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St. Marks Lighthouse, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge Florida

St. Marks Lighthouse, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge Florida

In response to initial steps taken in 1827 and 1828 requesting action on behalf of Congress, federal funds were appropriated for a lighthouse at St. Marks. The structure, which was begun in 1829 and completed in 1831 was erected by Winslow Lewis, the official lighthouse builder for the federal government. It is reported that the limestone blocks used for the construction of the lighthouse were taken from the nearby ruins of the old Fort of San Marcos de Apalache, or from a limestone quarry located near the site of that fort but across the Wakulla River. Like many other lighthouses constructed during that period, the St. Marks lighthouse was built too close to the sea. During the winter of 1841-42 it

Chautauqua Hall of Brotherhood - Chautauqua Auditorium, DeFuniak Springs Florida

Chautauqua Hall of Brotherhood - Chautauqua Auditorium, DeFuniak Springs Florida

Known originally as the New Hall of Brotherhood, the Chautauqua Auditorium was completed in 1910. The Chautauqua, founded in 1874 by John H, Vincent and Lewis Miller, was an indigenous adult educational organization developed in the United States. Founded on the banks of Lake Chautauqua in New York, there were at least fifty Chautauquas around the country by 1886. The movement combined education, recreation and religion and was designed to utilize the general demand for summer rest by uniting daily study with healthful recreation. The first annual Chautauqua appeared in Florida in 1885 and the ambition of the directors was not to be in any sense a rival to the great Chautauqua, but an assistant. It was, however, patterned after the

Millen High School, Millen Georgia

Millen High School, Millen Georgia

Millen High School was constructed between 1922 and 1962 to serve the white children of the Millen community. The 1922 building was constructed to enhance the existing 1898 school (no longer extant) by adding classroom space and an auditorium. Built in the Classical Revival style the character-defining features of the building include the symmetrical facade, projecting pavilions, arched windows, and arched entry. The 1943 building was constructed to replace the 1898 school building. Built in an L-shape, the character-defining features of the Classical Revival-style building are the full-height entry portico, symmetrical facade, projecting pavilions, and cupola. The 1962 cafeteria building was constructed to further enhance the campus by providing a modern facility to replace the cafeteria housed in the basement of

Birdsville Plantation, Millen Georgia

Birdsville Plantation, Millen Georgia

This Georgia Plantation has been in the same family since 1784

The main house at Birdsville Plantation reflects the changing life of one family from the late 18^th century even until the present moment. The original grant of land on which the house and numerous surviving old outbuildings lie has been inherited by family, added to, but never sold since December 24^th, 1784, when Philip Jones received 287 acres of land for his services in the Revolution. Sometime between the date of that grant and his death in 1789, Philip built the first section of Birdsville which survives basically intact as the rear portion of the house. This structure evidently served its purpose until about 1850 when Dr. William B. Jones commissioned major architectural changes which survive essentially unchanged. The imposing front

Walker County Hospital, Jasper Alabama

Walker County Hospital, Jasper Alabama

Walker County Hospital, built in 1923, was the first constructed in Walker County and was funded thru the sale of stock in the hospital corporation to local citizens. The hospital was originally built to provide for the health care needs of the citizens of Walker, Winston, Lamar, and Fayette Counties and to alleviate the necessity of transporting patients who required emergency medical treatment, or standard hospital care, to hospitals in the Birmingham area. The Walker County Hospital was the only hospital in Walker County until 1936 and served the county until its closing in 1980. By 1920 the four-county area of Walker, Winston, Lamar, and Fayette Counties had grown to become the state's second leading coal mining area, behind Jefferson County,

Feldman's Department Store, Haleyville Alabama

Feldman's Department Store, Haleyville Alabama

John Dodd built his two-story, brick commercial building on a prominent corner near the railroad line in downtown Haleyville in 1911. The building replaced a two-story, wood-frame structure that had burned down. The earlier building had been the location of the Shipman Brothers Store and the town post office. No doubt Dodd was capitalizing on the industrial growth and economic development which had come to Haleyville with the construction of the railroad. Moses and Fanny Feldman bought the building in 1914, operating their department store on the first floor and renting out the second-story offices. The Feldman family owned the building and operated the store until the late twentieth century when the building was sold to Dr. and Mrs. Joe Teal

Wilcox Female Institute, Camden Alabama

Wilcox Female Institute, Camden Alabama

The Wilcox Female Institute is the oldest educational landmark in this section of the state and is one of the better-known early Alabama institutions for the education of women. Incorporated in 1850, the school reflects the interest of the prosperous planters to provide a correct education for their daughters. In 1833 the seat of Wilcox County, in the rich black belt section, was moved from Canton Bend to Camden. The land for the town had been donated by W. T. Dunn whose conditional gift specified that the county seat be moved to the property. In 1842 the new town was incorporated. The school had its beginning in 1848 when a group of citizens from the area made up subscriptions for the

Dry Forks Plantation - James Asbury Tait House, Coy Alabama

Dry Forks Plantation - James Asbury Tait House, Coy Alabama

Build in 1835, this is the Oldest Home in the County

The house at Dry Forks (built 1834-35) is an outstanding example of a late Federal style double pile house form. It contains outstanding examples of folk versions of Federal style woodwork. It is the work of owner James A. Tait acting as his own general contractor and slave carpenters/joiners Hezekiah and Elijiah. Dry Forks is one of few firmly documented and attributed houses built largely by slave labor. The craftsmanship of the enslaved African American artisans Hezekiah and Elijiah is well-illustrated in the house, with its paneled doors, decorated cornices, and elaborate mantles. James Asbury Tait was one of the largest slave holders in Wilcox County. Great numbers of slave sites potentially exist on the property (at least two quarters lasted

US Post Office, Sylvester Georgia

US Post Office, Sylvester Georgia

The U.S. Post Office in Sylvester, Georgia, is one of the post offices constructed in small towns in Georgia and throughout the United States between 1932 and 1942 by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury under the auspices of various New Deal programs. Designed in a combination of modern and Colonial Revival styles, the small, one-story, brick post office in Southwest Georgia is similar in size, scale, materials, and architectural style to many of the other approximately sixty-five post offices built in Georgia during this period. The Sylvester post office, like others throughout the U. S., contains a mural depicting a scene of regional importance. Commissioned by the Section of Painting and Sculpture, the Sylvester mural depicts the

Sumner High School, Sumner Georgia

Sumner High School, Sumner Georgia

The Sumner High School was the first consolidated white high school for this portion of Worth County, one of the county's four consolidated school districts, showing the state's movement toward better education by creating regional schools. Home economics and agricultural practices were taught at the school. The agriculture students would learn about farm production using conventional and experimental crop techniques, and home economics students would center their projects on their family's homes. As a result of the interaction between the school and home, a strong relationship formed between the two. During its first year, the school had eleven teachers and 374 white students. Sumner High School was considered to be one of the best accredited high schools in southern Georgia. It

The Cedars - Cedar Retreat, Washington Georgia

The Cedars - Cedar Retreat, Washington Georgia

The Cedars is a good example of the large, rambling, asymmetrically composed, and liberally ornamented home characteristic of the High Victorian Era. The descendants of its builder, Marshall Sims, have perhaps expressed best the visual and associated emotional tone of the structure. They believe that Sims, himself, designed the house, building into the interior a kind of wasteful spaciousness that provided room for a boisterous family of ten children. The complex does convey an aura of the exuberance of Victorian family life, a kind of life that his grandchildren affectionately recall. The history of the present building is as varied and interesting as the form of the structure itself. The land on which this home stands, as the Georgia Historical Commission

Poplar Corner, Washington Georgia

Poplar Corner, Washington Georgia

The Prince-Pope-Simpson-Stephens House is the only fully developed Beaux-arts, classical revival structure in Washington. Other houses have added columns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century years, but have done so in a less elaborate and ornate manner. In 1810 Oliver Hillhouse Prince built the two-story Federal-style house that makes up the front section. Prince, born in Connecticut, came to Wilkes County as a boy of fourteen with his uncle, David Hillhouse. After he was commissioned by the State of Georgia in 1822 to lay out the city of Macon, he moved from Washington and sold his house in 1825 to Augustus Gibson. Subsequently, between 1828 and 1829 Prince served in the United States Senate. He was living in Athens, where

Thornton Plantation, Pine Mountain Georgia

Thornton Plantation, Pine Mountain Georgia

The Thornton Plantation's history begins with the settlement of the area of west Georgia due to the opening of the land due to the 1827 Georgia Land Lottery. That lottery, giving free land to participants, opened up a vast area from the Flint River to the Chattahoochee River for white settlement. It was only a few years after the area was available for settlement that the Thornton family moved there from easternmost Georgia, in the same mode as would be thousands of other families over the next few decades. The area was Georgia's westernmost land, ending at the Chattahoochee River with Alabama on the other side. William H. Thornton and his wife Mary moved to Harris County (which had opened for

White Hall House, West Point Georgia

White Hall House, West Point Georgia

The late Plantation Plain type, Greek Revival transitional style house, now known as White Hall, was built in 1857-8 by Alexander F. Kendrick and has served through the years as a prominent residence in Harris County, although now the house and site are a part of the City of West Point which is mainly in Troup County. In 1854 John M. Harrington and Alexander F. Kendrick bought some 320 acres in Harris County from S.N. Bisco for $2,700. In 1857 Kendrick bought Harrington's half interest and built on the property the house now known as White Hall. After Kendrick died, the house was sold in 1876 to Duncan M. Poer for $10,000. In 1880 F.M. Longley bought it for $3,800 at

Parks Covered Bridge, Somerset Ohio

Parks Covered Bridge, Somerset Ohio

This old covered span is known as the Parks Bridge. The name Parks comes from the family that owned the land nearby when the bridge was built. The builder is said to have been a man named Dean, who built at least two other Perry County covered bridges. According to the Perry County Atlas of 1875, there were landowners by the name of Dean in Hopewell Township. Mr. Dean is not listed as a bridge-builder in this atlas, so we can assume that he was one of those skilled farmer-carpenters in which Ohio abounded in the 19^th century. The native sandstone abutments were cut by Hugh Davis. The building date is 1882. The Parks Bridge is a good example of the

Mulberry Grove, White Castle Louisiana

Mulberry Grove, White Castle Louisiana

Mulberry Grove was built for Dr. Edward Duffel, a native of Virginia, and his Acadian bride. After the Civil War the property was acquired by John B. Reuss, who made it a part of his large Germania Plantation holding. Upon his death, Reuss left the Mulberry Grove portion of Germania to one of his daughters. In 1951 she sold it to Mrs. C. C. Clifton, who accomplished the home's restoration. In the late 1980s Mrs. Clifton sold Mulberry Grove to the Noel family, who operated the property as a working plantation. Architecturally, Louisiana is best known for its fine collections of French Creole houses and grand Greek Revival plantation homes. The state's most famous and recognizable group of monumental Greek Revival

Melrose Plantation - Yucca, Melrose Louisiana

Melrose Plantation - Yucca, Melrose Louisiana

Melrose Plantation is quite unique in that it was owned and built by free African Americans through several generations. The Big House was built in 1833 by Louis Meteyer Jr., a free African American. The designs of the African House and Ghana House at Melrose are of African style. Melrose is also important as the house of Mrs. Cammie Gicrekt hear whose patronage of the arts and preservation of local artifacts was the beginning of a movement to preserve the heritage of Natchitoches Parish. Her enthusiasm for the state's history and folkways inspired others to seek out, to preserve and to protect reminders of the past. Her house was a mecca for authors, artists, architects, horticulturists and those interested in the

Beauregard Parish Training School, DeRidder Louisiana

Beauregard Parish Training School, DeRidder Louisiana

The Beauregard Parish Training School was the only place in the parish where African-Americans could receive education at the secondary level and, very importantly, teacher training. The Beauregard Parish Training School provided teacher training until the mid-1930s. It remained the large rural parish's only African-American high school into the post-World War II era. The concept of the county or parish training school was created in 1911 through the efforts of three philanthropic foundations interested in the education of African-American youth. These foundations; the General Education Board, the John F. Slater Fund, and the Anna T. Jeanes Fund, convinced state education officials throughout the South to work with them to improve educational opportunities for blacks. The training school movement had several goals.

James Wade Bolton House, Alexandria Louisiana

James Wade Bolton House, Alexandria Louisiana

The Bolton House, which dates from 1899, is significant as an extremely large and pretentious example of the way in which the Queen Anne style was generally assimilated into Louisiana residential architecture. As a rule, the finer Louisiana Queen Anne residences were designed as follows. The traditional Louisiana central hall plan, raised house, with one principal floor and a wing in the rear, was made asymmetrical and irregular through the use of applied gables, dormers, semi-octagonal bays, and curving verandas. The interiors were connected through the use of large sliding doors. The design of Bolton House was achieved just this way. But beyond that, Bolton House is one of the largest examples of this kind of hesitant inculcation of Queen Anne

Edgerton Public Grade Schools, Edgerton Wisconsin

Edgerton Public Grade Schools, Edgerton Wisconsin

Early formalized education was appreciated among the pioneers of this rural area on the northern border of Rock County. Evidence can be traced back to the first permanent settler of Edgerton (1842), William Bliven. In 1845, three years before Wisconsin became a state, a one-room school was started out of Bliven's log home. Within that year a small red schoolhouse was built on Bliven's farm which would serve as the educational, civil, and religious meeting place for the next ten years. In 1856, the first school meeting was held and the district became School District No. 8 for the Town of Fulton. In 1856, the small size of the school building and the increasing number of school children became the subject

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