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At the north end of Watseka, Illinois is a large brick two-story home. It looks like an ordinary midwestern house, but a story from its past makes people wonder what secrets the walls contain. In 1877, Mary Lurancy Vennum was born near the town of Watseka. At the age of thirteen, she had trouble sleeping
Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “as dumb as a two-story outhouse.” Among the trees, in Cedar Lake, in central Michigan, is a tall historic two-story wooden outhouse. It is a replica of an historic outhouse that sat on the property but had collapsed a few years ago due to decay and neglect. The original two-story
Elkinsville Road winds its way deep into the Hoosier National Forest in southern Indiana. Near the end of the road you will find an old barn and a stone marker for “The Town That Was”. It stands like a tombstone for the town of Elkinsville. The town was founded in 1860 by William Elkin. The
This old wooden church stands quietly next to the road south of Saginaw, Michigan. A couple of hundred yards to the east is where the crosses over the Fairchild Creek, and that is where the town of Luce once stood. The town was given a post office in 1890 and it closed in January of
The Kanawha River flows through the mountains of West Virginia and past the state capitol of Charleston. The river connects to the New River near the New River Gorge National Park. Route 60 winds its way along the Kanawha River and through the town of Glen Ferris. It is there that you will see the
Clinton Iowa sits along the Mississippi River between Davenport and Dubuque. North of town is Eagle Point Park. Standing in the park is a massive stone tower that has been given the name The Castle. It was constructed in hte 1930s by the Works Progress Administration as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal during the Great
The town of Athens, Ohio was chosen by the state for a facility to house mentally ill patients of southern Ohio. Built in 1867, the Athens Lunatic Asylum’s design and layout was influenced by Dr. Thomas Kirkbride. A prominent physician in the field of mental health, he had published a book on the proper design
Fort George Island sits in the north eastern corner of Florida north of Jacksonville. The ruins sit along the road that lead to the Kingsley Plantation ( a post for a different day ) Charles Thomson purchased the island in 1854 and sent fifty slaves to it to build a house for his daughter Charlotte
This massive brick building stands in the Ohio Town of Delaware located about twenty five miles north of Columbus. The front looks like an beautiful Victorian era home but it has a large section added to the back. This was the jail for Delaware County. Built in 1878 the sheriff and his family lived in
A few miles south of Norway, Illinois along Route 71 is the shocking sight of a banged up aircraft with its nose stuck in the ground. It is not a memorial for a plane crash, but is marked on the sign in front for the “survivors of the Agricultural Crash of the 1980s”. Farming has
