– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Monocacy Aqueduct Construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal began in 1828 in Georgetown, District of Columbia, and reached its terminus in Cumberland, Maryland, in the summer of 1850. The C&O Canal system included eleven stone aqueducts designed to carry the canal across the major river tributaries that...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Whites Ferry Whites Ferry is the only active ferry of the scores that once plied the waters of the Potomac River. It was first known as “Conrad’s Ferry” after Ernest Conrad who started poling a ferry across the river at this point around 1817. Elijah White, a successful business man in the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Bob White Covered Bridge In the last post we visited Jack’s Creek Covered Bridge, one of the two located in Patrick County in South Western Virginia. The second is the Bob White Covered Bridge which was build in 1921. This bridge also crosses Smith Creek. The Bob White bridge is also known as the Lower...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Jack’s Creek Covered Bridge Patrick County in South Western Virginia is home to two covered bridges. The older of the two is Jack’s Creek Covered Bridge. This Queenpost Truss design bridge was constructed in 1914 to serve Jack’s Creek Primitive Baptist Church. The bridge, which is named after the church,...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Turquoise, the Timeless Element of New Mexico Style Pantone LLC is the world-renowned authority on color. The PANTONE® name is known worldwide as the standard language for color communication from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer. Each year the company declares a particular color “Color of the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Cove Presbyterian Church Cove Presbyterian Church is located in Albemarle County on Route 29 about 20 minutes north by car from Charlottesville, Virginia. According to The Lexington Presbyterian Heritage, Cove Meeting House began in 1756 when George Douglass petitioned the Hanover Presbytery for supply preaching...
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