The historic Butner-McTyre General Store in Powder Springs, part of which dates to 1830. There are seven springs within city limits, with rich mineral content that turns the earth gunpowder black.
Downtown Powder Springs hosts several pieces of the Southern Quilt Trail, preserving folk quilt patterns through public art. Shown here is the Star of Bethlehem, painted on the wall of the 1879 Butner & Son General Store.
Once the world’s leading producer of twine and now luxury apartments, the Porterdale Mill sits on the banks of the Yellow River. A thriving collection of mill villages surrounds this and two others.
Along a trail by the Yellow River.
A caboose sits outside Monroe, still painted in the “Family Lines” livery - a joint marketing exercise of the Louisville & Nashville and Seaboard Coast Line railroads.
#906 of the Great Walton Railroad, stored just outside Monroe, GA.
The Bradford Store, which was home to Pine Log’s post office until it closed in 1979 - after 146 years. Pine Log was the largest settlement in Bartow County before the Civil War but never incorporated.
A village once run by Mercer University, Penfield is named after a Savannah silversmith who funded the University’s establishment here in 1833. Mercer would later move to Macon, and establish a second campus in Atlanta.
Portal hosts the Turpentine Catface Festival every year, where old-fashioned turpentine is produced from pine gum in one of the state’s few remaining original stills.
Two towers in downtown Portal.