Wilder Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned by Amherst College. It is located on Snell Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, and was designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. It was renovated in 2001, along with the telescope. The Amherst Area Amateur Astronomers Association offers observing nights at the Observatory. When the Wilder Observatory was built in 1903, the telescope was one of the largest telescopes in the world at 18 inches, and it remains one of the largest refractors. Built by Alvan Clark & Sons, the instrument was shipped to Chile in the summer of 1907 to observe the planet Mars, which allowing for some then state-of-the-art pictures of the red planet to be taken, the telescope was then returned to its observatory.—Wikipedia
Lake Sunapee is located within Sullivan County and Merrimack County in western New Hampshire. It is the fifth-largest lake located entirely in New Hampshire. The lake is approximately 8.1 miles long (north-south) and from 0.5 to 2.5 miles wide (east-west), covering 6.5 square miles, with a maximum depth of 105 feet. The lake contains three lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places. The lake's outlet is in Sunapee Harbor, the headway for the Sugar River, which flows west through Newport and Claremont to the Connecticut River and then to the Atlantic Ocean.—Wikipedia
The 1886 Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge, two-span, timber King-truss, interstate, covered bridge that crosses the Connecticut River between Cornish, New Hampshire (on the east), and Windsor, Vermont (on the west). Until 2008, when the Smolen–Gulf Bridge opened in Ohio, it had been the longest covered bridge (still standing) in the United States.—Wikipedia
