![]() Earthquake activity: Louisville-area historical earthquake activity is significantly above Georgia state average. wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 48.4 miles away from the city center killed 5 people and injured 86 people and caused between $5,000,000 and $50,000,000 in damages. wind speeds 158-206 mph) tornado 9.4 miles away from the Louisville city center injured 21 people and caused between $500,000 and $5,000,000 in damages. Louisville-area historical tornado activity is slightly below Georgia state average. ![]() Other production occupations, including supervisors (4.8%)īased on data reported by over 4,000 weather stations Tornado activity:.Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5.3%).Secretaries and administrative assistants (7.9%).Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8.6%).Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (9.9%).It adjusts for the number of visitors and daily workers commuting into cities. If you ever want to talk, let me know with a comment, and I’ll get in touch with you at your email address.The crime index weighs serious crimes and violent crimes more heavily. Reminders of how little power I had as a child or teenager. Not just because of that photo, but because of others he took. That my father (a preacher) was on the other end of the camera haunts me. This time, three of my teenage friends from church are standing there with the noose draped around their necks. On a related note, I also have an old photo taken another year (during our annual summer trip to camp). Sadly, I can believe there are folks who don’t believe slaves were sold there. It grieves me that Savannah, where I lived as a child and teenager, turned its old slave holding facilities into part of a lucrative downtown entertainment area on the waterfront. I can’t think of anything good coming out of the ‘worship’ of slave trade markets. I’m back! I just read about the debate that’s been going on this year in Louisville, Georgia. I really appreciate your truth and was wondering if I could post “Haunted” on my FB page? I would also love to perhaps have a conversation one day with you because it seems that perhaps I have finally found that one White person that may have experienced the same feeling that we do when seeing that old slave market, that Haunted feeling. Can you believe that there are even some folks who refuse to acknowledge that slaves were actually sold there? I was doing some googling about the old structure and was led to “Haunted”. This slave market has held a stigma over our hometown for so many years and even with our plight to have it removed, it has caused even more division among the races. A group of Black citizens and local groups are currently challenging our city officials to have it removed from the downtown area. Hello Elouise – I am a Black woman born and raised in Louisville Ga where this slave market still sits in the middle of our downtown. Photo taken by JERenich, 1958, in Louisville, Georgia Can we get through this and emerge stronger, wiser and more compassionate? I wish I knew. ![]() Relieved to have our superior status, even though we knew something wasn’t right and that we’d done nothing to earn white skin. Good little white girls and boys obediently lining up for a photo op. This was one small cog in the machinery that kept us in line. My father made this a regular stop on the way to camp, and loved taking photos of us on the market steps. ![]() Sister #3 (Diane) is sitting on the front row, second from the right. Sister #2 is standing directly in front of me. I’m in the very back, tall, with glasses. The photo was taken in 1958 on a bus trip from Savannah, Georgia, to a summer Bible camp we attended regularly. A daily reminder to all inhabitants of who they are and are not. But does it really matter? Here it is, kept alive in the middle of this small Georgia town. Was this the first slave market in the USA? It claimed to be. Meeting clothes and live to tell about it Not every child gets to visit a cleaned-up Of lynchings, cross burnings and beatingsĬould ever quench the flaming seed planted ![]()
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