As many of you know, I love wandering around small Texas towns with my camera in hand. Each town I visit has a rich and varied history as well as some of the most wonderful architecture a photographer could ever ask for.
Columbus, Texas is no exception. After a serious fire gutted the town's livery stable and hotel in 1883, the county commissioners authorized construction of a round brick water tower, constructed from some 400,000 locally made bricks. The incredible brick walls in this tower were built almost three feet thick to support a metal water tank atop the two-story structure. Beneath it, the city's volunteer fire department had its office and fire fighting equipment. After the early 1900 s the water tower fell into disrepair and in 1926 the United Daughters of the Confederacy got county officials to agree to let them use the tower as their meeting place. It stands proudly there to this day as a wonderful historical marker.
Tower in Columbus, Texas
Copyright 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon EOS 40D set on aperture priority (Av) using an EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM hand-held. The exposure was taken at 24mm, f/6.3 for 1/640th of a second at ISO 200 on Sandisk digital film. Post capture processing was done in Lightroom 2 using Nik's Color Efex Pro plug-in. Click on the image above for a larger version.
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