Seeing all of the religious pictures on Facebook this week go me to thinking of how many photos of crosses I have taken in the area over the years. Here are just a few, with links to the original stories. You may click on any photo to make it larger. This is an aerial of the Bald Knob Cross taken not long after it was built.
Egypt Mills Trinity Lutheran Church
Egypt Mills Trinity Lutheran Church steeple.
Joseph Putz Grave
Joseph Putz’s metal grave marker in the St. John’s Lutheran Church cemetery in Pocahontas.
High Hill Church
This simple church sits high on a ridge north of Neely’s Landing.
“Judas got a raw deal”
Kenneth Saunders walked more than 4,000 miles to deliver the message that “Judas got a raw deal.”
Trinity Lutheran Church at dusk
I was walking back to my car after shooting another photo when I spotted Trinity Lutheran Church at dusk.
Cape LaCroix Creek marker
This concrete cross has a plaque: “In 1699, Fathers Montigny, Davion and St. Cosme, French missionaries, erected a cross where this stream entered the Mississippi and prayed that this might be the beginning of Christianity among the Indians. The stream has ever since been known as Cape La Croix Creek.” The cross, which had been at the intersection of Kingshighway and Kingsway from 1947 to 2009, when it was moved so a commercial building could be built on the site. Ironically, the marker has never been located close to where the Mississippi River and Cape LaCroix Creek intersect.
Dutchtown cemetery
This cross is in a tiny cemetery located on a high ridge overlooking the ever-diminishing Dutchtown.
Nelsonville cross on a hill
I spotted this cross in Nelsonville, Ohio, on my recent trip back to Ohio University.
Modern-art cross
At first glance, I thought the front of the old Notre Dame High School had been covered with graffiti.
Tower of Memories
Newspaper accounts said the 57-foot tall, 16′ x 16′ Tower of Memories at the Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery would have three stories: the bottom floor would contain an office and the second and third floors would house the Celesta-Vox, touted as “The Voice from the Heavens.”
St. Vincent’s at sunset
I was hoping to shoot the full moon and fireworks when St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church caught my eye.
St. Eisleben Lutheran Church
The St. Eisleben Lutheran Church in Scott City has one of the most unusual steeples I’ve seen.
Altenburg Trinity Lutheran Church
An “inland hurricane” took the steeple off the Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg, but you could never tell it today when you look at the 1867 structure..
G.D. Fronabarger photographed the Bald Knob Cross while it was under construction in 1959.
http://www.semissourian.com/blogs/flynch/entry/43668
The concrete cross that stood since 1947 at Cape LaCroix Creek on North Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau, Mo. was moved to Old St. Vincent’s Church at Main and William streets April 10, 2009.
Here is a video of the move:
http://youtu.be/q5jEpw7WQCw
I just ran across this site and love it ..I was born and raised in Smelterville .left in 1955. at one time it was a pretty little town…kellys had a store by the commubity well. funny farrel also had store therein town..there were three stores out on sprig .three churches . the people were poor but had a lot of pride …I can remember moving out when the river would flood ..then shoveling out the mud and cleaning and moving back in after the water went down…there was the Blue Hole barbecue and tiny fords tavern in the south part of town which kept busy . and the Marquette cement plant and the packing house where people worked ..there was a store out on the hy on the corner across from john dietekers that had a tree growing right up through the middle and out the roof ..cant remember the name now …I can remember the ice man coming around to deliver ice for ice boxes , and he would chip of pieces for the kids in the hot summers..everyone had outside prives then …I can remember the ladies washing wild greens in wash tubs at the community well. and miss squires taking me fishing down to the big ditch..we would get up early and walk down the track to it…and miss phifer making homemade hot tamales and giving to use ..and miss farrel would make homemade quilts and swap them for things .trading was common back then ..my mother took in washing and ironing… those were hard but good times ….