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TDCTDI
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What was once Maxwell VW in Haw River NC.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:56 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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An old hydro powered mill or workshop in Julian NC.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:14 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Here's a couple more,
First, Bedford Mills, Ontario. This building has been restored but is privately owned. To get to there, you have to drive about a mile along a road that normally has a foot of water flooding it:
The road was clear the day I took this picture, you can see the bypass in the background:
This one was taken at Fort Wellington near Prescott, Ontario. Another fortification built in the 1800's to protect us Canadians (then British) from those pesky Americans. It overlooks the St. Lawrence river across from Ogdensburg, NY:
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obus
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Location: just off Garden State Parkway Exit 81
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obus
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 6:39 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Little River dam that was built in the 1800s & was the site of a local mill until WW2 when a flood washed away the millhouse. It was converted into a park when a local business owner trucked in sand to make beaches along the spillway. Here it is after being inundated & breached during hurricane Mathew.The town board voted to reallocate FEMA funds to another project.
Here’s a video taken before hurricane Mathew.
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René R.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 11:19 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Escalle Winery in Larkspur, CA. It operated from the 1880s up to 1920, when Prohibition went into effect. This is the original brick building in front, there are other buildings tucked into the hill behind this but it's all private property, closed to the public.
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 2:40 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Another abandoned farmhouse, this one in Wilton NC.
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 2:42 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Originally a tobacco warehouse in Oxford NC, it is still being used for storage.
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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This one still in use, originally the St John’s College, the now Masonic Home for Children orphanage in Oxford NC built in 1873.
Oh look, the Crusty Pig is trying to play hide-n-seek.
https://www.grandlodge-nc.org/masons-in-the-commun...-at-oxford
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GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
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Mike Fisher
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 3:52 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Little River dam that was built in the 1800s & was the site of a local mill until WW2 when a flood washed away the millhouse. It was converted into a park when a local business owner trucked in sand to make beaches along the spillway. Here it is after being inundated & breached during hurricane Mathew.The town board voted to reallocate FEMA funds to another project.
Here’s a video taken before hurricane Mathew.
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Looks like a lot cleaner water now than before with the dam except it ruined the big lunker fishing behind the dam? This next video shows fish survey/tagging on the Little River & huge catfish that eat all the other smaller fish it says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPZ33BSUAOs
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 4:07 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Water didn’t usually crest the top of the dam (thus the vegetation growing from the top of it), especially with that flow rate, most of the water typically flowed through the original spillway (seen in pics 3 & 4), that flow was due to heavy rains thus churning up a lot of sediment. Dams have always interrupted fish habitats, but I’m pretty sure that they have probably adapted in the 100+ years since that one was erected.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 8:51 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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We used to have a cool little VW show on the grounds of the Mansfield (Ohio) Reformatory, the prison used in the filming of "The Shawshank Redemption"
Fittingly, the VW show was known as the Shawshank VW / Porsche Reunion.
The old reformatory still stands and a volunteer group maintains the biulding and conducts tours. Sadly the show has not returned for several years. 
The following are picks from "Rockin the Reformatory" show held in 2013. That was the last time I know of that VW's graced to grounds.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 9:11 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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This is the first courthouse building in Wake county, built in 1771.
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TDCTDI
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Thanks Beetlebaum, Be sure to get out & grab some pics, there's a lot of beautiful old buildings in your area.
Speaking of beautiful old buildings, here's Wiley Elementary School in Raleigh NC, built in 1952.
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2018 5:38 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Unknown gas station in Auburn, IN
Auburn Cord Duesenberg former factory, now museum. Auburn, IN
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 8:48 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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^ Those are great, thanks!
Here’s some more of one in downtown Raleigh that I suspect will soon meet it’s demise.
As you can see, there’s lots of these new “millennial ant farms” being built all around the downtown area.
Fortunately, this one was saved & converted into a trendy pub/restaurant.
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