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Lenoir Cotton Mill, Lenoir City Tennessee

Lenoir Cotton Mill, Lenoir City Tennessee

The Lenoir Cotton Mill, built sometime between 1810 and 1821, was one of a series of mills in the community along Town Creek, and was the only one surviving in more than a ruinous state. They were built by William Ballard Lenoir, a prosperous farmer, manufacturer, miller, land surveyor, and merchant who settled here in 1810. His entire estate remained intact following his death in 1852, and in 1890 was taken over by a development company, the Lenoir City Company, who laid out the present town. At that time there were 1000 spindles operated in the mill. It was later converted to a grain mill, then sold to the city, it had been unused for many years. In 1991 it was

Belview School - Underwood School, Underwood Tennessee

Belview School - Underwood School, Underwood Tennessee

Belview School was originally organized and located in a building nearby on Puncheon Creek Road. It is not known exactly when it was organized, but the school was definitely in place by the 1890s when a picture was taken of the original building. The school was named for Mr. Belview who came from Guthrie, Kentucky to be the first teacher in the original schoolhouse. This first schoolhouse was later dismantled and the building materials were used to build a local residence. Then in 1936 the Macon County School System purchased property on which the current building stands. The current Belview School was built by local builder Leo Butrum in the same year. The first teacher in the new school was Lewis

Galen Elementary School, Galen Tennessee

Galen Elementary School, Galen Tennessee

Galen School was originally built to serve as a two year high school for the county. During this year (1928) a two year feeder high school was taught in the Antioch Church house in the community of Galen, by Mr. Lewis Banly. The four room building was built at Galen in 1928 and 1929, and opened in August of 1929 with one room for the first four grades, one for 5,6,7,& 8th, one for grade 9 and one for grade 10. The building was not used for a high school but used for an elementary school until about 1960. When the first sanitation officers were appointed for the county the Galen School was a forerunner in sanitation. The old dipper water

McGehee Plantation, Senatobia Mississippi

McGehee Plantation, Senatobia Mississippi

The land on which the plantation home is located was purchased by Abner F. McGehee on March 16^th, 1854 from a representative of the New York Chickasaw Land Association. While president of the United States from 1829 to 1837, Andrew Jackson worked to remove Native Americans from their land to west of the Mississippi. This land purchased by McGehee had once belonged to the Chickasaw nation until their removal around 1830. The original size of the plantation was approximately 1,920 acres, consisting of the west half of Section 17, Township 6, Range No. 7, West of the Basis Meridian. The plantation was purchased for $3,360 (as cited in the original Deed). Currently 1,200 acres are owned by four direct descendants of

Carr Junior High School - Carr Central High School, Vicksburg Mississippi

Carr Junior High School - Carr Central High School, Vicksburg Mississippi

Abandoned School Building has been Converted into Apartments

Constructed in 1924, Carr Junior was the city's only white junior high school until 1932 when it became the city's only white high school. When Cooper High School was built in 1959 Carr once again was used as a junior high. The school was closed in 1979 when white and colored schools were combined as a result of integration. Vicksburg's public school system was formed in 1835, ten years after the incorporation of the City of Vicksburg. In these early years classes were held for both boys and girls in the old Vicksburg Hotel on Main Street. In 1870 the Vicksburg Municipal Separate School District was created as one of the first such districts established under the 1870 Legislative Enactment implementing

Speed Street Public School, Vicksburg Mississippi

Speed Street Public School, Vicksburg Mississippi

The citizens of Vicksburg, recognizing the necessity of public education somewhat in advance of most Mississippians, established the city's first public school in 1844. Fifty years later the residents of the then recently-developed area of south Vicksburg petitioned the School Board to provide a public school in their neighborhood. On January 14, 1895, the Speed Street School opened as South Vicksburg Public School No. 200. As late as the mid-nineteen-thirties it was one of only two white elementary schools in the Vicksburg public school system. The district also included a white high school and two schools for black students of all grade levels. Upon its closing in 1940, the Speed Street School was sold to the Allein Post #3 of the

Yokena Presbyterian Church, Vicksburg Mississippi

Yokena Presbyterian Church, Vicksburg Mississippi

Dedicated in 1886, the Yokena Presbyterian Church is one of Mississippi's unique expressions of rural, vernacular, ecclesiastical architecture. The church is simply constructed but sophisticated in its use of detail, and it is rendered architecturally significant as one of the states few examples of the Stick Style, a style that was little employed in Mississippi in the late nineteenth-century. Although the exterior ornament is restricted to the triangle of the gable-end facade, which has applied diagonal boards and Elizabethan strapwork, the interior is richly ornamented through the interplay of exposed roof construction, chevron-patterned diagonal wall boards, and vertical board wainscoting. An unusual barrel-vaulted effect is created by the use of semi-circular collar braces in the hammer-beam roof. The building gains added

Brumfield High School, Natchez Mississippi

Brumfield High School, Natchez Mississippi

Built as the new colored high school in 1925 by the City of Natchez, Brumfield was designed by local Natchez architect William Steintenroth. The school was built by local contractors Ketteringham and Lawrence with Jesse Spencer doing the brickwork and Thomas J. Holmes, the heating and plumbing. The construction of the new colored high school preceded, by a few years, the construction of a comparable high school for white students on Homochitto Street. The school was financed by municipal bonds in the amount of $75,000 and a plea by the school board to the mayor and aldermen for its construction included the information that the existing Union School for black children [on the southeast corner of North Union and Monroe streets]

Beverly Drive-In Theatre, Hattiesburg Mississippi

Beverly Drive-In Theatre, Hattiesburg Mississippi

The Beverly, built in 1948, was the second drive-in to open in Mississippi. The post-war growth of the drive-in was also seen in Mississippi, with the total number of theaters reaching 70 by 1959. Herby and Sue Hargroder moved to Hattiesburg from New Orleans in 1948 to open the Beverly Drive-in Theater. The theater was named for their daughter. The Hargroder's theater, the largest in Mississippi, opened on May 28, 1948 with an admission of 39 cents, which included popcorn and soft drinks. Opening night attendance reached 1166. The Hargroders operated the theater until 1980, when Mr. Hargroder died. Miss Sue, as she was widely known in the Hattiesburg community, ran the theater until 1981, when she leased it to other

Leesburg High School, Leesburg Georgia

Leesburg High School, Leesburg Georgia

The Leesburg High School complex is located in the city of Leesburg, Georgia, a small county seat town with a population of 2,630 according to the 2000 Census. Leesburg is part of the rural community of Lee County with a population of 24,757 in 2000. There are many historic homes along Main Street, which border the property where the Leesburg High School complex is located. Leesburg began as a village known as Wooten's Station. When the railroad came through Lee County, Starksville had the only school of any size. It was an old building with no glass windows and poor ventilation. Desks and stools were made of slabs with pegs in each end. The enrollment was small due to limited space

Samuel Farkas House, Albany Georgia

Samuel Farkas House, Albany Georgia

The Samuel Farkas House is the last remaining mansion of a merchant prince of the nineteenth century in Albany. Completed in the late 1880's, it represents the fulfillment of the American dream for one man and his family. Samuel Farkas was an Hungarian immigrant who came to this county when he was 18 years old. It is said that he could not speak a word of English and had only fifty cents in his pocket. He came to Albany because his uncle had set up a successful merchandising store in the city after the Civil War. It was at this general store that Farkas worked before he began his mule business. In 1872 he established a stable, trading chiefly with mules.

Rock Hill School, Lebanon Oregon

Rock Hill School, Lebanon Oregon

The one-room school building completed and opened for use as Rock Hill School in rural Linn County, Oregon about 1905 stands in the Butte Creek drainage on the edge of foothills rising to the Cascades, where it served the agricultural district lying between the platted townsites of Brownsville and Lebanon until its abandonment in 1935. The abandoned school property had reverted to neighboring farm owners and was not maintained except for storage purposes after it ceased being used as a community meeting place during the 1940s and 1950s. It was in 1952 that Linn County rural school district No. 31 was formally consolidated with Plainview School District. The schoolhouse interior, until recently used for hay storage, contains its original plaster ceiling

Multnomah Hotel, Portland Oregon

Multnomah Hotel, Portland Oregon

Erected at a cost of two million dollars, the Multnomah Hotel, located at 319 SW Pine Street in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, was built in 1911 in the American Renaissance style for the Gevurtz family by the R. R. Thompson Estate Company of San Francisco. It was the largest hotel in the city for a period of over 50 years. Mushrooming urban growth after the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition of 1905 accelerated demand in many service areas in Portland's business community, not the least of which was the hotel and apartment industry. As older hotels expanded and new small and medium-size hotels emerged, it became clear that the city's economy could support yet more rooms. When ground was broken for

Walter Herron Taylor Elementary School, Norfolk Virginia

Walter Herron Taylor Elementary School, Norfolk Virginia

The Walter Herron Taylor Elementary School was designed by Norfolk architect John Kevan Peebles and constructed by Jesse Johnson and Sons in 1916-1917. It opened with twelve classrooms and four additional rooms were completed two years later under a separate contract to Seay Brothers. The school was named for Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, General Robert E. Lee's Assistant Adjutant General during the Civil War and the only Norfolk-born member of Lee's staff. When it closed, W.H. Taylor Elementary was the only remaining school in Norfolk designed by Peebles which is still serving its original function. It was demolished in 1999. When Taylor School opened on September 10, 1917, with approximately 205 students, it was located on the site of the Core

Lafayette Grammar and High School - Lafayette I.D.P. Center, Norfolk Virginia

Lafayette Grammar and High School - Lafayette I.D.P. Center, Norfolk Virginia

Although the Constitution of 1869 mandated the creation of a public school system, a system in the modern sense did not emerge until the adoption of the Constitution of 1902, which provided for increased funding for schools in accord with a growing popular demand for public education. Rural Norfolk County, where the Lafayette School would become the largest in its system, faced special problems with a dispersed population and difficult terrain. This rarely permitted anything more than a one-room school. The City of Norfolk was growing at an unparalleled rate between 1900 and 1910, and expanded into Tanner's Creek District of Norfolk County, which was to become a densely populated streetcar suburb. The Lafayette School was originally called the Tanner's Creek

Allen Grove Plantation, Old Spring Hill Alabama

Allen Grove Plantation, Old Spring Hill Alabama

Allen Grove was constructed in 1857 for John Gray Allen, a native of North Carolina who migrated to Alabama in 1841. Allen moved to Spring Hill in 1847 and acquired a plantation (approximately 300 acres) and the site for his dwelling from Edwin Glover. According to the 1850 Marengo County census, Allen held real estate valued at $4,500.00 and was the father of seven children. The Allen family resided in a one and a half story log dogtrot dwelling on the plantation while the present house was being constructed. The builder of the house was David Rudisill, a carpenter from Demopolis who is listed in the 1850 census as being from North Carolina; according to receipts in the possession of the

Bremo Plantation, Bremo Bluff Virginia

Bremo Plantation, Bremo Bluff Virginia

General John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866), noted planter, soldier and reformer, was a man of great importance in ante-bellum Virginia. A graduate of the College of William and Mary (1794-99), Cocke spent his life in the various reform movements of the first half of the nineteenth century. During the War of 1812 he entered the army as a captain and within eighteen months had emerged as a brigadier general. After the war he settled into his routine of managing his extensive land holdings in Fluvanna County and in furthering his reform goals. He advanced many revolutionary agricultural ideas and vigorously attacked the practice of making tobacco the main crop of Virginia. He was equally outspoken on the subject of slavery and served

Borden Oaks Plantation, Greensboro Alabama

Borden Oaks Plantation, Greensboro Alabama

The Borden Oaks Plantation was formed in the 1830s by John and Mary Cocke of Fluvanna County, Virginia. John Cocke was a first cousin to John Hartwell Cocke, the noted Virginia planter, reformer and friend to Thomas Jefferson who resided at Bremo, the Jeffersonian mansion. John Cocke and John Hartwell Cocke both purchased large tracts of land west of Greensboro and John Cocke acted as supervisor of Hartwell Cocke's landholdings. John and Mary Cocke presented the plantation now known as Borden Oaks to their daughter Martha upon her marriage to John Gray in 1835. The Grays immediately began construction of a plantation house. John Gray died however, while the timbers for the structure were being prepared. Martha Cocke Gray completed the

J.S. O'Connor American Rich Cut Glassware Factory, Hawley Pennsylvania

J.S. O'Connor American Rich Cut Glassware Factory, Hawley Pennsylvania

The J. S. O'Connor American Rich Cut Glassware Factory was one of the first factories to be built in Hawley, and one of the last to cease operations. Five enterprises have been housed in this building: the J. S. O'Connor American Rich Cut Glassware Factory (1890 - 1902); the Maple City Cut Class Company, T. B. Clark (1902 - 1918); H. W. Kimble & Company, Commission Silk Throwsters (1918 - 1943); the Arrow Throwing Mill (1943 - 1987); and the Country Inn (1987 - ). Early in 1890, J. S. O'Connor erected a handsome and substantial native bluestone glass factory at the foot of the Wallenpaupack Falls. The building was 60 x 200, three stories high and contained about 200 frames,

Follmer, Clogg and Company Umbrella Factory, Lancaster Pennsylvania

Follmer, Clogg and Company Umbrella Factory, Lancaster Pennsylvania

According to the United States Bureau of Census, Pennsylvania led the nation in the manufacture of umbrellas in 1900. $5.9 million dollars worth of goods were produced in Pennsylvania that year. Lancaster City operations boasted $2.7 million dollars worth of the goods. Six factories were located in Lancaster, several of which were cottage industries. Silk mills and umbrella handle factories were located in Columbia, Marietta and Lancaster City to supply raw materials for the production of umbrellas. Umbrella manufacturing became Lancaster's most important industry, employing 15% of the City's industrial workforce (1,300 workers) and producing a greater dollar amount worth of goods than Lancaster's second leading industry, tobacco. By the 1920's, Lancaster was boasting the production of more umbrellas each year

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Abandoned Malls of America: Crumbling Commerce Left Behind

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