Luxist Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Anniston, Alabama - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniston,_Alabama

    01-01852. GNIS feature ID. 0159066. Website. www .annistonal .gov. Anniston is the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama, United States, and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 23,106. [2]

  3. Freedom Riders National Monument - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Riders_National...

    The Freedom Riders National Monument is a United States National Monument in Anniston, Alabama established by President Barack Obama in January 2017 to preserve and commemorate the Freedom Riders during the Civil Rights Movement. The monument is administered by the National Park Service. [1] The Freedom Riders National Monument is one of three ...

  4. Mountain peaks of Virginia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_peaks_of_Virginia

    Mount Rogers in the Blue Ridge Mountains is the highest peak in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. This article comprises three sortable tables of the major mountain peaks of Virginia . This article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least 100 meters (328.1 feet) of topographic prominence , and a major summit as a summit with at ...

  5. Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Longleaf_National...

    The Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,016-acre (36 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in northeastern Alabama near the city of Anniston on the former site of Fort McClellan. Its name comes from some of the last remaining montane longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris) ecosystem in the southeastern United States which the refuge ...

  6. Southwest Mountains - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Mountains

    The Southwest Mountains of Virginia are a mountain range centered on Charlottesville, parallel to and geologically associated with the Blue Ridge Mountains, which lie about 30 miles (50 km) to the west. [3] Some of the more prominent peaks include Carters Mountain, [1] Fan Mountain, Brush Mountain, Peters Mountain, Walton's Mountain, and ...

  7. List of plantations in Alabama - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plantations_in_Alabama

    The plantation and community were eventually absorbed by Birmingham, a city that Mudd helped establish after the war. 94000690. Atkins' Ridge. Greensboro. 32°41′27″N 87°34′36″W  / . 32.69073°N 87.57666°W. / 32.69073; -87.57666  ( Atkins' Ridge) Hale. Built for John Atkins, a native of Virginia, in 1840.

  8. Massanutten Mountain - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massanutten_Mountain

    Massanutten Mountain is a synclinal ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, located in the U.S. state of Virginia . Image displaying the topographical differences between two roughly parallel ridges along Virginia's western border: one is the backbone of Shenandoah National Park (right), and the other is Massanutten Mountain (middle/left).

  9. Peaks of Otter - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaks_of_Otter

    The Peaks of Otter are three mountain peaks in the Blue Ridge Mountains, overlooking the town of Bedford, Virginia, which lies nine miles (14 km) to the southeast along State Route 43. These peaks are Sharp Top, Flat Top, and Harkening Hill . The manmade Abbott Lake lies in the valley surrounded by the three peaks, behind the Peaks of Otter ...