#historic towns

[lightningcola]

Gold Rush Towns

Pentax K1000 - Kodak Ultramax 400

#film photography #photography #35mm film #35mm color film #35mm #analog photography #filmisnotdead #ultramax #kodak #Pentax #Pentax k1000 #historic towns #street photography

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Say hello to Wilbur Beast, or His Honor, the Mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky.  At 6 yrs. old, the French Bulldog, elected in 2020, is one of the youngest to serve in the office. I thought we’d take a tour of his town.

Rabbit Hash was founded in the 19th century, and got its name when a local man said that he would serve rabbit hash for Christmas supper, as there was such a large rabbit population.

Other villagers nicknamed him “Rabbit Hash” and it stuck, eventually becoming the name of the village itself.

Sitting on the Ohio River, steamboats began stopping to order the famous hash and the rest is history.

The population is 426 folks as of the 2018 census, and it appears that the hot spot in town is the Rabbit Hash Mercantile Center and the General Store (across the street from one another).

The store was established in 1830, and it’s where you can get antiques, potions, notions, sundries and more.

“Little documented history of Rabbit Hash actually survives,” explains the General Store owner, “primarily because devastating Ohio River floods in 1884, 1913, and 1937 ruined many records.

“There is still mud in the store’s attic crawl space from the historic 1937 flood, and the only reason it is still here is that it’s anchored securely to the ground by a series of iron rods.”

Note: The general store endorsed another competing candidate, a labrador named Poppy, for mayor.

There’s a cute Rabbit Hash B&B as well, with a great view of the General Store and just a stone’s throw away from the controversial Creation Museum, if that’s your thing.

The mayoral-animal tradition began in 1998. The first elected canine mayor was Goofy Borneman-Calhoun, a dog of “unknown parentage.”

Junior the black lab was the second mayor of Rabbit Hash and loved serving his town and making public appearances.

This paved the way for progressives like Lucy Lou, a border collie and the town’s first female mayor. She broke the glass ceiling in 2008, as the first female to be elected mayor there. (She was preceded by Goofy, the first canine Mayor, and Junior, the first black mayor).

She ran on the campaign slogan “The Bitch You Can Count On.”

The 4th mayor was Brynneth Pawltro- Bamforth most commonly known as Brynn. In an unprecedented move, the Rabbit Hash Historical Society gave official positions to the 1st and 2nd runner ups, Bourbon and Lady, as Ambassadors, in the case that the mayor is unavailable for an event or obligation, an Ambassador will fill in.

Then, enter Wilbur, who replaced incumbent pit bull Brynn with a whopping vote victory. “Wilbur is handling the stress of the job pretty well,” says Amy Noland, his human and campaign mgr.

You’re probably wondering: How? Why? Well, it’s simple. The town is so small, it’s never had a mayor. And with elections being as stressful as they are, the town  welcomes the tradition of a more lighthearted race.

Public service announcement.

https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/12/04/what-kind-of-town-elects-a-french-bulldog-as-its-mayor/    and    http://www.rabbithashhistsoc.org/the-mayor/

#dog mayor #historic towns #small town life #long post

[jahtheexplorer]

Hopewell Furnace

Discovering more history in the Pennsylvania area. Iron plantation from the 19th century.

#Photographers on tumblr #photographer on tumblr #history #colonial history #travel photography #pennsylvania #furnace #east coast #philadelphia #united states #photography #landscape photography #snow #snow day #hopewell furnace #architecture photography #historic buildings #historic house #historic towns

[ghostacolytev2]

Gazing at the edge of the dominion

#Scenic Views #Tranquil Waters #Historic Towns #Community Events #Heritage Preservation

[shutterandsentence]

Photo: Eureka Springs, Arkansas

#eureka springs #arkansas #flowers #historic towns #ozarks #victorian architecture #ozark mountains #ar #the natural state #the south #travel #tourism #explore #quaint towns #road trip #america #usa #adventure #us history

[forevercozyvibes]

🍂 Red Mill views in Clinton, NJ 🍂

#red mill #Clinton #nj #new jersey #fall vibes #autumn aesthetic #historic places #historic towns #old bridge #lamp post #lanterns #autumnleaves #autumn colors #autumn mood #november #october

[oliviartist]

Living in a historic town is the best and the worst

on one hand you get cool stories like that time someone found a old skeleton while rebuilding their porch or the ghost that lives in the attic On Main Street

But on the other hand the roads were built to fit horse and not cars so Everyone has to go 5 miles a hour or risk hitting one another

#history #Historic towns

[allthingseurope]

Siena, Italy (by Patrick)

#siena #italy #europe #travel #travel blog #europe travel #vertical #architecture #old town #historic

[intheholler]

up some holler in red jacket, west virginia

#cr. jack corn #historical photo #appalachia #west virginia #appalachian gothic #american gothic #americana #small town america #holler #appalachian #appalachian mountains

[forest-pirate]

There is just something about driving by the fields in Gettysburg and adjacent towns on a foggy morning that's just so beautiful.

#joeys coffee break #foggy day #foggy fields #historic towns #civil war ghosts

[little-pondhead]

Your Ancient History, Written In Wax

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Danny knew he should have put better security around the Sarcophagus of Eternal Sleep. It wasn’t even Vlad who opened it this time! The fruitloop was too busy doing his actual mayor duties because for some godforsaken reason, the man got re-elected.

No, it wasn’t Vlad. And it wasn’t Fright Knight, either. Nor the Observants. Who opened the Sarcophagus, then? Danny didn’t have time to find out as Pariah Dark promptly tore open a hole in reality and hunting Danny down.

The battle was longer this time. He didn’t have the Ecto-Skeleton, as that was the first thing Pariah had destroyed. The halfa had grown a lot over the past few years, and learned some new tricks, but apparently sleeping in a magic ghost box meant that Pariah had absorbed a lot of power. The bigger ghost acted like a one-man army!

Amity Park was caught in the middle of the battle, but the residents made sure it went no further than that. Vlad and the Fentons made a barrier around the town to keep the destruction from leaking. Sam, Tucker, and Dani did crowd control while Danny faced the king head-on.

Their battle shook the Zone and pulled them wildly between the mortal plane and the afterlife. Sometimes, residents noticed a blow from Pariah transported them to the age of the dinosaurs, and Phantom’s Wail brought them to an unknown future. Then they were in a desert. Then a blazing forest. Then underwater. It went on like that, but no one dared step foot outside of Amity. They couldn’t risk being left behind.

It took ages to beat him, but eventually, Danny stood above the old ghost king, encasing his symbols of power in ice so they couldn’t be used again. He refused to claim the title for himself. Tired as he was, Danny handed the objects off to Clockwork for safe keeping and started repairing the damage Pariah had done to the town. The tear he’d made was too big to fix, for now, so no one bothered. They just welcomed their new ghostly neighbors with open arms and worked together to restore Amity Park.

Finally, the day came to bring down the barrier. People were gathered around the giant device the Fentons had built to sustain it. Danny had brought Clockwork to Amity, to double check that they had returned to the right time and dimension.

Clockwork assured everyone that they were in the right spot, and only a small amount of time had passed, so the Fentons gave the signal to drop the shield.

Very quickly did they discover that something was wrong. The air smelled different. The noise of the nearby city, Elmerton, was louder and more chaotic. Something was there that wasn’t before, and it put everyone on edge.

Clockwork smiled, made a remark about the town fitting in better than before, and disappearing before Danny could catch him.

Frantic, Danny had a few of his ghost buds stay behind to protect the town while he investigated.

He flew far and wide, steadily growing horrified at the changes the world had undergone. Heroes, villains, rampant crime and alien invasions. The Earth was unrecognizable. There were people moving around the stars like it was second nature and others raising dead gods like the apocalypse was coming. Magic and ectoplasm was everywhere, rather than following the ley lines like they were supposed to.

Danny returned to Amity.

The fight with Pariah had taken them through space and time. Somewhere along the way, they had changed the course of history so badly that this now felt like an alien world.

How was he supposed to fix this?

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In the Watchtower, The Flash was wrapping up monitor duty while Impulse buzzed around him, a little more jittery than usual. The boy was talking a mile a minute, when alarms started blaring an alarming green. Flash had never seen this alarm before, and its crackling whine was grating on his ears.

Flash returned to the monitor, frantically clicking around to find the issue, but nothing was popping up. No major disasters, no invasions, no declarations of war. Nothing! What was causing the alarm?

Impulse swore and zipped to a window, pressing his face against it and staring down at Earth. “Fuck! It’s today isn’t it? I forgot!”

“What’s today?” Flash asked. He shot off a text to Batman, asking if it was an error. The big Bat said it wasn’t, and that he would be there soon.

“The arrival of Amity Park. I learned about this in school; the alarm always gives me headaches.”

Flash turned to his grandson, getting his attention. “Bart,” he stressed. “What are you talking about?”

Impulse barely glanced over his shoulder. Now that Flash was facing him, he could see a strong glow coming from Earth. “The first villain, first anti-villain, and the first hero,” he said anxiously. “They all protect the town of the original metas. They’re all here.”

“Here? Now??”

“Yeah? They weren’t before, but they are now. The first hero said there was time stuff involved, which was what inspired me to start practicing time travel in the first place.”

“I’m not following.”

“It’s okay. We should probably go welcome them before they tear apart Illinois, though. The history I remember says that some of them freaked and destroyed a chunk of the Midwest during a fight with each other.”

“WHAT?”

#dpxdc #pondhead blurbs #liminal amity park #I’ve seen stuff like this in the mhaxdp fandom and I eat it up every time #basically the fight with Pariah caused the town to jump through time a little #and while they THOUGHT they were keeping everything in #shit leaked out and tainted those points in time #so technically #historically and genetically speaking #Amity Park is the origin point for the meta gene and Danny made history as the first hero #because Clockwork is a little shit #everyone embodies a basic ability and it has grown from there #the flash family are direct descendants of Dani (speed force Dani for the win) #Dash is the reason super strength exists #so on and so forth #go buck wild #bart learned about it briefly in history class in the 30th century #practically hero worships them #booster gold knows about them too but in contrast to Bart’s excitement #booster is fucking terrified because there was a period where Amity Park rebelled against the US government #and he’s from that specific time #he learned to fear phantom because he lived during that part while Bart is from farther in the future when those issues got resolved #guess who’s chosen to welcome the town? >:) #if you’re wondering what happened to the GIW #they turned into the branch Amanda Waller runs #Danny is the first hero #Vlad the first villain #and Dani the first anti hero #there’s an arc where Danny is trying to fix things but clockwork won’t let him into the timestream and all the heroes are horrified #because yeah Danny is the OG but if he goes back in time to fix his ‘mistake’ what will happen to them?

[heartshapedcaskett]

Elizabethtown, North Carolina

#my photography #film photography #photography #southern gothic #folk gothic #small town gothic #small town usa #swamp country #southern swamp regions #North Carolina #North Carolina gothic #South Eastern United States #chapel #historic churches #southern churches #christian imagery #religious imagery #americana #film photograhers #film photographer #35mm #35mm film #rural USA #rural #rural photography

[jahtheexplorer]

Photo taken in one of my favorite spots for photography, Bryn athyn. This is Glencrein, was the private residence of millionaire philanthropist, Raymond Pitcairn

#travel photography #photographers on tumblr #united states #history #landscape photography #architecture #historic towns #historic church #historic buildings #Bryn athyn #castle series #castle photography #pennsylvania #colonial history #falls colors

[ghostacolytev2]

Gazing at the edge of the dominion

#Scenic Views #Tranquil Waters #Historic Towns #Community Events #Heritage Preservation

[souplover-69]

“This house was completed in 1903 taking 5 years to build. The boards are of yellow poplar; they were sawn and dried on site. The doors, windows, etc. were bought in Waynesville.

A halltree with attached chair sat on the left of this hall. Hiram and Elizabeth Caldwell had 5 children; 1 girl and 4 boys [1 boy died young].”

#north carolina #mine #appalachain mountains #appalachia #appalachian gothic #cataloochee valley #great smoky mountains #north carolina gothic #national park #historical structure #old house #woods #southern gothic #rural america #ruralcore #small town gothic #western north carolina #carolina gothic #explore #wood walls #wood flooring #fire place #photographers on tumblr #photography #old north carolina #early 1900s #architecture #old architecture

[eleni-abroad-blog]

Off the Beaten Path: Exploration of the Artsy & Historic in California & Nevada

Off the Beaten Path: Exploration of the Artsy & Historic in California & Nevada

Come explore artistic flair and interesting history in this latest batch of towns—all stumbled upon during my stint as a Lyft driver! Marysville, CA (Yuba County) Back in 1857, Marysville was a prospering city—one of the largest in California, due to its proximity to so many gold-mining sites. Though it was slated to become the “New York City of the west,” flooding from the nearby Feather and…

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#CA Travel #Historic towns #Lyft #Nomads #Off the beaten path #On the road #Rideshare #Sleepy towns #Small towns #Travel #Uber