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Locust Creek Covered Bridge, Laclede Missouri

Locust Creek Covered Bridge, Laclede Missouri

The Locust Creek Covered Bridge is one of only four surviving covered bridges in Missouri. On May 19^th, 1868, the county court of Linn County ordered the construction of a covered bridge across Locust Creek on the road from Brookfield to Collyers Mill. The bridge was to be erected at (a) cost not exceeding $5,500. The Bridge Commissioner of Linn County (appointed by the county court) was in charge of advertising and listing requirements for bids on the bridge, supervising construction and keeping the bridge in good repair. The Locust Creek Covered Bridge was to have a span of 150', 50' of approach (25' on each end) and two substantial abutments which must last 10-15 years. (County Court Docket - Linn

Grace Episcopal Church, Plainfield New Jersey

Grace Episcopal Church, Plainfield New Jersey

At the village schoolhouse, the first gathering of Episcopalians in Plainfield took place on January 11^th, 1852. At that time, Plainfield was a small rural village that had yet to develop into the country retreat and commuter suburb it was to become. Already, though, four religious institutions had been established, the earliest being the Quakers in 1782, followed by the Presbyterians, the Methodists, and the Roman Catholics who, in 1851, established St. Mary's Church. Grace Church was founded under the guidance of Bishop George Washington Doane, who as Bishop of New Jersey from 1832 to 1859, was instrumental in promoting the Gothic Revival in New Jersey. Bishop Doane was a patron of the. Cambridge Camden Society of England, an organization that

Burfordville Covered Bridge, Burfordville Missouri

Burfordville Covered Bridge, Burfordville Missouri

The Burfordville Covered Bridge is one of only four surviving covered bridges in Missouri. The Burfordville Covered Bridge spans the Whitewater River adjacent to the Bollinger Mill. Most of the covered bridges constructed in Missouri were built under the auspices of the county court. Although the bridge has the date 1858 carved into one of the stone abutments, careful checking of the county court records from 1850 through 1900 has failed to uncover any mention of the bridge. The bridge was probably constructed by a private road company that operated a toll road between Jackson and Burfordville, Missouri. The contractor for the bridge followed the construction plans of William Howe of Massachusetts, who patented his bridge truss in 1840. Howe revised

Newington Railroad Depot, Newington New Hampshire

Newington Railroad Depot, Newington New Hampshire

The Newington Depot/Toll House in Newington, New Hampshire was built in 1873 as part of the construction of the Portsmouth and Dover Railroad. It is a relatively rare property type, combining the functions of railroad station, toll house and residence for the stationmaster/bridge tender/toll taker. Associated transportation-related structures including the bridge and railroad tracks are no longer extent. The crossing between Bloody Point and Dover Point was the location of one of the area's earliest ferry crossings, dating back to about 1640. During the winter of 1873-1874 the Dover and Portsmouth Railroad was completed on this site and included the construction of the Portsmouth and Dover Railroad Bridge, a dual-purpose toll bridge featuring two lanes, one for a rail line and

Dayville Hotel, Dayville Oregon

Dayville Hotel, Dayville Oregon

This Historic Hotel Burned Down in 1984 during Restoration

Established first as a military camp and then as a post office, Dayville is a rural, agricultural community in the Columbia plateau region of Central Oregon. Incorporated in 1914, its current population is 200. The vicinity of the south fork of the John Day River became accessible in 1859 when Captain Henry Wallen blazed a trail from Fort Dalles on the Columbia River southeasterly to Canyon Creek at present-day Canyon City. The ultimate objective of the military trail was Fort Boise on the Snake River, deep in the interior. Initially, the road was passable only by horse and pack animals. Discovery of gold in Canyon City in 1862, however, caused the opening of the road to wagon travel. The Dalles-Canyon City

Fallasburg Covered Bridge, Vergennes Michigan

Fallasburg Covered Bridge, Vergennes Michigan

In 1837 John W. and Silas S. Fallass founded a village on a bend of the Flat River. The village, Fallasburg, relied upon the proximity of hard and soft woods and waterpower for its livelihood. Unlike nearby Grand Rapids, the village was not able to capitalize on these resources, and its industrial development was only modest; a saw mill, several blacksmith shops, a chair factory with three employees, and a flour mill. The mills were owned by John Fallass, and Silas operated the general store. The first of several wooden bridges was placed across the river about 1840, but all succumbed in short time to high water and massive spring ice jams. In 1871 the township contracted bridge builder Jared N.

Bethel Baptist Church, Gresham Oregon

Bethel Baptist Church, Gresham Oregon

Bethel Baptist Church in Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, is a small, 30 x 50-foot wood-frame church in the Rural Gothic tradition which, having been constructed in 1886, predates the town's date of incorporation by nineteen years. The church underwent a succession of modifications over the years in response to changing fashion and the demand for expanded space. In its original location at the southeast corner of the intersection of Walters Road and SE Powell Boulevard, the church rested on a pier foundation, had a central, pointed-arched entrance and a simple, open belfry with pyramidal roof. A 12 x 30-foot baptistry was added to the rear in 1913. In 1926, the congregation sought to update the building stylistically by offsetting the entrance

Commodore Hotel, Portland Oregon

Commodore Hotel, Portland Oregon

The 1920s was an automobile decade in the city. As opposed to the national average of one in five households owning a car by the beginning of the Depression, one in four of Portland's households purchased automobiles during the same period. In a 1927 report, it was noted that Oregonians annually consumed more gallons of gasoline per vehicle than any other northern or western state and fully 30 percent of the city's land was related to automobile use by the end of the decade. The city is in haste was a literal and figurative statement when published in the Oregon Journal on November 16^th, 1926. It characterized both the continuing growth of the commercial core area and the city's attempts to

Ada Covered Bridge, Ada Township Michigan

Ada Covered Bridge, Ada Township Michigan

The Ada Covered Bridge is one of four extant publicly owned covered bridges in Michigan. Ada Township was authorized by the legislature in 1867 to borrow up to $3,000 for building or repairing bridges. This bridge was built about that time, probably by William Holmes. Holmes, a few years after that, became a resident of Ada and worked at carpentry and bridge contracting. During its period of use, the bridge served to connect the small settlement of Ada with the farmland to the east of the Thornapple River. Loss of the bridge was feared so much that during times of high water, wagons filled with rock were driven onto the span to hold it firmly to its supports. In 1930 a

Luther Hotel, Palacios Texas

Luther Hotel, Palacios Texas

The Luther Hotel, fronting onto Tres Palacios Bay in the town of Palacios, Matagorda County, is one of the few surviving tourist and residential hotels built along the Gulf Coast as part of extensive land development schemes throughout Texas in the early 20^th century. The Palacios Bay Townsite Company commissioned regional architect Jules C. Leffland to design its showcase resort hotel in 1903. Leffland designed the hotel as a long, clapboard Cape Cod-type resort hotel with a broad, full-facade veranda facing the town's East Bay. In 1905, only two years after its completion, the town's developers had the building cut into three sections and moved a half-mile to front the ocean on South Bay Boulevard. Since then, the three-story frame hotel

Ware-Hardwick Covered Bridge, Gilbertville Massachusetts

Ware-Hardwick Covered Bridge, Gilbertville Massachusetts

The Ware-Hardwick bridge at Gilbertville has unusual significance as one of only four 19th-century wooden bridges, roofed to protect their structural members from rain and snow, still standing in their original locations in Massachusetts. The present rarity of such bridges in Massachusetts is in contrast to their former importance in the Commonwealth as elsewhere in 19th-century New England. Timothy Palmer and William Howe, inventors of two of the early trussing systems, were natives of Massachusetts. Ithiel Town, who, in 1820, patented the Town Lattice Mode on which the Gilbertville bridge is based, designed the impressive covered toll bridge which for 102 years spanned the Connecticut River at Springfield. In his book Covered Bridges of the Northeast, Richard Sanders Allen states that

Hampstead School, Hampstead Maryland

Hampstead School, Hampstead Maryland

The Hampstead School, constructed in 1919 and 1939, is a good example of centralized schools that Maryland's early 20^th century school consolidation created. Until 1956, it housed students from first grade through high school. Designed and constructed by local builder N. Claud Erb, the school illustrates the importance of public education in the first half of the 20^th Century. In 1951 Black and Decker opened its nearby plant, resulting in population growth that quickly overwhelmed the school's capacity. In 1916, Maurice H. Unger became superintendent of schools for Carroll County. His plan, known as Rural Reorganization, was to consolidate the public schools. Over the next 12 years, 24 one-room schoolhouses closed and 7 new consolidated schools, including the Hampstead School, opened.

St. Martinville Elementary School, Saint Martinville Louisiana

St. Martinville Elementary School, Saint Martinville Louisiana

The St. Martinville Elementary School and three other modern brick schools were constructed in 1922, a year referred to as the inception of a new era in education in St. Martin Parish. Of these four, only two remain, the Elementary School and a small one-story brick building. These two schools are the only surviving historic school buildings in the parish. The development of public education in Louisiana is largely a phenomenon of the early twentieth century. At least it is during this period that remarkable progress was made. For much of the state's history, private education was the order of the day. In the more heavily populated southern part of the state, education was dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. Even

Arthur A. Smith Covered Bridge, Colrain Massachusetts

Arthur A. Smith Covered Bridge, Colrain Massachusetts

The Arthur A. Smith Covered Bridge is one of four extant covered bridges in the State, it is unique in employing Burr truss construction. It was moved from its original location in 1896. The town of Colrain was initially settled in 1732 by members of the Smith family, possibly ancestors of Arthur A. Smith, and incorporated in 1761. The predominantly hilly terrain in the town proved suitable for grazing and dairy farming; the North River, which flows almost directly south through Colrain from the Vermont border to Shelburne, Massachusetts, provided abundant waterpower for sawmills, gristmills, fulling mills and, in the 19^th century, large textile mills. One such cotton manufacturing firm was established in 1832 at Shattuckville, the site of the first

St. Matthew High School, Melrose Louisiana

St. Matthew High School, Melrose Louisiana

St. Matthew High School was the first public high school building constructed for African-Americans in lower Natchitoches Parish. Its opening in 1952 was a coming of age in public secondary education for blacks living in the Cane River plantation country, both in real and psychological terms. At that time it was one of only two public senior high schools for African-Americans in the parish. (The other was Central High School, some twenty-five miles away in the parish seat of Natchitoches.) In the post-Reconstruction years, with Democrats back in control of the state, the rallying cry of the conservative political establishment was retrenchment. And with rigid segregation, the miserly appropriation had to fund a dual educational system. The end result was shameful

Old Covered Bridge - Upper Sheffield Covered Bridge, Sheffield Massachusetts

Old Covered Bridge - Upper Sheffield Covered Bridge, Sheffield Massachusetts

The Old Covered Bridge of Sheffield is the oldest extant covered bridge in Massachusetts and is one of the earliest examples of a Town Lattice Truss bridge. Ithiel Town, a New Haven architect, received his first patent for his lattice truss bridge design in 1820. The principal feature of the design was its ability to span great distances with its relatively simple engineering. In 1835 he modified his design with the addition of secondary chords for greater stability. This bridge was built between April 13^th, 1837 when Sheffield Selectmen advertised for its construction, and April 2^nd, 1938 when the bridge was accepted at a town meeting. The bridge has been closed to vehicular traffic since 1970. Bridge Description The Old Covered

Sunset High School, Sunset Louisiana

Sunset High School, Sunset Louisiana

Like the citizens of many rural Louisiana communities, the residents of Sunset and the surrounding area were slow in making free public education available to children. In the years following the Civil War, the prevailing attitude was that education should be the responsibility of the family or church rather than of state or local government. As a result, there was very little money for public education and no real governmental support. Although a Catholic school of high quality, Sacred Heart Academy, existed in nearby Grand Coteau, the average citizen could not afford to send his or her daughters there, and the institution provided no facilities for boys. Thus, poor-quality one-room schools, often built by local citizens, furnished the only schooling available

Palo Alto Plantation, Donaldsonville Louisiana

Palo Alto Plantation, Donaldsonville Louisiana

This was once a 3300 Acre Sugar Plantation

Palo Alto House is a characteristic example of the type of large cottage or substantial but relatively small plantation residence prevalent throughout the lower south, and particularly in Louisiana in the decade preceding the Civil War. It is among very few surviving examples that are represented in topographical views of rural buildings by a local artist of that period, Adrien Persac. The house has remained in continuous occupancy and in good repair, with few modifications. No record of the builder or the exact date of construction has been found. A reasonable approximation, shortly before or after 1850, would be suggested by a combination of the building style, family and courthouse records, the Persac painting, all slightly supported by a hint in

Burkeville Covered Bridge, Conway Massachusetts

Burkeville Covered Bridge, Conway Massachusetts

The Burkeville Covered Bridge is one of only five historic-period covered bridges in Massachusetts and one of only a handful in the nation identified with the multiple kingrod variety. It is also the oldest known combination of timber and iron truss in Massachusetts. Conway is a hilltown on the western edge of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts. Rising steeply from the lowlands of the Deerfield River Valley on the east, the town is dominated by the mesomorphic shists which form the bedrock of the town and appear in numerous rock outcrops. The resistance of these rocks, formed in the continental collision 400 million years ago, has provided the town with the natural water power that drove the local economy in the

Cape Neddick Light Station - The Nubble Light, York Maine

Cape Neddick Light Station - The Nubble Light, York Maine

Cape Neddick Light Station, located on a high promontory reaching out into the Atlantic between Portsmouth and Portland is an important navigational mark guiding sailors away from the jagged rocks at its base. One of the few stations that has never been rebuilt, it has become a mecca for artists and tourists because of its picturesque location and accessibility from the mainland. The lighthouse and island were featured in the movie Lost Boundaries (1949). The lighthouse wasn't automated until 1987. Cape Neddick Light Station, locally known as The Nubble, is situated on a high piece of land, largely bare rock, off York Beach and is connected by a bar with the mainland at a very low drain of tide. There are

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