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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
Southwest of downtown Savanna Georgia is a clump of trees surrounded by modern day fast food restaurants. obscured by the trees is a piece of Savannah history. The brick castle-like building with walls that are three feet thick was built in 1898 by the city of Savannah and was used as a powder magazine. It
Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, Michigan is the largest Christmas store in the world. The Silent Night Chapel stands on Bronner’s property and it is a replica of the original chapel in Oberndorf/Salzburg, Austria, which marks the site where “Silent Night” was first sung on Christmas Eve in 1818. Wally Bronner visited the original chapel in
The Ball Mansion sits on a hill in the Ninth Street Hill Neighborhood Historic District in Lafayette, Indiana. The two-story brick mansion was built in 1868 by Cyrus Ball. He was a local businessman and layer that was elected one of the three associate Judges for the district in 1840. He was also the collector
19 I wish this was a story about a wonderful Christmas miracle, but instead, it’s about a celebration that ended in tragedy. The town of Calumet in the Keweenaw Peninsula was one of the wealthiest towns in the United States in the late 1800s because of its copper deposits and mining industry. On Christmas Eve in 1913,
Alton Illinois sits on the other side of the river from St. Louis Missouri and is considered part of the metro St. Louis area. Up on a hill north of town sits an old brick mansion surrounded by large old trees. The home is said to be one of the most haunted houses in America.
The town of Shullsburg is in the southwestern corner of Wisconsin not far from the Illinois border. A few miles south of town on County Road U is a sign for Gravity Hill. If you stop your car at the sign and put it in neutral is will feel as if it is rolling up
