Sometimes known as the Fraser Building, this saddlebag served as living quarters for the servants on land of Rev. Donald Fraser, who owned land near the Decatur Presbyterian Church. Fraser was the pastor at the church from 1872-1887.
The saddlebag house was moved in 2001. There is a newish roof and new stabilizing piers, but no other works seems to have been complete since its initial move.
Villa Albicini was designed by Neel Reid and built for local florist Daniel Horgan. The Beaux Arts/ Italian Baroque revival home was completed in 1927 by Phillip Trammel Schutze after the death of Reid in 1926. The home is also known as the Horgan-McCook-Curtis place.
The home was built with only two bedrooms but a third was added later. The home gives an air of being abandoned, especially with dusty old car that sits on the driveway. In 2023, it was put on the market for $1,500,000.
Photo credit to my friend Liz Clappin who took photos for me as all my devices decided to die within minutes of each other.
Located on a dirt road, the Jones Chapel and cemetery sit across the road from each other. At the moment, I am unable to locate any history on the church. The building was built around 1900. The cemetery is somewhat active with a few fairly recent burials. I will update once I know more.
Two headstones featured these pinpricks as ways to engrave the headstones.
I will always document any Eldren Bailey marker that I find.
The well-cleaned skeleton of a cow greeted me as I walked a path around the lake.
Located next to Battle Smith Bridge, this metal bridge was once the only way to cross Murder Creek. It’s wholly engulfed by wisteria. If you decide to try to capture it during its brief time in bloom, I recommend photographing it in the morning light.
As a side note, Murder Creek supposedly did get its name from actual murders that happened there in the 1700s.
There’s not much I could locate on Beech Grove AME Church. The cemetery is quite small, with only a handful of headstones. The last obituary I could locate was from 2004.
I am not certain what this small building is. After locating photos of the Beech Grove School on the eDigital Library of Georgia’s website, I am leaning toward a detached preacher’s office.
The Beech Grove School could have been a Rosenwald School. I hope that when I learn more about the church, I can locate the school’s history, too.
This one-room building is on the campus of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Hancock County. It resembles many of the pre-Rosenwald schoolhouses that are extant in Georgia. It may not be a school, but it is my best guess.
Sistie Hudson, former mayor of Sparta, confirmed it was once a school, but it also served as the voting precinct for the Zion Community.
