{"id":573889183,"date":"2016-04-28T22:38:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T03:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889183"},"modified":"2016-12-12T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T20:05:22","slug":"riding-for-markers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/riding-for-markers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding for markers"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are four entries on the marker site for you to check out today. First, there’s The Bottle, which is one of those first curiosities you see in town if you come by a certain route. <\/p>\n

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Across the street is just a regular convenience store. On the sign you learn there that The Bottle, a place with a great deal of character to it in the old roadside Americana vein, burned in the 1930s. What’s there now is the most Alabama thing you could possibly do with the space. See more about The Bottle here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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See more about ths Rosenwald school here<\/a>. The schools were named for Julius Rosenwald, president and later chairman of Sears Roebuck & Co., who, along with Booker T. Washington, started the program. There were more than 5,000 Rosenwald schools built nationally and a few hundred of those were established throughout Alabama. This was the first one. To read more about the Alabama version, click here<\/a>. You can see a slightly better version of the photo in the marker here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And just down the road from that is the Loachapoka Historic District. It was a railroad boom town, which meant it was also a railroad bust town. There are two markers within a few feet of one another here. <\/p>\n

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It’s a sleepy little piece of sand now. You can see the markers here<\/a>. Also, in the local Native American dialect, Muskogee, Loachapoka means “turtle killing place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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