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Texaco Station No. 1 - Hamburger Station, Paragould Arkansas

Texaco Station No. 1 - Hamburger Station, Paragould Arkansas

Constructed circa l925, the Texaco Station No. 1 (since 1985 known as the Hamburger Station) is one of only two remaining historic gas stations in Paragould. By 1920, Paragould had grown into a thriving town of 6,306 people. Greene County's vibrant timber industry was made possible by the transportation afforded by its two railroads (known in 1920 as the Missouri Pacific and the St. Louis and Southwestern or Cotton Belt). The town could boast of four bands, two department stores (one containing three stories), two newspapers, a pressed brick factory, a tile factory, and ice and cold storage plant, a flour mill, two spoke factories, three cotton gins, the Missouri Pacific railroad shops, a post office, an 800-seat theater, a telephone

DeTour Reef Light Station, DeTour Village Michigan

DeTour Reef Light Station, DeTour Village Michigan

Located where the Saint Marys River joins Lake Huron at the south end of DeTour Passage, this lighthouse is situated at a choke point for commercial shipping navigating to and from Lake Superior. The volume of maritime traffic passing DeTour Reef has been substantial ever since the Saint Marys River became a thoroughfare for commercial vessels when the St. Marys Falls Canal opened in the middle nineteenth century. Present-day shipping in the DeTour Reef Light Station vicinity continues to be substantial and consists largely of freighters transporting bulk cargoes such as iron ore, grain or coal. Early twentieth-century mariners regarded the DeTour Passage area as one of the most dangerous places along major shipping routes in the Great Lakes. Several shipwrecks

Rock Island-Argenta Depot, North Little Rock Arkansas

Rock Island-Argenta Depot, North Little Rock Arkansas

The first operating railroad company in Arkansas was the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad, which began in the 1850's amidst much interest in establishing railroads in the state. It initially operated only near the Mississippi River in eastern Arkansas, but finally laid rails from the White River community of DeValls Bluff to the north side of the Arkansas River, opposite the commercial center of Little Rock, in 1862. The fledging community on this site at the time was known as Huntersville and by all accounts consisted of little more than a pair of ferry landings for boat transport back and forth across the Arkansas River, a few houses, and small shops. During the Civil War, first the Confederates and then the

Mopac Station, Little Rock Arkansas

Mopac Station, Little Rock Arkansas

In 1875, the Cairo and Fulton Lines built its first railroad station. This building was of wood construction and was torn down in 1906. It was replaced with the first Union Station which was completed in 1911. It was of the Second Empire style, with its cornices with brackets, vaguely classic windows, and large mansard tower barely visible over the roof. In 1920, a businessman from Brooklyn, New York, Charles S. Fallon, who was fanatically opposed to cigarette smoking, publicized that he set fire to the Union Station because he was angry about the smoking public. No mention of legal action against him was made, after that and it is assumed he made the statement for publicity. The burning of Union

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Passenger Station, Grinnell Iowa

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Passenger Station, Grinnell Iowa

The Grinnell depot, with its corner tower, is an atypical example of railroad architecture, retaining a certain dignity of style not often found in small-town depots. Its design incorporates the decorative in harmony with the very practical: the l½ story round tower, situated at the junction of two tracks, gave the station agent a clear view in all directions. The first rail line (the Chicago and Rock Island) reached Grinnell in 1863 from the east. Nine years later, the Central Railroad of Iowa (eventually to become part of the Chicago Northwestern) extended its north-south route to Grinnell. Over the decades, the high volume of traffic through Grinnell on these two lines threatened to overwhelm the simple frame depot which had served

Missouri - Pacific Depot, Wynne Arkansas

Missouri - Pacific Depot, Wynne Arkansas

The railroad town of Wynne was formally settled in 1883 around the intersection of the Memphis & Bald Knob Railroad and Helena & Knobel divisions of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad. The intersection of two major regional railroad lines and the various types of traffic they carried, and the related local activity they encouraged, provided most of the economic vitality to the town into the early twentieth century. The Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot in Wynne was constructed in 1911 after the Missouri-Pacific Railroad took ownership of the Memphis and Bald Knob Railroad line. This passenger and freight railroad depot is associated with the Railroad Growth and Development in Arkansas, as a structure financed and erected under the auspices of

Weinbrenner Shoe Factory, Marshfield Wisconsin

Weinbrenner Shoe Factory, Marshfield Wisconsin

The Weinbrenner Shoe Company was founded in Milwaukee in 1892, by Albert H. Weinbrenner and Joseph Peffer, whose firm, called Weinbrenner & Peffer, made work boots for loggers working in the northern Wisconsin forests. Initially just a small shoe-making shop, the company grew steadily and, in 1900, was renamed the Albert H. Weinbrenner Company by the partners, who also purchased the assets of the Knoll Shoe Co., another Milwaukee-based shoe factory. By 1909, Weinbrenner had bought out Peffer's share and his company's lines of work boots and sport related shoes had grown to the point where a new factory was needed. The new four-story factory that Weinbrenner built at 226 E. Juneau St. in Milwaukee served as the company's headquarters and

New Dorp Lighthouse, Staten Island New York

New Dorp Lighthouse, Staten Island New York

A simple structure and a rare remaining example of a design once common to many lighthouses in New York State, the New Dorp Light, also known as the Moravian Light, ranks as a local landmark for its long history as a navigational beacon overlooking Verrazano Narrows and New York Bay. It is also a rare remaining example of lighthouses in New York, built during the earlier years of the 19^th century when an economy-minded federal government kept designs simple and expenses to a minimum. Built around 1854, under the jurisdiction of the Federal Lighthouse Service, New Dorp Light is an example of an unusual lighthouse design. Instead of conforming to the typical tall cylindrical design, the tower of this lighthouse is

Wadhams Gas Station, West Allis Wisconsin

Wadhams Gas Station, West Allis Wisconsin

Former 1920s Gasoline Service Station in WI

The Wadhams Gas Station is one of only two gas stations remaining in West Allis built during the 1920s. The village of West Allis was incorporated in 1902. It is located due west of the Milwaukee manufacturing districts of Walker's Point and the Menomonee River Valley. Milwaukee's industrial areas influenced the character of West Allis. Two years before the village incorporated, Charles Allis agreed to move the very large and growing E. P. Allis Company from Milwaukee to West Allis. During the first part of the 20^th Century other manufacturing concerns either moved to West Allis or started their enterprises in this industrial suburb. Many ethnic groups moved to West Allis to be near the newly developing industrial opportunities. The industrial

Cotton Belt Railroad Depot, Fordyce Arkansas

Cotton Belt Railroad Depot, Fordyce Arkansas

The St. Louis Southwestern Railroad, commonly known as the Cotton Belt, has been one of the longest-running railroads in Arkansas. In fact, it was the Texas and St. Louis Railway Company that in 1886 first brought a rail line through this city (the Rock Island Railroad, who built the Fordyce Depot, came through Fordyce considerably later), and eventually spurred the relocation of the county seat to Fordyce from its former location in Princeton, approximately twenty miles to the northwest. The prosperity brought to the city of Fordyce and the surrounding agricultural region by the Cotton Belt (and the Rock Island line) necessitated the replacement of the earlier wood frame depot with this brick depot by 1925. The Southern Pacific Railroad assumed

Sunset Hotel, Bella Vista Arkansas

Sunset Hotel, Bella Vista Arkansas

The Sunset Hotel in Bella Vista, was constructed in 1929 by the Linebarger brothers' who developed Bella Vista as a regional summer vacation and leisure resort in what had been an extremely rural and undeveloped part of Benton County. The resort community of Bella Vista, Arkansas was the brainchild of the Linebarger brothers of Dallas, Texas, who purchased the property around Sugar Creek in 1918 from the Reverend William S. Baker and his wife Mary, who had earlier attempted, without success, to establish a small resort community of their own on the site. The Linebarger brothers, Forest W., Clayton C. and Clarence A., though living in Texas in 1918, had all attended primary and secondary school in the Bentonville area during

Plant City Union Depot, Plant City Florida

Plant City Union Depot, Plant City Florida

Union Depot in Plant City is one of the early examples in Florida of the practice by separate railroads serving the same town to combine their resources in sharing railroad terminals. In addition, the station is a physical reminder to the Plant City Community that the railroad was responsible for the town's creation. On July 21^st, 1908, Morton Riddle, superintendent of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and W.L. Gidden, chief engineer of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, presented their plans to the community for a Union Depot for Plant City (Tribune, July 23^rd, 1908). The Tampa Tribune noted that the privilege of a Union Depot [was] a privilege that few towns in Florida possess. The two companies called for bids on

Rock Island Light Station, Fishers Landing New York

Rock Island Light Station, Fishers Landing New York

Between 1822 and 1848 light stations were erected by the federal government along the St. Lawrence River in northern New York at Oswegatchie (Ogdensburg, ca. 1822), Tibbit's Point (1827), Crossover Island (1838), Sunken Rock (1848), Rock Island (1847), and Blind Bay (ca. 1845). Of these six lights which comprised the St Lawrence String, only Rock Island retains both its tower and auxiliary structures, all of which possess substantial architectural integrity. Built in 1882, the Rock Island Lighthouse, classified as a sixth-order, fixed white light, replaced the combination lighthouse/keeper's house of 1847. The fieldstone smokehouse, now used to store flammable materials, is the only structure to have survived from the earlier period of occupation. These two buildings, along with the generator house

Glencoe School, Glencoe North Carolina

Glencoe School, Glencoe North Carolina

Glencoe School was erected in 1936 with Public Works Administration funds, and appears to be the only remaining rural brick school in the county. The school remained in use until 1963. In December of 1935, the Alamance County Board of Education called for bids to erect a new Glencoe School to replace the earlier Glencoe School built by the Holt family. The announcement indicated that the school should be a six-room building for white children approximately six miles north of Burlington at the site of the present Glencoe School. The building to be one-story high, brick foundation, brick veneer walls above floor joists and tin roof. Correspondence in August of 1935 between W. P. Credle and M. E. Yount, Superintendent of

Briarcliff - Asa Candler, Jr. House, Atlanta Georgia

Briarcliff - Asa Candler, Jr. House, Atlanta Georgia

Briarcliff, the Asa Griggs Candler, Jr., House, rests on a site that was opened for settlement in 1821, exactly a century before this house was underway. Asa G. Candler, Sr. (1851-1929), a native of Villa Rica, GA., rose to become the president of the Coca Cola Company in 1892, an endeavor, among others, in which he made millions of dollars. While he served in many other capacities, including briefly as Mayor of Atlanta, he was also heavily into real estate. In the late 1890s he and others were involved in the establishment of the Druid Hills neighborhood, a vast tract of land in Atlanta along Ponce de Leon Avenue, that came north along what is now the east side of Briarcliff

Cape Lookout Light Station, Core Banks North Carolina

Cape Lookout Light Station, Core Banks North Carolina

Constructed between 1857 and 1859, the present Cape Lookout Lighthouse became the prototype of all lighthouses erected on the Outer Banks. At night its beam has long warned seamen of the dangerous shoals on Core Banks, and by day its bold diagonal checker pattern is a distinctive landmark. Dominated by one of two North Carolina lighthouses built before the Civil War, Cape Lookout light Station is an important physical and historic feature of the Outer Banks. About midway between Cape Hatteras and Cape Fear on North Carolina's Outer Banks is Cape Lookout. From this point shoals extend seaward about ten miles, creating a great hazard to navigation. Congress authorized lighthouses for Cape Fear and Hatteras before 1797, but for some reason

Barrington Hall, Roswell Georgia

Barrington Hall, Roswell Georgia

Barrington Hall is a significant landmark in Roswell, and Roswell is one of north Georgia's most historic towns. The house and site command the highest point in the area and are integral parts of the original town plan. The town site was chosen in 1837 by Roswell King, father of Barrington for whom the house was built and named. The site of nearby Atlanta was also determined that same year, by the terminus of a railroad, but Atlanta has grown to such a mammoth metropolis that it, and similar growth patterns in Roswell, threaten to destroy the town's historic fabric in which Barrington is the woof and warp. Continuously occupied by King's descendants, its very fine Greek Revival temple-style outside and

Kreinbring Phillips 66 Gas Station, Lowden Iowa

Kreinbring Phillips 66 Gas Station, Lowden Iowa

The Kreinbring Phillips 66 Station in Lowden, Iowa, was built in 1934 and remained open until 1998. Main Street in Lowden is the former route of the first coast-to-coast roadway, the Lincoln Highway, later named Route 30 and colloquially known as the Main Street of America. Like other roadside service providers such as cafes, hotels, and cabin courts, the Kreinbring station was built by a local resident to capitalize on the traffic brought through the town by Route 30, which at the time of the station's construction in 1934 was one of the busiest east-west transcontinental routes in the United States. In addition to its link to the national highway, the little station was part of yet another growing nation-wide system:

Rear Lighthouse of Hilton Head Range Light Station - Leamington Lighthouse, South Carolina

Rear Lighthouse of Hilton Head Range Light Station - Leamington Lighthouse, South Carolina

The Rear Lighthouse of the Hilton Head Range Light Station was constructed by the United States Light House Board in 1879-1880 as part of a system of lights and beacons to guide shipping in Port Royal Sound. The lighthouse is one of the few surviving lighthouses in South Carolina, and is the only one of its type remaining in the state. The need for navigation lights at Hilton Head had been acknowledged in 1854 when money was appropriated by Congress for a lighthouse and beacon light. No work was done until 1863 when the federal occupying forces established an anchored light-hip and a system of range lights to guide shipping in Port Royal Sound. This system was inactive by 1869. Congress

Monticello - Thomas Jefferson Megibben House, Cynthiana Kentucky

Monticello - Thomas Jefferson Megibben House, Cynthiana Kentucky

Monticello was the creation of two men, Thomas Jefferson Megibben and Samuel Hannaford. The former, who named his mansion and estate for obvious reasons, both namesake and site provided an ideal patron for one of the most prominent Cincinnati architects of the day. Cynthiana is the county seat of Harrison County, on the northern fringe of the Bluegrass area of Central Kentucky. Located on the Licking River, which rises in Kentucky and joins the Ohio at Covington, and on the old road between Lexington and Cincinnati the town is oriented toward both directions. Megibben, an Ohioan by birth, moved to Cynthiana at the age of 18 and resided there the remainder of his life, while maintaining contacts with the Northern Kentucky

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