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Hurricane Hollow December 2013 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2013) |
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Hurricane Hollow December 2013 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2013) |
| Near the headwaters of Hurricane Creek: |
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| Unknown structures - I've not yet identified what was on this site. |
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| I've heard that this might have been a distillery in the 1800s, but haven't come across any documentation of that. |
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| It seems like there were some substantial structures here... |
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But no buildings show here on the old maps I have looked at. |
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Barrel remains, probably from an old still |
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| Princess Pine (Lycopodium sp.). |
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| Further downstream, there is a large rock outcrop alongside the creek. I don't know if this cave is natural or if it was tunneled by early miners. |
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| Rock shelter - cave. |
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| Another section of the outcrop... |
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| Hurricane Creek |
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| A section of the old railroad spur bed |
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| Getting closer to the Etowah River: |
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Remains of old mineral processing operations |
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More ruins... |
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| An old marked brick |
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| Large bolt embedded in a concrete structure |
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| Piers of the old Railroad bridge across the Etowah River |