Historical/Neat Items In Your Town

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Here is a "Public Watering Trough" built in 1913.  It sits outside our county courthouse, which was built in 1884 and remodeled in 1926.  It is the last one remaining, and has been refurbished over time.  Got any obscure, but possible interesting, things around the corner in your town?

Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
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  • IndustMech
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    We have the Joliet Prison.



    It was in the opening scene of The Blues Brothers 


    I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
    Let's eat, GrandMa.  /  Let's eat GrandMa.  --  Punctuation saves lives
    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            And in the series Prison Break

                            
    
                        
    I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
    Let's eat, GrandMa.  /  Let's eat GrandMa.  --  Punctuation saves lives
    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            We have so much history around us that there's to much to tell. Houses and Churches built in the 1600's on., the first log Cabin built in the U'S. A bridge just down the end of my street that was a Revolutionary war battle. (The Quinton Bridge) that was attacked by the British.One church in town (Salem,NJ) has the oldest bell tower and clock in this country. Just a bounty of history.
                            
    
                        
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                            We have Reed Gold Mine, it's a state site now and open to the public.                        
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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    We have Reed Gold Mine, it's a state site now and open to the public.
    

    
We can mine that                        
    
                        
    A little dirt never hurt
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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    We have Reed Gold Mine, it's a state site now and open to the public.
    

    
We can mine that
    

    More of a museum and tour of the mine. You can pan for $2 a bucket but the dirt they use actually comes from about 20 miles away. Some people do find flakes which you keep. A former owner of my property actually dug holes all over looking for gold.

     There was so much gold coming out of the area in the early 1800s that there was a mint in Charlotte.                        
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Davy Crockett's house is just up the road. I shall venture forth in a few and get a few pictures.                        
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            We have a few signs around town showing the high water mark from the flood back in 1935. It's even with the top of my bedroom door. I live over 1000 yards from the current banks and over 30 feet higher. There's entire sections of our cemetery where everyone interred was lost to the flood                        
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            See if anyone recognizes this
                            
    
                        
    My favorite cigar list here
    

                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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    See if anyone recognizes this
    

    
The hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania! Where is the bananas?
                            
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Lazy Scranton, The Electric City. We call it that because of the elec-tri-CITY! (From the U.S. version of The Office o'course).

    Haven't been up there in a few months. Used to volunteer at Steamtown every summer.                         
    
                        
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                            There's the Almaden Quicksilver Mine which was once the most productive mercury mine in the United States.  That's why you don't eat any local fish you catch.                        
    
                        
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                            Dennis Cranberrying plaqueDennis saltworks
    Salt Works
    Salt Works Rd. & Cold Storage Rd., East Dennis
    Salt was vital to the Cape's large fishing fleet and maritime trade. Most Cape salt was obtained by importation and boiling of seawater using prodigious amounts of scarce wood. With imports shut off by the Revolutionary War, John Sears, a Quivet Neck resident, began experimenting in 1776 with evaporative precipitiation of sea water, an effort which resulted in only 8 bushels of salt after weeks of effort. Inventing portable roofs to cover the salt vats, protecting them from rain, Capt. Sears obtained a patent in 1799.
    By 1832, 881 salt works produced some 250,000 bushels of salt annually. With the discovery of salt in mines in New York, and the advent of the railroad, the evaporative process was far too expensive, and the business declined. The last salt vats were dismantled in the 1890s.Dennis Shiverick Shipyard
    Shiverick Shipyard
    Sesuit Neck Road at the marina and boat ramp, Dennis
    Asa Shiverick launched his first vessel, a schooner, in 1815. This was followed by a square-rigged brig, many more schooners, and eventually eight handsome clipper ships that would grace harbors around the world. The Shivericks (Asa would be joined by three sons in 1837) moved the shipyard near the mouth of Sesuit Creek to enable the launch-ing of the much larger clipper ships, the only Cape shipyard to build such vessels. A Plaque honoring the Shivericks was dedicated in 1924.
                            
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Gen. Pickett, of the infamous "Pickett's Charge" during the Battle of Gettysburg lived in my hometown before the war.  His house is still here, which is now a museum, and they named a bridge after him.
                            
    
                        
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    Martel said:
    
  
    https://youtu.be/qbL4ue_LfOo?t=3m45s


    And I sleep in a log cabin dating to the 1820s.  How's that for historic?
    

    
I'd love to see a picture of that^                        
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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    https://youtu.be/qbL4ue_LfOo?t=3m45s


    And I sleep in a log cabin dating to the 1820s.  How's that for historic?
    

    
I'd love to see a picture of that^
    

    
From the outside it doesn't look like much.  It got stuccoed over.  The cabin wasn't original to this property.  Three or four owners ago bought it from down in MD, disassembled it and brought it here.  

    They put it together and were ready to start using it when it rained.  He realized it wasn't as well-reconstructed as he thought once things got wet, so he called in the stucco crew.  I know this because he now lives across the street.  His wife used to use it as a craft shop; we made it our master bedroom.  I'll try to get a pic of the inside at some point, but it has some leftover wrapping whirlwind disaster area Christmas is coming kind of look to it right now.  My wife wouldn't appreciate that being consumed by the public.
                            
    
                        
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                            When we lived in NY, there were two small towns near each other, Climax and Surprise.  Somehow, I thought that was fitting.
                            
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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    deadman said:
    
  
    We have Reed Gold Mine, it's a state site now and open to the public.
    

    
We can mine that
    

    More of a museum and tour of the mine. You can pan for $2 a bucket but the dirt they use actually comes from about 20 miles away. Some people do find flakes which you keep. A former owner of my property actually dug holes all over looking for gold.

     There was so much gold coming out of the area in the early 1800s that there was a mint in Charlotte.
    

    
... and to think that DeSoto and his boys marched right past all that and never knew it was there.                        
    
                        
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                            When I was in Oklahoma in 1979 on a construction project, there was a town named Nowata. Not far away was one named Lottawata. 

    And there was a spot in Oklahoma where signs at a crossroad pointed one way toward Porter and a different way toward Waggoner. I always figured that was where Porter Waggoner got the inspiration for his stage name. 

    Things are kinda different in Oklahoma.                         
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            I was expecting to see a picture of our resident oldfart @jlmarta in this thread.                        
    
                        
    A little dirt never hurt
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Well, shoot. I already claimed my spot in this lineup back on Christmas Day. You expected a photo, too??   Sheesh!  :#                        
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Love ya Marty, those were great photos btw                        
    
                        
    A little dirt never hurt
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Old yes, historical???  
                            
    
                        
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