Another Day of Pictures cleared!!!!

38 Posts and 12 Visits is the final tally from the 31 pictures taken on 10/8/2014.  Not bad considering it was a travel day from Gulf Shores and I also was geocaching at the same time.

20th Wisconsin Monument

Ameristar Casino (I miss Top o' the River 

Catfish House that used to be here) and the old Truss Bridge

Bust of General Francis J Herron - he was a Medal of Honor

recipient from the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas.

October 10,2014

Kansas is COLD in January - thank goodness for Lots of backlogged pictures from vacations!  This is from the last full day in Vicksburg last October...  94 Visits and 107 Posts with 185 pictures.  Not bad for one day of exploring!   A few of my favorite pictures:

States Rights Gist

Gotta love a man who was named "States Rights"

Okay, on this one I lied - this is the Kansas Memorial

this is the FUGLIEST Memorial on the Vicksburg Battlefield.

As a Kansan, I'm really embarrassed on this one!

General Lloyd Tilghman Memorial

This is the most moving Memorial on the Battlefield -

he was killed at Champion Hill before the Siege.

Not really a waymark photo, but who can resist

a photo of the sunset, Old Man River, and barge traffic going up river!

Stats for 2014

I have had a REALLY great waymarking 2014.  I was able to post 886 waymark in 13 states (South Carolina was from pictures from the previous year).  This represents 132 different categories.

The Top 5 were:
National Register Contributing Buildings - 312
Dated Buildings - 64
US National Register - 44
Smithsonian Art - 28
Converted Bank Buildings - 23

My top state was Missouri (must've decided to reenact REAL Jayhawking).  I posted 459 waymarks in the Show-Me state in 82 different categories:

Top 5:
Contributing Buildings - 194
Dated Buildings - 38
US National Register - 23
Mausoleums - 18
Missouri Historic Markers - 14

The rest of the states in Alpha order

Alabama - 1 waymark in Municipal flags

Arkansas - 123 waymarks in 47 categories
Top 5:
Contributing Buildings - 25
Arkansas Historic Markers - 12
US National Register - 11
Dated Buildings - 10
Courthouses - 5

Georgia -19 waymarks in 4 Categories
Contributing Buildings - 12
Specific Veterans - 4
Civil War Monuments - 3
Non Specific Veterans - 2

Illinois - 1 waymark in Photo Cutouts (me pictured as SUPERMAN!!)

Iowa - 33 waymarks in 20 waymarks only 4 categories have more than 1 waymark:
Dated Buildings - 10
Non Specific Veterans -3
Masonic Temples -2
US National Register -2

Kansas - 161 waymarks in 49 categories:
Top 5:
Contributing Buildings - 61
Smithsonian Art - 9
Converted Bank Buildings - 7
US National Register - 7
Dated Buildings - 6

Kentucky - 3 waymarks in 3 categories - Converted Bank Buildings, US Benchmarks, US Post Offices

Mississippi - 67 waymarks in 10 categories:
Top 4:
Contributing Buildings - 20
Specific Veterans - 14
Civil War Monuments - 10
Smithsonian Art - 10

Nebraska - 2 waymarks in 2 categories - Nebraska Historic Markers and Zinc Headstones

Oklahoma - 2 waymarks in 2 categories - Woodmen Headstones and Worldwide Cemeteries

 Tennessee - 6 waymarks in 6 categories - Civil War Monument, Barber Pole, Figurative Sculpture, Humerous Combo Businesses, Obelisk, Smithsonian Art

South Carolina - ( waymarks in 6 categories - American Guide - 4, Superlatives, This Old Church, US National Register, Wikipedia, WPA Projects