– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Eastern View Schoolhouse The Eastern View Schoolhouse was originally constructed and located at Eastern View Farm, near Owenton, King and Queen County, Virginia. It was constructed about 1870, used first as a private and then a public school until about 1903. It was the last remaining log built school in King...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Glade Creek Grist Mill Glade Creek Grist Mill has been in Babcock State Park, West Virginia since 1976. This fully operational mill is a reconstruction of one that was also located on Glade Creek, but across and a little down-stream known as Cooper’s Mill. Cooper’s Mill was destroyed in the 1920’s when a...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Hilltop Tower Kiva, Picuris Pueblo In the last post we looked at the San Lorenzo de Picuris Mission Church. Most people, though, visit the Picuris Pueblo in Taos County, New Mexico to see the rare hilltop tower Kiva. Picuris is known as the Mountain Pueblo. The small village is tucked into a beautiful high...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – San Lorenzo de Picuris Mission Church The San Lorenzo de Picuris Mission Church has a long and storied history. There was a rudimentary mission at the Picuris Pueblo in Taos County, New Mexico since sometime between 1581 and 1620 when Fray Francisco de Zamora was charged with the establishment of a permanent...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – BL2 Road Switcher The BL2 Road Switcher was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) between September 1947 and May 1949. EMD had been producing diesel powered locomotives since the 1930s with the most successful being the F-series which was introduced in 1939. The F-series design made them the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – David Bradford House Completed in 1788, this was the first stone house on South Main Street in Washington, Pennsylvania. This two story house was built by David Bradford, a successful lawyer and deputy attorney-general for Washington County. By the standards of the day, this could only be called a mansion. The...
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