Continuing from the church driveway, the road descends slightly on
the way to the Wheat Community Monument, which is about a half mile
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Continuing from the church driveway, the road descends slightly on
the way to the Wheat Community Monument, which is about a half mile
away.
Around the corner, past the kudzu and high voltage transmission
lines, the monument comes into view at the end of the road.
The
monument stands in a grassy clearing next to woods on one side and
power lines on the other side.
There is a nice rock wall along the front of the clearing. The wall
is about three feet high, and the monument stands about seven feet
tall.
From behind the monument - The site overlooks a highway interchange
at the intersection of Highway 58 and Highway 95. A chain link
fence stands between the monument site and the road.
THE CHURCH AND COMMUNITY WAS
ACQUIRED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
OCT. 6, 1942 THROUGH CONDEMNATION
PROCEEDINGS FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE
IN WORLD WAR II
THIS MEMORIAL ERECTED 1950 BY THE
MEMBERS ON THE ORIGINAL CHURCH SITE
1900 1942
View towards the southeast over the kudzu covered fence, along the
high voltage power transmission lines.
| Quote of the moment |
| There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues made them great and noble. They possessed a natural majesty that was not put on and taken off at pleasure, as was that of certain eastern monarchs when they put on or took off their garments of Tyrian dye. It is hoped that this is not wholly lost from the world, although the sense of earthly vanity inculcated by Christianity may have swallowed it up in humility. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Statues in Rome” (1857-58), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). A lecture. ~ |
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