Brockway Mountain Drive is an 8.883-mile (14.296 km) scenic highway just west of
Copper Harbor in the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. Drivers can access the road from state highway
M-26 on either end near
Eagle Harbor to the west or Copper Harbor to the east in the
Keweenaw Peninsula. The drive runs along the ridge of Brockway Mountain on the
Keweenaw Fault and climbs to 1,320 feet (402 m) above sea level, 720 feet (220 m) above the surface of
Lake Superior. Several viewpoints along the route allow for panoramas of Lake Superior (pictured from the road), Copper Harbor, and undeveloped woodland. On a clear day,
Isle Royale (approximately 50 miles (80 km) away) can be seen. Brockway Mountain was named for David D. Brockway, one of the pioneer residents of the area. The road was constructed by the county road commission with funding through
Depression-era work programs in 1933. It was briefly used as a connection for the parallel state highway after it opened. Since it opened, it has been recognized nationally and locally in several media outlets for its picturesque qualities, usually in profiles of
Keweenaw County, the Upper Peninsula or other scenic drives. (
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1953 – Israeli military commander
Ariel Sharon and his
Unit 101 special forces attacked the village of
Qibya on the
West Bank, destroying 45 buildings, killing 42 villagers, and wounding 15 others.
New Jersey was overseen by a succession of colonial governors in the 150 years prior to the
American Revolution.
James, Duke of York, divided New Jersey between
George Carteret and
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton in 1664, to reward their support of the monarchy during the
English Civil War and
Interregnum. They sold their interests to two groups of proprietors who divided these holdings into two colonies—
East Jersey and
West Jersey. Remaining in England, these proprietors tended to administer the colony through deputies until the 1690s. The proprietors for East and West Jersey surrendered their political authority to the
British Crown in 1702, and New Jersey was then unified as a crown colony under an appointed governor. At first, the colony shared its governor with the neighboring
Province of New York (1702–38), and then had its own (1738–76). As tensions between colonists and the King rose to rebellion, the last royal governor,
William Franklin(pictured), was deposed and arrested in June 1776 by order of the colony’s transitional government. (Full list...)
The history of the
South Side of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, begins with a grant of land in 1763. Here the area located at the confluence of the
Monongahela (foreground) and
Allegheny (background) Rivers is depicted in 1871, with what was then known as Birmingham in the right foreground and Allegheny in the distance on the left. The following year four boroughs (South Pittsburgh, Birmingham, East Birmingham, and Ormsby) were annexed into the City of Pittsburgh, and are now known collectively as the South Side.
Lithograph: Otto Krebs, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Restoration:
Adam Cuerden
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