Showing posts with label horse wagon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horse wagon. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 04, 2026
Sunday, August 02, 2026
Mennonites have become some of the most prolific land buyers in Belize, acquiring large properties and making bids faster than competitors.
Mennonites have become some of the most prolific land buyers in Belize, acquiring large properties and making bids faster than competitors.
Much of the deforestation in Belize has been tied to Mennonites, the conservative and largely insular Christian denomination that began migrating to Belize more than six decades ago, cutting down the rainforest to establish new colonies.
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Springfield Mass in the 1950’s and the swill wagon was still horse drawn. Pig farmers picked up the swill from each house twice a week and fed it to the pigs in Chicopee.
As the neighborhood where the farm was started to build out, people complained about the smell.
Thus the farmer converted over to a dump.
The result? He went from a poor pig farmer to a large trucking business picking up trash. He sold out in the 80’s for 50 million dollars.
Sunday, November 30, 2025
the publication of "Adventures in the Wilderness; Or Camp-Life in the Adirondacks" in 1869 started a flood of tourists to the area, development of stage coach lines, and the Adirondack Railway from fashionable Saratoga Springs to North Creek some 50 miles northwest. In 15 years, over 200 hotels had sprung up
Because the rich rarely remained that way, most of the wealthy family lakeside cabins were sold to the state, fell into disrepair from lack of funds, or destroyed because of something known as the Forever Wild clause in the New York State constitution. Some have been demo'd so the rich could build newer places.
Thirty-five “Great Camps,” still remain.
There is only one publicly owned Adirondack Great Camp whose buildings are open to all. Camp Santanoni on Newcomb Lake.
Santanoni’s first owner was a prominent Albany banker and businessman. Amassing some 12,500 acres in the Town of Newcomb, just south of the Adirondack High Peaks, Pruyn employed a distinguished architect to design his Adirondack camp. Most of Santanoni was completed between 1892-93
A number of architectural features of Santanoni’s main lodge have been described as Japanese in their influence. This was no coincidence. Robert C. Pruyn had served as secretary to his father, Robert H. Pruyn, when the latter was appointed by President Lincoln in 1861 as minister to Japan.
The Pruyns were well connected in the business, political, and social life of the Empire State. Among many other involvements, Robert C. Pruyn was aide to Governor Dix, President of National Commercial Bank (now Key Bank), and a Regent of the University of the State of New York.
Theodore Roosevelt and James Fenimore Cooper, Jr. were among the many distinguished visitors who regularly visited the Pruyns at their Adirondack camp.
In 1883 one of the first families on Upper St. Regis Lake, that of the wealthy merchant Anson Phelps Stokes, would arrive in a "special parlour horse car direct from 42nd street to Ausable for $100."
https://hikingthetrailtoyesterday.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/camp-santanoni-by-horse-wagon-10-14-2018/
One party consisted of ten family members and an equal number of servants, "three horses, two dogs, one carriage, five large boxes of tents, three cases of wine, two packages of stovepipe, two stoves, one bale of china, one iron pot, four washstands, one barrel of hardware, four bundles of poles, seventeen cots and seventeen mattresses, four canvas packages, one buckboard, [...], twenty-five trunks, thirteen small boxes, one boat, one hamper", all of which was then transferred to wagons for the 36 mile ride to Paul Smiths, and thence by boat to their island campsite
Built in 1908 by prominent banker Archibald S. White on 35 acres overlooking Lake Osgood, White Pine Camp is known for a few unique factors. It was President Calvin Coolidge’s home for 11 weeks in the summer of 1926
Some camps had ice houses, and harvested from the nearby lake. Some of the lakeside mansions were built with bowling alleys, some were similar to small towns, with blacksmith shops, carpenters, carriage houses, and had 300 acre farms to provide for the employees, horses, pantries.Built in 1908 by prominent banker Archibald S. White on 35 acres overlooking Lake Osgood, White Pine Camp is known for a few unique factors. It was President Calvin Coolidge’s home for 11 weeks in the summer of 1926
Morton was the 22nd vice president, and he also served as the US ambassador to France, as a U.S. representative from New York, and as the thirty-first governor of New York.
Eagle Island is literally an island with a mile circumference, that’s home to the Great Camp’s buildings and Adirondack woods.
It was sold to Henry Graves, Jr., a wealthy banker and industrialist from Orange, New Jersey, purchased the property from the Mortons. Graves is known for competing with auto manufacturer James Packard for ownership of the world’s most complicated watch.
Graves eventually beat Packard by commissioning the Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication watch in 1933. In 2014, the Supercomplication set a new record price for a timepiece sold at auction.
In 1938 the owners gifted the camp to the Girl Scouts.
Lake Kora is one of the most intact and well-preserved Great Camps in the region and sits on a thousand private acres, designed by William West Durant in 1898, and was owned by the Vanderbilt family
https://www.afar.com/magazine/retreat-like-a-rockefeller-at-these-spectacular-adirondack-lodges
https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/community-news/history-culture/historic-great-camps-that-you-can-visit/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/adirondackhistory
Robert Schroeder was from a German immigrant family, son of a brewery owner who prospered in America. He began buying land around Debar Pond sometime during the 1880s for raising hops, a major agricultural product in Franklin County during the 19th century.
In time, Schroeder was able to amass around 2,100 acres. He planted at least 300 of those acres in hops, sending them on to breweries in Utica and New York City after harvesting. At one time, he employed more than 100 people.
He was married to the daughter of another brewery owner, their home was a 60 room mansion featuring niceties like a mahogany staircase, a ballroom for entertaining, and imported stained glass.
Things didn’t work out. He lost his fortune (and that of his wife), and had to give up his business and his Adirondack mansion in favor of much more humble lodgings in Brooklyn. As if the couple hadn’t been debased enough, they had to deal with an impetuous daughter who eloped with a member of Hungarian royalty.
Except the man turned out to be a fraud. The most royal thing he did was work as a salesman at a cigar store. The stress of losing her fortune, and then “losing” her daughter, devastated Schroeder’s wife.
Things didn’t work out. He lost his fortune (and that of his wife), and had to give up his business and his Adirondack mansion in favor of much more humble lodgings in Brooklyn. As if the couple hadn’t been debased enough, they had to deal with an impetuous daughter who eloped with a member of Hungarian royalty.
Except the man turned out to be a fraud. The most royal thing he did was work as a salesman at a cigar store. The stress of losing her fortune, and then “losing” her daughter, devastated Schroeder’s wife.
She committed suicide by gas asphyxiation.
Not long afterward, her husband also killed himself that way.
Interestingly, the fake Hungarian royal eventually did the same thing.
Friday, September 12, 2025
from the 1968 movie set of Paint Your Wagon in Baker Oregon from a family photo album
How cool to see they drove their Rebel onto the set area for a photo!
Many more photos of the set at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ForgottenOregon/permalink/2234986516769274
Monday, September 08, 2025
Saturday, July 12, 2025
ok, bear with me, this is a bit of a stretch from cool things with wheels, unless you appreciate the solemn magnitude of a military funeral, with full ceremony, and the traditional horse drawn cart. But there's a catch. The Army has NOT been treating the horse well. WTF?
The Army has just recently resumed caisson operations at Arlington National Cemetery after an investigation found the horses in those units were mistreated, left to graze in lots with little grass, leading them to consume sand and gravel. Two horses died in 2022, and caisson operations were suspended until earlier this year.
The Arlington National Cemetery horses are part of the caisson platoon of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, known as the Old Guard, which is best known for guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the cemetery, located just across the river from Washington.
So, I'm effing outraged. Who the actual fuck mistreats the ceremony horses? The FUNERAL horses, and WHAT ARMY asshole officer was in charge of that and how fast can he be court martialed? Two horses DIED?
So, yeah, that gets posted, put out on blast. And the Army assholes that didn't treat the horses in their squad/regiment/battalion/unit/command (whatever the hell the right military term is) and get sent straight to the middle east after being busted to E1, for a couple years of baking. That ought to be as close to hell as the Army can arrange. And reminder, some god damn officers were on the damn golf course instead of checking in on the horses.
Oh and it was the 3rd Infantry Regiment. Just so the assholes are clearly identified, and put on public shame.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Monday, April 21, 2025
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Look at the freaking size of these Argentine freight wagons! Grain exports were once one of the driving forces of the Argentine economy, right up until the great depression
The Great Depression, caused by the international financial crisis, led to a fall in the price of primary goods - between 1928 and 1932, the prices of Argentina's main exports fell by 60%, and the volume of Argentine exports decreased by almost 12%. Thus, faced with the global crisis, the Argentine agro-export model was losing its viability in the medium and long term.
At that time, Argentina was one of the ten most developed economies in the world, and its achievements in developing the country had turned Argentina into the richest and most developed country in Latin America.
The main producers of agricultural exports in Argentina were large landowners, latifundists, who controlled gigantic land masses - farms with an area of over 1 thousand hectares owned no less than 80% of the land, and the 500 largest latifundists owned 30 million hectares! In total, of the approximately 1 million people employed in agriculture, about 650 thousand people were hired workers.
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Saturday, August 10, 2024
I never heard of the HG Fenton company until this past month...
He began his working life as a poor, seven-year-old ranch hand in the San Pasqual Valley. He amassed a fortune by taking on large contracts for public improvements, related to streets, jetties and even the Tijuana Racetrack.
As a young man, he came to the San Diego area and homestead a track of land at San Pasqual. There he met Arnold Babcock, older son of Elisha S. Babcock Jr., builder of the Hotel del Coronado, who introduced him to his father.
Elisha Babcock gave Fenton a job driving a hunting coach to North Island and Point Loma. Fenton received rapid promotion and was placed in charge of the hotel’s building operations, which included the Western Salt Works at the head of San Diego Bay. Mr. Fenton entered into the construction business for himself in 1905 and was successful from the start.
In 1905 he was made foreman of the Coronado Jetty construction project, and the profits from that set the HG Fenton construction company in business.
He worked for 18 months on the government jetty (Zuniga) off North Island. He was awarded the largest contract given out under the Vrooman Act doing all the street improvements west of Orange Avenue for a total cost of $324,000. which was completed in one year. He granted liberal discounts to the property owners for cash payment with the result that little of the cost went to bond.
Elisha Babcock and Heny Fenton remained close friends until Babcock’s death in September 1922. When Babcock was no longer able to manage his own affairs, Fenton bought the Western Salt Works and provided for the Babcocks for the rest of their lives.
He then purchased Jamul Ranch, which eventually became Eastlake. He owned a 3200 acre ranch at San Pasqual, and a 2000 acre ranch in Otay
Mr. Fenton also did much of the grading for the Tijuana Racetrack (circa 1915) using 20 muleteams. In 1915, Mr. Fenton secured a lease from A. Levi for a 9,000 acre ranch in Jamul where he raised cattle and beef for market. Mr. Fenton owned a 2,000 acre ranch at Bernardo (now Rancho Bernardo) where he specialized in alfalfa and dairy products.
The HG Fenton Material Company was formed in 1928
the H.G. Fenton Co. evolved from salt and gravel mining operations that helped build Qualcomm Stadium to become one of San Diego County's largest real estate organizations with more than 3 million square feet of office and industrial space and 11 apartment communities totaling over 2,800 homes.
They lived in San Diego and Escondido. He died on 25 August 1951 at the age of 79
And I find it suspicious that such a wealthy, historic, and company founder has no wikipedia page. Almost like the company that has his name doesn't want his thorough and complete history on a public website like wikipedia. https://voiceofsandiego.org/2023/07/05/a-wealthy-familys-100-year-old-company-is-blocking-a-permanent-housing-project-for-homeless-people/
Tuesday, July 02, 2024
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