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Augusta in Transition: Walnut Street Between Jackson and Public Streets
There are still owner-occupied single family houses, including this nice Italianate house, with a rolling backyard. Two friendly dogs greeted us around back. There are other houses with businesses...
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Augusta In Transition: Locust Street Between Lower and Jefferson Streets
At one point as we walked around, an SUV full of women pulled up and asked Jeff if he knew where downtown was. He replied, “I guess this is it?” They found that response hilarious and drove off...
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Augusta In Transition: Lower Street to Chestnut Street
Heading back down to the riverfront on Lower Street, we took a detour down into one of the hollows that was never filled in by urban expansion in the Nineteenth Century. There’s a weird little...
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Gothic Revival Cottage, Fayette, Iowa, Revisited
Back in October of 2018, I visited the town of Fayette in northeastern Iowa, which has a plethora of beautiful buildings, including this intriguing Gothic Revival house, which is the western of a...
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Railroad Machine Shops, Oelwein, Iowa, Revisited
We went back to try and get a better view of what I discovered were old railroad machine shops in Oelwein, which I had viewed back in the fall of 2018 (seventh photo down). Unfortunately, due to the...
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Independence State Hospital, Iowa
I first visited Independence, Iowa, which is the county seat of Buchanan County in the northeastern portion of the state, in 2011 and photographed the streetscape improvements in the downtown area...
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Wapsipinicon Mill, Independence, Iowa
Occasionally, I kick myself for coming within one block or less of some amazing building and totally missing it. That is certainly the case of the historic Wapsipinicon Mill in Independence, Iowa,...
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Interior, Wapsipinicon Mill, Independence, Iowa
The interior of the Wapsipinicon Mill is very well preserved, and shows most of the original wood machinery that ground flour and functioned as other types of milling over the life of the building. Of...
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Munson Building, Independence, Iowa
We spotted the Munson Building from a block away, and immediately our interest was piqued. At first, we thought it was the old Buchanan County Courthouse, and then, when we got a little closer, we...
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Second Avenue Northeast, Independence, Iowa
Frederick J. Bandholtz, Panoramic View of Downtown Independence, Iowa, c. 1907, Library of Congress, 2007660903 Praise the Lord for Frederick J. Bandholtz and his panoramic photos of several towns...
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First Street East, Independence, Iowa
Frederick J. Bandholtz, Panoramic View of Downtown Independence, Iowa, c. 1907, Library of Congress, 2007660903 The panoramic photo of downtown Independence serves us well again, as we can now look up...
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St. Paul/Jedburgh/Sherman, Late Summer 2021
One of my most popular posts was my examination of the St. Paul/Jedburgh/Sherman area, far to the southwest in rural West County. We went back to see what was happening along St. Paul Road. It is...
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Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio
As I was planning out my short drive between Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, I spotted a town slightly off the interstate named Washington Court House. That sounds interesting, I thought, I wonder if...
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Germantown, Montgomery County, Ohio
I drove into Germantown, Ohio from the east, and was greeted by a row of beautifully restored houses from the Nineteenth through early Twentieth Centuries Orangish-red brick was used to build...
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Secor, Woodford County, Illinois
The giant grain elevator in Secor had long attracted my attention on my drive west of El Paso on U.S. Highway 24 on my way to Eureka, Illinois, but this time I decided to go visit and take a look...
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Railroad Machine Shops, Oelwein, Iowa, Revisited
We went back to try and get a better view of what I discovered were old railroad machine shops in Oelwein, which I had viewed back in the fall of 2018 (seventh photo down). Unfortunately, due to the...
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Metamora, Revisited
I found myself near Metamora, which I had visited back in 2011, so I went into town and looked around again. I stumbled across St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, built in a German Hallkirche style,...
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Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois
South on U.S. Highway 67 from Jacksonville is the county seat of Greene County, Carrollton. It’s fascinating to see how quiet and rural the countryside of Illinois becomes when you get away from the...
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Jerseyville, Jersey County, Illinois
Jerseyville, the county seat of Jersey County, is out in the country north of St. Louis, but I still lumped it in with the Metro East due to its proximity to the city. The courthouse, the third one on...
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Around Woodford County, Illinois, June 2022
I went around and looked at some of the towns northeast of the family farm. I started with Eureka, the county seat of Woodford County. I could have sworn I had featured the courthouse before, but...
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