– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – School House #18 For a while following the end of the Civil War, Virginia was under military rule under the command of John Schofield. Schofield called for a constitutional convention to meet in Richmond between December 1867 and April 1868. The resulting new constitution came into effect in 1870. One of the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – CB Rouss We complete this brief visit to Winchester, Virginia with a look at another of the city’s benefactors. In the last post we saw how John Handley had left money for the education of the poor. Today, being February 11, we join the whole City of Winchester in celebrating CB Rouss Day. To quote the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Handley Library Today we continue our visit to Winchester, Virginia. In the last post we looked at the renovated Taylor Hotel on the pedestrian mall of Loudoun Street. A short walk away is the Handley Library. The library is named for its benefactor, John Handley. John Handley was born in County Wexford, Ireland...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Taylor Hotel In the next couple of posts we are going to visit Winchester, Virginia. What better place could there be to start than a beautifully restored historic downtown hotel. The Taylor Hotel was built in 1847 on the Valley Pike, now called Loudoun Street, one of the main thoroughfares of the city. It was...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Savage Mill Savage Mill is a historic cotton mill complex on the banks of the Little Patuxent River in Howard County, Maryland. The current buildings date from between 1822 and 1916 although there had been a mill on this site as early as 1810. The earliest mill was started by four brothers: Nathaniel F. Williams,...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Barbados Museum The Barbados Museum and Historical Society is housed in historic buildings which were originally used as the military prison at St. Ann’s Garrison. St. Ann’s Garrison, or “The Garrison” as it is more popularly known, was built to house the British West Indies Regiment. Barbados...
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