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Oakland Cemetery, Shreveport Louisiana

Oakland Cemetery, Shreveport Louisiana

Oakland Cemetery is the oldest cemetery within the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, having been created by an ordinance adopted by the Mayor and Trustees of the Town of Shreveport, on July 20^th, 1849. This made the cemetery the official Town cemetery even though there had been burials there since 1840 shortly after the town was founded in 1839. Here are buried many of the original settlers and figures prominent in the early history of Shreveport, including sixteen former mayors. Others include: Milton C. Elstner, first U. S. Attorney for this district; W. H. Sparke, a member of the legislature, who suggested that the parish be named for the Caddo Indians when the parish was created from part of Natchitoches Parish on

West End Elementary School, Carey Ohio

West End Elementary School, Carey Ohio

Designed by the Lorain architectural firm of H.O. Wusmer - W.L. Kramer Associates, the building's massing with central hall plan and larger corner rooms makes it a good example of early 20th-century school design. Eclectic in its stylistic influences, the building displays distinctive architectural features including a raised basement of rough-faced stone, double doors with fanlight recessed within a massive arched entranceway, corbelled brick frontispiece, and a stepped gable dormer. The architectural firm was well-known, designing many commercial and public buildings in Lorain and the northern Ohio region in the early 20^th century. Distinct characteristics of their work is the use of decorative corbelling, brickwork, and stone trim. The building was constructed by the local construction company of W.H. Snyder. The

Sparta Electric Building, Sparta Tennessee

Sparta Electric Building, Sparta Tennessee

The Tennessee Railway, Light, and Power Company was formed in 1912 by banking houses in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York. The company was chartered in Maine with $50,000,000 preferred stock and $20,000,000 common stock. The power-generating plants were operated by the subsidiary, Tennessee Electric Power Company (TEPCO), financed by $50,000,000 in fifty-year, five percent mortgage bonds. This reorganization gave TEPCO the hydroelectric property of the Eastern Tennessee Power Company and the assets of the Great Falls Power Company, consisting largely of a power site at Rock Island. Consolidation proceeded with acquisition by TEPCO of other small plants serving various towns. According to the study by historian William A. Doran, in July 1912 TEPCO purchased the Sparta hydroelectric plant of the Anderson-Tubb

Main High School, Rome Georgia

Main High School, Rome Georgia

Rome City Schools was established in 1883. That year, the city began construction of the first school in the new school system. The school was dedicated for white students only. The city's African-American students were taught in rented office space for ten years before the Rome City Schools Board of Trustees approved funds for the construction of the Main Colored School for Rome's African-American students. The two-story Italianate-style building was named Main Colored School because it was the principal school for Rome's black students. The school taught grades one through eight from 1894 until 1925. By 1930, the curriculum was extended to eleven years of schooling. The twelfth grade was not added until the 1952-1953 academic year. By 1932, the school

Pine Lawn Memorial Gardens - Aiken Colored Cemetery, Aiken South Carolina

Pine Lawn Memorial Gardens - Aiken Colored Cemetery, Aiken South Carolina

Aiken Colored Cemetery, established in 1852, is the principal burial ground for African-Americans in the City of Aiken. It holds the graves of slaves, freedmen, prominent leaders of the Reconstruction era in Aiken County; merchants, bankers, lawyers, doctors, ministers, and educators in Aiken and Aiken County from 1852 to the mid-twentieth century. It is an intact example of a vernacular cemetery, still in use today, illustrating common black burial customs over a period of more than one hundred and fifty years. The cemetery, now Pine Lawn Memorial Gardens, was the only public burial ground for African-Americans in the City of Aiken from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. Purchased by the City of Aiken from James Purvis in 1852, this

Seaside Plantation, Beaufort South Carolina

Seaside Plantation, Beaufort South Carolina

Seaside plantation house is located on St. Helena's Island, near Beaufort, South Carolina, and is believed to have been built by members of the Fripp family circa 1795 to 1810. Secondary sources indicate that Captain John Fripp purchased land on St. Helena's Island as early as 1724. Members of his family made gradual additions to these holdings, and by 1860, the Fripp family properties consisted of twelve thousand acres on St. Helena's and the neighboring islands, distributed among twenty plantations. Sea-island cotton was the main crop on all of these plantations; and a new, improved, and highly regarded strain of seed was named for the Fripps. Representative of these agricultural interests, Seaside plantation produced 22,000 pounds of cotton in 1850 and

Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans Louisiana

Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans Louisiana

Located upriver some 2½ miles above the Vieux Carre, or original city of New Orleans, Lafayette City once boasted the fastest-growing economy on the river, being the terminus of the Texas cattle trail, and the center of the grain traffic in the Deep South of the Mississippi Valley. Once known as the de Livaudais plantation, its sugar fields were divided into streets and lots when the city was incorporated in 1833, and the square bounded by Washington Ave., Prytania, Coliseum and Sixth Streets was reserved for a cemetery. It was named Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, and immediately began to receive burials according to ordinances and resolutions of the City of Lafayette Board of Council, August 3, 1833. However, according to Edward

Sparta Hydroelectric Station, Sparta Tennessee

Sparta Hydroelectric Station, Sparta Tennessee

The Sparta Hydroelectric Station operated for thirty-two years, supplying the lion's share of Sparta's domestic and fledgling industrial needs. The site's original 1909 appearance has been altered by neglect since its abandonment in 1941, yet it retains integrity of design with its unique concrete flume arrangement. The Sparta Hydroelectric Station was preceded by an earlier twentieth-century effort. In 1902, four Sparta businessmen, J. T. Anderson, J. R. Tubb, O. H. Anderson, and S. B. Anderson formed the aptly named Anderson and Tubb Power Company. Located at the site of an old grist mill, a mile upstream from the Sparta Hydroelectric Station, it was a peculiarly vernacular affair, at first consisting of a direct current (single phase), sixty-kilowatt generator from the Fayetteville

Ocoee Hydroelectric Plant Number Two, Ocoee Tennessee

Ocoee Hydroelectric Plant Number Two, Ocoee Tennessee

TVA Hydro Power Plant was Built in 1913 and Still Operates Today

The Ocoee River offers exceptional opportunities for water power development. Flowing in the Unicoi Mountains from an elevation of 2,024 feet above sea level, its watershed has an average annual rainfall of 55 inches, exceeding that of any part of the United States with the exception of the coastal and mountainous areas of Oregon and Washington. Two miles below Ducktown, the river enters a narrow gorge which it follows for ten miles, then through a wide valley to a narrow gateway between the abrupt slopes of Sugar Loaf and Bean Mountain falling a total of 710 feet in the 26 miles between Ducktown and Parksville. In 1910, J. W. Adams of Chattanooga deeded riparian rights on the Ocoee River to C.

Pioneer Cemetery - Evans Center Cemetery, Evans New York

Pioneer Cemetery - Evans Center Cemetery, Evans New York

The Pioneer Cemetery is associated with the settlement, development and history of the Town of Evans and the hamlet of Evans Center, one of the earliest settlement-era communities in the town. Many of the town's prominent early settlers are buried in this cemetery, and the site provides information about their lives, marriages, deaths and interrelationships. The cemetery follows the common early settlement burial ground pattern of a small parcel with burials in rows running north to south with the interments oriented east to west. Several markers display period iconography and a handful of family obelisk-style monuments are scattered throughout the site. In addition to the burials of many early settlement-era families, the cemetery includes at least three veterans of the American

New Canal Lighthouse, New Orleans Louisiana

New Canal Lighthouse, New Orleans Louisiana

A canal was begun in the early 1836's, supposedly to connect the Mississippi River or at least downtown New Orleans with Lake Pontchartrain, and was to be called New Canal. The entrance to New Canal was marked by a lighthouse in 1838. The lake terminus of the canal became a small harbor and in 1834, $25,008 was authorized for building the lighthouse, the same amount authorized for Port Pontchartrain, but a Portion was to be used for additional beacons and buoys. Whether this Structure was brick, as were others in the area built in the Same Period, or a light on the keeper's quarters is unknown. The light was listed as unrepairable in 1854, as was the Bayou St. John Light,

Ocoee No. 1 Hydroelectric Station - Parksville Dam, Parksville Tennessee

Ocoee No. 1 Hydroelectric Station - Parksville Dam, Parksville Tennessee

The Ocoee No. 1 hydroelectric station is an early large-scale, professionally-designed steel-reinforced concrete hydroelectric engineering project typical of electrical power development in the state of Tennessee throughout the early years of the twentieth century. Its curvilinear spillway section, while not unique, is shared by only one other site in the state, at Calderwood, in Blount County. It's design shares consistency in construction materials, genre, temporal limits, and utilitarian functions with other larger, pre-TVA hydroelectric sites on Tennessee's larger rivers, and with its younger sister Ocoee No. 2. Hydroelectricity has been continually produced there since 1912, serving a wide variety of industrial and domestic electric needs in two states. The Ocoee No. 1 hydroelectric station represents the transition from private, possession of

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Depot, Jefferson Iowa

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Depot, Jefferson Iowa

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Depot is one of the standard-plan wooden depots the company was still erecting during the early twentieth century. Because Jefferson was the county seat, the depot warranted more decorative treatment than the Milwaukee normally accorded its stations, in this case, pent gables over the trackside and back bays, an open pavilion on one end, and some decorative window treatment. The Milwaukee line was one of three lines serving Jefferson by the late nineteenth century, the other two being the Chicago & North Western and the Rock Island. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad through Jefferson began as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad. As such, it was part of the 500 or so

Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge Louisiana

Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge Louisiana

Magnolia Cemetery is the site of the Battle of Baton Rouge, August 5^th, 1862. This battle had an impact upon the course of the war in Louisiana and the Confederacy as a whole. A Federal army of 2,500 men under Brigadier General Thomas Williams occupied Baton Rouge in August 1862. An army of Confederates under Major General John C. Breckinridge, former Vice-President of the United States, moved from Vicksburg, Mississippi to attack the Federals. By the time the Confederate force reached Baton Rouge, disease and heatstroke had reduced it to 2,600 men. The Confederates had two goals in their attack. Capture of Baton Rouge would give them control of a point on the Mississippi River below the Red River and open

Woodland Plantation, West Pointe A La Hache Louisiana

Woodland Plantation, West Pointe A La Hache Louisiana

Woodland Plantation was apparently originally settled in the mid-1830s by William Johnson, a river pilot who also constructed the now-demolished Magnolia Plantation (also in Plaquemines Parish). Woodland operated as a sugar and rice plantation and featured two-story brick slave quarters, unusual for Louisiana and documented in this area of the state only at Ormond Planation in St. Charles Parish (the Woodland quarters were destroyed by Hurricane Betsy in 1965). Woodland was managed by Johnson's son George until 1856, when Bradish Johnson (another son) took over. It was under Bradish Johnson's control that the plantation flourished, although he lived at the plantation only part of the time, spending the remainder of his time in New York. When the Civil War began, Johnson

Lillard's Mill Hydroelectric Station, Milltown Tennessee

Lillard's Mill Hydroelectric Station, Milltown Tennessee

The Lillard's Mill Hydroelectric Station is the kind of smaller-scale, private-sector venture capitalist hydroelectric engineering projects typical of the time of its construction on the smaller rivers in Tennessee. The Lillard's Mill Hydroelectric Station is an example of a change in the business of trading goods, services, and commodities, and the gradual introduction of electrical power into everyday life. Aside from being the major source of electricity for Lewisburg, ten miles to the South, it also provided electricity to Milltown, the designation for a local cotton mill town, long since razed. Because the site is located in a rural setting, it no doubt provided rural electrification service long before the initiation of the TVA's program in the 1940s. Constructed in 1927-1928

Bryant Hill Cemetery, Ellicottville New York

Bryant Hill Cemetery, Ellicottville New York

Bryant Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of the first New England settlers in the Town of Ellicottville. The cemetery is the last vestige of a community established as a result of land speculation and westward settlement in the period following the American Revolution. The Bryant Hill Cemetery is located in the Town of Ellicottville that was originally part of the Holland Land Purchase, 1.3 million acres of land surveyed by land agent Joseph Ellicott in 1798. In 1817, Freeman and Nathaniel Bryant migrated to the region from Chesterfield, Massachusetts and acquired land in what was originally the Town of Franklinville. The Town of Ellicottville was formally incorporated as a separate town in 1820 with the village of Ellicottville serving

Otway Covered Bridge, Otway Ohio

Otway Covered Bridge, Otway Ohio

The Otway Bridge is in a very scenic, hilly area of western Scioto County close to state parks, forests, and lakes. Prior to the construction of the Otway Bridge, a ford was used to cross Scioto Brush Creek. Then, in 1874, the County Commissioners accepted the bid of the Smith Bridge Company of Toledo, Ohio, for the superstructure of the bridge. Nicholas Schakert, a county commissioner, supervised the construction. The masonry work was done by W. H. Wheeler for $2.89 per perch. The nearby Freeman and Thompson Sawmill furnished the lumber for $14.30 per linear foot and local labor was used at $1.10 per day per man. The Smith truss used in this bridge was patented by Robert W. Smith of

Kimberling Lutheran Cemetery and Church, Rural Retreat Virginia

Kimberling Lutheran Cemetery and Church, Rural Retreat Virginia

Situated on a steep hillside looking out over the rolling countryside of western Wythe County, is Kimberling Lutheran Cemetery, one of the oldest graveyards in the county. It contains an outstanding collection of traditional German gravestones of the period 1800-1850. It is one of a small number of such collections in Southwest Virginia. Its stones, with their combination of traditional and contemporary (19th-century) decorative devices, seen in their unspoiled pastoral setting present a striking image of German life and culture in rural Wythe County in the last century. A few Germans settled in Wythe County in the middle of the 18^th century, but it was not until after the Revolution that German settlement there was firmly established. The church at Kimberling

Lawrenceburg No. 2 Hydroelectric Station, Lawrenceburg Tennessee

Lawrenceburg No. 2 Hydroelectric Station, Lawrenceburg Tennessee

This Hydro Power Plant Operated from 1924 Until the 1940s when it was Abandoned

The Lawrenceburg No. 2 Hydroelectric Station is a local hydroelectric engineering project typical of the kind being constructed on Tennessee's smaller rivers in the early twentieth century. Its engineering, by the Nashville firm of Freeland, Roberts and Co., is remarkable in that it is conceptually unique and also one of four extant hydroelectric sites designed by the firm for use on the smaller rivers of Middle Tennessee, namely the three sites on the Duck River in the 1920s, Lillard's Mill, Columbia, and the Shelbyville stations. The site was a municipally-built, owned, and operated facility, and was important in the political and industrial development of this locality of the state's history. That is, it is closely associated with the so-called Progressive Era

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Abandoned America: Dismantling The Dream

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Lost Places: Images of Bygone America

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Abandoned Train Stations (Abandoned Places)

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Abandoned Places: A Photographic Exploration of More Than 100 Worlds We Have Left Behind

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