Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places

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  • Rock Cut, Part 2

    I couldn’t believe my good fortune when I stumbled across the existence of an entire genre of structural design known as Rock Cut Architecture, described in the previous article. I could hardly contain my glee although I still had more work ahead of me. There were so many examples from widely varied parts of the…

  • Rock Cut

    Architectural styles sometimes make it onto the pages of Twelve Mile Circle. Remember Pueblo Deco and Egyptian Revival? Then I stumbled across another noteworthy example. I considered structures I’d wondered about before, carved directly from their stony landscapes. Nonetheless, I didn’t realize at the time that it had a name, Rock Cut Architecture. This style…

  • Literal Roads to Nowhere

    Nowhere makes occasional appearances on Twelve Mile Circle. I guess I liked the underlying concept of a place of nowhere, which by definition had to be somewhere. So I mined this topic pretty hard with articles like Middle of Nowhere and X to Nowhere. I referenced it more recently in the latest Odds and Ends…

  • By George, Part 2

    With numerous places named for British Kings George I, II and III already examined and set-aside in the previous article, it was time to turn my attention to IV, V and VI. This would be more difficult. The first set of Georges ruled for a contiguous period of more than a century, from 1714 to…

  • By George

    What were the odds of seeing Twelve Mile Circle visitors from George, South Africa and George, Washington, USA on the same day? I found the coincidence fascinating. The city of George in Washington was, of course, named for George Washington. That other George in South Africa’s Western Cape Province, I suspected, must have been named…

  • Australia’s Time Zone Corners

    Twelve Mile Circle loves mail! I’ve discovered all sorts of interesting geographic artifacts from readers who’ve sent a much appreciated note. This time a message arrived from reader “Jonathan” who has offered several suggestions in the past. So he mentioned a place he noticed while looking at maps of Australia. He found Cameron Corner, at…

  • And So, Part 2

    I found such a wealth of information about the six nations split by the conjunction “AND” that I had to divide them into two articles. The first article covered Antigua and Barbuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. This one will finish the remaining nations, continuing in alphabetical order. Once again I want…

  • And So

    I’ve paid close attention to country names during my many years of combing through 12MC access logs. Naturally I’ve looked for patterns and trends. I’m not sure what drew my particular attention to the names of nations containing the conjunction AND. It was probably one of those days when multiple instances appeared by chance. I…

  • Appalachian Loop, Part 6 (Seeing is Believing)

    I knew I needed to create my own fun when I chose to drive through an area that didn’t cater much to outsiders. The people of Appalachia are friendly and always seem welcoming, so that wasn’t the issue. It’s simply that tourism isn’t a major preoccupation there. It didn’t help that my adventure happened at…

  • Appalachian Loop, Part 5 (Bridges)

    Several months ago I went on a fifty mile cycling adventure on a bright, late-summer morning in Maryland. Afterwards I made an effort to describe the Bridges of Frederick County that I’d encountered. The lack of reader response didn’t deter me from my emerging fascination, either. It seems I have a thing for bridges, covered…

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  1. The British flag continues to fly at Roche Harbor, a couple miles north of English Camp.

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  4. As an Alaskan I always wondered why Interstates were a big deal. From my point of view a road went…