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The Minidoka Relocation Center, 15 miles north of Twin Falls and 150 miles southeast of Boise, was also referred to as the Hunt Camp. Minidoka was considered a model environment because of its relatively peaceful atmosphere and population that got along well with the administration. Because it was not within the Western Defense Command restricted area, security was somewhat lighter than at most other camps. But when the internees first arrived, they were shocked to see the bleak landscape that was to be there home over the next three years.
Located on the Snake River Plain at an elevation of 4000 feet, the land is dotted with sagebrush and thin basaltic lava flows and cinder cones. The internees found the environment to be extremely harsh, with temperatures ranging from 30 degrees below zero to as high as 115 degrees. They also had to contend with blinding dust storms and ankle-deep mud after the rains.
Minidoka was in operation from August 10, 1942 to October 28, 1945. The reserve covered more than 33,000 acres of land in Jerome County. The camp’s peak population reached 9,397 by March 1, 1943, and it became Idaho's third largest city. Five miles of barbed wire fencing and eight watchtowers surrounded the administrative and residential areas, which were located in the west-central portion of the reserve.
Most of the people interned at Minidoka were from the Pacific Northwest: approximately 7,050 from Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Washington, 2,500 from Oregon and 150 from Alaska, including children or grandchildren of Eskimo women and Japanese men. They were temporarily housed at the Puyallup Fairgrounds in Washington, then sent by train to Idaho. In early 1943, all of the Bainbridge Island, Washington, residents interned at the Manzanar Relocation Center were transferred to Minidoka at their own request because of constant conflict with the internees from Terminal Island in Los Angeles.
The central camp consisted of 600 buildings on 950 acres. When the first internees arrived at Minidoka in August 1942, they moved into the crude barracks even though much of the camp was unfinished and there was no running water or sewage system. The Army insisted on having all Japanese removed from the West Coast at once, and they did not halt the evacuation until the camp could hold no more. The last group of 500 evacuees to arrive at the camp had to sleep in mess halls, laundry rooms, or any available bed space. Waiting in line for many daily functions, especially meals, was common.
The camp’s residential area encompassed 36 blocks and was one mile wide and three miles long. Each block included 12 tarpaper barracks, one dining hall, one laundry building with communal showers and toilets and a recreation hall. Immediately after arrival, the internees were instructed to see the camp physician, and then they received an apartment assignment. Apartments were of three sizes, and where possible, family groups or relatives were placed near each other. Efforts were later made to move people near their place of employment.
A very odd looking movement much similar to NSWGR and SRA days of taking locos off to be scrapped, but not it this case.
Running under Sydney Rail Services (SRS) as D994 from Bomaderry Via Meeks Rd, 4501 and 4464 in push pull formation haul 7319, 7333 and 7322 through Bargo on the Main South, en route to Goulburn for a new lease of life as a future project.
7319 had spent most of its life at Cootamundra during the 70s, 7322 based in Orange and 7333 was based in Broadmeadow.
All three units were owned by Manildra before being purchased recently.
A worker from Xcel Energy gives the wires overhead a small boost... just under the wire indeed.
On January 6, 2016, Northfield's depot was moved across Third Street to its new home on the Q Block.
Lucy Jackson (Oct.11, 1867-after 1923)
Known as: Princesse Lucie, La Belle Jackson, Bella Jackson
African-American Singer & Dancer
Lucy Thomas, born c. October 1867 (or 1869) in Charleston, South Carolina had no known relatives besides an uncle Richard Brown from Virginia. At some point in the 1880's, young Lucy Thomas relocated to Savannah, Georgia where she met and married Gilbert Jackson on April 19th, 1886 in a ceremony conducted by the Rev. Harry B. Hamilton. Strangely, the couple doesn't appear in the 1890 US Census, in fact neither of them appear in any records except during their wedding.
In the spring of 1895, talent scout and stage manager Billy McClain, with the financial backing of Nate Salsbury (formerly of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show), thought of the idea of exploiting America's slave heritage by romanticizing it into a sort of human zoo. Over 300-400 African-Americans from Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas were hired and transported up to New York (a young Lucy Jackson amongst them) for this massive production. On May 11th, South Brooklyn's Ambrose Park was completely renovated for the show's production, erecting nearly 100 log cabins to accommodate the cast of 400 negroes. A cotton gin was also constructed, bales of cotton, cotton bushes, poultry and livestock were scattered throughout the park.
Opening May 25th, 1895, "Black America" was promoted as outdoor theme-park extravaganza showcasing the American Negro, "from the jungles of Africa to the civilization of America." For six weeks, the production showcased a Baltimore brass band, jubilee singers, acrobats, foot races, buck and wing dances as well as performances from the star of the entire production, Miss Flowers. On July 15th, the show moved up to Boston, performing in a huge tent along Huntington Avenue and performing in parades on major Boston streets for eight successful weeks. Returning to New York on September 16th, the show performed for the remainder of the month at the Winter Garden Theater. The show later moved on to Philadelphia's Grand Opera Theater (Oct.4-Nov.30) and Washington DC's Convention Hall (Oct.22) before finally falling apart. Unfortunately, the show wasn't financially successful and left the directors in debt. The proposed plan to take the show to London was promptly cancelled and Nate Salsbury moved on to produce his latest venture, "Darkest America".
On April 15th, 1896, the remnants of "Black America" (now composed of 25 members) boarded the Erie 8 train from Marion, Ohio heading east to New York, where a ship awaited to take them to Europe. At some point, Bavarian theater director Ludwig Anwander from Schliersee had taken over the show. In September 1895, during his first trip to America, he witnessed the production and offered to take the production to Europe. Arriving in Berlin by May 25th, the show performed throughout the month at a German Exposition. The following month, the show appeared at Leipzig's Theater Hotel Stadt Nurnberg (Jun.1, 1896) possibly for another month's engagement. On July 1st, the show was back in Berlin at the Theater Neu-Berlin before disappearing. It seems they left for Chemnitz, as Lucy files for a passport at the American Consulate on July 8th, presenting her 1886 marriage certificate to the consul as proof of her American origins. Another detail on this passport was inability to sign her name, signing two X's as her signature. Afterwards, the show returned to Berlin, where it played a week at the Belle-Alliance Gardens. In August, for a week, the troupe performed in the port city of Stettin at the Elysium Theater (this time with only 12 members). Around this point, Herr Anwander sold the show to a Russian Impresario before he returned home to Southern Germany.
Crossing into the Russian frontier during the late summer of 1896, the show's new manager arranged two lengthy engagements in St. Petersburg and Moscow, where the show became a popular novelty act before eventually dissolving. Lucy remained in Russia for the next three years.
On January 10th, 1899, after possibly touring around the Russian Empire, Lucy arrived at the American Consulate to apply for a new passport in preparations for a solo European tour. Ten months later, she appeared at Prague's Olympia Theater (Nov.1-15) for two weeks, where she was billed as the Schwarze Schonheit (Black Beauty) from South Africa's Transvaal. Nearby, the young Arabella Fields was appearing at the Etablissement Sykora. The following year, she returned to Prague, appearing as Princess Lucie Jackson at the K.u.K. Hofbrauhaus (May 16-19).
In April 1901, Lucy was in Berlin engaged at the famous Passage-Theater performing German lieder to enthusiastic audiences.
In December 1903, she was performing at Hamburg's Sagbiel Etablissement (Dec.5-23). On December 18th, during this engagement, she visited the American Consulate for a new passport before crossing the border the following month back home into Russia. Strangely, she listed Montreal as her birthplace.
After a possible St. Petersburg engagement, Lucy (now billed as La Belle Jackson) performed the Cake-Walk at Helsinki's Societethuset, also known as the illustrious Seurahuone Hotel (Feb.21-Mar.18, 1904). This was followed by a lengthy Scandinavian tour. In April, she had a month's engagement in Stockholm's Svea Salen Theater (Apr.9-22). In August, she could be seen at Copenhagen's Vennelyst Variete (Aug.24-Sep.9). Established in 1892, the Vennelyst was a large alloment garden in central Copenhagen, dotted with numerous small allotments and cottages, where the Danish working-class could unwind. On August 28th, after a performance, a Danish man, Mr. Woller attempted to grab and kiss Lucy in the streets, which resulted in her beating the man severely according to local newspapers. The duo were seized and taken to the nearest police station before being promptly released. On September 14th, Lucy moved over to the Apollo Teatret (Sep.14-25) beside the Tivoli Gardens on the Vesterbrogade, where she was billed as the Sorte Nattergal (Black Nightingale) for two weeks.
Late-1905, while Russia suffered from the Russo-Japanese War and the 1905 Revolution, Lucy travelled to Austria, appearing at Vienna's Joh. Weigl's Variete (Jul.1, 1905) and Lemberg's Colosseum Hermanow (Nov.8-15) before disappearing altogether.
On December 16th, 1906, Lucy resurfaced in Switzerland, performing as a member of the "Smith and Bella Jackson" duo at Basel's Cardinal Theater. Her new partner, William Henry Smith (Apr.21, 1879) from Philadelphia. Arrived in Europe in 1903 with the "12 Georgia Piccaninnies", Mr. Smith eventually abandoned the troupe sometime in 1906 to join Lucy.
Early 1907, the couple traveled east to Budapest, where they were engaged for a month and a half at the Nemzetkozi Orfeum (Feb.16-Mar.19). On February 16th, they also secured a new passport from the American Legation. On May 18th, they moved over to the Szinhaz Variete. On July 21st, the couple arrived in the Hungarian city of Szeged (near the Romanian border), appearing at the Tarka Szinpadon.
Early 1908, the duo traveled southeast to Romania, applying for a passport at Bucharest's American Embassy on April 22nd. Interestingly, Lucy had began learning how to sign her name (possibly due to the aid of Smith), as noted by her poorly written signature on the passport application. That summer, Smith and Jackson returned to Russia, appearing in the "Grand Concert Divertissement Cosmopolite" at St. Petersburg's Bouffe Gardens (Jul.4-Aug.11).
In March 1910, the duo were at Hamburg's Flora Theater, where interestingly enough, Bella Jackson was praised for her performance of Tyrolean folk songs. Two months later, they were thrilling audiences in Budapest's Karolyi Gardens (May 26-Jun.1). Throughout the year, they were bombarded with numerous engagements across the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In August, they were at Teplitz's Cursaale Theater (Aug.5), the following month at Budapest's Feher Cabaret (Sep.29-Oct.1). In October, they traveled north to Lemberg's Casino de Paris (Oct.8-15) before heading east to Czernowitz (along the Russian-Romanian border) to perform at the Variete Bellevue (Oct.16-30) for two weeks. In December, they were in Vienna, where they applied on December 29th for a new passport to travel into Romania.
Throughout 1911-1912, the duo toured across Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Egypt. During the course of this tour, they became acquainted with the Cousins (an American duo composed of Afro-American singer, Sam Cousins and his Austrian-American wife Bertha). In May 1912, Smith and Jackson were back in Europe, performing at Vienna's Café Trianon (May 1-13). Four months later, they were at Budapest's Kabaret Pannoniaban (Sep.29-Oct.6) and later Kabaret Magyar Kiralyban (Oct.22-31).
Early 1913, the couple found themselves in northern Austria (Bohemia), appearing in Reichenburg's Meiningers Variete (Mar.1-6) and later Prague's Kabarett Wespe (Jul.20). That winter, while engaged in Hamburg, the pair applied for a passport on December 23rd for their plans to return east to Romania and Russia.
During the spring of 1914, the couple were back in Prague, residing at 47 Wenzelsplatz. While there, the couple joined African-American artist Mose Harris, forming the "Philadelphia Trio". The trio spent two weeks at the Alhambra Palais de Danse (Apr.16-30). In June, the trio crossed into the Russian Empire, performing for two weeks at the Majorenhof Sea Pavillon in Riga (Jun.1-15). On June 28, 1914, during their Baltic tour, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, setting in motion the events leading to the outbreak of World War I. On August 4, after Germany invaded Belgium, while simultaneously attacking France, Great Britain declared war on Germany. The Philadelphia Trio arrived in Petrograd on September 17th.
By October 1915, they had relocated to Moscow, settling in the Hotel Boston as noted by their passport application on November 24th. For three months, the Philadelphia trio were among the leading attractions at the Maxim Cabaret (owned by famous African-American businessman Frederick B. Thomas). By the fall of 1916, the Philadelphia Trio had seperated and Smith & Jackson relocated to Petrograd, appearing at the Sirene Cinema (Sep.15-16).
Early 1917, they were performing at the Kino-Palace (Jan.17-22) and later the Kino-Olympia (Apr.18-21). The duo briefly returned to Moscow on April 19th to obtain new passports before returning to the Russian capital.
On March 8, 1917, over seven thousand female textile workers from St. Petersburg's Vyborg district, marched through the streets crying for bread. The shortages had left the lower class starving, cold and desperate. From March 9-15, Cossacks patrolled the streets and machine guns were positioned everywhere. Protesters filled the streets only to be met by gunfire. All the blood spilling in the streets caused many soldiers to mutiny and join the mobs. Prisoners across the city were released into the streets, gendarmes were murdered, courthouses, arsenals, shops, private homes and the Ministry of the Interior were looted and ransacked. Mobs killed any respectable looking men, causing many gendarmes to strip their uniforms and flee the city. On March 16, Tsar Nikolai II abdicated and many aristocrats fled to the countryside. The old order evaporated and anarchy spread.
In August, they were back in Moscow, making sure to renew their passports again on August 21st with fellow entertainer, Peter C. Johnson. Smith and Jackson were last seen in Russia on October 6th, registering with the consulate and preparing to board the Trans-Siberian train east towards Harbin.
Early 1918, after a brief engagement in Harbin, the duo continued south through Peking towards Shanghai, arriving in the Republic of China's largest city by July. After a four month engagement in Shanghai, on October 15th, the pair applied for new American passports before packing up for the Philippines. The duo were engaged for six successful months in Manila, due to the popularity of American Ragtime in Southeast Asia at the time.
On April 25th, 1919, Smith and Jackson boarded the SS Suwa Maru heading towards an engagement in Hong Kong. The following month, they were found in Malaya, at Singapore's Palladium Theatre (May 26-31) and later the Gaiety Theatre (Jun.3-9). That winter, they were engaged in British India, performing in the bustling city of Calcutta. On December 9th, while applying at the American Consulate-General, Smith and Jackson both listed that they were now married. In 1920, the couple appeared across Burma, the Dutch East Indies, Sumatra, Siam and French Indochina before returning home to China.
On January 29, 1923, William H. Smith died at Shanghai's General Hospital and later buried at the Bubbling Wells Cemetery. Lucy, who was residing at the Continental Hotel, cancelled their upcoming appearance at Singapore's Stadium and disappeared completely.
Food prep area number two. Pity about the rock wire netting. After this, the carcass was relocated all the way back to it's original location.
(Clare)
In 1997, I was privileged to witness this cheetah mother target her meal, explode into chase, and run the Impala down with no help from her 3 cubs. In this frame, she works to pull the kill into the shade and protection of a large bush. You can see how one of the cubs is already working to start the feast.
Cheetahs are indeed the fastest land animal, and we saw that. Mombo, Botswana, June 1997.
WEEK 14 – BAM Southaven Relocation: Old Store, Set 2
Exiting bargain books, here’s a look from, well, bargain books (!) back toward the front entrance of the store. You can see a bit of everything here: the Joe Muggs café, the Pop World signage, even Customer Service way up there! Note also the set of windows above the ground-level ones: those displayed even more photo décor.
Taken at 2:47PM on Friday, January 27th, 2017, this was my final-ever picture of the old store in operation :(
(c) 2017 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
WEEK 16 – BAM Southaven Relocation: New Store, Set 1
Sliding down that side pathway a short ways, we find ourselves looking out into the music and entertainment section of the store. In the center, like in Pop World, are various table-style displays for CDs, vinyl, and other related merchandise. The actual bookshelves flanking either side of this area are home to entertainment books (as can be seen on the right) and, I believe, humor (out of view on the left, although you saw it earlier).
(c) 2017 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
WEEK 49 – Southaven Burlington Relocation: New Store, Set I
Turning around and looking down the right-side wall of the store for this view. That's the back right corner you see off in the distance. You can see here that beyond those accessories and jewelry sections I just mentioned is the women's shoes department. Funnily enough, shoes were located in about the same area back in this building's Sports Authority days: see here!
On that note... I was hoping to link to more Sports Authority comparison pics throughout this series, but at least for today's set of ten it appears that I don't have that many that apply. Hopefully that changes as we move onward! And remember that you can always check out my full album of Sports Authority closing pics here (as well as the rest of this Burlington album, including pics of the now-former previous store, here).
(c) 2017 Retail Retell
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WEEK 33 – Tuesday Morning Relocation
An example of a typical aisle in the store. No-frills shelving, thanks to an ever-changing merchandise selection. However, each aisle always has the same product, if not specific items: for example, this aisle features crafts, sewing, gifts, etc. Other aisles house toys, kitchenware, home décor, rugs and furniture, and bedding, to name a few. The bare-bones feel, as well as offbeat location, has always been what I've associated most with Tuesday Morning. With one definitely changing as a result of this relocation, it'll be interesting to see how the other fares!
(c) 2016 Retail Retell
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WEEK 16 – BAM Southaven Relocation: New Store, Set 1
Finally, here we are: Southaven’s new Books-a-Million! If this view looks a little familiar to you, that’s probably because it’s exactly how we started our last tour of this store: during its final months as a Hancock Fabrics. Additionally, the “now open” banner seen here was likely just the other side of BAM’s “coming soon” one here.
Books-a-Million // 75 Goodman Road W, Southaven, MS 38671
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Severance Town Center opened in 1963 as a mall under the name "Severance Center". The mall has since converted to a standard outdoor shopping center. The shopping center is anchored by Home Depot, Dave's Market, and Regal Cinemas. Walmart closed in late 2013 when they relocated to a new supercenter nearby.
Severance Town Center - Mayfield Road and North Taylor Road - Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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My (well, not mine technically) little red shed was not demolished, but moved to another spot about 1000 feet away on the property. Nonetheless, no more photo posed with bikes by the road with the red accent in the background. Anyway, I’m glad it was not smashed to tiny bits!
Day 71 of the remodel. I haven't mentioned yet that the shelves have also been replaced in grocery. They are the newest ones that are gray-colored rather than beige. These shelves in particular were waiting to be restocked with a new layout.
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Store 721. This store originally opened on March 1, 1995 and relocated from an older Division 1 store at US-41 and Cochran Boulevard, which originally opened in 1985. That location has since been subdivided into Staples, Big Lots, and Books-a-Million.
When you are planning for house relocation, CT Removals takes the lead in making the whole process easier and affordable as our professional removal and transportation experts take care of everything from start to finish like packaging to transportation and unpacking your goods.
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;-) yea, suuuuuuuuuure, i'll bet you are!
One of the 4 little critters i rescued out of the spa next to the pool , and the pool today! i think i must have a population of frogs with lousy GPS! there are 2 ponds on my property....one rather large one and one small water garden pond with a babbling brook and waterfall....and yet they end up in the pool and spa! This one was by far the prettiest (most handsome???)...2 others looked like this but were brown in color (females??) and the other was a tree frog! there is one large remaining tree frog in the spa, but he was tucked up in the light and refused to cooperate with the relocation procedure....i found out that tree frogs are excellent swimmers, when the one i did finally catch took a flying leap into the water and began to evade my attempts to get him....i thought i was doing him a favor by saving him from drowning....guess i didn't need to worry about that after all!
No frogs or princes were harmed in these antics today, and they are now living happily ever after in their new pond garden home!
bezoekers laten hun portret tekenen op een verhuisdoos / visitors have their portrait drawn on a moving box
The Minidoka Relocation Center, 15 miles north of Twin Falls and 150 miles southeast of Boise, was also referred to as the Hunt Camp. Minidoka was considered a model environment because of its relatively peaceful atmosphere and population that got along well with the administration. Because it was not within the Western Defense Command restricted area, security was somewhat lighter than at most other camps. But when the internees first arrived, they were shocked to see the bleak landscape that was to be there home over the next three years.
Located on the Snake River Plain at an elevation of 4000 feet, the land is dotted with sagebrush and thin basaltic lava flows and cinder cones. The internees found the environment to be extremely harsh, with temperatures ranging from 30 degrees below zero to as high as 115 degrees. They also had to contend with blinding dust storms and ankle-deep mud after the rains.
Minidoka was in operation from August 10, 1942 to October 28, 1945. The reserve covered more than 33,000 acres of land in Jerome County. The camp’s peak population reached 9,397 by March 1, 1943, and it became Idaho's third largest city. Five miles of barbed wire fencing and eight watchtowers surrounded the administrative and residential areas, which were located in the west-central portion of the reserve.
Most of the people interned at Minidoka were from the Pacific Northwest: approximately 7,050 from Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Washington, 2,500 from Oregon and 150 from Alaska, including children or grandchildren of Eskimo women and Japanese men. They were temporarily housed at the Puyallup Fairgrounds in Washington, then sent by train to Idaho. In early 1943, all of the Bainbridge Island, Washington, residents interned at the Manzanar Relocation Center were transferred to Minidoka at their own request because of constant conflict with the internees from Terminal Island in Los Angeles.
The central camp consisted of 600 buildings on 950 acres. When the first internees arrived at Minidoka in August 1942, they moved into the crude barracks even though much of the camp was unfinished and there was no running water or sewage system. The Army insisted on having all Japanese removed from the West Coast at once, and they did not halt the evacuation until the camp could hold no more. The last group of 500 evacuees to arrive at the camp had to sleep in mess halls, laundry rooms, or any available bed space. Waiting in line for many daily functions, especially meals, was common.
The camp’s residential area encompassed 36 blocks and was one mile wide and three miles long. Each block included 12 tarpaper barracks, one dining hall, one laundry building with communal showers and toilets and a recreation hall. Immediately after arrival, the internees were instructed to see the camp physician, and then they received an apartment assignment. Apartments were of three sizes, and where possible, family groups or relatives were placed near each other. Efforts were later made to move people near their place of employment.
When they ran out of room in the cemetaries, Paris relocated its dead to the galleries formed by mining the stones used to build the city. The bones were collected, stacked and the collections marked with a sort of tombstone indicating the location from which that group of bones came. There are galleries that run off in to the dark that are blocked by iron gates,. There must be lot of bones down there. Basically creepy beyond belief, but a bucket list item checked off.
Former Dollar Tree #762 Walmart Plaza Seaford, DE. Relocated to the former Happy Harry's/Walgreens at 23395 Sessex Hwy
The Philae temple complex is an island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt.
Until the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, the temple complex was located on Philae Island, near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt. These rapids and the surrounding area have been variously flooded since the initial construction of the Aswan Low Dam in 1902. The temple complex was dismantled and moved to nearby Agilkia Island as part of the UNESCO Nubia Campaign project, protecting this and other complexes before the 1970 completion of the Aswan High Dam. The hieroglyphic reliefs of the temple complex are being studied and published by the Philae Temple Text Project of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (Institute OREA).
The ancient Egyptian name of the smaller island meant "boundary". As their southern frontier, the pharaohs of Egypt kept there a strong garrison, and it was also a barracks for Greek and Roman soldiers in their turn.
The first religious building on Philae was likely a shrine built by Pharaoh Taharqa of the 25th Dynasty, which was probably dedicated to Amun. However this structure is only known from a few blocks reused in later buildings, which Gerhard Haeny suspects may have been brought over for reuse from structures elsewhere.
The oldest temple to have undoubtedly stood on the island, as well as the first evidence of Isis-worship there, was a small kiosk built by Psamtik II of the 26th Dynasty. This was followed by contributions from Amasis II (26th Dynasty) and Nectanebo I (30th Dynasty). Of these early buildings, only two elements built by Nectanebo I survive– a kiosk that was originally the vestibule of the old Isis temple, and a gateway which was later incorporated into the first pylon of the current temple.
More than two thirds of Philae's surviving structures were built in the Ptolemaic era, during which the island became a prominent site of pilgrimage not only for Egyptians and Nubians but for pilgrims from as far as Anatolia, Crete, and the Greek mainland. In this way, Philae gradually overtook Elephantine as the most important sanctuary in southern Egypt. Some of these pilgrims marked their presence with inscriptions on the temple walls, including votive inscriptions known as proskynemata, as well as other types. Among these are inscriptions left by three Romans (maybe ambassadors) at the first pylon in the summer of 116 BC, which represent the oldest known Latin inscriptions in Egypt.
Along with the various contributions of Ptolemaic rulers, Philae also received additions from the Nubian king Arqamani, who contributed to the Temple of Arensnuphis and the mammisi, and his successor Adikhalamani, whose name has been found on a stela on the island. Some experts have interpreted these additions as signs of collaboration between the Nubian and Ptolemaic governments, but others consider them to represent a period of Nubian occupation of the region, likely enabled by the revolt of Hugronaphor in Upper Egypt. The cartouches of Arqamani were later erased by Ptolemy V, while the stela of Adikhalamani was eventually reused as filling under the floor of the pronaos.
The Roman era saw an overall decline in pilgrimage to Philae, especially from Mediterranean regions, as evidenced by the reduced number of inscriptions. Nevertheless, it remained an important sacred site, especially for Nubians, who continued to visit both as individual pilgrims and in official delegations from their government in Meroë.
Several Roman emperors made artistic and architectural contributions to Philae. While most of the architectural additions date to the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the island continued to receive contributions to its temples up to the time of Caracalla as well as a triple arch built by Diocletian. In AD 298, Diocletian ceded Roman territory south of the First Cataract as part of an agreement made with the neighboring Nobades, withdrawing the border to about the area of Philae itself. The Kushite king Yesebokheamani made a pilgrimage to Philae in this period and may have taken over the Roman hegemony.
During the Roman era, Philae was the site of the last known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, written in AD 394, and the last known Demotic inscription, written in 452.
Christianity seems to have been present at Philae by the fourth century, at which point it coexisted with traditional Egyptian religion. According to the Coptic hagiography Life of Aaron, the first bishop of Philae was Macedonius (attested in the early fourth century), who is said to have killed the sacred falcon kept on the island, though modern experts question the historicity of this account. By the mid fifth century, a petition from Bishop Appion of Syene to co-emperors Theodosius II and Valentinian III indicates the presence of multiple churches on the island functioning alongside the pagan temples.
Traditional worship at Philae appears to have survived into at least the fifth century, despite the anti-pagan discrimination at times. In fact, the fifth-century historian Priscus mentions a treaty between the Roman commander Maximinus and the Blemmyes and Nobades in 452, which amongst other things ensured access to the cult image of Isis.
According to the sixth-century historian Procopius, the temple was closed down officially in AD 537 by the local commander Narses the Persarmenian in accordance with an order of Byzantine emperor Justinian I. This event is conventionally considered to mark the end of ancient Egyptian religion. However, its importance has recently come into question, following a major study by Jitse Dijkstra who argues that organised paganism at Philae ended in the fifth century, based on the fact that the last inscriptional evidence of an active pagan priesthood there dates to the 450s. Nevertheless, some adherence to traditional religion seems to have survived into the sixth century, based on a petition from Dioscorus of Aphrodito to the governor of the Thebaid dated to 567. The letter warns of an unnamed man (the text calls him "eater of raw meat") who, in addition to plundering houses and stealing tax revenue, is alleged to have restored paganism at "the sanctuaries", possibly referring to the temples at Philae.
Philae retained significance as a Christian centre even after its closure as a pagan site. Five of its temples were converted into churches (including the Temple of Isis, which was dedicated to Saint Stephen), and two purpose-built churches were constructed on the north side of the island.
The island of Philae attracted much attention in the 19th century. In the 1820s, Joseph Bonomi the Younger, a British Egyptologist and museum curator visited the island. So did Amelia Edwards, a British novelist in 1873–1874.
The approach by water is quite the most beautiful. Seen from the level of a small boat, the island, with its palms, its colonnades, its pylons, seems to rise out of the river like a mirage. Piled rocks frame it on either side, and the purple mountains close up the distance. As the boat glides nearer between glistening boulders, those sculptured towers rise higher and even higher against the sky. They show no sign of ruin or age. All looks solid, stately, perfect. One forgets for the moment that anything is changed. If a sound of antique chanting were to be borne along the quiet air–if a procession of white-robed priests bearing aloft the veiled ark of the God, were to come sweeping round between the palms and pylons–we should not think it strange.
— Amelia B. Edwards, A thousand miles up the Nile / by Amelia B. Edwards, 1831–1892, p. 207.
These visits are only a small sample of the great interest that Victorian-era Britain had for Egypt. Soon, tourism to Philae became common.
In 1902, the Aswan Low Dam was completed on the Nile River by the British. This threatened to submerge many ancient landmarks, including the temple complex of Philae. However, the British prioritized the advancement of Modern Egypt at the expense of the complex. The height of the dam was raised twice, from 1907 to 1912 and from 1929 to 1934, and the island of Philae was nearly always flooded. In fact, the only times that the complex was not underwater was when the dam's sluices were open from July to October.
It was proposed that the temples be relocated, piece by piece, to nearby islands, such as Bigeh or Elephantine. However, the temples' foundations and other architectural supporting structures were strengthened instead. Although the buildings were physically secure, the island's attractive vegetation and the colors of the temples' reliefs were washed away. Also, the bricks of the Philae temples soon became encrusted with silt and other debris carried by the Nile.
Norton Summit and Morialta Estate.
The District Council of East Torrens based in Norton Summit was proclaimed in 1853. Three state Premiers lived here- Thomas Playford Senior, Sir John Baker and Sir Thomas Playford Junior. These Council Chambers were built in 1903 and used until 1980 when new Council Chambers were opened nearby. The East Torrens Council merged into the Adelaide Hills Council in 1997. The old Council Chambers are now the museum and the Post Office. St Johns Anglican Church was built in1872 and financed by Sir John Baker. The stone carvings by the door are Sir John and his wife. The church has an unusual octagonal tower. The early part of the Scenic Hotel was built in 1866 and the larger two storey part was added in the 1880s. Norton Summit Baptist Church opened 1882 but the first Baptist services were held at Grassy Flat from 1876.The Playford family worshipped here and along with other locals they were buried in the cemetery near the church. The original Norton Summit School operated from 1851 but a new school was built in 1875 and then taken over by the Education Department 1876. The headmaster’s house and an extra two classrooms were added in 1908.
Sir John Baker was Premier of South Australia albeit briefly in 1857. He built Morialta House as a grand two-storey house of 17 main rooms with an attic floor for servants in 1847. Unusually the house had a flat roof. It also had cellars beneath and a fine cedar staircase in the entrance hall. It had magnificent views to St. Vincent Gulf and walks down to the Morialta waterfalls. Baker grew vines on the estate and had fruit orchards mainly apples and pears. He also built solid stone two storey barns, a dairy, pig sheds, store rooms etc. They are now heritage classified and listed on the SA heritage register. Since the grand days of the house it has been converted to a youth religious camp. A new third floor has been added in recent years and the old grand house is hard to recognise except for the French doors onto the veranda. A few of the large trees of the impressive old garden are still left.
Baker took up 2,000 acres at Norton Summit. He was a successful and at times mean spirited pastoralist with major properties at Narrung- Lake Albert station and Terlinga near Tungkillo. Both these huge leasehold properties were taken out around 1842. On Terlinga he established an early dairy herd in 1842 which ate out the native Kangaroo grass in that district. When the grass was gone in the 1850s the dairy was closed down and it became a sheep property. The Terlinga dairy produced cheese for the Adelaide market. Terlinga was sold by Richard Baker in 1899. By the time of his death in 1872 Sir John Baker had 11,000 acres of freehold land near Lake Albert as well as leasehold land along the Coorong. Baker was antagonistic towards George Taplin and the establishment of the Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission there in 1857. As the leaseholder of land adjoining Point McLeay he objected to Taplin’s choice of location for an Aboriginal Mission as it would be “prejudicial to his interests”. The government intended making a grant for the Mission from the leasehold lands of his Lake Albert station. To try and prevent it from happening and as a state politician he initiated the first Royal Commission by an SA government into the conditions and welfare of Aboriginal people. He had hoped to have Taplin and the Aboriginal Friends’ Association ousted from his land. But this was not the outcome of the Royal Commission which looked at issues across SA, not just around the lower lakes and the Commission found no reason to relocate the Taplin Mission. In one sense Baker had one justifiable point- the Point McLeay Mission had insufficient land to provide a satisfactory livelihood for all the Aboriginal residents. They could fish the lakes and the Coorong, they could work on the pastoral properties such as Poltalloch and Campbell Park, they could grow their own vegetables, but they had insufficient land to crop or to pasture sheep or cattle on to provide sufficient income for a whole community of people. The land at Point McLeay might have provided income for one family but not dozens. This lack of land and income was an ongoing problem with the Mission. Baker’s other claims that Taplin only wanted the salary and was not interested in aboriginal welfare, that he was lazy and that he bribed the Ngarrindjeri to attend church were all patently false. Baker was clearly a mean spirited man yet he donated lands and money for the erection of the Anglican Church at Norton Summit. But he was also vain as he had a sculpture of his head carved into the stonework beside the front door. Baker died before the church was finished but his son Richard continued to worship there and his sisters.
Baker was a horse breeder, Master of the Adelaide Hounds and a businessman and investor. He was a director of the Bank of Australasia, a director of the Savings Bank, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and a director of the Adelaide Mining Company. Apart from Morialta, Lake Albert and Terlinga stations he had pastoral properties in the Flinders Ranges and in NSW. He was elected to parliament in 1851 and served as a Legislative Council Member for Mount Barker from then until his death in 1872. He died in Morialta House and was buried where he worshiped at Saint Georges Anglican church Magill. His parliamentary career was marked by strong opposition to many proposals including the 1857 railway from Adelaide to Gawler, and he wanted members of the Legislative Council to be elected for life. He was a conservative who fought for the rights of the wealthy pastoralists over other colonial interests. When he disliked the Governor Sir Richard MacDonnell he went to London twice to try and have him dismissed. Consequently Baker was shunned by Government House and never received the knighthood that he longed for. On the positive side Baker helped select the site of and offered support to the Botanic Gardens and he served as President of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society and was a member of the Royal Geographical Society.
After Sir John Baker’s death in 1872 the house was inherited by his son Richard Baker, later Sir Richard Baker. Richard Baker lived in Morialta House until his death in 1911. Sir Richard Baker also was a politician and he was in the parliament for most but not all of the period from 1868 to 1901 when he stood for the Federal Senate and was elected. He remained in the Australian Senate until ill health forced him to resign in 1906. Sir Richard Baker was fiery in his opposition to bills and change like his father and it was he who was challenged to a duel in Victoria Square by the then Premier of South Australia, Charles Cameron Kingston in 1889. After Sir Richard’s death and the finalisation of his estate Morialta House was sold and it became Morialta Children’s Home from 1924 to 1974. The Morialta Home for Orphans and Children of Distress operated for fifty years in Morialta House with 2,500 children living there at some time. Unlike other South Australian orphanages Morialta had dormitories for babies, girls and boys so that brothers and sisters would not be separated when they entered an orphanage. Sir Richard Baker’s sister Bessie established a hospital as a charity in North Adelaide in the 1880s. She eventually decided to travel to England to live and do her charity work and so she sold the hospital in North Adelaide to the Little Company of Mary sisters in 1900. They called the hospital Calvary. Morialta House is now owned and run by Youth With a Mission. Previously a winery operated from the property.
The Minidoka Relocation Center, 15 miles north of Twin Falls and 150 miles southeast of Boise, was also referred to as the Hunt Camp. Minidoka was considered a model environment because of its relatively peaceful atmosphere and population that got along well with the administration. Because it was not within the Western Defense Command restricted area, security was somewhat lighter than at most other camps. But when the internees first arrived, they were shocked to see the bleak landscape that was to be there home over the next three years.
Located on the Snake River Plain at an elevation of 4000 feet, the land is dotted with sagebrush and thin basaltic lava flows and cinder cones. The internees found the environment to be extremely harsh, with temperatures ranging from 30 degrees below zero to as high as 115 degrees. They also had to contend with blinding dust storms and ankle-deep mud after the rains.
Minidoka was in operation from August 10, 1942 to October 28, 1945. The reserve covered more than 33,000 acres of land in Jerome County. The camp’s peak population reached 9,397 by March 1, 1943, and it became Idaho's third largest city. Five miles of barbed wire fencing and eight watchtowers surrounded the administrative and residential areas, which were located in the west-central portion of the reserve.
Most of the people interned at Minidoka were from the Pacific Northwest: approximately 7,050 from Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Washington, 2,500 from Oregon and 150 from Alaska, including children or grandchildren of Eskimo women and Japanese men. They were temporarily housed at the Puyallup Fairgrounds in Washington, then sent by train to Idaho. In early 1943, all of the Bainbridge Island, Washington, residents interned at the Manzanar Relocation Center were transferred to Minidoka at their own request because of constant conflict with the internees from Terminal Island in Los Angeles.
The central camp consisted of 600 buildings on 950 acres. When the first internees arrived at Minidoka in August 1942, they moved into the crude barracks even though much of the camp was unfinished and there was no running water or sewage system. The Army insisted on having all Japanese removed from the West Coast at once, and they did not halt the evacuation until the camp could hold no more. The last group of 500 evacuees to arrive at the camp had to sleep in mess halls, laundry rooms, or any available bed space. Waiting in line for many daily functions, especially meals, was common.
The camp’s residential area encompassed 36 blocks and was one mile wide and three miles long. Each block included 12 tarpaper barracks, one dining hall, one laundry building with communal showers and toilets and a recreation hall. Immediately after arrival, the internees were instructed to see the camp physician, and then they received an apartment assignment. Apartments were of three sizes, and where possible, family groups or relatives were placed near each other. Efforts were later made to move people near their place of employment.
Orchard Supply 6465 Ming Ave Bakersfield, CA. Former Safeway that was sold to Vons prior to their merger. Vons relocated at some point to 9000 Ming Ave. Currently Orchard Supply
Fun to see something from my region here!
Oviedo, FL. April 2019.
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