The Carter House via cell phone

My wife and I had made a day trip to Nashville yesterday mainly to do a little shopping and eat lunch. My wife is a big history buff and while we were in Franklin, TN she spotted a sign for The Carter House so we had to stop and visit. The house is an old plantation house where the Battle of Franklin took place in 1864 and about 10,000 soldiers died in the battle. We paid for the guided tour but we both had forgotten our cameras :mad2: . I recently got a new cell phone, a HTC Eris Droid so that is what I used to document our visit. I was very surprised at how well the photo's turned out, here's a couple from our visit.

Carter was not one of the elite plantation owners, he made a modest living in his business ventures. He owned a shoe shop on the town square, he owned a cotton gin as well as what he made off what crops he grew on his 280 acres of land. In the 1862 census, his total net worth was approx. $62,000 which is todays money would be about 1 million. So, for the time period he was considered upper middle class.

The back of the main house
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A couple of cannons guarding the hill
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One of the out buildings behind the main house.
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I think you have an excellent back up camera there, Jeff

My goodness! There IS hope for cell phone cameras! According to your photos!

I'm surprised at the IQ that you got from your cell phone. The results are better than I've ever seen coming from a cell.

Thanks for sharing the Carter House - I enjoyed viewing.

Liz

not bad. what phone?

Thought I put in a response this morning but I was groggy and prolly forgot to hit submit.
Anyway, these do appear to be decent photos and good for a web view anyway.
I've always fascinated by civil war history and now I want to look up The Battle of Franklin.

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Originally Posted by thecounsel

not bad. what phone?

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The phone is the HTC Eris Droid, google operating system. 5mp camera, although these photos were uploaded unprocessed, I have downloaded the Adobe Photoshop app that allows for some minor adjustments before posting.