I have passed by this sign for probably 35 years while traveling on I-85 Business South through Lexington, North Carolina. Finally, stopped to capture this image a few months ago. Given its on Fairgrounds Rd, I’m trying to confirm it to be an old relic of the Davidson Country Agricultural Fair.
When the Old Settler’s Cemetery in Uptown Charlotte, NC, ran out of space in 1853, the city purchased the first of several tracts of land totaling 100 acres for a new municipal cemetery. Given race relations of that era, the property developed as three distinct but adjacent cemeteries: Elmwood (for the burial of White persons), Pinewood (for the burial of Black persons), and Potter’s Field (for the burial of White paupers). This composition is from the Elmwood section, shot with during a photo-walk with my niece.
Cheers,
C. S.
Industrial abstract at the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) flour and animal feed mill in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina.
My friend Mary Lou is a sweet and amazing lady. At 101 years of age, she is the oldest original member of First United Methodist Church in High Point, North Carolina.
Cheers,
C. S.
During the 2024 Carolina Balloonfest Competition, pilots launch approximately two miles from a designated target zone at the festival grounds and must navigate to the zone and drop a marker within the target zone without landing the balloon. Here a balloon pilot launches his marker over the target zone.
This substation was once used to bring local electricity into a now abandoned manufacturing facility in Burlington, North Carolina. See similar images from my Commercial and Industrial Decay Gallery.
Season’s Greetings!
C. S.
A Virginia Creeper vine represents Mother Nature’s reclamation of this abandoned farm building in Alamance Country, North Carolina.
Season’s Greetings,
C. S.
The buckboard wagon is a distinctly American four-wheeled utility wagon of simple construction meant to be drawn by a horse or other large animal. The only suspension is provided by the flexible floorboards of the body and a leaf spring under the seat. Over uneven terrain the, floor can flex and “buck”, which contributed to its name. Some historians consider the buckboard wagon the precursor to the modern utility pick-up truck. This buckboard was captured at the Cedarock Historical Farm near Burlington, North Carolina.
See more from my Antiquity Gallery.
Season’s Greetings!
C. S.
Part sculpture, part playground attraction, this wood and rope globe structure, made by Barrs Recreation, is located on the Bell Tower Green in downtown Salisbury, North Carolina.
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