Sharing with Spepia Saturday this week. Come on by and see what others might have come up with related to the theme...or not.
Glad it was in Ohio anyway. There don't seem to be any commonality in their dress. There are some that might have been beauties, and some that would had to have offer a pleasing personality to attract a mate.
Ah ha...
The Ohio General Assembly passed the Sesse Bill in 1902, which mandated coeducation for all Ohio public schools. Miami lacked the rooms to fit all of the students expected the next year, and Miami made an arrangement with Oxford College, a women's college in the town, to rent room
Hepburn Hall, built in 1905, was the first women's dorm at the college. By 1907, the enrollment at the University passed 700 students and women made up about a third of the student body.
Thanks Wikipedia!
So we don't know much about the women in the SS picture.
Do I have new photos that are old to share with y'all?
Sure, she says, scanning through saved photos. But none that show lines of women standing on steps.
I really don't know a thing about this shot...
Pretty sure this is a shot of the inn (still standing if moved a few feet) on the old US 70 road, which connected Black Mountain to Asheville.
And if you continue past the town of Black Mountain, there you go through tortuous turns down the mountain to Old Fort and easier travel going east.
Much of the road bed has now been turned into I-40...but both in Black Mountain and Old Fort, there are stretches of Old US 70 left...as well as the current US 70 from Black Mountain to Asheville. I honestly don't know if it continues west.
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ReplyDeleteHappy 4th of July weekend!
Beautiful sepia images. The woman should have smiled for the photo, why are they looking so serious. Take care, enjoy your weekend!
...great looks back.
ReplyDeleteSerious expressions were the thing back then.
ReplyDeleteIf you'd like to see some torturous turns up or down a mountain, come to Tuolumne County, Calif. and I'll show you "New Priest Grade" on highway 120 to Yosemite! "New Priest Grade" was built in 1915 to replace "Old Priest Grade" which was barely widened from an original one-lane dirt road to create a tight two-lane paved road. "New" Priest twists and hair-pin turns its way 5 1/2 miles to the top. "Old" Priest makes the climb in 2 miles with only moderate turns. The difference is "New" is a fully wide highway and climbs at an average 7% grade. "Old" averages a 14% - 17% grade climb. No buses, RVs, or more than a pickup truck allowed. Yet every year a few idiots try to climb "Old Priest" in a large truck or RV and get stuck. I remember a large cab & trailer moving van getting stuck half way up one year. The driver might have made it except on the steepest part of the grade (17%) the gas couldn't make it from the gas tank to the engine and the truck stalled. Quite the job hauling him up the remainder of the grade!
ReplyDeleteThose are interesting photos. I won’t mind a bit if they make another appearance. I hope it is possible for you to learn more about them.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the bit of local history on women's educational opportunities. In terms of college e3ducation, I suspect you were well ahead of us here in Scotland. It was good to see more of the vintage photographs of where you lived.
ReplyDeleteLast week my wife and I took our first roadtrip in over a year up to Wash DC. With the exception of a route at the start on I26 and I81 to Virginia, the rest of the trip up and back was on just the old US and State roads. So much more to see and without the headache of traffic. I wish that section of US70 had been retained as a separate road from Black Mountain to Old Fort. Joining it with the interstate may have been practical but we lost some scenic history.
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued by your first photo. It looks like a group of Union soldiers at a defensive encampment. The hut looks like the camp cookhouse and the man splitting short rails for mudboards makes it a rare Civil War occupational photo. On our trip we saw several period houses in Virginia that resembled your inn photo. We might try booking a room in one for our next trip.
Great info putting the Sepia Saturday photo into context. I agree with Mike that the first photo appears to be from a Union Army camp — and an excellent photo, too, as he describes. Love the other photo of the inn as well. Amazing that it still stands.
ReplyDeleteThere is an old inn on Rt 11 through Rockingham County, VA that looks much like the inn in your photo. The one on Rt 11 is no longer an inn but has been used in a number of ways - private residence, store, antique mall, so forth.
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