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1. ROCKC_121225_004.JPG: Memorial to the events of September 11, 2001 In memory of the eleven Montgomery County residents who lost their lives. Artists Gene and Susan Flores, 2003
2. ROCKC_121225_008.JPG: Life brings tears, smiles, and memories. The tears dry, the smiles fade, but the memories last forever. George Bernard Shaw
3. ROCKC_121225_011.JPG: "Don't look for me here I wouldn't be here Why cry for me I will be flying Look for me When the time is right You will find me I will be there Just do not look for me here"
4. ROCKC_121225_015.JPG: Carry on my wayward son There'll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don't you cry no more Carry on, you will always remember Carry on, nothing equals the splendor Now your life's no longer empty Surely heaven waits for you Kerry Livgren
5. ROCKC_121225_022.JPG: "Don't complain." Sydney Scott Casey
6. ROCKC_121225_029.JPG: Live as though you will die tomorrow, but learn as though you will live forever.
7. ROCKC_121225_036.JPG: Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time that we fall. Confucious
8. ROCKC_121225_039.JPG: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to learn the world a bit better... This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. ROCKC_121225_041.JPG: I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Nehemiah 6
10. ROCKC_121225_045.JPG: To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to plant, and a time to reap.... Ecclesiastics
11. ROCKC_121225_048.JPG: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; Where there is hatred, let me see love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. St. Francis of Assisi
12. ROCKC_121225_051.JPG: The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall now waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time Jack London
13. ROCKC_121225_055.JPG: What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind... William Woodsworth
14. ROCKC_121225_095.JPG: Note the broken spur
15. ROCKC_121225_099.JPG: Montgomery County 1891 Red Brick Courthouse Montgomery County's third courthouse. Built in 1891 the "Old Red Brick Courthouse" has become the symbol and architectural monument of old Rockville. Designated a historic building on July 19, 1965 by the Montgomery County Historical Society, Inc.
16. ROCKC_121225_102.JPG: Lost Rockville -- 1801 to 1850: Montgomery County Court House There have been four court houses in Rockville since it was established as the County seat in 1776. Court was originally held at Hungerford Tavern. A frame court house existed in the late 18th century but was sufficiently outgrown by 1810 to necessitate a new building for the Clerk and his records. In 1835, the County petitioned the General Assembly for authorization of a new brick court house, which was completed in 1840. By that time, Rockville was an established residential, governmental, and market hub with a population of nearly 400. The original single-story wings of the court house were raised in 1872 to provide more space. One year later, however, the Metropolitan Branch of the B&O Railroad opened. Population and court house business increased significantly, and the court house building was again outgrown. It was demolished in 1890. The General Assembly authorized another bond issue for the replacement brick and sandstone Romanesque Revival court house which was constructed in 1890-91 and which stands here today. Montgomery County's growth continued, and the grey Neoclassical style court house was constructed and connected to the 1891 court house in 1931.
17. ROCKC_121225_138.JPG: As another day approaches, I pray for my neighbors. To live in freedom's light, In peace with one another. Though stumbling on occasion, Unified, we endure For We the People are the future; We are Rockville. Richard Whitfield
18. ROCKC_121225_149.JPG: Rockville Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's Confederate Cavalry occupied Rockville June 28, 1863, and captured 150 U.S. wagons along the Washington Road. From here they marched to Gettysburg. In July, 1864, Gen. Jubal Early passed through Rockville on his way to and from Washington.
19. ROCKC_121225_166.JPG: Gettysburg Campaign Invasion & Retreat After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through the Shenandoah Valley and western Maryland as his cavalry, led by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, harassed Union supply lines to the east. Union Gen. Joseph Hooker, replaced on June 28 by Gen. George G. Meade, led the Army of the Potomac from the Washington defenses in pursuit. The Federals collided with Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 1, starting a battle neither side had intended to fight there. Three days later, the defeated Confederates began retreating through Maryland, retracing their steps to the Potomac River and crossing into Virginia on July 14. To follow in their footsteps and to discover their stories, stop by any Welcome Center or local Visitor Center to pick up a Gettysburg: Invasion & Retreat Civil War Trail map-guide. Please drive carefully as you enjoy the history and beauty of Maryland Civil War Trails.
20. ROCKC_121225_169.JPG: Court House Square "Burning with Enthusiasm" -- Gettysburg Campaign -- Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and an estimated 5,000 cavalrymen arrived in Rockville, the Montgomery County seat, on June 28, 1863, to a boisterous reception. One soldier described "a spectacle which was truly pleasing . . . It was Sunday, and the beautiful girls [from the Female Seminary] in their fresh gaily colored dresses, low necks, bare arms, and wildernesses of braids and curls, were . . . burning with enthusiasm to welcome the Southerner, waving handkerchiefs and soliciting uniform buttons as favors." Pro-Southern citizens like George Peter called for fair treatment of townspeople arrested by Stuart. Union supporters likewise defended their "Seccesh" neighbors when periodically arrested by Federal forces. Although divided by political loyalties, Rockvillians were united by community. Prisoners were interned at the courthouse throughout the day. When Stuart left that evening for Brookville via the Baltimore Road, he had an estimated 400 prisoners, including Rockville residents, 150 U.S. Colored Troops with their white officers from Edwards Ferry, and blacks from surrounding farms. (Stuart usually marched prisoners a sufficient distance to prevent them from providing intelligence to the Federals, then paroled them.) He also had $40,000 in soldiers' wages liberated from the U.S. Quartermaster's store, 900 mules, and 125 wagons full of supplies including oats for horses and whiskey for troopers. The seemingly good fortune of abundant captured supplies soon became an impediment as slowly marching prisoners and reticent Union teamsters slowed Stuart's advance.
21. ROCKC_121225_173.JPG: To commemorate the encampment in Maryland of Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock and his men at Owen's Ordinary, now Rockville, April 20, 1755. This stone is placed by the Janet Montgomery Chapter, Daughters of he American Revolution, Mrs. Morris L. Croxall, Regent, July 9, 1913.
22. ROCKC_121225_185.JPG: As another day approaches, I pray for my neighbors. To live in freedom's light, In peace with one another. Though stumbling on occasion, Unified, we endure For We the People are the future; We are Rockville. Richard Whitfield
23. ROCKC_121225_187.JPG: Rockville's African American Heritage Walking Tour Site #1 Red Brick Courthouse 29 Courthouse Square After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands to aid newly freed African Americans. By the time it closed in 1872, the Bureau had provided assistance to four million former slaves making the transition from slavery to freedom, including those in Rockville. The county courthouse was the site of an 1866 case brought to the court by Rockville's Freedman's Bureau to recover money stolen from Rockville's African American community. In 1858 African American freedmen and slaves raised money through subscriptions to construct a church. The money was entrusted to J. Mortimer Kilgour, who joined the Confederate Army in 1861 and never returned to Rockville. The Freedmen's Bureau assisted Daniel Brogdon and Solomon Williams in accusing Kilgour of theft. The Bureau tracked down Mr. Kilgour and returned the money to the Rockville Colored School Board in 1867.
24. ROCKC_121225_191.JPG: Rockville's African American Heritage Walking Tour Site #2 Gibbs v. Broome, et al/1931 Courthouse 27 Courthouse Square Should you receive the same pay for doing the same work? William B. Gibbs, teacher and principal of the Rockville Colored Elementary School, thought so, but he had to take the issue to court. African American teachers had to meet the same qualifications as their White peers but received only half the salary. Gibbs petitioned the Board of Education for equal pay, but the Board denied his petition. Gibbs filed a suit in Montgomery County Circuit Court in 1936. NAACP attorneys Thurgood Marshall (who later became the nation's first African American Supreme Court Justice) and Charles Houston (then Vice Dean of Howard University Law School) represented Mr. Gibbs. County School Superintendent Edwin Boome settled out of court, phasing in equal pay over a two-year period. The year after the case was filed, William Gibbs was fired from the Montgomery County School System.
25. ROCKC_121225_205.JPG: Dedicated to the memory of Joe Steinberg "Mr. Rockville" born, raised, lived his lifetime in Rockville as merchant and real estate broker, who gave love, devotion and great humor to his beloved courthouse and community. With love from his family
26. ROCKC_121225_209.JPG: 1788 1988 Montgomery County commemorates Maryland's ratification of the Constitution April 28, 1988
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Wikipedia Description: Montgomery County Courthouse (Ohio)
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The Montgomery County Courthouse (MCC), built in 1847, is an historic Greek Revival building located on the northwest corner of 3rd and Main streets in Dayton, Ohio. It is referred to locally as the Old Courthouse.

The design of the MCC was modeled on the 5th century BC Temple of Hephaestus in Athens.

On January 26, 1970, the MCC was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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2012 photos: Equipment this year: My mainstays were the Fuji S100fs, Nikon D7000, and the new Fuji X-S1. I also used an underwater Fuji XP50 and a Nikon D600. The first three cameras all broke this year and had to be repaired. Trips this year: three Civil War Trust conferences (Shepherdstown, WV, Richmond, VA, and Williamsburg, VA), a week-long family reunion cruise of the Caribbean, another week-long family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with lots of in-transit time in Ohio and Indiana), and my 7th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including side trips to Zion, Bryce, the Grand Canyon, etc). Ego strokes: I had a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. I had a photograph of the George Segal San Francisco Holocaust memorial used as the cover of Quebec Francais (issue 165). Not being able to read French, I'm not entirely sure what the article is about but, hey! And I guess what could be considered to be a positive thing, my site is now established enough that spammers have noticed it and I had to block 17,000 file description postings for Viagra and whatever else.. Number of photos taken this year: just below 410,000.
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