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The Old Plank Road is a plank road in Imperial County, California, that was built in 1915 as an east–west route over the Algodones Dunes. It effectively connected the extreme lower section of Southern California to Arizona and provided the last link in a commercial route between San Diego and Yuma.
Following Los Angeles' winning the right to be the western termi...
The Old Post Office Pavilion, also known as Old Post Office and Clock Tower and officially renamed the Nancy Hanks Center in 1983, is a historic building located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It was completed in 1899, and used as the city's main post office until 1914. It was used primarily as an office building afterward, and was nearly torn down...
The Old Providence McBean Lagoon National Natural Park (Parque Nacional Natural Old Providence McBean Lagoon) is a national park located on the northeast side of Providencia Island in the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Colombia.
A visitor centre on Crab Caye is accessible by boat. For conservation reasons, it is not permitted to acce...
Old Seven Mile Bridge is a 2.2 mile section of the Seven Mile Bridge from Marathon to Pigeon Key.
"Old Seven," as it became fondly known, was closed in 2016 for an ambitious $77 million restoration. On January 12, 2022, it reopened as a "linear park", which seized my imagination as a sort of "tropical High Line".
Pigeon Key has 8 noteworthy historic buildings, one o...
The Old Spanish Trail is a historical trade route which connected the northern New Mexico settlements near or in Santa Fe, New Mexico with that of Los Angeles, California and southern California. Approximately 1,200 mi (1,900 km) long, it ran through areas of high mountains, arid deserts, and deep canyons. It is considered one of the most arduous of all trade routes e...
The Old Stone House is the oldest unchanged building in Washington, D.C., United States. The house is also Washington's last Pre-Revolutionary Colonial building on its original foundation. Built in 1765, Old Stone House is located at 3051 M Street, Northwest in the Georgetown neighborhood. Unlike many Colonial homes in the area, sentimental local folklore preserved th...
The Old Sugar Mill of Kōloa was part of the first commercially successful sugar plantation in Hawaiʻi, which was founded in Kōloa in 1835 by Ladd & Company. This was the beginning of what would become Hawaii's largest industry. Ancient Polynesians were the first to bring sugar cane to Hawai’i. Starting with its first cane seeding in 1835, Koloa Plantation wa...
Old Town San Diego is the site of the oldest European settlement in present-day California. Long considered the "birthplace" of California, San Diego is the site of the first permanent Spanish settlement in the Golden State. In 1769, Father Junipero Serra established the first mission in a chain of 21 missions that were to be the cornerstones of California’s dev...
Olduvai Gorge, the archaeological site also known as "The Cradle of Mankind”, is a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley that stretches through eastern Africa. It is in the eastern Serengeti Plains in northern Tanzania and is about 48 km (30 mi) long. It is located 45 km from the Laetoli archaeological site. The name is a misspelling of Oldupai Gorge, whic...
The Desert Discovery Center houses the “Old Woman Meteorite”, the second largest meteorite found in the United States which weighed 6,070 pounds when discovered in 1975.
It is 38" long, 30" wide and 34" high. It's mostly composed of iron, contains about 6% nickel and has trace amounts of cobalt, phosphorus, chromium and sulphur.
The meteorite was d...
The Oleta River State Park is a 1,043-acre (422 ha) Florida State Park on Biscayne Bay in the municipal suburb of North Miami in metropolitan Miami, Florida. Adjoining the Biscayne Bay Campus of Florida International University, the park contains one of the largest concentrations of Casuarina trees (Australian 'pine'), an invasive species in the state park system.
The...
Olive Columns is an environmental sculpture at the edge of Jerusalem, in the middle of the The Park of the Olives near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel.
This work was finished by Morin in October 1991. It consists of three 15-meter columns, topped by three olive trees, now decades old. There is a series of steps at the base of the pillars leading up to them. A computerized syste...
Olmsted Point is located along Tioga Road in Yosemite National Park. This viewing area offers a view into Tenaya Canyon. This view looks southwest into the valley, giving, in particular, a view of the northern side of Half Dome and a view of Tenaya Lake to the east.
Olompali State Historic Park is a 700-acre (2.8 km2) park in Marin County, California, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Novato, California, overlooking the Petaluma River and San Pablo Bay. In 1977 the State of California purchased Rancho Olompali and made it into a state historic park. The foundations of two early adobe brick houses are preserved in the park. The Burdell ...