C. W. Howard's "Spring Bank" near Kingston, GA

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Spring Bank was the home of Charles W. Howard, an educator, clergyman, writer, agronomist, and geologist.   He
came to what was then called Cass County in the 1830s, bought 800 acres north of Kingston, and opened a school.
  Howard's daughter Frances was at Spring Bank when Federal troops arrived in May 1864.   Her first hand account
of this experience was published as "In and Out of the Lines". Spring Bank burned in 1974; the land still contains the
family cemetery, a gristmill, one of the oldest oak trees in Georgia, and the spring for which the house was named.

The namesake "Spring Bank"

Stone foundation of old spring house

Second largest oak tree in Georgia

This dam, which contained the west side of the old millpond, is several hundred yards long.

View along top of earthen millpond dam

A selection of images from the Grist Mill ruins:

Connesena Creek in rear...

Back near the old home site, another view of the Spring Bank.

From the opposite side, wall leading towards spring.

Daffodils on terrace above wall.

A few historical images: (The distinctive columned portico of the Howard residence is visible in several of the images.)

An early lithograph, from Howard's In and Out of the Lines   (1905)

A similar rendering of Spring Bank, from Historical Collections of Georgia   (1855)

W&A RR Conductors picnic at Spring Bank - May 10, 1887 From article in the Kennesaw Gazette, June 1, 1887   (Courtesy: Georgia Archives)

Spring Bank, from Howard's In and Out of the Lines   (1905) The grown-over shrubs suggest this photo might be from a time-frame close to the previous image...

Rear of Howard residence at Spring Bank - 1936 Photo by Beverly DuBose Jr, July 18, 1936; from Wilbur G. Kurtz collection

Front of Howard residence - 1938 Photo by Wilbur G. Kurtz, summer 1938. Presented to Lucy Cunyus Mulcahy, Jan. 16, 1940.

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