Continuing from the church driveway, the road descends slightly on
the way to the Wheat Community Monument, which is about a half mile
away.Common sense isn't.
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 |
| Do you know I believe that [William Jennings] Bryan will force his nomination on the Democrats again. I believe he will either do this by advocating Prohibition, or else he will run on a Prohibition platform independent of the Democrats. But you will see that the year before the election he will organize a mammoth lecture tour and will make Prohibition the leading note of every address. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, February 21, 1910. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 1: 286, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). Bryan, the teetotaling Democratic presidential candidate defeated in 1896, 1900, and 1908, first tried to obtain county and state option on prohibition. He failed to do so, but did not sponsor national prohibition until World War I as a war measure. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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