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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 19, 2022 21:15:10 GMT
Old house in downtown Moreland, Kentucky.
Notice how close to the house the highway is; until a short time ago, this was US Hwy 127, a major 758-mile-long North/South artery connecting Chattanooga, Tennessee, with Grayling, Michigan.
Big trucks that go CCHHHSSSHHHHH, including me, would roll through there all night long and blow the curtains plumb off the windows; their only saving grace an At-Grade RxR Crossing just a few hundred feet South.
Now, you could play marbles in the middle of the road.
Moreland made national news just 23-months prior to this photo, in July, 2019, when a Texas Eastern natural gas transmission line exploded, decimating the community and miraculously leaving only one dead.
The spot where I am standing used to be a huge commercial building that spent it's final years as a once-a-week Barn Sale auction house.
Immediately behind me is Moreland Siding and the very busy CNO&TP Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad main line.
Moreland Siding
KY Hwy 2141 (Old Route US Hwy 127; and, before that, KY Hwy 35)
Moreland - Lincoln County - Kentucky
37° 30' 19.379" North
84° 48' 50.920" West
Elevation = 1,092 Feet
Camera is on the highway's West side.
Monday_07-June-2021
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 30, 2022 22:38:26 GMT
Westbound KY Hwy 100
Fountain Run - Monroe County
Wednesday_10-June-2020
Photo Taken from a Moving Vehicle
This house is located on the North side of Ky Hwy 100, just East of the Indian Creek crossing.
Kentucky is full of houses like this one.
The presence of two front doors dates the original construction to the late 1800s/early 1900s.
Note the shed on the back; that is not part of the original plan.
When the homeowners finally got running water and decided to add an indoor toilet and bathroom, they built such an addition, not only to house the bathroom facilities, but, because these houses that sat almost on the ground, it was nigh impossible to get underneath to install the necessary plumbing.
Often such an addition also provided an extra bedroom or a place for a deep-freezer and more kitchen storage, which is the route my maternal grandparents took when they got running water in the mid-1970s.
Satellite view shows this area surrounded with big multi-chicken-house complexes; I bet the smell is horrendous.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jul 31, 2022 17:36:30 GMT
you could play marbles in the middle of the road. Good description.  You posted two-door houses before and we discussed the reasoning (I think.) A lot of neat old houses in KY. |
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Post by hmca on Jul 31, 2022 20:01:32 GMT
A lot of neat old houses in KY. Yes....and I am enjoying seeing them. One of my favorite subjects for photography. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 31, 2022 22:04:49 GMT
Westbound KY Hwy 100
Allen County
Photo Taken from a Moving Vehicle
Wednesday_10-June-2020
This house is located on the South side of KY Hwy 100, on the East side of the Barren River crossing.
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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 26, 2022 22:50:03 GMT
Clear Fork Road - Eli Community - Russell County - Kentucky
Monday_18-September-2017
This old farm house is on the South side of Clear Fork Road, West of the silage pile where I was standing to take the photo.
The photo fools the eye; although it appears the silos are right beside the blue-roofed house, they are in fact 170 yards beyond, behind yet another house that is not visible.
Just in front of them is an old silo missing it's top.
22 yards beyond the silos is an old rusty-roofed Quonset Hut.
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Post by hmca on Aug 27, 2022 0:29:27 GMT
What is in the foreground? I like the way it frames the scene.
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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 27, 2022 1:13:54 GMT
What is in the foreground? I like the way it frames the scene.
Corn Silage that we chopped on another farm about five miles away and myself and three other trucks were working on getting it all hauled to where you see it in the picture.
In fact, this is the field where the corn silage came from. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 31, 2022 3:44:11 GMT
Southbound B Mann Road - Russell County - Kentucky
Photos Taken from a Moving Vehicle
Wednesday_10-June-2020
This barn is on the West side of B Mann Road, a dead-end spur on the South side of Manntown Road in extreme Southern Russell County.
This is the kind of place where the sun comes up about 10:30 in the morning and goes down about 1:30 in the afternoon.
In the first picture, in the far distance, you can just see a lattice-boom crane; I have no idea just where it is at nor what it may be doing, but it's got to be on high ground.
This next photo is at the dead-end of B Mann Road.
I have no idea why these people have a huge ink-pen standing in their yard.
That dry-van gooseneck trailer looks like it would weigh like lead.
Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle
If I had thought of it, I should have gotten in the back of the truck so I wouldn't be shooting through the windshield; but then, we could have all got shot.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Aug 31, 2022 4:18:53 GMT
I have no idea why these people have a huge ink-pen standing in their yard. HA HA !! Good one. Sure green and hilly in some parts of Kentucky! Here, at home, you can watch your dog run away for 3 days.  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Sept 24, 2022 22:21:36 GMT
Clear Springs Road - Russell County - Kentucky
Thursday_20-May-2021
Old Abandoned House
The barn-like vertical boxing and weatherstrip construction should have given me a clue that this was not a historic old farmhouse.
I had envisioned some previous owners of the farm living here and struggling to keep the wolf from coming on through the door.
However, when I asked who may have lived here, much to my surprise, the answer was "Mexicans".
The house was quickly thrown together some thirty years ago to house illegal migrant farm workers.
If it were not so secluded that hardly anyone knows of it's existence, the locals would be clamoring for a chance to rent it. Friday_09-September-2022 
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Post by BuckSkin on May 6, 2023 6:04:10 GMT
KY Hwy 80 West - Casey County - Kentucky
Traveling Eastbound
Wednesday_03-November-2021
Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle
The Old Wilkerson House
This was the home of Lewis Tilford and Stella Mae Foley Wilkerson.
Located on the South side of KY80; West of Windsor Post Office.
The Wilkerson Grocery - where all the money came from - sat closer to the road, under some big shade trees; alas, it appears the store building is gone.
Lewis Jessee's mother, long-time school teacher Mildred, was the only child of the Wilkersons and inherited this big farm (and plenty of money).
In 1978-79, she sold the timber; and, Lewis and I cut and sold the laps for firewood.
Lewis had a big McCulloch with a 30-inch bar; the chain would coast for five minutes after shutting it off.
Lewis shut it off one day and dropped it down by his britches leg while it was still coasting; one of those big wicked teeth caught his britches leg and just about cut his britches off of him.
Mildred thought he was killed; but, it just made one little knick in his leg and there was a single tiny drop of blood; he could have just as easily lost a leg and bled out right there, curtailing all the many adventures we would have in the coming years.
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Post by BuckSkin on May 11, 2023 3:41:53 GMT
KY Hwy 80 West - Pulaski County - Kentucky
Traveling Eastbound
Wednesday_03-November-2021
Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle
My Old Kentucky Home
Located on the South side of KY Hwy 80; like most houses around here in that day, notice that it started as a weatherboard house; then, instead of continuing to paint it, the weatherboard was covered with Asbestos siding; nothing will tighten up a house like Asbestos siding; it insulates and also seals off all drafts and air leaks; plus, it lasts forever.
She's got two front doors as well.
Notice that the left corner porch post is laying on the ground;
most likely due to someone hanging into it with a vehicle or
farm implement. 
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Post by BuckSkin on May 15, 2023 1:53:58 GMT
US Hwy 127 South - Casey County - Kentucky
Traveling Southbound
Wednesday_03-November-2021
Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle
Faulkner Road Mansion
This grand old house is on the West side of US Hwy 127, at the junction of Faulkner Road, between Antioch and Walnut Hill.  You already saw this house from the other direction as per HERE.
And, for your viewing convenience, here:
Saturday_17-October-2020
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Post by BuckSkin on May 19, 2023 8:18:14 GMT
Casey County Fall Road Trip_2020
Murphy Valley Road - South US Hwy 127 - Casey County - Kentucky
Photo Taken from a Moving Vehicle
Saturday__17-October-2020
Murphy Valley Road, along with Faulkner Road on the South side of the missing Calhoun Creek Bridge, are pre-1994 US Hwy 127.
The Brick House
She's got brand-new windows in almost every hole.
Whoever they are, they don't do things in half measures; they have routed the TV Co-Ax through PEX tubing all the way to the satellite dish.
The banks of Calhoun Creek are right there in the back yard.
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