Visual arts are celebrated with original exhibits by local artists in Maysvilleâs galleries and many local businesses. The Kentucky Gateway Museum Center, located on Sutton Street, is home to the exquisite Kathleen Savage Browning Miniature Collection.
About 100,000 years ago, the most recent of these eruptions formed the Mammoth Knolls, low hills just north of the Town of Mammoth Lakes. Mammoth Mountain, a young volcano on the rim of Long Valley Caldera, was built by numerous eruptions between 220,000 and 50,000 years ago.
The Sierra Nevada Mountains formed by a thinning of the North American Plate which then cracked as a result of upward pressure. Huge blocks of rock containing huge chunks of gâ¦ranite welled up at this crack and tilted up along it. The upward tilting edges became the Sierra Nevada ridge line less than 4mya.