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Chattooga River Corridor 2 Chimneys and Old Home Sites Rabun Co, GA & Oconee Co, SC |
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Chattooga River Corridor 2 Chimneys and Old Home Sites Rabun Co, GA & Oconee Co, SC |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2021) |
| ~ March, 2021 ~ I had wanted to look for this chimney a month ago, but the FS road access was blocked by a large tree. I took a different route on this exploration, which involved a 6.8 mile round-trip hike: 1 - Old Homesite RA03 - Rabun Co., GA Near the Eight Ball rapids area of the Chattooga River |
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| The front & lintel have collapsed but this is still a nice chimney. |
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| About 11 feet high at its tallest point. |
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| Chimney from the rear |
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| Another chimney, mostly collapsed, sits about 25 feet away. |
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| This chimney was oriented 90 degrees from the first chimney. |
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| The second chimney, from the rear corner... |
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| The old homestead was not far from the Eight Ball rock and rapids on the Chattooga. |
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| I spotted my first spring wildflowers of the season along the trail - Hepatica acutiloba |
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| Green and Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum) |
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| A big burl... |
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| ~ February 2021 ~ A month earlier, I had been upstream, looking for another elusive chimney. |
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| This is First Island, which is downstream from Earl's Ford. |