Reflected in a downtown building, a beaming lady holds a Coke in one of thousands of ad murals across the south. The mural was restored, much like the door itself - a van plowed through it in 2013, requiring reconstruction.
Aragon Mill produced denim, corduroy, yarn and more for over 100 years. In the 1970s, its closure was immortalized in song by Si Kahn; in 2002, it was set aflame by a trash fire and burned for two days.
“God has not forgotten us.” So wrote a Union POW at the confederate Andersonville Prison when a new spring opened in August 1864, delivering thousands from the scurvy and dysentery breeding in the camp’s pervasive, fetid muck.
Redeveloping its Main St in 1974 to focus on Civil War tourism, Andersonville served as a Confederate supply depot and POW camp. The nearby Andersonville National Cemetery commemorates the nearly 13,000 Union troops who died there.
A derelict passenger car sits at the Hartwell Railroad shops in Airline, GA - an odd name for a community that was never served by the Seaboard Air Line railroad.
Remnants of a gas station in are overtaken by kudzu and weeds.
A ghost sign, which once advertised Coca-Cola from the Murphey Building on Lamar St. The building once housed the A. Cohen & Son department store, and dates to 1890.
Charles Lindbergh’s first solo flight took place at Souther Field (now Jimmy Carter Regional Airport), where a status depicts wing-walking in his early barnstorming days.
Forsyth St in downtown Americus, in the historic district.
Through the early 1900s, Arnoldsville grew to have a gin, a saw mill, a bank, a warehouse, and a flea market.
A view from H.C. Melton’s general store, built around 1900.
The Central of Georgia once connected Apalachee to Athens and Union Point, and the Greene County Railroad connected the community to Monroe.
A trio of bridgehunters depart the Auchumpkee Creek Covered Bridge. Built in 1892 by Dr. J.W. Herring for just under $1,200, it was closed to traffic in 1985 and has been rebuilt twice since.
An Atlanta Dairies bottle in an abandoned antique store in Abbeville. The Dairies are now a mixed-use development. Circa 2022.
All is quiet on Depot Street. Abbeville is the Wilcox County seat and hosts the Ocmulgee Wild Hog Festival every Spring. Circa 2022.
Adairsville is of many stops on the Dixie Hwy 90-Mile Yard Sale every June. Circa 2021.
Proud parent or participant? Either way, someone here loves Adairsville High School football. Circa 2021.
Mottled light falls on Allatoona Pass, a railroad cut once used by the Western & Atlantic RR. The site of a bloody fight in the Civil War, it’s now a historically preserved site and walking trail. Circa 2021.
Built prior to 1844, the Clayton House sits by the Allatoona Pass. It served as a field hospital during the Civil War battle, and features a monument to 21 unknown Confederate soldiers who are buried out back. Circa 2021.