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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Nov 10, 2008 18:30:49 GMT -5
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Nov 10, 2008 18:31:11 GMT -5
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Nov 10, 2008 18:32:55 GMT -5
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Post by Babs on Nov 10, 2008 18:44:56 GMT -5
Ricky, Where in the world did you find these pictures? There will be a couple of our new members who are going to be overjoyed that you managed to locate these. It's just as I remember, but my memory is just a "drive by" one and I'm sure so many things will be stirred up inside our newest members.
Thanks for finding these and you certainly are a treasure; how you've adopted our fair city and just find things to make people happy, it is truly remarkable.
Babs
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2008 20:04:17 GMT -5
Ricky, Thanks for the great pictures, brings back a lot of memory's of days gone by. I had made a post, #10 in July 2006 about my experience in that area of town. The second cabin in reply 41, it appears as a log cabin, was the home of one of my class mates at Wilson Jr. High, his name was Raymond Clark, also knew a Raymond Johnson that lived in the valley.
George
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Post by guest on Nov 11, 2008 9:03:29 GMT -5
the pics with high waters rings a memory but I may be wrong.the white house showing the back veiw is the johnson home the tannery is showing.the other house that was mentioned was either clark or mayby hartwell home as the road is showing going around.3rd pic i don't recall.
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Post by sara on Nov 12, 2008 8:44:32 GMT -5
hi, I am going to pic no.41 you can see the tannery in the back ground.there is trees there and if you look close enough you can see a house. That was my grandmothers house there is a road and then a house of a lighter color that house was the hartwell house and the next with cars it was the johnson house. back behind my gradmothers house was a short railroad.don't think they used it only to park railroad cars for the tannery.I may be wrong about the useage It was very short. pic 40 is when you enter death valley from 4th.st. and the white house is or was the home of Luther Jonhson.When we left from there I can't say who lived where.When the clarks moved out I do know Mr. Gates lived there. I can picture all the houses but hope we or somebody can put a map and house location together.the other pic 42house I don't recall. I can say as of now I didn't think it looked that bad until now.very gross
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2008 15:48:12 GMT -5
Sara, Katie and Sylvia,
Do any of you remember GrandMa Berry's cabin over on the river?, I was told by Raymond Clark that on Groundhog Day that he and some others would go swimming in the river even if they had to break the ice. Also do you recall the tree house, it's location would have been about were the basketball court is today. I remember the house being some what large and built between two large trees and 6 or 8 ft. above the ground.
George
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Post by sara on Nov 12, 2008 18:06:15 GMT -5
hi,I do not remember what you were asking but grandma berry comes to mine.I remember we had hydrants for water and our grandma would go I believe to her (gdm berry's) house and get well water.Somethings I do remember.My brother would probably remember what you were asking.that would be a little cold. I saw the pics that was put on here and I nearly flipped out on how bad they looked. Maybe someone else can help you. I see the name george and it makes me recall a name of george cox that lived on 4th st.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2008 20:28:10 GMT -5
Sara,
I can't recall knowing a George Cox. Another thing that comes to mind about the area is that we would cross the railroad bridge and play in the old vacant houses that were next to Jim Zeigler's old filling station on old state road 31 before the road was changed to go strait in to the old 2nd St. bridge. Also remember the old railroad round house that was just south of the valley, would sure like to see some pictures of it, if anyone has any.
George
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Post by katie on Nov 13, 2008 5:47:38 GMT -5
George, There are some pictures of the round house on this site,some where as I seen them.I can remember the tree house.I can also remember the boys swimming.The girls never went as it was a boy thing.Is the Clark boys still living? I remember some times all the kids would get together and play Annie-over and Simon Say's at the Clark house.This site has brought so many memories back to me. Some good,some bad.I can remember going to girls house and playing in the area where Mrs. Berry lived. I can't remember mush about her tho.I don't like to put to many names on here as I don't want to offend anyone.It took me years to talk about living in the Valley as I was a shamed of it,but I cam to realize there are some things you can not choose when you are a child.You just make the best of it and go on.I know one thing,it taught me survival. Katie
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Post by BobLane on Nov 13, 2008 10:18:08 GMT -5
I posted this on the 2008 flood post, but it may be good to re-post here on Death Valley., This bad situation of flooding has brought back some memories of a similar flooding when I was about 11 or 12 years old, maybe spring of 1946 or 1947. It wasn’t on the Republic’s list of floods but is still in my memory banks. At that time the city dump was located along White river close to the Second Street Bridge. remember there was a squatters site , “Death Valley” where Mill Race park is now located. Men came up from Southern Indiana and Kentucky to get jobs in Columbus. Some brought their families with no place to house them, so squatter’s shanties started to be built along White River on the south banks. It was a horrid place to bring families, or to house 2 or 3 men so they could work and get their families into suitable housing. Then came the floods, many, if not all those shanties were under threat of being washed away and anyone in them would go with the flood. My dad knew someone who lived there with his wife and little girl. A fellow worker who worked with him at the foundry. Dad took me with him, borrowed a truck and drove there from our house on Fifth street to get this family safely out. He took me to help with packing out whatever household goods that were salvageable, got them into a very small apartment the Red Cross had found for them. We worked well up in the night and early morning helping this family and some others.(I have since learned this was some kin of my folks. These folks are now passed away after moving back to southern Indiana. Maybe someone remembers them. They were Noel & Alice Patton and daughter Rachel. As a 11 or 12 year-old boy I thought this little red haired girl, my cousin, was the pettiest girl I ever saw. Bob Lane It was a time when friends and neighbors helped one another without thought of expense or bother; we just did what needed to be done. Thankfully we have witnessed that trait coming out of people in today’s
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Post by BobLane on Nov 13, 2008 10:25:56 GMT -5
To Phyllis Fields McInteer, your comments about Golden Foundry is interesting. My dad, Robert (Bob) Lane worked at Golden's from about 1940 to 1966 when he died. He was in maintenance department. Could be your family who worked there knew him. Bob Lane
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Post by katie on Nov 13, 2008 10:51:09 GMT -5
Bob,I remember the old dump and some of the people who lived there,but can not remember their names right off. Do you have any idea how Death Valley came to be. I have always wondered..Katie
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Post by BobLane on Nov 13, 2008 11:17:46 GMT -5
Katie, I don't know the answer but David has a lot to say about it. Goggle for death valley, columbus, ibndiana and you will get several sites with some information. Bob
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Post by guest on Nov 13, 2008 18:58:53 GMT -5
try railroads of columbus and you will see the freight terminal and the next pics shows the yard office. was that called the round house.?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2008 19:13:11 GMT -5
Guest, thank you very much for the information about the roundhouse, I found it.
George
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2008 19:29:10 GMT -5
Katie, I have not heard any thing about the Clark boys for several years now, last time I saw Raymond it was at the state fair, he had a concession stand there. Thanks, I found the picture of the roundhouse.
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Post by katie on Nov 14, 2008 8:01:29 GMT -5
I remember as a child someone saying that the valley was once a fisherman's camp.That someone that owned it would rent it to sportsman. There was a sale barn and an ice house there that they would collect ice from the river and store it there. There was also a camp store there.I do not know why this comes to mind. Katie
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Post by guest on Feb 22, 2009 8:25:27 GMT -5
Hi Katie,I was reading about things in here and came across where you wrote about a fishermans camp in death valley.I had never heard anything about that as I know somethings but not as much as some.Could the place you mention they used for their fish and ice was where they called the barn where people used to live in.I have been there before and it was a very poor place to live but I can see there was survivers.Can't iimagine how it would have been to live there.Lots of good reading in here.Have a good day
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