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Search for Old Home Sites Fannin County, Georgia December 2019 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2019) |
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Search for Old Home Sites Fannin County, Georgia December 2019 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2019) |
| My friend Sheldon and I spent a drizzly day exploring for old home places in eastern Fannin County. We visited some that he knew of, and found a few others as well. |
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| Our first stop was a home site (FA03) located below a remote USFS road. This home originally had two chimneys, with one on each end. One is now collapsed. |
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| A dug cellar, now full of rainwater, was centered between the chimneys. |
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| A nice stacked stone chimney, held together with only the sparse remains of the red clay chinking. |
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| Stones of the collapsed chimney in the foreground... |
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| Rear of the chimney |
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| Second home site (FA04) This double firebox chimney is of later vintage, with the stones held together by mortar. |
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| Part of this chimney was constructed of river rock. |
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| The "back" side of the chimney, showing the other firebox. |
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| Not far away was an unusual old stone & mortar structure. An old forge, a firebox for a still, or maybe a syrup mill? The 1935 map shows a "Woody Camp" near this spot. |
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| An old stone lined spring head had a more recent cement-block wall added to it. |
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| Third home site (FA05) Another chimney, of similar vintage to the previous one... |
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| Chimney firebox |
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| Lichens on a quartz rock |
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| We then headed east along a forest road looking for another homesite location that Sheldon vaguely remembered. We ended up walking further than planned, but eventually came to a flat rhododendron-covered area that looked familiar to him. |
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| We found this stone lined spring head more than a mile back in the middle of nowhere. |
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| Nearby was the collapsed chimney of another old home site (FA06). |
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| Searching for a different spring, we found another old collapsed chimney pile (FA07). |
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| We finally came across the other spring head we were searching for. This one has a stone slab "cover". |
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| The nearby home (FA08) associated with this spring was another two-chimney design. |
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| One chimney was still fairly recognizable. |
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| Same chimney, with the second chimney in the background. |
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| This was likely the chimney's lintel stone. |
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| Possibly a wagon axle hub ring, laying on foundation stones. A couple of iron wagon wheel rims were lying tangled in grape vines nearby... |
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| The collapsed second chimney |
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| Collapsed chimney with first chimney at rear |
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| Lintel stone of the second chimney |
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| Tiny mushrooms on a log |
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| We spotted another home site (FA09) near our parking spot, but only the faint sign of a chimney base remained. |