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More Old Home Sites - Part 1 Long Creek vicinity, Fannin Co., GA March 2024 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2024) |
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More Old Home Sites - Part 1 Long Creek vicinity, Fannin Co., GA March 2024 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2024) |
| March 2024 - A successful chimney-hunting day, Part 1 Earlier this winter, a friend of Sheldon's sent a photo of an intact chimney deep in the woods of Fannin Co. He'd come across it decades ago while logging the area. We had to wait for the seasonal FS roads to open back up before going to look for it, but in late March we had a perfect day, with optimal cloudy conditions. With somewhat confusing directions, we stumbled around the woods for a while, but did manage to locate it. We don't find many intact chimneys like this out in the woods anymore; what a beauty! |
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| Chimney 1 (Site FA26) Note the rock chimney cap! |
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| Chimney fireplace Much of the original clay chinking has weathered out into hearth over the decades. |
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| Side view |
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| Rear of the chimney |
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| Detail showing the weathered clay chinking |
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| Stacked rock foundation at one of the old cabin's corners |
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| Stacked corner rocks relative to the chimney |
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| Foundation rocks and corner stack at opposite end of the cabin. |
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| Last remains of old cabin side logs. |
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| Chimney fireplace |
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| Iron wheel rims were often used to support the fireplace arch when a large lintel stone wasn't available. |
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| Milton, Jennings & Sheldon - for scale |
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| Jennings, Milton & Bruce |
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| Milton on one of the stacked rock corners. |
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| Me at the rear of the chimney. |
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| Milton in the fireplace |
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| Chimney 2, mostly collapsed |
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| Chimney 2 From the orientation of the second chimney, it appeared that it was from a second building. |
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| Stacked rock foundation corner in front of second chimney. |
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| Milton, Jennings & Sheldon behind the second chimney. |
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| Second chimney, with the first chimney in the rear. |
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| Jennings, Sheldon & Milton. |
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| Continue on to Part 2 - Long Creek Area Homesites Explorations. |