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| Date: | 09 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of an abandoned, two-story farmhouse. A large tree is in the foreground. The base of a windmill is on the left, with a water pump stamped "Hu... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Large wooden mill building. This mill was built in 1872 by Benjamin Boorman on the site of an earlier (1842) mill built by McNeil, Elmore, and McClure. The... |
| Date: | 10 27 1963 |
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| Description: | Several trees surround an abandoned farmhouse on a hill. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A photographic postcard of "The Old Tavern" built at Knowlton in 1849. It is a large wooden classical revival style building. A dog joins a group of peopl... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man sits on the porch of the Johnson House hotel. The large wooden structure has a standing seam metal roof and tall chimney. "Johnson House" is painted ... |
| Date: | 09 04 1967 |
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| Description: | An abandoned farm with overgrown foliage. In the background is a farmhouse. The doorway is detailed with decorative pilasters or engaged columns flanking t... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Washington Bridge, crossing over numerous railroad tracks. In the foreground is a train engine, dwellings, and a dilapidated brick str... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The famous "Shirley House" or "White House," stands near the Jackson Road, which was between the Union and Confederate entrenchments during the siege of Vi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A small farmhouse in the Greek Revival style stands near a field with corn shocks and pumpkins. Large evergreens line the lane, and a barn is in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored photograph of Dunham School, standing in a grove of trees, surrounded by a fence. The building is built of brick and has a bell tower, with a ... |
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| Description: | A fence surrounds an old stone house and trees at Bull Run Battlefield. Caption reads: "Stone House, Bull Run Battlefield, Va." |
| Date: | 06 1925 |
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| Description: | View down littered back alley in Hammond's "Little Italy." |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three young children standing in a backyard in very poor condition, including the lack of a lawn, exposed trash piles, and other litter. |
| Date: | 04 23 1926 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress, hat, and stockings uses a mop and bucket to wash a damaged wooden porch attached to a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | This old house is on the Krueger property. Lore has it that they made moonshine here during prohibition. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | This old one-room schoolhouse is on the Priestaf property. Called the "Good Road School," it was closed in the 1950s. The Priestaf house is a log building. |
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| Description: | View of a water pump near the door of a dilapidated house, overgrown with vines. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | This is a very early home on the Bellin property. It is believed that Mrs. Leo Moldenhauer (nee Bogenschneider) was born here in 1900. |
| Date: | 10 1930 |
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| Description: | View across a road and field of several rundown farm buildings located near a farmhouse. The image was used to illustre: "poor farm buildings." |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Main Street, where two young girls walk on the sidewalk, and a horse and carriage and two cars are parked in the street. There is a townhouse complex on th... |
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