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#125 My town
grandmaR
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My town is pretty small. It consists of a small center square, some restaurants and banks,
the police station, the county courthouse, a place at the bottom of the hill where there is a wharf,
a fire house, a public and Catholic elementary schools (the rest of the public schools are down south of town opposite the fair grounds), some churches
and the road north of town has a grocery store, some more restaurants, a gym, the hospital etc. The whole town is not more than 4 square miles even if you include the sewage treatment plant.
It is the County Seat for the county and has some old buildings.
One of the old buildings is the old jail
Built in 1858, the cells were upstairs and the jailor's family lived downstairs. It is now the visitor information center. From the street you can see the police antenna sticking up behind it. Also it faces west, so in the morning the front is in the shade. I drove around a bit yesterday and took this photo
from across the street at a different angle where the antenna isn't in it. But still not too satisfactory.
So today in the afternoon instead of going to town in my car, I took my scooter, and went out to take pictures.
I find that even in the afternoon with the sun from the west, I get tree branch shadows
This is the one I like best.
The other thing that most people would say when I ask them what is a representative thing to take a photo of in town - the mural
This is the mural
TThe mural starts on the left with the earliest time and goes around to the right and ends the mid 1950s. The ssection with two horses in front of a building represents 1865 when a Congressman is being arrested ffor his opposition to the Civil War (even though the war was over, and all he did was give some money to some prisoners who were making their way back home from Point Lookout Prison which was down in the south end of the county). The building was the Fenwick hotel and is still there.
This shows the building then and now
I don't know if a collage would be appropriate though.
There are also other old buildings in town
Rainhill Cottage
Camalier House
And Tudor Hall (1817)
Tudor Hall was my first thought, but it is extremely hard for me to get a good photo of it.
So what do you think? The old jail or the mural?
the police station, the county courthouse, a place at the bottom of the hill where there is a wharf,
a fire house, a public and Catholic elementary schools (the rest of the public schools are down south of town opposite the fair grounds), some churches
and the road north of town has a grocery store, some more restaurants, a gym, the hospital etc. The whole town is not more than 4 square miles even if you include the sewage treatment plant.
It is the County Seat for the county and has some old buildings.
One of the old buildings is the old jail
Built in 1858, the cells were upstairs and the jailor's family lived downstairs. It is now the visitor information center. From the street you can see the police antenna sticking up behind it. Also it faces west, so in the morning the front is in the shade. I drove around a bit yesterday and took this photo
from across the street at a different angle where the antenna isn't in it. But still not too satisfactory.
So today in the afternoon instead of going to town in my car, I took my scooter, and went out to take pictures.
I find that even in the afternoon with the sun from the west, I get tree branch shadows
This is the one I like best.
The other thing that most people would say when I ask them what is a representative thing to take a photo of in town - the mural
This is the mural
TThe mural starts on the left with the earliest time and goes around to the right and ends the mid 1950s. The ssection with two horses in front of a building represents 1865 when a Congressman is being arrested ffor his opposition to the Civil War (even though the war was over, and all he did was give some money to some prisoners who were making their way back home from Point Lookout Prison which was down in the south end of the county). The building was the Fenwick hotel and is still there.
This shows the building then and now
I don't know if a collage would be appropriate though.
There are also other old buildings in town
Rainhill Cottage
Camalier House
And Tudor Hall (1817)
Tudor Hall was my first thought, but it is extremely hard for me to get a good photo of it.
So what do you think? The old jail or the mural?
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