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Powell Graves / Cemetery December 2024 Rabun County, GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2024) |
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Powell Graves / Cemetery December 2024 Rabun County, GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2024) |
| I've spent some time around Dick's Creek looking for old homesites. It's been a mixed bag - I've found a few partial chimneys, but nowhere near as many as the old maps would indicate. A number of rock piles also. I also located and photographed the old Dover-Allen cemetery a few years ago. I had another area that I wanted to explore, and a friend had told me about a pair of graves he'd found nearby. I had a few hours one afternoon, so made a short exploration. I found what looked like an old well, although no sign of any old house that might have been nearby. I also found the old grave site at the top of a laurel-covered hill. The only decipherable marking on one of the gravestones was POWEL, so this small cemetery was undoubtably associated with the namesakes of nearby Powell Mountain. |
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| I started out finding some more rock piles. |
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| Nearby was what appeared to be a shallow well. |
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| It was lined in concrete It looked like a corrugated pipe had been used for the concrete form. |
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| Climbing a hill, I found the old graveyard. It's either a pair of graves (headstone & footstone), or four individual graves. I'm thinking four graves, because 1) the distance between stones was greater than I typically see between head & footstones, 2) they weren't perfectly in line, and 3) the smaller stones seemed too "ornate" for footstones at such a tiny, isolated burial place. The graves here are aligned E-W, facing east. |
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| The two southerly gravestones, looking east |
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| Facing east, the front (obverse) of the largest stone (south-west gravestone) |
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| Detail of the inscription on the previous stone: "Something" POWEL b Maybe J. E. Powel (?) There are other lighter markings on the stone also. |
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| Reverse of the (south-west) gravestone |
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| Front (obverse) of the south-east stone No lettering was visible, although some wavy indentations could be seen, probably natural. |
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| Reverse of the southeast stone |
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| The two northerly gravestones, again looking east |
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| Front of the largest gravestone on the north side (north-west gravestone) |
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| Faint, undecipherable markings could be seen on the previous stone using side-lighting. |
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| Reverse of the previous (north-west) gravestone. |
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| Front (obverse) of the north-east stone |
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| Reverse of the northeast stone |