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Old Growth & Old Homesites Mill Creek, Fannin County, Georgia December 2019 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2019-2020) |
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Old Growth & Old Homesites Mill Creek, Fannin County, Georgia December 2019 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2019-2020) |
| My friend Cliff and I spent a day exploring for old-growth trees and old home sites in the vicinity of Mill Creek. |
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| Lower section of a cascade along upper Mill Creek |
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| Upper cascade |
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| This entire area is full of huge White Pines. It's unusual to find a location with so many Pines of this size... |
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| Same tree - it was the first one we measured here. 165 inches in circumference |
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| Remains of the first chimney we came across |
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| Prior to our visit, I had marked the locations of several homesites from the 1898 maps. This one hadn't shown on the maps, although that's not unusual... |
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| One more angle on the chimney remains |
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| This image gives a taste of how densely the old growth Pines grow here. |
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| This moss-covered stone pile was found about mid way between the first two homesites we came across. |
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| This huge White Pine was our BIG find of the day. We measured a circumference of 179 inches (57 inch diameter, almost 5 feet!) It was later determined to be the Champion Eastern White Pine tree in Georgia! |
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| Not far along was the remains of an old stone-lined spring head. |
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| Nearby, Cliff found a piece of quartz that looked like it might be a chipped tool. |
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| We saw stone walls and rock piles as we approached the first homesite location shown on the old maps. |
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| The former large building here had two chimneys facing each other, 50 feet apart. |
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| This chimney still showed the remains of the firebox, while the second chimney was completely collapsed. |
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| Rear of the first chimney |
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| The other chimney, now just a collapsed pile of stone.. |
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| Heading for another spot, we kept an eye out for another homesite I had mapped. We found two, but unfortunately these chimneys were completely collapsed. |
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| The last area we visited had some large Tulip Poplars. We had a ways to go to get back, so we only visited a few of them here. There is a monster old growth tree not far uphill from this spot... |