{"id":573889221,"date":"2016-05-19T21:57:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T02:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889221"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:36:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T20:36:04","slug":"the-penultimate-lee-county-historic-markers-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/the-penultimate-lee-county-historic-markers-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The penultimate Lee County historic markers post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, next to last set of marker shots from Lee County, Alabama. This particular project wraps next week, but first there are two markers and a locally-quarried stone marker within a block of each other. They mark the history of Auburn and the place where town and gown meet at Toomer&#8217;s Corner. Also there, the old Auburn Bank (which was until recently a series of bars and is now a pizza joint). <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/markers\/img\/marker153.jpg\" alt=\"Toomer's Corner\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That is the gate onto campus, donated by the class of 1917. The eagles had previously perched atop the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Building in Philadelphia and then in a yard there for some years. They arrived in Auburn in 1961 where they stayed  until being removed for renovation in 2011. The ones you see here are actually re-casted replications of the originals, which have been removed. The transition is, thus, complete. Everything feels like a gift shop now. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/markers\/2016\/05\/19\/toomers-corner-bank-of-auburn-loveliest-village\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can see all about the downtown markers here<\/a>. Check out my entire run of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/markers\/\" target=\"_blank\">the county&#8217;s historic markers here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, next to last set of marker shots from Lee County, Alabama. This particular project wraps next week, but first there are two markers and a locally-quarried stone marker within a block of each other. They mark the history of Auburn and the place where town and gown meet at Toomer&#8217;s Corner. Also there, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-history","category-markers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573889221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573889226,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889221\/revisions\/573889226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}