Forsyth Place was the first large park created in Savannah. Stylistically, the park was influenced by the urban renewal of Paris in the nineteenth century, when broad boulevards and parks were created.
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Forgotten Landmark-Bethel A.M.E. Church, Malvern, AR
The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded as St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1884, and has been a pillar in Malvern’s African-American community ever since. The church is being nominated to the National Register of Historic Places with local significance under Criterion A for its associations with the religious life of Malvern’s African-American community. The building, which was built in 1916, and designed by the noted church architect, Alfred W. Woods, of Lincoln, Nebraska, is also being nominated under Criterion C as an excellent example of the late Gothic Revival style. It is also being nominated under Criteria Consideration A:Religious Properties. (Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church)
American Auto Trails for Android Project
Caddo Publications USA has just launched a new project on Indiegogo. We hope to obtain funding to support the development of an historic travel guide app for the Android platform, similar to our existing Apple iOS application, American Auto Trails, which is currently available. If you are interested in the project, please visit our page at Indiegogo.
Forgotten Landmark-U.S. 66 Calumet Junction Magnolia Filling Station, Calumet, OK
Built in 1931 for traffic along U.S. Highway 66, this cottage type station, without service bays, is in very poor condition.
The Magnolia Petroleum Company, founded as an unincorporated joint-stock association on April 24, 1911, was a consolidation of several earlier companies, the first of which, the J. S. Cullinan Company, began operating a refinery at Corsicana, Texas, on December 25, 1898. The Corsicana Petroleum Company, planned as a crude-oil producer for the Cullinan plant, was organized in 1899. The George A. Burts Refining Company, organized in 1901 to absorb much of the crude oil from the Spindletop oilfield, became the Security Oil Company. In 1909 both the Navarro Refining Company, successor to the Cullinan Company, and the Security Oil Company were purchased by the John Sealy Company, which in 1911 became the Magnolia Petroleum Company, with Sealy as president.
The Magnolia Petroleum Company merged with Socony Mobil Oil Company on September 30, 1959. Its operations became part of Mobil Oil Company, which had been formed in March 1959 as an operating division of Socony Mobil, responsible for all operations except marine transportation in the United States and Canada.[i]
[i] Magnolia Petroleum Company; Texas State Historical Association; http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dom01
Calumet Junction Magnolia Filling Station, U.S. Highway 270 and Highway 66, north of Exit 115 on Interstate 40
Forgotten Landmark-Bank of Union (Richardson) Building, Union City, OK
Richardson Building, W. Division Street and Kate Boevers, Union City, OK
The Bank of Union began in 1900 with $10,000 in borrowed capital on the first floor of a two-story, wood-frame building in Union City of Oklahoma Territory, seven years before Oklahoma became a state. In 1910, this brick bank building was built across the street from the Union City school and the bank shared that corner with the school for sixty-seven years. In 1977, The Bank of Union constructed a new building and moved four blocks east to its present location at 206 North Main Street.[i]
[i] About Us; Bank of Union; http://www.bankofunion.com/aboutHistory.cfm
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