Archive for September, 2011

New Website About Irwinville Farms

Posted in --IRWIN COUNTY GA--, Irwinville Farms with tags , , , on September 29, 2011 by Brian Brown

http://irwinvillega.wordpress.com/

If you enjoy the history of rural South Georgia during the Great Depression, you’ll enjoy this site. I’m using Library of Congress images, as well as feedback and personal items from people related to the Irwinville Farms Project. Irwinville Farms was one of many Farm Security Administration resettlement communities, and we’re quite lucky to have the large visual archive that we do to document the common folk of the 1930s. I love looking at the images, and I think you will, too. [The photograph above was made in May 1938 by John Vachon: "Rolling a cigarette. Irwinville Farms, Georgia."]

Midway Baptist Church, 1891, Gardi

Posted in --WAYNE COUNTY GA--, Gardi GA with tags , , , , , on September 25, 2011 by Brian Brown

Paradise Fishing Camp, Wayne County

Posted in --WAYNE COUNTY GA-- with tags , , , , , , on September 25, 2011 by Brian Brown

Cabin, Paradise Fishing Camp

Posted in --WAYNE COUNTY GA-- with tags , , , , , , , on September 25, 2011 by Brian Brown

House Boats, Paradise Fishing Camp

Posted in --WAYNE COUNTY GA-- with tags , , , , , , on September 25, 2011 by Brian Brown

Though no longer allowed on navigable rivers, houseboats can occasionally be found on oxbow lakes. These at Paradise Fishing Camp are, to my knowledge,  some of the last in Georgia. And they don’t seem to be traditional houseboats, by their architecture and lack of visible motors.

Harville House, Bulloch County

Posted in --BULLOCH COUNTY GA-- with tags , , , , , on September 20, 2011 by Brian Brown

Perspective View

This house has been a landmark of rural Bulloch County for over a century. Overgrown shrubs and vines have recently been cleared, and the house seems too far gone to be saved at this point, which is a shame, since it’s the grandest Folk Victorian I’ve ever seen. According to a fellow photographer who attended Georgia Southern in the early 1970s, the house was abandoned even then, and was called the “Haunted House” by students and locals alike. I wish I knew more about its history, but at this time I don’t.

Harville House, Bulloch County

Posted in --BULLOCH COUNTY GA-- with tags , , , , , on September 20, 2011 by Brian Brown

East Side

Harville House, Bulloch County

Posted in --BULLOCH COUNTY GA-- with tags , , , on September 20, 2011 by Brian Brown

Front

Harville House, Bulloch County

Posted in --BULLOCH COUNTY GA-- with tags , , , , , on September 20, 2011 by Brian Brown

West Side

Harville House, Bulloch County

Posted in --BULLOCH COUNTY GA-- with tags , , , , on September 20, 2011 by Brian Brown

East Side with Turret Detail

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