Old Home Sites 16

Home Sites on this page:

1 - TO35, East Gumlog Creek, Towns Co.

2 - FA31, Mill Creek tributary, Fannin Co.

3 - UN56, Long Creek, Union Co.

1 - Old Homesite TO35 - Off East Gumlog Creek, Towns County, GA December, 2025 I had marked this home location from the old map onto my GPS app, but after Sheldon and I did our Tarkiln Cove trek, we were too worn out to go up there. I went in about a week later to see if I could find the site.

Crossing the creek, I almost immediately came across a long pile of rocks that looked like an old chimney that had collapsed lengthwise but maintained its shape. If so, it had been laying there for a long time...

Continuing past the creek, I came across a homesite. This home once had a pair of chimneys, with both now collapsed. This is chimney 1.

A closer view of the main remaining structure of the old chimney.

From another angle... The second chimney, not much more than a pile of rocks, can be seen in the rear.

Corner of the chimney (fireplace) base

Remains of another corner of the chimney

One more view of chimney 1 from a different angle

An old tree grew up through the middle of the second collapsed chimney.

Rocks from the long collapsed chimney 2.

Rocks from chimney 2 viewed from the opposite direction.

An old road near the homesite is barely recognizable, except for where it is bordered by this old rock wall.
2 - Old Homesite FA31 - Tributary of Upper Mill Creek, Fannin County, GA December, 2025 Sheldon's friend Bobby had told us about this place a couple of years ago. Sheldon had looked for it once but hadn't gone far enough. It was across the creek from what we thought was the most likely spot for a homesite.

Front of collapsed chimney at homesite FA31.

Sheldon for scale

The chimney had collapsed forward, into what would have been the home's interior.

Rear of the chimney

Me for scale - chimney rear

Side view

One more shot, with Sheldon.

On our way out, by the creek, we came across this rock sticking out of a tree trunk!

Another view of the rock embedded in the base of the tree!
3 - Old Homesite UN56 -Long Creek, Union County, GA December, 2025 After finding the previous chimney, we revisited Long Creek. We had found two chimneys along the upper section of this creek a few years ago. But despite two later searches, we'd failed to find another one that Bobby said was upstream. Sheldon had later located it with another group of friends, but I hadn't seen it yet.

Front of the collapsed chimney at homesite UN56. The other homesites we found along this creek are in Fannin Co., but this one is in Union Co.

Me at the chimney, for scale.

Lintel stone of the collapsed chimney.

Side view, from the rear.

Rear view of chimney From what Bobby had told Sheldon, this chimney was considerably more intact when he had last encountered it.

Sheldon photographing the chimney.

Broken lid from an old kettle or Dutch oven / camp stove. ROME HOLLOW WARE STOVE MFG CO. / ROME, GA

Sheldon behind the old chimney fireplace

You can see that the chimney stack fell directly backwards.

On our way back, we checked out some LIDAR indications that looked like a series of pits. All we found was a few boulders, but I did see this interesting big tree with multiple burls at its base, growing alongside an old logging road.

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