– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Martinsburg Roundhouse The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad first arrived in Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1842. By the end of the decade the first engine and machine shops had been built in the town. These early engineering facilities, though, did not last long. During the Civil War, railroads played an important...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Essex County Courthouse Tappahannock is the county seat of Essex County on the Middle Peninsula between the James and Rappahannock Rivers in Virginia. This was one of the first areas in Virginia to be occupied by the colonists. Originally part of Old Rappahannock County, Essex County was formed in 1692....
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – US Soldiers Home The US Soldiers Home in Washington D.C. was established in 1851, as an “asylum for old and disabled veterans”. Situated on high ground north of the U.S. Capitol building, what is now known as the Armed Forces Retirement Home has been in continuous use since its founding. Congress finally approved...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Rockbridge Missouri In the last post we visited Rockbridge Grist Mill in Ozark County Missouri. The mill was the hub around which the bustling village of Rockbridge grew. As the business of the mill grew, first a general store and then a bank moved into the village. The general store also housed the post office....
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Rockbridge Grist Mill Deep in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri runs a clear water spring fed stream appropriately called Spring Creek. In 1868, one of the early explorers to the area, B.V. Morris, built a dam across the creek in order to power a grist mill. From this simple beginning grew the village of...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Foden Traction Engine Like the image of Château de Chenonceau in the last post, this is another shot captured when I was living in England. This image, though, dates back even further than the transparency of Chenonceau. This shot of a Foden Traction Engine was made at the Kent County Show at Detling near...
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