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Henry Land’s Grocery, Lands Crossing
November 2008 The photograph above has come to be my favorite of the many I’ve made of Henry Land’s Grocery over the years. My earliest photographs of the store were made when the Coca-Cola sign was...
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Talbotton Methodist Church, 1857
This is considered one of the best examples of Greek Revival Temple architecture in Georgia. From the Historical Marker: As Methodism moved across Georgia, in 1830 Jesse Sinclair and Henry W. Hilliard...
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Unidentified Antebellum House, Talbotton
LeVert Historic District, National Register of Historic Places I hope this house is still standing. This photograph dates to 2009 and I was never able to get much information about it. I do believe it...
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Carreker-Watkins-Bassett House, 1884, Talbotton
National Register of Historic Places This eclectic Late Victorian was built by Newton P. Carreker.
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Straus-LeVert Memorial Hall, 1856, Talbotton
LeVert Historic District, National Register of Historic Places This beloved landmark was built as the LeVert College for Young Women by Lazrus Straus, a Belgian merchant whose business was the...
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Commercial Storefronts, Talbotton
These storefronts are located on the courthouse square.
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Talbot County Courthouse, 1892, Talbotton
National Register of Historic Places Recently restored, this beautiful Queen Anne courthouse was designed by the firm of Bruce & Morgan.
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Unidentified Church, Crisp County
Other than having been told that this was a black congregation, I know nothing of this church. “Tar paper” churches were once common but now most are gone.
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Hendley Foxworth Horne House, 1853, Long County
I’ve photographed this house dozens of times over the last six years and recently learned that it is being deconstructed and the lumber salvaged for use in a new structure. The longtime owners of this...
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C. H. Burt’s Store, LaCrosse
This iconic commissary/store at the intersection of LaCrosse Road and Georgia Highway 271 served as the center of a large farming operation for many years. A plantation at LaCrosse was first...
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Hopewell Methodist Church, Schley County
Among Schley County’s most historic congregations, Hopewell Methodist (now United Methodist) is thought to predate the organization of Marion County, which would date it to the 1820s; meetings were...
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Vernacular Farmhouse, Draneville
I photographed this farmhouse five years ago and that same ladder was propped against the window then.
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Buena Vista Methodist Church
This simple Greek Revival style was very popular in “town churches” in South Georgia during the early 20th century. This one (now United Methodist) is particularly nice.
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Historic Storefronts, Buena Vista
The building on the left served for many years as Marion Drugs. The Charles M. Clements building is on the right. It served as a hardware and furniture store as well as the local undertaker. Downtown...
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Marble Front Bank, 1906, Buena Vista
This is one of the most beautiful buildings in Buena Vista. I’m hoping some of these great old commercial buildings will someday be placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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4th Avenue Storefronts, Buena Vista
These are located just down the street from Clements Hardware and Marion Drugs.
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Marion County Courthouse, 1850, Buena Vista
National Register of Historic Places Marion County is likely unique in that it has two antebellum courthouses still standing, this one and the one at Tazewell. The brick for this courthouse was fired...
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Old Marion County Courthouse, 1848, Tazewell
National Register of Historic Places One of just five surviving antebellum frame courthouses in the state, the Tazewell (pronuounced TAZ-well) example has also long been home to the Marion Lodge #14,...
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Thomas A. Durrence House, Circa 1858, Evans County
Thomas Durrence was a pioneer of this section of Georgia and an early settler of what would later become Evans County. His antebellum Plantation Plain-style farmhouse, south of Claxton, is in good...
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