1807 Architecture - Jackson Ferry Shot Tower, Bell Rock Lighthouse, Harrietta Plantation, Strelna, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery (Paperback)

Chapters: Jackson Ferry Shot Tower, Bell Rock Lighthouse, Harrietta Plantation, Strelna, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, William Aiken House and Associated Railroad Structures, Mountnessing Windmill, India Wharf, Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm, Bazaleel Taft, Jr., House and Law Office, Charles Street Meeting House, Collis Mill, Great Thurlow, Nickels-Sortwell House, Henry Barnard House, Christ Church, Washington Parish (Washington, D.C.), Moravia Union Cemetery, Ludwick Rudisel Tannery House, Castle Tucker, Swart-Wilcox House, Brick Store Building, Whitestown Town Hall, Rundlet-May House, Niles Farmhouse, Belvedere, Madison Historic District (Madison, Georgia), Capt. Gershom Bradford House, Knightsville Meetinghouse, Penns Neck Baptist Church, Trinity Church Lansingburgh, St. John's Church (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), St. Patrick's Catholic Church (Newcastle, Maine), Church San Juan Bautista y San Ramon Nonato of Juana Diaz, Sudbury Congregational Church, Sarah Orne House, Walter Frost House, Capt. Gamaliel Bradford House, Osambela House, 1807 in architecture, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 110. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Jackson Ferry Shot Tower is 75-foot (23 m) tall shot tower located in Wythe County, Virginia. It is one of only a few remaining shot towers in the United States. It was built by Thomas Jackson and is the centerpiece of the Shot Tower Historical State Park. Construction began on the tower shortly after the American Revolutionary War and was completed in 1807. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1969. Shot Towers were often referred to as Shot Factories during the industry's heyday. Today they stand as testaments to ingenious yet antiquated technology. The purpose of the shot tower was to produce lead shot to be used ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=2678782