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Frankfort Iron Works in Elberta, Michigan
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In 1867, the Frankfort Iron Works was established and a large blast furnace was constructed. During its existence, Frankfort Iron Works gave the Village of Elberta the notoriety of having the largest and most extensive manufacturing works in Benzie County. The original building contained a blast furnace where the iron was smelted; a boiler arid engine, stone and ore crusher and platform. The casting house, constructed of brick, is where die first iron was produced July 1, 1870.
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The first railroad was constructed in 1870 and was laid from the Frankfort Iron Works, along the east side of Frankfort Avenue, and was used to transport wood to die blast furnace. The original rails were made from wood strips later replaced with iron.
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Next to the Frankfort Iron Works building, two residences were built on a bluff approximately 20 feet higher than the general level and fronted Lake Betsie. These residences were used by officials of the company during its operation. The Frankfort Iron Works ceased operations in 1883.
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The Frankfort Iron Works property passed to the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Michigan Railway, later renamed Ann Arbor Railroad Company in 1892. The furnace buildings were converted to a roundhouse arid machine shop located west of the subject site, parts of which are still standing. The grounds were used for the tracks and switches, and a depot. On the bluff, near the houses used by the officials, a large wooden water tower was constructed and used for filling the boilers of the steam engines.
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Also in 1892, the Ann Arbor Railroad Company built warehouses which held several hundred rail car loads of flour during transit. The company also built a grain elevator alongside die west slip. The elevators were 80 to 100 feet tall and were used until 1916, when they were demolished.
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Coal was stored on the grounds between the railroad tracks and Lake Betsie when the ferryboats burned coal for fuel. In 1925, the company built a 400-ton reinforced concrete, automatic, electric locomotive coaling plant on the east end of the subject site. In the late 1950’s, the ferryboat engines were converted to diesel and the coal dock was closed.
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In 1982, MDOT, (Michigan Department of Transportation) the owners and operators of the Ann Arbor Railroad Company and car ferry service, terminated all operations in the Village of Elberta.
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From the “History of Elberta” by Allen B. Blacklock
"I like the way the Stone House still looms up on that hilltop, where the wind blows all the time. There it sits, unshaken and monolithic, as I write this sentence and as you read it, every bit as astonishing today as the day it was completed. What a tribute to the faith of its creator, the Reverend Alexander Twilight: scholar, husband, teacher, preacher, legislator, father-away-from-home to nearly 3,000 boys and girls, an African American and a Vermonter of great vision, whose remains today lie buried in the church-yard just up the maple-lined dirt road from his granite school, in what surely was, and still is, one of the last best places anywhere." Howard Frank Mosher, Vermont Life Magazine
Bourbon coat of arms with herald angels with trumpets over proscenium arch. Teatro San Carlo. Napoli, 1817 AD. By Antonio Nicolini. Interior 1842 AD. Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Ferguson.
June 20, 2023 - "The Cité de Carcassonne is a fortified medieval city located on a hill in the old town of Carcassonne, in the Occitanie region of southern France. It is located on the right bank of the Aude and in the southeast of the current city. Its origins date back to Gallo-Roman times and it was enlarged into a fortress in the Middle Ages. The fortified city is surrounded by a double wall (each about three kilometers long with a total of 52 towers). The main buildings within the Cité, which is still inhabited, are a castle (Château comtal) and a church (Basilique Saint-Nazaire).
In the 19th century, the already decaying city of Carcassonne was restored under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. This resulted in an extensive well-preserved historical monument that was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Carcassonne was founded as Carcasso in the 1st century BC. Founded by the Romans on the site of today's Cité. The so-called Gallo-Roman towers with a horseshoe plan on the inner wall testify to the Carcasso period.
On the 14 hectares, where between 3,000 and 4,000 people lived in the Middle Ages, 229 permanent residents live today. All the others work for tourism and live abroad. La Cité is a large open-air museum used by tourists and is not normally accessible by car.
Legend has it that the fortress was once besieged by Charlemagne, when Mme Carcas was the lady of the castle. The siege lasted so long that famine soon claimed the first victims in the Cité. Mrs. Carcas then decided to stuff a pig with wheat and, when she was fat enough, she threw it off the castle wall. The besiegers, already exhausted, thought when they saw the fat animal that fell from their towers that the city must have food to spare. Dejected, Charlemagne's men gave up and returned home. When the town bells rang to celebrate the end of the siege, one of the besiegers is said to have exclaimed Madame Carcas sonne (Carcas sounds).
In 1208, Pope Innocent III, faced with the increase and extension of Catharism, decreed the Albigensian Crusade. The Count of Tolosa and the Viscount of Carcassonne are accused of heresy and their territories become the main target of the attack by the barons from France. On August 1, 1209, the city is besieged by the Crusaders. Raymond Roger Trencavel surrenders to them on August 15 in exchange for the lives of its inhabitants. The villages around the city are destroyed. The viscount dies of dysentery in his castle prison on November 10, 1209. Other sources speak of an assassination planned by Simon de Montfort.
The city becomes the headquarters of the crusade troops. The land and city are delivered to Simón de Montfort, military chief of the Crusader army. He died in 1218 during the siege of Toulouse and his son, Amaury VI de Montfort, took possession of the city, but was unable to manage it. He cedes the rights to it to Louis VIII of France, but Ramon VII of Toulouse and the counts of Foix allied against the king. In 1224, Ramón Trencavel II took possession of the city after Amaury fled.
Louis VIII launches a second crusade in 1226 and Ramón Trencavel must flee. The city of Carcassonne becomes part of the domain of the King of France and becomes the seat of a seneschal. A period of terror is installed inside the city among the inhabitants; the search and hunting of the Cathars multiplies the bonfires in the squares and there are continuous savage denunciations, with the installation of an Inquisition Tribunal within the city precincts.
Louis IX of France orders the construction of the second walled enclosure so that the city can withstand long sieges and sieges. Trencavel, refugee in Aragon, intends to recover his land. At the same time, the king of Aragon, Jaime I the Conqueror, is considered a constant threat to the region, very close to the borders of his kingdom, the city being part of the defensive system of the border between France and Aragon.
After the annexation of Roussillon to France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees, the military role of Carcassonne was greatly reduced, as the distance to the Spanish border increased considerably. The role of command post for the defense of the border was transferred to Perpignan.
The walls of the Cité date from various periods of construction. The oldest parts of the wall were erected at the time of the Visigoths. They can be recognized by the layers of small cube-shaped stones, interrupted by layers of bricks, and by the narrowness of the towers, which are already equipped with real windows. The castle was mainly built in the 12th century. The outer ring of walls with their smooth ashlars dates from the middle of the 13th century.
At the end of the 13th century some of the towers and parts of the inner wall were built, which was then being rebuilt and advanced. The ashlars from this period are mostly carved with art. The towers have several floors and are provided with loopholes. The building material for the two concentric belts of fortifications was brought from the surrounding quarries: hard sandstone, difficult to extract and work, but which over the centuries began to erode under the influence of violent storms from the southwest.
The interior of the walls is made of rounded stones, fragments of rock and sand, agglutinated with lime, which also serves as mortar. The texture of the masonry varies with each period of construction.
The regular outer wall, 1.5 kilometers long, was built in 15 years shortly after 1230, hence its uniform appearance. The construction history of the 1.3 km long inner wall is much more complicated and its masonry is far from uniform. At that time, the city already had a wall from the Gallo-Roman era that was around 1,000 years old, but it was no longer up to date. Today it forms the skeleton of the inner belt and can often be seen at the bottom of today's wall.
As always in such cases, the area between the two walls is called the Zwinger. The kennel kept the attacker in an area that militia projectiles could reach. The wall must be as high as possible, because until the 14th century people did not shoot back, they shot back. In times of peace, such a kennel was used for games and knightly combat festivals. In some cases, the old parts of the wall were supported on new foundations when they were tapped, so that the strange picture arises that the oldest part is higher than the later one.
The ditch around the wall was not filled with water, but it had the function of preventing the use of larger siege engines, which had to be directed against the wall at right angles to the direction of the Zwinger and therefore did not have sufficient access. here. The fortification of the city with a double fence corresponded to a new defensive tactic that had been designed around 1200 around the king in the time of Philip Augustus (1180-1223). His principle was: the defense must be active, it must be able to inflict heavy losses on the attacker. Therefore, more than a thousand archers were stationed on the battlements, and the towers flanked the entire wall without leaving a blind spot.
It was possible to advance towards the Zwinger between the two city walls without exposing oneself to the full mass of besiegers. This allowed early attackers who were said to have advanced this far to be pursued individually or in small groups. With this tactic, one could successfully resist even a numerically superior siege force.
Many towers of the outer line are so-called shell towers, i. that is to say, they are open at the back, so that the enemy could not take refuge once they crossed the first wall. Then it could still be attacked from the inner wall, for example by archers. However, the effectiveness of this defense has never really been proven." Previous description: www.topworldimages.com/Cite_de_Carcassonne.htm
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Street with 18th Century AD houses and church. Old town (Centro Storico). Ostuni, the "White City." Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
19th Century AD house. Old town (Centro Storico). Ostuni, the "White City." Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
The town of Perth is probably one of the most beautiful small towns in Ontario. It has wonderful old stone buildings constructed by its Scottish settlers in the 19th century. Matheson House is now a museum. This time when I visited the sky was filled with dramatic dark clouds. I used some perhaps over-the-top processing to try to give this shot a bleak, Scottish feel.
This is the typical lamp-post in the city of Victoria.
One disadvantage of visiting the city too early in the spring is that the hanging flowering baskets were not up on the lamp-posts yet. When they are, the city is in abundance of colour.
Medieval structures built on top of earlier Roman houses. 2nd Century AD - 5th Century AD. Cannae, Barletta, Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. Scene of the great defeat of the Romans by Hannibal.
Photographed during a visit to see the huge meteor crater in the Arizona desert in the USA. This is the best preserved impact crater on the surface of the Earth, created around 50,000 years ago by a meteor impact.
There seems to be some disagreement amongst historians about when this place was actually built. Some say it was built in the late 1700s, while others think that perhaps 1815 or so is a more accurate date. Either way, it's very old, and is indeed the oldest stone structure in the county, and now, is the oldest structure in the downtown area (since the other possibly-oldest structure was recently demolished, much to my great dismay.) This was a house, and was also a tavern, I believe.
The interior is in pretty good shape, though the place is currently used as a gift shop... which benefits (I think) a Methodist charity/service organization (forgive me, I'm not sure what it's called.) It's a very fun place to visit, if you want to feel how cramped old days living was. It's rather suffocatingly small inside. I've never been upstairs. They do have very nice gifts and tchotchkes for sale, too.
On the National Register. #72001290
Also a designated Methodist Historic Site, #234
Photograph of the Fire Hall in Stirling, Ontario, taken during a tour of the town by the Hastings County Historical Society in 1964.
A drawing of the Buckley House on Dundas Street West in Belleville, Ontario, just west of the railway overpass leading to the bridge across the Bay of Quinte connecting to Prince Edward County. Highway 14 was later renumbered to highway 62.
This artwork was featured in the Belleville Art Association's "Belleville Today" calendar, compiled in 1977 for the City's centennial in 1978. This image was drawn by by C. Georgina (Jo) Cooper.
"Elemental" by Joseph Jaskolka. Small pieces of Mica line the inside of the cape....black granite on the outside. The sculpture holds fire in the left hand as water sprays from the right. A device built into it will capture the air creating a sound vibration during a heavy wind. This piece is over 8 feet tall on a very large stone base with a weight of over 2 tons.
* The Artist's Statement on this piece: " A combination of New England fieldstone, copper, brass, steel, black granite, fire, water, and sound, ( to symbolize wind), "The Elemental", is a basic yet complex presentation of the four Classical Elements, embodied into one being. Anything at all, that can be experienced in anyway, will have elemental qualities that can be sensed and responded to. If this is true, the elements can be understood as the fundamental basis of the relationships between extant things, the source of shared qualities, the root level of correspondences that ultimately form the orderly, coherent and therefore predictable world. As ones awareness of the elemental qualities of things increase, the world appears more predictable. To me, "The Elemental", is an image of someone who has mastered the recognition of elemental qualities, from the most simple to the most intricate, therefore mastering life itself."
....Joseph Jaskolka
Relief grill of orchestra pit. with lyre Teatro San Carlo. Napoli, 1817 AD. By Antonio Nicolini. Interior 1842 AD. Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Ferguson.
Situated on the banks of the River Corrib in Galway city, Galway Cathedral is the most recently built of Europe's great stone cathedrals.
Lichen is a wonderful clean air indicator, growing away from pollution, very well here in Orkney, Scotland. You will smell the fresh air too, salty and invigorating.
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This little amazing Ruin was found in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia! Captured on the Canon 7D and tweaked with a painted effect in Photoshop!!
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Boxes. Teatro San Carlo. Napoli, 1817 AD. By Antonio Nicolini. Interior 1842 AD. Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Ferguson.
Coleton Fishacre House (South Devon, in the West Country region of southwestern England), seen here on a mostly sunny day in early October 2008.
The house was originally a home of the theatrical D'Oyle Carte family, built in the Arts and Crafts style 1925-1926. It was designed so that all of the family and guest rooms faced the coast and had views of the English Channel. (Servants' rooms, unfortunately, tended to face the back of the property, inland.)
Coleton Fishacre is now a National Trust site, lying on the South Devon coast, near Brixham and Kingswear. With its relatively mild climate, the garden didn't yet feature too much autumn colour; still, there were hints of the season.
[Coleton Fishacre D'Oyly Carte house terrace autumn 2008 oct 3 c]
The house is on an historic site on the York-Williams Rd. Staunton Springs were named by J.S. Roe in the 1840s in honour of a member of his party, Sergeant John Staunton, during a survey of the route.
The Homestead is an old fashioned stone house, which incorporated materials from an earlier police station at the spring and includes one storeroom originally built for a police groom.
David Grainger took up the property and built the first part of the house between 1851 and 1856