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  • The historic town of Harpers Ferry is illuminated from a full moon above; as seen from the edge of Maryland Heights.<br />
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On the night of October 16th, 1859 a party of 17 armed men led by the militant abolitionist John Brown crossed the Potomac River over the B&O railroad bridge (the piers of which can be seen below at left) to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and its stockpile of 100,000 rifles and muskets. With these weapons, Brown intended to facilitate an armed slave uprising that would spread throughout the entire South. <br />
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While his raid failed, the news of John Brown's attempt was an earthquake that reverberated throughout the entire Union and split the fault line between North and South. denounced as a psychotic terrorist by Southerners, Brown was embraced by many Northern abolitionists as a martyr. This outpouring of support for Brown exasperated Southern suspicions of a yankee-abolitionist plot to subjugate the South under Northern control through emancipation; by force if necessary. Southern states, long fearful of slave revolts, revived the militia system to combat all future "John Browns" laying the foundation for what would become the Confederate Army. <br />
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On the morning of his execution, John Brown handed a note to one of his guards that would become prophetic: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood..." 16 months later, Confederate batteries in Charleston would open fire on Fort Sumter, and the bloody purge would begin.
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  • The stone piers on the left are what remains of the original B&O Railroad bridge which was burned in 1861 by Confederates before marching South to converge with other rebel units to defend an important railroad junction from Union capture. The battle of Bull Run (as it was called by the Union, Manassas by the Confederacy; Union battles were typically named after rivers and tributaries, whereas Confederates named them after nearby towns and railroads) would be the first major battle of the Civil War.
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  • The view South while standing on the roof of a building on Solomon's Island, where the Patuxent River empties into the Chesapeake Bay.
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  • New River Gorge Bridge. Fayetteville, W.Va.
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  • Misty night over the Gauley River, taken in the town of Gauley Bridge, West Virginia.
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  • Moonlit Night over Hinton from across the New River. Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
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  • Multnomah Falls, located just outside of Portland in the Columbia River Gorge. Oregon.
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  • Lightning flashes over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
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  • A group of rowers are silhouetted by the lights of the Nationals baseball stadium on the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington.
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  • New River Gorge Bridge. Fayetteville, W.Va.
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  • Sunset at the North fork of the Flathead River. Glacier National Park.
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  • The mouth of the Potomac river fades into the distance at first light at Point Lookout State Park, MD. Where the Potomac River meets the Chesapeake Bay.
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  • Dusk over the Ohio River from Harris Riverfront Park. Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia.
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  • The John Amos power plant is seen in a long-exposure from across the Kanawha River in Poca, W.Va., on Sunday, November 26, 2017.
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  • Exploring the shoreline of St. Mary's river near historic St. Mary's City, MD. Founded in 1634, St. Mary's was the first colonial settlement and capital of Maryland.
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  • The Missouri river and Mountains from Highway 287 on the way up to Helena.
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  • A lone house is seen in the distance of a snowy field under a starry sky. Taken on the side of River road somewhere between Edwards and Whites Ferry, West of the towns of Poolesville and Dickerson, Maryland.
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  • Downtown Cincinnati and the John A. Roebling suspension bridge are seen at dusk from across the Ohio River in Covington, KT.
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  • Among the thousands of commuters who pass daily over D.C.’s Chain Bridge, some may wonder; just where are the chains? <br />
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The chains haven’t been around since the actual chain-suspension bridge from which the name originated was overcome by storms and flooding in 1840, yet the name has stuck to every new bridge built to replace it since. But that is just one piece of Chain Bridge’s rich history. The span over which Chain Bridge is built is one of the oldest crossing routes in the vicinity of the capital. In fact, the wood covered bridge that was built here in 1797 was the very first bridge to span the Potomac River. This cycle of bridges being created and destroyed by the elements continued up to the Civil War, when the sixth chain bridge (a crossbeam truss design with no chains) played a vital role in the supply and movement of Union army encampments throughout fairfax county. Because of its close proximity to the capital, the bridge was heavily guarded by sentries and artillery throughout the war. While today’s (eighth and final, so far) chain bridge was built in 1939, it stands on the stone piers of the seventh chain bridge built shortly after the civil war in the early 1870’s.
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  • The mouth of the Navarro River is seen from a turnoff along Route 128 in Mendocino County, CA
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  • The view South while standing on the roof of a building on Solomon's Island, where the Patuxent River empties into the Chesapeake Bay.
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  • Starry sky over Summersville Dam & Gauley River.
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  • Sunset over the New River Gorge as seen from the Hawks Nest Overlook. Ansted, West Virginia.
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  • The Kanawha River power plant, shut down since 2015, is seen on a moonlit night in Glasgow, W,Va.
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  • The tribute in light in Lower Manhattan is enshrouded behind fog on the tenth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. As seen from across the East River in Brooklyn.
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  • A group of friends hang out on a dock floating on the Willamette river across from downtown Portland. The Hawthorne bridge is at right.
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  • The L & N Pedestrian bridge and the Daniel Carter Beard bridge shimmer on the Ohio River at night, as seen from the Kentucky side.
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  • Blackwater River. Davis. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • The Kanawha River power plant, shut down since 2015, is seen on a moonlit night in Glasgow, W,Va.
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  • The L & N Pedestrian bridge and the Daniel Carter Beard bridge shimmer on the Ohio River at night, as seen from the Kentucky side.
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  • The Willis (Sears) tower is seen from along the Chicago River.
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  • The John A. Roebling bridge is seen at blue hour as downtown Cincinnati looms in the background. As seen from the Covington, Kentucky side of the Ohio River.
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  • People line the Potomac River to watch the annual fireworks display over the national mall on July 4th, 2016. While low clouds obscured a large portion of the display, those close to their launch point still enjoyed quite a show.
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  • Fog along pathway alongside river below Kanawha Boulevard in Charleston, West Virginia.
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  • The Chrysler building shines in midtown manhattan; as seen from across the East River at Roosevelt Island.
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  • The Nashville Skyline is reflected in the Cumberland river after sunset.
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  • A great blue heron stands on the edge of the C&O Canal at dusk. As seen from along the towpath at Great Falls in Potomac, MD. <br />
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The C&O Canal was created in the 1830's in an effort to connect the Ohio River Valley frontier with the East Coast. However, trains were beginning to come onto the scene around the time of construction. Beginning with the B&O Railroad based out of Baltimore, trains could carry much larger cargos than canal boats, travel faster and be constructed far easier than digging and dredging canals. Construction was halted at Cumberland Maryland, 100 miles west of Washington, as the railroad arrived at Pittsburgh, making the canals original purposes obsolete. Nonetheless, the canal was widely used for transportation of raw materials such as coal from mines in West Virginia. The canal fell into disuse by the 20th century, and the National Parks Service purchased the canal in the 1930's.
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  • The Kanawha River power plant, shut down since 2015, is seen on a moonlit night in Glasgow, W,Va., on Monday night, August 28, 2018.
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  • The Wrigley building is seen at night along the Chicago River.
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  • The Boston skyline shimmers in the waters of the Charles river as dusk begins to settle over the city. As seen from Cambridge.
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  • Located 14 miles upstream from DC, Great Falls lies along the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line where the Piedmont Plateau meets the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The series of cascades descend a total of 76 feet over less than a mile, making it the steepest fall line rapids of any river on the Eastern Seaboard. The falls themselves were created over thousands of years dating from the last ice age when the sea level dropped, resulting in the Potomac carving deep into the surrounding rock as it made its way to the Chesapeake.
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  • Piers are seen along the Kentucky side of the Ohio River at dusk just across from Cincinnati, OH.
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  • The Wrigley building is seen at night along the Chicago River.
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  • A full moon overhead illuminates the Potomac River and city of Alexandria, VA. As seen from the Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
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  • Rays of light from the setting sun illuminate the ruins of Seneca Stone Cutting Mill.<br />
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Located on the banks of Seneca Creek and the Potomac River, Seneca Quarry provided Washington D.C. with a steady supply of sandstone that was both durable and beautiful for itís unique bright-crimson hue. This "Seneca redstone", finely cut and polished in this mill, is everywhere throughout the District, from the Smithsonian Castle, Cabin John Bridge, Arlington National Cemeteryís boundary wall and Luther Place Church in Thomas Circle to numerous houses throughout Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan. <br />
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Beginning in the 1870ís, The millís fortunes declined through financial mismanagement and flood damages. By the turn of the century the quality of the quarried stone had degraded significantly, and the victorian architecture that relied on material such as seneca redstone fell out of popularity. The Seneca quarry shut down operations for good in 1901, leaving the mill to crumble and decay.
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  • Located 14 miles upstream from DC, Great Falls lies along the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line where the Piedmont Plateau meets the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The series of cascades descend a total of 76 feet over less than a mile, making it the steepest fall line rapids of any river on the Eastern Seaboard. The falls themselves were created over thousands of years dating from the last ice age when the sea level dropped, resulting in the Potomac carving deep into the surrounding rock as it made its way to the Chesapeake.
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  • Times, Square, The Empire State Building, and the Chrysler Building are just a few landmarks of midtown Manhattan seen from the sweeping vistas of Old Glory Park across the Hudson River in Weehawken, NJ
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  • Piers are seen along the Kentucky side of the Ohio River at dusk just across from Cincinnati, OH.
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  • The C&O Canal (short for Chesapeake and Ohio) is seen at dusk along the towpath at Great Falls in Potomac, MD. <br />
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The C&O Canal was created in the 1830's in an effort to connect the Ohio River Valley frontier with the East Coast. However, trains were beginning to come onto the scene around the time of construction. Beginning with the B&O Railroad based out of Baltimore, trains could carry much larger cargos than canal boats, travel faster and be constructed far easier than digging and dredging canals. Construction was halted at Cumberland Maryland, 100 miles west of Washington, as the railroad arrived at Pittsburgh, making the canals original purposes obsolete. Nonetheless, the canal was widely used for transportation of raw materials such as coal from mines in West Virginia. The canal fell into disuse by the 20th century, and the National Parks Service purchased the canal in the 1930's.
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  • A long exposure turns the churning waters where the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay meet seemingly to glass at the tip of Point Lookout State Park in St. Mary's County, MD.
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  • View from Hawks Nest Overlook. Near Ansted, West Virginia. The construction of the Hawks Nest tunnel nearby to support the hydroelectric dam below the overlook in the 1930's resulted in one of the worst industrial disasters in the nation's history, with large scale silicosis killing hundreds of the workers who worked to build it.
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  • The scene over Lower Manhattan shortly after sundown, as seen from the pedestrian walkway of the Manhattan Bridge.
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  • The town, dam and locks of London. Kanawha County, West Virginia.
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  • On the White Pass & Yukon Railroad. Outside of Skagway, AK.
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  • One World Trade Center. As seen from New Jersey.
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  • The Mammoth Coal Processing Plant is seen in a long exposure.
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  • Downtown Nashville and the Cumberland Riverfront are seen from the John Seigenthaler pedestrian bridge.
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  • Snowpack covers the landscape of Great Falls on the Maryland side of Great Falls Park.
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  • Lightning flashes across the sky over the Francis Scott Key Bridge. As seen from the overlook of the former Aqueduct Bridge. Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun breaks through the clouds as it sets on the horizon after a bout of stormy weather, casting a group of walkers in shadow along the Georgetown Waterfront. Washington, D.C.
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  • Crew members of the Woodrow Wilson High School Novice rowing team dock their boat at the end of practice at the Thompson Boat Center in Northwest Washington.
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  • Night over Waterfront Park. Alexandria, VA
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  • Thousands of lightning bugs light up the New River Gorge as the New River Gorge bridge towers above. As seen from the Fayette Station Road bridge in Fayettevile, W.V., on June 19, 2019. (Craig Hudson/The Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)
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  • A single coal barge traveling up the Ohio River is seen on April 19, 2019 from a window of one of West Virginia Army National Guard Company C, 1-150th Assault Battalion’s latest aircraft- the UH-60M Black Hawk. The UH-60M Blackhawks, of which the unit will receive ten by January 2020,  are the first factory-new aircraft ever received by the unit.
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  • Mt Hope is a former mining town that was a premier destination for Fayette County from its formation in the 1890's to its chartering in the 1920s and beyond. Unlike many other mining towns throughout the state where only a company general store was allowed, Mt. Hope grew independently, with its main street teeming with restaurants, theaters, hotels, shopping boutiques and more. However, as the decades wore on economic realities began taking their toll, with major employers such as the New River coal company shutting down (the local siltex mine just outside of town was one of the last mines in operation, and was also the site of a mining accident in 1966 that killed seven workers). leading to a steady decline for the once prosperous town. Now, of the dozens of buildings lining main street, only a handful have businesses occupying them. The town of 1,400 has no more than two eateries, a local Italian restaurant and an Italian chain further down the street. The local high school was demolished, with students now going to school in nearby Oak Hill or Beckley. Even places of basic employment are shutting down, with a local family dollar shutting its doors a short while ago.
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  • Shooting stars and the Milky Way are seen at an overlook along Rt 19 near Birch River in central West Virginia, W.V., on June 30, 2019.
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  • A crescent moon hangs in the night sky over Port Hueneme Beach as a river cuts across the sand.
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  • Water gushes through a canal lock on the historic C&O canal. As seen from Thomas Jefferson Street in the Georgetown Neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Short for Chesapeake & Ohio, the canal was intended to connect the eastern seaboard with the Ohio river valley region. With construction beginning in the 1830's, the canal was overtaken by the faster and more efficient B&O railroad, and construction was halted as far as Cumberland, Maryland.
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  • On the night of October 16th 1859 a party of 17 armed men led by the militant abolitionist John Brown crossed the Potomac River over the B&O railroad bridge to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry and its stockpile of 100,000 rifles and muskets. With these weapons, Brown intended to facilitate an armed slave uprising that would begin in Virginia and move South along the Blue Ridge as word of the revolt spread. The raid was initially successful. Brown's men seized the railroad bridge, rounded up the town's watchmen, cut the telegraph wire and seized the arsenal complex (guarded by a single sentry) without incident. It all went downhill from there. <br />
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Brown's entire plan hinged on the assumption that slaves in the surrounding countryside would flock to him after receiving word of the raid. However, no slaves were made aware of the planned attack, and consequently Brown quickly found himself surrounded in the morning not by eager runaway slaves but by angry townspeople and militia. Volleys were exchanged and hostages taken as Brown and his men retreated into the Arsenal's engine house (known today as John Brown's Fort)  barricading themselves inside. <br />
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Meanwhile, An eastbound B&O train stopped by Brown's men earlier that morning was allowed to continue forward, whose conductor quickly wired a telegram reporting the raid to officials in Baltimore. In a matter of hours, Washington was alerted to the attack. President Buchanan dispatched a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee; future commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, to end the siege and capture John Brown. The Marines arrived in Harper's Ferry the next day. Brown refused to surrender himself in exchange for the lives of his remaining men, and the marines stormed the engine house to take Brown prisoner.
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  • At the foot of the George Washington Monument C.1826 at the summit of South Mountain, Maryland. It was here that the Army of the Potomac broke through the rearguard of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia after discovering special order 191, Robert E. Lee's battle plans for the Invasion of the North inside a cigar box near a farm outside of Frederick. The top secret plans described in detail how the already outnumbered confederate army had been divided into 5 corps and spread out. Lee himself quickly learned via confederate spies in Washington that his plans had been discovered, <br />
and immediately cancelled the planned invasion. Lee then ordered his divided army to regroup outside the nearby town of Sharpsburg, where the Confederate army would cross the Potomac River back to the safety Virginia. But Lee wasn't going to abandon everything after coming this far with nothing to show for it. Lee ordered his rebel army to make a stand against the oncoming army of the Potomac on the banks of a nearby creek called Antietam.
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  • The Missouri River is seen in a long exposure. Taken as part of the 71st Missouri Photo Workshop in Boonville, Mo.
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  • Downtown Montreal is seen from the Chalet du mont-royal at dusk. The St. Lawrence river can be seen in the distance.
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  • A boat is cast in shadow as it passes beneath the Arlington Memorial Bridge in the early morning hours on the Potomac River in Washington, DC.
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  • Lightning flashes in the distance from across the Missouri River. Taken as part of the 71st Missouri Photo Workshop in Boonville, Mo.
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  • On June 2nd and 3rd, 2019, a series of levies protecting the Missouri River bottom collapsed, letting in a torrent of water that inundated the entire area. Now, a family owned and operated general store that has been a beloved focal point of the Boonville community for nearly 100 years is now on the brink of closing for good due to damage from the flood. For fourth-generation owner Jim Snoddy, who runs the store with his brother Chris, the store holds a lifetime of memories and friendships. However, as FEMA funds continue to be denied to the county, his hope for a turnaround fades with each passing day.<br />
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Scattered corn stalks are seen in a field along Route 40 outside of Rocheport on the morning of September 17th, 2019. The sliver of ashphalt cuts through a wide swath of land that was impacted by the flood earlier this year.
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  • At the foot of the George Washington Monument C.1826 at the summit of South Mountain, Maryland. It was here that the Army of the Potomac broke through the rearguard of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia after discovering special order 191, Robert E. Lee's battle plans for the Invasion of the North inside a cigar box near a farm outside of Frederick. The top secret plans described in detail how the already outnumbered army had been divided into 5 corps and spread out. Lee himself quickly learned through spies in Washington that his plans had been discovered, <br />
and immediately cancelled the planned invasion. Lee then ordered his divided army to regroup outside the nearby town of Sharpsburg, where the Confederate army would cross the Potomac River back to the safety Virginia. Unwilling to abandon his army’s first invasion of the North with nothing to show for it, Lee ordered his men to make a stand against the oncoming Army of the Potomac along the banks of Antietam Creek.
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  • The moon rises over the Kanawha River at Glen Ferris, W,Va., on Monday, August 28, 2018.
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  • Located 100 miles East of San Diego in the Imperial Valley, The Salton Sea was created in 1905 when the Colorado River and its tributaries flooded. The floodwaters filled the valley basin, creating almost overnight the largest freshwater lake in California. In the 1950's and 60's, real estate developers worked to make Salton City the next Palm Springs/Lake Tahoe, laying entire street and electricity grids, planting trees, stocking the sea with millions of game fish and dredging wharves for speedboats and yachts to accommodate vacationers. However, little attention was paid to the health of the Sea itself. <br />
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Chemical laden runoff from the surrounding agriculture of the Valley paired with rising salinity from evaporation poisoned the Salton Sea. By the 1990's fish and birds washed ashore in die offs numbering in the millions, creating a permanently foul stench in the air. Salton City, and the surrounding communities were largely abandoned to the elements. Much of the infrastructure still remains, with streets leading no where, docks over dry land and houses encrusted in salt.
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