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Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford Connecticut

Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford Connecticut

The Town of Wallingford was set off from New Haven in . In the same year provision was made for a town burying ground. It was reached by a narrow lane leading west from the highway on the ridge (Main Street) and extended north to include land now occupied by Center Street and buildings on the north side of the street. The burying ground was destined to be the final resting place for many of those who governed the town's affairs and for those who were governed for more than three centuries. The first recorded death in Wallingford occurred in 1673, that of an infant, Elizur Peck, whose remains presumably became the first interment. The oldest gravestone in the cemetery is

Woodland Plantation, LaPlace Louisiana

Woodland Plantation, LaPlace Louisiana

Jazz pioneer Edward Kid Ory, who was born at the plantation in 1886 and spent the first 23 years of his life there working and developing his musical career. The property is a rare surviving example of bousillage construction in St. John the Baptist Parish, and it is notable in particular for its three distinct phases of the technique ranging from c. 1793 through c. 1840s. The Andry Plantation (now Woodland) was the site of a historic slave uprising that took place on January 8^th, 1811, an event that has come to be recognized as the largest such uprising in the history of the United States. Although the property, and in particular the plantation house, is no longer recognizable from this

Stone Street Cemetery, Mobile Alabama

Stone Street Cemetery, Mobile Alabama

Stone Street-Old Catholic Cemetery was established in 1848. The earliest section of the cemetery features an unusual circular plan, unique in the state and highly unusual along the Gulf Coast. Historically Roman Catholics have been buried in their own graveyards, consecrated by the church. While this was not always possible in areas with small Catholic populations, Mobile's Latin heritage and large Catholic population made such an exclusive cemetery an inevitability. Mobile's first Catholic graveyard was located under and around the present Cathedral downtown (built c. 1845). Many of the dead were fever victims, and most of the graves were unmarked. With the City's growth the old burial ground was built over, though some few of the dead were relocated to the

East Liberty School, District No. 11, Green Ohio

East Liberty School, District No. 11, Green Ohio

The early settlers of Green Township were Pennsylvania Dutch Germans, and immigrants from Germany and France. The first settler who purchased land from a federal agent was John Kepler from Center County, Pennsylvania. Earlier settlers had established themselves as squatters in the Township while the State of Ohio was still establishing counties after surveying of the Congress lands. They settled in Section 16 at the center of the Township, however no town was platted on the site. The first homes, schools and institutions were log houses built from the abundant surrounding forest. The migration to Green was fueled by the pursuit of a growing new religion. Green was part of the first Evangelical Circuit west of Pennsylvania and played a crucial

Iowa Men's Reformatory Cemetery, Anamosa Iowa

Iowa Men's Reformatory Cemetery, Anamosa Iowa

The two prison cemeteries at the Iowa Men's Reformatory contained those deceased prisoners whose bodies remained unclaimed by relatives and who were not transferred to the state medical colleges. Although it is known that the state placed the first cemetery on a hill top Somewhere at Farm No. 1 or Farm No. 5 west or north of the reformatory, its location remains unidentified. Here, head and foot stones marked the graves which were arranged side-by-side in rows. The state opened its first cemetery by 1876. Requiring the location for agricultural purposes, it moved the first prison cemetery, about thirty-five individuals, to its current location in 1914. By the time the state created its second cemetery, it had established the Iowa Men's

Kirby Road School, Cincinnati Ohio

Kirby Road School, Cincinnati Ohio

The Kirby Road School, built in 1910 in association with the Cincinnati school system's implementation of educational reforms during the Progressive Movement in Cincinnati. Various changes were made resulting in a new school that provided a broader range of teaching, classroom, and school site reforms that addressed the educational development of schools in general and within the Cincinnati neighborhood of Northside. Beginning with its construction in 1910 and continuing into the late 1960s and 1970s, these reforms continued to address the primary school needs of the northern portion of the neighborhood of Northside. With residential development of the neighborhood, especially during the late-19^th and early-20^th century, the community required a new modern public primary school that functioned with the existing Salmon

Rapides Cemetery, Pineville Louisiana

Rapides Cemetery, Pineville Louisiana

The Post of Rapides was founded by the French in 1722 or 1723, apparently as a result of two main factors. The first was the need to protect whites from the Indians. In May, 1722, the Inspector General of Troops for the Province of Louisiana, Diron d'Artaguette, made an inspection trip up Red River. In his report he advocated that a post be established at the place called the Great Rapid which is a point almost halfway between the beginning of Red River and Naichotoches (sic) and where the river ceases to be navigable four or five months of the year. He cited barbarous acts perpetrated by the Indians in the area, alleging, for example, that the Chickasaws would station themselves

Eaton High School, Eaton Ohio

Eaton High School, Eaton Ohio

This Building Served as a School until 2012, and was Converted into Apartments

Public education has a long history in the state of Ohio. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 set aside 1/36 of each township for the support of public education. Public education was reaffirmed in the Ohio State Constitution. Early schools were usually one room school houses with single educators teaching children of various ages and abilities, usually built within walking distance of those attending. These were still predominant in the state until the First World War. However, the education was not always free, as the rental income from the associated land was often insufficient to support schools. True public education did not begin until 1825 when legislation establishing a property tax to support public schools and requiring townships to form school districts

Providence Cemetery, Grenada Mississippi

Providence Cemetery, Grenada Mississippi

Providence Cemetery, established in about 1840, dates from the very early period of settlement in what is now Grenada County. This cemetery is one of the first established in the area. There are six recorded burials and inscribed markers showing burial dates in the 1840s, which is more than any other cemetery in the county. The land on which Grenada County was settled was originally part of the Choctaw Indian lands which stretched across Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. The first known white inhabitants of the area came in 1818 when the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions established an Indian mission at the now-extinct town of Elliott. As white settlement increased in Mississippi in the early 1800s, the Choctaws ceded

John H. Lehman High School, Canton Ohio

John H. Lehman High School, Canton Ohio

The John H. Lehman High School (Lehman School), at the time of its construction in 1921-23, was the first public school building in Canton, Ohio originally constructed as a junior high school, and is currently the second oldest remaining public high school building in Canton, after the Old McKinley High School (1916-21). Lehman consists of a school building and concrete stadium bleachers overlooking an athletic field on the front lawn. Lehman School's site occupies an entire city block in a residential area near the Vassar Park of Canton. As noted in the 1914 Sanborn map, Lehman's environs was along the northern fringe of the Canton corporation limits. This part of Canton has changed very little since Lehman's construction, as the area

Faison Cemetery, Faison North Carolina

Faison Cemetery, Faison North Carolina

The Faison Cemetery, a public cemetery at the eastern edge of Faison, features an array of marker types and forms representing the early national, antebellum, post-bellum and the twentieth-century periods. Mature magnolias, crape myrtles, dogwoods, live oaks, water oaks, wax myrtle and cedar trees shelter the graves and grassy paths that mark off family burial plots. The cemetery was founded in the late eighteenth century as the Faison family cemetery and became the town burying ground in 1892. The first known interment was in 1788, with the burial of the founder of the town, Henry Faison (1744-1788). Military and political leaders, churchmen, civic leaders, physicians and an artist are buried here and include Thomas Hicks (1725-1797), militia leader and member of

Jarrell Plantation, East Juliette Georgia

Jarrell Plantation, East Juliette Georgia

Jarrell Plantation, representing 19^th and 20th-century agrarianism, is a self-sustaining farm complex of which seven acres have been donated to the State for development as a living historic site. The Plantation has been part of the Jarrell family property since before the Civil War and is in a near-perfect state of preservation. Virtually all the facilities and tools necessary to operate a farm are intact, a collection that is the most complete known in Georgia. The present Jarrell residence, a rambling farmhouse completed in 1916 will not be deeded to the State until sometime later. Entirely surrounded by other Jarrell property within the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge, the Plantation is ideally isolated from 20^th century hustle-bustle; yet, it is only 15

Chester Village Cemetery, Chester New Hampshire

Chester Village Cemetery, Chester New Hampshire

The Chester Village Cemetery is remarkable for the number of signed gravestones it contains. In several instances, these stones have served as important documents in identifying early stonecutters; thereby permitting an analysis of the evolution of symbolic content and style in the mortuary art of southeastern New Hampshire and northeastern Massachusetts. The Chester Cemetery contains the only known signed gravestone by stone-cutter Stephen Webster, who was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, and grew up in Chester. This stone, that of Hannah Webster (1762), has led to an analysis of Stephen Webster's stonecutting style and use of symbolism, thereby permitting his work to be differentiated from that of his brother Abel. While the Chester Cemetery contains several slate stones in Stephen Webster's mature

Jones-Florence Plantation, Odessadale Georgia

Jones-Florence Plantation, Odessadale Georgia

The Jones-Florence Plantation is a good example of an antebellum plantation as well as postbellum farm. Rather than cotton, it produced primarily corn, wheat and vegetables. Its products would have primarily been used to sustain the owners and their slaves or tenants. The remaining outbuildings and the rural setting reflect the isolation and self-sufficiency of the plantation. It is an intact example of a Plantation Plain-style plantation house with Victorian additions. It reflects in its wainscoting, mantels, and hardware the fine details such a place could contain, while being significant also for its unusual separated areas on the second floor approached through two stairways. Its owners, first Willis Jones (1782-1840), who had moved to this newly opened territory by 1830 and

Jones County High School - Gray High School, Gray Georgia

Jones County High School - Gray High School, Gray Georgia

The Jones County High School is a historic community building in the small town of Gray, Jones County. It was designed by Ellamae Ellis League (1899-1991), a prominent and influential woman architect in Georgia. The Jones County High School was constructed to be a consolidated high school for white students in Jones County. The building is an excellent example of the Colonial Revival style. The character-defining features include its three-part plan, hipped roof with arched-top dormers, front projecting pavilion with a wide cornice, quoins, and wooden fanlight design located above the main entrance. The Colonial Revival style was very popular in Georgia for a long period, from the 1890s through the 1940s and beyond. The architectural style is found on Georgia's

Napoleon Bonaparte McCanless House, Salisbury North Carolina

Napoleon Bonaparte McCanless House, Salisbury North Carolina

Salisbury, North Carolina, established in 1755 as the seat of the newly formed Rowan County, developed as western North Carolina's first center of transportation, trade, and political activity. The town grew at a steady pace until the 1850s, when it experienced a notably prosperous decade. From 1850 to 1860, Salisbury's population more than doubled. The Civil War, however, brought growth largely to a halt and, like most places in the South, Salisbury spent the decades following the war recovering and shoring up its economic base for further growth. By the mid-1880s, increased rail traffic was largely responsible for the renewed blossoming of Salisbury's commerce and industry, and the decades between 1880 and 1930 were especially prosperous years for the town. It

Tabernacle Cemetery, Greenwood South Carolina

Tabernacle Cemetery, Greenwood South Carolina

Tabernacle Cemetery, established in 1812, is the only extant historic resource associated with the early Tabernacle community. Established by Methodists in the old Abbeville District in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it included such institutions as the Tabernacle Meeting House (later Tabernacle Methodist Church), informally organized by 1788 but formally established and located on this site by 1812, and active here until 1873, and the Tabernacle Academy, founded and built here in 1820-21 and operating here until 1825. George Connor (1759-1827) and his wife Anna Woolfolk Connor (1762-1825) owned the land that became the center of the Tabernacle community. The Connors came to South Carolina from Virginia and settled here shortly after the American Revolution. Most of the land

Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Depot, Oregon Illinois

Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Depot, Oregon Illinois

The Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Depot played a long role as Oregon's rail-related transportation hub. Beginning with its construction in 1913, the depot was, for decades, the single most important transportation-related structure in the city, serving as a point of entry and departure for tourists, soldiers, politicians, and many other groups of people (not to mention freight, as well) between Oregon and the rest of the world. The brick and stone structure, structurally sound and entirely intact, ties the city to its past with simple elegance and understated beauty. Oregon, Illinois, the Ogle County seat, is located approximately 25 miles south of Rockford, Illinois. Traversed by the Rock River, Oregon is currently home to almost 4,500 people. Founded in 1836,

Peshtigo Fire Cemetery, Peshtigo Wisconsin

Peshtigo Fire Cemetery, Peshtigo Wisconsin

The Peshtigo Fire Cemetery commemorates a major event in the history of Wisconsin, a tornado of fire which, in a matter of minutes, took the lives of some 800 people and completely destroyed Peshtigo, a town of about 1700 population, and a large surrounding area, even extending across the Menominee River in a northeasterly direction into Upper Michigan. In terms of loss of human life, it was not only the greatest forest fire disaster in American history but also a greater disaster than the great Chicago fire which occurred on the same evening, October 8^th, 1871. The four largest forest fires which occurred in the nineteenth century North America had the same basic causes: many small fires, coupled with unusually dry

Early Hill Plantation, Greensboro Georgia

Early Hill Plantation, Greensboro Georgia

Early Hill was the plantation home of Joel Early, Jr. (1793-1851), owner of the property since before 1820. By 1850, the plantation had grown in size to 2200 acres with 60 slaves, and grew cotton as its major crop. Early, as owner, is one of the few documented Georgia planters who attempted the emancipation of his slaves by transportation to Liberia in West Africa. Early began correspondence in 1827 with the American Colonization Society and sent thirty of his slaves to Africa in 1830 and later corresponded with one of them. From 1820 to 1833 only 106 Georgia-based slaves were sent to Liberia; Early accounted for nearly one-third of this total. Early also was the first Georgian to send his slaves

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