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Returnee children in the bus that brought them to the Torit waystation
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Young girl in the sunset at Torit waystation. In the background, the UNHCR tent hosting the Red Crescent Society volunteers and the line of returnees awaiting medical advice or medicine.
REDMILL AND ITS HAUNTED HOUSE
By Kevin W. Wright
When Jacob C. Zabriskie leased the 80-acre mill farm upon the Saddle River from Abraham Gouverneur in 1766, it included a new, four-room stone house. The neighborhood, known casually as Zabriskie's Mills, was renamed New Hamburgh in 1790, when a post office opened.1 Located upon the Albany post road, New Hamburgh was a busy relay point for stage coaches stopping overnight, the water and pasture thereabout being of the best quality. In winter, large companies of farmers from as far off as Sussex County stayed the night while en route to city markets with sled loads of venison, pork and other farm products. In season, as many as 25 farmers could be seen forming a procession across the frozen countryside and as many as a hundred rural travelers might put up for the night in hotels near the mill. At one time or another, Garret Oldis, Benjamin Oldis, Harmon Lutkins, Samuel Breevort, Henry Brevoort, George Doremus, John Zabriskie, Henry Zabriskie, Henry Van Emburgh, Cornelius Taylor and David Naugle established reputations for hospitality at taverns along the Paramus Road. Polly Brevoort's hotel, supposedly more popular than any of her numerous competitors, stood on the west side of the bridge. For many years, a solitary fiddler named Yean Moore provided entertainment for the old-time dances at such establishments, whose balconies were illuminated by a row of candles and whose dance-halls echoed with the lively footfall of rustic swains and cityfolk draw from as far away as Paterson. Barger's Lane (as the old road to Paterson from Arcola was then known) was also a popular track for horse-racing where thousands of dollars were wagered and every foot of the course was lined with men and women from miles around. The Bergen County militia held their periodical "trainings" on the broad and level plain about Red Mills; such training-days, attended by thousands, had the air and festivity of a general holiday.
In 1816, Garret Oldis conveyed the mill lot at New Hamburgh to John Ryers of Sloterdam, who installed wool-carding machinery. In January 1820, John and Bernard Ryers sold the carding mill to Albert A. Westervelt. The new owner distinguished the mill with a bright coat of paint and so bestowed the name Red Mill.
In July 1824, Westervelt's son-in-law, Edward B. Force, informed the public that he had "established a manufactory for the purpose of Carding, Spinning, Fulling, Dyeing and Dressing at the Red Mill belonging to Albert A. Westervelt at Paramus, where he intends to carry on the above business in all its various branches." He offered to card farmers' wool "as usual" and to manufacture wool into "all descriptions of yarn, cloths, flannels and Satinet, etc, at reduced prices." In October 1825, he and Garret A. Westervelt advertised that "their Fulling Machine [was] now in Complete order at the Red Mill, Paramus..." Cloth for fulling could be left at stores in Hackensack, Old Hackensack (Bogota), English Neighborhood and Paterson Landing. Two or three pedlars made regular rounds of the countryside, bringing raw and worked materials from points as distant as Union Hill, Englewood and Nyack. Satinet, yarn and red flannel blankets were manufactured by hands working from dawn until eight in the evening, earning from 50¢ to 75¢ weekly.
Upon his death in 1838, Albert Westervelt was succeeded by Edward B. Force, husband of his daughter Lydia. Force increased production, spinning wool yarn for the Higgins carpet factory in New York. He removed the saw mill portion from over the flume and added it to the north end of the building, then built a two-story addition on the south side where six power looms ran full time. He also built a long building on the east side of the road to house eighteen hand looms. Lastly, he erected a belfry on the mill which he used to summon his employees, who sometimes numbered 50 hands.
Red Mill now used all its power as a woolen mill. Its principal product was heavy printing blankets, fulled in heavy stocks and then used over heavy rollers for printing calicos and other goods. A barn which Edward Force built a short distance south of the mill in 1840 was outfitted with seats in 1842 and appropriated for religious services. In 1843, Force donated a lot for construction of the Arcola Methodist church. His neighbors brought a number of large logs to the mill where they were sawn into timbers. Rev. Manning Force, Edward's brother, laid the cornerstone .
Edward Force died September 6, 1850, at 51 years of age. In November 1853, commissioners of the Orphans Court sold the mill and about 60 acres for $5,200 to the highest bidder, George Graham, reputedly "a portly Englishman said to have been a high liver." He angered his neighbors along the river by raising the level of the mill dam to increase its power, thereby flooding meadowlands as far as Dunderhook. They retaliated by throwing the upper course of stones on the dam into the river during the night. During the Civil War, Graham produced army blankets for Robert Beatty of Little Falls, who had a government contract. In March 1871, administrators of George Graham's estate sold the property to John Dunlop. He, in partnership with D. S. Beam, Samuel Smith and General Hoxney, all of Paterson, intended using the mill pond as a municipal reservoir for the city of Hackensack, but the water supply proved inadequate for that purpose.
For many years, the setting of the Red Mill, with its two dams, bridge and stream, made it a favorite subject for professional and amateur photographers, sketchers and painters. But its industrial life ebbed away, outdone by the modern factory system. The popularity of the place as a waystation declined with the rise of the railroads and, as the roads thereabout deteriorated, the old drovers and stage hotels closed. In August 1873, The Hackensack Republican announced that the Red Mill at Arcola had been "rented and will soon run as a shoddy manufactory," but the old mill dam sustained a heavy break by a freshet in April 1874. The old dwelling house near the Red Mill was reportedly "the subject of a good many comments":
"The neighbors say that strange noises are to be heard in the building after night fall. On one occasion an apparition in white stood at the window. In the early part of this century 'Olly' Westervely lived there. He was an eccentric man, and it is said, that he ordered a coffin before his death. It was brought into the house, and the old man got into it to see how a wooden overcoat fitted. It was a tight fit, and help had to be brought to relieve Mr. Westervelt out of his predicament. It may be that the spirit of the old man has returned to revisit the old settlement. Change has developed, but little. The old mill still stands, and its former occupant, E. B. Force, and others, have long crossed the dark river. It would not be unreasonable to suppose the spirits of the departed return to earth, that apparitions from the spirit world are walking around the Red Mills, and disturbing the residents by phantoms. The building in itself is enough to scare any one let alone the presence of a ghost. It is an admirable place for goblins 'and sich,' and the only way the public can be relieved of them is to pull down the old dwelling, and break up such a hiding place."
Easton Water Tower
The Red Mill was dismantled in December 1894. In 1898, Edward Denison Easton, a gramaphone manufacturer, built a handsome residence at Arcola, near the site of the Red Mill, and wished to constructed a park back of his residence. About fifty men and twenty teams of horses worked on the construction of walks and drives. Trees were planted and a lake formed in the middle of the grounds. In July 1899, John Dunlop conveyed the Red Mill to William Johnson, of Hackensack, who sold it three months later to Edward Easton, who was then "making extensive purchases of property in that neighborhood with a view to beautifying the surroundings of his home." In 1904, Easton constructed the present stone tower on the former site of the Red Mill, which he used to pump water for his gardens.
Didyma Ancient Cities
Didyma (/ˈdɪdɨmə/; Ancient Greek: Δίδυμα) was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ionia. It contained a temple and oracle of Apollo, the Didymaion. In Greek didyma means "twin", but the Greeks who sought a "twin" at Didyma ignored the Carian origin of the name.[1] Next to Delphi, Didyma was the most renowned oracle of the Hellenic world, first mentioned among the Greeks in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo,[2] but an establishment preceding literacy and even the Hellenic colonization of Ionia. Mythic genealogies of the origins of the Branchidae line of priests, designed to capture the origins of Didyma as a Hellenic tradition, date to the Hellenistic period.[3] The ruins of Didyma are located at a short distance to the northwest of modern Didim in Aydin Province, Turkey, whose name is derived from Didyma's.
Bust of a marble kouros from the Sacred Way at Didyma, now in the British Museum, 550 BC[4]
Didyma was the largest and most significant sanctuary on the territory of the great classical city Miletus. To approach it, visitors would follow the Sacred Way to Didyma, about 17 km long. Along the way, were ritual waystations, and statues of members of the Branchidae family, male and female, as well as animal figures. Some of these statues, dating to the 6th century BC, are now in the British Museum, taken by the British archaeologist Charles Newton in the 19th century.[5]
Greek and Roman authors laboured to refer the name Didyma to "twin" temples — not a feature of the site — or to temples of the twins, Apollo and Artemis, whose own cult center at Didyma was only recently established, or whether, as Wilamowitz suggested[6] there is a connection to Cybele Dindymene, "Cybele of Mount Dindymon", is mooted. Recent excavations by the German team of archaeologists have uncovered a major sanctuary dedicated to Artemis, with the key ritual focus being water.
The 6th century Didymaion, dedicated to Apollo, enclosed its smaller predecessor, which archaeologists have identified. Its treasury was enriched by gifts from Croesus.
This was taken outside of Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. They had a farm there where they use to raise Liger (Lions and Tigers) until they all got out and a majority of them were shot. Ligertown happened in 1995, 27 exotic cats were seized and 19 killed. The surviving ligers were taken to Wildlife Waystation Sanctuary in Angeles National forest, California. I still wonder if they got all of them. It is a mountainous area where they were kept.... This cloud, a spirit I thought was really explaining the hurt that was suffered by animal abuse... The owners were charged...
My Box entry for the Canon Photo5 competition.
I am amazed that the little box with all its smaller boxes inside, actually supported my weight. My whole weight was on the box, to save the books. I think it was the little ones inside that did all the supporting.
This photo made Explore. Entry position: 178 on Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Highest position: 19 on Thursday, November 15, 2007
That is my higest ever debut & highest overall rank on Explore.
This photo was featured on Wil Wheaton's Blog as part of Wheaton's Books in the Wild.
Attendies of the annual Prairie Fire Bioneers Conference install a monarch waystation at the Knox Farm.
Another post today for Totally Texture Tuesday!
At the Butterfly Garden you encounter many different types of butterflies, including Buckeyes as shown here. The focus on this one is a bit on the soft side which is exactly what I envisioned. Taken with my old Pentax 50mm 2.0 prime lens (wide open) on my Nikon 1. Texture added in iPiccy.
Monarch Waystation,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence (Douglas County), KS.
Returnee girl carrying her luggage from the bus to the waystation building in Torit, Eastern Equatoria State
The Palace of Fine Arts Rotunda in San Francisco, right next to the Exporatorium (until the Exploratorium moves in 2013!!!) at night.
A returnee boy screams happily as he is playing in one of the buses at the waystation.
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Although a special place has been set up for women to wash, some children do it in the open with water provided by UNHCR.
A Muslim boy sells goats, including baby ones, at the Sunday Livestock Market.
Kashgar (Kashi) is the westernmost city in China (nearer to Tehran and Damascus than to Beijing) with a population of roughly 350,000 who are predominantly Muslim Uighurs. Its history extends over 2,000 years, early on an important waystation on the Silk Road where the northern and southern routes merged at the transition from the desert to the east to the mountains to the west, the final barrier (treacherous terrain with bandits—plus dragons and evil spirits it was believed) to reaching India. Buddhism was active here in the 7th century. Islam was established here in the 10th century. Marco Polo visited around 1273-1274. Tamerlane (Timur the Lame) ravaged Kashgar in 1389-1390.
The Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014. (Chang'an, now Xi'an, is in eastern China and Tianshan is a system of mountain ranges in the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Northwest China.)
[The term ‘Silk Road’ was coined in 1877 by German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen. The Silk Road contributed not only to the exchange of goods and technologies, but also to the mutual enrichment of cultures and traditions of different peoples. Direct maritime trade between Europe and the Far East ultimately supplanted the overland route.]
On Google Earth:
Sunday Livestock Market 39°31'23.93"N, 75°55'54.73"E
During these past six months at this job, I've met some extremely dedicated and competent people. One needs to be dedicated to work in this kind of facility, as the pay is not extravagant, the hours can be long and the work can be very dangerous and physically demanding. But once you've gotten close to the animals who live at the Wildlife WayStation, the hours and the money don't matter very much, and the work is all about keeping the animals safe, clean, healthy and happy. Seeing how interested, engaged and happy the animals are at the WayStation is a very significant part of the reward for doing the job.
Garden's Owners: Paul and Marjorie Krupa
Cornwall, New York 12518
Name of Garden Club: Cornwall Garden Club
State Garden Club: Federated Garden Clubs of New York State, Inc.
Description of garden & where it is located:
Marjorie and Paul Krupa's garden is located in the Hudson River Valley town of Cornwall, New York. It is a garden in "harmony with nature" where you will find many trees and plants that attract butterflies, birds, and bees. There are dogwood trees, many conifers, a small herb garden, and an abundance of perennial flowers. The garden is a National Wildlife Federation certified wildlife habitat and it is also registered as a Monarch Butterfly Waystation. In June 2012 the garden was one of three visited by the members of Cornwall Garden Club.
There are several garden rooms where plants adapt well to their location. For example, the front entrance faces north and ferns thrive in this location. In the south east exposure you will find sun loving plants and in the west garden there are many shade loving plants and wildflowers nestled under a large maple tree.
UNHCR Field Safety Advisor, Finance/Admin Assistant and two drivers are smiling at the UNHCR waystation in Torit. They and other staff are actively involved in supporting the return process and ensuring the safety of returnees.
Returnee woman from Khartoum carrying luggage at the UNHCR waystation in Torit (Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan)
This week's post for Macro Mondays - The theme is divided.
While on a bike ride this evening, I stopped at the Butterfly Garden and spotted this Monarch Caterpillar on a Milkweed plant which seemed perfect for this week's theme.
Monarch Waystation,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence (Douglas County), KS.
UNHCR Torit Field Assistant is talking to a returnee child upon their arrival to the Torit waystation
(*Just beyond the Historical Marker is the Colorado River)
Approximately 125 yards east of this spot the Wood Stage Station served as a stop on the Sydney to Deadwood Trail. This station offered the first glimpse of the Black Hills to travelers seeking their fortune in the newly opened gold fields. The station, in operation from 1876 to 1888 was run by Lt. William Wood and his wife Susanna (Friday) & their four children - Ruth, St. Clair, Paul, & Leo. Lt. Wood had served as aide-de-camp to General George Custer during his expedition to the Black Hills in 1874. After mustering out of the army in 1875, Wood got his start in the stage business by building a stage depot in Deadwood in 1876. This stage station, in addition to the standard facilities for handling the horses, stage coaches, & wagons passing along the trail, offered a dining room for the drivers & passengers on the stage line. During the height of travel along the trail in 1878-79, it is estimated that over 25 million pounds of freight passed the station on its way to settlers in the Black Hills.
***In 1874, because of its location on the railroad, the Sidney barracks became the supply point for all military & Indian Department supplies destined for points to the north in the Pine Ridge. The following year, gold was discovered in the Black Hills. A railroad connection was needed to bring supplies to the miners & more importantly, to carry gold to the banks on the coast. The trail to Fort Robinson was extended & the Sidney Deadwood Trail was born.
A large number of both failed and successful robberies led to the demand for increased military protection in the region. In 1878, Sidney barracks became Fort Sidney.
Sinful Sidney toughest town on the tracks, wickedest town in the WEST. These were just some of the names used to describe the town of Sidney, Nebraska....& with good reason.
In 1867, the Union Pacific Railroad was laying their tracks through western Nebraska to Wyoming border. Sidney just happened to be the division point & Lodgepole, Brownson & Potter were the local train stations. To protect the workers, supplies & equipment the United States Army stationed a company of infantry here in Sidney as a sub-post of Fort Sedgwick in Colorado.
UNHCR staff facilitating the distribution of food at the waystation. Each returnee is issued with a voluntary return form (VRF) upon return, which is used to verify them and provide them with assistance.
The Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest threatened the Wildlife Waystation - sanctuary for over 400 exotic animals.
Volunteers and staff and community members worked through the night to evacuate the animals.
Temple of apollo - Didyma - Didem
Didyma (Greek: Δίδυμα) was an ancient Ionian sanctuary, the modern Didim, Turkey.[1] The sanctuary containing a temple and oracle of Apollo, the Didymaion. In Greek didyma means "twin", but the Greeks who sought a "twin" at Didyma ignored the Carian origin of the name,[2]. Next to Delphi, Didyma was the most renowned oracle of the Hellenic world, first mentioned among the Greeks in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo,[3] but preceding literacy and even the colonization of Ionia. Mythic genealogies of the origins of the Branchidae line of priests, designed to capture the origins of Didyma as a Hellenic tradition, date to the Hellenistic period.[4]
Didyma was the largest and most significant sanctuary on the territory of the great classical city Miletus. To approach it, visitors would follow the Sacred Way to Didyma, about 17km long. Along the way, were ritual waystations, and statues of members of the Branchidae family, male and female, as well as animal figures. Some of these statues, dating back to the 6th century BC are now in the British Museum, taken by Charles Newton in the 19th century.
Greek and Roman authors laboured to refer the name Didyma to "twin" temples — not a feature of the site — or to temples of the twins, Apollo and Artemis, whose own cult center at Didyma was only recently established, or whether, as Wilamowitz suggested[5] there is a connection to Cybele Dindymene, "Cybele of Mount Dindymon", is mooted. Recent excavations by the German team of archaeologists have uncovered a major sanctuary dedicated to Artemis, with the key ritual focus being water.
The sixth-century Didymaion, dedicated to Apollo, enclosed its smaller predecessor, which archaeologists have identified. Its treasury was enriched by gifts from Croesus.
Until its destruction by the Persians in 494 BC, Didyma's sanctuary was administered by the family of the Branchidae, who claimed descent from Branchos, a youth beloved of Apollo.[6]
Women at waystations are ready to go and pick up their luggage at the Torit County Office after having had breakfast.
Islamic architecture in the old neighborhood behind the Id Kah Mosque.
Kashgar (Kashi) is the westernmost city in China (nearer to Tehran and Damascus than to Beijing) with a population of roughly 350,000 who are predominantly Muslim Uighurs. Its history extends over 2,000 years, early on an important waystation on the Silk Road where the northern and southern routes merged at the transition from the desert to the east to the mountains to the west, the final barrier (treacherous terrain with bandits—plus dragons and evil spirits it was believed) to reaching India. Buddhism was active here in the 7th century. Islam was established here in the 10th century. Marco Polo visited around 1273-1274. Tamerlane (Timur the Lame) ravaged Kashgar in 1389-1390.
The movie “The Kite Runner” (2007) was filmed here as Afghanistan was too dangerous.
The Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014. (Chang'an, now Xi'an, is in eastern China and Tianshan is a system of mountain ranges in the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Northwest China.)
[The term ‘Silk Road’ was coined in 1877 by German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen. The Silk Road contributed not only to the exchange of goods and technologies, but also to the mutual enrichment of cultures and traditions of different peoples. Direct maritime trade between Europe and the Far East ultimately supplanted the overland route.]
On Google Earth:
Id Kah Mosque 39°28'19.95"N, 75°59'5.32"E
Islamic architecture in the old neighborhood behind the Id Kah Mosque. (I think that meat hanging out in front of the butcher shop is going to be a bit gritty from the ongoing sandstorm.)
Kashgar (Kashi) is the westernmost city in China (nearer to Tehran and Damascus than to Beijing) with a population of roughly 350,000 who are predominantly Muslim Uighurs. Its history extends over 2,000 years, early on an important waystation on the Silk Road where the northern and southern routes merged at the transition from the desert to the east to the mountains to the west, the final barrier (treacherous terrain with bandits—plus dragons and evil spirits it was believed) to reaching India. Buddhism was active here in the 7th century. Islam was established here in the 10th century. Marco Polo visited around 1273-1274. Tamerlane (Timur the Lame) ravaged Kashgar in 1389-1390.
The movie “The Kite Runner” (2007) was filmed here as Afghanistan was too dangerous.
The Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014. (Chang'an, now Xi'an, is in eastern China and Tianshan is a system of mountain ranges in the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Northwest China.)
[The term ‘Silk Road’ was coined in 1877 by German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen. The Silk Road contributed not only to the exchange of goods and technologies, but also to the mutual enrichment of cultures and traditions of different peoples. Direct maritime trade between Europe and the Far East ultimately supplanted the overland route.]
On Google Earth:
Id Kah Mosque 39°28'19.95"N, 75°59'5.32"E