Nelsonville, Ohio / Rocky Boots / Hocking Valley Railway
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Nelsonville, Ohio / Rocky Boots / Hocking Valley Railway
This summer I had the opportunity to travel back home to see my niece graduate from high school. On the way back to Alabama I took a little side trip to visit the Rocky Boot Outlet in Nelsonville, Ohio. It's a cool little town about an hour southeast of Columbus and it would have been even better if I'd been on a bike. There's lots of twists and turns that would have made for a fun ride in that area. I found another little surprise just half a block from the outlet, trains!
Kinda hard to find the Rocky store.
We have the same sign on our breakroom door here. (not that it does any good)
The old train station.
Kinda hard to find the Rocky store.
We have the same sign on our breakroom door here. (not that it does any good)
The old train station.
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Nice Cabooses Rick. Those double decker passenger cars look like theymight have come from Metra in Chicago. That plow is cool, I see it has Conrail reporting marks on it. Thanks for posting the picks Rick!
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Okay people its 8:18..
Chaikwa your slacking on us.. Where's the history lesson? Guess I'll get the coffee, ph00 and sweet tea going.
Okay, heres the lesson.
On July 28th the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing to African Americans citizenship and all its privileges, is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution.
Two years after the Civil War, the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five military districts, where new state governments, based on universal manhood suffrage, were to be established. Thus began the period known as Radical Reconstruction, which saw the 14th Amendment, which had been passed by Congress in 1866, ratified in July 1868. The amendment resolved pre-Civil War questions of African American citizenship by stating that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside." The amendment then reaffirmed the privileges and rights of all citizens, and granted all these citizens the "equal protection of the laws."
In the decades after its adoption, the equal protection clause was cited by a number of African American activists who argued that racial segregation denied them the equal protection of law. However, in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that states could constitutionally provide segregated facilities for African Americans, so long as they were equal to those afforded white persons. The Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which announced federal toleration of the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine, was eventually used to justify segregating all public facilities, including railroad cars, restaurants, hospitals, and schools. However, "colored" facilities were never equal to their white counterparts, and African Americans suffered through decades of debilitating discrimination in the South and elsewhere. In 1954, Plessy v. Ferguson was finally struck down by the Supreme Court in its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
Chaikwa your slacking on us.. Where's the history lesson? Guess I'll get the coffee, ph00 and sweet tea going.
Okay, heres the lesson.
On July 28th the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing to African Americans citizenship and all its privileges, is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution.
Two years after the Civil War, the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five military districts, where new state governments, based on universal manhood suffrage, were to be established. Thus began the period known as Radical Reconstruction, which saw the 14th Amendment, which had been passed by Congress in 1866, ratified in July 1868. The amendment resolved pre-Civil War questions of African American citizenship by stating that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside." The amendment then reaffirmed the privileges and rights of all citizens, and granted all these citizens the "equal protection of the laws."
In the decades after its adoption, the equal protection clause was cited by a number of African American activists who argued that racial segregation denied them the equal protection of law. However, in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that states could constitutionally provide segregated facilities for African Americans, so long as they were equal to those afforded white persons. The Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which announced federal toleration of the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine, was eventually used to justify segregating all public facilities, including railroad cars, restaurants, hospitals, and schools. However, "colored" facilities were never equal to their white counterparts, and African Americans suffered through decades of debilitating discrimination in the South and elsewhere. In 1954, Plessy v. Ferguson was finally struck down by the Supreme Court in its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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Totallyrad--Snoopin' around takin pics of my hometown!!!
I drive by that everyday on my way home from work!
Hope you had a good time. I'd rather visit where you are LOL
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I drive by that everyday on my way home from work!
Hope you had a good time. I'd rather visit where you are LOL
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Hey KO, didn't know we had anybody there. Glad I was a good boy while visiting. I thought the pool/slides across the street was pretty cool. I think I was on Rt. 65 a little to the northwest, great scooter road.