This building, today’s Mystery Photo, comes to us taken from a different angle. See if you can, from this view, identify today’s mystery. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. was one who identified the recent Mystery Photo. “It’s a view of Mount Hood, from the parking lot area of the Timberline Lodge, a mountainside ski resort built in the 1930s in the Mt. Hood National Forest in Oregon.
Mount Hood is a dormant volcano with a height of 11,250 feet above sea level. It is the highest mountain in Oregon and is home to 12 named glaciers and snowfields. While dormant today, Mt. Hood is considered to be Oregon’s most likely volcano to erupt.”
Also recognizing it were Lou Camerio, Lilburn; Mike Montgomery, Duluth; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Ruthy Lachman Paul, Norcross; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; and Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill. The Mt. Hood’s photo came from Rick Krause of Lilburn.
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Two Revolutionary War patriots marked at ceremony here
In continuing with their Bicentennial Commemoration of August 13, the Fairview Presbyterian Church in Lawrenceville hosted grave markings recently for two of the four Revolutionary War Patriots buried in the 200-year-old church cemetery. This event was sponsored by the Button Gwinnett Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), the Philadelphia Winn Chapter D American Revolution, the Blue Ridge Mountains Chapter SAR, and the Robert Forsyth Chapter SAR.
Revolutionary War Patriots John Bagby and Philip Isley fought together during the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1781, a battle that many believe was a turning point in the Revolutionary War.
The background of Patriot John Bagby was given by Philadelphia Winn member, Phyllis Davis, the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Patriot Bagby, who migrated from North Carolina with his family to the newly organized Gwinnett County in the early 1820s. In 1827 John Bagby was eligible to participate in the Georgia Land Lottery, resulting in receiving land in a new part of Georgia known as Muscogee County. Following John Bagby’s death in 1837, he was buried in the Fairview Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
The background of Patriot Philip Isley was read by U.S. Army Colonel (retired) Rex Moody Isley of Arab, Ala., the great-great-great-great grandson of Philip Isley, a patriot who fought in three major battles: Battle of Camden, Battle of Guilford Courthouse, and Battle of Eutaw Springs. In 1822, Patriot Isley moved from North Carolina to Gwinnett County, where he and his wife Mary Ann became founding members of the Fairview Presbyterian Church in 1823. Patriot Bagby was issued a Certificate of Pension in Lawrenceville in 1833 and died at his Gwinnett County home in 1842.
Participating in this ceremony were members of the Georgia Society SAR Color Guard and Militia, the Elisha Winn Society C.A.R., the Button Gwinnett Chapter SAR, the Philadelphia Winn Chapter DAR, and Reverend Melissa McNair-King, pastor of the Fairview Presbyterian Church.
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