North Georgia Terraced Hillside

 

I remember making this photograph, but don't remember exactly when or where because it was long before I began keeping a notebook of locations and other information about my photos. It was sometime in the '70s, I think, and would have been on either Georgia Highway 136 or 52, because I remember we were on our way to Dahlonega at the time. If it was before 1978, the camera would have been a Nikkormat; after that, an Olympus OM. The film was almost certainly Kodachrome 25.

I've always liked this picture, but have never published it before.

Photograph and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday each week unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo

For the glory of God alone

 

The Scarecrow

Some of the volunteer firemen had started a garden behind the old fire station at Hog Jowl Road (no kidding!) and Hall's Mill Road in McLemore Cove.

This is from another Fujichrome 100 slide taken with a Canon EOS A2. The lens was probably a Canon EF 24-85 f3.5-4.5. Scanned with a Minolta DiMage 5400. The photograph is from my limited-edition book Georgia: A Backroads Portrait.

Photograph and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday each week unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo

For the glory of God alone

 

Cat on Porch Rail

 My apologies for failing to post yesterday. Actually, I'm going to have to cut back on the amount of time I spend on the blog until I finish my taxes and get the Backroads book off to the publisher.

However, I'll keep my regular Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule, posting pictures of some of the things I've noticed as I've gone about my life, with maybe a few explanatory words.

Today's photo was made on old Georgia Highway 2 in Chattanooga Valley. The camera was a Canon EOS A2 with (probably) the 80-200 f2.8L lens and Fujichrome 100 film. A Konica-Minolta DiMage 5400 scanner converted the slide to a digital file.

Photograph and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday each week unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo

For the glory of God alone

 

The Graysville Mill

Gray's Mill in the early 1970s. Sitting in serene

beauty by its dam on Chickamauga Creek.

 

 When we moved from Miami to Chattanooga in 1970, our new home, while in Tennessee, was only a mile or so from the village of Graysville, Georgia. The old mill, just on the other side of Chickamauga Creek from the village soon became a favorite destination for our walking, biking, or picnic excursions.

The village was laid out in the 1840s by John Gray, the English-born contractor who built the Western and Atlantic Railroad and dug the tunnel at Tunnel Hill. He liked the Northwest Georgia area so much that he bought 4,000 acres on Chickamauga Creek. He built the Queen Anne-style Gray House, dammed the creek, and built a large, three-story mill. The mill was burned during the Civil War, but was rebuilt in 1869 and continued to operate into the 1950s.

In the early '70s the mill was still pretty much intact. I made some photos of the interior, which are, unfortunately, in storage, but I seem to remember three milling stations with millstones approximately eight feet in diameter. A very impressive operation.

The ruins of the mill after it was burned, possibly by vandals.

 The mill burned again in the late '70s. Possibly the work of vandals, or, it could have been picnickers or campers who let their fire get out of control. The heavy plank floors and massive wooden beams would have burned like tinder.

The house built on the mill ruin uses the foundation and original stones.

After the passage of some years, the site was purchased and an unique, three-story house was built on the ruin, using the mill foundation and many of the original stones.

Photographs and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday each week unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo

For the glory of God alone