#Historical State Park

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The untouched wilderness of the Big Sur 🌊

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Abandoned lead mine. Park Hills, Missouri.

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I thought the old timey militia laundry at the River Raisin was an interesting demonstration of camp life during the War of 1812. They even found the wettest, most bedraggled-looking Kentucky militiaman impression for that authentic touch! Realistically, you should have a lot of men on fatigue duty (or mending their clothes) if you are portraying a War of 1812 military force.

The older gentleman portraying a military surgeon was a delight. He was very knowledgeable about all of the period medical technology and techniques, and he also does American War of Independence events (if he looks familiar to anyone). He explained that laudanum couldn't be used for anaesthesia prior to surgery because of the difficulty of accurate and effective dosing.

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Native Tribe To Get Back Land 160 Years After Largest Mass Hanging In US History

Upper Sioux Agency state park in Minnesota, where bodies of those killed after US-Dakota war are buried, to be transferred

— Associated Press | Sunday 3 September, 2023

The Upper Sioux Agency State Park near Granite Falls, Minnesota. Photograph: Trisha Ahmed/AP

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back.

The state is taking the rare step of transferring the park with a fraught history back to a Dakota tribe, trying to make amends for events that led to a war and the largest mass hanging in US history.

“It’s a place of holocaust. Our people starved to death there,” said Kevin Jensvold, chairman of the Upper Sioux Community, a small tribe with about 550 members just outside the park.

The Upper Sioux Agency state park in south-western Minnesota spans a little more than 2 sq miles (about 5 sq km) and includes the ruins of a federal complex where officers withheld supplies from Dakota people, leading to starvation and deaths.

Decades of tension exploded into the US-Dakota war of 1862 between settler-colonists and a faction of Dakota people, according to the Minnesota Historical Society. After the US won the war, the government hanged more people than in any other execution in the nation. A memorial honors the 38 Dakota men killed in Mankato, 110 miles (177km) from the park.

Jensvold said he has spent 18 years asking the state to return the park to his tribe. He began when a tribal elder told him it was unjust Dakota people at the time needed to pay a state fee for each visit to the graves of their ancestors there.

Native American tribe in Maine buys back Island taken 160 years ago! The Passamaquoddy’s purchase of Pine Island for $355,000 is the latest in a series of successful ‘land back’ campaigns for indigenous people in the US. Pine Island. Photograph: Courtesy the writer, Alice Hutton. Friday 4 June, 2021

Lawmakers finally authorized the transfer this year when Democrats took control of the house, senate and governor’s office for the first time in nearly a decade, said State Senator Mary Kunesh, a Democrat and descendant of the Standing Rock Nation.

Tribes speaking out about injustices have helped more people understand how lands were taken and treaties were often not upheld, Kunesh said, adding that people seem more interested now in “doing the right thing and getting lands back to tribes”.

But the transfer also would mean fewer tourists and less money for the nearby town of Granite Falls, said Mayor Dave Smiglewski. He and other opponents say recreational land and historic sites should be publicly owned, not given to a few people, though lawmakers set aside funding for the state to buy land to replace losses in the transfer.

The park is dotted with hiking trails, campsites, picnic tables, fishing access, snowmobiling and horseback riding routes and tall grasses with wildflowers that dance in hot summer winds.

“People that want to make things right with history’s injustices are compelled often to support action like this without thinking about other ramifications,” Smiglewski said. “A number, if not a majority, of state parks have similar sacred meaning to Indigenous tribes. So where would it stop?”

In recent years, some tribes in the US, Canada and Australia have gotten their rights to ancestral lands restored with the growth of the Land Back movement, which seeks to return lands to Indigenous people.

‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo 🦬! Matt Krupnick in Wolakota Buffalo Range, South Dakota. Sunday 20 February, 2022. The Wolakota Buffalo Range in South Dakota has swelled to 750 bison with a goal of reaching 1,200. Photograph: Matt Krupnick

A National Park has never been transferred from the US government to a tribal nation, but a handful are Co-managed with Tribes, including Grand Portage National Nonument in northern Minnesota, Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona and Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles of the National Park Service said.

This will be the first time Minnesota transfers a state park to a Native American community, said Ann Pierce, director of Minnesota State Parks and trails at the natural resources department.

Minnesota’s transfer, expected to take years to finish, is tucked into several large bills covering several issues. The bills allocate more than $6m to facilitate the transfer by 2033. The money can be used to buy land with recreational opportunities and pay for appraisals, road and bridge demolition and other engineering.

Chris Swedzinski and Gary Dahms, the Republican lawmakers representing the portion of the state encompassing the park, declined through their aides to comment about their stances on the transfer.

— The Guardian USA

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Petroglyphs at Petrified Forest national park

Arizona

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Gosford House

Hi guys! This time I decided to change locations and started building an scothis stately home. 

Gosford house is a neoclassical country house around 2 miles (3 km) northeast of Longniddry in East Lothian, Scotland, in 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) of parkland and coast.

The house has arround 62 rooms to furnish, 18 bathrooms+toilets, a main stairs hall, 8 salons and reception rooms, 4 famiy bedrooms , a servant’s ile in the groundfloor, 2 children bedrooms, 2 bedrooms for the buttler andmaid and 3 guest bedrooms in the 3rd floor.

Please let me know in the comments if you like it and tag me if you use it in your sotries.

Please enjoy.

Pd.: usual ccrequired. 

DOWNLOAD: https://www.patreon.com/posts/86202632?pr=true

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kings hollow - 2021

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"Wild Buck, Two Does and Fawn", Big Basin, Calif.

Vintage Linen-Type Postcard, Pictorial Wonderland Art-Tone Series; Stanley A. Plitz Company circa. 1930-50s.

(please do not feed the wildlife.)

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Historic Mormon Row, Grand Teton National Park, Jackson, Teton County, Wyoming, USA

Cora Leach

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Benches/Chairs (No. 51)

Point Cabrillo Light Station State Historic Park, CA (three pics)

Humboldt Redwoods State Park, CA

San Francisco, CA (five pics)

Morro Bay, CA

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Covered Bridge.

Sandy Creek State Park, Missouri

Spring 2023

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Columbia Historic State Park, California, 1970.

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)

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omg.... ten years today since my very first high school cross country 5k... crazy. never would have thought I'd still be out here!