Here’s another majestic building for you to identify as this edition’s Mystery Photo. Maybe the architecture, including these turrets, or the trees or the location will give away this mystery. Send your ideas to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Last edition’s Mystery Photo got a lot of correct responses, as apparently a lot of Gwinnettians have vacationed in Hawaii. As Jayne P. Bane of Buford told us, “The most recent mystery photo is Iolani Palace, Honolulu, Hawaii. It is the only royal palace in the United States.” We didn’t know that! The photo was sent in by Rick and Sandy Krause of Lilburn.
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. gave some added info: “Built in 1882 by King David Kalakaua and his wife Queen Kapiolani, the palace had electricity and telephones even before the White House. In January of 1895, Queen Liliuokalani, the last reigning monarch of Hawaii, was imprisoned in the palace during the overthrow of her government. Some say you can still hear the Queen pacing back-and-forth in the room where she was held captive. The palace then served as the capitol of the territory when Hawaii was annexed to the United States, in 1959.”
Among those recognizing the photo were: Michael Green, Milton; Bob Foreman, Grayson; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Dottie Kuhn, Lawrenceville; Jim Savadelis, Duluth; and Jo Pinder of Baltimore, Md., the former Gwinnett County librarian, who told us that the building was “…used in the original Hawaii Five O as the police headquarters.”
LAGNIAPPELocal DAR chapter visits Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery
Fourteen members of The Philadelphia Winn Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, visited Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta recently. After a morning tour of the cemetery, lunch was taken at the Six Feet Under Restaurant, directly across from the cemetery. Atlanta fathers purchased six acres in 1850 to be a public burial ground. Originally called Atlanta Graveyard or City Burial Place, Oakland was renamed in 1872. By then it had expanded to 48 acres, mainly because of pressures of the Civil War. By 1867 the cemetery reached its present size. Oakland Cemetery is the final resting place for the rich and poor, famous and unknown. There are approximately 6,900 Confederate graves at the cemetery with some 3,000 Unknown Confederate Dead. The Lion of Atlanta stands sentry to these unknown soldiers who were hastily buried during the war then reinterred at Oakland Cemetery. Regent Lydia McGill, Helen Hay and Anne Lockhart are shown with the lion statue. (Photo by Frank Marchese.)
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