The Governor Morehead School

October 8, 2014, 8:16 am

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North Carolina, Wake County, Raleigh

Established for visually impaired student in 1845 under the leadership of John Motley Morehead. Present plant is 500 yards north.

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The Yorktown Windmill

October 8, 2014, 8:26 am

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Virginia, York County, Yorktown

History of the Original Yorktown Windmill

Built in 1711 by William Buckner, the Yorktown Windmill was a guidepost on the York River for nearly two centuries. After retiring from his post as Surveyor General of Virginia, Buckner purchased the pointed bluff just above Yorktown from John Lewis of Gloucester for the express purpose of building a mill to grind corn. Although Buckner died only five years later, the mill continued to provide most of the flour for York County throughout the 18th and 19th Centuries.

Although the mill was never photographed, there are a number of paintings, engravings and sketches that show the windmill and its location through the years. The first of these is a painting entitled, “A View of the Town of York Virginia from the River” which was painted by Lt. Thomas Davies, an officer on the H.M.S. Success during its voyage to Nova Scotia and Virginia from 1754-1756.

Perhaps the best known depiction of the windmill is in the painting by James and Charles Peale entitled “Washington and his Generals at Yorktown”. Painted in 1784, the image is a depiction of the Commanders following the siege of Yorktown. While the windmill is not the central focus of the painting, its inclusion here demonstrates that the mill survived in the original location from its construction in 1711 through the end of the American Revolution.

A depiction of the Yorktown Windmill in decline is portrayed in the image entitled, "View of Yorktown, from the Old Windmill, as You Approach from Williamsburg." A hand-colored wood engraving, this image was published in 1848 by Robert Sears as part of his collection, "A New and Popular Pictorial Description of the United States."

A Yorktown Landmark

During both the American Revolution and the American Civil War, Yorktown took the center stage of history during key campaigns. Military and logistical maps from both periods show the Yorktown Windmill as a landmark. Research conducted during the reconstruction of the Yorktown Windmill, suggests that it may have relocated across Windmill Creek in the early 1800s.

The Reconstructed Windmill

Plans to reconstruct the Yorktown Windmill began in 2008 during discussion between engineer Walt Akers and Superintendent Dan Smith of Colonial National Historical Park. The design seen here is derived from surviving paintings of the original mill, examination of research from the Historic American Building Survey and site visits to nearly a dozen surviving American windmills from the 18th and 19th centuries. The reconstructed windmill stands less than 100 yards from where the original windmill was built.

This fully functional replica was built in Seaford, Virginia by more than 100 volunteers over the course of three years. Each of their names is engraved on a commemorative stone plaque that is mounted inside the mill. In the fall of 2011, the windmill was disassembled and relocated to this site in time for the 300th anniversary of the construction of the original. The Yorktown Windmill, named “Miss Evelyn” for the designer’s wife, was dedicated on October 19th, 2011.

The Yorktown Windmill remains on permanent loan from the Akers’ Family to the Watermen’s Museum.

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James Whitehill Stone House

October 8, 2014, 8:31 am

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Vermont, Caledonia County, Ryegate

In the style of a Scottish stone croft (farmhouse), this house was erected by James Whitehill, a prosperous farmer and one of a large number of immigrants from Inchinnan Parish, Scotland, who settled Ryegate under the sponsorship of the Scotch American Company of Farmers. He purchased 600 acres, known as the Witherspoon Tract, from James Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who owned the entire township. Whitehill was a founder of the Ryegate Reformed Presbyterian Church. This is one of the oldest surviving houses in Ryegate and was the first library in town. The house and surrounding acreage is still owned by the Whitehill family.

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Caledonia County Grammar School

October 8, 2014, 8:34 am

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Vermont, Caledonia County, Peacham

Caledonia County was set out from Orange County in 1792. Peacham chose to provide a County grammar school rather than a courthouse. The Caledonia County Grammar School (Peacham Academy) was chartered in 1795, the third County grammar school in Vermont. Classes commenced in 1797. Thaddeus Stevens, abolitionist and Pennsylvania Representative to the US Congress, and George B.M. Harvey, Ambassador to Great Britain, were among the notable persons educated here. Over 3000 students from Peacham and other towns, states and countries attended Peacham Academy. The school closed in 1971. The Academy building burned in 1976.

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Thomas R. Jernigan

October 8, 2014, 8:35 am

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North Carolina, Wake County, Raleigh

U.S. negotiator in China for 30 years. Consul in Japan and China. Editor, author, and lawyer. His home was 2 blocks E.

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Eugenics Board

October 8, 2014, 8:56 am

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North Carolina, Wake County, Raleigh
State action led to the sterilization by choice or coercion of over 7,600 people, 1933-1973. Met after 1939 one block E.

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Lituanica

October 8, 2014, 8:57 am

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New York, Kings County, Brooklyn NY
Lituanica
1923 - 2013
80th Anniversary Flight across the Atlantic
Lithuanian Pilots
Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas

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Artificial Limbs

October 8, 2014, 9:01 am

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North Carolina, Wake County, Raleigh

North Carolina was first state to provide limbs to Confederate amputees. Factory, which operated 1866-67, was ¼ mi. NE.

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Bethesda Meeting House

October 8, 2014, 9:02 am

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Maryland, Montgomery County, Bethesda
Bethesda Meeting House
Founded 1820 – Rebuilt 1850
Placed by
Margaret Whetten Chapter
National Society Daughters
of American Revolution
October 28, 1979

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Stafford Village Four Corners

October 8, 2014, 9:06 am

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New York, Genesee County, Stafford
Site of first settlement on the Holland Purchase in 1798. Originally known as Transit. The name was changed to Stafford in 1841 following settlement by a colony of Devonshire English people. The buildings of historic and architectural interest are the Town Hall, C. 1850; I.O.O.F. Hall and store, 1890; Episcopal Church 1842 and Parish House 1848; and two residences located on the S.W. Corner 1809 and the S.E. Corner C.1932 of the first Transit Road.

The Memorial Park is the site of an early stage coach tavern, 1804. National Register of Historic Places-1976.

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Raleigh and Gaston Railroad

October 8, 2014, 9:07 am

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North Carolina, Wake County, Raleigh

Chartered in 1835 and completed in 1840. Length 85 miles. Its southern terminus was 400 ft. W.

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Town of Pembroke

October 8, 2014, 9:09 am

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New York, Genesee County, Pembroke
175 Years 1812 Town of Pembroke 1987 ———·•·——— PEMBROKE, or O-a-geh (On the Road) as the Indians referred to it, is located in township 12, Ranges 3 & 4 of the Holland Purchase, and was named for Pembroke in Wales. Set off from the Town of Batavia, June 8, 1812, it originally contained a small part of Alabama until April 17, 1826, and all of Darien until Feb, 10, 1832. The northern section was part of the Tonawanda Indian Reservation. Population centers along Murder and Tonawanda Creeks are Corfu (Long's Corners) incorporated May 1, 1868, Pembroke (Richville), East Pembroke (Ellicott's Mills), Indian Falls (Tonawanda Falls) and North Pembroke (Mogadore).

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Dutch Church

October 8, 2014, 9:12 am

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New York, Schenectady County, Schenectady
Founded Before 1680.
First Mohawk Valley Church
From Its Academy of 1785
Grew Union College, 1795.


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1800 Brick House 1963

October 8, 2014, 9:17 am

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New York, Genesee County, Pembroke
1800 Brick House 1963 ——·•·—— John and James Richardson settled at the crossroads of two Indian trails in the early 1800's, building a log structure to be used for a tavern. The people fleeing from the burning of Buffalo, in 1813, took refuge here. DeWitt Clinton and his party stayed here in 1815 on this way to Batavia, to discuss plans for the Erie Canal.

The original tavern burned about 1813. The Richardsons constructed a new house of brick, from red clay they found on the farm, about 1831.

In 1962 the property was sold to the School District for the construction of a new Junior Senior High School. The brick building was leveled in 1963.

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Trinity Complex

October 8, 2014, 9:18 am

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New York, Niagara County, Royalton
Organized for Ev. Lutheran beliefs - Sept. 9, 1853 by 75 Prussian immigrant families - Red brick church made of clay on site

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Carved in Stone

October 8, 2014, 1:20 pm

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Nova Scotia, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax
English
These gravestones were all carved by hand, using chisels and wooden mallets. Many of the old slate stones were quarried and carved around Massachusetts Bay, and shipped to Halifax before the American Revolution. By the 1770s local stone carvers were making gravestones from a poorer quality local slate (or “ironstone”). Most gravestones carved after 1820 are plain, massive sandstone.
The images or symbols can be a clue to age. Older stones show symbols of death-stylized winged skulls (“death-heads”) or winged angels (soul effigies). In the early 1800s the images gradually changed from representations of death to those of bereavement-funerary urns, lamps (of life, extinguished), and sometimes sprigs of willow (weeping).

French
Toutes les pierres tombales ont été taillées avec le ciseau et le maillet de bois. La plupart des vieilles tombes en ardoise faites avant la Révolution américaine proviennent des carrières près de la baie de Massachusetts. L’ardoise était taillée et gravée avant l’être envoyée à Halifax. Dès les années 1770, les tailleurs de pierre d’Halifax avaient commencé à faire des tombes a partir d’une ardoise locale de qualité inférieure. La plupart des pierres tombales faites après 1820 sont en grès de style massif et simple.
Une image peut constituer un indice de l’âge d’une tombe. Vous verrez sur les pierres tombales les plus anciennes des symboles stylisés de la mort: un crâne ailé (tête de mort) ou un ange ailé (effigie de l’âme). Au debut des années 1800, les images commencent à représenter non pas la mort mais le deuil: une urne ou une lampe funéraire (symbole de la vie éteinte) et parfois quelques rameaux de saule pleureur.

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The Old Burying Ground

October 8, 2014, 1:26 pm

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Nova Scotia, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax
English
In this common burial ground lie many of the first citizens of Halifax, their descendants and men of the British Army and the Royal Navy who were stationed here. First opened in 1749, the year Halifax was founded, it was used until 1844. During that period, over 12,000 men, women, and children were buried here; fewer than 10% of their graves are marked.

The graveyard was granted to St. Paul’s in 1793 and the church has maintained it ever since. Unfortunately, natural elements and vandalism took their toll and by the mid 1980s the site required extensive work. Public and private funds were sought by the Old Burying Ground Foundation. A complete record was made of the site (1984), a landscape plan implemented and tilted stones reset (1990-91).

French
Ici reposent un nombre important de premiers habitants d’Halifax, leurs descendants, et des membres de l’Armée britannique et de la Marine royale stationnés à Halifax. Ouvert en 1749, l’année de la fondation d’Halifax, ce cimetière communal a servi jusqu’en 1844. Au cours de cette période, plus de 12 000 hommes, femmes et enfants ont été enterrés ici. Cependant, moins de 10% des tombes sont identifiées.

En 1793, le cimetière a été cédé à l’église Saint-Paul qui le maintient depuis cette époque. Vers le milieu des années 1980 de gros travaux de restauration se sont avérés nécessaires en raison des dommages causés par les éléments naturels et le vandalisme. La Foundation du Vieux cimetière communal a cherché des fonds auprès des secteurs public et privé. On a pu compléter un inventaire détaillé du site (1984), mettre en oeuvre un plan paysagiste et redresser les pierres tombales (1990-91).

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Old Burying Ground

October 8, 2014, 1:29 pm

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Nova Scotia, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax
English
The Old Burying Ground, which contains more than 1,200 head and footstones, constitutes a unique concentration of gravestone art. A rich variety of styles, poignant images and carving skill is reflected in these old stones. The winged skulls and the winged heads, or soul effigies, are exceptional. Used by all denominations, the Old Burying Ground served the city of Halifax from 1749 until its closure in 1844. Fenced and landscaped in the 1860s, it was restored as a park and outdoor museum in 1990-1991. It bears silent witness to the complex cultural traditions of early British North Americans.

French
Cet ancien cimetière, qui renferme plus de 1,200 pierres tombales, offre un collection unique d’art funéraire. Dernier repos de fidèles de toutes croyances, il servit la ville d’Halifax de 1749 à 1844. Des images poignantes de dégagent de ces vieilles pierres de style très divers et de facture remarquable. Les crânes et les têtes ailés, ou effigies des morts, sont exceptionnels. La clôture de l’aménagement paysager remontent aux années 1860, et le cimetière a été restauré en tant que parc et musée extérieur en 1990-1991. Il témoigne de la complexité des traditions culturelles au début de l’Amérique de Nord britannique.

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Spicer

October 8, 2014, 3:37 pm

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Minnesota, Kandiyohi County, Spicer
Green Lake has had three names. The Dakota who spent their summers here for hundreds of years, called it Mdeto.

The first whites called it Carnelian, for its red sandy beaches. Later settlers observed the green color, as the Indians had, and renamed it Green Lake.

Spicer has had two names. The town "boomers" who laid it out in August, 1856 – E. T. Woodcock, J. M. Ayers and V. L. Forsythe – called it Columbia. E. T. Woodcock and his wife, Loretta, spent the winter of 1856-57 in Columbia.

Spicer was named for pioneer railroader J. M. Spicer, who owned the town site, and built his St. Cloud to Sioux Falls Railroad through here in 1886.

Sponsored by the Kandiyohi County Historical Society and Erected in 1990

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Rathaus / City Hall

October 8, 2014, 7:59 pm

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Germany, Thuringia, Erfurt


1275 Vorgängerbau erstmals erwähnt
1869-82 neogotischer Neubau

Neogotische Innenausstattung
mit Gemälden zur Geschichte
Erfurts und Thüringens
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Predecessor mentioned in 1275
for the first time
1869-82 neo-Gothic building

Neo-Gothic interior
with paintings on the history of
Erfurt and Thuringia
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Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz
Wettbewerb 2001-2002
Leben in historischen orten
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German Foundation for Monument Protection
Competition 2001-2002
Life in historic dwellings

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