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Lawrenceburg No. 1 Hydroelectric Station, Lawrenceburg Tennessee

Lawrenceburg No. 1 Hydroelectric Station, Lawrenceburg Tennessee

This Small Hydro Power Plant Closed in 1939 and the Equipment was Removed

The Lawrenceburg No. 1 site is a local hydroelectric engineering project typical of the kind being constructed on Tennessee's smaller rivers in the early twentieth century. It was, in fact, the second such facility built in the state. Its engineering is remarkable in that it is conceptually similar in design to the first hydroelectric station in Tennessee, the now inundated Loop Plant near Winchester (1901), the massive Rock Island site (1917) in White County, and at the colossal Calderwood site (1930) in Blount County, all of which utilize a tunnel arrangement to direct water through a river bend to a powerhouse. It was a municipally built, owned, and operated facility in a time when municipalities, reacting to a widely held distrust

Potosi Brewery, Potosi Wisconsin

Potosi Brewery, Potosi Wisconsin

The Potosi Brewery was part of the once prevalent occurrence of breweries as local industries in Wisconsin. The Potosi Brewery's market, which centered in the village of Potosi, provided sufficient business to keep it operating for over a century. The Brewery acted as an important economic force in the community. Wise management by the Brewery owners, as well as a good location, enabled Potosi beer to be sold over much of Wisconsin and portions of Iowa and Illinois. Potosi's reputation, as a result, was much more extensive than most breweries of a comparable size. The Potosi Brewery was originally known as the Gabriel Hatt Brewery, that being the name of the man who built the original structure. Halt's operation, however, lasted

West Hill Cemetery, Sherburne New York

West Hill Cemetery, Sherburne New York

The West Hill Cemetery was established as early as 1803 in conjunction with the Second Calvinistick Society of Sherburne, which apparently also had a meeting house on or near the site. The church disbanded by 1820 and the meeting house was gone by the middle of the nineteenth century, but the burial ground became of the largest in the town, used by residents of Sherburne and the adjacent town of Smyrna to the west. The cemetery contains the graves of a number of the town's earliest land owners and settlers, veterans of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and numerous other nineteenth and twentieth-century citizens. There are distinctive stones from all periods, particularly a number of finely carved examples from the first

Great Falls Hydroelectric Station, Rock Island Tennessee

Great Falls Hydroelectric Station, Rock Island Tennessee

TVA Hydro Power Plant and Dam Built in 1917

The Great Falls Hydroelectric Station is an early large-scale, professionally-designed steel-reinforced concrete hydroelectric engineering project typical throughout the early days of electrical power development in the State of Tennessee. While its scale is Promethean by comparison, its design, especially when considering its water intake system, shares consistency in construction materials, genre, temporal limits, and utilitarian functions with other smaller pre-TVA hydroelectric sites on Tennessee's smaller rivers, such as the Shoals Creek No. 1 site in Lawrenceburg. Hydroelectricity has been continually produced at Great Falls since 1917, serving a wide variety of industrial and domestic electric needs of the area. After reconnaissance surveys on the Caney Fork River had been completed in 1898, the Great Falls Power Company was established in March

Harms Mill Hydroelectric Station, Fayetteville Tennessee

Harms Mill Hydroelectric Station, Fayetteville Tennessee

This Hydro Power Plant operated from 1922 to 1940 when the TVA Retired it from Service

The Harms Mill Hydroelectric Station is the kind of hydroelectric engineering project typical at the time of its construction on the smaller rivers of the State of Tennessee. Its design is unique among its genre in the Volunteer State, especially in the presence of the rectangular design reminiscent of the textile factory that preceded it, as well as its horizontal emphasis and use of four turbines to drive one generator. It operated from 1922 to 1940 when the TVA retired it from service. Harms Mill Hydroelectric Station is located on the Elk River, in rural south-central Tennessee in Lincoln County (population 26,483), about five miles southwest of the county seat, Fayetteville, at Elk River Mile 77.1. The site, approximately 500 feet

Central High School, Dubuque Iowa

Central High School, Dubuque Iowa

Central High was the first permanent high school in Iowa. This unsubstantiated claim is unlikely since an 1858 law required school districts to establish high schools. Even allowing for tardy compliance or building new high school buildings a permanent high school building would surely have been built before 1893-94. For example, there was a school built in West Des Moines in 1868 for $45,000, possibly West High. Dubuque probably built the first real public schoolhouse, but in 1833. Central High was the city's first permanent high school building. The school was closed in 1923 and was used as administrative offices by the school district. It was demolished in 1985. Located a block from one of the city's 200-foot bluffs, the school's

Dubuque Brewing and Malting Company, Dubuque Iowa

Dubuque Brewing and Malting Company, Dubuque Iowa

The Dubuque Brewing and Malting buildings represent a once-major industry in Dubuque, the years of its operation (1895-1916) seeing no fewer than nine such breweries at work at the same time. The Dubuque Brewing and Malting Company was incorporated on April 14^th 1892, with a capital of $150,000, later increased to $250,000. The new company was a merger of four other Dubuque breweries; the Heeb, Iowa, Western, and Northern; and contributed to the city's reputation as the major brewing center of the upper Mississippi Valley. Louis Lehle, a Chicago architect and brewery designer, drew the plans, and Fridolin Herr, Sr., a prominent Dubuque architect, engineer, and sculptor, was engaged to superintend all phases of the brewery's construction. The entire complex was

Columbia Hydroelectric Station, Columbia Tennessee

Columbia Hydroelectric Station, Columbia Tennessee

The Columbia Hydroelectric Station is the kind of smaller-scale, private-sector venture in capitalist hydroelectric engineering projects typical of the time of its construction on the smaller rivers in Tennessee. The Columbia Hydroelectric Station also represents a change in commerce, the business of trading goods, services, and commodities, and the gradual introduction of electrical power into everyday life. It provided stimulation to extend the city limits, plan for future electric needs, erect electric street lights, traffic lights, and power industry such as the phosphate extraction and refinement business in Maury County. The Columbia Hydroelectric Station was constructed in 1925. Comparable with two other extant sites, all designed and built in the 1920s by the same two Nashville industrial engineering and construction firms,

Oak Hill Cemetery, Newnan Georgia

Oak Hill Cemetery, Newnan Georgia

Oak Hill Cemetery is located just north of downtown Newnan. The cemetery began in 1828 as a private burial ground. The cemetery formally opened to the public in 1833 when the city acquired the cemetery This was five years after Newnan was founded and six years after Coweta County was formed. Most cities in the mid-19^th Century had a cemetery located just outside of town. As Newnan grew, the city began acquiring adjacent property to the north to expand the cemetery in 1840. In 1940 the city added the stone entry columns and began implementing a landscaping plan. Additional adjacent property was acquired in 1950, 1977, and 2000. Burials date from 1840 through the present day and the cemetery contains over

McMinnville Hydroelectric Station, McMinnville Tennessee

McMinnville Hydroelectric Station, McMinnville Tennessee

Abandoned Hydro Power Plant in TN

The McMinnville Hydroelectric Station is the kind of small-scale, vernacularly designed steel-reinforced concrete hydroelectric engineering projects typical throughout the initial days of electrical power development in the state of Tennessee. Its design - especially when considering its water intake system - shares consistency in construction materials, genre, temporal limits, and utilitarian functions with other Pre-TVA Hydroelectric sites on Tennessee's smaller rivers. Hydroelectricity was produced there, with intermittent interruptions from 1907 to 1949, supplying McMinnville's early industrial and domestic electric needs. Today the dam, intake structure, forebay, powerhouse, tailrace, and supporting walls downstream from the powerhouse are still extant. The station has been abandoned since 1949. The McMinnville Pre-TVA Hydroelectric Station is located on the Barren Fork River at river mile 6.3

Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore Maryland

Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore Maryland

68 Acre Grave Yard in Baltimore was Established in 1839

The cemetery was dedicated on July 13^th, 1839. It was formerly the summer estate of Robert Oliver, a local merchant. Within a decade of its dedication, the gates and wallS are erected. Robert Cary Long, Jr. designed the gates and is considered the architect of the cemetery, the first garden cemetery in Baltimore. The magnificent Chapel designed by Riggin Buckler and G. Corner Fenhagen was built in 1929. The beautiful trees, cobblestone walks, and sloping landscape are a welcome relief from the surrounding heavily urbanized East Baltimore neighborhood. Among the best examples of outstanding memorials at Green Mount are Hans Schuler's Meditation, the Baetjer Memorial, the Hilken Memorial, the Riggs Memorial, and W. H. Rinehart's Sleeping Endymion and Strewing Flowers, the

Burgess Falls Hydroelectric Station, Cookeville Tennessee

Burgess Falls Hydroelectric Station, Cookeville Tennessee

Hydro Power site in Tennessee was Closed and Abandoned in 1944

The Burgess Falls Hydroelectric Station is the kind of local hydroelectric engineering projects typical of those that were constructed on Tennessee's smaller rivers in the early twentieth century. The engineering is conceptually similar in design to the first hydroelectric station in Tennessee, the now-inundated Loop Plant near Winchester (1901), the massive Great Falls site (1917) in White County, and at the colossal Calderwood site (1930) in Blount County, all of which utilize tunnels augured through solid rock to direct water through a river bend to a powerhouse. The site was a municipally built, owned, and operated facility. It is closely associated with the so-called Progressive Era in Tennessee's and America's early twentieth-century history. It was a time when citizens, reacting to

Vienna High and Industrial School, Vienna Georgia

Vienna High and Industrial School, Vienna Georgia

The Vienna High and Industrial School was the only school available to African-American students from 1959, when it was built, to 1970, when Dooly County Board of Education desegregated its public schools. In the 1950s and 1960s, Southern states embraced a strategy of massive resistance to racial integration in schools and other public places. The state of Georgia constructed modern schools for African-American children in an attempt to appease black communities and to demonstrate that it could operate racially separate and equal public school systems. These new schools for African-American children were built in urban and rural African-American communities throughout the state from 1952 to 1962. The state built nearly 500 new elementary and high schools, including at least one new

Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

In the mid 19^th century a desire to move beyond the confines of urban congestion was prevalent. This romantic idea found its most successful early exponents in the rural cemeteries which were forced by a lack of commodious burial space to remove themselves from the cities. City parks and suburban developments followed, leaving the park-like cemetery within an urban context as a phenomenon of 19th-century landscape architecture. Yet the desire to make one's burial site a place for the survivors to contemplate and appreciate lasting beauty, despite the fleetingness of time, has persisted and is still embodied in Pittsburgh's Allegheny Cemetery. The Allegheny Cemetery was the first park-like cemetery in the City of Pittsburgh; the fourth incorporated public cemetery in the

Lockington Covered Bridge, Lockington Ohio

Lockington Covered Bridge, Lockington Ohio

The Lockington Covered Bridge is located one mile east of the small community of Lockington from which it takes its name. Lockington, formerly known as Lockport, came into being with the building of the Miami and Erie Canal. There are 6 hand-dressed stone locks here which enabled the canal to float the boats up the 67' rise of Loramie Summit which is the highest point in the canal between Cincinnati and Toledo. The Lockington Covered Bridge is the last such structure in Shelby County and one of only eight Long trusses left in Ohio. At a length of 178', it is also one of the longest covered bridges in Ohio. According to the county engineer, this bridge was built in 1848,

Mill Creek Plantation, Thomasville Georgia

Mill Creek Plantation, Thomasville Georgia

In 1937, Colonel and Mrs. Slater purchased three adjoining tracts of land to create a plantation of approximately 840 acres. The land was brought together from varying sources to compose the plantation property. The property is entered from U.S. 19, also called the (Old) Monticello Road. It was (and remains) common for wealthy winter visitors to the Thomasville area to piece together acreage in the Red Hills region to create new or larger plantations. The formation of the large plantations between Thomasville and Tallahassee began soon after the Civil War and has continued for a hundred years. The plantations often changed size and shape as owners purchased or sold tracts, trading among themselves or passing the entire plantation from one generation

Jackson Street Cemetery, Athens Georgia

Jackson Street Cemetery, Athens Georgia

The Jackson Street Cemetery is sited on 2.5 acres of land within the original 633-acre tract deeded to the University of Georgia by John Milledge in 1803. The property was unofficially donated to the city of Athens by the University's Board of Trustees c.1810 for use as a public cemetery. The cemetery was used by white residents of Athens and includes graves of farmers, prominent citizens, university students and faculty, and soldiers from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. The cemetery was heavily used through the 1840s when it became crowded, and by 1848 the city announced that no new burials were allowed in the cemetery. Although burials continued into the 1890s, Jackson Street Cemetery's time as the official city cemetery ended

Catalpa Plantation House, St. Francisville Louisiana

Catalpa Plantation House, St. Francisville Louisiana

Catalpa Plantation House is one of numerous late Victorian cottages found across the state, although it is larger than most. What makes it important, however, among period residences are its false marbled mantels. During the late-nineteenth century manufactured cast-iron and slate mantels were sometimes given a marble treatment. This work was done by hand, but at the factory rather than on-site as it might have been done in earlier times. No survey exists as to how many examples remain in Louisiana or how many there were at one time. However, one assumes that there must have been a fair number of them in better-class houses across the state. But there are probably less than ten surviving period buildings in Louisiana with

St. Maurice Plantation, St. Maurice Louisiana

St. Maurice Plantation, St. Maurice Louisiana

Most of the antebellum plantation houses in the Natchitoches area strongly tended toward the conservative French colonial tradition. Greek Revival architecture made its appearance but only in terms of details (i.e. doorways,. mantels, and occasionally pillars). By contrast, St. Maurice is a crude but classical-style house featuring a pillared gallery and a 5-bay central hall plan with double rooms on each side. St. Maurice is probably the only extant Natchitoches area antebellum plantation house which features this type of planning. As a result, given its mantels, front door, and other details, together with its plan and gallery, St. Maurice can be seen as a high-water mark of Greek Revival plantation architecture in the area. It is not known exactly when the

Ivy Hill Cemetery, Smithfield Virginia

Ivy Hill Cemetery, Smithfield Virginia

Ivy Hill Cemetery was created in 1886 as a private cemetery to serve the residents of Smithfield and Isle of Wight County. The land was originally part of the T.B. Wright farm until it was laid out as a cemetery along the slopes of a small peninsula of land overlooking the Pagan River. It has been, and continues to be, the burial ground for many of the area's prominent citizens. The rural cemetery movement, originally influenced by European trends in gardening and landscape design, had an impact on American cemetery design. Cemeteries were planned farther from urban areas and were characterized by the natural design of the land. With wooded sites, rolling hills, serpentine pathways and drives, the cemetery came to

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