A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

[J. S. Bach]

Phone circuits on both sides of the street, odd.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Roxbury......

[J. S. Bach]

Interesting building, I wonder if it still exists. And what it might have been before.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Interesting building, I wonder if it still exists. And what it might have been before.

Took a bit of looking about but it's still there off Rt. 641 - part of the Roxbury Holiness Camp. Driven by that countless times and never looked back there off 641 while I was heading to Scotland.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Roxbury ... efox-b-1-d

So, I'd guess that building is what it always was......

[J. S. Bach]

...snip... So, I'd guess that building is what it always was......

It turns out to have been a dance hall originally (from the Roxbury Holinees Camp website):

The postcard-image above shows the Camp in 1937, just two years after meetings were first held on the grounds of the former dance hall.

More information:
https://bic-history.org/photo-friday-ce ... ness-camp/

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...snip... So, I'd guess that building is what it always was......

It turns out to have been a dance hall originally (from the Roxbury Holinees Camp website):

The postcard-image above shows the Camp in 1937, just two years after meetings were first held on the grounds of the former dance hall.

More information:
https://bic-history.org/photo-friday-ce ... ness-camp/

Interesting - I was unable to get their site to open....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[healey36]

Rush looks like a happening town. A Google search yields a Rush Township, but I couldn't find a town of Rush.

While down in Cockeysville picking up the auction lot, took a couple pics of the old Northern Central depot that still stands on Railroad Avenue:



Someone's keeping a coat of paint on it.

[Mitch]

Going back to that R.E.Lee camp for Confederate soldier survivors, I read today where they've found an unexploded artillery projectile on the southwest side at Gettysburg in the Little Roundtop area. The round is said to be about 7" long and weighs about 10 pounds. That probably came from a Napoleon. No rifling marks so may not have even been fired, but if it was, I don't think the Napoleons were rifled, but were smoothbores. The 3" Ordnance Cannon (calvary) was rifled, but the picture they showed looked bigger in diameter than 3". It's an amazing find considering the millions who have romped all over the battlefield through the years. You're not allowed to keep any artifact found on the field. The shell was carted away by a bomb disposal unit from Virginia and detonated.
Edited with newer post information.
You can find a new report on the MSN homepage, which was posted about 30 minutes after my original post. I can't link to it because it is a locked url to the article.

[healey36]

They are working on a “restoration” of Little Round Top, primarily aimed at managing visitors/traffic at the top. The last time I was up there before they closed it off, they’d taken down quite a few trees and were starting some excavation in/around the small parking area. Not sure what the plan is, but I hope it’s not silly. Certainly one of the most visited parts of the field.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[healey36]

I've seen that last card in a colorized version, but the black-n-white version always looks sharper to me. I think some details get obliterated by the colorizing process.

[J. S. Bach]

That church steeple and the tower on the station almost look like twins.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I've seen that last card in a colorized version, but the black-n-white version always looks sharper to me. I think some details get obliterated by the colorizing process.

Yes, the colorized version on most cards of this era lost details. Also, a lot of them were lithograph copies of actual photos, and also deleteriously impacted quality.