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I also have a thing for old houses too. A photo I took.

I love walking through old cemeteries. I wish I had a picture of some of the ones i've been to (not on the computer I'm on at the moment, though). There's a pauper's cemetery outside of an abandoned church up the road from my house and some of th gravestones there are so crude that some are only a brick placed on the ground with a name and a year scratched into it.

Here's one of my favorite places to visit. It's known as '40-acre Rock,' or 'The Devil's Stomping Ground.' It's a huge, wide boulder on the top of a hill in a state park, possibly the long-dried lava from a dome volcano. Local legend has it that the native peoples in the area once had human sacrifices there, but of course there's no real proof of it. Nevertheless, it's nice to visit as long as you have people with you. It's creepy if you go there alone. Some say that if you go there alone you can hear unexplained voices in the air around you. I haven't heard them, but I'm not about to try it and find out...

Here's what it looks like from behind. Another random photo I took.



Looks like it would have been nice for gardening. I wonder if it's getting fixed since there's a wreath on the door.

I love old houses too!

Here's one of my photos (from a preserved colonial-era village in a state park) built in approximately 1760:

Wow, I guess brick houses last longer. I asked some of the residents in town if they knew how old the house I took a photo of was. Some said they thought it predated the civil war others think it goes farther back than that. It does have a colonial look to it. The town is full of them. I'm surprised many of the residents don't know their historical surroundings.

I love old houses b/c they have their own character. Modern houses remind me of cookie cutters.