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Beaker
Location: Kennesaw Gender: Male
| | | monumental find < on 6/29/2007 10:21 AM >
| | | This monument is one of the stranger things I came across in my New Orleans trip. It's difficult to describe how out in the middle of nowhere it was. To the best of my recollection it's here. It was on a vacant lot with two abandoned cars and scattered trash, between two crooked flagpoles without flags. Despite this, the paint on the monument itself was fresh; someone had come out and restored the lettering reasonably recently. The monument is a birthplace monument to General Beauregard, a significant figure in Louisiana history, and the namesake of the high school I posted yesterday. The bottom tier of the monument reads "Contreras Plantation" which was indeed his birthplace. Each tier represents either an ancestor, spouse or descendant up to the top tier, which marks the day he died. It's close to eight feet wide at the base, about two feet wide at the top, and about six feet tall. It's made of fairly rough concrete, painted white. I've never seen a monument quite like it.
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Paranoid?
Gender: Male
F/RoX FTMFW
| | | Re: monumental find <Reply # 1 on 6/29/2007 11:34 AM >
| | | Pretty unique find. Amazing where stuff like this is hidden.
"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives... stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon Bonaparte |
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junquehunter
Location: Columbia SC Gender: Female
| | | Re: monumental find <Reply # 2 on 6/29/2007 12:51 PM >
| | | That is a neat find! Someone thought highly of him.
I smoked Marlboro reds for 20 years, I don't need no stinkin respirator! |
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Raticus Moderator
Location: Tyler Gender: Male
Ratus exploricus abandonae
| | Re: monumental find <Reply # 3 on 6/29/2007 12:56 PM >
| | | Thats interesting. I've never seen one done like that either.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something. |
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scotteeyo
Location: Texas Gender: Male
| | Re: monumental find <Reply # 4 on 6/29/2007 1:32 PM >
| | | Nice find! Props for the thread title too.
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forindooruseonly
Location: SW OK Gender: Male
| | Re: monumental find <Reply # 5 on 6/29/2007 3:54 PM >
| | | Such a distinctly Southern monument - Honoring his kinship ties and the history of that plantation at the same time, all in the monument for a Civil War general. Faulkner would have designed something like that.
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Raticus Moderator
Location: Tyler Gender: Male
Ratus exploricus abandonae
| | Re: monumental find <Reply # 6 on 6/29/2007 5:15 PM >
| | | Posted by scotteeyo Nice find! Props for the thread title too.
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yeah that was catchy.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something. |
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Happiedaze
Location: Galveston Area, TX Gender: Female
| | | | Re: monumental find <Reply # 7 on 6/29/2007 5:26 PM >
| | | How big is it? Its hard to tell proportions in pictures sometimes.
Also, what did the bottom step say?
I agree, that is an awesome find. [last edit 6/29/2007 5:26 PM by Happiedaze - edited 1 times]
'Our plans are all laid out, take all these unmarked roads, we blaze the trails to places no one goes, yeah!' -Rise Against |
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forindooruseonly
Location: SW OK Gender: Male
| | Re: monumental find <Reply # 8 on 6/29/2007 6:38 PM >
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The bottom tier of the monument reads "Contreras Plantation" which was indeed his birthplace. |
Yeah, I looked at that forever before I reread it.
It's close to eight feet wide at the base, about two feet wide at the top, and about six feet tall. |
I like it. Just big enough to be obnoxious and narcissistic.
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Happiedaze
Location: Galveston Area, TX Gender: Female
| | | | Re: monumental find <Reply # 9 on 6/30/2007 1:15 AM >
| | | DOh! I really should start reading stuff, and not just look at the pictures.
'Our plans are all laid out, take all these unmarked roads, we blaze the trails to places no one goes, yeah!' -Rise Against |
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