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"The Sevenmile Bridge is a Pratt deck truss bridge bringing a county road over the Rio Grande, southwest of Creede, Colorado, United States. It was designed by engineer King Burghardt and is unusual for its cantilevered ends. It was built in 1935; it then carried State Highway 149. It has also been known as Bridge over Rio Grande River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. In 1981 ownership of the bridge was transferred to Mineral County. The bridge provides access to Marshall Park Campground. and References Category:Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado Category:Bridges completed in 1935 Category:Transportation buildings and structures in Mineral County, Colorado Category:National Register of Historic Places in Mineral County, Colorado Category:Road bridges in Colorado Category:Truss bridges in the United States "
"Embreeville is an unincorporated community in southern Washington County, Tennessee. It is located along the Nolichucky River and on State Routes 81 and 107. History Embreeville was once a mining community. Lead was first mined, reportedly used in bullets fired at the British in 1780 in the Battle of Kings Mountain. In 1812, William Chester, the owner of the Chester Inn located in nearby Jonesborough, bought near the mouth of Bumpus Cove and built a crude beehive iron forge built with native rocks. In July 1820, he sold his iron mine and iron works to brothers Elijah and Elihu Embree, whose family had a history in iron production (Elihu is remembered for establishing two abolitionist newsletters, The Manumission Intelligencer and The Emancipator, in Jonesborough).Paul Fink, Jonesborough: The First Century of Tennessee's First Town (Overmountain Press, 1989), pp. 139-141. After Elihu's death in 1820, Elijah partnered with the Blair brothers, Robert, John and William, to establish the Washington Iron Manufacturing Company (renamed the Embree Iron Company in 1831).Jeannette McLaughlin, "Embreeville and Bumpass Cove," An Encyclopedia of East Tennessee (Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, 1981), pp. 180-182. After Elijah died in 1849, the Blairs became the owners of the company. During the 1850s, the Blairs' iron works was one of the largest iron production operations in East Tennessee. A Confederate businessman, Duff Green, took control of the iron works during the Civil War, but the Blairs regained control at the end of the war. In 1889, English investors formed the Embreeville Land, Iron and Railway Company. In 1891, a railroad, later acquired by Southern Railway Company, was completed from Johnson City to Embreeville. That same year the company formed the Embreeville Town Company to develop an industrial town of thirty thousand inhabitants. In 1892 the company completed a smelter with pig iron output of 150 tons per day. However, the operations stalled due to the Panic of 1893, and all efforts to develop commercial iron production proved futile. In 1900, American interests took over the British holdings. The Embree Iron Company acquired the property in 1903 but was equally unsuccessful in commercially producing pig iron. The company was able to stave off dissolution in 1913, however, when the presence of commercial zinc deposits was recognized. Embree Iron Company began producing zinc and then lead and quickly paid off its debts. Although ore reserves dwindled after World War I, the company continued to operate during the Great Depression. Manganese production began in 1935, and in 1939 the company was the nation's largest producer of metallurgical grade manganese concentrates, boasting an output of 73,000 tons. Manganese reserves were rapidly exhausted, however, and the company was liquidated in 1946. Since then, no mining operations have been done. Bumpass Cove waste site In June 1972, the Bumpass Cove Environmental Controls and Minerals Corporation obtained a permit from the Tennessee Department of Public Health, Division of Solid Waste Management, to operate a sanitary landfill located in an old mining site near the head of the cove. In November 1972, the Bumpass Cove Development Corporation [BCDC] discussed the feasibility and design of a proposed liquid waste incinerator to burn the hazardous and hard-to-treat liquid wastes. Tentative approval from the Division of Air Quality Control and Division of Solid Waste Management was given pending completion of a formal permitting process to operate a liquid waste incinerator. The incinerator, located in the old Fowler mining site, was operated in an improper manner. BCDC never completed application for the incinerator to become a permitted facility. Subsequently, it was closed by the Division of Air Quality Control. A few residents believed that unauthorized wastes were being deposited at both the main landfill and the Fowler site. In July 1979, a picket line was formed to stop trucks from hauling waste to the main landfill. Increased numbers of citizens became involved, and the Bumpass Cove Citizens Group was incorporated on November 26, 1979. The objectives of the group included removal of hazardous waste from the old mine sites, education, and awareness of community development. Skip Foss was the first president. Partly in response to citizen pressure, Waste Resources decided to close the landfill in December 1979. Fire Department The Embreeville Volunteer Fire Department serves portions of southern Washington County and northwestern Unicoi County. References Category:Unincorporated communities in Washington County, Tennessee Category:Unincorporated communities in Tennessee "
"Arctotheca populifolia is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names beach daisy,Arctotheca populifolia. New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Cape beach daisy, South African beach daisy, coast capeweed, dune arctotheca, beach pumpkin,Arctotheca populifolia. Weeds of Australia: Biosecurity Queensland Edition. University of Queensland. sea pumpkin, dune cabbage, and in South Africa, seepampoen, tonteldoek, and strandgousblom.Arctotheca populifolia. South African National Biodiversity Institute, PlantZAfrica.com. This species is native to South Africa. It was introduced to Australia and is now a common weed of coastal areas in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia. Description This plant is a perennial herb with thick, ribbed, decumbent stems growing in clumps up to 30 centimeters tall. The herbage is woolly, gray, and fleshy.Brown, K. L. and K. A. Bettink. (2009 onwards). Arctotheca populifolia. Swan Weeds: Management Notes. FloraBase — The Western Australian Flora. Department of Environment and Conservation. The white-haired leaves have oval blades up to 6 centimeters long by 5 wide, with smooth or toothed edges. The inflorescence is borne on a woolly, erect peduncle up to 11 centimeters tall. The flower head is about 2 centimeters wide with yellow ray florets 5 to 7 millimeters long and yellow disc florets in the center. The fruit is a white-woolly cypsela about half a centimeter long. Ecology This plant is a pioneer species of sandy coastal habitat types, such as dunes. It is a main factor in the formation of dune hummocks, a dune type formed in its native South Africa when wind deposits sand around it and other newly established beach plants. One small form of dune hummock is a nabkha. This plant and its associate Gazania rigens form nabkhas that are inhabited by a variety of small animals such as nematodes and the sand flea Talorchestia capensis. The ability of the plant to colonize bare sand has helped it take hold on the Australian coastline. It was planted for beach stabilization in Western Australia until it became apparent that it was invasive. Native Spinifex grasses are now used for this purpose. The beach daisy is now a coastal weed of much of temperate Australia. It can also grow on basaltic soils, allowing it to move inland from beaches to grasslands. The seeds of the plant are wind-dispersed, but because they remain viable in fresh and salt water, they are also commonly dispersed on the water. As a coastal species, they are carried on ocean currents.Volunteers battle beach daisies. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Government of South Australia. June 29, 2012.Salleh, A. Message in a bottle helps fight weeds. ABC Science. February 15, 2008. The seeds can also be transported in soil and plant waste. As an invasive species, it competes with native plants such as hairy spinifex (Spinifex sericeus). It binds sand more efficiently, holding more of it and thus changing the topography of the dune systems. This process can interrupt the flow of seawater into and out of coastal lakes. Even seedlings one centimeter tall can accumulate sand, building tiny dunes of their own. Many shorebirds nest on bare sand beaches because they can more easily see predators, so the buildup of vegetation and hilly dunes interferes with their nesting. The flowers are pollinated by bees and flies. The plant is host to the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Septoglomus fuscum. The seeds of the plant are a favored food item of the African hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus paeba), which also eats T. capensis, the sand flea that lives in the dunes around the plant. References Category:Arctotideae Category:Flora of South Africa "