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The two-story dogtrot home of a pioneer leader is the oldest known standing structure in the state. The house was designated as a county seat and courthouse in 1825 by the territorial legislature. [10] Around 1855, Colonel Randolph D. Casey built the Casey House, currently the oldest existing house in Mountain Home. The home is currently ...
The second story of the building's history is that Hollensbury and his neighbor who lived at 521 Queen Street were at one time good friends, but due to the neighbor's carriage damaging Hollensbury's house and a fallout in their friendship in the late 1820s, Hollensbury decided to build the small house. The third and final story is that ...
The rooms of a shotgun house are lined up one behind the other, typically a living room is first, then one or two bedrooms, and finally a kitchen in back. Early shotgun houses were not built with bathrooms, but in later years a bathroom with a small hall was built before the last room of the house, or a side addition was built off the kitchen.
Some believe it was a nod to the idea that you could fire a shotgun at the front of the house and the bullet would pass straight through to the back of the house.
Off-the-grid or off-grid is a characteristic of buildings and a lifestyle [1] designed in an independent manner without reliance on one or more public utilities. The term "off-the-grid" traditionally refers to not being connected to the electrical grid , but can also include other utilities like water, gas, and sewer systems, and can scale from ...
The motto of Gulf Shores is "Small Town, Big Beach." TAROT (62A: Deck with a suit of wands) A TAROT deck is the most commonly used deck for cartomancy (fortune-telling using a deck of cards).
Slab City, also called The Slabs, is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community [1] consisting largely of snowbirds [2] in the Salton Trough area of the Sonoran Desert, in Imperial County, California. It took its name from concrete slabs that remained after the World War II Marine Corps Camp Dunlap training camp was torn ...
A second Juneteenth celebration was held on June 18, 2023. [14] Sharswood includes the 3,200 square-foot manor house and a 10.5-acre estate with various small buildings, [15] including an overseer's office and a cabin that previously served as a kitchen, laundry, and slave quarters. [7] [16] There is also a slave cemetery on the Sharswood ...