VWs preserving history

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Today’s misadventures took me out to Engleside NC where this once large home stood. While the back is still sorta standing...

The rest of the house had collapsed.

Then there’s the WTF factor...

Then there was this 150-200 year old corner store.

After turning down the road in front of the store I found yet another place to investigate.

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[OB Bus]

I have no desire to live in North Carolina but these pictures of back roads and old buildings I find fascinating. Thank you for sharing your travels with us.
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Just an observation here.

The fact that the porch roof support posts are backed up by stones on the ground and the porch roofline is still level indicates to me that if the ground ever freezes there, it does not freeze very deep. In my part of the world the frost heaves in the soil would have broken up those porches in about 10 years. The porches here as with any foundation have to go below the frost line which is generally considered to be 8 feet down. Last winter it froze to 7 feet.

[TDCTDI]

It's a different dynamic here, NONE of these old houses had foundations or piers that went below ground level (unless they had a basement.), neither does most modern residential construction. I have been under lots of old homes that used the stumps of the trees that were felled to make way for the house as their foundation, termites anyone? Most of the state has either clay or sand to build on, the houses just kinda settle in.

Here’s a pic of the foundation of my buddy’s new house

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[oprn]

You would never get a building permit, a mortgage or insurance on a house built like you describe here in our Province! It just would not last, the walls would be cracking in a couple years. Different world.

[Dwayne1m]

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I was wondering that myself.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[type2rescuemaine]

Robyville Covered Bridge in Corinth/Robyville, Maine. First built in 1876 crossing the Kenduskeag Stream. Was rebuilt in 1984.

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Fort Wetherill in Jamestown, Rhode Island. Built in the late 18th century to protect the Newport, Rhode Island area. The building behind the bus is a mine storehouse with tram tracks leading into it.

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Whaleback Lighthouse in the Piscataqua River separating Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Kittery, Maine. Was built in 1872 and in the 1990's, the volume of the horn had to be reduced because it was structurally damaging the building.

[oprn]

That's pretty cool!

[comcam]

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It finally warmed up to -10 today so I took some pictures of an old town site about 7 miles east of our house. The town of Bulwark, according to an old timer here, once had grain elevators, two general stores, a hotel, a livery barn, blacksmith shop, school and a number of houses.

This is how it looks today. Because of the snow banks this is as close as I could get.

Across the street all the buildings are gone and it is re-purposed for gravel storage.

Looking to the west a 1/2 mile and at the center you can see the trees where the graveyard is.

It looks as though this is the only "currently" used part of the town!

[TDCTDI]

Today, I found some not-so-neglected, neat old houses from the 17/1800s in Hillsborough NC.

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[oprn]

Lovely to see that they are not all rotting into oblivion!

I know you have seen this house before but there is more to this site than just the house. Three years ago I started doing something a bit unusual here, historic in a sense perhaps. I tried making maple syrup from the Box Alders in this old farm yard.

So here we are, Franklin and I, gathering up the jugs to boil down. It took 2 trips only because I only had one spare jug.

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Today’s sighting was this late 1,800s home in Lizard Lick NC.

The combination of the run down home & the unchecked Wisteria conjured up images of Hansel & Gretel finding the witch’s home in the woods.

The Wisteria was masterfully trained decades ago & had grown into this epic rope that only enhanced the creepiness.

There was a family cemetery dating back to the late 1,800s to as recently as 2004.

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[calvinater]

Lizard Lick NC
Is that akin to Toad Suck Arkansas?
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This morning we had a thick layer of fog blanketing the region so I decided to visit the historic Oakwood Cemetery to capture the eeriness.

I was not expecting to find a large section dedicated to the fallen Confederate soldiers.

It was amazing just how many of the headstones said “Unknown soldier”.

On the edge of the Confederate soldier section was this family plot that lost almost a dozen infants & toddlers.

While perusing the headstones in the rest of the cemetery, it dawned on me that many of the names were the same as a lot of the local streets & nearby towns.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[iowegian]