The World's Most Beautiful Places
A portrait of an Alpaca on a farm in northern Utah. The Alpaca is camelid mammal, native to South America, and closely related to the Llama. Alpaca are naturally found at high altitudes in the Andes mountains of Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador. Alpaca fiber, called wool by some is commonly used in the making of blankets and clothing.
The Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn, was a product of an advertising campaign conducted by the West Virginia Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco Company (Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company), from 1891 to 1992. While barn owners were paid a small fee for the advertisements, the most valuable aspect of the arrangement was the fresh coat of paint their barns received every few years, that helped preserve the wood most barns of the time were constructed from. Most Mail Pouch barns were painted either red or black, with white and yellow writing. At the height of the advertising campaign in the 1960s, more than 20,000 barns, spread across 22 states displayed the Mail Pouch Tobacco ad.
The majority of what remains of these painted barns can be located in Indiana and Ohio.
A corn crib at the historic Locust Grove estate outside of Louisville, Kentucky.
Locust Grove was an 18th century farm founded by William Croghan and his wife Lucy Clark Croghan in 1790. Lucy Clark was the sister of George Rogers Clark a military officer and explorer who played an important part in the early history of Kentucky and Louisville. She is also the sister of William Clark, the famous explorer from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to America’s Pacific Northwest. The farm is notable as the place George Rogers Clark spent his final years, and for being adjacent to the property where Zachery Taylor, America’s 12th president grew up