield Monument; and the Rockefeller Obelisk.

First, the Coulby Lighthouse.

The Coulby Lighthouse is in Wickliffe on the outskirts of Cleveland.

From what I could find out, it was called a folly that is part of Coulby Park.

A folly is defined as a decorative building that doesn’t serve much of a purpose, even if it is meant to look like it does.

British-born Harry C. Coulby was known as the “Czar of the Great Lakes.”

He was partner in Pickland Mathers & Company, a shipping and iron ore mining company with a fleet of boats on Lake Erie that shipped iron ore from Minnesota to steel mills all over the Great Lakes.

Coulby was the first elected mayor of Wickliffe from 1916 to 1921, and his former mansion, known as “Coulallenby,” is the City Hall of Wickliffe these days.

Next stop, the Beachland Ballroom & Tavern.

It is a popular music venue and tavern that got its start in 1950 as the “Croatian Liberty Home,” a center for social activities for the local immigrant community, with the original structure including the ballroom and tavern, with more bar facilities added later.

The ballroom floor is a vintage, well-maintained, hardwood floor.

This location got my attention because I have had occasion to research historic dance halls with amazing hardwood floors that have long been demolished and replaced by housing.

Like the Cloudland Dance Hall in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Cloudland was used as a Ballroom and Dance Hall, and during the 40’s was especially popular in the local scene.

The viewer who told me about it said that the Cloudland hardwood dance floor was naturally-sprung, and when the dancers were pumping, the floor could bounce around nine inches.  

The Cloudland Ballroom and Dance Hall itself was demolished by a developer in November of 1982, and the Cloudland Apartments occupy the former location of this iconic landmark.

Another one was the Kings Hall in Aberystwyth, Wales.

It also had a great hardwood floor on which to dance, and said to have been built in the Art Deco Architecture style in 1934 (which would have been between World War I and World War II).

Major band concerts were also held there, like Led Zeppelin in January of 1973 during their Strange Affinity British Tour in 1972 and 1973.

The King’s Hall was demolished in 1989, for the given reason of apparent structural weaknesses and disrepair, and replaced by the King’s Hall residential flats and commercial units.

The Beachland Ballroom and Tavern is located near the location of what was the Euclid Beach Park, another historical trolley park.

The Euclid Beach Park was located on the southern shore of Lake Erie in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood.

It operated as a trolley amusement park until 1963 when daily streetcar service from Public Square ended, and continued as an amusement park until 1969 when it closed for good.

Remnants of the Euclid Beach Park include the arched main gate, which still stands, and having been declared a Cleveland Landmark, it is protected from demolition.

It was moved in January of 2025 from the roadway to an adjacent lot to be made the centerpiece of a park.

Another remnant is a carousel that was sold at auction after the park closed in 1969 and moved to another park in Maine, but efforts were made to get it back, and it finally returned home to Cleveland in 2014 where it is at the Cleveland History Center in University Circle.

Next down the lakeshore from here we come to Rockefeller Park and the Cleveland East Entrance Lighthouse.

Rockefeller Park was named in honor of Standard Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, who donated land for the park.

Rockefeller Park stretches for 2-miles, or 3-kilometers, along Doan Brook, and runs a northwesterly path between Shaker Heights and goes in-between the University Circle neighborhood and ends at Gordon Park on the city’s lakefront.

It is immediately adjacent to Wade Park to the southeast; and across Euclid Avenue on its northwest border.

It is the largest park within city limits and was first opened to the public in 1897.

The greenhouse at Rockefeller Park first opened in 1905, and is a city-owned botanical garden and greenhouse, and hosts a diverse selection of indoor and outdoor gardens.

Also, the Cultural Gardens are a collection of gardens at Rockefeller Park that commemorate many of the ethnic groups who have enriched Cleveland and the United States.

The Cleveland East Entrance Lighthouse is located on a breakwaer at the entrance of the Cuyahoga River and Cleveland Harbor, and we are told has existed there since 1915.

It is still active and maintained as a navigational aid by the U. S. Coast Guard.

To the southeast of here we come to the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Garfield Monument and the Rockefeller Obelisk.

The Cleveland Museum of Art was said to have been established on the southern edge of Wade Park and first opened in 1916.

We are told the original neoclassical building of white Georgian marble was designed by a local architectural firm.

So many buildings like these are proportionally much larger than the people who come to visit them.

The nearby Garfield Monument is the final resting place of the assassinated American President James A. Garfield, who was shot in Washington, DC, on july 2nd of 1881 and died a couple of months later on September 19th of 1881.

It is a mausoleum in Lake View Cemetery that was said to have been constructed starting in 1885 and dedicated in 1890, and exhibits a combination of Byzantine, Gothic and Romanesque Revival architectural-styles.

The Rockefeller Obelisk is also in the Lake View Cemetery, which is on Euclid Avenue.

It is almost 70-feet, or 21-meters, -high obelisk and marks the final resting place of John D. Rockefeller, along with his wife and mother.

The years between 1873-1930s were known as Cleveland’s Gilded Age, when nearly half of the world’s millionaires lived in Cleveland. 

Euclid Avenue was known as Millionaire’s Row, and it was home to some of the nation’s most powerful industrialist’s, including John D. Rockefeller and Samuel Mather, a co-founder of Pickands Mather and Company, the shipping and iron mining company mentioned previously in association with Harry Coulby back in Wickliffe, which was also a popular place for the millionaires to have summer homes.

The Rockefeller Mansion in Cleveland was located at Euclid Avenue and East 40th Street, that he was said to have purchased in 1868 and where his children were born.

This mansion on Euclid Avenue was demolished in 1938, and where it was located is now part of an inter-belt highway.

The Rudd-Rockefeller House on Euclid Avenue was purchased by Mary Ann Rockefeller, the sister of John D. Rockefeller, and her husband, William Cullen Rudd, in 1905, and remained in their family until 1966.

It is currently being restored with plans for it to become a museum.

The 45-room Samuel Mather Mansion at 2605 Euclid Avenue was said to have been built between 1906 and 1910, and one of the last surviving mansions on Euclid Avenue.

The home has been owned by Cleveland State University since 1967.

This brings me to the downtown Cleveland area.

The places I am going to highlight here are the Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport; Huntington Bank Field; the present train station and former Union Depot locations; Lighthouse Park; the Cleveland East Breakwater Lighthouse and Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead lighthouse; the Cargill Salt Mine and C & P Ore Docks on Whiskey Island, and on or near the Cuyahoga River, the Rockefeller Building; the former Cleveland Union Terminal; Rocket Arena & Progressive Field; Westside Market; Cleveland Velodrome; and one of several Ohio & Erie Canal Parks.

First, the Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport.

Also called the Downtown Airport, it is located directly on Lake Erie.

It is a general aviation airport just north of Cleveland’s Central Business District close to major attractions and hotels in the city.

Interestingly, it is also known as the “Landfill Airport” for the given reason that during the Great Depression in the 1930s, the land it is situated on was used as a dumping site for the city’s waste.

Then we are told after it opened in 1947, the airport’s runways were expanded using dredged material from the Cuyahoga River to create solid land for the runways.

Next up is Huntington Bank Field adjacent to the Downtown Airport.

Huntington Bank Field is currently the home stadium of the National Football League’s Cleveland Browns, as well as serving as a large event venue for the community like other sporting events and concerts.

It also sits on the old landfill and dump site.

The stadium is next to the former Union Depot site and current Cleveland Train Station for Amtrak passenger service, and Lighthouse Park as well.

The former Cleveland Union Depot was said to have been built in 1866.

This picture was notated as having been taken in 1867, which would have been only two years after the end of the American Civil War in our historical narrative.

The Cleveland Union Depot was used by multiple railroads over the years.

The Pennsylvania Railroad was the only railroad still using this depot after 1930, when the Cleveland Union Terminal first opened for use in a different location, which we will come to shortly.

The Cleveland Union Depot building was demolished in 1959, six-years after the Pennsylvania Railroad stopped using it in 1953.

The Cleveland Union Depot was located where the parking lot nicknamed “the Pit” at the Huntington Bank Stadium is today, which is frequently used for tailgating during the Browns’ football games.

The nearby Cleveland Train Station, known as the Cleveland Lakefront Station, in front of the stadium not far from the former Union Depot site, has been used by Amtrak since 1977.

It serves Lakeshore Limited passenger train from New York & Boston to Chicago; the Floridian line from Chicago to Miami, and the local Rapid Transit Waterfront Line.

The nearby Lighthouse Park was the former location of the Cleveland Harbor Lighthouse.

The construction of the original Cleveland Harbor Lighthouse was said to have been completed in 1830 on a bluff at the end of what is now West 9th Street.

This area was a significant bluff in the 1820s and 1830s, but it has since been altered by industrial expansion in the Flats and the construction of the Main Avenue Bridge.

Then we are told the lighthouse tower was rebuilt in 1872, but that by 1894, only 22-years later, this lighthouse was decommissioned.

Then this structure remained until around 1937, when we are told the Main Avenue Bridge was built.

All that remains of this lighthouse are its wall and steps in Lighthouse Park. which features things like built-in seating, bench swings, electrical hook-ups for device charging, and a light-bar feature.

Next, the Cleveland East Breakwater Lighthouse and Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead lighthouses are located close to each other at the main entrance to Cleveland Harbor.

The present Cleveland East Breakwater Lighthouse was said to have been built in 1910, and that it was automated in 1959.

It is still an active navigational aid and not open to the public.

Interesting to note the megalithic stone wall next to the lighthouse.

The Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse was said to have been built around the same time as the East Breakwater Lighthouse.

While it still functions as a navigational aid for maritime safety, the Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse was purchased privately for almost $500,000 at a U. S. General Services auction in 2023.

Now I am going to take a look at Whiskey Island situated on the west-side of the entrance to the Cuyahoga River, and in particular, the C & P Ore Docks and the Cargill Salt Mine.

In our historical narrative, Whiskey Island was the first piece of solid land in the swamps that lined the entrance to the Cuyahoga River when Moses Cleaveland surveyed the area in 1796 for the Connecticut Western Reserve.

The first permanent settler of Cleveland, Lorenzo Carter, built his family farm on Whiskey Island, which got its name for a distillery built on the site in the 1830s.

We are told that starting with the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal in 1825, the area was settled largely by Irish immigrants.

Then in 1831, investors from Buffalo and Brooklyn purchased the Carter farm and divided its 80-acres into allotments along 22 streets, and manufacturing plants and docks were constructed.

We are told the C & P Ore Docks were built by the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad in the late 1800s, and used until they were abandoned in the 1990s.

At their peak, they handled millions of tons of iron ore every year.

The four towering Hulett Iron Ore Unloaders have been removed.

Two were removed and scrapped in 2000, and the remaining two were removed in 2024 and then scrapped.

There are some remnants of ore dock infrastructure that exist and in-use as part of the bulk terminals of the working industrial waterfront.

The Cargill Salt Mine in downtown Cleveland on Whiskey Island is one of the largest salt mines in the world, and one of two salt mines in Ohio, the other being the Morton Salt Mine in Fairport Harbor.

The Cargill Salt Mine is located 1,800-feet, or 549-meters, beneath Lake Erie and is accessed by way of Whiskey Island.

It extends roughly 4-miles under Lake Erie, or around 6-kilometers, and covers about 16-square-miles, or 41-square-kilometers.

It is a massive 24/7 salt-mining operation that produces an estimated 2.6-million to 3.5-million tons of rock salt per year, that we are told is used in large part for de-icing roads in the Great Lakes Region in the winter months.

I found the massive salt mine in Goderich when I was looking at the Ontario-side of Lake Huron in Part 4 of this series.

Goderich has significant salt mining operations at the Goderich Salt Mine, considered the largest underground salt mine in the world, and has been in operation since 1959.

The Goderich Salt Mine has a production capacity of 9-million-tons per year, and produces 7,250,000-tons per year.

It is 1,800-feet, or 549-meters, under Lake Huron, the same distance that the Cargill Salt Mine is under Lake Erie.

To put this into perspective, these mines are as deep as the 1,815-foot, or 553-meter, CN Tower in Toronto is tall.

As I mentioned, Whiskey Island is situated next to the entrance of the Cuyahoga River.

The Cuyahoga River was crucial to the industrial development of northeast Ohio, particularly Cleveland and Akron, by transporting raw materials like iron ore and coal, and powering the growth of steel, rubber, and manufacturing industries.

Cleveland became one of America’s key manufacturing centers in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries.

Where it was located on Lake Erie made it perfect for shipping raw materials like iron ore and coal, and oil-refining and steel- and machinery-manufacturing boomed here.

Cleveland was where John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in 1870, which transformed the city into a major oil refining hub.

The intense industrial use of the Cuyahoga River caused extreme pollution, and the river caught fire thirteen times in our history between 1868 and 1969.

The 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River led to the creation of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972 which mandated industrial pollution control and provided investments for modernizing sewage infrastructure.

In today’s world, the Cuyahoga River has shifted to a center for recreation and tourism, though it is still a working waterway for large freighters to transport raw materials to the factories that remain.

Next I am going to look at the following places on or near the Cuyahoga River, including the location of the former Cleveland Union Terminal; the Rockefeller Building; Rocket Arena & Progressive Field; the Westside Market; the Cleveland Velodrome; and one of several Ohio & Erie Canal Parks.

First a few things about the historic Cleveland Union Terminal.

The Cleveland Union Terminal was described as a monumental 1920s project that turned Cleveland’s Public Square into a major transportation and commercial hub anchored by the 52-story Terminal Tower.

It was said to have been constructed between 1923 and 1930.

The Terminal Tower was the tallest building in the world outside New York City, and designed to be a city inside the city, featuring shops, hotels, and a post office in addition to the train station.

When the Cleveland Union Terminal Station opened in 1930, it was one of the busiest rail hubs in the country.

Then we are told that by the 1960s and 1970s, passenger rail travel declined sharply due to cars and air travel.

As previously mentioned, Amtrak took over passenger rail service in 1971 and continued to use the Cleveland Unon Terminal Station for passenger service until 1977, when it moved over to the Cleveland Lakefront Station and that marked the end of rail service here.

Today the Terminal Tower is part of the Tower City Center, and offers shopping, dining, entertainment, office space and local RTA Rapid Transit lines still operate out of this location.

The Rockefeller building is on the other side of the street from the Tower Terminal Complex.

The Rockefeller Building was said to have been built between 1903 and 1905 at the corner of West 6th and Superior Avenue, and displays the Rockefeller name on the side of the building since it was built.

As we have already seen, John D. Rockefeller’s companies were instrumental in turning Cleveland into an industrial powerhouse.

The Rockefeller Building is an entry point into the popular Warehouse District, first a historic residential area, and then the center of Cleveland’s wholesale commercial area.

These days it is a popular hotspot with things like bars, nightclubs, shops, restaurants and apartments.

The Rocket Arena and Progressive Field are directly to the east of Tower Center City and the Rockefeller Building.

The Rocket Arena is the home venue of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers and the NHL’s Cleveland Monsters, as well as being a multi-purpose venue for other sports’ teams and community events.

Progressive Field is the home venue of the MLB’s Cleveland Guardians, a team that used to be known as the Cleveland Indians.

What I find interesting is that I have found that in city after city, major league sporting venues like the three I’ve looked at in Cleveland -the Huntington Bank Field, Rocket Arena & Progressive Field – are found near railroad yards and tracks or former railroad tracks.

Like Baltimore.

Camden Yards was previously a yard for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and was converted into today’s Oriole Park for the Baltimore Major League Baseball Team, first opening in April of 1992…

…and the M & T Bank Stadium, the home of the National Football League’s Baltimore Ravens, is located next to Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and first opened in September of 1998.

There are still railyards fairly close to this location today.

There are countless examples to choose from, but this gives you the idea. 

I think this finding is significant and not random, and believe it’s about energy transference.

From what I am seeing in my research, the railroads were an important component for the transference of free energy on the original grid system, and I think that has been replaced by the harvesting of human energy without our awareness since everything is on or near existing and former railroad tracks, from sporting venues like these to our roadways and highways.

The last three places I want to look at before I end this post are the West Side Market; the Cleveland Velodrome; and one of the Ohio & Erie Canal Reservations on the Cuyahoga River, which are park areas.

First, the West Side Market.

The West Side Market is an historic public market owned by the City of Cleveland that has been continuously operating since it first opened in 1912, and has hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.

Besides its huge variety of vendors and cultural diversity, the West Side Market building is famous for its vaulted ceiling, and 137-foot, or 42-meter, -tall clocktower.

We are told this building was built specifically for the purposes of being a marketplace, but it definitely has features that remind me of a train station, like the previously seen Terminal Tower of the original Cleveland Union Terminal Station that is now Tower City Center.

Next up, the Cleveland Velodrome.

Velodromes are arenas for track cycling, so the Cleveland Velodrome is an outdoor bicycle racing track used for track cycling.

It opened in August of 2012 and is the only velodrome in Ohio.

It features a 545-foot, or 166-meter, steep, wooden track with very steep, banked turns.

We are told the first velodromes were constructed in the late 1870s, with the oldest being the Preston Park Velodrome in Brighton, England, said to have been built by the British Army in 1877.

These velodromes bring to mind an historic structure that I found out about when I looked into West Baden Springs in French Lick, Indiana.

The hotel for the resort was said to have been built in 1901 in the Moorish architectural style, and from 1902 to 1913, was said to have the largest dome in the World.

Along with having a trolley system…

…it had the largest bicycle track in the country, which was a covered double- decker.

The double-decker bicycle track, however, was said to have been nearly demolished by a windstorm that blew through the area on July 25th of 1925…

…and when the owner received an insurance check for $100,000, he tore the rest of the structure down, and it was gone by the fall of 1925.

The last place I want to look before I end this post is the Ohio and Erie Canal Reservation, which is a 325-acre, or 132-hectare, park administered by Cleveland Metroparks.

It features a 7.2-mile, or 12-kilometer, trail, on the historic Ohio and Erie Canal, and runs between Harvard Avenue in Cleveland and Rockside Road in Valley View.

First, some background information on what we are told about the Ohio and Erie Canal.

The 308-mile, or 496-kilometer, -long canal was said to have been constructed, from 1825 to 1832 to connect Lake Erie at Cleveland with Portsmouth on the Ohio River, and that it only carried freight from 1827 to 1861, when the construction of railroads ended demand.

The year of 1861 was also the first year of the American Civil War, which ended in 1865.

Then from 1862 to 1913, the canal served as a water source for industries and towns.

In 1913, much of the canal system was abandoned after important parts of it were badly flooded.

The canal was said to have been dug manually largely by Irish immigrants, who used picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows, and using horses, oxen and dynamite to clear trees and blast through rock.

Now I would like to share with you what I found when I took a look around to see what is found on or near this Cleveland Metropark recreational parkland.

In-between the Harvard Avenue Trailhead access to the Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation to the South; the house from the movie “A Christmas Story” to the west; and the Cleveland Velodrome to the East, I found places like, but not limited to, the CSX Clark Avenue railyards; Norfolk Southern Railyards; the Cleveland Cliffs Cleveland Works, a steel manufacturer, and its railway; and Industrial Valley.

Industrial Valley, often referred to as “The Flats,” or the “Cuyahoga Valley Neighborhood,” is a heavily industrialized district along the banks of the Cuyahoga River south of downtown Cleveland.

It is a hub for heavy industry, which includes, besides the Cleveland Cliffs steel manufacturer, chemical manufacturers, petroleum terminals, and scrap metal recycling centers.

It is also the location where John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870, cementing Cleveland’s status as an industrial powerhouse.

As we go down along the Ohio and Erie Reservation towards where it ends at Rockside Road in Valley View, we find more of the same kinds of things, like Charter Steel; storage facilities for BP Pipelines North America, which manages over 3,299-miles, or 6,150-kilometers, of pipelines transporting crude oil, natural gas and refined products; the large Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant, and countless other industrial and commercial locations in the surrounding area.

There’s loads to unpack here at this location alone, but I would like to leave this thought for your consideration about this industrializing after finding here as well as many other places throughout this series.

Along with rewiring the original free energy grid, which was for the good of all, into what is known as the Matrix, an energy-harvesting system designed to benefit the very few, this industrial rewiring process process has transformed and inverted the original regenerative and free energy grid circuitry into an extractive energy system, and this is being done right in front of our eyes, but without our knowledge or consent as to what is actually taking place here.

I am going to end this post here, and pick it up in west Cleveland in the next part of the series as I continue to work my way around Lake Erie to the end of this series on the Great Lakes at Fort Erie in Ontario, across the Niagara River from Buffalo, New York.

I decided to dust-off research I have done over the last eight years concerning Iran and the surrounding region with the world events taking place right now.

The research I am sharing with you here comes primarily from tracking leylines through here, as well as research I have done on our modern history, including, among many other things, the role the British East India Company played in the history of this part of the world.

What comes to the surface throughout this post is that there is much that we don’t know about Iran, the greater region, and evidence for how it ties into the existence of a worldwide, interconnected civilization that has been completely hidden from our awareness.

Persia, today’s Iran, historically was part of the vast Persian Empire, which in more ancient times, from what we are told, included all of the following present-day countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.

On the Nowruz, or New Year, of 1935, the Shah of Iran at the time, Reza Shah Pahlavi, asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran in formal correspondence.

This also changed the usage of the country’s national identity from Persian to Iranian.

During World War II, which took place between 1939 and 1945, the first Big Three wartime conference, the Tehran Conference was held in November of 1943, in which the Allies committed to open a second front against Nazi Germany, and took place two years after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August of 1941.

Reza Shah Pahlavi was deposed in September of 1941 as a result of the British and Soviet Invasion of Iran during World War II because he was seen as a German ally even though Iran had maintained neutrality in the conflict, and the invasion took place purportedly to secure Iran’s oil fields and ensure Allied supply lines along the Persian Corridor.

Reza Shah Pahlavi was later replaced as Shah by his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was the last Shah, or Emperor, of Iran.

The coronation took place in 1967 at Tehran’s Golestan Palace, where along with the Shah, his wife Farah was crowned Empress, and his son, Reza Pahlavi, was named Crown Prince, at the age of 6.

Golestan Palace is the former royal complex, and said to be one of the oldest historic monuments in Tehran.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013, it is noteworthy for many reasons, including spectacular mirror mosaics and tile-work.

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown as Iran’s Head-of-State on February 11, 1979.

The Iranian Revolution involved a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi Dynasty and led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the Islamic Republic of Iran, and what is called a unitary theocratic-republican authoritarian presidential system subject to a Supreme Leader, or Grand Ayatollah, initially by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, an Islamist who was the leader of one of the rebel factions.

The revolution was supported by various Islamist and leftist organizations, as well as student movements.

One of the events taking place in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, which I remember well because I was in 10th-grade at the time, was the Iran Hostage Crisis from 1979 to 1981, in which there were 66 American diplomats and citizens taken captive in Tehran beginning on November 4th of 1979, when Iranian militants and students stormed the U. S. Embassy.

The Iranian Hostage Crisis severely impacted the Presidency of Jimmy Carter, and included a failed rescue attempt known by the cover-name Operation Eagle Claw, in which 8 servicemembers were killed in April of 1980.

On January 19th of 1981, Iran and the United States signed an agreement to release the remaining 52 Iranian hostages after 14-months, or 444-days, of captivity, of which the release took place on the following day, minutes after the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States.

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi died in exile in Egypt in 1980.

Reza Pahlavi and his mother Farah, who have been living in exile throughout this time, are still very much alive today.

Things changed considerably for the people in what became the Islamic Republic of Iran after 1979.

This revolution took place in a country that was experiencing prosperity and produced profound change at great speed, and replaced a pro-western, secular monarchy with an anti-western, Islamic Republic.

These pictures were before the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran…

…and this picture of the citizenry was taken in 2012.

So what has been going on here?

How did Islam in Persia AKA Iran morph from the Sufi Islam of Rumi, a 13th-century Persian…

…who was an Islamic, scholar, theologian, mystic and poet.

Who were the Sufis?

They were mystics, and practitioners of the inward dimension of Islam.

Sufism emphasizes personal experience with the Divine, and concentrating one’s energy on spiritual development rather than focusing on the teachings of human religious scholars.

Rumi established the Mevlevi Order in Konya, Turkey, otherwise known as Whirling Dervishes,  who practice a spinning dance used to connect with the Divine.

How did the Sufi Islam of Rumi morph into the radical fundamentalist Islam that came into power in Iran?

And I think what happened to Iran with the imposition of the Islamic Republic of Iran was the blueprint for the globalist Marxist-Islamist takeover of the western world.

I think it has something to do with this quote from Albert Pike, described as an American author, poet, orator and prominent member of the Freemasons.

The military blueprint for three world wars were said to have been contained a letter written by Albert Pike, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, to the leader of the Bavarian Order of the Illuminati, Giuseppe Mazzini, in 1871.

So let’s go back in time through the history of the region to see what is discoverable, both that which is not readily available to find except through pattern recognition and intuition, and that which is found in the historical narrative we’ve been given.

There is information available to find through pattern recognition, but it ends up being a jumble of puzzle pieces that hint at larger connections but do not present a clear picture.

Like when I found the Tomb of Aurangzeb in Khuldabad in India when tracking a long-distance leyline back in April of 2020.

Aurangzeb was considered the last of the strong Mughal Emperors, and who died in 1707.

Aurangzeb means “Ornament of the Throne” in Persian.

What?! A Persian name for the ruler of the Mughal Empire of the Indian subcontinent?

His burial site is located on at the complex of the dargah, or shrine, of Sheikh Zainuddin, a Sufi saint of the Dahkan, also known as Deccan, of India, and the spiritual and religious teacher of Aurangzeb.

As a matter of fact, Khuldabad is popularly known as the “Valley of Saints” because several Sufi saints resided there in the 14th-century.

The last Mughal Emperor in India, Bahadur Shah Zafar, also a devout Sufi, was deposed by the British East India Company in 1858, and exiled to Rangoon in Burma.

Through the Government of India Act of 1858, the British Crown assumed direct control of the British East India Company-held territories in India in the form of the new British Raj.

The Criminal Tribes Act was first passed by the British Colonial Government in 1871.

It criminalized entire communities by designating them as habitual criminals, and restrictions on their movements imposed, including men having to report to the police once per week.

In 1876, Queen Victoria assumed the title of Empress of India.

King-Emperor and Queen-Empress were the titles used by the British monarchs in India between 1876 and 1948.

The “Khorasan” was a historical region comprised of land in present-day Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikstan.

Khorasan is said to mean something along the lines of “Land of the Sun,” or “Where the Sun Arrives from” in Persian.

I found the same idea in Turkey, which was known historically as Anatolia.

The meaning of Anatolia is also something along the lines of “Rising Sun” in ancient Greek.

Also, the “Land of the Rising Sun” is a popular nickname for the country of Japan.

So what this tells me is that the whole concept of the sun always rising on the empires of the ancient advanced civilization was embedded in language and collective awareness.

In similar fashion, we learned that the “Sun never set on the British Empire.”

We are told that between the 18th- and 20th-centuries, Britain acquired more and more territories, making it the largest empire in history.

When I saw the Persian name of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, I vaguely recollected something about the Aryans. It rang the bell of a distant memory.

In looking up definitions of Aryan, here is what I am finding:

The Aryans brought Hindu religious thought to India;

The term was used by the Indo-Aryan people of the Vedic period in Ancient India as a religious label for themselves;

The Iranian people used the term as an ethnic label for themselves in the Avesta scriptures, the religious texts of Zoroastrianism, and the word “Aryan” forms the source of the country name Iran;

The definition of an Aryan, described by the Nazi Germans as a member of the Master Race, was not Jewish and had nordic features.

What exactly was the Nazi obsession with creating a Master Race all about anyway?

Was this actually a desire to re-create the original Master Builder Race?

Giant human beings who, among many other things, were capable of carving massive infrastructure right out of rock like it was no big deal?

Which brings me to the question: Who were the People of Ar?

Mt. Ararat, the legendary landing place of Noah’s Ark, was located in the historical Armenia, though now is within the boundaries of modern Turkey.

The Sumerians called Ararat “Arrata,” and they tell of this land of their ancestors in the Armenian Highlands in their epic poem of Gilgamesh.

Compare the reed boat pictured here on the left with the Sumerian Gilgamesh with an ancient Egyptian boat, in the middle with a reed boat on Lake Chad in Africa; on the right with a reed boat on Lake Titicaca in Peru.

As a matter of fact, Arrata is said to be now recognized as the world’s most ancient, known civilization, dating back to 22,000 BCE, developing in the steppes north of the Black Sea, in modern Ukraine and believed to spread out from there to India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Western China, and across Europe.

I found out that ancient India was known as Bharata Varsha at one time…or does the term Bharata Varsha refer to the entire earth?

Where else can I find “Ars?”

Tartary, or Tartaria, a historical region in northern and Central Asia…

…the Barbary Coast, or Barbaria, the name given to a vast region stretching from the Nile River Delta, across Northern Africa, to the Canary Islands…

…Gandhara, an ancient Buddhist Kingdom primarily in what is now Pakistan, and part of the Kushan Empire…

…Kumari Kandam, a lost continent in the Indian Ocean…

…Arabia…

…Arizona in the United States, with its flag on the top, compared with the flag of Tibet on the bottom, both looking very much like sunrays in the background…

…and Arkansas in the United States.

It’s interesting to note that the same winged lion symbolism holding a sword that served as Iran’s official emblem until the 1979 Iranian Revolution…

…is found on the remnants of the former Reynolds-Davis Wholesale Grocery Store in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the building for which was said to have been built in 1882 and the oldest building in the downtown historic district.

It was destroyed by a tornado in 1996.

The previously-mentioned Albert Pike made his home in Fort Smith in 1832.

Albert Pike in his day was the most powerful Freemason in the world when he became the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction in 1858, the same year that the Government of India Act enabled the British Crown to assume direct control of the British East India Company-held territories in India.

Along with holding the position of Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction, he held the position of Grand Master of the Central Directory in Washington, DC, and Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry.

I believe the identity of the Earth’s original people and worldwide energy grid system were deliberately hijacked by dark beings with a negative agenda, who definitely don’t want us to wake up to our true history and who we really are.

Here’s the thing.

By Universal Law, we have to give our consent for what they have done here, and the only way they can accomplish this consent is by outright lies, deception and duplicity because if people knew the true agenda of these controllers, the majority of Humanity would never, ever, ever accept anything that has taken place here.

They wanted to rule over it all, take all wealth for themselves, and control the destiny of Humanity for their own benefit, not ours. And more and more people are waking up to this every day ~ we do not consent…and we never consented!

Now I am going to go back aways in time to see what our historical narrative tells us about this part of the world, with examples from the Strait of Hormuz, the historical Persia, Khorasan and Mughal Empire presented from my past research on leylines through this region.

I am going to start at what the historical narrative tells us about the Strait of Hormuz, which I found tracking a long-distance leyline through here from Amsterdam Island.

First, thing to mention is the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494.

This Treaty divided the newly “discovered” lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire (Crown of Castile), along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands, off the West Coast of Africa, one year after Pope Alexander VI had issued the Inter Cetera Bull in 1493, which essentially authorized the grab of the lands of the original civilization.

A “Papal Bull” is an official papal letter or document, named after the leaden seal used to authenticate it, and they figure prominently in the historical narrative we have been given.

Thirty-five-years later, the Treaty of Zaragoza was signed, which specified the Antimeridian to the line of demarcation specified by the Treaty of Tordesillas, defining the areas of Spanish and Portuguese influence in Asia, and used as the means to justify the colonization of the world by the Spanish and Portuguese.

We are told that in 1497, Europeans landed in the region for the first time in the form of the Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama. 

I personally have a lot of questions about the veracity of what our historical narrative tells us about the history of this time period because of the number of early Portuguese explorers, for example, that I came across that had their first biographies written by German and English Biographers in the 19th-century.

Whatever the case may be, we are told the European invasion began in 1508, starting with the Portuguese sending seven warships to protect their interests there. 

This is an etching showing what Hormuz City looked like in 1522.

This is said to be the old Portuguese fort on Hormuz Island, and was supposedly built after the Portuguese Duke Afonso de Albuquerque captured the island in 1507, and it became part of the greater Portuguese Empire.

Duke Afonso de Albuquerque has gone down in our history as a great Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman.

He was Viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515.

Among other goals of conquest, he sought to secure the spice trade for the Portuguese Empire, which include control of Malacca in the Spice Islands; Goa in India: Hormuz in the Strait of Hormuz; and the port city of Aden in Yemen on the Gulf of Aden near the Red Sea.

Here is a photo of the vaulted arches of the Portuguese fort on Hormuz Island on the left; compared with the vaulted arches of the Seville Cathedral in the capital of Moorish Spain, in the middle; and on the top right is the “Spanish Gothic” architecture at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania that was torn down about 15-years ago, with its vaulted ceiling, and five-lobed Moorish arches; and the vaulted archways at Ft. Pulaski in Savannah, Georgia, on the bottom right.

While we are taught all of these architectural similarities were occurring at different times across countries and continents during centuries when, according to what we are also taught in history class, transportation was limited and communication was regional. 

In 1622, the British helped the Persian Emperor, Shah Abbas, in expelling the Portuguese from Hormuz Island in 1622.

In return, the East India Company was allowed to establish a trading post in Bandar-e-Abbas on the southern coast of what is known as Iran today.

We are told that as a result of a series of Royal Charters granted by King Charles II, starting in 1661, the East India Company was granted the rights to autonomous territorial acquisitions; to mint money; to command fortresses and troops and form alliances; to make war and peace; and to exercise both civil and criminal jurisdiction over the acquired areas.

The British interest in the Persian Gulf increased as India’s importance in the British imperial system increased in the 18th- and 19th-centuries.

The “Persian Gulf Residency” was a sub-division of the British Empire from 1822 to 1971, during which time the United Kingdom maintained varying degrees of economic and political control over several states in the Persian Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates, and at different times, over the southern portions of Persia (Iran), Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar, known collectively as the “Trucial States,” the name given to a group in southeastern Arabia who had signed protective treaties, or “truces” with the British between 1820 and 1892.

The Strait of Hormuz is the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open Ocean. 

The Musandam Peninsula is on the south coast of the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran is on the north coast of it.

The governance of Musandam Peninsula is shared by the countries of the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

The Tell of Kush is an archeological site in the Musandam Peninsula, and situated on an important trade route.

It won’t be the last time was see a “Kush” on these alignments as I go through what I found this part of the world.

Telegraph Island in the Strait of Hormuz is located in what was named the Elphinstone Inlet for the East India Company’s then-Governor of Bombay, Mountstuart Elphinstone, and was the location of a telegraph repeater station built by the British there in 1864, only to be abandoned in the mid-1870s , and remains deserted to this day.

We are told that the slang term in English “going ’round the bend,” meaning a feeling of exasperation, came from the telegraph workers who were stationed there, with its heat, rocks, and isolated location.

The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s biggest oil transit waterway “chokepoint.”

At least 20% of the world’s petroleum passes through here, and one-third of the world’s liquefied natural gas, and is a highly important strategic location for international trade.

Not surprisingly, this is a tense area, to say the least!

The Strait of Hormuz has been site of many military conflicts and attacks over the years, including but not limited to the 1984 Tanker War that took place during the Iran-Iraq War when Iraq attacked the oil terminals and tankers on Iran’s Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, said to have been done to provoke Iran into retaliating with extreme measures, and lasted for several years.

The islands of the Strait of Hormuz are windows to a hidden history.

Like the small island of Abu Musa.

The island of  Abu Musa is contested between the United Arab Emirates and Iran.  

It has been administered by Iran as part of the Hormozgan Province since 1971.

It is the furthest Island from the Iranian coast, and is strategically important as it sits near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, and because of sea-depth, ships and oil tankers must pass between Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunb islands, also administered by Iran, on their way through.

The size of Abu Musa is 4.9-square-miles, or 12.8-kilometers-squared.

Abu Musa City is the largest settlement on the island, with a population of somewhere around 2,000 people.

Between 1908 and 1968, the British controlled the Abu Musa, along with other islands in the Persian Gulf.

There are iron oxide deposits on Abu Musa.

The British interest in the Persian Gulf had increased as India’s importance in the British imperial system increased in the 18th- and 19th-centuries, and the East India Company became responsible for conducting British foreign policy in the Persian Gulf as the Crown’s regional agent.

The East India Company established their Residency at Bushehr, on the Persian Gulf, and another one later at Basar,

In 1822, the Bushehr and Basar Residencies were combined, and Bushehr became the headquarters for the new “British Resident of the Persian Gulf” of the British Colonial Residency.

A “Chief Political Officer” was the “Chief Executive Officer,” and was subordinate to the “Governor of Bombay until 1873, at which time this position became subordinate to the Governor-General of India until 1947, when India was granted its independence from Great Britain, at which time the responsibility was tranferred to the British Foreign Office.

The British terminated its protectorate and military presence in the Persian Gulf in December of 1971.

Now to apply this history back to the small, disputed island of Abu Musa.

Before 1908, the island had been under the rule of the Sheikh of Sharjah, now one of the United Arab Emirates but which had been one of the British “Trucial States.”

After the Sheikh had cancelled a 1906 mining concession he had awarded to three Arabs, for them to mine the red iron oxide deposits on Abu Musa because they turned around and offered to sell the extracted iron oxide to a German company, the British helped him expel the workers from the island but by 1908, the British came into control of the island.

In 1968, Britain announced it would be ending its military and administrative positions in the Persian Gulf.

Two days before the official establishment of the United Arab Emirates, on November 30th of 1971, the Sheikh of the Emirate of Sharjah signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.

This MOU allowed Sharjah to have a police station on the island, and allowed Iran to station troops there, and divided the island’s energy resources between the two. This was supposed to preventing Iran from invading and taking over Abu Musa like it had the Greater and Lesser Tunb islands, two other disputed islands between the two coutnries.

However, on the same day of November 30th of 1971, a day before the British officially left the region, Iran moved its troops in and took over with the help of the Sheikh’s brother, and the dispute has existed ever since.

Now, I am going to turn my attention to the large island of Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz.

It is the largest island in Iran, and one of the largest islands in the world.  

An important trading center at one time, it is situated just a short distance off the coast of Iran. 

Qeshm Island on the top, like the Hawaiian Island of Molokai pictured below it, looks remarkably like the shape of…well…a dolphin… including land shaped like flukes and flippers.

Not only do both of these islands look like dolphins, they both have a large population of sea animals in their waters, including large sea turtles and cetaceans like whales and dolphins.

Well, you might expect that in the Hawaiian Islands, but in Iran? 

In the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s biggest oil transit waterway “chokepoint?”

As a matter of fact, Qeshm has the earth’s largest mammal, the blue whale, swimming in its waters…

…as well as sea turtles and pods of dolphins that are also found in the waters around Qeshm.

The whole island of Qeshm was designated as a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2017.

Qeshm is called the Island of Seven Wonders, and some of these wonders include places like…

…the Namakdan Salt Cave Complex on Qeshm, considered to be one of the world’s largest salt cave systems, if not the largest.

The cave system is said to be a 4-mile-, or 6.5-kilometer-, -long labyrinth, most of which is closed to the public.

This location is said to be therapeutic for treating asthma and other respiratory ailments.

Another wonder on Qeshm is the Valley of the Stars, or Stars Valley, called one of the most amazing natural sites in the world. 

But is it natural, or could that possibly be melted ancient masonry?

This view of the Valley of the Stars on Qeshm Island on the top left has a similar appearance to what’s found at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah on the bottom left, and to Red Rock State Park in California on the right.

Another of the wonders on Qeshm is found at Chahkooh Canyon.

Here here we find what is described as the intersection of two vertical canyons.

The color of the water in this view of Chakooh Canyon location on Qeshm Island on the left reminded me of the Emerald Pool in Guadelupe Canyon in Baja California, Mexico, on the right, a place that I found tracking a different long-distance alignment.

What is called the old Portuguese Castle, or Fort, on Qeshm was also said to have been built by the Portuguese under Afonso de Albuquerque in 1507 in order to manage an unforeseen insurgency by the locals, and mainly used as a warehouse for guns and artillery.

Next, the island of Hengam is located just south of Qeshm, holding the position of what looks like a flipper that broke off from the main body of the dolphin-shaped island.

Hengam is called the “Island (or Home) of the Dolphins.”

Hengam is also known for its glowing blue sea from phytoplankton at night when the water is calm and windless.

Hengam also has an intriguing-looking coast.

So, for purposes of comparison, here is a view of sheer cliffs along Hengam Island’s coastline on the left, compared for similarity of appearance with the sheer white cliffs of Dover on the coast of southern England on the top right, and the cliffs along the southern coast of Australia in Victoria State where the Great Ocean Road runs for a long distance next to a sheer cliff, and showing the location of the 12 Apostles, then name given to what are called “limestone stacks” in the water off Port Campbell.

When the word “sheer” is used to refer to a cliff, it means a high area of land with a very steep side.

One of the meanings of the word “shear” spelled with an “a” is to break off, or be cut off, sharply.

A synonym of the word for “sheer cliff” is “bluff.”

Another meaning of the word “bluff” is a deception, or an attempt to deceive.

Heading up this same long-distance circle alignment that started at Amsterdam Island, a tiny dot in the South Indian Ocean…

…I looked at what is found along the way from Bandar-e-Abbas in Iran to Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan after I left the Strait of Hormuz, and I did this back in December of 2018.

Hormozgan Province, of which Bandar-e-Abbas is a part, has 13 major cities, and 13 counties.

The people of this region are called Bandari. 

This province is also known as Iran’s Black South.   

The flavor of the traditional ceremonies and music in this part of Iran is considered African.

Moving along the circle alignment from Bandar-e-Abbas, we find the city of Kerman, the capital of Iran’s Kerman Province. 

It is one of Iran’s oldest cities.

This is the Arg-e-bam Castle, or Bam Citadel, in Kerman Province. 

It is called the largest adobe building in the world, and is a UNESCO World Heritage site believed to go back to the 6th-century BC. 

An earthquake in 2003 destroyed much of it.

Compare it in style to the Grand Mosque of Djenne, in Mali, also an example of adobe architecture and also one of the world’s largest mud-brick buildings.

Djenne is not far from the home of the Dogon, Bandiagara Escarpment, with its adobe dwelling on the left, which just happens to look a lot like Mesa Verde in Colorado on the right.

This is Itchan Kala, the inner walled town of Khiva in Uzbekistan with its adobe walls.. 

It has been a World Heritage Site since 1990.

An ancient building material, adobe bricks are made from clay, sand and straw, and molded and sun-dried rather than fired in a kiln.

And before I move on from this subject, I just want to share the astonishing similarity in appearance between the adobe buildings of Ait Ben Haddou in Morocco’s Ouarzazate province on the left, and this view of what would be considered more modern constructions in the  city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands on the right.

Back in Kerman, this is the Bazaar-e-Sartasari, one of the oldest trading centers in Iran, on the left, with a comparison for similarity of appearance with Fort Pulaski on Tybee Island, one of Georgia’s Sea Islands near Savannah, on the right.

Next in Kerman is the Hammam-e-Ganjali, an historic bathhouse said to have been built in 1631.  It is now a museum. 

Same idea with the Hammam-e-Vakil, a bath in the same complex, that has been converted into a teahouse.

Leaving Kerman, next on the alignment we come to the Lakes of Hamun, which is on the border of Iran and Afghanistan in the Sistan Basin, largely fed by the Helmand River and seasonal meltwater.

They consist of three shallow, interconnected seasonal freshwater lakes and wetlands – Lakes Helmand, Sabari, and Puzak – known collectively as Lake Hamun.

They are not permanent seasonal lakes, but rather considered the largest body of freshwater on the Iranian Plateau that dry up completely during drought periods.

Mount Khajen, or Khajen Mountain, is in the Hamun Lake area on the alignment.

Mount Khajen is described as a flat-topped basalt mountain, but this is a land-form that I would now identify as a giant tree stump.

The ruins of a citadel complex, Rostam Castle, is located on Mount Khajen. 

It is an important archeological site. 

This area was also part of a southern branch of the Great Silk Road, part of an ancient network of trade routes that connected East and West.

There is a Zoroastrian fire temple within the remnants of the complex.

 Not only that, in legend Lake Hamun is considered to be the “Keeper of Zoroaster’s seed.” 

This means Zoroastrians believe that when the final renovation of the world is near, maidens will enter the lake, and give birth to the Saoshyans, the saviors of mankind.

In Zoroastrianism, fire is symbolic of Purity and Divine Light.

Zoroastrianism is one of the world’s oldest, continously practiced religions, and believed to have originated around 3,500-years-ago in Persia, and named for its founder, the prophet Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra.

It is a monotheistic faith that centers on the worship of one Creator God, Ahura Mazda, and the belief that the world is a battleground between Ahura Mazda and the destructive spirit, Angra Mainyu.

Thus, Zoroastrianism emphasizes a dualistic struggle between good and evil, and encourages followers to live by “Good thoughts, good words, good deeds.”

The Se Kuheh Castle is also in nearby Hamun County.

We are currently looking in the Sistan-Balochistan Province of Iran.

It is a massive adobe brick structure described as having two main parts – a citadel and a tower.

It was said to have been built during the Qajar Dynasty, which ruled between 1789 and 1925.

When I look at Se kuheh, it’s appearance reminds me of Gamsutl, pictured on the right.

One of the oldest settlements in Dagestan, it is said to be anywhere between 2,000 to 5,000-years-old, and was inhabited until 2015 when the last remaining resident passed away.

Dagestan is a Republic of Russia in the northern Caucasus Mountains, directly between the Republic of Chechnya to the west and the Caspian Sea to the East.

Dagestan is one of the most linguistically and ethnically diverse places in the world, with fourteen official languages, and with altogether more than 30 ethnic groups living there.

Gamsutl was an Avar village.

The Avars are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group that forms the largest in Dagestan, and they traditionally live there in villages that are higher up in elevation.

“Avaria” was the historical name of the region of the “Avar Khanate,” which controlled the mountainous parts of Dagestan from the early 13th- to the 19th-centuries, until the Russian Empire annexed the North Caucasus region by ultimately defeating the Azars in the Caucasian War that lasted from 1817 to 1864.

And how close in sound are “Avaria” in the North Caucasus mountains and “Bavaria” in southern Germany?

There is also a similarity in appearance today between Se Kuheh in Iran; the abandoned Azar village of Gamsutl in Dagestan; and the Tuzigoot National Monument in Clarkdale, Arizona, near where I live.

Next on this alignment we come to Farah in Afghanistan. 

It is part of the sparsely populated Farah Province, which is mostly comprised of rural tribal groups. 

This is the Citadel at Farah, said to have been built as part of a network of fortresses by Alexander the Great when the history books tell us he took possession of the land in 330 B.C. 

The city of Farah is believed to be over 3,000 years old, and one of the ancient places of the Persian Kings.

The population of Farah province is predominantly Pashtun.

The Pashtun are a tribal nation of millions of Afghani and Pakistani Muslims who have a strong oral tradition that they are descendants of lost Tribes of Israel, and they refer to themselves as Bani Israel. 

More on the Pashtun to come shortly in this post.

Farah also belongs culturally and historically to Sistan Province in Iran, and the Greater Khorasan in the northeast part of the historical Persian Empire.

Next on this alignment is Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. 

It is the third largest city in Afghanistan, and the capital of the Balkh Province. 

This region is also part of the Greater Khorasan of the historical Persian Empire.

This is the Citadel in the ancient city of Balkh. 

Balkh was a major center of Zoroastrianism and Buddhism in northern Afghanistan. 

It is a short distance northwest of Mazar-e-Sharif. 

It was also known as Bactra, the capital of ancient Bactria. 

Our history books convey to us that Alexander the Great captured the city in 330 BC, and the hordes of Genghis Khan completely destroyed it in 1220 AD. 

It is interesting to note that modern Balkh is a geometrically perfect circle with streets radiating out from the center of the circle.

I’ve seen that same kind of perfect geometric lay-out in Paris, France, and Goderich, Ontario, with streets radiating out from a central point.

The Hindu Kush is just south of Balkh. 

The Hindu Kush is a 500-mile, or 800-kilometer, -long mountain range in Central and South Asia, in-between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

And there’s a reference to “Kush” again.

There are many who believe that there is a connection between Balkh, the Hindu Kush, and Shambhala. 

Zoroastrians, for example, identified the Hindu Kush as the High Hara, or the geographic center of the universe around which the stars and the planets revolve, and the home of the “Masters of the Heart.”

There is a strong history of Buddhism in this part of the world as well. 

In Balkh, there are stupas over the remains of the first lay disciples of the Buddha – Trapusa and Bahalika. 

The city of Balkh was said to have derived its name from Bahalika. 

This Buddhist stupa near Balkh sits on top of the Takht-e-Rustam, the throne of the hero of the world.

The Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan is south of Mazar-e-Sharif in Central Afghanistan, not far from Kabul, the country’s capital.

There were two colossal statues of Buddha there, carved into the sandstone.

Both statues were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.  

I firmly believe there would be no mysteries in history if we had been taught the true history, about an ancient advanced worldwide civilization that was all about Harmony, Balance, Beauty, Sacred Geometry and Unity with each other and the Universe, and connecting with One’s Higher Self. 

This is one example of many of how dark forces have been hell-bent on physically destroying this civilization, and its memory and legacy. 

Now I am going to come into modern Iran from another direction, starting in Lahore, Pakistan.

This research is from “The Relationship Between Sacred Geometry, Ley-lines, and Places in Alignment,” which was a 23-part series I did back in 2019 and 2020, of an alignment that started in San Francisco, California.

Lahore is the capital city of the Punjab Province of Pakistan.

The Punjab is a historical region of South Asia, in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, and was the cradle of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, which was largely in modern Pakistan.

The Indus Valley Civilization flourished in the basins of the Indus River, which originates on the Tibetan Plateau near Mount Kailash, and ultimately flows along the entire length of Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.

The ancient civilization that flourished here was also known as the Harappan Civilization, after Harappa considered the type, or model, site of the civilization.

Mohenjo-Daro was one of the largest cities of the ancient Harappan civilization of the Indus River Valley, and is a UNESCO World Heritage site, said to have been built starting in 2500 BC and one of the world’s earliest major cities.

The Harappan Civilization was well-known for its urban-planning, baked-brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water-supply systems, clusters of large, non-residential buildings, and metallurgy.

I even read where they even had street-lights, and extremely accurate systems of weights and measures.

The Great Exhibition of the Works of All Nations, held in the Crystal Palace In London in 1851 was also known as “The Great Shalimar,” which was a reference to the Mughal Garden complex in Lahore, where you see the eight-pointed star and similar design-patterns found at the Lahore Gardens on the left are also on the Great Exhibition brochure on the right.

I think these design patterns with eight-pointed stars were a significant symbol for the ancient advanced worldwide civilization, because I find them everywhere, including, but far from being limited to, the Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the Old City, forms the historic core of Lahore, and was the capital of the Mughal Empire at one time.

Here’s a view of the Walled City of Lahore on the left showing what looks to be very similar to a star city configuration, like the example of the Imperial City of Hue in Viet Nam on the right.

Lahore Fort passed to British Colonialists when they annexed the Punjab region following their victory over the short-lived Sikh Empire, which lasted from 1799 to 1849, and which had replaced the Mughal Empire here, in the Battle of Gujrat in February of 1849.

The Battle of Gujrat was part of the Second Anglo-Sikh War, a military conflict between the Sikhs and the British East India Company that took place in 1848 and 1849.

Moving along the alignment, Faisalabad is next, the second-largest city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, after Lahore.

We are told that historically it was one of the first planned cities in British India.

It is a major industrial and distribution center because of its central location in the region, and connecting roads, rail and air transportation, as well as a major center of industry, with major engineering works, like the Faisalabad steam-powered grid station, and mill-works of all kinds.

There are also canals in Faisalabad.

These pictures are associated with Citi Housing of Faisalabad, described as a high-end housing society with a gold standard lifestyle.

They look more like Ancient Egyptian temple ruins and an archeological site than a residential neighborhood.

This is called the Gumti Monument in Faisalabad’s Chenab Colony, which has similar characteristics to western infrastructure, like the World War I Memorial said to have been erected in Washington, DC, in 1931, which would have been during the Great Depression.

This is a close-up view of the Gumti Memorial, where we find the same two design patterns I highlighted earlier – the eight-pointed star and what I am going to call an infinity pattern for lack of a better description.

Like I said before, I have found these patterns together in places across countries and continents, like the Moorish Kiosk in Mexico City…

…and an eight-pointed star in the designs of the ceiling above the chandelier of the abandoned Loew’s Theater on Canal Street in Manhattan.

Next on this alignment from Faisalabad, we are coming into the Khyber-Pakhtunkwha Province, which is the location of the Khyber Pass, a mountain pass in the northwest of Pakistan, and was an integral part of the ancient Silk Road.

A translation is “On the Khyber side of the Land of the Pashtuns.”

This is the Bab-e-Khyber, or Khyber Gate. that stands at the entrance to the Khyber Pass that was said to have been constructed in four months and inaugurated in 1963.

The turreted and crenellated appearance of the Bab-e-Khyber brought to mind the style of architecture seen on this old Merovingian textile from France on the top, and the Cajun flag of Louisiana on the bottom.

The Jamrud Fort is adjacent to the Bab-e-Khyber.

We are told that the foundation of the fort was laid out by the Sikh General Hari Singh Nalwa on the 18th of December in 1836, and that the fort was completed in 54-days, after Jamrud was lost to the Afghan Durrani Empire and conquered by the Sikh Empire.

This is a screenshot of the Jamrud Fort on Google Earth, with its rounded bastions, on the left, which we see at Fort Loreto in Puebla, Mexico in the middle, and rounded bastions are seen at Dubai’s Al Fahidi Fort on the right.

While most star forts have more angled configurations, making them look like stars, not all do, and I believe they were originally part of the electrical circuitry of the Earth’s grid system, and not military in nature as we are taught to believe.

As a matter of fact, the Jamrud Electrical Grid System is located very close to Jamrud Fort, as is at least one other structure with the arrow pointing towards it, and possibly more, that looks like it could be connected to this system.

It is typical to find star forts in clusters of two or more.

Khyber-Pakhtunkwha Province was the historical location of the ancient kingdom of Gandhara, including the ruins considered to be 2,000 years old of its capital city Pushkalavati, near modern-day Charsadda.

Pushkalavati was originally a stronghold of Buddhism.

These Buddhist ruins are found in the Khyber Pass of Afghanistan, on the left compared in appearance to the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves in Turpan in northern China’s Uyghur Autonomous Region in the middle, and Borobudur on the island of Java in Indonesia on the right.

Ancient Gandhara in present-day Pakistan was said to have attained its height from the 1st- to the 5th-centuries AD, flourishing as the “Crossroads of Asia” under the Kushan Empire.

The Kushan Empire encompassed much of what is now Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, western Nepal, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and said to have been formed by the Yuezhi, an ancient people described as nomadic pastoralists, who were in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st-century.

We will never know if it was connected to the Kingdom of Kush of Africa because that is not what our history tells us, but something to consider.

Could there have been a connection between the Kushan Empire, in this region which includes a mountainous region known to this day as the “Hindu Kush,” and the Kushite Empire of northern Africa with its capital of Meroe (also sounds like “Merovingian” mentioned previously in association with the French textile design) in Sudan near the Nile River, pictured here?

This leads back to the Pashtun tribal peoples, the primary inhabitants of the Khyber-Pakhtunkwha and Balochistan Provinces of Pakistan and Afghanistan, in a region regarded as Pashtunistan, split between two countries since the Durand Line border between the two countries was formed in 1893 after the second Anglo-Afghan War.

The name sake of the line, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, was a British Diplomat and Civil Servant of the British Raj. We are told that together with the Afghan Emir, Abdur Rahman Khan, it was established to “fix the limit of their respective spheres of influence and improve diplomatic relations and trade.

Well, that certainly sounds good…but what was really going on here?

The Durand Line cuts through the Pashtunistan and Balochistan regions, politically dividing ethnic Pashtuns and Baloch, who live on both sides of the border.

But, really, why divide a people in this fashion?

It has been clear to me travelling through this part of the world how what we know as the European Colonial powers, starting in the 18th-century, just tore up this part of the world through partitioning it.

As I mentioned previously in the Farah Province of Afghanistan, the Pashtun are a tribal nation of millions of Afghani and Pakistani Muslims who also have a strong oral tradition that they are descendants of lost Tribes of Israel, and they refer to themselves as Bani Israel. 

Here is an example of a Pashtun textile piece showing the sacred geometric shape of a star tetrahedron in the center, also known as the Star of David…

…and a recognizable symbol of what is called Judaism today, as seen on the flag of Israel.

This is also the 2D symbol of the 3D star tetrahedron that is the sacred geometric shape of the Human Lightbody, known as the Merkaba.

What is intriguing is that there is other evidence that the Pashtun people of this region are connected to the Tribes of Israel.

At first I was puzzled by seeing references to the twelve tribes in different places besides the Pashtun in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 

I found the Tribe of Naphtali in the South Pacific…

…the Tribe of Reuben in Australia…

…the Kuki of India say they are of the Tribe of Manasseh…

…and on Madagascar, there is a resurgence of what they say the original faith of the island.

The Jesuits were said to have arrived here in 1845, and entrusted with the Prefecture Apostolic of Madagascar in 1850.

I think a good explanation of this finding of the same tribal name in different parts of the world is contained in a Megalithomania presentation by Christine Rhone on “Twelve Tribe Nations – Sacred Number and the Golden Age.”

She co-authored a book with John Michel of the same name.

Among other things, they followed the Apollo – St. Michael alignment across countries and continents all the way to Jerusalem in Israel.  They discuss records and traditions of whole nations being divided into twelve tribes and twelve regions, each corresponding to one of the twelve signs of the zodiac and to one of the twelve months of the year, all formed around sacred centers.

So what if we are talking about a civilization arrangement like what you see pictured here with the 12 Constellations and 12 Tribes of Israel all contained within an 8-pointed star?

And that was the same symbol seen earlier in this post when I asked the question “Who were the People of Ar?”

I realized that earth’s true history was not about organized religions, which is a stumbling block because of what we have always been taught.

The Controllers didn’t rewrite history from scratch – they rewrote the historical narrative to fit their agenda, and from cradle-to-grave, we are immersed in learning their version of history.

There is so much we haven’t been told about the True History of the Earth, including how all organized forms of religion connect back into the Advanced Ancient Civilization, and are not mutually exclusive as we have been taught to believe.

They definitely don’t want us to know who we really are, and try to keep most of Humanity stuck in their lower selves in every way possible, including addictions, distractions, and consumerism that huge corporations are making massive profits from.

This alignment next enters Ghazni In Afghanistan from Pakistan.

It is stategically located on the main Highway 1 between Kabul and Kandahar, which has served as the main road between those two cities for thousands of years.

Ghazni is an ancient city with a rich heritage.

The Ghazni Citadel was said to have been built in the 13th-century to form a walled city.

This is a lithograph painting of the Ghazni Citadel in 1839 by James Rattray, a soldier and artist serving in Afghanistan in the 1st Afghan War.

The First Anglo-Afghan War is called one of the first major conflicts of what was called “The Great Game,” the 19th-century competition for power and influence in central Asia between Britain and Russia.

I found reference to “the Great Game” in the Torres Strait Islands, a group of at least  274 small islands in the Torres Strait between Australia’s Cape York and New Guinea.

Green Hill Fort was located on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait near Cairns in North Queensland, Australia.

This complex was said to have been constructed between 1891 and 1893 as part of the Imperial and Colonial whole-of defense of Australia in response to the Russian Scare of 1885 that grew out of Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Afghanistan, also known to history as the “Great Game”and the European colonial expansion into New Guinea and the South Pacific.

Compare the Green Hill Fort in the middle for similarity of appearance with the Battery Boutelle on the left, on the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, said to have been built in 1900; and the Alexandra Battery on the right, said to have been built in St. George’s, Bermuda, in the 1860s to protect the north shore and ship’s channel.

The First Anglo-Afghan War was fought for three years between the British East India Company and the Emirate of Afghanistan starting in 1839, after the British had captured Kabul.

There’s that 8-pointed star again on this book cover.

In 1842, Edward Law, the Governor-General of India between 1842 and 1844, issued what was called his famous “Proclamation of the Gates,” in which he ordered the British Army in Afghanistan to return via Ghazni and bring back to India the Sandalwood Gates from the tomb of Mahmud of Ghazni.

They were returned to the Somnath Temple in India, where they had been allegedly taken from by Mahmud 8-centuries previously from Somnath, and for which the British used as justification to the people of India for the destruction of Ghazni .

Back in Afghanistan, Herat, the third-largest city in Afghanistan, is linked to Kabul, Ghazni, and Kandahar, and other main cities in Afghanistan, via Highway 1, also known as the “Ring Road.”

It is one of the largest cities in Afghanistan with a population of almost 500,000 people.

It is located in the fertile Hari River Valley, with a history that goes back thousands of years. In some literature it is referred to as the “Diamond of Asia,” as well as the “Pearl of Khorasan.”

Like so many other places we’ve seen, there is also a citadel in Herat.

It was said to have been built in 330 BC, when Alexander the Great arrived in Herat after the Battle of Gaugamela, which was close to the city of Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan.

It was said to have been saved from demolition in the 1950s, and restored by UNESCO between 1976 and 1979.

The National Museum of Herat is housed in the lower part of the Citadel.

It was established as a museum in 1925 by order of King Amanullah, one of the kings of modern Afghanistan.

Here are just a few examples of similar brick or stone archways in other places, like in Mandu, India on the top left; Pompeii, Italy on the top right; the Buenos Aires History Museum in Argentina on the bottom left; and the House of Vans Skate Park in London, England, on the bottom right.

Khorasan was a province in northeastern Iran from 1906 to 2004, but as I have previously-mentioned, historically referred to a much larger area comprising the east and northeast of the Persian Empire, including, besides northeastern Iran, parts of Afghanistan and much of Central Asia.

During the Qajar Dynasty of what was then called the Sublime State of Persia between 1789 and 1925, Britain supported the Afghans to protect their East India Company.

So Herat in Afghanistan was separated from Persia, and the King of Persia, Nasser-al-Din Shah was unable to defeat the British to take back Herat.

Nasser-al-Din Shah was assassinated in 1896 while in prayer at the Shah Abdol-Azim Shrine in Ray, what is called the oldest existing city in Tehran Province.

Persia was compelled by treaty not to challenge the British for Herat and other parts of what is today Afghanistan.

Khorasan was divided into two parts in 1906, with the eastern part coming under British occupation, and the western section remained part of Persia, shown here.

The city of Mashhad in modern Iran’s Razavi Khorasan Province was a major oasis along the ancient Silk Road.

This is a Google Earth screenshot of Mellat Park, the largest park in Mashhad…

…which includes on its grounds what is described as one of the best and most famous amusement parks in Iran, the Mellat Luna Park, and one of several amusement parks in Mashhad.

Interestingly, Luna Park was the name of numerous historical trolley and amusement parks in the United States and around the world.

This is a photo of the original Luna Park in Coney Island, New York, with Moorish-looking infrastructure.

This Luna Park was in operation from 1903 to 1944, at which time it was destroyed by fire.

Some other things I would like to point out in the greater park of Mashhad’s Mellat Park is its amazing hydrological features and beautiful fountains…

…and canals, with fountains included.

This canal is in Torqabeh, a short distance east of Mashhad.

I have found canal systems throughout Asia…and elsewhere…including, but far from limited to, Quorgonteppa in Tajikistan…

…and the Kanali Varzob in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan…

…as well as the Ankhor Canal in Tashkent in Uzbekistan.

These places were all once part of the Greater Khorasan as well.

Mashhad has been called “Iran’s Spiritual Capital,” and is the location of the Imam Reza Shrine, the largest mosque in the world by area.

This is a comparison of the front of the Imam Reza Shrine on the top left, compared with the Jama Masyid Mosque in Delhi, India on the right, and the front of the Vorontsov Palace in Alupka, Crimea.

This photo shows the exquisitely-crafted mirror interior of the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, like the stunning mirror-work at the Golestan Palace seen earlier in this post.

There is an 8-pointed star found here as well.

Mashhad is a prominent center of the carpet-weaving industry, having been a major producer of Persian rugs for centuries…

…and it is not hard for me to see the shapes made by a kaleidoscope in this particular rug.

Mashhad has a reputation for creating some of the best items on the market.

And I see a rose cathedral window pattern in this Mashhad Persian rug.

Not only that, Cathedral Rose windows look like the cymatic patterns of musical notes.

With the massive organ pipes surrounding the cathedral rose window, it appears as though this was a musical system designed to generate waves of specific frequencies, like Solfeggio frequencies, through this type of window.

Solfeggio frequencies make-up the ancient six-tone scale used in sacred music, like, for example, Gregorian chants and Tibetan singing bowls.

Each solfeggio tone is a frequency that can be used to balance one’s energy and keep one’s body, mind, and spirit in harmony.

Mashhad is connected to three major rail lines: Tehran – Mashhad running west; Mashhad – Bafgh running south; and Mashhad – Sarakhs running east.

It is interesting to note how inter-connected the railways of Asia are with each other.

Wouldn’t that take incredible planning and coordination across all of these different countries?

With regards to Iran, we are told that the first Iranian rail lines were established in 1886 and 1887, albeit on a limited basis.

Then the 865-mile, or 1,392-kilometer, Trans-Iranian Railroad was opened during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1939, which would have been two years before he was deposed by Allied British and Soviet forces in 1941.

We are told this railway traverses many mountain ranges, and is full of spirals and steep grades, and that much of the terrain was unmapped when the construction took place in unknown geology.

Yet we are told this rail line was completed ahead of schedule when it opened in 1939.

In our historical narrative, the Trans-Iranian rail line was part of the Persian Corridor during World War II after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of 1941, and used as a supply route for war material for the Soviet Union.

So it would have been completed by the Iranians in 1939, just in time for the start of, and use during, World War II by the Allies.

Like the Panama Canal opening on August 15th, 1914…

…just in time for the beginning of World War I, which started on July 28th, 1914.

Just a coincidence?

I really wonder about that….

Heading out of Mashhad, we come to the Elburz Mountains, a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from its border with Azerbaijan, along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea, and then runs northeast and merges with the Aladagh mountains in the northern parts of Khorasan.

Mount Damavand is the highest peak in Iran at 18,402-feet, or 5,609-meters, in elevation and located in the Central Elburz Mountains.

We are told it is a stratovolcano, built up of alternate layers of lava and ash, and is the highest volcano in Asia.

It is a popular climbing destination as one of the Seven Volcanic Summits mountaineering challenge, the highest volcanoes on each of the seven continents.

Sari, the capital of Iran’s Mazandaran Province, is on the alignment, between the northern slopes of the Elburz Mountains and the Caspian Sea.

This is what I found looking into Sari.

This is the official logo of the Municipality of Sari City.

There is an eight-pointed star contained within this design.

A stylized-version of the same eight-pointed star is found in the logo of the city of Prescott, Arizona, where I live.

Sari’s Clock Tower and Square is one of the notable landmarks of the city.

There are clock towers like these everywhere, like in Faisalabad, Pakistan on the left; Gisborne, New Zealand, in the middle; and the Apia Clock Tower in Samoa on the right.

Other notable structures in Sari, Iran include the Lajeem Tower and the Resket Tower, both with a noticeable magnetic pattern in the bricks.

We are told both of these towers were built as tombs.

The last place I want to look at on this alignment is Tabriz, one of the historical capitals of Iran, and the present-day capital of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province.

It is the most populated city in northwestern Iran, located on the Quru River, which appears to be a canal.

This is the Saat Tower in Tabriz, also known as the Tabriz Municipality Palace.

The Saat Tower has windows which bear a distinct resemblance to cathedral windows on the left, like these on the right.

I have reason to believe this type of cathedral window functions as an antenna.

When I was reading an article about “Elliptical Polarization,” I encountered the diagram on the left showing the efficiency in decibels of the axial ratio of two antenna, and the shapes formed in the graph are identical to those of this type of cathedral window in comparison on the right.

I am going to end this here.

There is always much more to find and share, so this is just really a sample of what there is to find.

Much has been removed from our collective awareness but there are still clues available to find that hints at a much larger picture than what our historical narrative teaches us, especially when we are willing to let go of what we have always been taught to believe is true, and open ourselves to receiving new information.

I hope that I have created an opening for people to consider thinking differently about what our True History might have been with the information I have presented in this post, and about how the messy world we live in was heavily manipulated to keep this knowledge from us and to ultimately control us and our destiny.