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Bradford Home, Dr. J. E. Bradford's home, on eastern edge of Vann House property. Shown here in 1954. Torn down. |
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Brown's Bridge was built in 1890 over the Conasauga River. It ws removed 1979-77. |
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Campbell Store. Owned by Andy Campbell in Alaculsey Valley. |
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Center Valley Methodist Church (first building). Believed to have been built before 1840. Destroyed by a tornado on April 3, 1880. |
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Center Valley Methodist Church (second building). Built in 1880s, used till 1952. |
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Chable Bridge in Alaculsey area. |
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Chable Grist Mill was on Jack's River in Alaculsey. |
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Chatsworth High School was built 1923. Struck by lighting and destroyed by fire in 1934. |
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Chatsworth First Baptist Church. Built 1909. Torn down 1950s? |
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Chatsworth Pressed Brick Company. Opened 1905. Name changed to Chatsworth Clay Manufacturing Company. Closed about 1929. |
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Chatsworth Methodist Church, Officially First United Methodist Church of Chatsworth. Built in 1907(?). Torn Down (?) |
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Cisco Train Depot |
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp at Chatsworth. 1939 photo. From left, building in rear is Education Center, in front of that building, the Orderly Room, middle-rear is Park Service Office, the Woodwork shop in front of it, and the Supply Room is up front-right of picture. See next two photograph for remainder of the camp. |
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp at Chatsworth. 1939 photo. At left, the Recreation Hall & Canteen, behind that building is Barracks-1, middle of picture is Barracks-2, and right side of picture is Barracks-3. See preceding and following photos for remainder of the camp. |
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp at Chatsworth. 1939 photo. At left is Barracks-4, at back in the middle of picture is the Mess Hall. The Foremen's Quarters is in front of the picture. The Dispensary is between the Foremen's Quarters and the Mess Hall. See preceding two photos for remainder of the camp. |
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Coffey House on old A. B. Gregory Farm in 1992. House burned in late 1990s. |
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Cohutta Springs Hotel. Shown here in 1937. |
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Cohutta Springs Grist Mill and Dance Hall. |
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Colvard High School operated until 1934, when all Murray high school students started to attend the new Murray County High School. This building became an elementary school. It burned in 1940. |
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Cool Springs Baptist Church, in use 1911-1951. |
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Crandall Depot was built in 1904. The building was dismantled in the 1940s and the lumber was used to build 2 houses. |
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Davis Store at Spring Place, Carl Davis owned this store, on southeast corner of intersection of Elm Street and Ellijay Street, operated 1922 to 1953. Was torn down. |
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DeSoto Hotel, Chatsworth. Built 1907. Demolished 1950s. |
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Eton Baptist Church, built 1906, torn down 1990. |
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Eton High School, built in 1909, burned in January, 1937. |
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Fort Mountain Institute opened in the early 1870s. By early 1880s it was being called Fort Mountain School. In 1952 this school closed and students began attending classes in Chatsworth. Building was torn down in 1950s. |
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Fort Mountain Institute, another view. |
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Free Hope Baptist Church, built around 1900, torn down in 1950s. |
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Gladden-McHan House at Gladden Springs. Originally home of the Gladden family. A "dog-trot" house with an open hallway through the middle of the structure. Home of the George McHan family in 1930s, 40s, and 50s. |
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Green Acres was the summer home of Dr. And Mrs. John W. Greene, who lived in Atlanta. |
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Gregory Brush Dam Ruins. This was a diversionary dam to channel water along the east side of Pompey's Island to the main dam to increase flow for generating electrical power in Gregory Mill Community. See preceding two photographs. |
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Gregory Dam on the Conasauga River. Built by B. A. Gregory in the 1890s, it provided electric lighting for his home, his mother's home, the Gregory Store, and later, the cotton gin in Gregory Mill Community. It had generators for charging batteries. Dam was abandoned with TVA was established. This picture dated 1909 is of B. A. Gregory, Mitchell Gregory and Mary Delia McCamy Gregory. |
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Gregory Main Dam Ruins. After TVA was established in early 1930s, the dam was abandoned. It had provided electricity for lighting B.A. Gregory's home, his mother's home, the Gregory Store and Cotton Gin in the Gregory Mill Community for nearly 40 years. See preceding picture and next picture. |
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Gregory Mill operated for more than a century near Cohutta Springs. Census records indicate that in 1879 the mill produced 270,000 pounds of corn meal and 66,000 pounds of feed from corn. Mill was torn down in 1937. |
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Gregory Store, operated by R. M. Gregory. Picture from 1940s. |
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Gregory home, John Pleasant Gregory's family home place. |
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Gregory home, James Jathan Gregory's family home in the 1980s. Burned in 1980s. |
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Gregory home, Hyden Gregory's family lived in this house near Hassler's Mill in the 1980s. It burned in 1996. |
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Harris Home in Sumach. The Sam and Nannie Harris residence. Nannie was named Postmistress in 1898 so the post office was in their home. House was dismantled in early 1980s. |
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Hassler's Mill. William Hassler operated a mill east of present-day Eton before the Cherokees were forcibly removed and Murray County was created. The last mill bearing the Hassler name was torn down in 1927. |
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Home of W. J. Gregory, ca 1915. Was the old S. E. Gregory home built sy Euclid Waterhouse in late 1870s. Burned in 1963. |
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Hopedale Plantation's original house was on the Ellijay-Dalton Road west of Spring Place, near Marble Hill School, and was known as "the garden spot of Murray County." Built by Dr. Samuel Dwight, who died there in 1859. Underneath the main house was a carriage house. After the original structure burned, Captain W. C Tilton, who had married Dr. Dwight's daughter, rebuilt Hopedale in a similar style but on a smaller scale. In later years the Jones family owned the house shown in this photograph, situated across the road from Old Spring Place Cemetery. Photo submitted to museum by John Wilbanks. |
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Keith home, Tennga. Built before 1918, Nana Lee Keith Davis lived in this house for 55 years. Demolished in 1975. |
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Keith Store, Tennga. Built in 1934 by T. H. Keith for $2,800. After Tom died in 1951, his son, T. H. Keith, Jr., and daughter, Nana Lee Keith Davis, ran the store until it closed in 1985. Demolished in 1988. |
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Keith Store, Little Murray. Tom Keith and two of his brothers owned this store, which operated 1898 -1908. |
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Lucy Hill Institute at Spring Place. Built 1900, dismantled 1930. |
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Mount Zion Methodist Church, in use 1848 to 1963. |
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Mountain View Hotel burned in 1913. |
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Mountain View, a house that was more commonly called The Green Mansion. Built near present-day Chatsworth in 1893. The house burned in 1982. |
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Murray County Courthouse at Spring Place. Built 1886, torn down 1950s. |
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Murray County Memorial Hospital, dedicated in February, 1950, was made possible by three large gifts: W. A. Tatum donated the land to build the hospital on; $80,000 came from the estate of J. Frank Hall; and $100,000 from V. C. Pickering. The Lions Club had spearheaded the hospital building project so numerous smaller gifts also were received. G. I. Maddox was chairman of the hospital board. This was Murray's first hospital; it boasted 32-beds. It was expanded to 37 beds. After a new hospital was built and dedicated in 1975, the original hospital building was sold at auction and the building was eventually torn down. |
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Murray County Flour Mill at Eton opened around 1908. |
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Parker's General Merchandise Store, operated by J. L. Parker in Chatsworth in the 1920s. |
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Phillips House near Crandall. 1900-1952. |
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Pleasant Valley Academy, built in 2890s. In 1909 students began to attend classes the new Eton High School. |
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Print Shop at New Echota, where the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper was published. |
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Ramhurst Depot was built 1904-05. The Railroad also built dwellings for the section foreman and a duplex for railroad men. A pump-house on the creek filled the water tank to supply the steam engines. This photo was taken when the depot was about 10 years old. The depot was torn down around 1940. |
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Ramhurst Depot floor plan. At that time laws required separate waiting rooms for white and colored passengers. |
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Rorex House in 1902. Was probably built by Euclid Waterhouse in the 1870s. People behind the fence are B. A. Gregory and Mary Delia McCamy Gregory. Rorex House burned in 1966. |
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Smyrna Baptist Church, Ramhurst, built 1904, torn down 1955. |
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Spring Place Gym, built with materials from the Lucy Hill Institute in 1930s. Burned 1960s. |
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Spring Place Presbyterian Church. Built 1886, torn down 1930s. |
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Spring Place Baptist Church. Built 1895, dismantled in 1955. |
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Spring Place Post Office. Spring Place had a post office long before there was a Murray County. This tiny building was the post office 1940s and 50s. |
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Sumach Seminary Sumach Seminary Built in1881. Taught primary, secondary and junior college level courses and had dormitories for students from outside the immediate area. Building Burned in 1921. |
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Summerour House near Cohutta Springs was probably built in the 1830s. During the War Between the States, Union forces briefly held the house, allegedly riding their horses through the center hall. It was torn down in 1980. |
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Tennga Garage, Tennga. Picture is from 1920s. Building was torn down. |
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Tennga School was built in 1919. Replaced in 1935. |
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Tennga School, another view. This sketch, by Clarence Pritchett. |
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Tibbs Bridge was named for William H. Tibbs. The first Tibbs Bridge probably was built in the 1880s. It was replaced by a steel bridge between 1913 and 1928. The steel bridge was replaced by a concrete structure around 1980. |
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Tickle Gizzard School was on the Spring Place - Tilton Road. The original one room school, which was probably built in the 1870s, burned in 1889. A new structure was built. After the school was combined with another to create Hooker's Academy, the school building became a residence but eventually was torn down. |
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Treadwell Mill operated at the Conasauga River on Highway 76 (the road to Dalton) from 1881 to 1921. |