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Kearsarge Amygdaloid Lode
Kearsarge may refer to: Places in the United States * Kearsarge, California, in Inyo County * Kearsarge (ghost town), California, also in Inyo County *Kearsarge, Michigan, in Houghton County * Kearsarge, New Hampshire, a village in Carroll County *Mount Kearsarge (Merrimack County, New Hampshire), mountain in the New Hampshire towns of Wilmot, Sutton, and Warner ** Kearsarge Regional High School, serving several towns in Merrimack County, New Hampshire *Kearsarge North, a peak in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ** Kearsarge House, grand hotel in North Conway, New Hampshire * Kearsarge Pass, a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada of California * Kearsarge Peak Kearsarge Peak is a mountain located less than two miles east of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Inyo County, California, Inyo County in northern California. It is situated immediately northwest of Onion Valley in the John Muir ..., a mountain in Inyo County, California * Kearsarge Pinnacles, pillars in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kearsarge, California
Kearsarge (formerly, Kearsarge Station and Citrus) is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California in the Owens Valley. It is located on the former route of the Southern Pacific Railroad east of Independence Independence is a condition of a person, nation, country, or state in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the statu ..., at an elevation of . Citrus post office operated from 1888 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1910. References External links * Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Inyo County, California Populated places in the Mojave Desert {{InyoCountyCA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kearsarge (ghost Town), California
Kearsarge or Kearsarge City is a former mining settlement in Inyo County, eastern California. It was located high on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada, near Kearsage Pass, west of present-day town of Independence, California. The mining camp was in the Kearsarge Mining District, located just below the high granite Kearsarge Peak, and east of the Kearsarge Pass. History Kearsarge was named after the Union man-of-war , which had recently sunk the Confederate ship off the coast of France. A nearby settlement had been named Alabama Hills by Confederate sympathizers, so this "evened the score" after the naval battle. In the Autumn of 1864, on the side of a then-unnamed mountain, five woodcutters discovered a vein of rich silver and gold ore. The men staked their claims to Kearsarge, Silver Sprout, and Virginia Mines. They mined and shipped four tons of ore to a stamp mill A stamp mill (or stamp battery or stamping mill) is a type of mill machine that crushes material by po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kearsarge, Michigan
Kearsarge is an unincorporated community in Calumet Township, Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is approximately northeast of Calumet/Laurium on U.S. Route 41/ M-26 at . Kearsarge is served by a post office with ZIP code 49942, providing P.O. Box service. History The community was first settled in 1867. An amygdaloid copper lode was mined by various companies from 1882 through 1925. A post office opened on November 20, 1893, with Barnett S. Shearer as the first postmaster. It was named for the USS ''Kearsarge'' (1861) by a former naval officer who was an employee of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. It had a station on the Hancock and Calumet Railroad (which became part of Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway). During the Great Depression, workers with the WPA WPA may refer to: Computing *Wi-Fi Protected Access, a wireless encryption standard *Windows Product Activation, in Microsoft software licensing * Wireless Public Alerting (Alert Ready), emerg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kearsarge, New Hampshire
Kearsarge is a community within the towns of Conway and Bartlett in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. It shares its name with Kearsarge North, a summit which overlooks the community from the north. It is north of the village of North Conway North Conway is a census-designated place (CDP) and village in eastern Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,116 at the 2020 census. A year-round resort area, North Conway is the second-largest village within the town ..., with its center around the intersection of Kearsarge Road with Hurricane Mountain Road. Kearsarge has a different ZIP code (03847) from North Conway, the town of Conway, and Bartlett, and shares a staffed post office with the community of Intervale. The U.S. Postal Service closed Kearsarge's former post office in March 2014 and relocated the post office boxes for the 03847 ZIP code to the Intervale post office. No new PO boxes will be issued in the 03847 ZIP code. The Kearsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Kearsarge (Merrimack County, New Hampshire)
Mount Kearsarge is a mountain located in Wilmot, New Hampshire, and Warner, New Hampshire. Two state parks are located at the northern and southern bases of the mountain— Winslow State Park and Rollins State Park, respectively—and the entire mountain is within Kearsarge Mountain State Forest. On a very clear day, skyscrapers in the city of Boston away are visible from the fire tower on the summit. The summit has remained bare since a 1796 forest fire. The name of the mountain evolved from a 1652 rendering of the native Pennacook tribal name for the mountain, ''Carasarga'', which it is surmised means "notch-pointed-mountain of pines". Geography Kearsarge is a monadnock, and although of only moderate elevation, its isolation gives it of relative height above the low ground separating it from the higher mountains farther north. That makes Kearsarge one of twelve mountains in New Hampshire with a prominence over . Mount Kearsarge stands within the watershed of the Merrima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kearsarge Regional High School
Kearsarge Regional High School (KRHS) is a public high school in North Sutton, New Hampshire, United States. It is part of the Kearsarge Regional School District SAU 65, and serves students from the towns of Bradford, Warner, Sutton, New London, Newbury, Springfield and Wilmot. Sports at the high school include softball, baseball, soccer, football, cross country, track, field hockey, lacrosse, rugby, golf, tennis, basketball, swimming, ice hockey, cheerleading, Nordic and alpine skiing, wrestling, lacrosse, dance team, and a new volleyball team. The school colors are blue and gold, and the mascot is a cougar The cougar (''Puma concolor'') is a large Felidae, cat native to the Americas. Its Species distribution, range spans from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes in South America and is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mamm .... References External links * Sutton, New Hampshire Schools in Merrimack County, New Hampshire Public high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kearsarge North
Kearsarge North is a mountain located about 4 miles (6 km) northeast of North Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names accepted the name "Pequawket Mountain" in 1915 but it was renamed Kearsarge North in 1957. The Pequawket are a subdivision of the Abenaki people who formerly lived in the area. It is sometimes referred to as Mount Kearsarge, a name officially assigned to a mountain in Merrimack County. Kearsarge North is located on the eastern fringe of the White Mountains. It is drained by various brooks into the Saco River. There are two hiking routes up Kearsarge. The first, and most popular, is the Mount Kearsarge North Trail, which ascends from the North Conway side of Hurricane Mountain Road, near Intervale. The Weeks Brook Trail, a much less-used route, approaches Kearsarge from the east, from a trailhead on Forest Road 317 in Chatham. It has a slightly higher vertical gain at approximately 2,740 feet. An inn was built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kearsarge House
The Kearsarge House (earlier Kiarsarge House) was a grand hotel in North Conway, New Hampshire, United States, from 1872 until it was destroyed by fire on October 18, 1917. Its legacy is continued by the nearby Kearsarge Inn which has a clock from the original hotel. Samuel W. Thompson carried mail to the town and other areas including a route he started to Glen House Glen House is the name of a series of grand resorts and hotels, dating back to 1852, in Pinkham Notch very near Mount Washington in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA. History The completion of the Grand Trunk Railway in ..., another grand hotel in the area, until a rail line was established in the area in 1871. As visitor numbers increased, the hotel was scaled up by Thompson who also acted as a promoter for the area. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kearsarge Pass
Kearsarge Pass is a pass in the Sierra Nevada of California. The pass lies on the Sierra Crest at . The pass permits foot traffic between Kings Canyon National Park and the John Muir Wilderness. The pass was named after the Kearsarge mine to the east, which was named by its owners after the , the ship that destroyed the CSS ''Alabama''. The Alabama Hills The Alabama Hills are a range of hills and rock formations near the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in the Owens Valley, west of Lone Pine in Inyo County, California. Though geographically separate from the Sierra Nevada, they are part of ... were named after the latter ship, and the mine was named in reaction. The first known crossing of Kearsarge Pass was in 1864. California, Kings Canyon National Park, Kearsarge Pass, panoramic.jpg, Panoramic from the pass See also * Kearsarge Pinnacles References {{Authority control Mountain passes of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Landforms of Fresno County, Califor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kearsarge Peak
Kearsarge Peak is a mountain located less than two miles east of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Inyo County, California, Inyo County in northern California. It is situated immediately northwest of Onion Valley in the John Muir Wilderness, on land managed by Inyo National Forest. It is also west of the community of Independence, California, Independence, and north-northwest of Independence Peak (California), Independence Peak. Topographic relief is significant as the east aspect rises 5,250 feet (1,600 meters) above Onion Valley in two miles. History Kearsarge Peak, Kearsarge Pinnacles, Kearsarge Pass, and the Kearsarge Lakes were named after the Kearsarge (ghost town), California, Kearsarge mine on this peak's slope, which was named by its owners after the USS Kearsarge (1861), USS ''Kearsarge''. In turn, the ship was named after Mount Kearsarge (Merrimack County, New Hampshire), Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire. The first ascent of the summit was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kearsarge Pinnacles
Kearsarge Pinnacles is a linear series of 12 pillars and crags on a northwest–southeast trending ridge located one mile west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in the southeast corner of Fresno County, in northern California. It is situated in Kings Canyon National Park, west-southwest of the community of Independence, immediately southwest of the Kearsarge Lakes and Kearsarge Pass, and northwest of parent University Peak. The highest, number 4, rises to 12,008 feet in elevation (3,660 meters), whereas number 8 is the most prominent. Topographic relief is significant as the west aspect rises 2,500 feet (760 meters) above Vidette Meadow in one-half mile. The John Muir Trail traverses below the west aspect of this remote geographical feature. The Kearsarge pinnacles, lakes, peak, and pass were named after the Kearsarge mine to the east, which was named by its owners after the USS ''Kearsarge''. In turn, the ship was named after Mount Kearsarge in New H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Kearsarge
Five ships of the United States Navy have been named USS ''Kearsarge''. The first was named for Mount Kearsarge, and the later ones were named in honor of the first. * was a sloop of war launched 11 September 1861, fought in the American Civil War, defeated the Confederate commerce raider , and was wrecked off Central America 2 February 1894. * was a launched 24 March 1898, sailed with the Great White Fleet, participated in World War I, was converted to a heavy-crane ship in 1920 and renamed ''Crane Ship No. 1'' (AB-1), then sold for scrapping 9 August 1955. * was an renamed ''Hornet'' prior to launch, was in commission 1942–1970, and is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California Alameda ( ; ; Spanish for " tree-lined path") is a city in Alameda County, California, located in the East Bay region of the Bay Area. The city is primarily located on Alameda Island, but also spans Bay Farm Island and Coast Guard Island, as we .... * was a long-hulled ''Essex''-class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
