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The church is the headquarters of the Bagdad Village Preservation Association.
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The correctional facility is located off Highway 29 on Teddar Road near the town of Century, Florida.
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The walkway leads to the recreation yard where inmates gather to socialize, play games and exercise in the weight room.
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A guard surveys the exercise yard from a tower located adjacent to the recreation area. There are three towers.
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The pavillion is a gathering place for inmates located in the center of the dormatory building complex.
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The central walkway divides the inmate living area between the open bay dorm “A”
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The house is an example of gothic revival architecture which its central tower, unique silhouette and decorative elements.
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The cemetery is on the east side of the station.
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The building is situated on the corner of Chavers Street and Berryhill Road.
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The attic turret room is a hexagon.
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The mixed skies at sunset are a feature of Tropical Storm Hanna.
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The pavillion is a gathering place at the center of Casino Beach.
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The bank building is located on the north side of West Garden Street.
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The church complex is located across the street from Episcopal Day School.
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There is a garden in the rear of the church.
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The south side of the Empire Building faces Plaza Ferdinand.
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The entrance to the building on Palafox Place is typical of the Chicago School Design with its creative ornamentation above the door on the spandrels (horizontal divisions between windows) and on the cornice.
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The clock tower is the central feature of College Drive. It is dedicated to community activist and PJC board member, M. J. Menge.
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The entrance to the college features a clock tower.
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The Gothic house is located on Perdido Key Drive. Its distinctive style has made it the focus of interest as a location for commercials and movies.
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A stand of pine trees can be seen on the left of the photograph. Cattle are grazing in the valley.
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Walnut Hill is an area of gently rolling land settled by Mennonite farmers from Kansas.
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Cattle graze on the winter wheat.
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Rolls of hay can be seen on the left of the photograph.
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The opening under the main structure is the main access for loading and unloading truck loads of farm products.
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Trucks enter and stop at the office for a weigh-in to establish the amount of product before unloading.
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The soybeans are unloaded into "the pit", a 30' underground storage space. Commodities are purchased from the farmers, stored and sold to consumers in amounts up to 5 tons.
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The same area serves as a loading bay. A flow of corn is released from the storage silo. Customers range from hunters and farmers to sales of corn by the truckload, shipped overseas from the port in nearby Mobile.
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This small elevator services the main silo.
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The pipes feed into 18 different bins, storing individual items, such as, wheat oats, milo, soybeans and corn. Corn is the main item in storage at the elevator.
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The conveyor belt moves corn up to the top floor of the grain elevator. The belt must be cleaned by hand.
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The conveyor belt runs the length of the bins.
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An auger turns the dispensing chute.
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The bins are numbered and the feeding tube is positioned over the correct storage area.
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White corn dust covers surfaces in the elevator.
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A spectacular view of Walnut Hill can be seen from the top of the silos. Hundreds of acres of farmland stretch to the northern horizon.
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Fertilizer is stored, mixed and sold in a seperate building. The bags shown above are loaded by hand after customing the mixture of the elements, such as, amonium nitrate, potash, etc.
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The bobcat is used to load scoops of ingredients in the fertilizer mix.
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Clay Stuckey demonstrates one of the tasks in the fertilizer house. The fertilizer is dumped into this grate. A scale weighs the material and it is mixed in a hopper. The finished product is distributed by truckload or by 50 pound bag.
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Pre-packaged materials in 50 pound bags are stored in the building adjacent to the front office. The bags contain fertilizer and seed, as well as feed for any livestock.
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After unloading, the truck is weighed empty to establish the amount of the load. The amount of the sale depends on current market price. A ticket is added to the farmer's account.
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The rear door to the office is located to the right in the photograph.
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The scales are connected to an electronic weighing system in the office.
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Five employees run the elevator operations. Merle and Clay are in charge of outside tasks. There are two secretaries, Sue and Evon, as well as a general manager, Ed Nowlin. The elevator provides a central meeting place for some members of the farm community.
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If you look at the top of the tower on the right, you can see the Fire Department name in the concrete.
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The tower is just north of West Navy Blvd. (also called Hwy. 98) and just west of the Fire Department Substation on North Q Street. Google Maps has a great photo from above that shows where the tower is in relation to everything else around it.
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The raised portion of Navy Blvd. can be seen behind the tower. The Highway goes over some rail road tracks just west of the tower location.
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