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Craytonia - December 2019 More Ruins from the old Fannin Co., GA Community |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2019) |
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Craytonia - December 2019 More Ruins from the old Fannin Co., GA Community |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2019) |
| I made a return visit to the remains of the former community of Craytonia with Alan C. Since my earlier visit with Sheldon, I'd received sketches of the individual home places, and realized that we had not seen 3 of the sites. We located 2 of those 3 on this visit. The overcast conditions were much more favorable for photos. |
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| Breached dam |
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| Sheldon and I had come across this stone dam on our way out after our March visit. |
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| View across dam from the east side |
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| Looking across dam from the west end |
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| The breach in the dam |
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| Close-up of the rocks used to construct the dam |
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| These rocks are quartz, but almost completely covered by green lichens. |
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| A long wall stretches along the creek below the dam. |
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| Middle section of the wall |
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| More of the wall |
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| A rare Hornwort (Nothoceros aenigmaticus) In North America, only found in a small area centered at intersection of GA-NC-TN state borders. Conservation Status: G3-Vulnerable |
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| Snakewort, aka Cat-tongue Liverwort (Conocephalum salebrosum) |
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| The McDaris home place (GA02X11) was one of the sites we missed on the earlier visit. Not much remains beyond the collapsed chimney and a few foundation stones... |
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| Collapsed chimney pile at McDaris site |
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| Foundation stones at the McDaris place |
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| Deadly Galerina (Galerina marginata) |
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| Small cascade on Seabolt Creek |
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| Seabolt Creek |
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| The bank of the creek which runs through the site is lined with stone for two hundred yards. |
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| Sections of the stone lining can be seen amidst the leaves and undergrowth. |
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| Another section of the stone lined creek bank |
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| Alan photographing the old fireplace at the Parker site (GA02X17). |
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| All that remains of the Parker house chimney is the firebox |
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| Ruins of the Parker chimney from the front |
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| The nice spring-head (GA02X15) adjacent to the Parker home site, lined with a stacked stone wall 5 1/2 feet tall at its highest point. |
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| Stone wall lining the flume that runs through the site. The flume diverted water flowing from the Parker spring. |
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| Part of the Ingram house site (GA02X18). |
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| Foundation corner stone in front of one of the two old chimney piles. |
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| Another foundation stone in front of the other buried chimney mound. The two chimneys here were built partially of brick, most of which was scavenged for re-use decades ago. |
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| Spring at the Ingram home site. |
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| Collins home site (GA02X19), from left side |
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| Collins place, from right side. Several large locust logs set in the ground for foundation supports still remain. Two are visible in this image and one can be seen in the previous photo. |
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| Collapsed chimney at the Collins home site. |
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| Base of collapsed chimney at unknown home site (GA02X14). Except for the base, most of the chimney stones here have been hauled away. This home had a dug cellar, visible at the top of the photo under a fallen tree. |