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Buck Creek Barrens Miscellaneous 2024 Images That Don't Fit Other Albums |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2024) |
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Buck Creek Barrens Miscellaneous 2024 Images That Don't Fit Other Albums |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2024) |
| 1 - January 2024 I wanted to document some mine cuts from Perry Gap Rd, but I'd forgotten that the road was gated for winter. |
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| Reindeer Lichen (Cladonia species) |
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| A cold Buck Creek! |
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| 2 - Early February 2024 I was documenting some of the mining cuts on Corundum Knob... |
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| When I came across an interesting old tree... |
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| 3 - Early March 2024 Sparse Ruins of the old Buck Creek Lodge |
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| Sections of concrete and rock wall |
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| Stone, concrete and re-bar |
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| Rubble |
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| Twisted metal |
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| More concrete |
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| Buck Creek Lodge / Ranch, after its transformation into the Pius XII Pastoral Center. The addition on the right side was the most visible aspect of this transformation. The former lodge & its outbuildings were burned by an arsonist on Mar. 10, 1981. Photo from ca. 1960. |
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| Buck Creek Lodge / Ranch, from a 1981 newspaper article This was shortly before the lodge burned. |
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| 4 - Early March 2024 Old Patterson Homesite (CL09) After photographing the mine cuts at the western Herbert extension, I took an easier return route, and came across this homesite. In 1874, Wister Patterson was granted 100 acres on the waters of Buck Creek, and in 1889, Columbus and Julia Patterson's family settled on a tributary branch of Barnett (now Barnards) Creek. |
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| There was a strong wind event here in the recent past, and the woods were covered with deadfall. A huge tree, visible in the rear, had fallen over the homesite, and the tree's crown covered the chimney. Between the tree top and other brush on the chimney, it took me almost an hour to clear it enough for decent photos. |
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| Base of the chimney |
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| Chimney base, from the right side |
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| The outline of the fireplace is obvious from the front. |
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| One more view, from the left side |
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| Scattered bricks around the homesite. |
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| This arrangement of rocks was near the chimney. |
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| Not sure it's the remains of another smaller chimney or ? |
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| About a month later (early April) I was in the area again, looking at more mining cuts, so I stopped by the chimney and took a wider angle view. This view shows more of the rocks that comprised the toppled chimney. (The lighting was pretty contrasty with the bright sun...) |
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| 5 - Mid April 2024 Site of the "Bobby House" Near the intersection of Buck Creek Rd and the road to Perry Gap stood a cottage, part of a small farm that was later acquired by W. T. Latham, owner of the old Buck Creek Lodge & Ranch. Latham's son Robert used the house more than anyone else, and it eventually became known as the "Bobby house". |
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| A couple of small block foundations can still be seen at the site. Maybe for a spring-house or something else(?) |
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| Old photographs show that the cottage had a rock chimney, but no evidence of it remains. These larger rocks may have been used for the foundation of a barn on the site. The area has been long disturbed for construction of a power-line ROW. |