Tate Depot
Like the old McKnight train station in Tennessee, north Georgia’s Tate Depot is mostly abandoned, with peeling paint and broken windows. It’s a rundown relic of an earlier time, built in 1916 for the...
View ArticleOld Sheldon Church Ruins
This message is for Larry…. the gentleman who had a wierd feeling being alone, standing inside the church.: It is English tradition to bury the dead in the floor of the church. You were most likely...
View Article432 Abercorn: The Most Haunted (Or Hyped) House in Savannah
When we went to Savannah last February we took a ghost tour, sitting in a tricked-out, roofless hearse with a half dozen high school choir students and a guide who could apparently only speak in a...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Backroads
On our way to and from Charleston we bypassed Columbia and its interstates and took a backroads shortcut, driving along a slow two-lane road that had started out as a Native American trail. Towns had...
View ArticleCasulon Plantation
Charred and crumbling and obscured by trees, the shell of Casulon Plantation looks as if it’s been falling down for the last one hundred years. When I first saw photos of it I figured that the old...
View ArticleThe Old Mill Town of Rex, GA
If you just saw it in photographs you’d think that the tiny town of Rex, Georgia would be located in the most rural part of the state. Maybe somewhere down in south Georgia, or among the the cotton...
View ArticleThe Ghost Town of Auraria, GA
Out West, gold rush ghost towns become tourist attractions. The old settlement of Bodie, California has become a state park, its buildings preserved “in a state of arrested decay.” Visitors to the tiny...
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