This is a presentation on a visit through parts of Minnesota to see all sorts of barns, particularly round barns. It provides a taste of history through pictures.
Farming and cranberry cultivation were important industries in Sherborn in the 17th-19th centuries. Cranberries thrived in Sherborn's swamps and bogs, with up to eight farmers cultivating over 100 barrels annually for $28 per barrel. Dairy farming also specialized in Sherborn, with 200 cans of milk shipped daily by train. Apples were a major crop as well, including the Porter apple developed in Sherborn, with many apples used to make cider in Sherborn's 20 small mills. Water power from local brooks drove several grist, saw, and cider mills over the centuries.
Throughout the 1700s and 1800s, Sherborn remained a small farming community with few industries besides small mills. Many colonial-era houses from the 1600s and 1700s still stand today, preserved because the town was relatively poor in later centuries. Important early town roles included fence viewers to settle property disputes and a field driver to round up stray livestock, which were held in the town pound. Schools started as private homes but the first public schoolhouse was built in 1727, and the town began funding education in 1709 through taxes.
Sherborn, Massachusetts has a long history of public education dating back to 1709. Over 300 years, the town transitioned from one-room schoolhouses scattered throughout the town to a centralized school system. Key developments included the first public schoolhouse being built in 1727, the establishment of multiple one-room schoolhouses in the 1700s-1800s to serve different districts as the population grew, the construction of Center School in the early 1900s to consolidate smaller schools, the use of horse-drawn then motorized school barges to transport children, and the building of Pine Hill School in 1957 and additions to create the current K-8 school. Since the 1960s, Sherborn has participated in the regional Dover
The History and Preservation of the May Museum Quilt CollectionChris Gorges
A comprehensive exploration and analysis of the historical quilts housed at the May Museum & Park in Farmville, North Carolina (NC). Prepared by Lynn Lancaster Gorges - www.textilepreservation.com - palampore@aol.com
This document discusses the history of barrel and box making in Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia from the early 1800s to the late 20th century. Coopering and box making were important industries that utilized the old growth forests. Families passed these skills down for generations, with over 30 cooper shops and box factories operating in the early 20th century golden age. However, the industries declined in the 1930s due to economic factors and the rise of plastic, with the last cooper shop closing in the 1970s and last box factory in the 1990s. Though now lost arts, barrel and box making were an integral part of the local social and economic heritage for almost 200 years.
Edwina Mintel. Texas Hill Country Landscape through the Artist's Eyes.klimvika
The document summarizes an exhibition by Edwina Mintel showcasing her sketches of landscapes in the Texas Hill Country around Fredericksburg. It provides background on Mintel and compares nine of her sketches from the 1920s-1940s with historical photographs of the same locations, showing how little the landscapes have changed. The sketches and photographs depict iconic locations that helped shape Fredericksburg's history and identity, like Cross Mountain, the Vereins Kirche church, and old pioneer homes.
The document provides a history of the Hammonds Plains Baptist Cemetery in Halifax County, Nova Scotia from its establishment in the 1820s to 2000. It details how Amos and Dorothy Melvin donated land for a burial ground and schoolhouse. Over time, the Baptist Church took over maintenance and secured ownership of the cemetery. The document also provides biographies of important individuals buried in the cemetery and notes about the cemetery's expansion and guidelines.
Farming and cranberry cultivation were important industries in Sherborn in the 17th-19th centuries. Cranberries thrived in Sherborn's swamps and bogs, with up to eight farmers cultivating over 100 barrels annually for $28 per barrel. Dairy farming also specialized in Sherborn, with 200 cans of milk shipped daily by train. Apples were a major crop as well, including the Porter apple developed in Sherborn, with many apples used to make cider in Sherborn's 20 small mills. Water power from local brooks drove several grist, saw, and cider mills over the centuries.
Throughout the 1700s and 1800s, Sherborn remained a small farming community with few industries besides small mills. Many colonial-era houses from the 1600s and 1700s still stand today, preserved because the town was relatively poor in later centuries. Important early town roles included fence viewers to settle property disputes and a field driver to round up stray livestock, which were held in the town pound. Schools started as private homes but the first public schoolhouse was built in 1727, and the town began funding education in 1709 through taxes.
Sherborn, Massachusetts has a long history of public education dating back to 1709. Over 300 years, the town transitioned from one-room schoolhouses scattered throughout the town to a centralized school system. Key developments included the first public schoolhouse being built in 1727, the establishment of multiple one-room schoolhouses in the 1700s-1800s to serve different districts as the population grew, the construction of Center School in the early 1900s to consolidate smaller schools, the use of horse-drawn then motorized school barges to transport children, and the building of Pine Hill School in 1957 and additions to create the current K-8 school. Since the 1960s, Sherborn has participated in the regional Dover
The History and Preservation of the May Museum Quilt CollectionChris Gorges
A comprehensive exploration and analysis of the historical quilts housed at the May Museum & Park in Farmville, North Carolina (NC). Prepared by Lynn Lancaster Gorges - www.textilepreservation.com - palampore@aol.com
This document discusses the history of barrel and box making in Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia from the early 1800s to the late 20th century. Coopering and box making were important industries that utilized the old growth forests. Families passed these skills down for generations, with over 30 cooper shops and box factories operating in the early 20th century golden age. However, the industries declined in the 1930s due to economic factors and the rise of plastic, with the last cooper shop closing in the 1970s and last box factory in the 1990s. Though now lost arts, barrel and box making were an integral part of the local social and economic heritage for almost 200 years.
Edwina Mintel. Texas Hill Country Landscape through the Artist's Eyes.klimvika
The document summarizes an exhibition by Edwina Mintel showcasing her sketches of landscapes in the Texas Hill Country around Fredericksburg. It provides background on Mintel and compares nine of her sketches from the 1920s-1940s with historical photographs of the same locations, showing how little the landscapes have changed. The sketches and photographs depict iconic locations that helped shape Fredericksburg's history and identity, like Cross Mountain, the Vereins Kirche church, and old pioneer homes.
The document provides a history of the Hammonds Plains Baptist Cemetery in Halifax County, Nova Scotia from its establishment in the 1820s to 2000. It details how Amos and Dorothy Melvin donated land for a burial ground and schoolhouse. Over time, the Baptist Church took over maintenance and secured ownership of the cemetery. The document also provides biographies of important individuals buried in the cemetery and notes about the cemetery's expansion and guidelines.
Docia A. Conley Corporation was one of Chatsworth’s successful icons from 1915 -1979, located at 21032 Devonshire.
Known to most of us as The Paradise Gift Shop, it also had a Tea Room.
It has been said that The Paradise Tea Room was always a favorite destination to “motor” out to for a Sunday drive.
The family owned business, started by Docia and George Conley, combined a tea room garden setting surrounded by a variety of plants, trees and exotic birds.
1924 – Real Estate subdivider William George Loomis creates the Kadota Fig Farms in Chatsworth
1924 - WG Loomis plants 148 acres of figs at Devonshire and DeSoto
Background on WG Loomis and other Fig Acreage in California
1926 – Docia and George Conley buy a 2 acre fig farm in Chatsworth
Docia Conley has been processing/canning fruit since 1908
In 1915 Conley & Conley is incorporated, and a fruit preserving plant is built in Highland Park on Pasadena Ave.
In 1926 they build The Paradise Tea Room and Gift Shoppe, and a processing plant on their 2 acre fig farm.
20’s and 30’s events, including hosting visitors at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Private Labels for Roy Rogers, Major Dept Stores…
In 1979 the Paradise Gift shop closes and the land is developed.
The Hammonds Plains area was originally occupied by the Mi'kmaq Nation who used a trail between Pockwock Lake and Bedford Basin. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the British established land grants in Hammonds Plains and worked to develop a road network, starting with a footpath from Halifax in the 1750s. A key road was surveyed between Halifax and Annapolis Royal between 1815-1816, passing through Hammonds Plains. Over subsequent decades, the road network expanded and roads were upgraded to first accommodate carriages in the 1820s-1840s and then early automobiles in the 1900s-1920s, transforming transportation in the area. By the 1950s, the
Chatsworth Hills Homesteaders Part 1
Homesteader Families in the Santa Susana Mountains, north of Chatsworth Street and west of Andora. Includes Dejeremias, Johnson, Graves, Williams, Iverson, Charlton
The mills of Hammonds Plains played an important role in the area's history from the early 1800s to the mid-1900s. Originally, lumbering and the transportation of logs to Halifax via rivers was the main economic activity. Over time, numerous small mills were established powered by local water sources. In the late 1800s, mills produced lumber and goods like barrels. By the early 1900s, over 18 mills operated in Hammonds Plains. Families like Hays, Moran, and Wright established large mills employing many. As technology advanced, the industry declined after World War 2 due to less emphasis on wood. The last mills closed in the 1990s, marking the end of an era defined by over 200 years of mill operation
The fighting forties life in and around brighouse over 70 years agoChris Helme
The document provides a summary of life in Brighouse, England during World War 2 and the immediate postwar period. It describes how (1) gas mask fittings began in 1938 to prepare for war, how (2) rationing and other wartime measures were implemented after Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, and (3) how various local organizations like the police, fire brigade, home guard, and others mobilized during the war. It concludes by describing celebrations that occurred in Brighouse and surrounding areas on V-E Day in 1945 to mark the end of the war in Europe.
The document summarizes the history of Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia from its earliest inhabitants, the Mi'kmaq people, through to the present day. It traces the transition from a forest and lumber-dependent community to one increasingly focused on residential development. Some key events included the arrival of Loyalists in the late 1700s, the growth of lumber and cooper industries in the 1800s, declines during the late 1800s and 1900s as these industries faded, and massive population growth and subdivision development starting in the 1950s-60s and accelerating since the 1980s as Hammonds Plains transformed into a bedroom community on the outskirts of Halifax.
This document summarizes information about various historic homes in Plaquemine, Louisiana, including:
1) Homes built in the late 1830s-1890s that originally served as private residences and, in some cases, doctors' offices or schools.
2) A home built in 1858 that was the former residence of Dr. C.E. Blunk Jr. and a former funeral home.
3) The Charles A. Brusle home built in 1883 and its appearance approximately 20 years later, with part later used to build a post office.
The Mi'kmaq inhabited the Hammonds Plains area for centuries before European contact, travelling seasonally between inland and coastal encampments. In the late 18th century, the British established settlements in Hammonds Plains by granting land to Halifax businessmen and later recruiting settlers from Britain and elsewhere. This led to the development of the early communities of Hammonds Plains and Upper Hammonds Plains. The construction of roads, including the proposed Annapolis Road in the early 1800s, further opened the area to settlement but also brought challenges. New settlers faced difficulties clearing land and establishing farms, with many ultimately leaving the area.
Dearborn Street History for Garden WalkTim Weitzel
Adapted from “A Dearborn Street History,” The Long View, June 2007,
Longfellow Neighborhood Association, by Tim Weitzel for the 2997 Longfellow Neighborhood Garden Walkabout. The Longfellow Neighborhood has a long history and a tradition of telling that history, describing important events, persons, architecture and gardens.
John Ringle started a brickyard in Wausau in 1904 after too much clay forced him to close his sawmill. Ringle bricks were known for their distinctive burnt orange color due to the addition of pulverized hard shale. Wausau Homes was the first company in Marathon County to build homes by assembling pre-fabricated components on-site, making construction more efficient. The Fromm Brothers grew their ginseng business in the late 1800s/early 1900s before starting a successful silver fox fur farm, but had to adapt to changing fashions that led the company to split up in 1964.
The document discusses the lime industry that existed in the western San Fernando Valley in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Limekilns were located in Woolsey Canyon, Dayton Canyon, and Bell Canyon and produced lime that was used for construction at the Mission San Fernando and in Los Angeles. Recent archaeological findings uncovered two limekilns and an ash field at Dayton Canyon. The industry was operated by Native Americans and involved transporting quarried limestone to the kilns, heating it to produce quicklime, and transporting the product to market.
The document provides a summary of the history of the Hutson family cabins and the Hutsonville Historical Society in Illinois. It describes how Isaac Hutson built a cabin in 1811 where his family was later killed by Native Americans. It then discusses the founding of the Hutsonville Historical Society in 1967 and the restoration and addition of several historic buildings to the site over the decades, including the original Hutson cabin, a museum, country store, barn, and chapel to preserve the local history.
Three homestead parcels were combined in the 1950’s and 60’s to create a 127 acre sports center at the west end of Devonshire, on what is today’s Chatsworth Park South and part of Rockpointe.
•There are multiple stories involved:
•The founding of the Aqua Sierra Sportsmans club in 1949, and the building of two skeet and trap stations by 1951/52, before Minnie Hill Palmer sold the Hill homestead.
•The expansion of Aqua Sierra after the 1956 purchase of the Hill homestead by Henry Berkenkamp of Oroweat Bakeries. By 1959, there were five skeet and trap stations, a 90 foot hi-tower, one nine-hole golf course, a driving range, and two trout lakes. In 1959 it is advertised as the Roy Rogers Sports Center.
• In 1961, three additional nine-hole golf courses were added on the adjacent 52 acre Butler/De Jeremias homestead parcels. This acreage was leased from the Scheplers.
•The decline of the sports center began in 1968, when Rockpointe began development on the Butler homestead parcel. In 1973 the City of Los Angeles purchased the 75 acre skeet/fishing/golf course site and it became today’s Chatsworth Park South.
The document summarizes the early settlers and founders of Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia, listing their names and providing brief biographies of each, including details about their origins, families, occupations, land holdings, and contributions to the community. The eleven men highlighted were prominent in establishing the village of Hammonds Plains in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They came from places like Scotland, France, Germany, Ireland, the United States, and England and held various roles as farmers, mill operators, community leaders, and supporters of education and infrastructure development in the area.
The Apeta Momonga Mission Trail is an integral piece of our Native American and Spanish heritage, comprising two stories.
First, it was a historic trail that was used beginning at least 3,000 years ago to travel from Achoicominga (San Fernando) to the village of Momonga (Santa Susana Pass/Stoney Point).
Second, after Mission San Fernando was established in 1797, the trail was used to travel from Mission San Fernando to the Simi Adobe to Mission San Buenaventura. The Mission Trail became a part of the El Camino Real along the north end of the San Fernando Valley, offering safe passage to travelers along its route.
This presentation will cover the following topics, which were also presented to the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission in September and November of 2018:
Statement of Significance
Background and Site Introduction
Summary of the approval process
The History of the Apeta Momonga (“Trail to” Momonga)
The History of the Mission Trail
The Trail as it exists today
This document summarizes the history of Chatsworth Lake Manor from its Chumash Native American origins to its early 20th century development. It describes how in 1797 Chief Odón Chihuya was born at a Chumash village and later lived at the San Fernando Mission. His granddaughter Francesca Domec was granted a 148-acre homestead in 1901 that became the Lake Manor area. The document also outlines the history of Pierre Domec, a French settler who married Odón's daughter and operated a lime kiln in the 1850s-60s, and how his daughter Francesca later inherited the land.
Historic homes & gardens of shelby county 1936Judith Johnson
Historic homes and gardens that were featured in a 1936 book by the Nashville Garden Club. God bless them, I have tried to find any that still remain today and find out if time has been kind or cruel. Included in Jefferson Davis' Memphis home, Annesdale, Hunt-Phelan and many others.
Seminole Plantation is a 9,000 acre estate in south Georgia that has been in the Smith family since 1979. The estate dates back to the 1850s and includes an historic Georgian-style house. In 2012, the Smith family hired restoration expert Charlie Whitney to restore the historic house. Whitney oversaw replacing chimneys, restoring original moldings, and recreating period-accurate furniture. The restoration brought the house back to its original 1850s appearance while still making it comfortable for modern use. Seminole Plantation now preserves the family's history and the region's architectural heritage.
Docia A. Conley Corporation was one of Chatsworth’s successful icons from 1915 -1979, located at 21032 Devonshire.
Known to most of us as The Paradise Gift Shop, it also had a Tea Room.
It has been said that The Paradise Tea Room was always a favorite destination to “motor” out to for a Sunday drive.
The family owned business, started by Docia and George Conley, combined a tea room garden setting surrounded by a variety of plants, trees and exotic birds.
1924 – Real Estate subdivider William George Loomis creates the Kadota Fig Farms in Chatsworth
1924 - WG Loomis plants 148 acres of figs at Devonshire and DeSoto
Background on WG Loomis and other Fig Acreage in California
1926 – Docia and George Conley buy a 2 acre fig farm in Chatsworth
Docia Conley has been processing/canning fruit since 1908
In 1915 Conley & Conley is incorporated, and a fruit preserving plant is built in Highland Park on Pasadena Ave.
In 1926 they build The Paradise Tea Room and Gift Shoppe, and a processing plant on their 2 acre fig farm.
20’s and 30’s events, including hosting visitors at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Private Labels for Roy Rogers, Major Dept Stores…
In 1979 the Paradise Gift shop closes and the land is developed.
The Hammonds Plains area was originally occupied by the Mi'kmaq Nation who used a trail between Pockwock Lake and Bedford Basin. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the British established land grants in Hammonds Plains and worked to develop a road network, starting with a footpath from Halifax in the 1750s. A key road was surveyed between Halifax and Annapolis Royal between 1815-1816, passing through Hammonds Plains. Over subsequent decades, the road network expanded and roads were upgraded to first accommodate carriages in the 1820s-1840s and then early automobiles in the 1900s-1920s, transforming transportation in the area. By the 1950s, the
Chatsworth Hills Homesteaders Part 1
Homesteader Families in the Santa Susana Mountains, north of Chatsworth Street and west of Andora. Includes Dejeremias, Johnson, Graves, Williams, Iverson, Charlton
The mills of Hammonds Plains played an important role in the area's history from the early 1800s to the mid-1900s. Originally, lumbering and the transportation of logs to Halifax via rivers was the main economic activity. Over time, numerous small mills were established powered by local water sources. In the late 1800s, mills produced lumber and goods like barrels. By the early 1900s, over 18 mills operated in Hammonds Plains. Families like Hays, Moran, and Wright established large mills employing many. As technology advanced, the industry declined after World War 2 due to less emphasis on wood. The last mills closed in the 1990s, marking the end of an era defined by over 200 years of mill operation
The fighting forties life in and around brighouse over 70 years agoChris Helme
The document provides a summary of life in Brighouse, England during World War 2 and the immediate postwar period. It describes how (1) gas mask fittings began in 1938 to prepare for war, how (2) rationing and other wartime measures were implemented after Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, and (3) how various local organizations like the police, fire brigade, home guard, and others mobilized during the war. It concludes by describing celebrations that occurred in Brighouse and surrounding areas on V-E Day in 1945 to mark the end of the war in Europe.
The document summarizes the history of Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia from its earliest inhabitants, the Mi'kmaq people, through to the present day. It traces the transition from a forest and lumber-dependent community to one increasingly focused on residential development. Some key events included the arrival of Loyalists in the late 1700s, the growth of lumber and cooper industries in the 1800s, declines during the late 1800s and 1900s as these industries faded, and massive population growth and subdivision development starting in the 1950s-60s and accelerating since the 1980s as Hammonds Plains transformed into a bedroom community on the outskirts of Halifax.
This document summarizes information about various historic homes in Plaquemine, Louisiana, including:
1) Homes built in the late 1830s-1890s that originally served as private residences and, in some cases, doctors' offices or schools.
2) A home built in 1858 that was the former residence of Dr. C.E. Blunk Jr. and a former funeral home.
3) The Charles A. Brusle home built in 1883 and its appearance approximately 20 years later, with part later used to build a post office.
The Mi'kmaq inhabited the Hammonds Plains area for centuries before European contact, travelling seasonally between inland and coastal encampments. In the late 18th century, the British established settlements in Hammonds Plains by granting land to Halifax businessmen and later recruiting settlers from Britain and elsewhere. This led to the development of the early communities of Hammonds Plains and Upper Hammonds Plains. The construction of roads, including the proposed Annapolis Road in the early 1800s, further opened the area to settlement but also brought challenges. New settlers faced difficulties clearing land and establishing farms, with many ultimately leaving the area.
Dearborn Street History for Garden WalkTim Weitzel
Adapted from “A Dearborn Street History,” The Long View, June 2007,
Longfellow Neighborhood Association, by Tim Weitzel for the 2997 Longfellow Neighborhood Garden Walkabout. The Longfellow Neighborhood has a long history and a tradition of telling that history, describing important events, persons, architecture and gardens.
John Ringle started a brickyard in Wausau in 1904 after too much clay forced him to close his sawmill. Ringle bricks were known for their distinctive burnt orange color due to the addition of pulverized hard shale. Wausau Homes was the first company in Marathon County to build homes by assembling pre-fabricated components on-site, making construction more efficient. The Fromm Brothers grew their ginseng business in the late 1800s/early 1900s before starting a successful silver fox fur farm, but had to adapt to changing fashions that led the company to split up in 1964.
The document discusses the lime industry that existed in the western San Fernando Valley in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Limekilns were located in Woolsey Canyon, Dayton Canyon, and Bell Canyon and produced lime that was used for construction at the Mission San Fernando and in Los Angeles. Recent archaeological findings uncovered two limekilns and an ash field at Dayton Canyon. The industry was operated by Native Americans and involved transporting quarried limestone to the kilns, heating it to produce quicklime, and transporting the product to market.
The document provides a summary of the history of the Hutson family cabins and the Hutsonville Historical Society in Illinois. It describes how Isaac Hutson built a cabin in 1811 where his family was later killed by Native Americans. It then discusses the founding of the Hutsonville Historical Society in 1967 and the restoration and addition of several historic buildings to the site over the decades, including the original Hutson cabin, a museum, country store, barn, and chapel to preserve the local history.
Three homestead parcels were combined in the 1950’s and 60’s to create a 127 acre sports center at the west end of Devonshire, on what is today’s Chatsworth Park South and part of Rockpointe.
•There are multiple stories involved:
•The founding of the Aqua Sierra Sportsmans club in 1949, and the building of two skeet and trap stations by 1951/52, before Minnie Hill Palmer sold the Hill homestead.
•The expansion of Aqua Sierra after the 1956 purchase of the Hill homestead by Henry Berkenkamp of Oroweat Bakeries. By 1959, there were five skeet and trap stations, a 90 foot hi-tower, one nine-hole golf course, a driving range, and two trout lakes. In 1959 it is advertised as the Roy Rogers Sports Center.
• In 1961, three additional nine-hole golf courses were added on the adjacent 52 acre Butler/De Jeremias homestead parcels. This acreage was leased from the Scheplers.
•The decline of the sports center began in 1968, when Rockpointe began development on the Butler homestead parcel. In 1973 the City of Los Angeles purchased the 75 acre skeet/fishing/golf course site and it became today’s Chatsworth Park South.
The document summarizes the early settlers and founders of Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia, listing their names and providing brief biographies of each, including details about their origins, families, occupations, land holdings, and contributions to the community. The eleven men highlighted were prominent in establishing the village of Hammonds Plains in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They came from places like Scotland, France, Germany, Ireland, the United States, and England and held various roles as farmers, mill operators, community leaders, and supporters of education and infrastructure development in the area.
The Apeta Momonga Mission Trail is an integral piece of our Native American and Spanish heritage, comprising two stories.
First, it was a historic trail that was used beginning at least 3,000 years ago to travel from Achoicominga (San Fernando) to the village of Momonga (Santa Susana Pass/Stoney Point).
Second, after Mission San Fernando was established in 1797, the trail was used to travel from Mission San Fernando to the Simi Adobe to Mission San Buenaventura. The Mission Trail became a part of the El Camino Real along the north end of the San Fernando Valley, offering safe passage to travelers along its route.
This presentation will cover the following topics, which were also presented to the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission in September and November of 2018:
Statement of Significance
Background and Site Introduction
Summary of the approval process
The History of the Apeta Momonga (“Trail to” Momonga)
The History of the Mission Trail
The Trail as it exists today
This document summarizes the history of Chatsworth Lake Manor from its Chumash Native American origins to its early 20th century development. It describes how in 1797 Chief Odón Chihuya was born at a Chumash village and later lived at the San Fernando Mission. His granddaughter Francesca Domec was granted a 148-acre homestead in 1901 that became the Lake Manor area. The document also outlines the history of Pierre Domec, a French settler who married Odón's daughter and operated a lime kiln in the 1850s-60s, and how his daughter Francesca later inherited the land.
Historic homes & gardens of shelby county 1936Judith Johnson
Historic homes and gardens that were featured in a 1936 book by the Nashville Garden Club. God bless them, I have tried to find any that still remain today and find out if time has been kind or cruel. Included in Jefferson Davis' Memphis home, Annesdale, Hunt-Phelan and many others.
Seminole Plantation is a 9,000 acre estate in south Georgia that has been in the Smith family since 1979. The estate dates back to the 1850s and includes an historic Georgian-style house. In 2012, the Smith family hired restoration expert Charlie Whitney to restore the historic house. Whitney oversaw replacing chimneys, restoring original moldings, and recreating period-accurate furniture. The restoration brought the house back to its original 1850s appearance while still making it comfortable for modern use. Seminole Plantation now preserves the family's history and the region's architectural heritage.
This document provides a historical overview of the Minooka and Channahon areas from their earliest inhabitants to the early 20th century. It notes that the areas were originally home to Native American tribes like the Illiniwek, Potawatomi, and Mound Builders. French explorers first visited in 1673. White settlers arrived in the late 1820s and the villages of Minooka, Channahon, and Dresden were established. The coming of the railroad in 1852 and the Illinois & Michigan Canal in the 1840s boosted development and trade of local agriculture. Early buildings, churches, and infrastructure are described from the mid-19th century founding of the towns.
Historical associations of 12 propertiesPinaki Ghosh
This document provides historical information about 1190 E. M. Franklin Ave in the Ebony Acres neighborhood of Austin, Texas. It describes how the home was originally owned by Titus and Ora Alexander and has significance as being associated with their family and their connection to the prominent Bremond family. Though facing demolition, the home embodies the hidden histories of the neighborhood and stands as a monument to the spirit of the Alexanders.
The document provides a history of the Hammonds Plains Baptist Cemetery from its establishment in the 1820s to present day. It notes that the cemetery was originally donated as a community burial ground. Over time, as the local Baptist church was established, it took on responsibility for maintaining the cemetery. The cemetery has since expanded and established guidelines for burials. The document also provides brief biographies of several important historical figures buried in the cemetery.
The Hill-Palmer House, named to the National Register of Historic Places as the only remaining homestead cottage and surrounding gardens in the San Fernando Valley, was built about 1911 by James David and Rhoda Jane Enlow Hill.
In 1974 it was named Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #133, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Located within the Homestead Acre in Chatsworth Park South, the property is owned by the Los Angeles City Department of Recreation and Parks, with the Chatsworth Historical Society as conservators.
The house, gardens and Chatsworth Museum is open for tours from 1-4 p.m. the first Sunday of every month.
Topics to be covered:
1860’s to 1886 – The Hill family travels from Arkansas to Visalia Ca. to Los Angeles to Chatsworth
Family photographs
1886-1940’s The homesteading years
1950-60’s – the sale of their homestead property to Henry Berkenkamp, Aqua Sierra, and the Roy Roger’s Sports Center
1970’s – Chatsworth Historical Society conservators
Harvester Farms Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument 645 Designated March 5, 1997
Harvester Farms includes the 1923 Barn and surrounding buildings as the cultural monument. The main house is a California Ranch style structure. The rear California basilica-type barn still retains a high degree of remaining historic fabric. (Virginia Watson 1997)
•Headquarters of the Palomino Horse Association of America
•Harvester was the father of Mr. Ed – the talking horse, a 1961-66 TV Series
•Located on Devonshire west of Topanga
The document summarizes some of the challenges faced by homesteaders living on the Great Plains in the late 19th century, including building houses from sod, maintaining health with limited resources, enduring extreme weather, a lack of fuel and water, isolation, and potential conflicts with Native Americans. Homesteaders worked to overcome these difficulties through communal support and by adapting practices from the indigenous peoples.
The document summarizes the history of Marathon County from the earliest inhabitants to modern times. It describes how the first peoples were the Paleo-Indians and later the Ojibwe tribes, and how European settlers eventually moved the tribes to reservations. It then outlines how immigrants were drawn to the area for logging and agriculture, aided by individuals who helped recruit settlers from other countries. The document concludes by chronicling the transition from a logging and farming economy to businesses and industry in the early 20th century.
This document provides an update on Larry Roeder's history project documenting the area of Conklin and Prosperity Baptist Church in Loudoun County, Virginia. It summarizes the early settlement of Conklin by both white and African American pioneers in the 18th century. It details Roeder's efforts to collect oral histories, photos, artifacts and records to preserve the history of prominent African American families like the Allens who lived in the area. The document outlines the boundaries of traditional Conklin and calls for help from community members to share their stories and knowledge to aid the project.
The document summarizes the cultural memory preserved in the vernacular architecture of Doran's Cove, Alabama. It describes the traditional I-house and log cabin structures built by local families using folk techniques passed down over generations. As the cove became less isolated due to infrastructure changes and population shifts, the traditional folk buildings were replaced by modern structures, representing a loss of cultural memory in the landscape. The document explores how kinship and connections to the land were expressed through the placement and naming of buildings.
Upper Canada Village, Pioneer life in the 1800. Experience the life and history!Fergus Ducharme
A Canadian pioneer Village depicting live in the late 1860's. It is reproduced using original building saved from destruction by the construction of the St Lawrence Seaway in the late 1950s. The buildings were saved from the so called: 'Lost Villages' that were in fact flooded when the Seaway actually opened.
Homesteaders Families in the Simi Hills
South of Chatsworth Street and North of Plummer
Names and dates of arrival:
Francisco Miranda (1880)
James Hill (1886)
Frank Ackerman (1888)
William Bannon (1891)
Ferdinand Tetzlaff (1893)
Swan Paulson (1895)
Alexander Butler (1896)
Cora Henry (1914)
This document provides a summary of the human and cultural history of the Carmans River in Long Island, New York. It describes the Native American tribes that lived in the area, including the Algonquians who numbered around 6,000-7,000 in the 1600s. It then discusses the early European settlers who began purchasing land from the Native Americans in the 1640s-1680s, and how the mills, roads, and industries like salt hay farming developed along the river from the 1700s onward. It provides details on specific mills, properties, and landowners that shaped development along the Carmans River over the centuries.
The document provides a summary of the history of the village of Chrishall in Essex, England. It describes how the village was originally occupied by Billa before the Norman Conquest. It discusses local landmarks and their origins, such as Bilden End, Chalky Lane, and the church. The document also outlines the major landowners in the village over time, from Queen Matilda in the 12th century to the Drage and Kent steam engine works in the early 20th century. Finally, it notes the arrival of utilities like water, electricity, and drainage in the village during the 20th century.
This document provides a history of dairy farming in Hanover, Massachusetts from the 1930s-1950s. It describes how dairy farms transitioned from small home operations to larger commercial productions. Specifically, it details the lives and memories of residents who recall North Hanover being dominated by three large dairy farms - John Brooks' Farm, Charles Bray's Farm, and the largest, Ben Ford's Farm, which housed around 200 milking cows. Farm workers and local children describe the daily routines of milking the cows and interactions between the rural communities of North and South Hanover in those earlier days.
Frank Knapp Senior (1875-1952), his wife Maria, and their first three children (Mary, Frank and Alfonso) immigrated from the Tyrol region of Austria to the United States, in 1903.
There would eventually be eight siblings: six boys and two girls. By 1911 the family was established in the new community of Owensmouth, the core area of what would later become Canoga Park, in the west San Fernando Valley.
Frank Senior was a craftsman that worked in wood, stone, concrete, and plaster, and he did a considerable amount of work, much of it artistic, in those medium in the then just-beginning modern development of the west San Fernando Valley.
The Rockpointe Community in Chatsworth is comprised of 739 units, 4 pools and a clubhouse on 90 acres.
It is west of Valley Circle at Devonshire.
It borders Chatsworth Park South and the Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park to the east, Chatsworth Park North to the north, and Oakwood Cemetery to the south.
It was built in phases, from 1967 to 1971.
Rockpointe South of Devonshire –Ackerman, Shadwick, Longview Poultry, Rim Rock Ranch (Hutchinson, Haberfeld)
Rockpointe North of Devonshire –Dejeremias, Butler, Schepler, Roy Rogers Sports Center
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The cherry: beauty, softness, its heart-shaped plastic has inspired artists since Antiquity. Cherries and strawberries were considered the fruits of paradise and thus represented the souls of men.
2. This is what
remains of the Foner barn
northeast of Glenwood,
which fell last winter.
Mark Foner, 4th generation
farmer, is of German
descent and his family
came from Wisconsin. They
rescued the Minneapolis-
Moline from under the
barn roof, but the grain
dryer is still buried.
Mark said the barn was
built in 1910 before the
house – their family
stayed with neighbors
during construction. The
Foners considered
renovation, but the cost of
70, 000 to 80,000 was
more than they could
handle.
3. The Foners milked
32 cows, and the calendar
hanging on the wall
indicates the last time
they milked – June 1992.
In February 2010, Dale
Travis visited the Foney
farm. You can see their
barn (still standing) on his
website:
www.dalejtravis.com
4. Yvonne Dean and
her family have lived on
this farm for sixteen
years, and she provided
the barn pictures from
2009. The wood for the
roof was soaked in a pond
just down the hill so that
it could be shaped for the
circular structure.
Yvonne was
fortunate to discover
additional artifacts in her
attic that belonged to the
original owner/builder of
the barn. These artifacts
date back to the late
1800’s.
5. These pictures are
taken from the ground
level of the barn, and
Yvonne reports that it is
40 feet from the floor to
the center of the roof.
She and her family also
researched the cost of
renovation, but could not
afford it.
As a side note,
when farming slowed
down and this farm was
rented out, the renters
kept chickens in the second
story of the house, and
Yvonne states that there
are tree trunks instead of
wooden beams in the
basement that still
support their home to this
day.
6. Bruce Wussow is a
second generation farmer
and his family has been on
this farm since 1940.
Originally built by Emil
Brueske, the barn has been
shingled twice and tin has
been put on the walls to
protect against further
deterioration of the
wooden walls. The
Wussows milked up to 65
cows in this barn.
Note that the house
has also endured the test
of time – it was built in
1900.
13. The Chan (pronounced
Conn) barn was built in
1918. During the week, the
Chan’s milked cows, and
on Sundays they held
dances in an effort to
make money during the
depression. Tickets were
25¢ each. The dances were
held April through
October from 1935 to 1941
when the U.S. entered WWII
Artistic Expression
on the foundation of
this barn.
15. This farm can be seen from a long
way off, and has become well-known
because of its color. Located in
Brownton, the barn was built in 1903
and has been pink since 1904. This was
no accident either. The original pink
paint was specifically ordered from
the Nimitz Paint Factory in Hutchinson
17. Repurposed barns –
this barn was
transformed into a
quaint antique store
and is located south
of Hawley on 90th
Ave.
18. Notes/Acknowledgements:
All of the round/multi-sided barns photographed in this slideshow can be
found on www.dalejtravis.com when Mr. Davis visited these farms in the past.
Our thanks to Mr. Davis for helping inspire this MN Barn Trip by providing
detailed information on his website.
We would also like to thank all those folks who extended the kindest
courtesies to us when we visited. Your stories and historic information was
much appreciated. And for those folks who were not home when we stopped by
– perhaps next time!
Two barns we searched for were no longer standing – pieces of history gone,
but not forgotten…