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The Confederates built upper and lower river batteries on the northeast point in an attempt to defend the strategic transportation and supply routes provided by the river and protect major supply bases in Clarksville and Nashville, Tennessee. They armed the batteries with heavy seacoast artillery. On this site, untested Confederate gunners defeated Federal ironclad and timberclad gunboats under command of Flag Officer Andrew Foote. Using the same tactics successfully employed at Fort Henry, Foote brought the gunboats very close to the Confederate artillery hoping to shell the batteries into submission. Foote's flotilla became an excellent target for the Confederate guns, however, because of flooding, a higher elevation, and the slow movement of the heavy gunboats the Confederates inflicted serious damage to the gunboats and wounded many sailors. Foote, a seasoned naval officer who was wounded in the exchange, reported to a newspaper that he had been in numerous engagements with forts and ships, "but never was under so severe fire before." The roar of this land and naval battle was heard thirty-five miles away.
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6 with the final conversion to Black & White also completed in CS6 with Nik Silver Efex Pro 2.
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What remains of a bridge that no longer exists. I assume it was a railroad bridge. Harpers Ferry changed hands several times during the Civil War. The railroad bridges were destroyed by both United States forces and Confederate forces at different times. I'm not sure if that was the fate of this particular bridge.
Dow House Backyard
Saint Augustine, Florida U.S.A.
Oldest US City (1513) - NE Florida
Independence Day - July 4th, 2020
*[I can envision a small-group of townsfolk gathered here
for a city-meeting or a small-show a hundred-years-ago...]
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - it was raining!]
The second-oldest structure on this property (nine-houses)
is the Dow House. The house was constructed by Antonio
Canova in 1839, and was originally located where the William
Dean Howells House currently stands on St. George Street.
In 1906, the Dow House was moved to its current Bridge Street location by Mary Hayden, the widow of a prosperous local hotel proprietor. She moved the structure so she could build the Howells and the Rose Houses as winter cottages for St. Augustine visitors.
Mr. Dow purchased the Dow House in 1941 from the oldest living resident in the city, Sarah McKinnon. At the time, Sarah McKinnon was 98 years old and the deal stated that Mr. Dow would grant her life tenancy in the house in exchange for ownership. The agreement was approved and Ms. McKinnon lived to be 103.
The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, also called the NASM, is a museum near National Capitol building. It holds the largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft in the world. The museum buiding is designed as four simple marble-encased cubes containing the smaller and more theatrical exhibits, connected by three spacious steel-and-glass atria which house the larger exhibits such as missiles, airplanes and spacecraft.
I thought this was the former Fort Southworth that protected Louisville during the Civil War.
UPDATE: THIS IMAGE MAY BE ONE RIVER BEND TOO FAR TO BE THE CIVIL WAR'S FORT SOUTHWORTH. RESEARCHING. TRYING TO DEFINITIVELY FIND THIS CIVIL WAR FORT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS; ALBEIT, I'M CLOSE.
Long forgotten, the historic spot of Fort Southworth took a bit of research to find and a bit of driving to find the best vantage point.
Nowadays the unmarked high ground adjacent the Ohio River is fenced off by land. Empty. But long ago, Confederate Nashville and West Tennessee had quickly fallen to the United States. In response, Tennesseans and the Confederacy wanted Kentucky. And the gem of all gems in Kentucky was its largest city, Louisville.
Fortunately, the South couldn't occupy Louisville. Fort Southworth helped Kentuckians and the United States protect the city and its supply chain to the U.S. war effort. There were other forts, also long forgotten, that protected the city's rail lines. Further south on the river at West Point was Fort Duffield, which is now a Kentucky state historic park.
The APOLLO Command/Service Module (CSM) was one of two spacecraft, along with the Lunar Module, used for the U.S. NASA-APOLLO-program which landed astronauts 1st time on the Moon.
The HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE (HST) 1:1 scale model shows the dimensions of the largest telescope ever launched in an orbit => 13.2 × 4.2 m / 43.3 × 13.8 ft.
Back from a fun few days in Nashville and Memphis. The wreath marks where Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.
Backlit winter branches frame the cupola of Independence Hall as the afternoon sun throws a crisp star across the old red brick. A classic Old City Philadelphia moment inside Independence National Historical Park—historic architecture meeting bright blue sky.
Artist: Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931-2004)
Title: Still Life #51 (1964)
Material: Formica and commercially printed paper with plastic and acrylic on canvas
Venue: Milwaukee Art Museum
It is not appreciated nowadays but back in the days of wandering cowboys, a black man was much more likely to be a cowboy than a white man. A third of all cowboys were black when black men made up roughly ten percent of the total U.S. male population. So if you were a black man, the chances of you being a cowboy was considerably higher than if you were a white man.
I grew up on Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and Spaghetti Westerns. There were not many blacks in those flicks.
Ah! Philadelphia….You will always be the city that I love the most!
Officially named JFK Plaza, the park receives its nickname “LOVE Park” for Robert Indiana’s sculpture. LOVE Park was conceived of by former Philadelphia City Planner Edmund Bacon (the father of actor Kevin Bacon).
Because of its curved steps and granite surfaces, the plaza at LOVE Park became an international Mecca for skateboarding because of the success of some of the park’s most famous frequent users, professional skateboarders Bam Margera, Stevie Williams and Kerry Getz.
In 2002, the city of Philadelphia started a campaign to stop skateboarding in LOVE Park.
Eventually the park was remolded to add planters that blocked ledges and replaced stone benches with wooden ones, which resulted in ending LOVE Park’s status as a world renowned skate-spot.
FREE LOVE PARK:
This photo was featured in EXPLORE on September 20, 2011. It was #343 when I learned about it....
–An excerpt from then U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi in the Senate to his abolitionist colleague Senator William H. Seward of New York, Senate Chamber, U.S. Capitol, 29 February 1860, as quoted in The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 6, pp. 277–84. Transcribed from the Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 916–18.
This is a monument to Jefferson Davis, funded by the Daughters of the Confederacy and even the Kentucky General Assembly[!?!] during the Jim Crow era. It is now a state museum. It is here because Fairview, Kentucky is the birthplace of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. During the Civil War, Davis could not travel to Kentucky because Kentucky remained and fought for the United States. It should be noted that despite Kentucky being a slave state, the overwhelming majority of Kentuckians joined up, fought for, and even sacrificed their lives for the United States, not the Confederacy.
I find it interesting that the road sign marks Fairview as the birthplace of United States Joint Chief of Staff General J.W. Ralston, NOT the big huge monument in the background to its other native, Confederate Jefferson Davis.
Melcher covered bridge..
Rural Indiana near Rockville..
Homecoming Trip 2016.
Sony SLT-A77MkII DT16-50 f2.8 SSM.
ISO64 1/13 F10 .
According to the Flag Code, a flag may be anything "made of any substance or represented on any substance (...) by which the average person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag."
Detail of a vent grill resembling the American flag.
Prague, Czech Republic
The Andrew Johnson National Monument was authorized by Congress in 1935, established by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, and redesignated the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in 1965. The four main areas of the site, the Tailor Shop, the National Cemetery, the Homestead (seen in the photograph above), and the Early Home went through several variations before being brought under one authority. The War Department originally oversaw the National Cemetery, and the state of Tennessee protected the Tailor Shop. Thanks to the dedication and on-going political saavy of the Johnson descendants, the legacy of the 17th President is now the responsibility of the National Park Service.
Andrew Johnson was the first President of the United States who had neither been a military hero nor studied law. Known in his time as the "courageous commoner," this former tailor's apprentice followed the ideals inherent in the American dream to rise from poverty-stricken circumstances. However, Andrew Johnson was also the first American president to be impeached.
The "Homestead" seen here was purchased by Johnson in 1851 and is where he lived before and after his presidency. He purchased this home while serving as a U.S. Representative for the state of Tennessee's 1st District. The "Homestead" has been maintained just as it was while the Johnson's lived there by family until 1942 when control was transferred to the U.S. federal government as part of the National Park Service. The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site was also listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.
NPS website: www.nps.gov/anjo/index.htm
Image was taken during my trek to photograph all 95 county courthouses across my home state of Tennessee...now revisiting in order that the courthouses were photographed!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Peter Augustus Jay accompanied his father, John Jay during treaty negotiations in Europe and it was there that he may have admired the stone ha-has or walled trenches popularly used in landscapes instead of fences. In 1822, Peter Augustus introduced these features to the Jay Estate in Rye, framing the existing perimeter of an ancient meadow that originated at the house and swept down towards Long Island Sound. Ha-has can also be seen at the Jay family property in Bedford where John Jay retired.
Today, these important 19th century landscape design features on the Jay Property are threatened by the weight of invasive species like porcelain berry, wineberry and multiflora roses. The Jay Heritage Center has repeatedly petitioned Westchester County Parks to permit restoration of the walls and the meadow as part of a comprehensive cultural landscape plan that has already been prepared. Multiflora roses choke out native species at an alarming rate and need to be removed. Friends of Marshlands President Chris Graseck objected to the removal of these destructive plant but JHC will continue to campaign for their removal.
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Kahnawake Pow Wow, Echoes of a Proud Nation.
Uno de los grupos indígenas más fuertes en Norteamérica fueron los de lengua iroquesa (haudenosaunee). Constituidos por numerosos grupos tribales con una cultura y lengua semejantes pusieron en entredicho por igual a sus tribus rivales, a los colonialistas franceses, ingleses y holandeses así como a los mismos independentistas norteamericanos. Había que negociar o pelearse con ellos. No solo eran cazadores y recolectores, tenían comunidades con fundamento agrícola y formaron una poderosa confederación: la Liga Iroquois. Formada inicialmente con cinco poderosas tribus (Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga y Seneca), posteriormente se agregaron los Tuscarora para constituir una organizada coalición de seis naciones con los principales grupos de la zona de los bosques (woodlands). Durante 4000 años ocuparon el noreste de Estados Unidos y la costa sur del Río San Lorenzo y el Lago Ontario en lo que es ahora la provincia canadiense de Québec y el estado de Nueva York. Los Wyandot (Huron), Erie y Susquehannock, todos pueblos independientes, también hablaban lenguas iroquesa pero no formaban parte de la coalición y algunos eran enemigos ancestrales de los iroqueses de la Liga.
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The Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge. This is the sole surviving example of a bridge design that revolutionized American bridge building. The bridge is one of the oldest standing iron railroad bridges in the United States. The design was by Wendell Bollman, and was the first iron railroad bridge design to be used consistently across the U.S. The 160 ft. double-span truss bridge spans the Little Patuxent River and is used for foot traffic only. It is located in Savage, Maryland by Savage Mill.
This information came from:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollman_Truss_Railroad_Bridge
see the website for more details.
This span of bridge was moved to Savage Mill and is displayed wonderfully. Invented in 1850, this one was built in 1869. It is constructed completely out of iron.
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And it isn't parked in front of my house. That's Abe Lincoln's son's home in Manchester, Vermont.
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Standing near the iconic Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., the Three Servicemen Statue by Frederick Hart offers a deeply moving tribute to those who served in the Vietnam War. Installed on Veterans Day 1984, the bronze sculpture depicts three soldiers, one Caucasian, one African-American, and one Latino-American, symbolizing the unity and diversity of American forces. Commissioned to complement Maya Lin’s minimalist “Wall,” this emotive artwork provides a poignant human face to the thousands of names etched in granite, subtly connecting realism with remembrance. Hart’s careful attention to detail, from worn combat gear to the soldiers’ youthful expressions, captures both the bravery and vulnerability of those who sacrificed so much.
Within the walls of Black Canyon on either side of Hoover Dam, the Colorado River was diverted around the dam site through four 50-foot-diameter tunnels. The tunnels, with a total combined length of 15,946 feet, or about three miles, were excavated to 56 feet and lined with three feet (300,000 cubic yards) of concrete. They could carry over 200,000 cubic feet - more than 1.5 million gallons - of water per second! The river was first diverted through the two Arizona tunnels on November 14, 1932. After being used for river diversion, the inner tunnels were plugged with concrete approximately one-third their length below the canyon wall inlets, and the outer tunnels were plugged approximately halfway. The two inner tunnels now contain 30-foot-diameter steel pipes (also called penstocks and seen in the photograph above) which connect the intake towers in the reservoir with the powerplant and canyon wall outlet works. The downstream halves of the two outer tunnels are used for spillway outlets.
Throughout these tunnels, forty-four thousand tons of steel were formed and welded into 14,800 feet of pipe varying from 8 1/2 to 30 feet in diameter. Each length of the largest pipe - 12 feet long, 30 feet in diameter, and 2 3/4 inches thick - was made from 3 steel plates, of such weight that only two plates could be shipped from the steel mill to the fabricating plant on one railroad car. Two such lengths of pipe welded together make one section weighing approximately 135 tons or, at intersections with the penstocks, as much as 186 tons.
At the time of the construction of Hoover Dam (started in 1931 and completed in 1936), the contractor was given a time frame of 7 years to complete all work or face penalties for any time used beyond this limit. In order to fulfill this requirement set by the U.S. government, thousands of job-seekers converged around Boulder City, building makeshift camps. Employment peaked at 5,251 in July 1934. Men came and went, with the total reaching over 21,000 laborers performing work on the dam. The lowest wage was 50 cents an hour, and the highest was $1.25. The average for all of the workers at the dam was about 62.5 cents an hour. These men worked thousands of hours to make this dream a reality for the United States. And, these are the people that should be celebrated on Labor Day...a federal holiday to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States. Thank you for your contributions to building America...
And...for all its history and contributions to engineering & the U.S. labor movement, Hoover Dam has been included on ASCE's List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, the National Register of Historic Places, and is a National Historic Landmark.
Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff):
Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
ISO – 1250
Aperture – f/7.1
Exposure – 1/2 second
Focal Length – 38mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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