Poinsette Bridge was part of the trail connecting Greenville SC to Asheville NC.
Built in 1820 using enslaved Native Americans, it is said that when a Native died, the body was used in the mortar slurry.
I spent a good bit of time here during Boy Scouts as Camp Old Indian is just up the road from the site and in later years, made many visits. An eerie place after dark.
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The rest of the album.
dead bodies in the mortar slurry...PLEASE!
Might be one of those urban legends much like people being buried inside Hoover Dam, something which never happened. It's true that workers sometimes fell into the concrete and died but they always fished the body out because if they didn't, it would have left a void that would be a weak spot.Originally Posted by kc7jty
Last edited by NQ6U; 09-16-2010 at 10:19 PM.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Is the graininess in the photo intentional, Charles?
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Some of the photos are intended to look eerie. The graininess is due to the foreground being intentionally underexposed to bring out the background. Later adjustments are made to bring out the foreground, this results in the grainy texture you see. It is intentionally desaturated and the background through the arch is left with color. The passage through the arch is considered a rebirth, a renewal. The picture is made to reflect old to new, past to present.
Dead Native American slaves, Bill.
still deceased bodies Chaz, the mortar slurry knows no distinction.
Nice pix, that vine is all over everything in #26. I thought PA was bad for that.
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It it truly ubiquitous and would be a boon to domestic textiles if they didn't blow it off post war.that vine is all over everything in #26
Around here they spray Round Up on both sides of the RR tracks where it grows. Yeah it comes back, but without control it can disrupt structural integrity and all that hoo ha.
When I moved to N Idaho in 1977 there were no European starlings here. Now they are present but still the minority. They are quite aggressive, and other birds their size don't mess with them.
This year the European hornets/wasp(?) have been bad. They're huge and they act like adolescent males on steroids and you can't just ignore them. You have to get out of their way. Never had them until just a couple of years ago.
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