Valley View is a mid-19th-century Greek Revival residence and farm overlooking the South Branch Potomac River northwest of Romney, West Virginia. Sitting atop a promontory where Depot Valley joins the South Branch Potomac River valley, the house was built by James Parsons Jr. in 1855. It is a two-story brick structure with a rectangular architectural plan. The front entrance is covered by a small portico, topped with a pediment supported by wooden Doric columns. The rear of the house, with a two-story wood porch stretching across it, faces Mill Creek Mountain. Each of the eight large rooms of the original structure contains a fireplace framed by a wooden trabeated mantelpiece with classical elements. The original windows, wooden trim, and materials in the main section of the house are intact. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 as a locally significant example of Greek Revival architecture.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1876:

A Swedish woman named Karolina Olsson went to sleep and purportedly fell into a state of hibernation that lasted for the next 32 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karolina_Olsson

1944:

World War II: U.S. forces carried out a bombing raid on the Nazi-occupied Dutch city of Nijmegen, killing at least 800 civilians by accident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Nijmegen

1980:

At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_Ice

1997:

Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the birth of Dolly, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have successfully been cloned from an adult cell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

vamp: 1. (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish. 2. (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing. 3. (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. 4. (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”). 5. (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear). 6. (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk. 7. (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience. […] 8. (transitive) To seduce or exploit someone. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vamp

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.   --George Washington https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington