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The house was originally a modest 4-room frame structure on 160 acres (65 ha). It was extended several times, most recently in 1903, and in later years served as the summer home for his son Joy Morton, founder of Morton Salt Company. The mansion features Victorian and Empire furnishings, many of which were owned by the Mortons.
Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.
Cox-Morton House, also known as Home Hall, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built in 1902, for Frank Cox, secretary of Republic Coal Co., the West Virginia Colliery Co., and the Carbon Coal Co. He was known in West Virginia as the "Great Wildcatter". His daughter Alice Boyd Cox married James Morton of the Morton ...
The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story building was the third structure built that year, at a cost of nearly $5,000. [58] Morton stayed there only two weeks before moving out, after which the building was used for general lodging and also held laundry facilities. [57] The many constructions, including greenhouses and small craft shops, quickly reduced the ...
Some of the books include, The Woodwright's Shop: A Practical Guide to Traditional Woodcraft (ISBN 0-8078-4082-3) and The Woodwright's Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge (ISBN 0-8078-5914-1). Roy lent his woodworking expertise to the 2005 movie The New World about the founding of the settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, in the 17th century.
First Election in Wood County FM 49, 3.2 miles E of Mineola, Texas [20] Historical (Subject) Marker, Texas Hist. Comm. First Methodist Church of Winnsboro 301 Church Street, Winnsboro, Texas [21] Historical (Subject) Marker, Texas Hist. Comm. First National Bank Building 101 E. Broad, Mineola, Texas [22] Recorded Texas Historic Landmark (RTHL)
What we know about 2023 Burning Man’s flooding chaos. Burners begin exodus with wait time of seven hours to leave the desert. 05:00, Alisha Rahaman Sarkar. Thousands of revelers stranded for ...
The first well at Burning Springs drilled to obtain oil rather than salt was begun in 1859, and soon the Rathbone family (John V. and his son John C. ("Cass") Rathbone), sold 70 one-acre plots to others who wished to drill. In 1861, 10,000 people moved to the area, and the boom town grew to more than a mile long.