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Old Home Sites - 2 More Chimneys, etc. Towns County and Adjacent Areas |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2019) |
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Old Home Sites - 2 More Chimneys, etc. Towns County and Adjacent Areas |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2019) |
| Home Sites on this page: | 1 - CL01, Sugar Cove, Clay Co., NC |
| 2 - TO04, Upper Beech Flats, Towns Co. |
| 3 - TO05, bet. Beech Flats & Sugar Cove, Towns Co. |
| 4 - CL02, Lower Beech Flats, Clay Co., NC |
| 5 - TO21, Hightower Rd, Towns Co. |
| Old Homesite CL01 - Sugar Cove, Clay Co., NC The remains of a stone house foundation are partially surrounded by a low wall. There are several other walls and numerous stone mounds also at this location. |
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| Remains of the home's stone foundation - supports. |
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| Another side of the foundation wall |
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| Outer wall, surrounding the home's stone foundation at rear |
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| A different view of the wall, with the old house site at upper right. |
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| Another corner of the wall surrounding the former house. |
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| One of the rock mounds next to the homesite |
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| Another rock wall near the homesite |
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| Old Homesite TO04 - Upper Beech Flats, Towns Co., GA An old overgrown road leads to this site, which contains, in addition to a collapsed chimney, the remains of a terrace wall and a dug out cellar. |
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| Collapsed chimney |
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| Another view... This property was purchased by the USFS from W.M. Anderson in 1938. |
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| Segment of terrace wall |
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| Old Homesite TO05 - Between Beech Flats & Sugar Cove, GA While looking for another site, I came across a pair of collapsed chimneys, with the fireplaces facing each other, about 36 feet apart. These were once at each end of a large house. What is odd is that this house site doesn't show up on any of the old early topo maps from the 1900s. Any house that large back then, with two chimneys, should have been fairly prominent. The site is at 3300 ft elevation, and there is a nice spring about 150 ft away. |
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| Collapsed Chimney 1 |
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| Chimney 1, frontal view This property was purchased by the USFS from W.M. Anderson in 1938. |
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| Chimney 1, rear view |
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| Chimney 2, front view This chimney is in considerably worse condition than Chimney 1. |
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| Chimney 2, rear view |
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| Chimney 2, rear-side angle |
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| Chimney 2, from the rear, with Chimney 1 visible in upper background. |
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| Old Homesite CL02 - Lower Beech Flats, Clay Co., NC Of more recent vintage than the others, this home site sits on an abandoned farm. |
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| Old chimney |
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| Masonry shed, showing the grapevine mortar that was used here. |
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| House foundation |
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| Old Homesite TO21 - Hightower Rd, Towns Co., GA This chimney sits just above the road. |
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| A bit grown over with brush... |