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The original wooden fort, which defended a ford over the Dniester / Nistru, was an important link in the chain of fortifications which comprised four forts ( e. g. Akkerman and Khotin ) on the Dniester, two forts on the Danube and three forts on the north border of medieval Moldova.
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The original wooden Bennet seats as specified by Leitch in 1905 now number 3, 571, remain as robust as ever.
It has been suggested that it consisted of a motte, an earthen mound surmounted by wooden buildings ; however, the stone great tower may have been part of the original design.
There are talks of it being taken away from this custody and being renovated and the Lodge being preserved with its original woodwork and ornate wooden staircase.
The first grandstand at the MCG was the original wooden members ’ stand built in 1854, while the first public grandstand was a 200-metre long 6000-seat temporary structure built in 1861.
Instead the mausoleum, which is open to visitors, now has two sarcophagi: the empty one made of marble and the original wooden one, which holds Saladin.
The Lizard Wireless Station is the oldest Marconi station to survive in its original state in the world and is located to the west of the Lloyds Signal Station in what appears to be a wooden hut.
The original wooden stadium seats were replaced with wider plastic ones, and the upper deck expanded upward nine rows, excluding the walkway.
It was discovered that after having been stored in wooden casks, the resulting product had improved over the original distilled spirit.
The city center is small, and most Late-Medieval and Renaissance buildings have been restored to their original pastel colours and wooden balconies.
After a major blaze in 1405, the original wooden buildings were gradually replaced by half-timbered houses and later the sandstone buildings that came to be characteristic for the Old Town.
The triglyphs are decoratively grooved with three vertical grooves (" tri-glyph ") and represent the original wooden end-beams, which rest on the plain architrave that occupies the lower half of the entablature.
Since the original design came from wooden temples and the triglyphs were real heads of wooden beams, every column had to bear a beam which lay across the centre of the column.
Upon their return to the site today known as " Mission Vieja ," the party excavated the bells and constructed a new arbor ; the original wooden cross was, to their surprise, still standing.
Three of the original Mission bells were transferred from the destroyed adobe church to the wooden church of 1869, where they hung until the 1970s.
The original building is now known to have been wooden and to have been constructed on the site of a Byzantine public building with an elaborate mosaic floor.
The original wooden stock, consisting of 11 motor and 11 trailer carriages, built by Jackson and Sharp of Wilmington, Delaware, USA, using Siemens electrical motors and control equipment, was used until 1940.
The richly carved wooden Grand Staircase and the rare stained glass window in the private chapel are among the house's original Jacobean features.
In particular the original wooden polychrome ceiling dating from the 17th century draws the attention of every visitor.
Since 1973, this design has been built in glass-reinforced plastic with the same weight distribution as the original wooden version.
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Popular destinations include Fort Nashborough and Fort Negley, the former being a reconstruction of the original settlement, the latter being a semi-restored Civil War battle fort ; the Tennessee State Museum ; and The Parthenon, a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens.
The original meaning of the adjective profane ( from Latin pro fano, " in front of " or " before, outside " the fanum, a sanctuary ) referred to items not belonging to the church, e. g., " The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building ," or " besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings ".
The city of Sacramento, founded on the original site of Sutter's fort, began to flourish as the center of an agricultural empire that provided food to feed the thousands of miners working in the hills as well as a place of financial exchange of all the gold that was mined.
The original fort was destroyed following the Battle of Fort Dearborn in 1812, and a new fort was constructed on the same site in 1816.
On March 5, 1899, the Chicago Tribune publicized a Chicago Historical Society replica of the original fort.
* Kolomotu ' a ( Kolo meaning " town " or " settlement ", motu ' a meaning " old "), encompassing the city's original settlement at the old fort of Nukualofa, including the area of Tavatu ' utolu ( Longolongo ), Sopu ' o Vave ( now Sopu ' o Taufa ' ahau ), Tongata ' eapa, Tufuenga, Kapeta and all the western area where it was the traditional settlement of the Tu ' i Kanokupolu from Mumui the 13th Tu ' i Kanokupolu to Aleamotu ' a the 18th Tu ' i Kanokupolu.
It was not until General John Forbes attacked in 1758, four years after they had lost the original fort, that they recaptured and destroyed it.
Fort Pillow State Park is home to a museum and also has reconstructed fortifications on the original site of the fort.
It includes a large frontier fort, an original Union Pacific caboose, bb gun range, and archery range.
Major military facilities supported by CFB Kingston include Fort Frontenac, located on the site of the original fort, and the Royal Military College of Canada.
Shortly after the War of 1812 two men named Edward Bullock and William Hall organized plans to build a village along the river near the original fort.
In 1781, the original fort settlement expanded as Benjamin Logan donated a parcel of his own land for the construction of a courthouse.
Forty Fort was named for a Revolutionary War-era fort that the town's original settlers built ; there were forty of these settlers from Connecticut, so the town was later named Forty Fort.
The town of Point Pleasant was built on the site of the original fort, and so the rebuilt fort was located nearby.
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