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I took this distant view just for fence Friday, it has been awhile since I have posted one.
Happy Fence Friday!
This is a homestead near Fruita in Capital Reef NP. This small house was home for a family of 12. The girls slept in a covered wagon near the house and the boys carved out little caves in the rocks behind the house for their "rooms". In front of the home is the Fremont river and they had small groves of fruit trees and crops along the river.
A wonderful old homestead found in the North East of Victoria near the old gold township of Rushworth.
Image by Mark Bloot'hoofd © 2007
Koonoona. 440 metres above sea level.
Koonoona station leasehold of 14,000 acres was established in 1863 by Walter Duffield, the wealthy flour miller from Gawler and his partner T Porter. Walter Duffield built the classical style mansion called Para Para in Gawler in the 1850s. This was good pastoral country and by 1894 a provisional school opened on Koonoona station. It operated until 1915. Duffield established a prize Merino Stud with the Koonoona Merinos being obtained from the Murrays stud at Mt Crawford and from C B Fisher’s stud at Hill River station near Clare. Their pedigree was strong and the early stud was managed from 1881 by Waldermar Gaskel Hawkes who was born in England in 1863 and arrived in South Australia in 1879. He later became the President of the Stockowners' Association and of the Stud Merino Breeders' Association. When Walter Duffield died in 1882 Hawkes’s son-in-law, Mr Makin took over Koonoona with Walter Duffield’s son. Not long after this time Mr Hawkes became a part owner of Koonoona Merino along with the trustees of the estate of Walter Duffield. Koonoona became one of the most important Merino studs in Australia and was running over 30,000 sheep in 1900. Their rams were sold yearly to the far north of SA, Western Australia, and Queensland. Koonoona won many first prizes for their rams in the Royal Adelaide Show. Koonoona had well-watered valleys, paddocks of lucerne and dryer hilly country. By around 1900 Koonoona consisted of 29,000 acres of freehold land but this was diminished in 1901 when the government bought 3,600 acres for closer settlement. A further 3,000 acres (for 9 farms) was bought by the government in 1907 and 6,700 acres in 1908. Then the government bought a further 8,700 acres in 1909. The last 9,000 acres (36 farms) of Koonoona was purchased by the government for £52,000 in July 1910 and sold for closer settlement. This last section of subdivided land was located near Emu Downs. But Koonoona Stud continued on one of the freehold blocks sold by the government. It was run by the trustees of the estate of Walter Duffield until 1918 when the trustees sold the stud to Waldermar Hawkes. When he retired in 1930 his son Glen took over Koonoona Stud. The comfortable stone homestead was surrounded by large trees and a rose garden. In 1929 the Burra newspaper reported that 70 past and current employees, some third generation employees, gathered at Koonoona to attend a garden party there. Walter Duffield’s two daughters, both in their 80s, sent Christmas presents to be handed out to the children attending. In 1910 when the government had subdivided Koonoona estate, and parts of Anlaby estate, the government began surveys for a railway from Eudunda to Robertstown so that the new farmers at Emu Downs and elsewhere would have a nearby railhead. But the 26 km long railway from Eudunda to Robertstown did not open until 1914. Above a 1908 Koonoona Merino Stud Ram. One of their prize winning rams sold for 150 guineas in 1935. The stud closed down in the 1940s.
My eyes were so drawn to this unique area. I can just imagine a homesteading family trying to make ends meet living off the land. I love the color of the grass and the foreground fence that has weathered with time.
Built in 1903, Brayshaw’s Homestead is a traditional slab built construction.
It was built for David Brayshaw, one of the sons of the Brayshaws that lived in Bobeyan Homestead, a few kilometres to the north.
In 1931, David died from exposure after falling off his horse between his and his parent’s home.
Home comforts plus a gun (just in case( at a reconstructed single-room home of a Manatee County pioneer of c.1880.
These 12 smokestacks are one of the few remnants of the Pittsburgh steel industry. They are from the Homestead Steel Works which was owned by Andrew Carnegie and was the largest steel mill in the world.
The Homestead Resort has a beautiful setting in the mountains of western Virginia. Celebrating its 250th anniversary this year, it has attracted visitors since 1766 who have come to "take the waters" at the area's mineral springs. The current structure was built after a fire in 1901, with the tower added in 1929. I took this morning shot when I visited the hotel last week for a business conference. Located in Hot Springs, Virginia.
Information from the hotel website.
What a lot of today's adventure has been faced by.... "light overcast". As a result, this shot of O721-10 on the flip side of famed "Seal-Tite" Plastics after swapping a car here. These units look absolutely phenomenal on jobs like this.
Hopetoun, VIC
The first stage of Corrong Station homestead was carried out by district pioneer Peter McGinnis in 1846 using local pine for the wall and roof framing.
Source: sign on the building
For Fenced Friday
The Homestead Farm at the Chippewa Nature Center, near Midland, Michigan, is intended to give visitors a taste of what rural life was like in the 1870s. HFF!
While walking along the grounds of the Homestead Resort last week in Hot Springs, Virginia, I took this shot showing the rear of the main building against the fall foliage in the surrounding hills. The building to the right houses the Casino Restaurant.
This old homestead is on the Village Indian Reserve right on the coast looking out over the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The house was built by the grandfather of a friend of ours. The house and the site it's on was used in the film "In the Name of the King".
Texture by SkeletalMess
Ruins of the Nelson Homestead in a wheat field on Emerson Loop Road, south of The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon USA.
Thanks to Rick Scheibner for the inspiration.
N 45 32' 29" W 121 1' 28" 13 Apr 2012
UPDATE: This whole area has burned to the ground in 2018, nothing left.
Came upon this abandoned farmhouse on Highway 24, east of Yakima, Washington. Shot with my antique 1904 Seneca Chautauqua on Ilford fp4.
Hornbeck Homestead. Adeline Hornbeck, a single mother of four after the loss of two husbands, moved to this 160-acre homestead in Florissant Valley with her children in the 1870s. Within seven years, Hornbck and her family had built this house and nine outbuildings. Her original house is preseserved here at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Teller Co., Colo.
The Conrad Weiser Homestead, for those who do not already know, is a five-minute walk from my house. (Those who do know have that knowledge because I am constantly there and posting pictures of my visits, usually on my Facebook page. I write about how close it is to my home as well as constantly profess my love for her majestic grounds.)
Early Saturday, I was at another location in Berks County, somewhere I don’t get to as much: Gring’s Mill in Reading. I was there well ahead of the sunrise. I walked around in the cold and took five million photos of a pretty day coming about. I posted many of those pictures on my Facebook page and a comment left by a photographer friend of mine struck me as odd. He wrote about how Gring’s Mill was a favorite of his, but he’d been there so many times that the interest just wasn’t there anymore.
Say what?
I began to question my million-plus visits to the Homestead. Then I recalled several months ago a different friend commented on a picture of the Homestead I posted, writing, “I think you have the Homestead covered, time for something new.” (Or something along those lines.) Was I going too much? Should I stop bringing my camera when I do go? Did I leave the iron on?
This was not a big struggle for me to resolve because here is how I view outdoor photography on special locations: There are two elements to a picture, the first being the stuff stuck in the ground, on the ground, etc. The second is the sky, more specifically, what is happening with it. Add in all the different seasons and it is technically impossible to see something the same way twice. Also, with age comes additional wonder, so if I return tomorrow I might be curious to shoot a picture from a totally different perspective. I’m still learning how to look. So far I have learned that there are gazillions of ways to look at anything.
I don’t know. I sound mighty defensive, don’t I? Maybe I do visit too much and should lose interest in it. But I cannot. It’s just a five-minute walk from my house and I simply adore roaming around her majestic grounds.
Look how pretty the main house looked yesterday evening with that super-awesome sky above it. I’ve never seen it like that before and likely never will again.
Last weekend I came across another Heritage Homestead. This is the second one I've found and sending out emails to the gov't sites that handle this project, for more information.
An awesome find and made my day :)
Ferndale, Washington
Hovander Homestead Park preserves the rich history of pioneer farming and offers recreational opportunities for all ages in every season. The park encompasses nearly 350 acres, including over a mile of river frontage.
In and around the barn and farmyard is a collection of antique farm implements and old harvesting equipment.
Within the massive barn is a milking parlor display adorned with some of the antique tools and equipment used at the time the Hovanders worked the farm.
From May through October Hovander hosts a variety of farm animals that become part of the authentic sights, sounds and smells of a farm.
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Thank-you for your visit!
I really appreciate it!
Sonja :)
It's monsoon season here on The Llano south of Belen in New Mexico. The 360 degree views are nothing short of spectacular on some days. This image is from such a day. Peace ~db~
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An early evening (7:30p) storm about to lash this abandoned homestead on the Alberta prairie. The gusts were picking up so I didn't stick around too long.
I came out to this event to shoot action and I got it!
This was another cool and unexpected shot I captured during the rodeo championship - more by instinct then anything else. I guess over time you develop a sixth sense to shoot action-photography micro-seconds before anticipating the action.
The framing is virtually uncropped.
Thank God and luckily this cowboy escaped the fall unharmed too! I think!
In this image:
Cowboy competing in the professional Saddle Bronc Riding event during the 67th Annual Homestead Championship Rodeo held January 22, 23, and 24, 2016 at the Doc DeMilly Arena, Harris Field, Homestead, South Florida, USA.
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Paid a visit to the Franklin Homestead this afternoon. Conditions were much better than my last visit. The homestead is located in Kingman County in Kansas. It was built in the late 1880's and was home to a family of nine. Image made with the new Pentax K3iii Monochrome and Pentax 16-50 f2.8 PLM.
I've passed this residence in Horicon, Wisconsin for 33 years while on the way to Beaver Dam Lake. I've always enjoyed the view of the house and sloping yard, especially as the colors change in Autumn.
Homestead, The Dalles, OR.
This is my last picture from this trip. I really liked the B&W version of this image. The clouds provided a perfect backdrop to this abandoned house. I am almost certain, I will return to this area to shoot more of this beautiful countryside and I am hoping that it will be soon!
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Today's story and sketch "by me" you see three Gofish Brothers, Westley in the Biplane, Drew on the
Motorbike, and Sidney in his B&R Anti Gravity Coupe, they are racing to Central Florida for the
the first free government land in many years, made available by the "CLGMPBA",
Confectionery Land Grab and Moon Pie Bakers Association.
All three of the brothers are getting to homestead the allotted
640 acres each for free, but they must plant trees on the land, to make moon pies.
For these boys (well not exactly boys, all three have a combined age of over 900,
but that is a story for another time). All three brothers have years of experience as Moon Pie
Makers back on Lippo "the blue moon" their home planet. They all worked as bakers at the Flip Flop
Penitentiary Resort, after being sentenced to 80 years each for misdemeanor reckless driving,
and crashing into the Miss Moon Pie Parade float while wearing rocket sneakers.
(The Wardens Daughter Dedra was miss Moon Pie).
The subsequent crash sent Dedra face first into the flowing vanilla cream fountain.
When the brothers heard about the chance to be moon pie homesteaders on Earth, they pooled the
funds Granny gave them, which was the same day they were released from the Flip Flop,
and they headed directly to Earth, just days before this sketch.
Westley will plant swamp cabbage palms, and plans to make (Kimchee moon pies).
Drew has plans to grow the Phoenix dactylifera (for date moon pies).
Sid is going to grow Dacca banana palms, and will make (Red Banana Moon Pies).
We wish the brothers all the best, and we will come back to visit them after they clear out
the gators, drain their swamps, and get settled in, till then taa ta the Rod Blog.
Wishing for something does not make it happen, working hard will always make it happen.
Rod