So for the past week I have been in Alabama. I have investigated the Bear Creak Swamp and tried to investigate Gurney Manufacturing.
Bear Creak Swamp is said that at night if you park with your lights off and wait you can see what looks like lanterns floating through the swamp and sometimes catch the apparition of confederate soldiers and gunfire. As I investigated I noticed that passing car lights made it look like lanterns on the steam coming off some of the smaller wet areas and being in Alabama gunfire is normal. As for the soldiers I did not see anything
Gurney sadly was burned down a couple years ago and the arsonist is now a united states airman
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
The town of Utopia
Any one who lives along the Ohio river have most likely been through Utopia. Those who haven't have its just so small that they missed it. It may be a small town but it has a strange history.
Started in 1844 by Charles Fourier. He was a member of a religious sect that believed that the earth was entering into a 35,000 year period of peace and that the oceans were going to turn into lemonade (seriously). So he got more than a dozen families to join him in his town he called Utopia. He charged them $25.00 a year and they each were given a wooden house to live in.
In 1846 his town was disbanded after the oceans failed to turn into lemonade. After that the town was sold to John O. Wattles, the leader of a group of spiritualists. Against the warnings of locals, Wattles had the main building moved, brick by brick, down to the water's edge. It was completed by December of 1847, just in time for one of the biggest floods of the nineteenth century.
By December 13th the house and most of its occupants were swept down the Ohio river
Started in 1844 by Charles Fourier. He was a member of a religious sect that believed that the earth was entering into a 35,000 year period of peace and that the oceans were going to turn into lemonade (seriously). So he got more than a dozen families to join him in his town he called Utopia. He charged them $25.00 a year and they each were given a wooden house to live in.
In 1846 his town was disbanded after the oceans failed to turn into lemonade. After that the town was sold to John O. Wattles, the leader of a group of spiritualists. Against the warnings of locals, Wattles had the main building moved, brick by brick, down to the water's edge. It was completed by December of 1847, just in time for one of the biggest floods of the nineteenth century.
By December 13th the house and most of its occupants were swept down the Ohio river
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