Posseyville, IN

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Poseyville, IN, is a very small detour on my way home, so I took that way because according to the Evansville phone book, it has 3 of the 4 tractor dealers in the area. I spent over 2 hours in the town because of the three dealers and because I discovered two abandoned railroad right-of-ways.

In the corner of the cemetery where IN-68 turns East on the south side of town is a war memorial.

And some close ups of the guns.

In contrast to "techonology towns" that have mostly fancy 1800s buildings. This town has buildings from many different decades and the 1800s buildings are rather plain.

The Fifth Third Bank building on the right below has two dates in the masonry -- 1884 and 1924. The tops of the Italianate architecture buildings have rectangle holes instead of a cornice. At first I thought they removed the cornices. Then I decided that the builder just built less ornate buildings. That would explain the simple round arches for the windows as well.

This other 1800s building not only illustrates the lack of a cornice and fancy window arches that normally characterize Italianate architecture, it has the "stars" on the side that terminate metal rods that help hold in the outer walls. The rods would go all the way through the ceiling/floor or roof.