Bull Shoals Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the White River in northern Arkansas. The dam lies on the border of Marion and Baxter Counties, and forms Bull Shoals Lake, which extends well northwest into Missouri. Its main purposes are hydroelectricity production and flood control.
The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in response to severe flooding between 1915 and 1927. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized the construction of the dam as well as six others on the White River and its tributaries in the Flood Control Act of 1938.
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The Chief Johnson Totem Pole was carved by Israel Shotridge and raised in 1989, is a replica of the Chief Johnson, or Kajuk, Totem Pole raised in this general location in 1901 for the Ganaxadi Tlingit of the Raven moiety of the Tanta Kwan (Tongass) group. The original memorial pole stood until 1982.
Except for Kajuk atop the pole, the figures symbolize a single story about Raven. Fog Woman is identified with the summer salmon run when fog lies at the mouth of streams. She produces all salmon and causes them to return to the creeks of their birth. Totem poles are carved to honor deceased ancestors, record history, social events, and oral tradition. They were never worshipped as religious objects.
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The "World Famous Tree House" is a tourist attraction in a gigantic redwood tree. The tree is over 250 ft. tall, approximately 4,000 years old, and contains a hollow, 50-ft. high cavity. The tree center was burned out by a lightning strike hundreds of years ago; several openings around the base provided human access. In the 1920s, an entrepreneur turned it into a room with doors and windows, and the still living "tree house" became one of the earliest tourist attractions in the area.
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The architectural pinnacle of the Alhambra, the Court of the Lions, is the main courtyard of the Nasrid dynasty Palace of the Lions in the heart of the Alhambra, the Moorish citadel formed by a complex of palaces, gardens and forts in Granada, Spain.
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The King's Arms Barber Shop was built before 1749. It has been reconstructed to show how it would have appeared when it was owned and operated by Edward Charlton, who was one of the most prestigious wigmakers in Virginia during the eighteenth century. Wigmakers such as Charlton not only made and sold wigs and hairpieces for ladies and gentlemen, but they also provided bathing facilities for their customers, performed barbering services, cut and styled hair, and sold perfumes, powders, soaps and remedies for lice.
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